Episode Details

What does it actually mean to govern a territory with zero citizens? This episode tours fifteen sub-Antarctic islands — from South Georgia to Bouvet — and finds real ministers, courts, budgets, and fishing-licence revenue behind the paperwork. We look at who staffs these specks of rock and ice, from a fifty-person French base with a pub and a chapel to a six-person shipping container on the world's most remote island. And we trace the strangest stories: a never-used top-level domain, a king penguin who is the de jure Baron of Bouvet, permanent daylight saving time abolished by a Tasmanian council 1,500 kilometres away, and a US tariff applied to an island with no permanent station since 1955. Episode #657481 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/657481