Thread originally based on this article:
Small, Strange and Surreal: 3 of the Most Bizarre Micronations in the World
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Have you ever wanted to rule your very own country? A micronation is an area of land claimed by one or more persons to be independent from any major recognized nation in the world.
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For entertainment purposes, here is a Wikipedia link to the nation mostly profiled in that article,
Sealand. Here is a website link to another micronation, called
Bermania, a small kingdom located in the East Balkans near the Danube River.
However, here is the Wiki link to the micronation that truly inspired this thread and poll:
Lovely
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The Kingdom of Lovely is a partly Internet-based micronation which claims the flat of its creator and ruler – the comic writer Danny Wallace – as its territory. As with many of Wallace's projects, the micronation was conceived with media in mind; in this case a television series, produced during 2004-2005 for the BBC and called How to Start Your Own Country. Lovely has 58,165 citizens registered on its website (this figure is static), and 881 accounts registered on its forum.
The official territory of Lovely is Wallace's flat in London, at Bow Quarter, on Fairfield Road, but citizens of Lovely are invited to declare a room, or some other building or land belonging to them, to be an embassy for the country by taking a photograph displaying Lovely's flag there.
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I do hereby propose that Skyline become a Micronation along the same lines as Lovely. We would currently have 1,295 citizens, and with such notoriety, would immediately become teh power among other forums around the internet. Skyline would just be a bit more internet-based than Lovely is all.
We already have our own currency, the "chip." That's a good start. We have plenty of skilled citizens capable of producing a Coat of Arms, a Flag, and all that. A contest could be held to come up with an official motto, something witty along the lines of "Fuck and be Free."
We can do it! Let's give this matter some semi-serious, tongue-in-cheek thought. Many of our citizens already have rooms (or computer desks) in their abodes already dedicated to Skyline, where they post, chat, listen to tunes and/or fornicate joyfully. Why not take this a few steps farther to it's logical, fateful conclusion?
Long live King JinXy!
Discuss.