A Brit who declared himself president of his own country after claiming land in the Balkans has opened an embassy - on his local high street.
Daniel Jackson, 21, first thought up the idea of starting his own country with a group of friends aged just 14.
The pals noticed that, following a border dispute, several patches of land along the Danube River were unclaimed by Croatia or Serbia.
So, on May 30 2019, he declared one of these land pockets - officially known as Pocket-3 on the map - as the Free Republic of Verdis.
Daniel, who has made himself president, has been working hard since to establish his country, recently opening two embassies - one in his hometown of Dover, Kent and one in Novi Sad, Serbia.
The two hubs, which are decorated with the Verdis flag, are officially ‘representative offices’ until the host countries accept Verdis as a nation.
For the moment they are mostly used for printing ID cards and passports for those undergoing the 11-month e-residency programme to become official citizens of the new nation.