Franz Josef Land

Franz Josef Land, or Земля Франца-Иосифа, is an archipelago (English: buncha islands) in the Arctic Ocean. It is part of the Russian Federation. It is also a restricted military zone, so unless birds and seals there use postage, there is no civilian post office there.

While it is real, it does not and never issued its own stamps; the stamps supposedly being issued by it are not real. Beginning in the early 1990s, old Soviet stamps were surcharged with ЗЕМЛЯ ФР.- ИОИФЯ or ЗЕМЛЯ ФРАНЦА-ИОИФЯ with various topical-related images. Various topical sheetlets followed, inscribed ЗЕМЛЯ ФРАНЦА-ИОИФЯ.  File:Franz Josef mushroom.jpg|"FR. JOSIPH EARTH" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. 

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