How do you start a new country?

DAGTA

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Buy an island.
Set up your own government and commerce.
Grow for a few years.
Get invaded by neighboring country and killed by it's military as they take your land.
 

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Lifer
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Step 1: Start a space program
Step 2: Convice parent country to start colony.
Step 3: Wait for self sufficiency
Step 4: Revolt.
Step 5: Profit!

(Step 6: Industrailize and become dominant superpower)
 

chrisms

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-Grab an uninhabited piece of land which is not claimed by another country.
-Declare independence
-Gain diplomatic recognition from other countries, perferably at least one in the first world.