Outside Macedonia's capital lies Shutka, the world's only self-governing Roma community. This is a portrait in words of a town called Trash. 1. Shutka Shutka, the world's only self-governing community of Roma, began early one morning in 1963, when the earth started shaking in a corner of Yugoslavia. After the Romani quarter of Topana, in Skopje, Macedonia, collapsed, bureaucrats moved people 3km away, promising them land and ...