Article 62 of Liberland vs The World
Liberland vs. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: La Soufrière Satoshis vs. Danube Declaration
The Free Republic of Liberland, founded in 2015 on 7 km² of Danube terra nullius, runs on voluntary taxation, blockchain governance, and the Liberland Dollar (LLD) token. With over 800,000 citizenship applications, it remains the most ideologically uncompromising experiment in voluntary society.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), a multi-island nation of 389 km² and 104,000 citizens (2025), is the Caribbean’s newest and most aggressive citizenship-by-investment player. After the 2021 La Soufrière volcanic eruption destroyed 20 % of GDP overnight, SVG relaunched its CBI programme in 2022 with the lowest price in the region ($130,000 donation route), became the first country to accept Bitcoin Lightning Network payments for citizenship in 2024, and is rolling out a full blockchain land-registry and digital-ID system by 2026. Revenue from CBI now exceeds tourism and is on track to surpass bananas as the top export.
This article compares the two across Historical Origins, Culture & Society, Environment, Governance & Economy, and Diplomacy—two small jurisdictions that rebuilt themselves by turning legal identity into their most valuable natural resource.
Historical Origins
• Liberland: Declared 13 April 2015 on a border oversight between Croatia and Serbia.
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Carib stronghold; British colony 1763; independence 27 October 1979; 2021 volcanic eruptions forced mass evacuation of the north; CBI programme expanded dramatically post-disaster as literal reconstruction funding.
Comparison: Both are phoenix states—SVG literally rose from volcanic ash by selling passports; Liberland rose from a forgotten riverbank by giving them away.
Culture & Society
• Liberland: Global digital diaspora united by voluntarism philosophy.
• SVG: Vincy Mas Carnival, steelpan, and Nine Mornings; 2025 census shows CBI citizens already outnumber native-born residents living abroad; every new citizen receives an optional blockchain-verified digital passport supplement; youth run Lightning-node meetups in Kingstown cafés.
Comparison: SVG has created a de-facto e-residency layer decades ahead of Europe, with tens of thousands of passport holders who may never set foot on the islands.
Environment
• Liberland: A 7 km² floodplain on the Danube River, my proposed CLT would protect the land for over development and land hoarding.
• SVG: Active volcano La Soufrière; world’s first “Volcano Citizenship Bond” (2024) bundles CBI with geothermal-energy revenue tokens; 2025–2030 plan to reach 100 % renewable via geothermal + solar; mangrove and coral-reef credits sold to offset citizenship purchases.
Comparison: Both monetise extreme geography—SVG sells volcano-backed citizenship; Liberland could plan to sell wetland-backed tokens.
Governance & Economy
• Liberland: Zero compulsory taxes, future full DAO operations that conduct most government services, my proposed LTAA would ensure full on-chain transparency.
• SVG: Parliamentary monarchy; no personal income tax, no capital-gains tax; CBI price from $130,000 (payable in BTC via Lightning, ETH, USDT, or XCD); 2025 Digital Transformation Act mandates blockchain land registry and optional on-chain citizenship records; treasury accepts crypto for all government fees; CBI revenue hit $180 million in FY2024–25—more than double pre-eruption GDP.
Comparison: SVG runs the fastest-growing, cheapest, and most crypto-native citizenship market on Earth and is rapidly moving every state function on-chain—functionally the closest any recognised nation has come to Liberland’s operational blueprint while still funding schools and hospitals.
Diplomacy
• Liberland: Zero UN recognitions, but has MOU’s with both state and nonstate entities.
• SVG: Full UN member; 120+ diplomatic relations; passport ranks 28th globally (157 visa-free including Schengen, UK, Russia, Singapore); first OECS nation to open a “Crypto Consulate” in Dubai (2024).
Comparison: SVG proves that aggressive, low-price citizenship sales and full crypto acceptance actually strengthen passport value and diplomatic leverage.
Conclusion
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines—104,000 people scattered across a chain that a volcano tried to erase—rebuilt itself in four years by becoming the cheapest, fastest, and most crypto-friendly passport shop in the hemisphere, and is now putting the entire government ledger on blockchain.
Liberland offers citizenship for free to builders and believers, provided that they contribute to the well being of Liberland. SVG offers it for $130,000 payable in satoshis before breakfast. One is built on ideology, the other on post-disaster pragmatism. Both reached the same insight at the same moment: when physical territory becomes a liability, the most resilient asset a nation owns is the legal right to call someone a citizen.
Between the smoking cone of La Soufrière and the quiet bend of the Danube, two of the smallest experiments on Earth are writing the same sentence in different currencies: sovereignty in the 21st century is less about the land you stand on than the ledger that says you belong.