Asher Jay - The United Flotsam of Garbagea

South Sudan is officially the world's newest country, but artist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Asher Jay has created a more recent, if purely theoretical, country that has a foreign policy predicated on the spread of garbage. The United Flotsam of Garbagea's borders, Jay explains, extend wherever garbage goes, which would make it the world's largest country, as oceanographers have found plastics everywhere from the bottom of the sea to the inside of the animals that live in very remote regions.