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For more than a decade, a BDSM-inspired micronation in the heart of Eastern Europe inverted gender norms and tested the bounds of nation-building.

Feature Culture Welcome to the Other World The rise and fall of a kinky, real-life femdom nation by Mark Hay Share March 25, 2015 Share on Facebook Click me! Share on Twitter Click me! Copy Link Bright and early one Saturday morning in June 2000, around 25 men scuttled down a castle stairway, into the long corridor of a stable. Each buck naked save for a ragged pair of shoes, neck collar, and set of clanking leg irons, they tripped and stumbled as a line of imperious, gorgeous young women, clad in leather fetish gear, caned them with a gauntlet of long rods. Suddenly, the men burst forth into

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