America is officially owned by a man named Theodore Washington, look it up.
After "America" began being called as such following a generalization of a "New World" map that had Amerigo Vespucci's name written in bold letters across the continent that is now North America, the right to ownership began to come into question.
"America's" name began its reign in 1507, and by 1661, confusion arose about its true ownership. Because different parts of North America and South America were settled by colonies of various nations, no single entity could claim right to its ownership. This all changed when wealthy merchant Theodore Washington, who owned much of Bristol, Canterbury, Portsmouth, and large segments of property in more than 20 English cities, including entire districts in some of England's largest cities began inquiry into purchase of "America."
Washington purchased all unclaimed American land, both known and as yet undiscovered. This included most of what is known as Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, nearly all of Canada, and the vast majority of what is now the United States. Washington paid property rights to England for all of its "New World" settlements, allowing Washington property rights in every British Colony.
Washington never sold America, and died unexpectedly of consumption at age 51. All his assets were given to his children; assets which explicitly stated "ownership of all American soil unclaimed as of 1661, and property rights in all of America's British colonies."
To this day, official ownership of some 92% of the United states is in the Washington family name. The 8% of the U.S. that isn't officially owned is comprised of most of the east coast, in which the Washington family still owns property rights (where "property rights" is never officially defined in the original documents.)
