There are almost 200 official countries in the world. But there are dozens more unrecognized nations determined to be independent. Simon Reeve set out to visit several of these lesser-known places.


2 -Trans-Dniester
Simon Reeve travels to Moldova where he goes on a drunken fishing trip with the president, before meeting a village so poor that 32 men there sold their kidneys.

He then crosses over to the breakaway state of Trans-Dniester to find a region where Lenin statues still take pride of place and "independence day" is celebrated with a show of force by thousands of troops.

He also gets arrested for trying to film a secret Soviet base.