article_snippet.sent: Located on a rocky shoreline in southwest Sweden, this micronation came into being as the result of a lengthy legal battle over a gigantic pop-art sculpture made of 70 tons of driftwood.
article_snippet.sent: After Swedish authorities demanded that this micronation be torn down
article_snippet.sent: artist Lars Vik went to court. .
article_snippet.sent: After vandals torched this micronation, artist Lars Vik built another and went back to court.
article_snippet.sent: In 1996 angry supporters declared the site, in a nature preserve, an independent nation.