| The Pitcairn Islands have a demographic base of fewer than 50 people. What's interesting is that they are all (or almost all) descendants of the mutineers from the HMS Bounty. A common surname in the Pitcairns is "Christian" as in "Fletcher"!
From the article: "The Governor of the Pitcairn Islands is the British High Commissioner to New Zealand, currently George Fergusson. He maintains a representative officer on the island as a link between himself and the islanders - this is probably the most remote and inaccessible diplomatic posting in the world."
I guess if you're a Bad Egg in the British Foreign Office they send you to Pitcairn?
Lots of really interesting links in the first Wikipedia article. This is what it's like in a very small town when that town is spread over a tiny chain of islands in the South Pacific. | 
