Gregor MacGregor: The Man Who Sold an Imaginary Nation
In 1822, a Scottish soldier invented a country — flag, constitution, currency, a 355-page guidebook to a capital that was never built — and sold it to the smartest financial city on Earth. 250 people moved there. This is the complete story of Gregor MacGregor and the Kingdom of Poyais: the rehearsal cons, the machine that printed a nation, the families who sailed to nothing, the trial that acquitted him, and the state funeral that buried him a hero. Chapters: 0:00 The Country That Never Existed 1:30 The Liar Is Born 5:26 Three Rehearsals 8:22 The Masterpiece 11:57 The Bill 14:31 The Verdict 17:22 Decorated, Never Punished Key sources: David Sinclair, "The Land That Never Was"; Michael Rafter, "Memoirs of Gregor M'Gregor" (1820); "Sketch of the Mosquito Shore" (1822); the survivors' sworn affidavit (October 1823); contemporary reporting in the London press. Full source log in pinned comment. KINGS OF NOTHING — They ruled empires that never existed. A new king falls every week. Visual reconstructions in this episode are AI-assisted recreations of documented historical events, created for educational storytelling. They are not archival footage. #history #truecrime #documentary
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