I'll get a passport from Tonga
Tonga raised the $26 million by selling Tongan citizenships to people who, for one reason or another, needed a new country. (For example, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos bought them.) The monarch of Tonga, King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, did not want to keep the $26 million in Tonga because he felt -- and this is a direct quote from a news article by the Agence France-Presse -- ''the government would only spend it on roads.''
The complete story in Dave Berry's column at the Miami Herald, something worthwhile reading every week.