Cops in a suburb of India’s capital city of New Delhi have tossed diplomatic immunity out the window and taken into custody Westarctica’s ambassador to India, the Honorable Harshvardhan Jain, on suspicion of forgery, impersonation, and possessing fake documents, the AP reports.
Officials did not comment on why Jain would be the ambassador to Westarctica when he’s actually Indian or how he managed to secure the ambassadorship from Seborga as well… and there’s only so much mileage in the joke so tonal shift here: This fucker really did say he was an ambassador, consult, representative, etc of Westarctica, Seborga, and a number of other fictitious countries.
Jain’s scam, taking payments from locals seeking lucrative employment opportunities in friggin Westarctica worked in part because he was somehow able to rent office space in a district full of embassies and diplomatic missions, lending credibility that would otherwise be hard to come by when the nation(s) he’s representing doesn’t have a Wikipedia pages. Cops seized four vehicles with fake diplomatic plates as well as 4.5 million Indian rupees ($52,095) and other foreign currencies in cash from the fugazi embassy. No word on whether there was a fake globe in there too or whether Westarctica is nearer to the North or South Poles. Seborga sounds Scandinavian though. Probably just pasted it over Denmark or maybe as a little island in the Baltic Sea somewhere around there.