The possibilities for customizing the experience are almost endless - rename city streets and town squares, print your own temporary currencies, carve logos or names into the snow on the mountainside - and that is just the tip of the iceberg. The mayors and marching bands can welcome you with a custom medieval festival and present you the key to the city, or perhaps a wine tasting event at a Prince’s estate followed by a fireworks show is more your style.
So you’ve always wanted to be the Supreme Ruler of…well, something…right? You can’t very well stage a coup here in this country; unfortunately, most other countries also look down on foreigners trying to stage a coup on their soil. So, what’s a dilettante with more money than sense (and WAY too much time on his or her hands) to do? Well, in casting about for ideas, I came across an opportunity that might just be too good to pass up.
For a mere $70,000, you can rent Lichtenstein- yes, the entire country- for a night. On today’s episode of “Dictator for a Day”….
Of course, I’m going to have to assume that there will be some limits placed on anyone who wants to rent Liechtenstein. For example, I doubt you’ll be allowed to declare war on Switzerland (though that would certainly shake things up in the region). And I can’t imagine that you’ll be allowed to declare that, for 24 hours, Lichtenstein will be known as the Fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Krautistan. Nor will you likely be allowed to decree that all women must wear thong bikinis and all men must wear Speedos, grab their ankles and walk backwards. This is probably a good thing.
Then again, for a mere $25,550,000.00, you can rent Liechtenstein for an entire year…and for that kind of money, you ought to be allowed to take Liechtenstein’s nuclear arsenal to Defcon 1 and declare war on Nova Scotia. Yes, once I take Halifax things are going to be different….
