What's the difference between Mefland and Liberland? Why will I apply for the Nobel prize?

Dear Friends! I am very glad that you write to me about Mefland, ask me questions and you welcome the foundation of Mefland. So far I have received replies from Belgium, Lithuania and Russia.

You ask me about what I think of Liberland and in what way it is different from Mefland.
Here a short clip by Euronews about Liberland! http://ru.euronews.com/2015/07/22/liberland-utopian-tax-free-micronation-or-state-of-mind

What is the fundamental difference?

"The association of settlers of Liberlend is headed by a Swiss entrepreneur Niklas Nicolaisen: "The association of settlers in Liberland is financed by "Liberland Settlement Corporation" investment company which is a joint-stock company. Thus, taking its shares, you can also become the co-owner of the land in Liberland. If all goes well, we can expect a good profit. However, there is a risk, too, and it's  considerable. So everyone who joins the project financially should know that there is no guarantee that we will be able to achieve the sovereignty of Liberland".

From this quote it is clear that Liberland is a commercial project which works only due to the greed of people. That is, people want to scoop up land as their property, and then, in case of a good outcome, to sell it expensively.

Mefland is founded on completely other principles. We condemn greed. For example, what has greed led Estonia to? To semi-vacant and  tumble-down houses because homeowners don't want to live in them or repair them, but to sell them as expensively as they can, and they wait for buyers.
Greed spoils Estonia.

I can't build an inexpensive house for myself because all land is in private property. Even though Estonia is empty, the land is empty, it is impossible to construct anything there because the plots of land were given to someone who owns them after the privatization but he doesn't live there himself or give it to anyone else. That means that the land became a method for earning money.

I can't purchase an empty land area because of high cost and greed of the owners. I can't build a house and live in it. What is offered to me by Estonian authorities? To build a house on trees! Yes, seriously. And to live in it as a monkey in a birch tree.

Mefland doesn't recognize private property on natural resources. The land can't belong to anybody, it can't be traded. It exists so that people can live on it, not as means of accumulation. Look how many empty apartments and houses there are in Estonia and across all Europe. Houses in which nobody lives and which aren't used. In Mefland there is intelligent life and such situation when people own things only from greed, is just inadmissible!

Liberland is a specific territory. For Mefland the territory is not the most important thing essentially. The main thing is a society consisting of intellectually developed people and united by common values!

What is a territory of a state? In fact it is the same thing as an areal for animails, which they mark and which they protect from strangers. A traditional state is likened to the animal world. Mefland is different from it by  the high level of development of intelligence of its citizens for whom the territory isn't important.

I preach on common property. That means - what will be constructed in Mefland will belong to all citizens. Liberland is an illusion of freedom! A person can't be free if he owns something and depends on what what he has, and he constantly wants more! A free person is free from any bondage. He has nothing except his own destiny. AWARENESS of my DESTINY - that is the most valuable!

Private property is possible only on what you invented, made, bought or were presented.

The rule of Mefland is - you can have only what you are ready to share with others!

I want to build a house of my dream where citizens of my country will be able to stop by free of charge! And it will be so with every house in Mefland. Mefland's citizens is one big family!

Mefland is a country inhabited by intellectual and unselfish people! No corporations! No greed!

My state is founded on the principle of mutual assistance, solidarity and altruism! The mission of Mefland is to find solutions to problems in the spirit of win-win thinking!

And no deception. My idea is probably not new but it is simple, as everything ingenious is. And it is worthy of the Nobel prize!

When the whole world learns about Mefland and my state will have citizens and will help them solve their problems, I will be able to apply for the Nobel prize!

Maxim Efimov,
Mefland president, writer, social philosopher.


Translated by Irina Efimova