Wasn't he sold to Finland and Sweden on eBay a while back? Not exactly a mark of a great nation if you can be bought and sold on the virtual marketplace like some common bread...
A Russian missile sub, patrolling the North Sea, crew smashed as rats on vodka, runs into sealand. The (drunk) crew are repatriated (probably to a gulag), but the sub is impaled on Sealand, which now has its own nuclear deterrent...