Low taxes, supportive business environment, and even a great Pacific island climate: the Dominion of Melchizedek has it all.
The only problem is that its 'government' is having problems proving it exists.
Despite this, it issues passports, registers companies, has consulates and embassies worldwide, offers official jobs, has a university, and even has a Melchizedek Bar Association.
Former government lawyer Stuart Mason-Parker is being held in the Philippines over allegations he was involved in a scam to sell Melchizedek passports.
Banking regulators in the US and Britain have taken a dim view of the dominion's banks. The Bank of England has warned that 'you do not acquire this sort of bank for conventional business'.
Melchizedek and Hong Kong have long had a relationship. In the early 1990s representatives of the dominion toured business services companies in Hong Kong trying to get them to sell Melchizedek-registered companies as well as more conventional offshore jurisdictions such as Bermuda and the Caymans.
The kingdom traces itself back to the Book of Genesis in the Bible and had as its capital Jerusalem, but it then disappeared from the history books until the mid-1980s.
