Starting a Marine-Themed Business, You Went and Founded a Country in International Waters?

Ye Qing woke up to find himself participating in a livestream variety show called the Entrepreneurship Contest.

This year's theme: The Ocean

The contestants included the son of the richest man, descendants of high-ranking officials, business prodigies, all-around superstars, the nation's goddess... and Ye Qing.

Seeing that everyone else had family investors or public support, Ye Qing had no choice but to find another way.

He found an unclaimed reef in international waters, barely ten centimeters above the surface.

Then he founded a country!

At first, viewers thought he was just trying to grab attention by setting up a private country, selling stamps and making a little money from tourism. They figured it would go bankrupt in a few days...

Who could have guessed that years later,

when the Eagle Sauce's Pacific carrier fleet closed in, Ye Qing would pull out a nuclear bomb.

Eagle Sauce: Guys, anyone else get it? I was just out on a routine patrol, and I got bombed.

Furball: Now that's a beacon of civilization.

Stick: Daddy, please let us pay tribute to you...

A global beauty pageant, land reclamation, an army of powerful AI robots, a space elevator, global satellites, colonizing Mars...

This novel and its characters are purely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.