We Visited The Smallest Country In The World! (Molossia)

When we decided a couple weeks ago to head to the California coast through Northern Nevada, we did what any content creator would do. We googled interesting things to do. That's how we discovered that in a small town just outside the state's capital, one man has started his very own country, the Republic of Molossia. The Republic of Molossia is a micronation, claiming sovereignty over 11.3 acres of land near Dayton, Nevada. The micronation has not yet received recognition from any other member of states of the United Nations. It was founded by Kevin Baugh. He continues to pay property taxes on the land to the Story County, the recognized local government, although he calls it foreign aid. In today's video, we'll be traveling to Molossia to pay an official visit to His Excellency and to try and figure out if this is in fact the world's smallest country. All right, we're about half an hour away from Molossia. The purpose of this video is kind of just to suss out whether this place is legit or not. It sounds pretty weird. Yeah, when you go on the website, it's all legitimate, like it actually looks like a proper country. I emailed the president, Kevin, His Excellency. Everything he wrote, like it just seemed like a legitimate country and this is an official visit. We're going to get our passport stamped, but I still, a little part of me is wondering if this is just one big joke or if he actually is serious about wanting this to be a legitimate country. All right, we've just pulled into a little city called Dayton. Apparently, this is where this country is located. This all just sounds so weird. Where are we? Going to another country in the middle of nowhere in Nevada? Molossian flag. What address? Molossia. We made it. All right, we made it. The tour is about to start. I really don't know what to expect. Let's go check it out. A bit tight. Oh yeah, that's an important thing. Molossia. Population, 31 humans, 4 dogs, 35. Currency, veloura, based on chocolate chip cookie dough. We're going to get some veloura. Hello. Good morning. How are you guys? Good. How are you? Good. I'm Adrienne, the First Lady. Nice to meet you. Mandy. President Balk. Lovely to meet you. Hi, President Balk. Good to meet you. Lovely to meet you. First tour of the season. It's the early one because last year was really hot during this time, so we tried to go an hour earlier. Well, let's see how well our tourists that show up today remember that it's 9 a.m., so that's it. You're going to get a lot of papers coming through. Everybody signs up and schedules. We have about 25 or 30 a tour. Barely. About 200 folks come visit us, and then during the week, we've discovered with our little cool camera we have there that we have people come almost every single day. Every single day. Wow. Yeah. But we'd rather them not come in, but sometimes they do, so we try to create more things for them to do out here so that they are satisfied with driving all the way over here. Hi, guys. It's very international. There's people from all over. From everywhere. I wonder what the neighbors think of this. Hi there. How are you? I did not expect this many people to be here. This is insane. We were the only one to eat when we got here, and within 10 minutes, there's 50 people here. And welcome to the Republic of Molossia. As mentioned a moment ago, you were in the United States. Now you are in a foreign country. How does it feel? Totally different, huh? Molossia is what's called a micronation, which is a tiny self-declared country. Our nation was originally founded on 26 May of 1977. Back then, it was known as the Grand Republic of Goldstein. I was the prime minister. My best friend, James, was the king. He has the Republic of Kenya. Welcome to our nation. Now, before we go much further, and you're going to hear a lot more about Molossia over the next hour and a half or so, before we go much further, we're going to stamp some passports, because that's what you do when you come to a foreign country. You are? Yeah. You are. Yeah, yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you. Absolutely. So, Australia here. And there we go. Do you want? Canada, yep. You want this one too? Yeah. Okay. Oh, I see. That's hers. Because she's from Canada. Yeah. And there we go. Thank you. Enjoy. We're in. We're in Molossia. Got through customs. Yeah. Smoothly. Molossian weather is always perfect. It's always about 70 degrees. It only rains at night when it's not inconvenient. However, we're so close to the U.S. border, their crappy weather blows in all the time. After arriving at Molossia and speaking with His Excellency, it started to become clear that it was more than just the most elaborate, drawn-out, hilarious dad joke of all time. The sheer size of this micronation and all of the work that's been put into it was actually pretty impressive. And Kevin seems to have thought of almost everything, from the customs office to the general store, post office, a jail, salt mine, water reserve, and even a space station. Molossia seemed to have everything a real country would need to have. You get to go into the president's office. It's pretty huge. Not quite everyone on the tour gets to go in, but most people are. That's got to go in the fridge. It's huge, but listen. It's huge. That's why I like it. No, we did not drink all the alcohol that came from these bottles. At one point in Molossia, we were going to build a bottle house, which is basically, like it sounds, a house made out of bottles. Very common in ghost towns and so forth like that. Got a couple rows in and decided, that's going to be too much work. Got rid of the bottle house and we just recycled it into this bottle forest, which is immediately at the beginning of the Trans-Molossia Trail. The first lady has some, well actually, this young lady has some brochures. Yeah, you got to pass out the brochures. You can pass out the brochures. Go ahead. So, what we're going to do is pass out some brochures here. Basically, if you could share one, one for the family kind of thing. Proudly mined by happy political prisoners. Sandra. Come on, all y'all. Come on in. One of my favorite things is the dad that gets drugged on those things. Here you go. It's supposed to take a lot of work to do all this. Yeah. The tour itself lasted almost two hours with Kevin stopping at every section to talk about all the little details that were included and what they all represented. There was a backstory to almost everything. However, there was one common theme throughout the whole tour. Everything in Molossia seemed to have an element of comedy, which made us question, why did he start this country in the first place? Well, His Excellency did admit that you need to have a bit of satire when starting your own country, mostly so that any neighboring nations won't come and shut you down using extreme force. After listening to him speak throughout the tour, it started to become clear that he thoroughly enjoyed showing complete strangers what he had spent years creating. The nation of Molossia has to be the most elaborate art piece in history. I couldn't help but feel as though starting the Republic of Molossia and campaigning to have it recognized as a sovereign nation was done in order to show others that sometimes the little guy can win. And just because others might not recognize what you're doing as legitimate, that doesn't mean you have to stop believing in it yourself. Thank you. You guys good? Yeah. Thank you. Alright, back to the US. Um, I still don't know. Do you? About what? Is it real or not? I think it's real. That was wild. Yeah. I'm like shocked.