100 Hours in the World’s Richest Country No One Knows Exists

the true time of kings and queens in Europe is over the few remaining don't hold much real power over how the countries actually run except here one of the smallest yet richest countries in the world still ruled by a royal family to put things in perspective when Queen Elizabeth's Fortune amounted to about $500 million this family keeping its Affairs away from the public eye have a Fortune of at least 7.5 billion this royal family serves as some of the little remaining active evidence of a time in Europe of kings queens and Emperors now long gone but how did this small country maintain its independence smack in the middle of Europe throughout all its Wars who is this immensely powerful royal family no one's ever heard of but most importantly what is life really like in one of Europe's least visited and most secretive countries stuan and I had out on an old school Yer Mission with no contacts no plan but with some Hefty missions to accomplish hoping to dig up some answers well another day another airport but we're heading to a country who doesn't even have an airport the journey have an airport they don't have an airport so we're flying to Switzerland and then we will drive to get to this tiny little micro nation that is confusing I don't know how you can be a billionaire royal family and not build an airport in your country let's go wasn't me your name Stefan don't let the skyboard welcome to kind of an old school attempt with no plan to meet at least for me any royal family I met before so no worries don't think about it I can show the manner what royal family have you you met I can show a photo here actually and here please don't add anything in the edit just let him snap like that nobody in Sweden in Sweden oh that's pretty cool my gamble is that one of the younger princes or princesses is like a huge Yer fan and they're like oh my God come hang out with us you can have dinner at the palace you want to play tennis with us alternatively what I'm imagining could happen is we don't meet anybody and we just walk around this basically empty country and nothing happens got a nice little middle seat double chance for friend sometimes it's like traveling with a kid nice to meet you my friend thank you sh have you ever been in lonstein very small small we're really risking it here having no idea what we're doing some people think maybe that we're actually knowing what we're doing we never known let's go to L store I've never just entered the name of a country as like the address oh my God that mountain right there that's Le Stein this right here for capita is the world's richest country this water right here separates oh lonstein okay we are officially in [Music] lonstein someone liting a horse huhs very well there's 39,000 people this like a mediumsized city that's the whole country there's a castle up there that looks like a castle imagine if that's the pr Place probably think there can be too many castles here to make sure we interact with as much of this country as possible we've devised essentially a real life video game Mission our primary Quest is to meet someone from the royal family essentially Mission Impossible we then have a series of side quests first we want to appear on every form of national media in the country radio newspaper and TV second have a local experience with a stranger and finally which is likely also a massive shot in the dark throw an entire party for strangers since the Royals is our main goal but likely the hardest however we will start with that and tackle the others as we go along let's get to it okay first impression it's really beautiful look at that it's extremely this is like a I don't know this is a postcard like look at that oh that is like that's crazy hello hell how are you Thomas you failed you failed okay but the mission is to meet someone from the royal family and we're going to apply the 6° of Separation as well so we need to meet someone who knows someone who knows someone who that until we get to the prince or someone from the royal family we're trying to just meet local people from this so he's twiss he's German German to the castle there but there's a guy that lives there he% we're trying to meet him actually bit difficult hey man hey man hey guys what's up bro it's amazing to meet you guys if you were us and you wanted to meet someone from the royal family where would you start I work for the government the office above us is the office for communication or Public Communication yeah maybe you could try that route talk to these guys if they can arrange something though I think we need to ask for your number then of course these people are are first of all very wealthy they are literally royalty so I think we also have to be careful not to land on some Blacklist of like safety concern cuz that's a real thing like these people have Secret Service that looks out for crazy [Applause] people well this is the city center on a sunny afternoon and not so many people are here are you from Lin no we are from T as we are quickly realizing this country is truly unlike any other this Mountain Valley is the sixth smallest country in the world home to only 40,000 inhabitants but another 23,000 enter the country each day from neighboring countries for work leading to a large portion of the population here not being actual locals the country had a very interesting birth as a wealthy aristocratic family the lonstein held a lot of possessions and influence in what was known at the time as the Holy Roman Empire but owning no land outright they couldn't install themselves as princes and get a seat at the top of the decision-making table the lonstein wanting to gain influence bought this little piece of land that was in need of money then using the power and influence they already had attained Royal status over it strangely enough this royal family wouldn't actually visit the land that they rule over for over 120 years but it was enough to be declared an independent principality in 1719 through a combination of luck and back door politics and negotiations somehow found itself keeping its independence from Napoleon VAR other Kingdoms in the region and Germany during World War II the country after World War II however was very poor but they started a rapid and highly effective industrialization of the country which was really quite successful they also controversially became a tax Haven and a hot spot for moneya laundering putting them on a black list from the US until finally reforming in 2008 today according to the CIA they've become the richest country per capita on Earth this royal family has opted to keep their country and their reputation quite secretive to the world however but locally they are often seen walking around and once a year even invite the whole country up to the castle for some free beer and hangouts and somehow we now found ourselves here in the center of this almost empty Capital City struggling to meet not only the Royals but also its locals excuse me can I ask you a question are you from lonstein uh I don't like doing TV or something okay okay thank you you look very nice very nice outfit what do you have a question for for what uh first all it's the it's if if you're from Lin okay yes oh you amazing nice to meet you we Trav and make videos about meeting people from new cultures we're trying to meet someone from the royal family yeah it's to go upstair and have a meeting it's difficult it is yeah okay is there somebody that we could put like a request to even uh the government the protocol or the Lin marketing the church do you have a minute to take us there we can walk and then I can okay what was your name Walter Walter Walter I love the name Walter and you're born and raised here yes that's incredible how long how far back does your family go my grand grandparents are from here wow wow it's it's an honor to meet you because we've been walking around we only meet people from Switzerland and Germany do people feel connected to each other here what is significant for a l Steiner you would say like what is a l Steiner yeah frankly open minded yes we are a little proud because you're small and a special identity and passport and so on have you met anyone from the royal family you yeah sure yeah W great and you know every liner is in the castle once in the life when he's full aged 18 yeah uh they have an imitation really in the castle when you were 18 years old yes wow that's so I lot of times too so nice to meet you so nice to meet you was we see you later for a coffee see you see you wow did that just happen you convinced him you told him he looks good and he was like all right I'll talk to you I think he's being humble I think he's more closely connected to the royal family I think he's one step away than he eludes yeah I think he probably has like one of their contacts on his his smile replay his smile now of times too hello hello hell hello hi hi fine thanks and you fantastic living the dream um so our Dream yes is to meet someone from the roal family oh yeah yeah this is a dream so without getting any good response from the tourism information center has anyone done this before come in here and no not really like this as you do now we at least came out with something you get two pins of the flag that was a really bad sign I think we are she said several times that it's impossible so we went to the next government building we could find this is the government building according to Google Maps and we have one big dream and that dream would be to like have an interview with someone from the royal family um we the most dreams it's not possible that was another unpromising but despite the rejection she did give us a phone number to call that's epic hello do you speak English yes I do amazing U my name is Thomas Bragg um and after a lengthy phone call we made a very promising step forward we were given the email of the secretary to the world family so we decided to go somewhere more comfortable this is Walter's Restaurant to write our legendary email we are in lonstein these next few days to do a story about exploring your wonderful country we are available anytime any day most of the week but hopefully as soon as possible let's send it sent come on come on then and after dancing around it all day it felt like we had to go straight towards the belly of the Beast I think we need to go straight to the castle and maybe it wasn't our best look I'm not insinuating that we should stalk anyone I'm just saying at a castle that is a tourist attraction that people go and look at from the outside there's got to be somebody outside there that we can say hey we're here what's up we want to meet the king I swear to God we're on a list within within 1 hour I think she probably already flagged us yeah do you think that that woman at The Visitor Center think we're absolutely out of our minds yes hey I know you're billionaire billionaire friends just checking in if look at make a YouTube video this is either the best decision I've ever had or the worst decision oh my God how can we approach it without no entrance in every language it says don't maybe we should knock on that door yeah hello hello hello how are you do you think there is any chance for us to meet the Royal Family do you believe in us no no okay so this was this was a bad idea they did not want people here so far literally nobody that is a gatekeeper thinks we have the mildest chance like I thought when we came here I thought maybe 40% chance that this will work now feeling like 14% chance if you're seeing this footage something worthwhile happened something worth you seeing this happens later okay before we go any further there is a myth that I've wanted to bust for some time now which is that cows love classical music apparently if you play it they come up to you and listen and they actually enjoy it so we're going to try to bust that myth right now now while telling 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English my name is Stefan and we have this goal and our mission in our YouTube video it's to uh radio station let me ask the responsible person and he will call you back okay okay amazing yeah we're getting there and we let our imagination fly a little high but maybe one of the Royals they like to work and have the radio in the background and then they hear us too and they're like those guys look nice I'm going to invite them to my castle so after failing relentlessly we went back to the only person who could lift up our Spirits we're looking for W uh V yeah V yeah how are you hi good to see you again again we hope we're not um intriguing I would say we're just happy to see you again what do we like IC day or lemonade or oh lemonade would be great it's may be a big question but how do your journey [Music] start you see wow I freaking love Walter he's amazing we like 1 hour good conversation there he's got multiple restaurants we landed on a powerful man actually we did we did 100% sure that he is a lot closer to the royal family than he is insinuating and I'm going to ask you before you even get to the final part of this video which will be satisfying to hit the like button down below 40% of the people who watch yes there now watch it on television so there is a very high probability that you're watching us on TV right now most people don't really go out of their way to click like if you can do it it goes a long way leave a comment if you're on your phone or computer give us a boost it will give us boost batteries in our morale that right now is a little low I have a like 30 40% battery tank right now mhm but maybe an ice cream will will reboot wow great for you same I'll do the same okay thank you man Julian from the government he tried to call me 10 minutes ago good T Julian hello my friend hi hi I talk to some of my colleagues and I don't really have good news to be honest you don't have good news I see they were basically all laughing at me and saying saying like yeah they can dream on no no chance they going to meet the the royal family so the radio station is no longer returning our calls the email we've been ghosted by every person including the government building and the information center have laughed at us I feel like we are getting to a point where we have used all our options day two no leads not yet and I have a secret plan that you don't even know yet the radio station what did they do with us yesterday ghosted us they ghosted us I found an address to the radio station we could just drive there it's a 15-minute drive and we knock on the door okay let's go Ambush I mean visit this radio station on another note I think we have the world's most beautiful parking spot this is where we parked it's pretty incredible towards the radio station once again Uninvited but uh I think with this smile show me yes we'll make it happen they've been ignoring us they said we'll call you back that was 24 hours ago okay man good we're coming we're inviting ourselves to their show hi hello hello hi hi I'm Thomas okay I'm Chris hi hi I'm Stefan nice to meet you what you doing here we have a channel called yes Theory so we have like a series of micro challenges and one of them was to get on local radio okay yes so are we in the right place yes you are okay you'd like to hear again yes right we would love to okay tomorrow in the afternoon that would be great okay that would be super fun amazing we just walked in there by chance we didn't thought you think you were going to think we are crazy walking in here but I I at first I thought amazing nice to meet you and have a great rest of your day bye great that was great super friendly it feels like we've been planting seeds for days mhm and nothing has happened yet but feels like we're making some progress after beginning to make progress on one of the side quests we decided to start planning one of the other side quests throwing a party for strangers and we think we knew the perfect place for the venue and we are back again not for the first time not for the second time it's for the third time to watch this restaurant hello is Walter Walter here you can maybe say it's his friends from Sweden we are friends right is anybody else cringing with us or does this look easy coming to somebody for the fourth time to now ask him to Walter sorry see again wter we have a we have a question which we hope you will like and think is a good idea the dream we have to do in lonstein is to arrange a smaller Gathering a party and invite people from lonstein and we would love to do it at odler ah Friday so in 48 hours it's PL I can't organiz what do you think I think so yes and not too many people you know we can decide how many people is like the max maybe 200 300 people maybe I contact you yeah that would be great come with my son maybe somewhere that would be great yeah let's grab a beer together we speak about Friday yeah yeah yeah see we'll be back but now we actually have a we don't have a venue but we kind of have a venue we're celebrating as we have a venue I think he's going to say yes you can see in his eyes it's going to say yes he's going to say yes and the prince will come and attend our party I think this will be good you know if anybody ever comes to Luxembourg or to where where did you say keep this edit keep this another side quest we'd set out to complete was having a local experience with a stranger so that sounded like a good enough excuse to us to go out that night for a drink with our favorite local Walter how's it going quiet to see again just a little nice meet you Hi how Cheers Cheers guys Che thank you for inviting us this is great you have an amazing dad so happy to meet you as well did he tell you how we met yeah he he told me on the street at first I was skeptic you know no interview no and after only one drink Walter was ready to hit the town let's go clubbing let's go dance I'm too tired St we went to the same same high school as Walter see you tomorrow the journey continues tomorrow I can't believe we're going into day three and after catching up with our favorite Len Steiner we were feeling optimistic about completing all of our missions but the next day started off with a bit of a low Point nothing is working so we're going to call the castle again hi Nicole this is Thomas wanted to follow up and see if you had a chance to check out my email actually I have never received your email so oh I sent it two days ago you check your your YouTube and your videos and um yes you will hear from us okay all right byebye have a good day you too bye bye by damn it she had never received the email so we've been sitting and waiting for days for nothing now it's already Thursday Thursday at 5:00 p.m. so they have one day to consider it now before the week it's terrible we thought we try to regain some morale by inviting some strangers to our party which also didn't have a great start hey guys hi can we ask you a quick question we're having I don't want okay thank you are you from lonstein Noe no are you from lonstein nice place yeah a nice baby so so this evening this evening yeah unfortunately we we live at tur can we off a quick question guys not this time you're pretty good at getting ignored actually you like say a half hello to people and you're like hello hey hello guys are you from l no worries I'm invisible Dam get that hurt he just pointed at his watch and just walked away hello hello can I ask you a question you look very friendly I am friendly I can feel it my son is very open for such ideas great we would love to meet your son wait the castle is calling me wow okay answer it said reception Castle calling the castle is right up there come on uh hello this is Thomas I just missed a a call hello Thomas I received your message message yesterday thank you very much for your last minute inquiry unfortunately I cannot give you a confirmation we have tried to organize a brief meeting in this short period of time their calendar is already so full do you think that early next week there might be a chance I only see slots on Thursday or Friday but probably that is uh not possible for you I mean we could be we we we we could be flexible and we're doing you are very flexible Thomas yes we are we are um okay I get back to the hereditary print and see if uh he's willing and sees an option on either Thursday or Friday next week amazing that would be incredible you'll hear from me well done first of all she is the main secretary my emotions right now it just went from a lot of excitement to becoming crushed when I said it was not possible and now like the door open again we're like that friend that you like don't really want to hang out with and they're like I'm busy tonight I'm like I'm free this weekend I'm free next week we're free I'm free I can hang out anytime any day next month I'm free next month you're very flexible thas and all of a sudden it started to feel like things were going our way I just got an email from the radio dear guys from Sweden I can confirm that you can come tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. is this okay for you let's go got an email from L Stein's only Daily News paper and they would love to meet us I just got a text message that in 2 hours we're going to go on national TV in list are you serious yeah we're getting a 3 for three 3 for three there's nothing left after that not only would this count as completing one of our side quests it would be our ultimate chance to get the attention of someone close to the Royals and hopefully convince them glad you made it okay it's time National newspaper hi we have arrived To One TV Lin national news hello Hello nice to meet toy too wow okay we are in the National radio station right now nonstop music hour hello great all right let's do it radi lonstein we seeking to connect with locals through that we feel that we can understand culture and the place more deeply our YouTube channel started with the idea of wanting to get out of our comfort zone one of our missions which everyone has told us is impossible was to try to meet and shake the hands someone from the royal family I did you've done it can we shake your hand that's the closest we been but so far it's been very difficult we've been told it's impossible if someone from the royal family is watching um please we are hosting a local party and we would love to invite you it sounds great if you guys want to come free and who's invited the two of you that's what I wanted to hear just in the moment where it felt like we were flying we got the call we've been fearing all week Thomas yes I unfortunately don't have good news it's not possible next week it's it's just too busy these days and uh uh we don't see a possibility to accommodate a a meeting even if it's just a short one sorry I'm very sorry yeah it's it's all right I understand thanks for your understanding bye thank you bye damn it we were doing so good we gave it all what's the lesson here I think that a billionaire Prince is hard to reach mhm who would have thought and after we'd now officially failed our primary Mission we decided to sulk in silence for a little while or a long while the sting of failure is brutal but we realized that even though it did turn out to be impossible possible to reach the Royals we still had the most important of our side quests to accomplish and there was someone even more important than the Royals that we wanted to spend the night with 3 2 1 here is the invitation to our party tonight we printed four for you we all know them here in in the country you knew yeah thank you here's the Royal we needed we keep saying like oh yeah this guy Walter they like oh we Walter Royal Walter our Royal can I ask you a quick question tonight we are ranging um a party if you know Walter here's the invitation as well so so we became friends with the owner Walter Walter yes I know him oh you know him okay everyone knows Walter is there anyone who doesn't know Walter so thank you maybe see you later maybe see you later brother triy you should come by by our bro this is so crazy we having um party for strangers no for real yeah for real you're doing here man here's our invitation we created today we're making progress here we're making friends delici Steiners are so friendly for real yes we know okay you know would you like to come tonight yes are we friends now yes so we make travel videos on YouTube and right now we're in Luxembourg trying to meet Lin I would love for you to join us why not hope have a good one see you by I mixed up the name name of the country we're in but uh I'm getting a little tired let's NE what the hell is this our car man you look you look great man thank you thank you this is your car I've never seen a car like that how you feeling about tonight yeah really great because it is like the first time like something like this is happening or yeah like just a random as well what do you mean mean it's not random at all Walter Walter you look great look at this shirt this is a small gift Walter but we see you as a very wise owl this is a small small gift to yeah then I put them here yeah yeah yeah he Whispering me nice things always there's nobody that we invited there we're like oh Walter again yeah yeah we know okay perfect so we're just inviting a bunch of your friends every time we say your name they smile I hope [Music] so so you're the one welcoming us tonight he has the key to lonstein and to this place and to our heart as well so more he lovees say making giving you compliments and making you nice to meet you oh it works yeah ites amazing we just wanted to say welcome to everybody this is a very spontaneous Gathering of people ultimately it is at the core of what we like to do when we travel which is to meet new people and also connect people together and so we're very very grateful to have found the perfect space uh with our lovely host Walter when we first arrived it was a little intimidating a lot of people in suits and everything looked very clean and organized and we're like I don't know how people are going to be spontaneous here and you guys are Del living proof that M Steiners are spontaneous so clap up to all of you there was one man who didn't judge us welcome up Mr Walter hen so I come in my present how do you feel now and I think always no risk no fun you know no risk no there is a risk to become friends with us because we actually created another thing here so this is a little little of our first friend I hang it up in a special place and it's actually a little text as well which I will read for you so um as strangers on the streets we met to friends we won't easily forget you said yes to show us around and in your great City even more friends we found you brought a lot of kindness and share shared stories and even a bear with your son we had such fun learning from we boo our hearts were one we've searched for their Royals but there's yet to be found thank you very much that's to you a little boy so thank you Walter for the grand tour for making our trip so much more soome [Applause] thank you thank you thank you thank you oh you spelled this it's [Music] okay it would be great to get rid of him actually getting adopted we are giving him up to be a bartender [Music] herey good can I see ID on you turn [Music] ID thank you for I'm very proud happy that I met you and and it's inspired I will find a place for the for the picture for the maybe we should print you one without a spelling mistake no that's that's that's I have a amazing days with you and yes was very special same and one last time yeah okay th thank you thank you so much thank you thank you man you're welcome great see you brother to miss you yeah same going to miss you few days yes right to be honest when we got that final no we really weren't sure what we'd do with this story if our failure in meeting our primary goal would be to disappoint to make a whole video about after all but this evening and the many new friends we made here helped us quickly forget about the friends up on the hill we didn't make if you're a royal watching this hey you know where to reach us we'd come back for a high five but really if you are in lonstein and want to meet a royal of this country you'll find him in his very own restaurant restaurant Adler we couldn't be more grateful for the friendships we've made here and who knows maybe one day we'll be back

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Length: 35min 29sec (2129 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 02 2024