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| name = Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood,<br/> Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., K.I. M.E.<br />
| image = Kingfisher_dice.png<br />
| caption = Blackwood's profile photo on Discord.<br />
| office 1 = Editor of the ''Home-made Crown Journal''<br />
| assumed/in 1 = Assumed<br />
| date 1 = 15 July 2020<br />
| predecessor 1 = Office established<br />
| father = Anthony Blackwood<br />
| mother = Gail Blackwood (''née'' Gordon-Lennox Scott)<br />
| born = 6 May 2001, Ireland<br />
| religion = Christian (Church of England)<br />
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'''Sax Lennox Blackwood''' (b. 2001 and fl. 2015–21), formerly '''Ives Blackwood''', was a [[Glastieve]]n and later [[Abelden|Abeldane]] writer and statesman noted primarily for their contributions to [[micropatriology]]. Blackwood created [[motive micropatriology]], [[New Secessionism]], the [[Glastieven Model]], and defined [[classical micropatriology]]. They wrote ''[[The Glastieven]]'' from 2017 to 2020 and the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' from 2020 to 2021. They co-founded the [[Republic of Skovaji]] with their brother in 2014, three iterations of [[Glastieve]] with their friends between 2017 and 2020, and the [[Glorious Anthean Republic]] with the other members of the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]] in 2021. After 2020, they considered the [[Abeldane Empire]] their main micronation. Blackwood was also a wiki admin from 2019 to 2021 and a Discord moderator in 2021.<br />
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Blackwood temporarily left the community in 2017 over the [[New Community]] controversy, where they had tried to create an 'egalitarian' breakaway from MicroWiki, and permenantly in 2021 following a widespread negative reaction to a joke/troll wherein they had controlled an alternate persona called Queen Beti which they used to start arguments.<br />
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==Early career==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through their early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by their younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group="note">"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited their friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; they were a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate their activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, they were also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From their return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of their work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of their work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve their focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, their activity in the community declined and their micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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==Abelden, March 2020–''present''==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group="note">The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
===''Home-made Crown Journal'' and March 2021 Vorsitzender run===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during their previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, they were criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. their citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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==March 2021 controversy==<br />
On 7 March [[2021]], Blackwood admitted to being Beti, also known as fisher-of-kings, despite writing a lengthy article on them and their actions in the micronational community.<ref name="Ives Blackwood">. [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/queen-beti-the-mystery-of-microwikis-woke-provocateur/ Queen Beti: The mystery of MicroWiki's woke provocateur] ''Home-Made Crown Journal'', 1 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.</ref> Beti sparked controversy within the community after the establishment of Raditrans, a radical left-wing political party. Following Blackwood's confession, they were removed from the [[MicroWiki@Discord]] moderator team, and users called for their removal as a Wiki Admin on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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==Theoretical work==<br />
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In addition to their journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of their work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in their career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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===New Secessionism===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though their citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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===Micronational compass===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zabëlle Skye]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Skye released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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===Defining classical micropatriology===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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===Glastieven Model===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and their most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, they are working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. they have stated their intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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they are an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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they are a self-described "wannabe author". they have written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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==Styles and honours==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, they were also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to their current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, they were awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of their work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 they were awarded a doctorate for their paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers their surname and not their barony to be used when they are being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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===Peerages===<br />
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*{{flagicon image|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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===Honours===<br />
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*{{flagicon image|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagicon image|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagicon image|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group="note">Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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===Degrees===<br />
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*BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
*PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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===Other aliases===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from their previous career; their initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was their real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that their MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time they were mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020.<br />
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*2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
*2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
*2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
*2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when they were a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of they name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which they are known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
*[[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
*[[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
*[[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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==Notes and references==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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{{Infobox official<br />
| name = Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood,<br/> Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., K.I. M.E.<br />
| image = Kingfisher_dice.png<br />
| caption = Blackwood's profile photo on Discord.<br />
| office 1 = Editor of the ''Home-made Crown Journal''<br />
| assumed/in 1 = Assumed<br />
| date 1 = 15 July 2020<br />
| predecessor 1 = Office established<br />
| father = Anthony Blackwood<br />
| mother = Gail Blackwood (''née'' Gordon-Lennox Scott)<br />
| born = 6 May 2001, Ireland<br />
| religion = Christian (Church of England)<br />
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'''Sax Lennox Blackwood''' (b. 2001 and fl. 2015–21), formerly '''Ives Blackwood''', was a [[Glastieve]]n and later [[Abelden|Abeldane]] writer and statesman noted primarily for their contributions to [[micropatriology]]. Blackwood created [[motive micropatriology]], [[New Secessionism]], the [[Glastieven Model]], and defined [[classical micropatriology]]. He wrote ''[[The Glastieven]]'' from 2017 to 2020 and the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' from 2020 to 2021. He co-founded the [[Republic of Skovaji]] with their brother in 2014, three iterations of [[Glastieve]] with their friends between 2017 and 2020, and the [[Glorious Anthean Republic]] with the other members of the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]] in 2021. After 2020, he considered the [[Abeldane Empire]] their main micronation. Blackwood was also a wiki admin from 2019 to 2021 and a Discord moderator in 2021.<br />
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Blackwood temporarily left the community in 2017 over the [[New Community]] controversy, where he had tried to create an 'egalitarian' breakaway from MicroWiki, and permenantly in 2021 following a widespread negative reaction to a joke/troll wherein he had controlled an alternate persona called Queen Beti which he used to start arguments.<br />
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==Early career==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through their early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by their younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group="note">"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited their friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; they were a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate their activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, they were also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From their return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of their work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of their work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve their focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, their activity in the community declined and their micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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==Abelden, March 2020–''present''==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group="note">The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
===''Home-made Crown Journal'' and March 2021 Vorsitzender run===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during their previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, they were criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. their citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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==March 2021 controversy==<br />
On 7 March [[2021]], Blackwood admitted to being Beti, also known as fisher-of-kings, despite writing a lengthy article on them and their actions in the micronational community.<ref name="Ives Blackwood">. [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/queen-beti-the-mystery-of-microwikis-woke-provocateur/ Queen Beti: The mystery of MicroWiki's woke provocateur] ''Home-Made Crown Journal'', 1 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.</ref> Beti sparked controversy within the community after the establishment of Raditrans, a radical left-wing political party. Following Blackwood's confession, they were removed from the [[MicroWiki@Discord]] moderator team, and users called for their removal as a Wiki Admin on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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==Theoretical work==<br />
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In addition to their journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of their work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in their career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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===New Secessionism===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though their citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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===Micronational compass===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zabëlle Skye]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Skye released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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===Defining classical micropatriology===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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===Glastieven Model===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and their most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, they are working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. they have stated their intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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they are an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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they are a self-described "wannabe author". they have written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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==Styles and honours==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, they were also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to their current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, they were awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of their work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 they were awarded a doctorate for their paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers their surname and not their barony to be used when they are being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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===Peerages===<br />
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*{{flagicon image|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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===Honours===<br />
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*{{flagicon image|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagicon image|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagicon image|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group="note">Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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===Degrees===<br />
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*BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
*PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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===Other aliases===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from their previous career; their initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was their real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that their MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time they were mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020.<br />
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*2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
*2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
*2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
*2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when they were a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of they name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which they are known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
*[[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
*[[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
*[[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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==Notes and references==<br />
===Notes===<br />
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===References===<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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'''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah''' (b. 2001 and fl. 2015–21) was a [[Glastieve|Glastieven]] and later [[Abelden|Abeldane]] writer and statesman noted primarily for his contributions to [[micropatriology]]. Blackwood created [[motive micropatriology]], [[New Secessionism]], the [[Glastieven Model]], and defined [[classical micropatriology]]. He wrote [[The Glastieven|''The Glastieven'']] from 2017 to 2020 and the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' from 2020 to 2021. He co-founded the [[Republic of Skovaji]] with his brother in 2014, three iterations of [[Glastieve]] with his friends between 2017 and 2020, and the [[Glorious Anthean Republic]] with the other members of the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]] in 2021. After 2020, he considered the [[Abeldane Empire]] his main micronation. Blackwood was also a wiki admin from 2019 to 2021 and a Discord moderator in 2021.<br />
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Blackwood temporarily left the community in 2017 over the [[New Community]] controversy, where he had tried to create an 'egalitarian' breakaway from MicroWiki, and permenantly in 2021 following a widespread negative reaction to a joke/troll wherein he had controlled an alternate persona called Queen Beti which he used to start arguments.<br />
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==Early career==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through his early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by his younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group="note">"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited his friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; he was a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate his activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, he was also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From his return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of his work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of his work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve his focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, his activity in the community declined and his micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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==Abelden, March 2020–''present''==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group="note">The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
===''Home-made Crown Journal'' and March 2021 Vorsitzender run===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during his previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, he was criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. His citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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==March 2021 controversy==<br />
On 7 March [[2021]], Blackwood admitted to being Beti, also known as fisher-of-kings, despite writing a lengthy article on them and their actions in the micronational community.<ref name="Ives Blackwood">. [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/queen-beti-the-mystery-of-microwikis-woke-provocateur/ Queen Beti: The mystery of MicroWiki's woke provocateur] ''Home-Made Crown Journal'', 1 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.</ref> Beti sparked controversy within the community after the establishment of Raditrans, a radical left-wing political party. Following Blackwood's confession, he was removed from the [[MicroWiki@Discord]] moderator team, and users called for his removal as a Wiki Admin on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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==Theoretical work==<br />
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In addition to his journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of his work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in his career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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===New Secessionism===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though his citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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===Micronational compass===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zed|Zarel Smith]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Smith released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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===Defining classical micropatriology===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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===Glastieven Model===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and his most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, he is working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. He has stated his intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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Blackwood was raised as an [[w:atheist|atheist]] but converted to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] in 2018 and is now a practising member of the [[w:Church of England|Church of England]]. He identifies as a "skeptical, self-aware, moderate Anglican" and is critical of non-moderate religion, believing that religious belief is associated with a higher risk of violent extremism, and that critical thinking and progressive social beliefs are important safeguards against this risk. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Blackwood attended Mass most Sundays. His churchmanship is generally [[w:Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] and has said he considers his religion to be "in the tradition of [[w:C.S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]]".<br />
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He is an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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He is a self-described "wannabe author". He has written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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==Styles and honours==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, he was also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to his current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, he was awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of his work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 he was awarded a doctorate for his paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers his surname and not his barony to be used when he is being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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===Peerages===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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===Honours===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group="note">Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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===Degrees===<br />
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*BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
*PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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===Other aliases===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from his previous career; his initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was his real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that his MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time he was mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020. <br />
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*2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
*2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
*2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
*2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when he was a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of his name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which he is known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
*[[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
*[[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
*[[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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==Notes and references==<br />
===Notes===<br />
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===References===<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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[[Category:People]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Ives_Blackwood&diff=972487Ives Blackwood2021-10-23T15:40:09Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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| name = Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood,<br/> Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., K.I. M.E.<br />
| image = Kingfisher_dice.png<br />
| caption = Blackwood's profile photo on Discord.<br />
| office 1 = Editor of the ''Home-made Crown Journal''<br />
| assumed/in 1 = Assumed<br />
| date 1 = 15 July 2020<br />
| predecessor 1 = Office established<br />
| father = Anthony Blackwood<br />
| mother = Gail Blackwood (''née'' Gordon-Lennox Scott)<br />
| born = 6 May 2001, Ireland<br />
| religion = Christian (Church of England)<br />
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'''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah''' (b. 2001 and fl. 2015–21) was a [[Glastieve|Glastieven]] and later [[Abelden|Abeldane]] writer and statesman noted primarily for his contributions to [[micropatriology]]. Blackwood created [[motive micropatriology]], [[New Secessionism]], the [[Glastieven Model]], and defined [[classical micropatriology]]. He wrote [[The Glastieven|''The Glastieven'']] from 2017 to 2020 and the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' from 2020 to 2021. He co-founded the [[Republic of Skovaji]] with his brother in 2014, three iterations of [[Glastieve]] with his friends between 2017 and 2020, and the [[Glorious Anthean Republic]] with the other members of the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]], though after 2020 he considered the [[Abeldane Empire]] his main micronation. Blackwood was also a wiki admin from 2019 and a Discord moderator in 2021.<br />
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Blackwood temporarily left the community in 2017 over the [[New Community]] controversy, where he had tried to create an 'egalitarian' breakaway from MicroWiki, and permenantly in 2021 following a widespread negative reaction to a joke/troll wherein he had controlled an alternate persona called Queen Beti which he used to start arguments.<br />
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==Early career==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through his early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by his younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group="note">"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited his friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; he was a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate his activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, he was also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From his return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of his work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of his work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve his focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, his activity in the community declined and his micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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==Abelden, March 2020–''present''==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group="note">The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
===''Home-made Crown Journal'' and March 2021 Vorsitzender run===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during his previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, he was criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. His citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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==March 2021 controversy==<br />
On 7 March [[2021]], Blackwood admitted to being Beti, also known as fisher-of-kings, despite writing a lengthy article on them and their actions in the micronational community.<ref name="Ives Blackwood">. [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/queen-beti-the-mystery-of-microwikis-woke-provocateur/ Queen Beti: The mystery of MicroWiki's woke provocateur] ''Home-Made Crown Journal'', 1 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.</ref> Beti sparked controversy within the community after the establishment of Raditrans, a radical left-wing political party. Following Blackwood's confession, he was removed from the [[MicroWiki@Discord]] moderator team, and users called for his removal as a Wiki Admin on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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==Theoretical work==<br />
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In addition to his journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of his work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in his career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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===New Secessionism===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though his citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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===Micronational compass===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zed|Zarel Smith]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Smith released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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===Defining classical micropatriology===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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===Glastieven Model===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and his most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, he is working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. He has stated his intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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Blackwood was raised as an [[w:atheist|atheist]] but converted to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] in 2018 and is now a practising member of the [[w:Church of England|Church of England]]. He identifies as a "skeptical, self-aware, moderate Anglican" and is critical of non-moderate religion, believing that religious belief is associated with a higher risk of violent extremism, and that critical thinking and progressive social beliefs are important safeguards against this risk. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Blackwood attended Mass most Sundays. His churchmanship is generally [[w:Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] and has said he considers his religion to be "in the tradition of [[w:C.S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]]".<br />
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He is an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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He is a self-described "wannabe author". He has written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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==Styles and honours==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, he was also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to his current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, he was awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of his work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 he was awarded a doctorate for his paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers his surname and not his barony to be used when he is being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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===Peerages===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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===Honours===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group="note">Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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===Degrees===<br />
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*BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
*PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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===Other aliases===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from his previous career; his initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was his real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that his MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time he was mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020. <br />
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*2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
*2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
*2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
*2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when he was a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of his name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which he is known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
*[[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
*[[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
*[[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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==Notes and references==<br />
===Notes===<br />
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===References===<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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[[Category:People]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Ives_Blackwood&diff=972486Ives Blackwood2021-10-23T15:39:40Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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{{Infobox official<br />
| name = Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood,<br/> Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., K.I. M.E.<br />
| image = Kingfisher_dice.png<br />
| caption = Blackwood's profile photo on Discord.<br />
| office 1 = Editor of the ''Home-made Crown Journal''<br />
| assumed/in 1 = Assumed<br />
| date 1 = 15 July 2020<br />
| predecessor 1 = Office established<br />
| father = Anthony Blackwood<br />
| mother = Gail Blackwood (''née'' Gordon-Lennox Scott)<br />
| born = 6 May 2001, Ireland<br />
| religion = Christian (Church of England)<br />
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'''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah''' (b. 2001 and fl. 2015–21) was a [[Glastieve|Glastieven]] and later [[Abelden|Abeldane]] author and statesman noted primarily for his [[Micropatriology]]. Blackwood created [[motive micropatriology]], [[New Secessionism]], the [[Glastieven Model]], and defined [[classical micropatriology]]. He wrote [[The Glastieven|''The Glastieven'']] from 2017 to 2020 and the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' from 2020 to 2021. He co-founded the [[Republic of Skovaji]] with his brother in 2014, three iterations of [[Glastieve]] with his friends between 2017 and 2020, and the [[Glorious Anthean Republic]] with the other members of the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]], though after 2020 he considered the [[Abeldane Empire]] his main micronation. Blackwood was also a wiki admin from 2019 and a Discord moderator in 2021.<br />
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Blackwood temporarily left the community in 2017 over the [[New Community]] controversy, where he had tried to create an 'egalitarian' breakaway from MicroWiki, and permenantly in 2021 following a widespread negative reaction to a joke/troll wherein he had controlled an alternate persona called Queen Beti which he used to start arguments.<br />
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==Early career==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through his early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by his younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group="note">"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited his friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; he was a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate his activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, he was also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From his return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of his work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of his work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve his focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, his activity in the community declined and his micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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==Abelden, March 2020–''present''==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group="note">The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
===''Home-made Crown Journal'' and March 2021 Vorsitzender run===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during his previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, he was criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. His citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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==March 2021 controversy==<br />
On 7 March [[2021]], Blackwood admitted to being Beti, also known as fisher-of-kings, despite writing a lengthy article on them and their actions in the micronational community.<ref name="Ives Blackwood">. [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/queen-beti-the-mystery-of-microwikis-woke-provocateur/ Queen Beti: The mystery of MicroWiki's woke provocateur] ''Home-Made Crown Journal'', 1 March 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2021.</ref> Beti sparked controversy within the community after the establishment of Raditrans, a radical left-wing political party. Following Blackwood's confession, he was removed from the [[MicroWiki@Discord]] moderator team, and users called for his removal as a Wiki Admin on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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==Theoretical work==<br />
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In addition to his journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of his work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in his career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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===New Secessionism===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though his citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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===Micronational compass===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zed|Zarel Smith]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Smith released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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===Defining classical micropatriology===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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===Glastieven Model===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and his most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, he is working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. He has stated his intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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Blackwood was raised as an [[w:atheist|atheist]] but converted to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] in 2018 and is now a practising member of the [[w:Church of England|Church of England]]. He identifies as a "skeptical, self-aware, moderate Anglican" and is critical of non-moderate religion, believing that religious belief is associated with a higher risk of violent extremism, and that critical thinking and progressive social beliefs are important safeguards against this risk. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Blackwood attended Mass most Sundays. His churchmanship is generally [[w:Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] and has said he considers his religion to be "in the tradition of [[w:C.S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]]".<br />
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He is an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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He is a self-described "wannabe author". He has written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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==Styles and honours==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, he was also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to his current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, he was awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of his work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 he was awarded a doctorate for his paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers his surname and not his barony to be used when he is being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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===Peerages===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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===Honours===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group="note">Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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===Degrees===<br />
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*BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
*PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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===Other aliases===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from his previous career; his initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was his real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that his MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time he was mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020. <br />
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*2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
*2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
*2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
*2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when he was a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of his name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which he is known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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*[[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
*[[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
*[[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
*[[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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==Notes and references==<br />
===Notes===<br />
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===References===<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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*Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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[[Category:People]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Motive_micropatriology&diff=807141Motive micropatriology2021-03-07T13:32:05Z<p>Ives Blackwood: /* History */</p>
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'''Motive micropatriology''' is a proposed, not-yet-widely-accepted replacement for [[classical micropatriology]] (the words "simulationism" and "secessionism"). In motive micropatriology, micronations are weakly or strongly ''ludic'' or ''narrative'', and weakly or strongly ''hobby'' or ''achievement''. This can be represented on a two-dimensional chart similar to [[w:The Political Compass|The Political Compass]]. It was first suggested by [[Ives Blackwood]], and so far only Blackwood has supported it, but he has stressed that he regards his own work as a starting point and wants "other voices" to be involved.<br />
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The ludic vs narrative spectrum measures the motive behind the day to day activity of a micronation. In a ludic micronation, the participants are genuinely invested in the issues at stake, like players in a game, and they do what will best achieve their immediate goals, regardless of whether or not this is how a real country works. For instance, in a ludic election campaign, the candidates will run their campaign to win as many votes as possible given that they are operating in a micronation. In a narrative micronation, the participants are working together to create a coherent narrative, and aim to run the micronation as much like a real country as possible, even if this involves roleplaying (e.g. making posters for an election campaign despite knowing that everyone decided who to vote for as soon as the candidates were announced).<br />
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The hobby vs achievement spectrum measures the motive behind the practical goal of the micronation. The purpose of a hobby micronation is simply to be a micronation (this includes "seeking recognition" or "seeking independence"); success for a hobby micronation just means being "developed" or being a "good micronation". In contrast, an achievement micronation has a practical purpose that its success is measured against, such as being a political protest like the [[Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands]]. How strongly a micronation is achievement is based on how much of its day to day activity is based on its practical end goal — for instance, though [[Liberland]] is also a political protest, it is a less strongly achievement micronation than the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom because Liberland spends more time on other micronational activities that do not relate to the protest.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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Motive micropatriology was first proposed by Ives Blackwood, an [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] micropatriologist, on 3 March 2021 in a short paper called "Introducing motive micropatriology". <br />
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On 4 March, [[Gaius Soergel Publicola]] responded to Blackwood's paper in a ''Veritum Sandus'' article that praised the concept as a useful contribution to micropatriology and suggested it was similar to his own theory of Sandum Realism. Soergel characterised motive micropatriology as a continuation of Blackwood's earlier concept of [[New Secessionism]], on the grounds that the new system assumes "that micronations are fictive, ephemeral, and fleeting", which is based in what Blackwood calls the 'emperor's new clothes' criticism of [[Classical_micropatriology#Classical_secessionism|classical secessionism]] — the assumption that "micronations will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless" — which Blackwood said in 2019 was one of the two core building blocks of New Secessionism.<br />
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At Blackwood's request, on 6 March the [[Cupertino Alliance]] discussed the possibility of formally endorsing motive micropatriology and producing a series of videos to explain it.<br />
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[[Category:Micropatriology]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Motive_micropatriology&diff=807135Motive micropatriology2021-03-07T13:31:22Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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<div>{{WIP}}<br />
'''Motive micropatriology''' is a proposed, not-yet-widely-accepted replacement for [[classical micropatriology]] (the words "simulationism" and "secessionism"). In motive micropatriology, micronations are weakly or strongly ''ludic'' or ''narrative'', and weakly or strongly ''hobby'' or ''achievement''. This can be represented on a two-dimensional chart similar to [[w:The Political Compass|The Political Compass]]. It was first suggested by [[Ives Blackwood]], and so far only Blackwood has supported it, but he has stressed that he regards his own work as a starting point and wants "other voices" to be involved.<br />
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The ludic vs narrative spectrum measures the motive behind the day to day activity of a micronation. In a ludic micronation, the participants are genuinely invested in the issues at stake, like players in a game, and they do what will best achieve their immediate goals, regardless of whether or not this is how a real country works. For instance, in a ludic election campaign, the candidates will run their campaign to win as many votes as possible given that they are operating in a micronation. In a narrative micronation, the participants are working together to create a coherent narrative, and aim to run the micronation as much like a real country as possible, even if this involves roleplaying (e.g. making posters for an election campaign despite knowing that everyone decided who to vote for as soon as the candidates were announced).<br />
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The hobby vs achievement spectrum measures the motive behind the practical goal of the micronation. The purpose of a hobby micronation is simply to be a micronation (this includes "seeking recognition" or "seeking independence"); success for a hobby micronation just means being "developed" or being a "good micronation". In contrast, an achievement micronation has a practical purpose that its success is measured against, such as being a political protest like the [[Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands]]. How strongly a micronation is achievement is based on how much of its day to day activity is based on its practical end goal — for instance, though [[Liberland]] is also a political protest, it is a less strongly achievement micronation than the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom because Liberland spends more time on other micronational activities that do not relate to the protest.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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Motive micropatriology was first proposed by Ives Blackwood, an Abeldane micropatriologist, on 3 March 2021 in a short paper called "Introducing motive micropatriology". <br />
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On 4 March, [[Gaius Soergel Publicola]] responded to Blackwood's paper in a ''Veritum Sandus'' article that praised the concept as a useful contribution to micropatriology and suggested it was similar to his own theory of Sandum Realism. Soergel characterised motive micropatriology as a continuation of Blackwood's earlier concept of [[New Secessionism]], on the grounds that the new system assumes "that micronations are fictive, ephemeral, and fleeting", which is based in what Blackwood calls the 'emperor's new clothes' criticism of [[Classical_micropatriology#Classical_secessionism|classical secessionism]] — the assumption that "micronations will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless" — which Blackwood said in 2019 was one of the two core building blocks of New Secessionism.<br />
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At Blackwood's request, on 6 March the [[Cupertino Alliance]] discussed the possibility of formally endorsing motive micropatriology and producing a series of videos to explain it.<br />
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[[Category:Micropatriology]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Motive_micropatriology&diff=807125Motive micropatriology2021-03-07T13:29:51Z<p>Ives Blackwood: Created page with "'''Motive micropatriology''' is a proposed, not-yet-widely-accepted replacement for classical micropatriology (the words "simulationism" and "secessionism"). In motive mic..."</p>
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<div>'''Motive micropatriology''' is a proposed, not-yet-widely-accepted replacement for [[classical micropatriology]] (the words "simulationism" and "secessionism"). In motive micropatriology, micronations are weakly or strongly ''ludic'' or ''narrative'', and weakly or strongly ''hobby'' or ''achievement''. This can be represented on a two-dimensional chart similar to [[w:The Political Compass|The Political Compass]]. It was first suggested by [[Ives Blackwood]], and so far only Blackwood has supported it, but he has stressed that he regards his own work as a starting point and wants "other voices" to be involved.<br />
<br />
The ludic vs narrative spectrum measures the motive behind the day to day activity of a micronation. In a ludic micronation, the participants are genuinely invested in the issues at stake, like players in a game, and they do what will best achieve their immediate goals, regardless of whether or not this is how a real country works. For instance, in a ludic election campaign, the candidates will run their campaign to win as many votes as possible given that they are operating in a micronation. In a narrative micronation, the participants are working together to create a coherent narrative, and aim to run the micronation as much like a real country as possible, even if this involves roleplaying (e.g. making posters for an election campaign despite knowing that everyone decided who to vote for as soon as the candidates were announced).<br />
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The hobby vs achievement spectrum measures the motive behind the practical goal of the micronation. The purpose of a hobby micronation is simply to be a micronation (this includes "seeking recognition" or "seeking independence"); success for a hobby micronation just means being "developed" or being a "good micronation". In contrast, an achievement micronation has a practical purpose that its success is measured against, such as being a political protest like the [[Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands]]. How strongly a micronation is achievement is based on how much of its day to day activity is based on its practical end goal — for instance, though [[Liberland]] is also a political protest, it is a less strongly achievement micronation than the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom because Liberland spends more time on other micronational activities that do not relate to the protest.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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Motive micropatriology was first proposed by Ives Blackwood, an Abeldane micropatriologist, on 3 March 2021 in a short paper called "Introducing motive micropatriology". <br />
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On 4 March, [[Gaius Soergel Publicola]] responded to Blackwood's paper in a ''Veritum Sandus'' article that praised the concept as a useful contribution to micropatriology and suggested it was similar to his own theory of Sandum Realism. Soergel characterised motive micropatriology as a continuation of Blackwood's earlier concept of [[New Secessionism]], on the grounds that the new system assumes "that micronations are fictive, ephemeral, and fleeting", which is based in what Blackwood calls the 'emperor's new clothes' criticism of [[Classical_micropatriology#Classical_secessionism|classical secessionism]] — the assumption that "micronations will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless" — which Blackwood said in 2019 was one of the two core building blocks of New Secessionism.<br />
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At Blackwood's request, on 6 March the [[Cupertino Alliance]] discussed the possibility of formally endorsing motive micropatriology and producing a series of videos to explain it.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Micropatriology]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Postclassical_micropatriology&diff=803342Postclassical micropatriology2021-03-04T14:52:43Z<p>Ives Blackwood: Created page with "'''Postclassical micropatriology''' is a micropatriological movement that Ives Blackwood suggests emerged in the late 2010s as an extension of classi..."</p>
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<div>'''Postclassical micropatriology''' is a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] movement that [[Ives Blackwood]] suggests emerged in the late 2010s as an extension of [[classical micropatriology]], including [[New Secessionism]], the [[micronational compass]] and [[Brienovic's System of Micronational Classification]]. Important figures in developing the seperate ideas that Blackwood collectively labels "postclassical micropatriology" were [[Jordan Brizendine]], Glastieven T, [[Zarel Smith]], [[King Višeslav Brienovic|Ivan Brienovic]] and Blackwood himself. Postclassical micropatriology focuses on defending classical simulationism as just as legitimate as classical secessionism (whereas classical micropatriology has treated secessionism as better than simulationism since around 2015) and regards the most or second-most important distinguishing feature between micronations as whether their culture is constructed or organic.<br />
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[[Category:Micropatriology]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Ives_Blackwood&diff=803304Ives Blackwood2021-03-04T13:42:01Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox official<br />
| name = Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood,<br/> Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., K.I. M.E.<br />
| image = Kingfisher_dice.png<br />
| caption = Blackwood's profile photo on Discord.<br />
| office 1 = Editor of the ''Home-made Crown Journal''<br />
| assumed/in 1 = Assumed<br />
| date 1 = 15 July 2020<br />
| predecessor 1 = Office established<br />
| father = Anthony Blackwood<br />
| mother = Gail Blackwood (''née'' Gordon-Lennox Scott)<br />
| born = 6 May 2001, Ireland<br />
| religion = Christian (Church of England)<br />
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'''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah''' (born 6 May 2001, Ireland) is an [[Abelden|Abeldane]] journalist, politician and micropatriologist who has edited the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' since 2020 and is an independent candidate for [[Vorsitzender]] in the March 2021 election. From 2017–20, he created the [[Glastieven Model]] in [[micronational economics]]; in 2018, he created [[New Secessionism]]; and in 2020, he defined [[classical micropatriology]]. Blackwood founded the [[Glorious Anthean Republic]] and wrote its constitution, but has chosen to stay out of its politics to keep a neutral position as a journalist. He started his first micronation in 2014 and joined the community in 2015; his early projects included [[Skovaji]] and [[Glastieve]].<br />
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== Early career ==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through his early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by his younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group=note>"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited his friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; he was a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate his activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, he was also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From his return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of his work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of his work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve his focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, his activity in the community declined and his micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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== Abelden, March 2020–''present'' ==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group=note>The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
=== ''Home-made Crown Journal'' and March 2021 Vorsitzender run ===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during his previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, he was criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. His citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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== Theoretical work ==<br />
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In addition to his journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of his work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in his career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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=== New Secessionism ===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though his citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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=== Micronational compass ===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zed|Zarel Smith]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Smith released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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=== Defining classical micropatriology ===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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=== Glastieven Model ===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and his most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, he is working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood with friends.jpg|thumb|230px|Blackwood, far left, with friends.]]<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. He has stated his intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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Blackwood was raised as an [[w:atheist|atheist]] but converted to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] in 2018 and is now a practising member of the [[w:Church of England|Church of England]]. He identifies as a "skeptical, self-aware, moderate Anglican" and is critical of non-moderate religion, believing that religious belief is associated with a higher risk of violent extremism, and that critical thinking and progressive social beliefs are important safeguards against this risk. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Blackwood attended Mass most Sundays. His churchmanship is generally [[w:Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] and has said he considers his religion to be "in the tradition of [[w:C.S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]]".<br />
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He is an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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He is a self-described "wannabe author". He has written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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== Styles and honours ==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, he was also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to his current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, he was awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of his work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 he was awarded a doctorate for his paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers his surname and not his barony to be used when he is being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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=== Peerages ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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=== Honours ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group=note>Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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=== Degrees ===<br />
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* BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
* PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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=== Other aliases ===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from his previous career; his initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was his real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that his MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time he was mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020. <br />
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* 2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
* 2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
* 2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
* 2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when he was a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of his name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which he is known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
* [[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
* [[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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'''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah''' (born 6 May 2001, Ireland) is an [[Abelden|Abeldane]] journalist, politician and micropatriologist who has edited the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' since 2020 and is an independent candidate for [[Vorsitzender]] in the March 2021 election. From 2017–20, he created the [[Glastieven Model]] in [[micronational economics]]; in 2018, he created [[New Secessionism]]; and in 2020, he defined [[classical micropatriology]]. Blackwood founded the [[Glorious Anthean Republic]] and wrote its constitution, but has chosen to stay out of its politics to keep a neutral position as a journalist. He started his first micronation in 2014 and joined the community in 2015; his early projects included [[Skovaji]] and [[Glastieve]].<br />
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== Early career ==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through his early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by his younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group=note>"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited his friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; he was a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate his activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, he was also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From his return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of his work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of his work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve his focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, his activity in the community declined and his micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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== Abelden, March 2020–''present'' ==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group=note>The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
=== ''Home-made Crown Journal'' and March 2021 Vorsitzender run ===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during his previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, he was criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. His citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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== Theoretical work ==<br />
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In addition to his journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of his work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in his career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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=== New Secessionism ===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though his citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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=== Micronational compass ===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zed|Zarel Smith]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Smith released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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=== Defining classical micropatriology ===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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=== Glastieven Model ===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and his most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, he is working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood with friends.jpg|thumb|230px|Blackwood, far left, with friends.]]<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. He has stated his intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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Blackwood was raised as an [[w:atheist|atheist]] but converted to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] in 2018 and is now a practising member of the [[w:Church of England|Church of England]]. He identifies as a "skeptical, self-aware, moderate Anglican" and is critical of non-moderate religion, believing that religious belief is associated with a higher risk of violent extremism, and that critical thinking and progressive social beliefs are important safeguards against this risk. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Blackwood attended Mass most Sundays. His churchmanship is generally [[w:Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] and has said he considers his religion to be "in the tradition of [[w:C.S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]]".<br />
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He is an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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He is a self-described "wannabe author". He has written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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== Styles and honours ==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, he was also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to his current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, he was awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of his work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 he was awarded a doctorate for his paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers his surname and not his barony to be used when he is being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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=== Peerages ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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=== Honours ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group=note>Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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=== Degrees ===<br />
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* BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
* PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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=== Other aliases ===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from his previous career; his initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was his real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that his MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time he was mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020. <br />
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* 2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
* 2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
* 2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
* 2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when he was a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of his name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which he is known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
* [[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
* [[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<references group="note"/><br />
=== References ===<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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[[Category:People]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Ives_Blackwood&diff=801740Ives Blackwood2021-03-02T21:43:42Z<p>Ives Blackwood: /* Abelden */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox official<br />
| name = Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood,<br/> Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., K.I. M.E.<br />
| image = Kingfisher_dice.png<br />
| caption = Blackwood's profile photo on Discord.<br />
| office 1 = Editor of the ''Home-made Crown Journal''<br />
| assumed/in 1 = Assumed<br />
| date 1 = 15 July 2020<br />
| predecessor 1 = Office established<br />
| father = Anthony Blackwood<br />
| mother = Gail Blackwood (''née'' Gordon-Lennox Scott)<br />
| born = 6 May 2001, Ireland<br />
| religion = Christian (Church of England)<br />
}} <br />
'''Ives Blackwood, Baron Kavanah'''<ref group=note>Historically known as '''Kenneth Martin Postbridge''', '''Mark Samuel Kavanah''' (hence his barony) and '''William Michael Campbell'''.</ref> (born 6 May [[2001]], Ireland) is a journalist and micropatriologist who has served as editor of the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' since [[2020]]. He also works to develop [[micronational economics]], creating the [[Glastieven Model]]. <br />
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Historically, Blackwood has been a micronational politician.<br />
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== Early career ==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through his early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by his younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group=note>"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited his friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; he was a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate his activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, he was also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From his return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of his work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of his work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve his focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, his activity in the community declined and his micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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== Abelden, March 2020–''present'' ==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group=note>The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
=== ''Home-made Crown Journal'' and March 2021 Vorsitzender run ===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during his previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, he was criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. His citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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== Theoretical work ==<br />
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In addition to his journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of his work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in his career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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=== New Secessionism ===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though his citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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=== Micronational compass ===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zed|Zarel Smith]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Smith released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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=== Defining classical micropatriology ===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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=== Glastieven Model ===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and his most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, he is working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood with friends.jpg|thumb|230px|Blackwood, far left, with friends.]]<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. He has stated his intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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Blackwood was raised as an [[w:atheist|atheist]] but converted to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] in 2018 and is now a practising member of the [[w:Church of England|Church of England]]. He identifies as a "skeptical, self-aware, moderate Anglican" and is critical of non-moderate religion, believing that religious belief is associated with a higher risk of violent extremism, and that critical thinking and progressive social beliefs are important safeguards against this risk. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Blackwood attended Mass most Sundays. His churchmanship is generally [[w:Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] and has said he considers his religion to be "in the tradition of [[w:C.S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]]".<br />
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He is an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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He is a self-described "wannabe author". He has written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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== Styles and honours ==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, he was also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to his current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, he was awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of his work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 he was awarded a doctorate for his paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers his surname and not his barony to be used when he is being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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=== Peerages ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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=== Honours ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group=note>Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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=== Degrees ===<br />
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* BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
* PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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=== Other aliases ===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from his previous career; his initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was his real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that his MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time he was mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020. <br />
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* 2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
* 2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
* 2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
* 2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when he was a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of his name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which he is known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
* [[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
* [[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<references group="note"/><br />
=== References ===<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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[[Category:People]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Ives_Blackwood&diff=801739Ives Blackwood2021-03-02T21:43:32Z<p>Ives Blackwood: /* Home-made Crown Journal and March 2021 Vorsitzender run: March 2020–present */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox official<br />
| name = Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood,<br/> Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., K.I. M.E.<br />
| image = Kingfisher_dice.png<br />
| caption = Blackwood's profile photo on Discord.<br />
| office 1 = Editor of the ''Home-made Crown Journal''<br />
| assumed/in 1 = Assumed<br />
| date 1 = 15 July 2020<br />
| predecessor 1 = Office established<br />
| father = Anthony Blackwood<br />
| mother = Gail Blackwood (''née'' Gordon-Lennox Scott)<br />
| born = 6 May 2001, Ireland<br />
| religion = Christian (Church of England)<br />
}} <br />
'''Ives Blackwood, Baron Kavanah'''<ref group=note>Historically known as '''Kenneth Martin Postbridge''', '''Mark Samuel Kavanah''' (hence his barony) and '''William Michael Campbell'''.</ref> (born 6 May [[2001]], Ireland) is a journalist and micropatriologist who has served as editor of the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' since [[2020]]. He also works to develop [[micronational economics]], creating the [[Glastieven Model]]. <br />
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Historically, Blackwood has been a micronational politician.<br />
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== Early career ==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through his early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by his younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group=note>"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited his friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; he was a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate his activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, he was also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From his return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of his work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of his work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve his focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, his activity in the community declined and his micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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== Abelden ==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group=note>The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
=== ''Home-made Crown Journal'' and March 2021 Vorsitzender run ===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during his previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, he was criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. His citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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== Theoretical work ==<br />
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In addition to his journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of his work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in his career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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=== New Secessionism ===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though his citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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=== Micronational compass ===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zed|Zarel Smith]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Smith released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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=== Defining classical micropatriology ===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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=== Glastieven Model ===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and his most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, he is working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood with friends.jpg|thumb|230px|Blackwood, far left, with friends.]]<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. He has stated his intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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Blackwood was raised as an [[w:atheist|atheist]] but converted to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] in 2018 and is now a practising member of the [[w:Church of England|Church of England]]. He identifies as a "skeptical, self-aware, moderate Anglican" and is critical of non-moderate religion, believing that religious belief is associated with a higher risk of violent extremism, and that critical thinking and progressive social beliefs are important safeguards against this risk. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Blackwood attended Mass most Sundays. His churchmanship is generally [[w:Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] and has said he considers his religion to be "in the tradition of [[w:C.S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]]".<br />
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He is an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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He is a self-described "wannabe author". He has written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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== Styles and honours ==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, he was also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to his current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, he was awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of his work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 he was awarded a doctorate for his paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers his surname and not his barony to be used when he is being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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=== Peerages ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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=== Honours ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group=note>Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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=== Degrees ===<br />
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* BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
* PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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=== Other aliases ===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from his previous career; his initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was his real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that his MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time he was mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020. <br />
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* 2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
* 2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
* 2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
* 2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when he was a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of his name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which he is known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
* [[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
* [[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
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=== References ===<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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| name = Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood,<br/> Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., K.I. M.E.<br />
| image = Kingfisher_dice.png<br />
| caption = Blackwood's profile photo on Discord.<br />
| office 1 = Editor of the ''Home-made Crown Journal''<br />
| assumed/in 1 = Assumed<br />
| date 1 = 15 July 2020<br />
| predecessor 1 = Office established<br />
| father = Anthony Blackwood<br />
| mother = Gail Blackwood (''née'' Gordon-Lennox Scott)<br />
| born = 6 May 2001, Ireland<br />
| religion = Christian (Church of England)<br />
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'''Ives Blackwood, Baron Kavanah'''<ref group=note>Historically known as '''Kenneth Martin Postbridge''', '''Mark Samuel Kavanah''' (hence his barony) and '''William Michael Campbell'''.</ref> (born 6 May [[2001]], Ireland) is a journalist and micropatriologist who has served as editor of the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' since [[2020]]. He also works to develop [[micronational economics]], creating the [[Glastieven Model]]. <br />
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Historically, Blackwood has been a micronational politician.<br />
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== Early career ==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through his early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by his younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group=note>"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited his friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; he was a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate his activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, he was also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From his return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of his work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of his work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve his focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, his activity in the community declined and his micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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== Abelden ==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group=note>The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
=== ''Home-made Crown Journal'' and March 2021 Vorsitzender run: March 2020–''present'' ===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during his previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, he was criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. His citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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== Theoretical work ==<br />
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In addition to his journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of his work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in his career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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=== New Secessionism ===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though his citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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=== Micronational compass ===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zed|Zarel Smith]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Smith released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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=== Defining classical micropatriology ===<br />
<br />
Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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=== Glastieven Model ===<br />
<br />
Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and his most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, he is working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood with friends.jpg|thumb|230px|Blackwood, far left, with friends.]]<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. He has stated his intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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Blackwood was raised as an [[w:atheist|atheist]] but converted to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] in 2018 and is now a practising member of the [[w:Church of England|Church of England]]. He identifies as a "skeptical, self-aware, moderate Anglican" and is critical of non-moderate religion, believing that religious belief is associated with a higher risk of violent extremism, and that critical thinking and progressive social beliefs are important safeguards against this risk. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Blackwood attended Mass most Sundays. His churchmanship is generally [[w:Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] and has said he considers his religion to be "in the tradition of [[w:C.S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]]".<br />
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He is an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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He is a self-described "wannabe author". He has written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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== Styles and honours ==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, he was also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to his current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, he was awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of his work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 he was awarded a doctorate for his paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers his surname and not his barony to be used when he is being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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=== Peerages ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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=== Honours ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group=note>Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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=== Degrees ===<br />
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* BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
* PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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=== Other aliases ===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from his previous career; his initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was his real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that his MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time he was mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020. <br />
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* 2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
* 2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
* 2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
* 2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when he was a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of his name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which he is known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
* [[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
* [[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<references group="note"/><br />
=== References ===<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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[[Category:People]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=MicroWiki@Discord&diff=801531MicroWiki@Discord2021-03-02T19:13:19Z<p>Ives Blackwood: /* Administration */</p>
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<div>[https://discord.gg/nZYgHa9 '''MicroWiki@Discord'''], commonly known as the '''MicroWiki Discord''', is the main [[Micronational Discord servers|Discord server]] associated with the [[MicroWiki Community]].<br />
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==History==<br />
Traditionally, the MicroWiki Community was centred around the MicroWiki Forum and a tangle of [[micronational Skype rooms]]. The ascendancy of Skype rooms as the main method of communication for the community began in mid-2010; before then, the community had mainly used the talk pages of MicroWiki articles. As the use of Skype as the main platform for 'fandom' communication began to fall away in 2015-17, the MicroWiki Community became notable for its use of the service, sometimes being called the 'Skype community' by citizens of its nations; by 2016, it was common for the main representatives of nations in the MicroWiki sector to report difficulty in encouraging their nations' members to engage with chatrooms on the platform, and many new micronationalists became involved with the forums but did not join Skype.<br />
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From mid-2017 onward, activity started to drop in these venues, leading to significant concerns over the community's future. A number of Discord servers were created in this time, attracting younger micronationalists and becoming an important part of the micronational community. Early Discord servers which can be seen as the predecessors to MicroWiki@Discord include the Cafemicro Lounge created by [[Henry Clément]], the Discord version of Abel to Dabel, and MicroClub. All three of these were created as alternatives to Skype chatrooms; the first two by older members of the community seeking to boost activity, and the third by younger members averse to using Skype. Some of these servers were fairly large; MicroClub had 62 members, and the non-MicroWiki Project Nations Discord had 120.<br />
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On 17 September 2018, in an initiative led by [[Anthony Clark]], the MicroWiki administration created MicroWiki@Discord as an official Discord server for the community. At the time, it was felt that Discord servers were 'occasionally used by the community as an alternative to Skype'; MicroWiki@Discord, however, immediately became exceptionally popular, surpassing the [[Project Nations]] Discord in size. This coincided with a significant drop in the activity of the Skype chatrooms, leading to the administration encouraging a move to the Discord by advertising it in the otherwise inactive Skype rooms, which by mid-2018 had been completely abandoned, with even the monolithic [[Grand Unified Micronational]] transferring to Discord.<br />
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==Demographics==<br />
As of 20 December 2020, the MicroWiki Discord has 1,316 members, an increase of 962 since May 2019. The creation of the server saw a large number of new, typically younger members join the community.<br />
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===MicroWiki Discord Survey===<br />
{{Main|MicroWiki Discord Survey}}<br />
On 28 May 2019, Ned Gunderson conducted the [[MicroWiki Discord Survey]], which was a demographic survey. Fifty-four members took part in the survey. The results showed that a largely overwhelming amount (94.4%) of participants were male, 40.7% were between 16–19 years old, 29.6% were between 12-15, 11.1% between 20-23, 9.4% between 24-27, and the remaining 9.3% were either between 28-30, 36-40 or preferred not to say. It was an even split for the most practiced religion with 38.9% believing in either Christianity or having no religion, and the remaining 22.2% being either Pagan, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish or believing in another folk religion or other religion not listed. It also showed that the majority (83.0%) of people were white.<br />
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==Administration==<br />
{{WIP}}<br />
The server's administration is handled by members of the community who were picked or applied to become an administrator or moderator when the team decides they need additional staff members. The last member who was appointed as a moderator was [[William I of Gradonia]], who became a mod on 2 March 2021.<br />
===Administrators===<br />
*[[Andrew Creed]]<br />
*[[Cameron I|King Cameron I]]<br />
*[[Karl Friedrich]]<br />
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===Moderators===<br />
* [[Aidan McGrath of Paloma|Aidan McGrath]]<br />
* [[Archie Birch]]<br />
* Brayden "Lee" Eaves<br />
* [[Christina I of Cycoldia|Summi Imperatoria Christina I]]<br />
* [[Daniel Roscoe]]<br />
* [[Ives Blackwood]]<br />
* [[Sertor Valentinus]]<br />
* [[Tomáš Falešník]]<br />
* [[William I of Gradonia]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Micronational Discord servers]]<br />
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{{MicrowikiDiscordNAV}}<br />
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[[Category:MicroWiki]]<br />
[[Category:MicroWiki@Discord]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=MicroWiki@Discord&diff=801530MicroWiki@Discord2021-03-02T19:12:49Z<p>Ives Blackwood: /* Moderators */</p>
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<div>[https://discord.gg/nZYgHa9 '''MicroWiki@Discord'''], commonly known as the '''MicroWiki Discord''', is the main [[Micronational Discord servers|Discord server]] associated with the [[MicroWiki Community]].<br />
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==History==<br />
Traditionally, the MicroWiki Community was centred around the MicroWiki Forum and a tangle of [[micronational Skype rooms]]. The ascendancy of Skype rooms as the main method of communication for the community began in mid-2010; before then, the community had mainly used the talk pages of MicroWiki articles. As the use of Skype as the main platform for 'fandom' communication began to fall away in 2015-17, the MicroWiki Community became notable for its use of the service, sometimes being called the 'Skype community' by citizens of its nations; by 2016, it was common for the main representatives of nations in the MicroWiki sector to report difficulty in encouraging their nations' members to engage with chatrooms on the platform, and many new micronationalists became involved with the forums but did not join Skype.<br />
<br />
From mid-2017 onward, activity started to drop in these venues, leading to significant concerns over the community's future. A number of Discord servers were created in this time, attracting younger micronationalists and becoming an important part of the micronational community. Early Discord servers which can be seen as the predecessors to MicroWiki@Discord include the Cafemicro Lounge created by [[Henry Clément]], the Discord version of Abel to Dabel, and MicroClub. All three of these were created as alternatives to Skype chatrooms; the first two by older members of the community seeking to boost activity, and the third by younger members averse to using Skype. Some of these servers were fairly large; MicroClub had 62 members, and the non-MicroWiki Project Nations Discord had 120.<br />
<br />
On 17 September 2018, in an initiative led by [[Anthony Clark]], the MicroWiki administration created MicroWiki@Discord as an official Discord server for the community. At the time, it was felt that Discord servers were 'occasionally used by the community as an alternative to Skype'; MicroWiki@Discord, however, immediately became exceptionally popular, surpassing the [[Project Nations]] Discord in size. This coincided with a significant drop in the activity of the Skype chatrooms, leading to the administration encouraging a move to the Discord by advertising it in the otherwise inactive Skype rooms, which by mid-2018 had been completely abandoned, with even the monolithic [[Grand Unified Micronational]] transferring to Discord.<br />
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==Demographics==<br />
As of 20 December 2020, the MicroWiki Discord has 1,316 members, an increase of 962 since May 2019. The creation of the server saw a large number of new, typically younger members join the community.<br />
<br />
===MicroWiki Discord Survey===<br />
{{Main|MicroWiki Discord Survey}}<br />
On 28 May 2019, Ned Gunderson conducted the [[MicroWiki Discord Survey]], which was a demographic survey. Fifty-four members took part in the survey. The results showed that a largely overwhelming amount (94.4%) of participants were male, 40.7% were between 16–19 years old, 29.6% were between 12-15, 11.1% between 20-23, 9.4% between 24-27, and the remaining 9.3% were either between 28-30, 36-40 or preferred not to say. It was an even split for the most practiced religion with 38.9% believing in either Christianity or having no religion, and the remaining 22.2% being either Pagan, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish or believing in another folk religion or other religion not listed. It also showed that the majority (83.0%) of people were white.<br />
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==Administration==<br />
{{WIP}}<br />
The server's administration is handled by members of the community who were picked or applied to become an administrator or moderator when the team decides they need additional staff members. The last member who was appointed as a moderator was [[Ives Blackwood]].<br />
===Administrators===<br />
*[[Andrew Creed]]<br />
*[[Cameron I|King Cameron I]]<br />
*[[Karl Friedrich]]<br />
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===Moderators===<br />
* [[Aidan McGrath of Paloma|Aidan McGrath]]<br />
* [[Archie Birch]]<br />
* Brayden "Lee" Eaves<br />
* [[Christina I of Cycoldia|Summi Imperatoria Christina I]]<br />
* [[Daniel Roscoe]]<br />
* [[Ives Blackwood]]<br />
* [[Sertor Valentinus]]<br />
* [[Tomáš Falešník]]<br />
* [[William I of Gradonia]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Micronational Discord servers]]<br />
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{{MicrowikiDiscordNAV}}<br />
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[[Category:MicroWiki]]<br />
[[Category:MicroWiki@Discord]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Template:Media/Other&diff=800042Template:Media/Other2021-03-02T09:16:11Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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*'''Home-made Crown Journal''' 1 March - [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/queen-beti-the-mystery-of-microwikis-woke-provocateur/ Queen Beti: the mystery of MicroWiki’s woke provocateur]<br />
*'''Cupertino Alliance''' 15 Feb - [https://issuu.com/curio_rblx/docs/cafactbookfeb2021 The premier guide for geographical, governmental, and population information for members of the CA. Cupertino Alliance Factbook for February 2021 is out now.]<br />
*'''San Benito Times''' 1 Feb - [https://its-cns.wixsite.com/sbtimes/post/the-coup-d-etat-an-interview-with-a-burmese-citizen The Coup D'etat - An Interview with a Burmese Citizen]<br />
*'''Nordale Voice''' - 18 Jan - [https://nordalevoice.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/guest-article-from-new-virginia-cigarettes-and-bourbon-the-bainbridges-are-traitors-to-our-nation-and-constitution/ Guest article from New Virginia : Cigarettes and Bourbon – The Bainbridges are traitors to our nation and Constitution]<br />
*'''Royal Gazette of Brienia''' 14 Jan - [https://www.brienia.tk/op-ed-why-is-brienia-a-theocracy/ (OP-ED) Why is Brienia a theocracy?]<br />
*'''Charles Burgardt''' 7 Jan - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1taHy-wk5puDHLgVRvquqAXcvwyfnPofEtU63XkungHY/ Pan-Sayvillian Unity Day Address]<br />
*'''Pavlov Today''' 6 Jan - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJddl9aVSxU HIM the Emperor's Christmas Broadcast 7529]<br />
*'''Imperial Residence of the Emperor of the Commonwealth of Essexia''' 3 Jan - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8pmT_ZsCPI&t=12s&ab_channel=DeanNetwork Emperor's Speech 2020]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Glorious_Anthean_Republic&diff=795868Glorious Anthean Republic2021-02-26T17:27:54Z<p>Ives Blackwood: /* Etymology */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox nation<br />
|name = Glorious Anthean Republic <br/> <small>[[w:Czech language|Czech]]: Slavná Republika Anthea</small><br />
|image1 = [[File:Noflag.png|150px]]<br />
|image2 = [[File:Nocoa.png|50px]]<br />
|motto = <!-- Motto --> <br />
|anthem = <!-- National anthem --> <br />
|location = Kingley Vale, south-east England, along with various other territories ceded from different MicroWiki nations.<br />
|capital = <!-- Capital city --><br />
|largest_city = <!-- Largest city --> <br />
|languages = English <br />
|recognised_lang = Czech<br />
|religions = <!-- Official religions --> <br />
|shortname = Anthea<br />
|demonym = Anthean<br />
|wealth = <!-- Average wealth per person --> <br />
|government = Parliamentary, directorial republic <br />
|head of state = National Council<br />
|hos_name = Will be elected on 5 March. <br />
|legislature = Parliament <br />
|type = Unicameral parliament<br />
|seats = 40<ref group=note>In total the constituencies across the community are entitled to send up to 40 MPs to Parliament. There is no minimum number of MPs that must actually be elected for a Parliament to be legitimate.</ref> <br />
|election = 5 February (convention)<br/>- 5 March (first main) <br />
|established = 1 February 2021 <br />
|area = TBD<br />
|population = ~200<br />
|population_notes = 'passive citizens' — includes members of the community entitled to get involved with the republic who have not chosen to<br />
|currency = <!-- Currency --> <br />
|gdp_nominal = <!-- The Gross Domestic Product --> <br />
|HDI = <!-- Human Development Index Score --><br />
|time_zone = <!-- Timezone --> <br />
|ris002code = <!-- RIS 002 code --><br />
|tld = <!-- Internet TLD --><br />
|nat_sport = <!-- National sport --> <br />
|nat_dish = <!-- National dish --><br />
|nat_drink = <!-- National drink --><br />
|nat_animal = <!-- National animal --> <br />
|nat_export = <!-- National export --><br />
|pat_saint = <!-- Patron saint --> <br />
|notes = Anthea is a [[community micronation]]<br />
|web = [https://anthean-republic.com/ www.anthean-republic.com]<br />
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'''Anthea''' /ænθiːə/ or /ænθeɪə/, formally the '''Glorious Anthean Republic''' ([[w:Czech language|Czech]]: ''Slavná Republika Anthea''),<ref group="note">The absolute full name of the republic is the '''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community''', but this can be abbreviated to "Glorious Anthean Republic" at all levels of formality.</ref> is a micronation in south-east England, though with territories across the world and an exclusively online political and social life. It is the self-declared [[community micronation|nation-state of]] the [[MicroWiki community]], which has existed since 2008, and it was founded on 1 February 2021 as the outcome of the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]], which started on 25 January. Anthea claims [[w:Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve|Kingley Vale]] in south-east England, along with a kaleidoscope of [[territories of the Glorious Anthean Republic|other territories]] across the world ceded from different nations in the [[MicroWiki sector]].<br />
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Anthea has no website, flag, coat of arms or national seal, national animal or other national symbols, or time zone. The intention is that the community or the first government elected by the community will choose these features rather than a narrow planning board designing them. Unlike many other online-orientated micronations, it has no national Discord server, as [[MicroWiki@Discord]] and the other [[Micronational Discord servers|Discord servers used by the MicroWiki community]] are intended to be the venue for Anthean national life.<br />
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== Etymology ==<br />
[[File:James pradier three graces.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[w:James Pradier|James Pradier]]'s 1831 depiction of the Charites. Antheia is in the middle.]]<br />
[[Ives Blackwood]] coined the name ''Anthea'' in December 2020 as ''an'' + ''the'' + ''a''. It was originally meant to be a short name for a community micronation formally known as the 'Republic of Articles', referencing MicroWiki entries, playing on the additional meaning of the word 'article' as the collective term for the words ''a'', ''an'' and ''the'' in English to create something that would sound like an actual country name. [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]] has interpreted ''Anthea'' as a variant of the actual word ''article'', also referencing MicroWiki entries. <br />
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''Anthea'' is also an English personal name from the Greek name Ἀνθεία (Antheia), from ᾰ̓́νθος (ánthos), meaning flower or blossom, or — unrelated to the personal name — brightness or brilliance. In [[w:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], Ἀνθεία (Antheia) was an epithet for [[w:Hera|Hera]], queen of the Gods and goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth, and was also sometimes the name of one of the three [[w:Charites|Charites]], in this context meaning 'blossoms'.<br />
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The full name of the republic is the ''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community''. Though abbreviated to "Glorious Anthean Republic", the full name actually refers to a "Republic of the MicroWiki Community" that is Anthean. Some macronations do the same thing and have names that use an adjective to describe the cultural character of the state, with the noun being a broader term for the land or nation, e.g. the [[w:Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan|Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan]], [[w:Oriental Republic of Uruguay|Oriental Republic of Uruguay]] or the [[w:Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela]]. The appellation [[w:Most Serene Republic|Most Serene Republic]] was used in mediaeval Europe (and modern [[w:San Marino|San Marino]]) to emphasise the sovereignty of republics despite their not having monarchs, as historically ''serene'' meant supreme or royal. The adjective ''Glorious'' is particular to Anthea.<br />
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The idea that the republic is a specifically ''Anthean'' Republic of the MicroWiki Community reflects its position as a community micronation with elements of its own distinctive culture. Just as ''Saudi Arabia'' is that part of Arabia ruled by the Saudi family, the ''Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community'' is a state run by Antheans serving as a government for part of the MicroWiki Community.<br />
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The precedent for ''Glorious Anthean Republic'' and ''Anthea'' being used as names despite the nominal full name being ''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community'' (as opposed to the short name being "MicroWiki Community") is less clear, but there are macronational situations that are at least similar. For the [[w:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] and the [[w:United States of America|United States of America]], the ''description of the state within the full name'' is also a common name for the country itself, which is what is going on when "Glorious Anthean Republic" is used, and "Anthea" is the obvious short name for "Glorious Anthean Republic". In the case of [[w:Saudia Arabia|Saudi Arabia]], the adjective describing the nature of the state (''Saudi'' — like ''Anthean''), not the noun describing the country itself (''Arabia'' — like ''MicroWiki Community'' — both refer to a larger entity than actually controlled), is the colloquial name for the ''country'' as well as the state.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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=== MicroWiki before Anthea ===<br />
{{main|History of the MicroWiki community}}<br />
[[File:ACW.png|200px|thumb|right|A graphic representing the Austenasian Civil War in ''[[The St.Charlian Observer]]'']]<br />
The history of the MicroWiki community before the republic was created is part of Anthean national history. The website was founded in 2005 but the community that evolved into what the Glorious Anthean Republic considers its nation can only be traced back as far as October 2008. In October 2008, [[Robert Lethler]], [[Joe Foxon]] and [[Jacob Tierney]] joined the wiki, and the [[Grand Unified Micronational]] was founded in January 2009. In this early era, messages left on MicroWiki talk pages were the main venue for the community. Between August 2009 and mid-2010, Lethler and the GUM held hegemonic sway over the community, broken by the [[Organisation of Active Micronations]] being created in March 2010 and Lethler leaving in July 2010. In March and September 2010 were the [[Austenasian Civil War|Austenasian]] and [[Atlantis Civil War]]s respectively, which were both major events in the community that established its negative view of [[micronational warfare]] as immature and destructive.<br />
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From late 2010 onwards, [[micronational Skype rooms]] replaced talk pages as the main venue of the community, and MicroWiki moved from Wikia to an independent domain. In November 2010, the admins controversially banned [[Sebastian Linden]], dividing the community as one faction backed the admins and the other called for Linden to be unbanned and for the admins to be more accountable. Meanwhile, admin Aldrich Lucas became the dominant figure in the community. The OAM declined in influence and sparked controversy after it started branching into the [[Micras Sector|Micras sector]] of [[interactive geofiction]], which some denied was micronationalism. Linden was unbanned in July, and the GUM was secretly revived in August. Tensions flared up again in September with [[Yablokogate]], when Lethler briefly returned, revealed that the GUM had been revived, and showed that Lucas had been plotting to take over the community for Yabloko.<br />
[[File:Polination82.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[PoliNation 2012]].]]<br />
Following Yablokogate, the OAM was dissolved in December 2011, and the GUM increased in power through 2012. At around this time, the community definitively decided interactive geofiction was not micronationalism, separating it from the Micras sector and representing the start of [[classical micropatriology]]. 2012 and 2013 were largely settled, characterised by formal diplomacy giving way to informal networking on Skype, other than at major events like [[PoliNation 2012]] and the [[2013 Intermicronational Summit]]. One exception was conflict over [[Bradley of Dullahan]] and [[Quentin I of Wyvern]] making alleged xenophobic remarks, and the [[2012-13 GUM leadership scandal]], when Dullahan and [[Yaroslav Mar]] were forced to resign over accusations of corruption and [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia|Crown Prince Jonathan]] became Acting GUM Chair. From early 2013 onwards, the [[Empire of Austenasia]] became the most powerful nation in the community, and in May 2014, Jonathan became site owner of the wiki.<br />
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[[Gaius Soergel Publicola|William Soergel]] proposed the [[Denton Protocol]] in July 2014, leading to a backlash from right-wing members of the community, and over the next year or so, a distinct right-wing appeared in the community for the first time, with several micronationalists converting to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] or abandoning socialism. There were serious tensions between the left-wing and right-wing of the community and the left mostly moved from Skype to the MicroWiki forums. In addition, newer members were concentrated on the forums and could only enter the Skype rooms when they were invited by someone already-established, and there were tensions between them and older members. The GUM changed from an organisation to a formal chatroom in June 2015 and changed back in June 2016. In early and mid-2016 was the [[intermicronational economics boom of 2016]]. Tensions between the left and right and between the older and newer members of the community started to die down in late 2016 and early 2017, but these causes were briefly revived in mid-2017 by two intertwined controversies, the [[New Community]] and a diplomatic dispute between Austenasia and Delvera. Subsequently, activity in the community seriously declined, to the point where the MicroWiki forums were abandoned and sincere concerns were expressed that the community might die out.<br />
[[File:@New Eiffel Government meme.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A meme from MicroWiki@Discord.]]<br />
There were brief experiments in [[micronational Discord servers]] from 2017 onwards while Skype declined, and in September 2018, the community moved from Skype to [[MicroWiki@Discord]], which hugely swelled its numbers and restored activity. Initially, the GUM and the Old Guard retained their traditional hegemony, but from 2019 onwards a defined strand of New Guard politics came to be equally influential, establishing the [[Cupertino Alliance]] as a companion to the GUM. Governance of MicroWiki@Discord, concerns over its toxicity, and occasional bursts of anti-moderator sentiment culminated in a failed attempt by Jonathan in November 2020 to shut the server down, which was followed by it being spun off as a separate institution to MicroWiki with an independent moderation structure. Meanwhile, the traditional Old Guard — including some wiki admins — became inactive on MicroWiki@Discord or even left the server altogether, using the [[Micropolitan Club and Lounge]] instead.<br />
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=== Creation ===<br />
{{main|2021 attempt to create a community micronation}}<br />
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[[Ives Blackwood]] started the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]] with [[Daniel Lee]] and David R. Easterling on 25 January 2021 following multiple conversations in MicroWiki@Discord. David R. Easterling volunteered to lead the Boundaries Commission and oversee the first election. By the next morning, the project included [[Kenneth Fydtroust]], [[Jan Šťastný]] and [[Isaiah Burdette]], and by the 28th, it included [[Logan Ross]], [[Cristian Dobrev]], [[Sertor Valentinus]], [[Jayden Lycon]], [[Liam Munroe]], [[Archie Birch]], [[Daniel Roscoe]], [[Zarel Smith]], Casper von Naveria, [[Mats Baumans]], "Spenny" and "joe biden 2024", with Birch in particular emerging as another leader of the project. [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]] and "Cadno" also later joined. The twenty signed a declaration of statehood on 1 February, creating the republic and bringing the First Provisions into force.<br />
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Easterling announced that an election to a Convention Parliament would be held on 5 March and asked MP candidates to contact them.<br />
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== Politics and government ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood badge sunrise colours.png|200px|thumb|right|A proposed badge for the National Council. Nothing like this official yet — it will be decided on by the first National Council and Parliament elected on 5 March.]]<br />
The Glorious Anthean Republic is a [[w:parliamentary republic|parliamentary]], [[w:directorial republic|directorial republic]] with a [[w:Constitution#Classification 2|fully written, uncodified constitution]] (though at present it only has one constitutional document, the First Provisions). The state comprises four primary institutions — Parliament, the National Council, the Ministry, and the High Court. Parliament is an elected legislature composed of MPs who represent constituencies, which are intended to represent organic social groups in the community, like the [[History of the Fesmarian sector|Fesmarian sector]] or [[The Fun Gang]]. The first panel of people that can command a majority in Parliament after a general election becomes the National Council, a cabinet of ministers that runs the executive and effectively acts as a collective head of state. The Ministry is the central government, composed of departments which are led by the ministers who sit on the National Council and staffed by politically-neutral civil servants. The High Court is the supreme court of law, responsible for interpreting the law and working out what the law actually is in the case of ambiguities.<br />
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=== Law ===<br />
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Each individual rule in Anthean law is formally known as a provision. There are two kinds of provisions — provisions in the Overlaw and provisions in the Underlaw. Parliament can vote to move a provision from the Underlaw to the Overlaw or vice versa. Parliament can add to, remove from or amend the Overlaw at will. The Underlaw cannot be amended and its provisions are immutable, so for part of the Underlaw to be changed, Parliament must vote to make it part of the Overlaw first. Most normal laws will be part of the Overlaw — the largely fixed Underlaw is for the constitution and other fundamental laws such as a Bill of Rights that should rarely be amended.<br />
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Anthea has a tripartite separation of powers, where Parliament creates the law, the Ministry carries out the law and the High Court interprets the law. The National Council has both a legislative and an executive role — it is expected to propose bills to Parliament and it also leads the executive.<br />
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Following the declaration of independence, currently, the only law in Anthea is the First Provisions, which are part of the Underlaw and effectively serve as the initial constitution of the country. The First Provisions define Anthean law, establish its institutions, and lay out basic procedures for government. They will be formally adopted for a second time by the Convention Parliament elected on 5 February.<br />
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=== Parliament ===<br />
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The First Provisions establish Parliament as the sole, unicameral legislature of the Glorious Anthean Republic, elected by the MicroWiki community. <br />
[[File:Boundaries Commission light hearted initial logo.png|thumb|200px|A light-hearted provisional logo for the Boundaries Commission. The castle refers to the community being 'full of guards' (e.g. the Old Guard).]]<br />
Elections to Parliament are held once every four months. The community is divided into constituencies, which between them are entitled to send forty MPs to Parliament, and the constituencies are supposed to be equivalent to natural sub-groups that already exist in the community. There are two types of constituency, borough and county. Borough constituencies refer to specific groups, such as "[[TOES]]" or "[[Fesmar]] with [[Belgica]]" (which aims to capture the whole [[History of the Fesmarian sector|Fesmarian sector]]), and tend to only have one or two MPs. In contrast, county constituencies are broad catch-alls that account for people who are not included in any borough constituency, and at present, there are only two, "MicroWiki Discord" (able to elect 28 MPs) and "Micropolitan" (able to elect 4 MPs). The First Provisions establish a Boundaries Commission, which determines the constituencies, and will also be responsible for running the first two elections on 5 February and 5 March 2021. The current Boundaries Commissioner is David Easterling.<br />
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== Geography ==<br />
[[File:KingleyVale.JPG|200px|thumb|The view into Anthea from close to the British border.]]<br />
Anthea covers around five hundred acres (0.78 sq mi), in addition to the territories ceded to it from other MicroWiki nations. Its main territory, Kingley Vale, is entirely surrounded by the [[w:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]], approximately nine miles from the town of [[w:Chichester|Chichester, Sussex]] in the south-east of England. Anthea has one of the world's only surviving [[w:yew|yew]] forests (which also has beech trees, which are fairly common). The [[community micronation]] claims a yew and beech forest in reference to the [[w:Hilaire Belloc|Hilaire Belloc]] poem ''My Own Country'', which superficially appears to reference [[micronationalism]] and states that "The trees that grow in my own country / Are the beech tree and the yew".<br />
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== Culture ==<br />
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The core of Anthea's culture is the existing culture of the MicroWiki community, such as [[List of MicroWiki community memes|MicroWiki community memes]], though the republic is also expected to develop some distinct cultural features as the community works together to build the micronation.<br />
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A flag contest will run from 5 February to 5 March 2021 to choose a national flag for the Glorious Anthean Republic.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Treaty of Nyros]]<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [https://anthean-republic.com/ www.anthean-republic.com] — the website established by the planners<br />
* [https://pdfhost.io/v/8nc0oKw3~_Declaration_of_the_Republic.pdf Declaration of the Republic] — Anthea's declaration of independence<br />
* [https://pdfhost.io/v/pKM8vP7Yc_First_Provisions.pdf First Provisions] — the First Provisions of the Underlaw, effectively Anthea's constitution</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Glorious_Anthean_Republic&diff=795867Glorious Anthean Republic2021-02-26T17:26:58Z<p>Ives Blackwood: /* Etymology */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox nation<br />
|name = Glorious Anthean Republic <br/> <small>[[w:Czech language|Czech]]: Slavná Republika Anthea</small><br />
|image1 = [[File:Noflag.png|150px]]<br />
|image2 = [[File:Nocoa.png|50px]]<br />
|motto = <!-- Motto --> <br />
|anthem = <!-- National anthem --> <br />
|location = Kingley Vale, south-east England, along with various other territories ceded from different MicroWiki nations.<br />
|capital = <!-- Capital city --><br />
|largest_city = <!-- Largest city --> <br />
|languages = English <br />
|recognised_lang = Czech<br />
|religions = <!-- Official religions --> <br />
|shortname = Anthea<br />
|demonym = Anthean<br />
|wealth = <!-- Average wealth per person --> <br />
|government = Parliamentary, directorial republic <br />
|head of state = National Council<br />
|hos_name = Will be elected on 5 March. <br />
|legislature = Parliament <br />
|type = Unicameral parliament<br />
|seats = 40<ref group=note>In total the constituencies across the community are entitled to send up to 40 MPs to Parliament. There is no minimum number of MPs that must actually be elected for a Parliament to be legitimate.</ref> <br />
|election = 5 February (convention)<br/>- 5 March (first main) <br />
|established = 1 February 2021 <br />
|area = TBD<br />
|population = ~200<br />
|population_notes = 'passive citizens' — includes members of the community entitled to get involved with the republic who have not chosen to<br />
|currency = <!-- Currency --> <br />
|gdp_nominal = <!-- The Gross Domestic Product --> <br />
|HDI = <!-- Human Development Index Score --><br />
|time_zone = <!-- Timezone --> <br />
|ris002code = <!-- RIS 002 code --><br />
|tld = <!-- Internet TLD --><br />
|nat_sport = <!-- National sport --> <br />
|nat_dish = <!-- National dish --><br />
|nat_drink = <!-- National drink --><br />
|nat_animal = <!-- National animal --> <br />
|nat_export = <!-- National export --><br />
|pat_saint = <!-- Patron saint --> <br />
|notes = Anthea is a [[community micronation]]<br />
|web = [https://anthean-republic.com/ www.anthean-republic.com]<br />
}}<br />
'''Anthea''' /ænθiːə/ or /ænθeɪə/, formally the '''Glorious Anthean Republic''' ([[w:Czech language|Czech]]: ''Slavná Republika Anthea''),<ref group="note">The absolute full name of the republic is the '''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community''', but this can be abbreviated to "Glorious Anthean Republic" at all levels of formality.</ref> is a micronation in south-east England, though with territories across the world and an exclusively online political and social life. It is the self-declared [[community micronation|nation-state of]] the [[MicroWiki community]], which has existed since 2008, and it was founded on 1 February 2021 as the outcome of the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]], which started on 25 January. Anthea claims [[w:Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve|Kingley Vale]] in south-east England, along with a kaleidoscope of [[territories of the Glorious Anthean Republic|other territories]] across the world ceded from different nations in the [[MicroWiki sector]].<br />
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Anthea has no website, flag, coat of arms or national seal, national animal or other national symbols, or time zone. The intention is that the community or the first government elected by the community will choose these features rather than a narrow planning board designing them. Unlike many other online-orientated micronations, it has no national Discord server, as [[MicroWiki@Discord]] and the other [[Micronational Discord servers|Discord servers used by the MicroWiki community]] are intended to be the venue for Anthean national life.<br />
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== Etymology ==<br />
[[File:James pradier three graces.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[w:James Pradier|James Pradier]]'s 1831 depiction of the Charites. Antheia is in the middle.]]<br />
[[Ives Blackwood]] coined the name ''Anthea'' in December 2020 as ''an'' + ''the'' + ''a''. It was originally meant to be a short name for a community micronation formally known as the 'Republic of Articles', referencing MicroWiki entries, playing on the additional meaning of the word 'article' as the collective term for the words ''a'', ''an'' and ''the'' in English to create something that would sound like an actual country name. [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]] has interpreted ''Anthea'' as a variant of the actual word ''article'', also referencing MicroWiki entries. <br />
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''Anthea'' is also an English personal name from the Greek name Ἀνθεία (Antheia), from ᾰ̓́νθος (ánthos), meaning flower or blossom, or — unrelated to the personal name — brightness or brilliance. In [[w:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], Ἀνθεία (Antheia) was an epithet for [[w:Hera|Hera]], queen of the Gods and goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth, and was also sometimes the name of one of the three [[w:Charites|Charites]], in this context meaning 'blossoms'.<br />
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The full name of the republic is the ''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community''. Though abbreviated to "Glorious Anthean Republic", the full name actually refers to a "Republic of the MicroWiki Community" that is Anthean. Some macronations do the same thing and have names that use an adjective to describe the cultural character of the state, with the noun being a broader term for the land or nation, e.g. the [[w:Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan|Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan]], [[w:Oriental Republic of Uruguay|Oriental Republic of Uruguay]] or the [[w:Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela]]. The appellation [[w:Most Serene Republic|Most Serene Republic]] was used in mediaeval Europe (and modern [[w:San Marino|San Marino]]) to emphasise the sovereignty of republics despite their not having monarchs, as historically ''serene'' meant supreme or royal. The adjective ''Glorious'' is particular to Anthea.<br />
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The idea that the republic is a specifically ''Anthean'' Republic of the MicroWiki Community reflects its position as a community micronation with elements of its own distinctive culture. Just as ''Saudi Arabia'' is that part of Arabia ruled by the Saudi family, the ''Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community'' is a state run by Antheans, with a distinctive Anthean (rather than just MicroWikian) culture.<br />
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The precedent for ''Glorious Anthean Republic'' and ''Anthea'' being used as names despite the nominal full name being ''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community'' (as opposed to the short name being "MicroWiki Community") is less clear, but there are macronational situations that are at least similar. For the [[w:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] and the [[w:United States of America|United States of America]], the ''description of the state within the full name'' is also a common name for the country itself, which is what is going on when "Glorious Anthean Republic" is used, and "Anthea" is the obvious short name for "Glorious Anthean Republic". In the case of [[w:Saudia Arabia|Saudi Arabia]], the adjective describing the nature of the state (''Saudi'' — like ''Anthean''), not the noun describing the country itself (''Arabia'' — like ''MicroWiki Community'' — both refer to a larger entity than actually controlled), is the colloquial name for the ''country'' as well as the state.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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=== MicroWiki before Anthea ===<br />
{{main|History of the MicroWiki community}}<br />
[[File:ACW.png|200px|thumb|right|A graphic representing the Austenasian Civil War in ''[[The St.Charlian Observer]]'']]<br />
The history of the MicroWiki community before the republic was created is part of Anthean national history. The website was founded in 2005 but the community that evolved into what the Glorious Anthean Republic considers its nation can only be traced back as far as October 2008. In October 2008, [[Robert Lethler]], [[Joe Foxon]] and [[Jacob Tierney]] joined the wiki, and the [[Grand Unified Micronational]] was founded in January 2009. In this early era, messages left on MicroWiki talk pages were the main venue for the community. Between August 2009 and mid-2010, Lethler and the GUM held hegemonic sway over the community, broken by the [[Organisation of Active Micronations]] being created in March 2010 and Lethler leaving in July 2010. In March and September 2010 were the [[Austenasian Civil War|Austenasian]] and [[Atlantis Civil War]]s respectively, which were both major events in the community that established its negative view of [[micronational warfare]] as immature and destructive.<br />
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From late 2010 onwards, [[micronational Skype rooms]] replaced talk pages as the main venue of the community, and MicroWiki moved from Wikia to an independent domain. In November 2010, the admins controversially banned [[Sebastian Linden]], dividing the community as one faction backed the admins and the other called for Linden to be unbanned and for the admins to be more accountable. Meanwhile, admin Aldrich Lucas became the dominant figure in the community. The OAM declined in influence and sparked controversy after it started branching into the [[Micras Sector|Micras sector]] of [[interactive geofiction]], which some denied was micronationalism. Linden was unbanned in July, and the GUM was secretly revived in August. Tensions flared up again in September with [[Yablokogate]], when Lethler briefly returned, revealed that the GUM had been revived, and showed that Lucas had been plotting to take over the community for Yabloko.<br />
[[File:Polination82.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[PoliNation 2012]].]]<br />
Following Yablokogate, the OAM was dissolved in December 2011, and the GUM increased in power through 2012. At around this time, the community definitively decided interactive geofiction was not micronationalism, separating it from the Micras sector and representing the start of [[classical micropatriology]]. 2012 and 2013 were largely settled, characterised by formal diplomacy giving way to informal networking on Skype, other than at major events like [[PoliNation 2012]] and the [[2013 Intermicronational Summit]]. One exception was conflict over [[Bradley of Dullahan]] and [[Quentin I of Wyvern]] making alleged xenophobic remarks, and the [[2012-13 GUM leadership scandal]], when Dullahan and [[Yaroslav Mar]] were forced to resign over accusations of corruption and [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia|Crown Prince Jonathan]] became Acting GUM Chair. From early 2013 onwards, the [[Empire of Austenasia]] became the most powerful nation in the community, and in May 2014, Jonathan became site owner of the wiki.<br />
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[[Gaius Soergel Publicola|William Soergel]] proposed the [[Denton Protocol]] in July 2014, leading to a backlash from right-wing members of the community, and over the next year or so, a distinct right-wing appeared in the community for the first time, with several micronationalists converting to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] or abandoning socialism. There were serious tensions between the left-wing and right-wing of the community and the left mostly moved from Skype to the MicroWiki forums. In addition, newer members were concentrated on the forums and could only enter the Skype rooms when they were invited by someone already-established, and there were tensions between them and older members. The GUM changed from an organisation to a formal chatroom in June 2015 and changed back in June 2016. In early and mid-2016 was the [[intermicronational economics boom of 2016]]. Tensions between the left and right and between the older and newer members of the community started to die down in late 2016 and early 2017, but these causes were briefly revived in mid-2017 by two intertwined controversies, the [[New Community]] and a diplomatic dispute between Austenasia and Delvera. Subsequently, activity in the community seriously declined, to the point where the MicroWiki forums were abandoned and sincere concerns were expressed that the community might die out.<br />
[[File:@New Eiffel Government meme.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A meme from MicroWiki@Discord.]]<br />
There were brief experiments in [[micronational Discord servers]] from 2017 onwards while Skype declined, and in September 2018, the community moved from Skype to [[MicroWiki@Discord]], which hugely swelled its numbers and restored activity. Initially, the GUM and the Old Guard retained their traditional hegemony, but from 2019 onwards a defined strand of New Guard politics came to be equally influential, establishing the [[Cupertino Alliance]] as a companion to the GUM. Governance of MicroWiki@Discord, concerns over its toxicity, and occasional bursts of anti-moderator sentiment culminated in a failed attempt by Jonathan in November 2020 to shut the server down, which was followed by it being spun off as a separate institution to MicroWiki with an independent moderation structure. Meanwhile, the traditional Old Guard — including some wiki admins — became inactive on MicroWiki@Discord or even left the server altogether, using the [[Micropolitan Club and Lounge]] instead.<br />
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=== Creation ===<br />
{{main|2021 attempt to create a community micronation}}<br />
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[[Ives Blackwood]] started the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]] with [[Daniel Lee]] and David R. Easterling on 25 January 2021 following multiple conversations in MicroWiki@Discord. David R. Easterling volunteered to lead the Boundaries Commission and oversee the first election. By the next morning, the project included [[Kenneth Fydtroust]], [[Jan Šťastný]] and [[Isaiah Burdette]], and by the 28th, it included [[Logan Ross]], [[Cristian Dobrev]], [[Sertor Valentinus]], [[Jayden Lycon]], [[Liam Munroe]], [[Archie Birch]], [[Daniel Roscoe]], [[Zarel Smith]], Casper von Naveria, [[Mats Baumans]], "Spenny" and "joe biden 2024", with Birch in particular emerging as another leader of the project. [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]] and "Cadno" also later joined. The twenty signed a declaration of statehood on 1 February, creating the republic and bringing the First Provisions into force.<br />
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Easterling announced that an election to a Convention Parliament would be held on 5 March and asked MP candidates to contact them.<br />
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== Politics and government ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood badge sunrise colours.png|200px|thumb|right|A proposed badge for the National Council. Nothing like this official yet — it will be decided on by the first National Council and Parliament elected on 5 March.]]<br />
The Glorious Anthean Republic is a [[w:parliamentary republic|parliamentary]], [[w:directorial republic|directorial republic]] with a [[w:Constitution#Classification 2|fully written, uncodified constitution]] (though at present it only has one constitutional document, the First Provisions). The state comprises four primary institutions — Parliament, the National Council, the Ministry, and the High Court. Parliament is an elected legislature composed of MPs who represent constituencies, which are intended to represent organic social groups in the community, like the [[History of the Fesmarian sector|Fesmarian sector]] or [[The Fun Gang]]. The first panel of people that can command a majority in Parliament after a general election becomes the National Council, a cabinet of ministers that runs the executive and effectively acts as a collective head of state. The Ministry is the central government, composed of departments which are led by the ministers who sit on the National Council and staffed by politically-neutral civil servants. The High Court is the supreme court of law, responsible for interpreting the law and working out what the law actually is in the case of ambiguities.<br />
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=== Law ===<br />
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Each individual rule in Anthean law is formally known as a provision. There are two kinds of provisions — provisions in the Overlaw and provisions in the Underlaw. Parliament can vote to move a provision from the Underlaw to the Overlaw or vice versa. Parliament can add to, remove from or amend the Overlaw at will. The Underlaw cannot be amended and its provisions are immutable, so for part of the Underlaw to be changed, Parliament must vote to make it part of the Overlaw first. Most normal laws will be part of the Overlaw — the largely fixed Underlaw is for the constitution and other fundamental laws such as a Bill of Rights that should rarely be amended.<br />
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Anthea has a tripartite separation of powers, where Parliament creates the law, the Ministry carries out the law and the High Court interprets the law. The National Council has both a legislative and an executive role — it is expected to propose bills to Parliament and it also leads the executive.<br />
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Following the declaration of independence, currently, the only law in Anthea is the First Provisions, which are part of the Underlaw and effectively serve as the initial constitution of the country. The First Provisions define Anthean law, establish its institutions, and lay out basic procedures for government. They will be formally adopted for a second time by the Convention Parliament elected on 5 February.<br />
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=== Parliament ===<br />
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The First Provisions establish Parliament as the sole, unicameral legislature of the Glorious Anthean Republic, elected by the MicroWiki community. <br />
[[File:Boundaries Commission light hearted initial logo.png|thumb|200px|A light-hearted provisional logo for the Boundaries Commission. The castle refers to the community being 'full of guards' (e.g. the Old Guard).]]<br />
Elections to Parliament are held once every four months. The community is divided into constituencies, which between them are entitled to send forty MPs to Parliament, and the constituencies are supposed to be equivalent to natural sub-groups that already exist in the community. There are two types of constituency, borough and county. Borough constituencies refer to specific groups, such as "[[TOES]]" or "[[Fesmar]] with [[Belgica]]" (which aims to capture the whole [[History of the Fesmarian sector|Fesmarian sector]]), and tend to only have one or two MPs. In contrast, county constituencies are broad catch-alls that account for people who are not included in any borough constituency, and at present, there are only two, "MicroWiki Discord" (able to elect 28 MPs) and "Micropolitan" (able to elect 4 MPs). The First Provisions establish a Boundaries Commission, which determines the constituencies, and will also be responsible for running the first two elections on 5 February and 5 March 2021. The current Boundaries Commissioner is David Easterling.<br />
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== Geography ==<br />
[[File:KingleyVale.JPG|200px|thumb|The view into Anthea from close to the British border.]]<br />
Anthea covers around five hundred acres (0.78 sq mi), in addition to the territories ceded to it from other MicroWiki nations. Its main territory, Kingley Vale, is entirely surrounded by the [[w:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]], approximately nine miles from the town of [[w:Chichester|Chichester, Sussex]] in the south-east of England. Anthea has one of the world's only surviving [[w:yew|yew]] forests (which also has beech trees, which are fairly common). The [[community micronation]] claims a yew and beech forest in reference to the [[w:Hilaire Belloc|Hilaire Belloc]] poem ''My Own Country'', which superficially appears to reference [[micronationalism]] and states that "The trees that grow in my own country / Are the beech tree and the yew".<br />
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== Culture ==<br />
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The core of Anthea's culture is the existing culture of the MicroWiki community, such as [[List of MicroWiki community memes|MicroWiki community memes]], though the republic is also expected to develop some distinct cultural features as the community works together to build the micronation.<br />
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A flag contest will run from 5 February to 5 March 2021 to choose a national flag for the Glorious Anthean Republic.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Treaty of Nyros]]<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
<references group="note"/><br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [https://anthean-republic.com/ www.anthean-republic.com] — the website established by the planners<br />
* [https://pdfhost.io/v/8nc0oKw3~_Declaration_of_the_Republic.pdf Declaration of the Republic] — Anthea's declaration of independence<br />
* [https://pdfhost.io/v/pKM8vP7Yc_First_Provisions.pdf First Provisions] — the First Provisions of the Underlaw, effectively Anthea's constitution</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Glorious_Anthean_Republic&diff=795800Glorious Anthean Republic2021-02-26T15:02:43Z<p>Ives Blackwood: /* Etymology */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox nation<br />
|name = Glorious Anthean Republic <br/> <small>[[w:Czech language|Czech]]: Slavná Republika Anthea</small><br />
|image1 = [[File:Noflag.png|150px]]<br />
|image2 = [[File:Nocoa.png|50px]]<br />
|motto = <!-- Motto --> <br />
|anthem = <!-- National anthem --> <br />
|location = Kingley Vale, south-east England, along with various other territories ceded from different MicroWiki nations.<br />
|capital = <!-- Capital city --><br />
|largest_city = <!-- Largest city --> <br />
|languages = English <br />
|recognised_lang = Czech<br />
|religions = <!-- Official religions --> <br />
|shortname = Anthea<br />
|demonym = Anthean<br />
|wealth = <!-- Average wealth per person --> <br />
|government = Parliamentary, directorial republic <br />
|head of state = National Council<br />
|hos_name = Will be elected on 5 March. <br />
|legislature = Parliament <br />
|type = Unicameral parliament<br />
|seats = 40<ref group=note>In total the constituencies across the community are entitled to send up to 40 MPs to Parliament. There is no minimum number of MPs that must actually be elected for a Parliament to be legitimate.</ref> <br />
|election = 5 February (convention)<br/>- 5 March (first main) <br />
|established = 1 February 2021 <br />
|area = TBD<br />
|population = ~200<br />
|population_notes = 'passive citizens' — includes members of the community entitled to get involved with the republic who have not chosen to<br />
|currency = <!-- Currency --> <br />
|gdp_nominal = <!-- The Gross Domestic Product --> <br />
|HDI = <!-- Human Development Index Score --><br />
|time_zone = <!-- Timezone --> <br />
|ris002code = <!-- RIS 002 code --><br />
|tld = <!-- Internet TLD --><br />
|nat_sport = <!-- National sport --> <br />
|nat_dish = <!-- National dish --><br />
|nat_drink = <!-- National drink --><br />
|nat_animal = <!-- National animal --> <br />
|nat_export = <!-- National export --><br />
|pat_saint = <!-- Patron saint --> <br />
|notes = Anthea is a [[community micronation]]<br />
|web = [https://anthean-republic.com/ www.anthean-republic.com]<br />
}}<br />
'''Anthea''' /ænθiːə/ or /ænθeɪə/, formally the '''Glorious Anthean Republic''' ([[w:Czech language|Czech]]: ''Slavná Republika Anthea''),<ref group="note">The absolute full name of the republic is the '''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community''', but this can be abbreviated to "Glorious Anthean Republic" at all levels of formality.</ref> is a micronation in south-east England, though with territories across the world and an exclusively online political and social life. It is the self-declared [[community micronation|nation-state of]] the [[MicroWiki community]], which has existed since 2008, and it was founded on 1 February 2021 as the outcome of the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]], which started on 25 January. Anthea claims [[w:Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve|Kingley Vale]] in south-east England, along with a kaleidoscope of [[territories of the Glorious Anthean Republic|other territories]] across the world ceded from different nations in the [[MicroWiki sector]].<br />
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Anthea has no website, flag, coat of arms or national seal, national animal or other national symbols, or time zone. The intention is that the community or the first government elected by the community will choose these features rather than a narrow planning board designing them. Unlike many other online-orientated micronations, it has no national Discord server, as [[MicroWiki@Discord]] and the other [[Micronational Discord servers|Discord servers used by the MicroWiki community]] are intended to be the venue for Anthean national life.<br />
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== Etymology ==<br />
[[File:James pradier three graces.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[w:James Pradier|James Pradier]]'s 1831 depiction of the Charites. Antheia is in the middle.]]<br />
[[Ives Blackwood]] coined the name ''Anthea'' in December 2020 as ''an'' + ''the'' + ''a''. It was originally meant to be a short name for a community micronation formally known as the 'Republic of Articles', referencing MicroWiki entries, playing on the additional meaning of the word 'article' as the collective term for the words ''a'', ''an'' and ''the'' in English to create something that would sound like an actual country name. [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]] has interpreted ''Anthea'' as a variant of the actual word ''article'', also referencing MicroWiki entries. <br />
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''Anthea'' is also an English personal name from the Greek name Ἀνθεία (Antheia), from ᾰ̓́νθος (ánthos), meaning flower or blossom, or — unrelated to the personal name — brightness or brilliance. In [[w:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], Ἀνθεία (Antheia) was an epithet for [[w:Hera|Hera]], queen of the Gods and goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth, and was also sometimes the name of one of the three [[w:Charites|Charites]], in this context meaning 'blossoms'.<br />
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The full name of the republic is the ''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community''. Though abbreviated to "Glorious Anthean Republic", the full name actually refers to a "Republic of the MicroWiki Community" that is Anthean. Some macronations do the same thing and have names that use an adjective to describe the cultural character of the ''state'', with the noun being a broader term for what the state sees as its land or nation, e.g. the [[w:Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan|Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan]], [[w:Oriental Republic of Uruguay|Oriental Republic of Uruguay]] or the [[w:Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela]]. The appellation [[w:Most Serene Republic|Most Serene Republic]] was used in mediaeval Europe (and modern [[w:San Marino|San Marino]]) to emphasise the sovereignty of republics despite their not having monarchs, as historically ''serene'' meant supreme or royal. The adjective ''Glorious'' is particular to Anthea.<br />
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The idea that the republic is a specifically ''Anthean'' Republic of the MicroWiki Community reflects its position as a community micronation with elements of its own distinctive culture. Just as ''Saudi Arabia'' is that part of Arabia ruled by the Saudi family, the ''Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community'' is a state run by Antheans, with a distinctive Anthean (rather than just MicroWikian) culture.<br />
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The precedent for ''Glorious Anthean Republic'' and ''Anthea'' being used as names despite the nominal full name being ''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community'' (as opposed to the short name being "MicroWiki Community") is less clear, but there are macronational situations that are at least similar. For the [[w:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] and the [[w:United States of America|United States of America]], the ''description of the state within the full name'' is also a common name for the country itself, which is what is going on when "Glorious Anthean Republic" is used, and "Anthea" is the obvious short name for "Glorious Anthean Republic". In the case of [[w:Saudia Arabia|Saudi Arabia]], the adjective describing the nature of the state (''Saudi'' — like ''Anthean''), not the noun describing the country itself (''Arabia'' — like ''MicroWiki Community'' — both refer to a larger entity than actually controlled), is the colloquial name for the ''country'' as well as the state.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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=== MicroWiki before Anthea ===<br />
{{main|History of the MicroWiki community}}<br />
[[File:ACW.png|200px|thumb|right|A graphic representing the Austenasian Civil War in ''[[The St.Charlian Observer]]'']]<br />
The history of the MicroWiki community before the republic was created is part of Anthean national history. The website was founded in 2005 but the community that evolved into what the Glorious Anthean Republic considers its nation can only be traced back as far as October 2008. In October 2008, [[Robert Lethler]], [[Joe Foxon]] and [[Jacob Tierney]] joined the wiki, and the [[Grand Unified Micronational]] was founded in January 2009. In this early era, messages left on MicroWiki talk pages were the main venue for the community. Between August 2009 and mid-2010, Lethler and the GUM held hegemonic sway over the community, broken by the [[Organisation of Active Micronations]] being created in March 2010 and Lethler leaving in July 2010. In March and September 2010 were the [[Austenasian Civil War|Austenasian]] and [[Atlantis Civil War]]s respectively, which were both major events in the community that established its negative view of [[micronational warfare]] as immature and destructive.<br />
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From late 2010 onwards, [[micronational Skype rooms]] replaced talk pages as the main venue of the community, and MicroWiki moved from Wikia to an independent domain. In November 2010, the admins controversially banned [[Sebastian Linden]], dividing the community as one faction backed the admins and the other called for Linden to be unbanned and for the admins to be more accountable. Meanwhile, admin Aldrich Lucas became the dominant figure in the community. The OAM declined in influence and sparked controversy after it started branching into the [[Micras Sector|Micras sector]] of [[interactive geofiction]], which some denied was micronationalism. Linden was unbanned in July, and the GUM was secretly revived in August. Tensions flared up again in September with [[Yablokogate]], when Lethler briefly returned, revealed that the GUM had been revived, and showed that Lucas had been plotting to take over the community for Yabloko.<br />
[[File:Polination82.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[PoliNation 2012]].]]<br />
Following Yablokogate, the OAM was dissolved in December 2011, and the GUM increased in power through 2012. At around this time, the community definitively decided interactive geofiction was not micronationalism, separating it from the Micras sector and representing the start of [[classical micropatriology]]. 2012 and 2013 were largely settled, characterised by formal diplomacy giving way to informal networking on Skype, other than at major events like [[PoliNation 2012]] and the [[2013 Intermicronational Summit]]. One exception was conflict over [[Bradley of Dullahan]] and [[Quentin I of Wyvern]] making alleged xenophobic remarks, and the [[2012-13 GUM leadership scandal]], when Dullahan and [[Yaroslav Mar]] were forced to resign over accusations of corruption and [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia|Crown Prince Jonathan]] became Acting GUM Chair. From early 2013 onwards, the [[Empire of Austenasia]] became the most powerful nation in the community, and in May 2014, Jonathan became site owner of the wiki.<br />
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[[Gaius Soergel Publicola|William Soergel]] proposed the [[Denton Protocol]] in July 2014, leading to a backlash from right-wing members of the community, and over the next year or so, a distinct right-wing appeared in the community for the first time, with several micronationalists converting to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] or abandoning socialism. There were serious tensions between the left-wing and right-wing of the community and the left mostly moved from Skype to the MicroWiki forums. In addition, newer members were concentrated on the forums and could only enter the Skype rooms when they were invited by someone already-established, and there were tensions between them and older members. The GUM changed from an organisation to a formal chatroom in June 2015 and changed back in June 2016. In early and mid-2016 was the [[intermicronational economics boom of 2016]]. Tensions between the left and right and between the older and newer members of the community started to die down in late 2016 and early 2017, but these causes were briefly revived in mid-2017 by two intertwined controversies, the [[New Community]] and a diplomatic dispute between Austenasia and Delvera. Subsequently, activity in the community seriously declined, to the point where the MicroWiki forums were abandoned and sincere concerns were expressed that the community might die out.<br />
[[File:@New Eiffel Government meme.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A meme from MicroWiki@Discord.]]<br />
There were brief experiments in [[micronational Discord servers]] from 2017 onwards while Skype declined, and in September 2018, the community moved from Skype to [[MicroWiki@Discord]], which hugely swelled its numbers and restored activity. Initially, the GUM and the Old Guard retained their traditional hegemony, but from 2019 onwards a defined strand of New Guard politics came to be equally influential, establishing the [[Cupertino Alliance]] as a companion to the GUM. Governance of MicroWiki@Discord, concerns over its toxicity, and occasional bursts of anti-moderator sentiment culminated in a failed attempt by Jonathan in November 2020 to shut the server down, which was followed by it being spun off as a separate institution to MicroWiki with an independent moderation structure. Meanwhile, the traditional Old Guard — including some wiki admins — became inactive on MicroWiki@Discord or even left the server altogether, using the [[Micropolitan Club and Lounge]] instead.<br />
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=== Creation ===<br />
{{main|2021 attempt to create a community micronation}}<br />
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[[Ives Blackwood]] started the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]] with [[Daniel Lee]] and David R. Easterling on 25 January 2021 following multiple conversations in MicroWiki@Discord. David R. Easterling volunteered to lead the Boundaries Commission and oversee the first election. By the next morning, the project included [[Kenneth Fydtroust]], [[Jan Šťastný]] and [[Isaiah Burdette]], and by the 28th, it included [[Logan Ross]], [[Cristian Dobrev]], [[Sertor Valentinus]], [[Jayden Lycon]], [[Liam Munroe]], [[Archie Birch]], [[Daniel Roscoe]], [[Zarel Smith]], Casper von Naveria, [[Mats Baumans]], "Spenny" and "joe biden 2024", with Birch in particular emerging as another leader of the project. [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]] and "Cadno" also later joined. The twenty signed a declaration of statehood on 1 February, creating the republic and bringing the First Provisions into force.<br />
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Easterling announced that an election to a Convention Parliament would be held on 5 March and asked MP candidates to contact them.<br />
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== Politics and government ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood badge sunrise colours.png|200px|thumb|right|A proposed badge for the National Council. Nothing like this official yet — it will be decided on by the first National Council and Parliament elected on 5 March.]]<br />
The Glorious Anthean Republic is a [[w:parliamentary republic|parliamentary]], [[w:directorial republic|directorial republic]] with a [[w:Constitution#Classification 2|fully written, uncodified constitution]] (though at present it only has one constitutional document, the First Provisions). The state comprises four primary institutions — Parliament, the National Council, the Ministry, and the High Court. Parliament is an elected legislature composed of MPs who represent constituencies, which are intended to represent organic social groups in the community, like the [[History of the Fesmarian sector|Fesmarian sector]] or [[The Fun Gang]]. The first panel of people that can command a majority in Parliament after a general election becomes the National Council, a cabinet of ministers that runs the executive and effectively acts as a collective head of state. The Ministry is the central government, composed of departments which are led by the ministers who sit on the National Council and staffed by politically-neutral civil servants. The High Court is the supreme court of law, responsible for interpreting the law and working out what the law actually is in the case of ambiguities.<br />
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=== Law ===<br />
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Each individual rule in Anthean law is formally known as a provision. There are two kinds of provisions — provisions in the Overlaw and provisions in the Underlaw. Parliament can vote to move a provision from the Underlaw to the Overlaw or vice versa. Parliament can add to, remove from or amend the Overlaw at will. The Underlaw cannot be amended and its provisions are immutable, so for part of the Underlaw to be changed, Parliament must vote to make it part of the Overlaw first. Most normal laws will be part of the Overlaw — the largely fixed Underlaw is for the constitution and other fundamental laws such as a Bill of Rights that should rarely be amended.<br />
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Anthea has a tripartite separation of powers, where Parliament creates the law, the Ministry carries out the law and the High Court interprets the law. The National Council has both a legislative and an executive role — it is expected to propose bills to Parliament and it also leads the executive.<br />
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Following the declaration of independence, currently, the only law in Anthea is the First Provisions, which are part of the Underlaw and effectively serve as the initial constitution of the country. The First Provisions define Anthean law, establish its institutions, and lay out basic procedures for government. They will be formally adopted for a second time by the Convention Parliament elected on 5 February.<br />
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=== Parliament ===<br />
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The First Provisions establish Parliament as the sole, unicameral legislature of the Glorious Anthean Republic, elected by the MicroWiki community. <br />
[[File:Boundaries Commission light hearted initial logo.png|thumb|200px|A light-hearted provisional logo for the Boundaries Commission. The castle refers to the community being 'full of guards' (e.g. the Old Guard).]]<br />
Elections to Parliament are held once every four months. The community is divided into constituencies, which between them are entitled to send forty MPs to Parliament, and the constituencies are supposed to be equivalent to natural sub-groups that already exist in the community. There are two types of constituency, borough and county. Borough constituencies refer to specific groups, such as "[[TOES]]" or "[[Fesmar]] with [[Belgica]]" (which aims to capture the whole [[History of the Fesmarian sector|Fesmarian sector]]), and tend to only have one or two MPs. In contrast, county constituencies are broad catch-alls that account for people who are not included in any borough constituency, and at present, there are only two, "MicroWiki Discord" (able to elect 28 MPs) and "Micropolitan" (able to elect 4 MPs). The First Provisions establish a Boundaries Commission, which determines the constituencies, and will also be responsible for running the first two elections on 5 February and 5 March 2021. The current Boundaries Commissioner is David Easterling.<br />
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== Geography ==<br />
[[File:KingleyVale.JPG|200px|thumb|The view into Anthea from close to the British border.]]<br />
Anthea covers around five hundred acres (0.78 sq mi), in addition to the territories ceded to it from other MicroWiki nations. Its main territory, Kingley Vale, is entirely surrounded by the [[w:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]], approximately nine miles from the town of [[w:Chichester|Chichester, Sussex]] in the south-east of England. Anthea has one of the world's only surviving [[w:yew|yew]] forests (which also has beech trees, which are fairly common). The [[community micronation]] claims a yew and beech forest in reference to the [[w:Hilaire Belloc|Hilaire Belloc]] poem ''My Own Country'', which superficially appears to reference [[micronationalism]] and states that "The trees that grow in my own country / Are the beech tree and the yew".<br />
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== Culture ==<br />
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The core of Anthea's culture is the existing culture of the MicroWiki community, such as [[List of MicroWiki community memes|MicroWiki community memes]], though the republic is also expected to develop some distinct cultural features as the community works together to build the micronation.<br />
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A flag contest will run from 5 February to 5 March 2021 to choose a national flag for the Glorious Anthean Republic.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Treaty of Nyros]]<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
<references group="note"/><br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [https://anthean-republic.com/ www.anthean-republic.com] — the website established by the planners<br />
* [https://pdfhost.io/v/8nc0oKw3~_Declaration_of_the_Republic.pdf Declaration of the Republic] — Anthea's declaration of independence<br />
* [https://pdfhost.io/v/pKM8vP7Yc_First_Provisions.pdf First Provisions] — the First Provisions of the Underlaw, effectively Anthea's constitution</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Glorious_Anthean_Republic&diff=795799Glorious Anthean Republic2021-02-26T15:00:13Z<p>Ives Blackwood: /* Etymology */</p>
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<div>{{Infobox nation<br />
|name = Glorious Anthean Republic <br/> <small>[[w:Czech language|Czech]]: Slavná Republika Anthea</small><br />
|image1 = [[File:Noflag.png|150px]]<br />
|image2 = [[File:Nocoa.png|50px]]<br />
|motto = <!-- Motto --> <br />
|anthem = <!-- National anthem --> <br />
|location = Kingley Vale, south-east England, along with various other territories ceded from different MicroWiki nations.<br />
|capital = <!-- Capital city --><br />
|largest_city = <!-- Largest city --> <br />
|languages = English <br />
|recognised_lang = Czech<br />
|religions = <!-- Official religions --> <br />
|shortname = Anthea<br />
|demonym = Anthean<br />
|wealth = <!-- Average wealth per person --> <br />
|government = Parliamentary, directorial republic <br />
|head of state = National Council<br />
|hos_name = Will be elected on 5 March. <br />
|legislature = Parliament <br />
|type = Unicameral parliament<br />
|seats = 40<ref group=note>In total the constituencies across the community are entitled to send up to 40 MPs to Parliament. There is no minimum number of MPs that must actually be elected for a Parliament to be legitimate.</ref> <br />
|election = 5 February (convention)<br/>- 5 March (first main) <br />
|established = 1 February 2021 <br />
|area = TBD<br />
|population = ~200<br />
|population_notes = 'passive citizens' — includes members of the community entitled to get involved with the republic who have not chosen to<br />
|currency = <!-- Currency --> <br />
|gdp_nominal = <!-- The Gross Domestic Product --> <br />
|HDI = <!-- Human Development Index Score --><br />
|time_zone = <!-- Timezone --> <br />
|ris002code = <!-- RIS 002 code --><br />
|tld = <!-- Internet TLD --><br />
|nat_sport = <!-- National sport --> <br />
|nat_dish = <!-- National dish --><br />
|nat_drink = <!-- National drink --><br />
|nat_animal = <!-- National animal --> <br />
|nat_export = <!-- National export --><br />
|pat_saint = <!-- Patron saint --> <br />
|notes = Anthea is a [[community micronation]]<br />
|web = [https://anthean-republic.com/ www.anthean-republic.com]<br />
}}<br />
'''Anthea''' /ænθiːə/ or /ænθeɪə/, formally the '''Glorious Anthean Republic''' ([[w:Czech language|Czech]]: ''Slavná Republika Anthea''),<ref group="note">The absolute full name of the republic is the '''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community''', but this can be abbreviated to "Glorious Anthean Republic" at all levels of formality.</ref> is a micronation in south-east England, though with territories across the world and an exclusively online political and social life. It is the self-declared [[community micronation|nation-state of]] the [[MicroWiki community]], which has existed since 2008, and it was founded on 1 February 2021 as the outcome of the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]], which started on 25 January. Anthea claims [[w:Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve|Kingley Vale]] in south-east England, along with a kaleidoscope of [[territories of the Glorious Anthean Republic|other territories]] across the world ceded from different nations in the [[MicroWiki sector]].<br />
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Anthea has no website, flag, coat of arms or national seal, national animal or other national symbols, or time zone. The intention is that the community or the first government elected by the community will choose these features rather than a narrow planning board designing them. Unlike many other online-orientated micronations, it has no national Discord server, as [[MicroWiki@Discord]] and the other [[Micronational Discord servers|Discord servers used by the MicroWiki community]] are intended to be the venue for Anthean national life.<br />
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== Etymology ==<br />
[[File:James pradier three graces.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[w:James Pradier|James Pradier]]'s 1831 depiction of the Charites. Antheia is in the middle.]]<br />
[[Ives Blackwood]] coined the name ''Anthea'' in December 2020 as ''an'' + ''the'' + ''a''. It was originally meant to be a short name for a community micronation formally known as the 'Republic of Articles', referencing MicroWiki entries, playing on the additional meaning of the word 'article' as the collective term for the words ''a'', ''an'' and ''the'' in English to create something that would sound like an actual country name. [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]] has interpreted ''Anthea'' as a variant of the actual word ''article'', also referencing MicroWiki entries. <br />
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''Anthea'' is also an English personal name from the Greek name Ἀνθεία (Antheia), from ᾰ̓́νθος (ánthos), meaning flower or blossom, or — unrelated to the personal name — brightness or brilliance. In [[w:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], Ἀνθεία (Antheia) was an epithet for [[w:Hera|Hera]], queen of the Gods and goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth, and was also sometimes the name of one of the three [[w:Charites|Charites]], in this context meaning 'blossoms'.<br />
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The full name of the republic is the ''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community''. Though abbreviated to "Glorious Anthean Republic", the full name actually refers to a "Republic of the MicroWiki Community" that is Anthean. Some macronations do the same thing and have names that use an adjective to describe the cultural character of the ''state'', with the noun being a broader term for what the state sees as its land or nation, e.g. the [[w:Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan|Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan]], [[w:Oriental Republic of Uruguay|Oriental Republic of Uruguay]] or the [[w:Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela|Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela]]. The appellation [[w:Most Serene Republic|Most Serene Republic]] was used in mediaeval Europe (and in modern [[w:San Marino|San Marino]]) to emphasise the sovereignty of republics despite their not having monarchs, as historically ''serene'' meant supreme or royal. The adjective ''Glorious'' is particular to Anthea. The idea that the republic is a specifically ''Anthean'' Republic of the MicroWiki Community reflects its position as a community micronation with elements of its own distinctive culture.<br />
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The precedent for ''Glorious Anthean Republic'' and ''Anthea'' being used as names despite the nominal full name being ''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community'' (as opposed to the short name being "MicroWiki Community") is less clear, but there are macronational situations that are at least similar. For the [[w:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] and the [[w:United States of America|United States of America]], the ''description of the state within the full name'' is also a common name for the country itself, which is what is going on when "Glorious Anthean Republic" is used, and "Anthea" is the obvious short name for "Glorious Anthean Republic". In the case of [[w:Saudia Arabia|Saudi Arabia]], the adjective describing the nature of the state (''Saudi'' — like ''Anthean''), not the noun describing the country itself (''Arabia'' — like ''MicroWiki Community'' — both refer to a larger entity than actually controlled), is the colloquial name for the ''country'' as well as the state.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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=== MicroWiki before Anthea ===<br />
{{main|History of the MicroWiki community}}<br />
[[File:ACW.png|200px|thumb|right|A graphic representing the Austenasian Civil War in ''[[The St.Charlian Observer]]'']]<br />
The history of the MicroWiki community before the republic was created is part of Anthean national history. The website was founded in 2005 but the community that evolved into what the Glorious Anthean Republic considers its nation can only be traced back as far as October 2008. In October 2008, [[Robert Lethler]], [[Joe Foxon]] and [[Jacob Tierney]] joined the wiki, and the [[Grand Unified Micronational]] was founded in January 2009. In this early era, messages left on MicroWiki talk pages were the main venue for the community. Between August 2009 and mid-2010, Lethler and the GUM held hegemonic sway over the community, broken by the [[Organisation of Active Micronations]] being created in March 2010 and Lethler leaving in July 2010. In March and September 2010 were the [[Austenasian Civil War|Austenasian]] and [[Atlantis Civil War]]s respectively, which were both major events in the community that established its negative view of [[micronational warfare]] as immature and destructive.<br />
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From late 2010 onwards, [[micronational Skype rooms]] replaced talk pages as the main venue of the community, and MicroWiki moved from Wikia to an independent domain. In November 2010, the admins controversially banned [[Sebastian Linden]], dividing the community as one faction backed the admins and the other called for Linden to be unbanned and for the admins to be more accountable. Meanwhile, admin Aldrich Lucas became the dominant figure in the community. The OAM declined in influence and sparked controversy after it started branching into the [[Micras Sector|Micras sector]] of [[interactive geofiction]], which some denied was micronationalism. Linden was unbanned in July, and the GUM was secretly revived in August. Tensions flared up again in September with [[Yablokogate]], when Lethler briefly returned, revealed that the GUM had been revived, and showed that Lucas had been plotting to take over the community for Yabloko.<br />
[[File:Polination82.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[PoliNation 2012]].]]<br />
Following Yablokogate, the OAM was dissolved in December 2011, and the GUM increased in power through 2012. At around this time, the community definitively decided interactive geofiction was not micronationalism, separating it from the Micras sector and representing the start of [[classical micropatriology]]. 2012 and 2013 were largely settled, characterised by formal diplomacy giving way to informal networking on Skype, other than at major events like [[PoliNation 2012]] and the [[2013 Intermicronational Summit]]. One exception was conflict over [[Bradley of Dullahan]] and [[Quentin I of Wyvern]] making alleged xenophobic remarks, and the [[2012-13 GUM leadership scandal]], when Dullahan and [[Yaroslav Mar]] were forced to resign over accusations of corruption and [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia|Crown Prince Jonathan]] became Acting GUM Chair. From early 2013 onwards, the [[Empire of Austenasia]] became the most powerful nation in the community, and in May 2014, Jonathan became site owner of the wiki.<br />
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[[Gaius Soergel Publicola|William Soergel]] proposed the [[Denton Protocol]] in July 2014, leading to a backlash from right-wing members of the community, and over the next year or so, a distinct right-wing appeared in the community for the first time, with several micronationalists converting to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] or abandoning socialism. There were serious tensions between the left-wing and right-wing of the community and the left mostly moved from Skype to the MicroWiki forums. In addition, newer members were concentrated on the forums and could only enter the Skype rooms when they were invited by someone already-established, and there were tensions between them and older members. The GUM changed from an organisation to a formal chatroom in June 2015 and changed back in June 2016. In early and mid-2016 was the [[intermicronational economics boom of 2016]]. Tensions between the left and right and between the older and newer members of the community started to die down in late 2016 and early 2017, but these causes were briefly revived in mid-2017 by two intertwined controversies, the [[New Community]] and a diplomatic dispute between Austenasia and Delvera. Subsequently, activity in the community seriously declined, to the point where the MicroWiki forums were abandoned and sincere concerns were expressed that the community might die out.<br />
[[File:@New Eiffel Government meme.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A meme from MicroWiki@Discord.]]<br />
There were brief experiments in [[micronational Discord servers]] from 2017 onwards while Skype declined, and in September 2018, the community moved from Skype to [[MicroWiki@Discord]], which hugely swelled its numbers and restored activity. Initially, the GUM and the Old Guard retained their traditional hegemony, but from 2019 onwards a defined strand of New Guard politics came to be equally influential, establishing the [[Cupertino Alliance]] as a companion to the GUM. Governance of MicroWiki@Discord, concerns over its toxicity, and occasional bursts of anti-moderator sentiment culminated in a failed attempt by Jonathan in November 2020 to shut the server down, which was followed by it being spun off as a separate institution to MicroWiki with an independent moderation structure. Meanwhile, the traditional Old Guard — including some wiki admins — became inactive on MicroWiki@Discord or even left the server altogether, using the [[Micropolitan Club and Lounge]] instead.<br />
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=== Creation ===<br />
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[[Ives Blackwood]] started the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]] with [[Daniel Lee]] and David R. Easterling on 25 January 2021 following multiple conversations in MicroWiki@Discord. David R. Easterling volunteered to lead the Boundaries Commission and oversee the first election. By the next morning, the project included [[Kenneth Fydtroust]], [[Jan Šťastný]] and [[Isaiah Burdette]], and by the 28th, it included [[Logan Ross]], [[Cristian Dobrev]], [[Sertor Valentinus]], [[Jayden Lycon]], [[Liam Munroe]], [[Archie Birch]], [[Daniel Roscoe]], [[Zarel Smith]], Casper von Naveria, [[Mats Baumans]], "Spenny" and "joe biden 2024", with Birch in particular emerging as another leader of the project. [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]] and "Cadno" also later joined. The twenty signed a declaration of statehood on 1 February, creating the republic and bringing the First Provisions into force.<br />
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Easterling announced that an election to a Convention Parliament would be held on 5 March and asked MP candidates to contact them.<br />
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== Politics and government ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood badge sunrise colours.png|200px|thumb|right|A proposed badge for the National Council. Nothing like this official yet — it will be decided on by the first National Council and Parliament elected on 5 March.]]<br />
The Glorious Anthean Republic is a [[w:parliamentary republic|parliamentary]], [[w:directorial republic|directorial republic]] with a [[w:Constitution#Classification 2|fully written, uncodified constitution]] (though at present it only has one constitutional document, the First Provisions). The state comprises four primary institutions — Parliament, the National Council, the Ministry, and the High Court. Parliament is an elected legislature composed of MPs who represent constituencies, which are intended to represent organic social groups in the community, like the [[History of the Fesmarian sector|Fesmarian sector]] or [[The Fun Gang]]. The first panel of people that can command a majority in Parliament after a general election becomes the National Council, a cabinet of ministers that runs the executive and effectively acts as a collective head of state. The Ministry is the central government, composed of departments which are led by the ministers who sit on the National Council and staffed by politically-neutral civil servants. The High Court is the supreme court of law, responsible for interpreting the law and working out what the law actually is in the case of ambiguities.<br />
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=== Law ===<br />
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Each individual rule in Anthean law is formally known as a provision. There are two kinds of provisions — provisions in the Overlaw and provisions in the Underlaw. Parliament can vote to move a provision from the Underlaw to the Overlaw or vice versa. Parliament can add to, remove from or amend the Overlaw at will. The Underlaw cannot be amended and its provisions are immutable, so for part of the Underlaw to be changed, Parliament must vote to make it part of the Overlaw first. Most normal laws will be part of the Overlaw — the largely fixed Underlaw is for the constitution and other fundamental laws such as a Bill of Rights that should rarely be amended.<br />
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Anthea has a tripartite separation of powers, where Parliament creates the law, the Ministry carries out the law and the High Court interprets the law. The National Council has both a legislative and an executive role — it is expected to propose bills to Parliament and it also leads the executive.<br />
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Following the declaration of independence, currently, the only law in Anthea is the First Provisions, which are part of the Underlaw and effectively serve as the initial constitution of the country. The First Provisions define Anthean law, establish its institutions, and lay out basic procedures for government. They will be formally adopted for a second time by the Convention Parliament elected on 5 February.<br />
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=== Parliament ===<br />
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The First Provisions establish Parliament as the sole, unicameral legislature of the Glorious Anthean Republic, elected by the MicroWiki community. <br />
[[File:Boundaries Commission light hearted initial logo.png|thumb|200px|A light-hearted provisional logo for the Boundaries Commission. The castle refers to the community being 'full of guards' (e.g. the Old Guard).]]<br />
Elections to Parliament are held once every four months. The community is divided into constituencies, which between them are entitled to send forty MPs to Parliament, and the constituencies are supposed to be equivalent to natural sub-groups that already exist in the community. There are two types of constituency, borough and county. Borough constituencies refer to specific groups, such as "[[TOES]]" or "[[Fesmar]] with [[Belgica]]" (which aims to capture the whole [[History of the Fesmarian sector|Fesmarian sector]]), and tend to only have one or two MPs. In contrast, county constituencies are broad catch-alls that account for people who are not included in any borough constituency, and at present, there are only two, "MicroWiki Discord" (able to elect 28 MPs) and "Micropolitan" (able to elect 4 MPs). The First Provisions establish a Boundaries Commission, which determines the constituencies, and will also be responsible for running the first two elections on 5 February and 5 March 2021. The current Boundaries Commissioner is David Easterling.<br />
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== Geography ==<br />
[[File:KingleyVale.JPG|200px|thumb|The view into Anthea from close to the British border.]]<br />
Anthea covers around five hundred acres (0.78 sq mi), in addition to the territories ceded to it from other MicroWiki nations. Its main territory, Kingley Vale, is entirely surrounded by the [[w:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]], approximately nine miles from the town of [[w:Chichester|Chichester, Sussex]] in the south-east of England. Anthea has one of the world's only surviving [[w:yew|yew]] forests (which also has beech trees, which are fairly common). The [[community micronation]] claims a yew and beech forest in reference to the [[w:Hilaire Belloc|Hilaire Belloc]] poem ''My Own Country'', which superficially appears to reference [[micronationalism]] and states that "The trees that grow in my own country / Are the beech tree and the yew".<br />
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== Culture ==<br />
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The core of Anthea's culture is the existing culture of the MicroWiki community, such as [[List of MicroWiki community memes|MicroWiki community memes]], though the republic is also expected to develop some distinct cultural features as the community works together to build the micronation.<br />
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A flag contest will run from 5 February to 5 March 2021 to choose a national flag for the Glorious Anthean Republic.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Treaty of Nyros]]<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
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* [https://anthean-republic.com/ www.anthean-republic.com] — the website established by the planners<br />
* [https://pdfhost.io/v/8nc0oKw3~_Declaration_of_the_Republic.pdf Declaration of the Republic] — Anthea's declaration of independence<br />
* [https://pdfhost.io/v/pKM8vP7Yc_First_Provisions.pdf First Provisions] — the First Provisions of the Underlaw, effectively Anthea's constitution</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Classical_New_Secessionism&diff=795732Classical New Secessionism2021-02-26T12:25:55Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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<div>'''Classical New Secessionism''' was the variant of [[New Secessionism]] that Glastievens δ and T forced on the early Second Republic of Glastieve in the first part of 2018, particularly as compared to later developments of New Secessionism in Glastieve, such as the Envardian Dream (or the protoenvardian constituencies model) or the 2019 concept of [[ironic majesty]]. Classical New Secessionism was more rigid and dogmatic than later forms and had a particular focus on historiography and the immediate relevance of its theories of history to contemporary Glastieven politics.<br />
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Though it may have been colloquially used in the later Second Republic, the first formal use of the term "Classical New Secessionism" was by δ in September 2019 when describing how his and Glastieven E's views at Glastievemoot were closer to his and T's approach in January 2018 than the Envardian "New Secessionism" of T and Glastieven X at the same conference. It has no relation to another of δ's neologisms, [[classical micropatriology|classical secessionism]], a term he introduced in November 2019 to refer to the meaning of the word ''secessionism'' in the [[MicroWiki sector]] since c. 2011.</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Classical_New_Secessionism&diff=795715Classical New Secessionism2021-02-26T11:46:35Z<p>Ives Blackwood: Created page with "'''Classical New Secessionism''' was the variant of New Secessionism that Glastievens δ and T forced on the early Second Republic of Glastieve in the first part of 2018,..."</p>
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<div>'''Classical New Secessionism''' was the variant of [[New Secessionism]] that Glastievens δ and T forced on the early Second Republic of Glastieve in the first part of 2018, particularly as compared to later developments of New Secessionism in Glastieve, such as the Envardian Dream (or the protoenvardian constituencies model) or the 2019 concept of [[ironic majesty]]. Classical New Secessionism was more rigid and dogmatic than later forms and had a particular focus on historiography and the immediate relevance of its theories of history to contemporary Glastieven politics.<br />
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Though it may have been colloquially used in the later Second Republic, the first formal use of the term "Classical New Secessionism" was by δ in September 2019 when describing how his and Glastieven E's views at Glastievemoot were closer to his and T's approach in January 2018 than the "New Secessionism" of T and Glastieven X at the same conference. It has no relation to another of δ's neologisms, [[classical micropatriology|classical secessionism]], a term he introduced in November 2019 to refer to the meaning of the word ''secessionism'' in the [[MicroWiki sector]] since c. 2011.</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Normano-Nichish_Kingdom&diff=794259Normano-Nichish Kingdom2021-02-25T00:08:29Z<p>Ives Blackwood: Created page with ":''Not to be confused with Kingdom of Begon'' '''Nichensburg''' is a principality of the Kingdom of Aspen associated with a fusion of Anglo-Saxon a..."</p>
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'''Nichensburg''' is a principality of the [[Kingdom of Aspen]] associated with a fusion of [[w:Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] and [[w:Medieval Croatia|Medieval Croatian]] culture. It is ruled by [[Prince Ludwig Brienović of Nichensburg]].<br />
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Nichensburg was created on 10 October 2020 as an independent kingdom based on English and German values. In November 2020, it merged into the [[Kingdom of Brienia]], which was a historical micronation based on Medieval Croatia. Brienia was prominent in the [[MicroWiki sector]] and had its own history stretching back to 2018; Nichensburg continued to exist as a sub-division within Brienia but was less prominent. In February 2021, Brienia merged into the [[Kingdom of Aspen]]. The former did not continue as a sub-division of Aspen; instead, Nichensburg became a principality of the Kingdom of Aspen as Brienia's successor, with King Ivan of Brienia becoming Prince Ludwig Brienović of Nichensburg and a new fusion of Germanic-English Anglo-Saxon and Slavic-Catholic Medieval Croatian culture being established.<br />
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[[Category:Brienia]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Prince_Ludwig_Brienovi%C4%87_of_Nichensburg&diff=794258Prince Ludwig Brienović of Nichensburg2021-02-25T00:07:51Z<p>Ives Blackwood: Redirected page to King Višeslav Brienovic</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[King Višeslav Brienovic]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=The_Glastieven&diff=792238The Glastieven2021-02-23T07:30:47Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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[[File:The glastieven shield.png|thumb|200px|''The Glastieven'''s official shield, adopted in September 2017.]]<br />
'''''The Glastieven''''' is a former news publication that was written and edited by [[Ives Blackwood]] from February 2017 to March 2020. ''The Glastieven'' was sometimes the national newspaper or national news website of [[Glastieve]] and it was sometimes an intermicronational news site focused on the [[MicroWiki community]].<br />
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== First Republic of Glastieve ==<br />
=== Origins in Spingate ===<br />
[[File:The Glastieven first edition.png|right|200px|thumbnail|The front cover of the newspaper distributed during Spingate.]]<br />
''The Glastieven'' had its origins in the [[Glastieve#Spingate|Spingate controversy]] in March 2017, when Blackwood wrote and printed copies of a newspaper with that title in order to reveal Glastieven R's plot to force Glastieven N from the cabinet and to embarrass R by fact-checking claims on his department's website. At this stage, Blackwood regarded the newspaper as an official government publication produced in his capacity as Minister for Media and Economics.<br />
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The two operative articles were titled ''GOVERNMENT MINISTERS SHAMED IN SPIN SCANDAL'' and ''KAVANAH ON MATTHEWS - HE LIES TO THE CABINET AND THE PUBLIC'' (''Kavanah'' was Blackwood's alias and ''Matthews'' is Glastieven R). The first explained the events of the controversy but with Blackwood's role changed to hide his involvement in orchestrating it. According to Blackwood, he wanted this first article to nominally criticise all three ministers whilst only really implying that R had actually done anything wrong. The second article was a detailed exposé of various lies that R had told to the cabinet.<br />
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=== May 2017 revival and role in Matthewsgate ===<br />
Blackwood revived ''The Glastieven'' in May, two months after the Spingate controversy, to report on the [[Glastieve#April 2017 controversy|May 2017 cabinet reshuffle]], triggered by the serious [[Glastieve#April 2017 controversy|April 2017 controversy]] the week before, and on the Minister for Governmental Administration by-election, triggered by an April vote of no confidence in R that was unrelated to the April 2017 controversy. He created a new website using Wix.com that had a good visual design but was difficult to add content to on the back end. His frustration with the Wix.com site led to him closing the site later in May and holding a consultation at the Sofa Government Club (a social club with the same members as the cabinet) to decide how to proceed. It was agreed that Blackwood should start publishing ''The Glastieven'' on a WordPress blog.<br />
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During the [[Glastieve#Matthewsgate and the Holiday Period|Matthewsgate controversy]], ''The Glastieven'' acted as a mouthpiece for the Egalitarian Party National Executive Committee and the Glastieven Secret Service, which were effectively different names for the same entity. On 16 July — after R had insulted N, removed everyone other than his sole ally from the national chatrooms, declared himself president, and then resigned — Glastieven T, the Minister for Media and Technological Affairs and part of the NEC/GSS group, instructed ''The Glastieven'' to publish a report "a report showing the extent of our disgust and loathing for the former minister’s behaviour". It is unclear whether ''The Glastieven'' was considered a private company or a government publication at this stage.<br />
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=== International focus and New Community drama ===<br />
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''The Glastieven'' moved to a more international focus from August to October 2017, positioning itself as a news site for the whole [[MicroWiki community]] and changing its tagline to reflect its ambition of achieving a community-wide readership. Blackwood used the website as a mouthpiece, first for his and then for Glastieve's position in the drama over the [[New Community]], a break-away movement from the community led by Blackwood that became confused with a diplomatic dispute between the [[Empire of Austenasia]] and the Grand Consulate of Delvera. This included an article that reproduced rumours from an anonymous Austenasian source that a "cold war" in the community was approaching (the source was real but the report gave no reason to believe that) and another boasting that Glastieve's MicroWiki entry was the longest on the site. During this period of drama, Blackwood stated that ''The Glastieven'' was a private venture, not an institution of the Glastieven state, and this remained the understanding for the rest of the publication's existence.<br />
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=== Move to Google Sites ===<br />
[[File:Logo of The Glastieven.png|right|thumb|100px|The square version of the logo designed in September.]]<br />
Blackwood closed the WordPress site in September 2017 and moved ''The Glastieven'' to a new URL on a classic Google Sites page. He also designed a new coat of arms logo for the publication. The move to Google Sites coincided with a shift in emphasis back towards the publication's role as a national news site for Glastieve, and after T's Internal Affairs Motion withdrew Glastieve from the micronational community in October, ''The Glastieven'' stopped reporting on international issues altogether.<br />
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After [[Glastieve#Fall of the First Republic|Project Zeta]] in November 2017, an attempt to downsize the government and increase the focus on non-governmental activity as part of the micronation project, Blackwood planned to resign from the cabinet and work full-time as an independent journalist by reviving ''The Glastieven'' as a print newspaper. He did resign from the government with this intention a few days before the [[Glastieve#Fall of the First Republic|Reform controversy]], but the First Republic collapsed before he had the chance to write the first edition.<br />
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== Second Republic of Glastieve ==<br />
=== Weekly newspaper ===<br />
=== Relaunch as theglastieven.com ===<br />
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=== ''The Custodian'' and the ''Acteriendia Evening Standard'' ===<br />
== International news website ==<br />
== Holy Glastieven Commonwealth ==<br />
=== Web and print publication ===<br />
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=== Closure ===</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=File:The_glastieven_shield.png&diff=792237File:The glastieven shield.png2021-02-23T07:26:59Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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<div>[[File:Raditranslogo.gif|thumb|Beti's symbol for Raditrans. As a decentralised movement its members are not required to use the same logo.]]<br />
'''Raditrans''' is a socialist political movement in the [[Republic of Anthea]] that aims to unite all materialist (Marxist), anarchist and trans-inclusive radical feminist socialists in Anthea in Discord-based praxis to establish a socialist state in Anthea and achieve Black, Indigenous, of-colour, trans, queer, disabled, neurodivergent and fat emancipation. <br />
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[[Beti]] is an MP candidate for [[MicroWiki Discord]] under the Raditrans banner.</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=2020_in_the_MicroWiki_community&diff=7908052020 in the MicroWiki community2021-02-21T19:33:29Z<p>Ives Blackwood: Forgot to count the year 0 smh</p>
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[[File:2020 montage.png|thumb|From left, clockwise: The [[GUM]]'s '''[[24 Hour Quorum (2020)|fourth 24 Hour Quorum]]''' in May raised £266 for the [[w:British Red Cross|British Red Cross]]; the community was hit with an outpouring of grief after the '''[[Nicholas Randouler#Death|death of Nicholas Randouler]]''' in June, leading him to being named [[Statistic-Dime]]'s "[[Micronationalist of the Year]]" for 2020; the worldwide '''[[COVID-19 pandemic]]''' caused huge disruption, bringing in a [[Micronational responses to the COVID-19 pandemic|huge response from the intermicronational community]] and a surge in activity; an assertive '''[[Cupertino Alliance]]''' challenged the GUM's reputation as the leading [[intermicronational organisation]]; '''[[MicroWiki@Discord]]''' transitioned into a directory after repeated controversies and criticisms; the '''[[2020 MOF Games]]''' between February–March saw 52 athletes from 19 micronations competing in various online events; the '''[[2020 Indonesian micronations shock]]'''—a sudden media frenzy to a series of communities with micronation-like characteristics in January—eventually lead to the arrests of multiple individuals involved with the micronational entities for "fraudulent activities"; the '''[[Summit of Czech and Slovakian Micronations 2020]]''' in July had six attendees, the largest summit of the year.]]<br />
[[File:2020 montage of micronations.png|thumb|From left, (A—Z); [[Abeldane Empire|Abelden]], [[Empire of Adammia|Adammia]], [[Empire of Austenasia|Austenasia]], [[Commonwealth of Essexia|Essexia]], [[Misberia]], [[Principality of New Eiffel|New Eiffel]], [[Commonwealth of New Virginia|New Virginia]], [[Ponderosa Hills]] and [[Principality of Posaf|Posaf]] were among the most influential [[micronations]] of 2020 according to surveys and lists of influence.]]<br />
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'''2020''' ('''[[w:roman numbers|MMXX]]''') was a [[w:Leap year starting on Wednesday|leap year starting on Wednesday]] of the [[w:Gregorian calendar|Gregorian calendar]], the 2021st year of the [[w:Common Eea|Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[w:Anno Domini|anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, the twentieth year of the [[w:3rd millennium|3rd millennium]], the twentieth year of the [[w:21st century|21st century]], and the first year of the [[2020s]] decade.<ref>[https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q534495 2020s (decade)] on [[w:WikiData|WikiData]]. Item Q534495.</ref> It succeeded [[2019]], and preceded [[2021]].<ref>[https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=2020 2020 calendar]. ''TimeAndDate.com''. Retrieved 1 January 2021.</ref> It marks the fifteenth year since [[MicroWiki]]'s initial foundation. The year began in the [[History of the MicroWiki Community#Discord Era|Discord Era]], through the High Discord to Late Discord periods, and oversaw a number of significant events.<ref name="mw">[[History of the MicroWiki Community]]</ref><ref name="dawn20">[[Misberia]]n News Corporation (31 December 2020) [https://halcyonaci.wordpress.com/2020/12/31/dawn-of-2021/ Dawn of 2021]. ''Halcyon-Aci Observer''. Retrieved 31 December 2020.</ref><br />
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The [[Grand Unified Micronational]] (GUM) retained its position as the largest and most influential [[intermicronational organisation]],<ref name="mes">[[Henry Clémens|Clémens, Henry]] (10 May 2020). [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/05/10/a-comprehensive-defense-of-the-grand-unified-micronational/ A comprehensive defense of the Grand Unified Micronational]. ''[[Messenger]]''. Retrieved 14 May 2020.</ref><ref name="Ame">Clark, Anthony (25 Mar 2020) [https://amerstonpost.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/why-cant-we-see-inside-quorum/ Why can’t we see inside Quorum?]. ''[[Amerston Post]]''. Retrieved 27 March 2020.</ref><ref name="sab">Sabestisan, Gabriel (8 April 2020). [https://ethosianewsbulletin.wordpress.com/2020/04/08/the-crisis-in-grand-unified-micronational/ The Crisis in Grand Unified Micronational]. "Despite being the largest organisation for diplomacy, the GUM had been suffering from a recent scandal". ''Ethosia New Bulletin''. Retrieved 16 July 2020.</ref> growing to a record-number of forty-eight [[member state of the GUM|member states]], all amidst multiple controversies and declining prestige and influence in the [[MicroWiki Sector]],<ref name="sab"/><ref>Shirkel, Jonathan (11 April 2020). [https://sites.google.com/view/aenderian-news/the-gums-level-of-internal-drama-will-kill-it-at-this-pace The GUM's levels of internal drama will kill it at this pace]. ''ANN''. Retrieved 7 May 2020.{{unreliable source?}}</ref><ref name="org">J. Lycon. & Z. Smith. (4 March 2020) [https://issuu.com/curio_rblx/docs/microorgpollmarch2020 Dime-Curio Micro Organization Poll | March 2020]</ref><ref>Smith, Zarel (5 November 2020) [http://www.australistimes.ml/2020/11/australis-becomes-full-member-of-gum.html Australis becomes a full member of GUM]. ''Australis Times''.</ref><ref name="marcel">Marcel, Luis (29 October 2020) [https://reinodeatliagov.wixsite.com/ctava/post/el-reino-de-hrafnarfjall-sale-del-gum El Reino de Hrafnarfjall sale del GUM]. ''(In Spanish)''.</ref><ref name="gumcup">Smith, Zarel (16 November 2020) [https://micronationsweekly.blogspot.com/2020/11/opinion-gum-trails-behind-cup-in-latest.html Opinion: GUM trails behind CUP in latest Zed survey - why?]. ''[[MicroWeekly]]''.</ref><ref name="mw"/> particularly among the "New Guard"<ref name="Blackwood5">[[Ives Blackwood|Blackwood, Ives]] (2 December 2020) [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2020/12/02/zarel-smith-pioneers-new-approach-to-ranking-community-influencers/ Zarel Smith pioneers new approach to ranking community influencers]. ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]''. Retrieved 3 December 2020.</ref><ref>Belcher, Adam (19 June 2020) [https://empireofadammia.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/gum-soars-in-membership-bainbridge-drops-out-of-re-election-for-chair/ GUM soars in membership; Bainbridge drops out of re-election for Chair]. ''The Adammic Express''. Retrieved 8 January 2021.</ref> which saw the rise of alternative organisations, a reformed and assertive [[Cupertino Alliance]] garnering a positive reputation<ref name="org"/><ref name="gumcup"/><ref name="sd2020">Smith, Zarel (15 November 2020) [https://micronationsweekly.blogspot.com/2020/11/statistic-dime-2020-microwiki-general.html Statistic-Dime 2020 MicroWiki General Survey - An Overview]. ''[[MicroWeekly]]''.</ref><ref>Writer (21 November 2020) [https://nemkhavfederalnews.wordpress.com/2020/11/21/federation-granted-observer-status-in-cupertino-alliance/ Federation granted observer status in Cupertino Alliance]. ''Nemkhav Federal News''. Retrieved 22 November 2020.</ref> after initial controversies,<ref>Eden, Haeden (23 March 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X1aiwLUdTDkSzcrXHUu7p1lYWI5p9zuzGbQXVQe8Mas/edit?usp=sharing An Act to Leave the Cupertino Alliance, 2020]</ref><ref>Lycon, Jayden (25 Mar 2020) [https://nacrecupertino.wordpress.com/2020/03/26/new-eiffel-adopts-seal-by-cupertino-alliance-apology-issued/ New Eiffel adopts seal by Cupertino Alliance, apology issued]. Retrieved 26 March 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200326123258/https://nacrecupertino.wordpress.com/2020/03/26/new-eiffel-adopts-seal-by-cupertino-alliance-apology-issued/ Archived] on 26 March 2020.</ref> and growing to twenty-six member states. The year also the rise of outer [[sector]] organisations, primarily non-[[w:English language|English]] or [[w:Czech language|Czech]] ones, such as the [[Conference of Santiago]], [[ASPAA]], the [[League of Asian Micronations]] and the [[League of Hellenistic Micronations]].<ref>admin (2 January 2021) [http://e-tribune.ml/2021/01/02/2020-an-ode-to-greek-micronationalism/?i=1 2020: An Ode to Greek Micronationalism]. ''The Imperial Tribute''. Retrieved 31 January 2021.</ref><ref name="org"/> The [[Konmalehth]] dissolved on 18 July after a spiralling downfall into inactivity.<ref name=dissolution>Kaos, Nicholas (19 July 2020) [https://quotimes.wordpress.com/2020/07/19/konmalehth-disestablished-after-almost-3-years/ Konmalehth disestablished after almost 3 years]. ''Quo Times''. Retrieved 15 September 2020</ref> The [[Micronational Olympic Federation]] continued holding its position as the largest sports federation,<ref name="org"/><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK69skq8xwE</ref> while other organisations such as the [[Union Cycliste Intermicronationale]] were formed for more specific sports categories.<ref>[https://sites.google.com/view/uci-m/home?authuser=0 Union Cycliste Intermicronationale]</ref> Elsewhere, constitutional crises in both [[Austenasia]] and [[Abelden]] dominated the news,<ref name="mw"/><ref name="aus25may">Augustus, Jonathan (25 May 2020). [https://austenasiantimes.wordpress.com/2020/05/25/emperor-assumes-emergency-powers-to-heal-deepening-divisions-in-parliament/ Emperor assumes emergency powers to heal deepening divisions in Parliament]. ''[[Austenasian Times]]''.</ref><ref name=lsydunche1>Karjasari, Tarik (10 July 2020). [https://lsydunche.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/concordiagate-abelden-shaken-to-its-core-as-leaks-uncover-plot-at-the-heart-of-concordia/ "Concordiagate: Abelden shaken to its core as leaks uncover plot at the heart of Concordia"]. ''[[L'Sydunche]]''. Retrieved 10 July 2020.</ref> largely overshadowing the [[Crisis in New Eiffel]] which began the prior year.<ref name="neweiffel">Valentinus, Sertor (1 November 2020) [https://brooksidegazette.wordpress.com/2020/11/01/principality-of-new-eiffel-declared-dissolved/ Principality of New Eiffel declared dissolved]. ''The Brookside Gazette''. Retrieved 1 November 2020.</ref> [[New Eiffel]] inevitably [[Dissolution of New Eiffel|dissolved on 1 November]] after losing its territory in an event unrelated to the crisis.<ref name="neweiffel/><ref>Burdette, Isaiah (1 November 2020) [https://micronationalgazette.wixsite.com/micronationalgazette/post/new-eiffel-dissolves New Eiffel dissolves]. ''Micronational Gazette''.</ref> The long-lived [[Principality of Hutt River]] also dissolved on 3 August.<ref>Hedley, Kate (3 August 2020). "[https://www.watoday.com.au/national/end-of-an-empire-hutt-river-to-rejoin-australia-after-50-years-20200803-p55i1u.html End of an empire: Hutt River to rejoin Australia after 50 years]". ''WA Today''. Retrieved 9 December 2020.</ref> Following a [[Misberian Failed Coup of May 2020|failed coup attempt]] in [[Misberia]] on 23 May, many micronations quickly came to Misberia's aid, growing its citizenship count dramatically, as well as asserting Misberia's influence in the community.<ref name="misberiaone">[https://onewsnetwork.wordpress.com/2020/05/24/interview-of-archie-birch/ Misberia events // Interview of Archie Birch]. ONN. Published 24 May 2020.</ref><ref name="HelpMisberia">[https://twitter.com/search?q=%23HelpMisberia&src=typed_query #HelpMisberia] — via Twitter.</ref> Throughout the year, [[Essexia]] had numerous political scandals as well as external criticisms.<ref name="act">[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/611187403306303499/662730684108111905/Rename_Act.pdf DANOSBIGPENIS]. ''[PDF]''</ref><ref name="cut">Jack (28 October 2020) [https://essexian.com/essexia-cuts-ties-to-hrafnrafjall/ Essexia cuts tied with Hrafnarfjall]. ''The Essexian Post''.</ref><ref name="admin">Admin (28 October 2020) [https://microjournal.ml/2020/10/28/hrafnarfijall-withdraws-from-the-g-u-m/?i=1 Hrafnarfijall withdraws from the G.U.M]. ''MicroJournal''.</ref> [[Pavlov]] and the erstwhile [[Montescano]] continued to attract controversy targeted at its opposition towards [[LGBT rights in micronations|LGBT rights]], particularly [[w:transgender|transgender issues]], with the latter being accused of racist and sexist remarks during a controversy in April.<ref name="mw"/> In an historic moment, Abelden joined the GUM after a [[Abeldane GUM membership referendum, 2020|referendum in May]] with 54% in support.<ref name="gumref1">Renwick, Patrick (16 May 2020) [https://lsydunche.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/abelden-votes-to-join-the-gum/ Abelden votes to join the GUM]. ''The Abeldane''.</ref> The [[Commonwealth of New Virginia]] declared independence from [[Austenasia]] on 11 February via the passing of the ''New Virginia Act 2020'' in the [[Parliament of Austenasia|Austenasian Parliament]],<ref>Augustus, Jonathan (12 February 2020) [https://austenasiantimes.wordpress.com/2020/02/12/general-election-takes-place-after-new-virginia-given-independence/ General election takes place after New Virginia given independence]. ''Austenasian Times''.</ref> the [[Bailiwick of Hak'hanna]] was established on 8 March as a successor state to the erstwhile [[Commonwealth of Wenonah]], a project nation formed under [[Sepp Cervenius]],<ref>Writer (4 October 2020) [https://nemkhavfederalnews.wordpress.com/2020/12/04/why-a-federation-of-one-opinion/ Why a Federation of One? | Opinion]. ''Nemkhav Federal News''. Retrieved 9 December 2020.</ref> and the [[Uber-Essian Union]], a political union of the [[Essian Commonwealth]] and [[Palatinate of Uberquiesenberg]], was formed on 1 June.<ref>Clémens, Henry (30 May 2020) [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/05/30/uber-essian-politics-coming-into-form-as-union-day-approaches/ Uber-Essian politics coming into form as Union Day approaches]. ''Messenger.com''.</ref> Among the aforementioned, [[Adammia]], [[Aenderia]], [[Aenopia]], [[Gymnasium State]], [[Iustus]] and [[Posaf]] remained highly influential, while seeing newer contenders [[Australis]], [[Hrafnarfjall]], [[Naveria]]{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}, [[Ponderosa Hills]] and [[Wegmat]] among others.{{efn|Micronations that appeared on:<br />
*[[19th MicroWiki Influence Survey]] — J. Lycon, Z. Smith et al. (January), 105 respondents<ref>[[Jayden Lycon|J. Lycon]], [[Zarel Smith|Z. Smith]] et al. [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YCb_7pBuyzJhWBpJmMqI8kNnH_Eacb8f_3qQ1OcmK-E/edit 2020 FINAL RESULTS] — 19th MicroWiki Influence Survey.</ref><br />
*[[GUM Member States Positivity Survey]] — Smith, Zarel for Statistic-Dime. (July), 40 respondents<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3AfSqeN7sPAIwxTssQE_HdDw5OiK10WoQckdmJVf1k/edit Results, 20 respondents] on Google Docs.</ref><ref>[https://imgur.com/gallery/SEjDEAT Results, 40 respondents] text archive</ref><br />
*[[Cupertino Member Positivity Survey]] — Ross, Logan (October), 27 respondents<ref>Logan Ross: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CxfXbKAl7zgDF77dNkz7L2R1prX4TvfN2eniLBz7kys/edit Cupertino Alliance Member States Positivity Survey].</ref><ref>Ross, Logan (14 October 2020) [https://theaenopianhour.wordpress.com/2020/10/14/results-for-cupertino-member-positivity-survey-released/ Results for Cupertino Member Positivity Survey released]. ''The Aenopian Hour''.</ref><br />
<nowiki>*</nowiki><small>Note that the surveys may have differentiating polling methods and criteria, or be subject to criticism on their accuracy</small>}}<ref name="mmc">[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/User:Z_Luna_Skye/MicroWiki_Mentions_Chart! MicroWiki Mentions Chart!]</ref><br />
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The worldwide [[COVID-19 pandemic]] caused huge disruption, and saw delays and cancellations of various social, religious and political events, such as anniversaries, summits, elections and sporting events; bringing in a [[Micronational responses to the COVID-19 pandemic|huge response from the intermicronational community]],<ref name="covid">[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/128fALBfNnV-rqdfoLlYa7JQy_xPzR8FBB6HMJkaX26M/edit#gid=0 COVID-19 Micronation Tracking Sheet]</ref> it led to a number of retired micronationalists returning to the hobby contributing to a massive surge in activity.<ref name="mw"/><ref name="covid2020">Clémens, Henry (24 March 2020) [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/03/24/returns-revivals-and-activity-headline-a-hectic-spring-2020-in-microwiki/ Returns, revivals, and activity headline a hectic Spring 2020 in MicroWiki]. ''messenger.com''.</ref> There were [[COVID-19 pandemic in the micronational community|46 confirmed cases of COVID-19 within twelve micronations]], bringing 37 recoveries and 3 deaths. Other natural disasters include [[w:Storm Ciara|Storm Ciara]], which saw at least 4 British micronations report of flooding or property damage, and the [[2020 Henristan Flood]] and the [[Luxos#The Great Gastonian Floods|Great Gastonian Floods]].{{citation needed}}<br />
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The community was hit with an outpouring of grief after the [[Nicholas Randouler#Death|death of Nicholas Randouler]], Founder and 4th Prince of [[Posaf]], on 3 June,<ref name="nick">[https://www.dennisgeorgefunerals.com/m/obituaries/Nicholas-Nick-Cordrey/Memories Obituary of Nicholas Randouler]. ''Dennis George Funeral Home''. Retrieved 8 June 2020.</ref><ref name="mw"/> which came with declarations of days of national mourning, [[List of places named after Nicholas Randouler|places named after him]], memorial services, posthumous awards and memorial videos. The [[GUM]] held a text-based vigil for him.<ref name="adam11june">Belcher, Adam (11 June 2020) [https://empireofadammia.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/micronational-world-reacts-with-sorrow-after-nicholas-randouler-of-posaf-passes-away-aged-15/ Micronational world reacts with sorrow after Nicholas Randouler of Posaf passes away aged 15]. ''[[Adammic Express]]''. Retrieved 22 August 2020.</ref><ref name="millan">Millán, Nicolás (10 June 2020) [https://millaniagov.wixsite.com/millania/post/black-pennant-flies-across-the-union-in-memory-of-nicholas-randouler Black Pennant Flies Across the Union In Memory of Nicholas "Nick Randouler" Cordrey]</ref> He was named [[Statistic-Dime]]'s "[[Micronationalist of the Year]]" for 2020.<ref name="Twenty">Smith, Zarel et al. (2 December 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/13vLhQW5st8IIJYTPVytjJZyv4Hvbf11Tpfd91EQvC-A/edit?usp=sharing MicroWiki Most Influential (2020)]. ''Published by [[Statistic-Dime]]'' — Google Docs. Retrieved 3 December 2020.</ref><br />
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[[MicroWiki@Discord]] ceased to be the main hub of micronational activity on social media platform [[w:Discord (software)|Discord]], instead becoming a simple webportal and news aggregator<ref name="mw"/><ref name="blackwood">Blackwood, Ives (18 November 2020) [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/microwikidiscord-shutdown-continues-despite-user-resistance/ MicroWiki@Discord shutdown continues despite user resistance]. ''Home-made Crown Journal''. Retrieved 18 November 2020.</ref> following multiple criticisms of unprofessionalism, toxicity and lack of effort from the [[MicroWiki@Discord#Administration|administration]].<ref name="sd2020"/><ref name="Zed">Baird, Cole (17 February 2020). [https://inwgb.wordpress.com/2020/02/17/breaking-newsanti-administration-in-microwikidiscord/ 'Breaking News:Zed to become admin on Microwiki@Discord']. ''[[Wegmat]] General Broadcasting''. Retrieved 24 May 2020.</ref><ref name="mw"/><ref name="discord">Smith, Zarel (9 October 2020) [http://news.ponderosangovernment.ml/2020/10/09/adam-emperor-of-adammia-resigns-as-a-microwikidiscod-administrator/ Adam, Emperor of Adammia, resigns as a MicroWiki@Discord administrator]. ''[[Ponderosan News Agency]]''.</ref> The situation worsened between June—July when a number of alternative servers were set up, namely the [[Micropolitan Club and Lounge]] moved to the server Micropolitan@Discord. Following late September to early October, multiple administrators resigned, and other users continued to move to alternative servers and social clubs.<ref name="discord"/><ref name="mw"/> [[MicroWiki]] grew to over twenty-thousand articles, one-hundred thousand pages, and ten-thousand registered users (mostly bots).<ref>[[Special:Statistics]]</ref> To combat the number of unproductive edits made by bots, a moderation system was introduced which allows admins and patrollers to approve or reject edits made by newly registered accounts.<ref>[[Special:Moderation]] ('''restricted access''')</ref> A new [[MicroWiki:Good articles|good article]] (GA) system was also introduced, where every last week of each month, nominations which have been approved by an administrator either that month or the previous month will be voted on by the community.<ref>[[MicroWiki:Good articles]]</ref> A monthly wiki newsletter was created, though was abandoned after just four months.<ref>[[Main page]]</ref> [[Z Luna Skye]] ([[Zed]]) remained the most prolific editor,<ref name="op">Burdette, Isaiah (18 October 2020) [https://isaiahdavidburdett.wixsite.com/micronationalgazette/post/opinion-article-isaiah-burdette-zarel-smith Opinion Article Isaiah Burdette: Zarel Smith]. ''[[Micronational Gazette]]''. Retrieved 22 October 2020.</ref><ref>[[MicroWiki:Users by edit count]]</ref> and was the first user to hit 30,000 edits on the site, which he achieved on 30 July, after becoming a [[MicroWiki:Staff|wiki administrator]] earlier in February.<ref name="op"/><ref name="staff">[[MicroWiki:Staff]]</ref> Also in February, [[User:Niko3818|Niko3818]] ([[Cameron I, King of Ikonia|Cameron]]) was upgraded to a tech admin after serving as a wiki admin originally, and [[User:MissEDconexion|MissEDconexion]] ([[Charles Ross]]) was also made a wiki admin. [[User:JosephKennedy2|JosephKennedy2]] ([[Joseph Kennedy]]) was dismissed as a wiki admin in February, though was later reinstated in July.<ref name="staff"/> [[MicroWiki:Vandalism|20 alt-accounts]] by the users [[User:OIMGov|OIMGov]] ([[Hasan Çakar]]) and [[User:Mahuset|Mahuset]] ([[Emiel Sebastiaan Hardy]]) were banned for vandalism in early January,<ref>Smith, Zarel (3 Feb 2020). [https://gumnews.wordpress.com/2020/02/03/quorum-1st-february-2020/ "Quorum, 1st February 2020"]. GUM News. Retrieved 18 March 2020.</ref> causing a stir of drama in the community.<ref>[https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1068138150259769344?referrer=samizdatstate Vandals vandalism Samizdat's MicroWiki pages]. Accessed 26 January 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2020.</ref><ref>Chkaya, Babou (26 Jan 2020) [https://occitaniansun.wordpress.com/2020/01/26/court-opens-investigation-against-microwiki-after-wave-of-vandalism/ Court opens investigation against MicroWiki after wave of vandalism]. ''Occitan Sun''. Retrieved 27 March 2020.</ref> There was also a largely unsuccessful attempt in revitalising the MicroWiki forums.<ref name="mw"/><ref name="sd2020"/><br />
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In entertainment, Essexia's [[Dean Network]] dominated the web series industry, with the vodcast ''[[EssexiaTalk]]'' and comedy thriller ''[[Survival of the Unfittest|The United Office: Survival of the Unfittest]]'' gaining critical acclaim.<ref name="es">staff (4 May 2020) [https://www.reddit.com/r/Essexia/comments/gdgnbz/the_weekly_reader_18th_edition_040520/ The Weekly Reader 18th Edition - 04/05/20]. Retrieved 4 May 2020.</ref><ref name="critic">Editor, Chief (1 Sep 2020) [http://essexian.com/the-united-office-what-do-the-critics-say/ "The United Office: what do the critics say?"]. ''The Essexian Post''. Retrieved 21 September 2020.</ref><ref name="deanyt">[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCuOti54O1WfT15LTyh_xg Dean Network official YouTube channel].</ref> Garnering 129 views within its first 24 hours, ''The United Office: Survival of the Unfittest'' was widely regarded by many as one of the greatest micronational video works ever produced.<ref name="Twenty"/><ref name="critic"/><ref name="deanvideo1">Dean Network (31 Aug 2020) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHiC-0HuLw The United Office - S1:E1 - Survival of the Unfittest] on YouTube. Retrieved 21 September 2020.</ref> [[MicroRamble]], a show which often invites on guests and contributors from varying parts of the MicroWiki community, was also received positively and received a large number of engagements.<ref name="microramble">[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChCbOaBEkefNM93qBti3m7Q MicroRamble] on YouTube.</ref> [[The Diarchy]] dominated music, returning from a two-year long hiatus, while [[DJ Zeddy|Zed]] released multiple songs which garnered moderate attention;<ref name="gum">Lycon, Jayden (19 March 2020) [https://nacrecupertino.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/meet-your-new-anthems-gum-distrack-and-is-jacking-off-a-sport/ Meet your new anthems: GUM Distrack and Is Jacking Off a Sport?]</ref><ref name="djzeddy">https://soundcloud.com/djzeddy</ref> "[[GUM DIS TRACK]]", a tongue-in-cheek diss track on [[contraGUMism]], [[micronational warfare]] and [[YAMO]]s<ref name="gumdis">[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c93kzuvaISg GUM DIS TRACK - “THE UNITED MICRANATIONS is better"] (3 January 2020) on [[w:YouTube|YouTube]]. Retrieved 6 February 2020.</ref> and "[[FPYFF]]", a satiric hip-hop diss track.<ref name="fpyff">https://soundcloud.com/djzeddy/fuck-pitt-and-yung-foot-fetish</ref><ref name="Twenty"/> Many [[micronationalist]]s wrote and released micronational-related [[w:fan fiction|fan fiction]].<ref name="fanfic">[https://discord.com/gz2iU8 MicroWiki fanfiction Discord server]</ref> The MicroWiki Hunger Games, a Hunger Games simulation with micronationalists held on MicroWiki@Discord, was also immensely popular.{{citation needed}}<br />
== Politics, diplomacy and conflicts ==<br />
[[File:ConsulsPoster.jpg|right|239px|thumb|The infamous propaganda poster published online by the [[Fatherland Party (Austenasia)|Fatherland Party]], during the [[2020 assumption of emergency powers by Jonathan I]]]]<br />
[[File:Kasrc.jpg|239px|thumb|Royal Court of the Keraton Agung Sejagat, deserted after the arrest of the founders of the Keraton during the [[2020 Indonesian micronations shock]]]]<br />
[[file:MicroWikiAdminProtest.png|right|239px|thumb|A list of demands by protesters during the [[MicroWiki@Discord Administrative Protests of 2020]]]]<br />
[[File:Zed removes NE flag.jpg|right|239px|thumb|The [[flag of New Eiffel|New Eiffelic flag]] being removed from the [[Zed|founder]] of New Eiffel's room after the nation's [[dissolution of New Eiffel|dissolution]]]]<br />
=== Wars, conflicts and coups ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Flag of the Kingdom of Wegmat.svg}} [[Weg-New German War]] {{efn|In early 2020 the [[Empire of New Germany]] voted to secede from the [[Kingdom of Wegmat]] and on the second day of independence declared war on Wegmat. New Germany invaded [[Priory National Park]] and the province of [[Levare]] until a peace deal on 29 January.}}<br />
*{{flagiconstart|FlagIceniRepublicDraft1.png}} [[2020 Iceni coup d'etat]]{{efn|Coup d'etat by the Revolutionary Armed Forces and Communist Party in the [[Iceni Republic]] on 28 January, which led to the dissolution of Praetorian Assembly and appointment of Field Marshall John Gordon as President after the Revolutionary Armed Forces took control of the government.}}<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Flag of the Commonwealth of Essexia.svg}} [[Shenistan-Essexian War]]{{efn|The "Democratic People's Republic of Shenistan" was established via the ''Shenfield Autonomy Act 2020'' on 13 March, which granted provincehood and a Provincial Council with devolved powers to the Essexian claim of Shenfield. [[Finn (Essexia)|Earl Finn]]'s proposed devolution of powers from the central Parliament of Essexia was highly unprecedented, and received both considerable commendation and criticism. The war is considered an Essexian Victory due to the actions of the rebels in conceding to the Commonwealth. However, as neither belligerents' armed forces were able to counter each other, the conflict is also seen as a military stalemate.}}<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Misberia Flag.png}} [[Misberian Failed Coup of May 2020]]{{efn|On 23 May, [[Archie Birch]] and the Misberian Directive Council held a trial in abstentia for [[James II, Aspen Emperor]] for his crimes against the government and Misberian nation. After the trial was concluded Jack Reach went to [[MicroWiki@Discord]] and noticed people were referring to Archie as Misberia in regards to the trial of James. Jack, outraged by this gathered the council and enacted a coup attempt to remove Archie from the government and nation. During this time the national funds of Misberia were being divided up amongst the council for personal gain and started formulating a plan for how to remove Archie and take power. A group of individuals spammed fhe Misberian National Snapchat with vulgar language and started going at Archie on the Misberian Discord server. Soon after the coup fell apart after Jane went to Archie's house and stood outside with a rock screaming at Archie. The lie that Misberia had dissolved was was notified to every Misberian Town. Following this failed coup, many micronations quickly came to Misberia's support and people started flooding in seeking citizenship. The #HelpMisberia was created on Twitter and Instagram to gain support and help Misberia with rebuilding.<ref name="misberiaone"/><ref name="HelpMisberia"/>}}<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Flag of Almendria.png}} [[TOES-Almendria War]]{{efn|On the 30 June, members of TOES joined the Almendrian Discord server, after Tizian stating that TOES was a [[YAMO]]. Assuming that TOES was server raiding, the Almendrian government responded to them joining by banning all members. Hours after being banned, TOES issued a jocular declaration, demanding, amongst other things, the unbanning of all members involved.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1rR_sAdEBMHyPdOgPi-mtVVoX-goz-dpEy3qIacqwvdY/mobilebasic Official Declaration on the Almendrian Conflict], Tough Organisation of Elite Stuff.</ref> The war saw a huge intermicronational response, as well as other nations join the conflict due to their distaste for Almendria and its government system.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1SkkYMAGfiw-1faD6ee8c2JSRs5xBQyyhPaGluTk9FdY/mobilebasic ANTI ALMENDRIAN ACTION PACT]</ref><ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/micronations/comments/hkc8tb/monmarkian_condemnation_of_almendria/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf Monmarkian Condemnation of Almendria].</ref> It was highly disapproved of and criticised in the MicroWiki Sector and [[Reddit Sector]], with many (including TOES) [[Meme|dismissing the conflict as a joke]]. After the conflict ended on 15 July, it led to the start of the [[Almendrian Civil War]] without the TOES-led coalition.}}<br />
*{{flagnt|Baustralia}} [[Baustralian Civil War]]<br />
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*{{flagnt|Princetin}} [[Colony of Princetin#Princetin conflict|Princetin conflict]]<br />
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=== Crises ===<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Flag of New Eiffel.svg}} [[Crisis in New Eiffel]]{{efn|A series of various political, legal and socioeconomic crises, beginning when the erstwhile [[Prince Zarel I]] [[2019–2020 New Eiffelic Constitution Crisis|accidentally erased the nation's constitution]]. The events brought New Eiffelic stability to a halt. The crisis was marked by legal challenges, [[List of Acts of the Parliament of New Eiffel|parliament's suspension]] and the establishment of a transitional government, the [[abdication of Zarel I]], [[Crisis in New Eiffel#Inflation|economic inflation]], a civil war threat and lack of action from political leaders, hiatuses and departures.<ref name="neweiffel"/>}}<br />
**[[2019–2020 New Eiffelic Constitution Crisis]]{{efn| Marked the beginning of the Crisis in New Eiffel; the erstwhile Prince Zarel I accidentally erased the nation's constitution. On 11 February, non-New Eiffelic citizen [[James Frisch]] offered to Zarel I to write a new constitution for New Eiffel. By 5 March, Zarel I and the [[Prime Minister of New Eiffel|Prime Minister]] [[Joost Smith|Joost Smith]] had made final revisions to the constitution, and the new constitution was officially adopted on 1 April via a referendum.<ref name="c">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mNVd7raNJL-Mae2e9YBogcC9iBWos_ZEVAkOmd7FNU4 Constitution of the Principality of New Eiffel]</ref>}}<br />
**[[Crisis in New Eiffel#2020 political crisis|2020 political crisis]]{{efn|The 2020 political crisis began after Prime Minister Joost Smith was removed from his position through a [[w:motion of no confidence|motion of no confidence]]. After short discussions, [[Christina Nowell]] became the interim Prime Minister, due to her being the nation's [[w:Leader of the Opposition|Leader of the Opposition]]. Nine day later, the Communist Party (later, Labour Party) gained a plurality of seats over the Coalition, after MPs Luke Warren and John Doe formed the Communist Party with [[Leon Montan]]. Interim Prime Minister Nowell was removed through a motion of no confidence, and as no successor count be decided on, Parliament voted to temporarily make Zarel I an [[w:absolute monarchy|absolute monarch]]. On 1 May, the Document Forming the [[Crisis in New Eiffel|Transitional Government of New Eiffel]] was signed by the Prince, and Parliament became the Transitional Legislature, and Montan as First Minister, with Nowell becoming Deputy First Minister. The crisis ended on 25 May with the [[New Eiffel general election, 2020|2020 general election]], which saw [[Nicholas Randouler]] elected.<ref>Government of the Aenderese Republic (25 May 2020) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N56L810nsbU New Eiffel Elections - FINAL] — On YouTube.</ref>}}<br />
**[[2020 New Eiffelic possible civil war threat]]{{efn|On 30 July 2020, Prince of the Principality of New Eiffel [[Joost I, Prince of New Eiffel|Joost I]] expressed he was uninterested in ruling, and made remarks hinting at him wanting to disestablish New Eiffel. First Minister [[Leon Montan]] confirmed Joost I possessed no power to do so, which caused a crisis as it could have indicated a possible attempt for Joost I to try to forcefully and unconstitutionally disestablish New Eiffel.<ref>Smith, Zarel (31 July 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CkPnvUJKmNdRQX1QdEMkts6dJpNdkDw80TVBOW0gv54/edit Worrying state of New Eiffel].</ref>}}<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Flag of Austenasia.png}} [[2020 assumption of emergency powers by Jonathan I]]{{efn| Between 25 May and 4 June 2020, emergency powers were temporarily assumed by [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia|Emperor Jonathan I]] of the Empire of Austenasia in response to a political crisis caused by deepening divisions in the [[House of Representatives (Austenasia)|House of Representatives]]. These powers granted the [[Austenasian Monarchy|Monarch]] unprecedented and near-absolute control over the executive and legislative functions of government, and were used to impose order and to implement parliamentary reform. The political crisis at the heart of this incident came to an end on 1 June 2020 with the resignation of [[Dionisiy I, Prince of Montescano|Prince Dionisiy I]] from the office of [[Prime Minister of Austenasia|Prime Minister]], who was succeeded by the incumbent [[Lord John Gordon]].<ref name="aus25may"/>}}<br />
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=== Scandals and controversies ===<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Flag of Elysium.png}} [[Elysium#Vox Populi scandal|Vox Populi scandal]]{{efn|An anonymous source leaked to the [[Millania]]n press claimed that top Elysiumite government officials were plotting to exercise control over their allies by coercing them to join an organization, [[Vox Populi]].<ref>Press Ministry (8 January 2020) [https://web.archive.org/web/20200218094259/https://npbcnews.weebly.com/news/dastardly-deception Dastardly Deception!]. ''npbcnews.weebly.com''. Archived from [https://npbcnews.weebly.com/news/dastardly-deception the original] on 18 February 2020.</ref> The so-called leaked document contained their master plan – to masquerade their alliance as a democratic way to bring the community together. But, once members join, they are "cheated into the fold", intertwining their legal systems with that of Vox Populi, and being given a narrow legal pathway to leave the organization.<ref>Editor (5 January 2020) [https://millaniagov.wixsite.com/millania/post/highly-classified-document-reveals-elysium-efforts-to-puppet-its-allies Highly Classified Document Reveals Elysium Efforts to Puppet its Allies]. ''Millanian STANDARD'' at MillaniaGov.wixsite.com.</ref> This scandal, in addition to other election scandals, led to Tau's departure, which dealt a significant blow to the moral of the country. Elysium refuted several of claims made regarding Operation Vox, claiming several edits to their [[MicroWiki]] article were untrue or outright lies.<ref>''[https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1-dMtXMf21eJ8cya2ivLnuk2cnPT4vTUUIM_G0GQsw2k/mobilebasic Vox Populi MicroWiki Article Broken Down]''. Retrieved 11 November 2020.</ref> Since the scandal, significant reforms have been made among mounting pressure from the intermicronational community to act upon the problems of Elysium.}}<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Flag of the Commonwealth of Essexia.svg}} Essexia:<br />
**[[List of MicroWiki Sector memes#2020|DANOSBIGPENIS Scandal]]{{efn|Essexia attracted huge controversy, namely from the Grand Unified Micronational and on MicroWiki@Discord after an act passed in Parliament which renamed the Commonwealth of Essexia to the "Commonwealth of Derbyshire, Aberdeenshire, Norfolk, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Buckinghamshire, Inverness-shire, Gloucestershire, Peterborough, Essex, Northumberland, the Isle of Man and Somerset", which has the acronym "DANOSBIGPENIS" — "[[Danos]]" being a [[meme]] in Esseixa. Contrary to belief, however, Essexia never officially changed its name due to a clause in its constitution prohibiting it from doing so, indicating the act was entirely illegal.<ref name="act"/>}}<br />
**[[Raging Valentines]]<br />
**[[Snakey Saturday]]{{efn|A political event within the Commonwealth of Essexia, in which the [[Rhino Alliance]] came to power over the [[Giraffe Concordat]] through the alleged alliance with [[Zarel I, Prince of New Eiffel|Lord Zarel]] of the [[Shrek Super Party]].}}<br />
**The Great Shag<ref>[https://novatromsonews.webador.com/528260_nova-tromsoe-voices-it-s-opinion-on-the-great-shag Nova Tromsø voices it’s opinion on “The Great Shag”]. ''Novtromsian News Agency''. Published 29 October 2020.</ref>{{efn|A scandal where members of the Essexian government were criticised for raiding a Discord server called MicroPub, originally beginning with the banning of multiple Essexians from MicroWiki@Discord.<ref name="admin"/><ref>Burdette, Isaiah (28 October 2020) [https://micronationalgazette.wixsite.com/micronationalgazette/post/hrafnarfijall-leaves-gum Hrafnarfjall leaves GUM]. ''Micronational Gazette''.</ref> Hrafnarfjall later threatened to cut ties with Essexia and left the GUM after allegations that the GUM Chair Newton von Uberquie was also involved in the raid.<ref name="admin"/><ref name="cut"/><ref name="marcel"/>}} <br />
*[[Dan Morris|2020 Morrisgate Scandal]]<ref name="gumcup"/>{{efn|A scandal in which [[Daniel Morris]] was removed from the MicroWiki community after allegations were made concerning his behaviour towards other community members. Although his removal had large support, there were criticisms targeted at the GUM and Violette Clingersmith for the way it was handled.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mTGn0qPf89QJw0Fo7DlnLWC2xEKFYMdkObKlHs7S5IA/edit JOINT GUM REBUTTAL OF ‘PRESIDENT MORRIS: REALISM, DECENCY AND FAIRNESS IN THE COMMUNITY IN APRIL’]</ref>}}<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane Flag.svg}} [[Concordiagate]]{{efn|In July, leaked chat logs from Chase Nanatovich showed leaders of [[Concordia (Abelden)|Concordia]], most notably [[Stephen Freayth]], plotting to oust former Emperor [[Newton von Uberquie]] and [[Vorsitzender]] [[Patrick Renwick]]. The scandal developed during the [[July 2020 Abeldane executive election]], where both the positions of [[Vorsitzender]] and [[Stellvertreter]] were up for election. According to Renwick, Freayth commited electoral fraud, especially in the state of [[Alenshka]], dating as far back as [[2017]]. These claims were backed by Emperor [[Nicholas Kaos]]. As a result of the scandal, the [[Liberty Front]] pulled out of the alliance, and the Pirate League was dissolved due to all of its members defecting the party; Concordia was therefore ''de facto'' dissolved on 10 July, less than a month after its official establishment.<ref name=lsydunche1/>}}<br />
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*[[Thomas Bainbridge]] [[Grand Unified Micronational election, December 2019|was elected]] the 30th [[Chair of the Grand Unified Micronational|Chair of the Grand Unified Micronational]] on 1 January, with 17 (58.6%) votes. The turnout was 87.9%, the highest in the GUM's history.<ref>Belcher, Adam (1 January 2020) [https://gumnews.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/result-of-the-chair-election-december-2019/ Result of the Chair election, December 2019]. ''Gum News''.</ref><br />
*[[2020 Indonesian micronations shock]], a sudden media frenzy to a series of communities with micronation-like characteristics beginning in January, eventually leading to the arrests of multiple individuals involved with the micronational entities for "fraudulent activities".<ref name=tahun>[https://kumparan.com/kumparannews/3-petinggi-sunda-empire-didakwa-sebar-hoaks-terancam-10-tahun-penjara-1tdZ6kePxXK/full 3 Petinggi Sunda Empire Didakwa Sebar Hoaks, Terancam 10 Tahun Penjara] (''"Leaders of Sunda Empire Accused of Spreading Hoax, May be Imprisoned for 10 Years"'', in Indonesian). ''Kumparan''. 18 June 2020.</ref><ref name=sentence1>{{cite web|title= Raja dan Ratu Keraton Agung Sejagat Menangis Divonis 4 dan 1,5 Tahun|url=https://regional.kompas.com/read/2020/09/16/06290761/raja-dan-ratu-keraton-agung-sejagat-menangis-divonis-4-dan-15-tahun?page=all|publisher=Kompas.com|date=16 September 2020|language=id|author=Ika Fitriana|editor=Khairina}}</ref><ref name=sentence2>{{cite web|title=Tiga Petinggi Sunda Empire Divonis 2 Tahun Penjara|url=https://tirto.id/f6pb|publisher=Tirto.id|date=27 October 2020|language=id|editor=Bayu S.}}</ref><br />
*[[MicroWiki@Discord Administrative Protests of 2020]] in February: a protest against the MicroWiki@Discord administration which saw the involvement of nearly thirty users.<ref name="Zed"/><br />
*Abelden joins the GUM following the [[Abeldane GUM membership referendum, 2020]] in May.<ref name="gumref1"/><br />
*[[Abdication of Zarel I]] of [[Monarchy of New Eiffel|New Eiffel]] in June.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/11_uaf8uhtZ3x6VnHWtd5yAJG-YXiUmpC1_atVVlWLhU/edit?usp=sharing Abdication letter of Zarel I (Full text)]</ref><br />
*[[Newton von Uberquie]] [[Grand Unified Micronational election, June 2020|was elected]] the 31st Chair of the Grand Unified Micronational on 1 July, with 26 (83.9%) votes.<ref>Belcher, Adam (1 July 2020) [https://gumnews.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/result-of-the-chair-election-june-2020/ Result of the Chair election, June 2020]. ''Gum News''.</ref><br />
*[[Dismissal of Sertor Valentinus]] from the Cupertino Alliance in September after allegations of raiding.{{citation needed|date=11 December 2020}}<br />
*The [[Republic of Nordale]] makes a denunciation of the "Pavlov clique" for racism and anti-LGBT sentiments in mid-October. <br />
* The [[Empire of New Germany]] was [[Weg-New German Reunification|added as an autonomous province]] to the [[Federal Union of Wegmat]] in November after a year of tensions. <ref name=reunification>{{cite web|title= New German parliament begins vote on reunification with Wegmat|url= https://inwgb.wordpress.com/2020/09/27/breaking-new-german-parliament-begins-vote-on-reunification-with-wegmat/|publisher=WGB|date=27 September 2020|language=en}}</ref><br />
*The [[Republic of Nordale]], [[Kingdom of Überstadt]], [[State of Sandus]], [[Misberian Confederacy]], the Kingdom of the Islands of Legiálle, and the [[Kingdom of Hrafnarfjall]], signed an international denunciation of the Pavlov clique on the Kingdom of the Islands of Legiálle on 18 November 2020. Later, Misberia and Hrafnarfjall retracted their signatures on 1 November. <br />
*[[Dissolution of New Eiffel]] in November.<ref name="neweiffel"/><br />
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=== Summits ===<br />
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it made hosting [[micronational summit|diplomatic summits]] increasingly difficult. <br />
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The first summit to take place in 2020 was the [[2020 Essexia–Millania London Summit]], held at the Sanctuary House Hotel in London, on 3 February 2020, officially between Essexian [[Emperor Terry of Essexia|Emperor Terry I]] and Foreign Minister [[Essexia|Matthew]], and [[Millania]]n Crown Prince [[Nicolás Millán]]. A fourth unofficial attendee "The Architec" from [[the Virtual Dreamscape]] also attended. Terry and Matthew went on to meet-up with [[Newton von Uberquie]], Palatine-Viceroy of [[Uberquiesenberg]] on 20 July.<ref name="esx20">Editor, Chief (20 July 2020) [https://essexian.com/essexia-and-uber-esse-meet-again/ Essexia and Uber-Esse meet again]. ''The Essexian Post''.</ref> Also present was former Essexian Jack Dean, who than lead [[Poplar Nerva]]. It marked the first time in 8 years an incumbent Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Grand Unified Micronational had met in person.<ref name="esx20"/> The [[Summit of Czech and Slovakian Micronations 2020]] commenced on 1 July in [[w:Lovosice|Lovosice]], and was attended by Jan Šťastný and Petr Bláha for the [[Rednecks Republic]], Mikuláš I. for Klitzibürg, Jakub Malý and Jakub Jelínek for Chodland and Petr György Polanský for Ludenberk. The [[Cupertino - Humberlea meetup]] commenced on 29 July, between [[Jayden Lycon]] of the [[Cupertino Alliance]], and [[Nicholas Lokin]] and Nicole Lokin of [[Humberlea]], in the North York Civic Centre on 29 July 2020.<ref name="Twenty"/><ref>Cupertino Alliance [@Cupertino_Micro] (30 July 2020). [https://twitter.com/Cupertino_Micro/status/1288628196959834112 Cupertino - Humberlea meetup was successful at North York Civic Centre, we talked about various topics - @Misberia and more relations, Canadian + Ontario politics, micronational relations, and more. #micronations] (Tweet). — Via Twitter.</ref><br />
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Furthermore, a number of [[Micronational state visit|state visits]] and smaller [[micronational summit|meet-ups]] took place, such as [[Tommy Narisworo's state visit to Excellent]] on 11 March,<ref>[https://aimicro.news.blog/2020/03/11/harjakarta-prince-in-excellent-for-a-working-visit/ Harjakarta Prince in Excellent for a Working Visit]. 11 March 2020. [[AIMNN]].</ref> Adam Pivetz and [[Tomáš Falešník]]'s meeting with [[Alexander IV, Emperor of Pavlov|Alexander IV]] of [[Pavlov]] on 20 July, which was the first of its kind in the [[w:Czech Republic|Czech Republic]],<ref>[https://sgymnews.wordpress.com/2020/07/20/gymnasium-state-and-pavlov-meet-in-prague/ Gymnasium State and Pavlov meet in Prague]. ''Gymnasium State News'' on 20 July 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.</ref> and [[Nordale|Nordalian]] Citizen-Premier [[Sophia Albina]]'s state visit to New Virginia in October.<ref>https://micronations.wiki/wiki/MicroWiki:Featured_picture/Nominations#Nordalian_state_visit_to_New_Virginia</ref><br />
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=== Online events ===<br />
[[file:24hour2020.png|right|241px|thumb|The GUM's [[24 Hour Quorum (2020)|fourth 24 Hour Quorum]] raised £266 for the [[w:British Red Cross|British Red Cross]].<ref name="gum24hr"/>]]<br />
A number of alternative events to physical summits were held.<br />
[[file:Siaim20.png|right|241px|thumb|Logo of the [[2020 AIM General Assembly Special Session]].]]<br />
Between 14–17 March, the Cupertino Alliance hosted the [[69 Hour Session]], which was advertised as the "longest session in micronational history." During the session CAD$10 was donated to the Canadian Red Cross' China Novel Coronavirus Response Appeal.<ref>Lycon, Jayden (22 March 2020) [https://nacrecupertino.wordpress.com/2020/03/22/cupertino-alliance-donates-to-the-canadian-red-cross/ Cupertino Alliance donates to the Canadian Red Cross]. ''[[Nacre by Cupertino]]''.</ref> "Anthemgate" followed as a result of the session however.<ref>Lycon, Jayden (22 March 2020) [https://nacrecupertino.wordpress.com/2020/03/26/new-eiffel-adopts-seal-by-cupertino-alliance-apology-issued/ New Eiffel adopts seal by Cupertino Alliance, apology issued]. ''[[Nacre by Cupertino]]''.</ref> The [[Twenty-four Hour MicroWiki Edit-a-thon]] began on 17 April at 3:00 AM (UTC) and ended 18 April at 4:00 AM. Organised by Zed and [[Cole Baird]], it focused primarily on cleaning-up and improving various articles on MicroWiki. The edit-a-thon was later however considered unproductive.{{citation needed}} The Grand Unified Micronational organised a [[24 Hour Quorum (2020)|fourth 24 Hour Quorum]] between 1–2 May in order to raise awareness for the COVID-19 pandemic and raise money for the [[w:British Red Cross|British Red Cross]]. The quorum had sixty-five participants in total, allowing non-members to participate as guests, and quorum was maintained successfully throughout the full twenty-four hours. The participants raised a total of £266, and the event received praise within the MicroWiki community.<ref name="gum24hr">"[https://uk.gofundme.com/f/grand-unified-micronational-helping-fight-covid Grand Unified Micronational; helping fight COVID]" on [[w:GoFundMe|GoFundMe]].</ref><ref>Alexander (7 May 2020) [https://rln.home.blog/2020/05/07/24-hour-quorum-order-of-alexander-to-be-awarded-to-all-those-who-donated/ 24 Hour Quorum – Order of Alexander to be awarded to all those who donated]. ''The Royal Lyteran News''.</ref><br />
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Others intermicronational digital events include the [[2020 AIM General Assembly Special Session]] in July, which had twelve attendees,<ref>Indokistan (12 July 2020) [https://aimicro.news.blog/2020/07/12/aim-general-assembly-special-session-celebrates-aim-9th-anniversary/ AIM General Assembly Special Session Celebrates AIM 9th Anniversary]. Jaringan Berita News Network.</ref> the [[First Oblate Convention]] in October, which had nine attendees,{{efn|Including three spectators.}}<ref>Miller, Christopher (u/c-miller) [https://www.reddit.com/r/micronations/comments/j4ynxx/matachewan_to_be_hosting_an_international_video/ Matachewan to be hosting an international video conference, the first Oblate Convention on Wednesday 7 October]. Post — via [[w:Reddit|Reddit]]</ref> the MicroWiki Karaoke Night also hosted in October on MicroWiki@Discord,<ref>[[Jamez]] (17 October 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C4ghq75uUTyl4Wz3DTMZlI9PxDKFrAxYqTLyWt422YE/edit# Karaoke Night Order] on Google Docs.</ref> which had twenty-five attendees,<ref name="dmmoct">Smith, Zarel (14 November 2020) [https://its-cns.wixsite.com/orblian-observer/post/sertor-valentinus-named-dime-s-micronationalist-of-the-month-for-october Sertor Valentinus named Dime's Micronationalist of the Month for October]. ''Orblian Observer''. Retrieved 14 November 2020.</ref> and the [[2020 GUM Virtual Summit]] in November,<ref>Chief, Editor (26 December 2020) [https://essexian.com/jack-dean-beats-adam-belcher-in-historic-win-to-become-the-next-chair-of-the-grand-unified-micronational/ Jack Dean beats Adam Belcher in historic win to become the next Chair of the Grand Unified Micronational]. ''The Essexian Post''. Retrieved 26 December 2020.</ref> which had over forty attendees.{{citation needed}}<br />
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=== Sectors ===<br />
[[file:BrazilianSectorFlag.png|thumb|241px|Flag of the [[Brazilian sector]], which was established in 2020]]<br />
While other micronationalists became increasingly independent from MicroWiki, many [[sector]]s were formally established.<br />
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[[Alexander I, King of Lytera|Alexander I]] of [[Lytera]] formally created the [[London Sector]] in January, for micronations in [[w:Greater London|Greater London]]. He closely worked with delegates from the Greater London micronations New Eiffel and Austenasia.{{citation needed}} The [[Greater Toronto - Kingston Sector]] was founded on 1 February by Jayden Lycon, to refer to micronations in the [[w:Greater Toronto Area|Greater Toronto Area]] and [[w:Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]] area of Canada.{{citation needed}} On 23 March, the term [[Brazilian sector]] was coined and has been used since the signature of the [[Treaty of Persenburg]]. The sector was founded as a mostly-derivatist division of the mostly-simulationist and historical-modelist [[Lusophone sector]], an initiative to gather the derivatist lusophone micronationalists.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/download/997613537339955/Tratado%20de%20Persenburgo.pdf?av=100003294275437&eav=Afb3unIuoliiNeHV8CQLgSr3fdVwNuVD1IybYxvmRBiUr9l3j8tDBMGVl75P-zDlY9Q&hash=AcphvGJJuUx1t_Bl Treaty of Persenburg, given in Persenburg, 12 March 2020]</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.imperioalemao.com.br/2020/04/04/tratado-de-persenburg-estremece-relacoes-diplomaticas-com-o-manso/|title=Treaty of Persenburg shaken diplomatic relations with the Manso (pt)|author=Império Alemão|publisher=Vyšehrad Noviny|date=4 April 2020}}</ref> In April, Cole Baird created the [[Des Plaines Valley Sector]] for micronations sorrounding the [[w:Des Plaines River|Des Plaines River]].{{citation needed}} On 4 May, an official charter for the [[New England Sector]] (NES) was published and ratified by the Directive of Misberia, [[The Grand Duchy of Leonsle]] and Kingdom of Hrafnarfjall.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QfIZCXOQ1_HFRpTrxK-smI9Vf-RUu62l_9jAnF8wGnk/edit?usp=sharing New England Sector charter]</ref> On 21 May, Zed formally founded the [[TOES Sector]], an inner-political sector which refers to currently eight micronations which have leaders that are members of the elite invitation-only organisation called the [[Tough Organisation of Elite Stuff]], commonly known by the acronym TOES.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14X6Hg7ccW-Ty6I2urRBq7p17rsg8oY9qnxoKy4b1TRk Charter of TOES] on [[w:Google Docs|Google Docs]].</ref> The term "[[Western Canada sector]]" was used by the [[Republic of Suverska]] in 2020, to refer to four active micronations within the sector.{{citation needed}} Conversely, members of the [[Reddit sector]] (on [[r/micronations]]) attempted to move to MicroWiki after continued scandals and alleged unprofessional and conflict, though many did not fully integrate for multiple varying reasons.{{citation needed}}<br />
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=== Intermicronational treaties ===<br />
Notable intermicronational conventions created in 2020 include the [[Augusta Accord]], condemning micronational [[w:transphobia|transphobia]] for the protection of transgender and non-binary micronationalists,<ref>deadlogothete (3 October 2020) [https://nordalevoice.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/citizen-premier-sophia-albina-signs-augusta-accord-along-with-several-friendly-states-of-the-republic/ Citizen-Premier Sophia Albina signs Augusta Accord along with several friendly states of the Republic]. ''The Nordale Voice''.</ref> Halcyon Convention, creating terminology and definitions for [[micronational warfare]],<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MOHVjB2Ytp9VhdrYf9IGp-O86tITFiRjB0ZicWPr3bg/edit Halcyon Convention]</ref> [[La Salle Convention]], condemning [[micronational war#Hacking|cyberattacks]], [[w:doxing|doxxing]], [[w:Discord (software)|Discord]] raiding and online bullying,<ref name="BG">Valentinus (7 October 2020) "[https://brooksidegazette.wordpress.com/2020/10/07/west-sayville-ratifies-la-salle-convention/ West Sayville ratifies La Salle Convention]". ''Brookside Gazette''.</ref> [https://principalityvandewal.wordpress.com/2020/06/09/lgbtq-rights-treaty/ LGBTQ+ Rights Treaty], reducing LGBT discrimination,<ref>VandewalGov (9 June 2020) [https://principalityvandewal.wordpress.com/2020/06/09/lgbtq-rights-treaty/ LGBTQ + Rights Treaty].</ref> [[Montediszamble Convention]], which asserts freedom of speech and condemns bullying and violation of copyright,<ref name="lostisland">[https://lostisland.org/news/international-news/yaroslav-mar-reveals-montediszamble-convention-as-worlds-largest-micronations-sign/ "Yaroslav Mar reveals Montediszamble Convention as world's largest micronations sign"], Federal Republic of Lostisland, Retrieved 22 November 2020</ref> and [[Sough2020]], a treaty aimed towards micronational action regarding [[w:climate change|climate change]] which was created after a digital summit focusing on its creation.<ref>Ross, Logan (27 November 2020) [https://theaenopianhour.wordpress.com/2020/11/27/aenopia-signs-sough2020-treaty-as-leading-environmental-convention-comes-to-a-close/ Aenopia signs Sough2020 treaty as leading Environmental convention comes to a close]. ''The Aenopian Hour''. Retrieved 27 November 2020.</ref><ref name="sd2020"/><br />
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== Micronationalists ==<br />
[[file:Micronationalists2020collage.jpg|240px|thumb|Notable micronationalists of 2020{{efn|(Left to right): [[Nicholas Randouler]], [[Patrick Renwick]], [[Henry Clémens]], [[User:Luxor|Luxor]] (depiction), [[Jayden Lycon]] (depiction), [[Cameron I]] of [[Ikonia]], [[Thomas Bainbridge]], [[Daniel Roscoe]], [[Logan Ross]], [[Joseph Kennedy]], [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia|Emperor Adam I]] of [[Adammia]], [[Archie Birch]] (depiction), [[Zed Smith]], [[Tomáš Falešník]], [[Eryn Lewis]], [[Dionisiy Tezdzhan-Smahin]], [[Newton von Uberquie]], [[Jonathan I]] of [[Austenasia]], [[Leon Montan]] (depiction) and [[Matthew]] (depiction).}}]]<br />
[[file:NicholasRandouler3.jpg|160px|thumb|[[Nicholas Randouler]] was named [[Statistic-Dime]]'s "[[Micronationalist of the Year]]" for 2020.<ref name="Twenty"/>]]<br />
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The alleged "community leaders" according to the [[History of the MicroWiki Community]] included Jonathan I, Adam I of Adammia, [[Austin Jaax|Austin I]] of [[Iustus]], [[Eryn Lewis]], Joseph Kennedy, Newton von Uberquie, [[Nicholas Randouler]], Thomas I of Hrafnarfjall and Zarel Smith (Zed).<ref name="mw"/> Zed of Statistic-Dime released a ranking of who he deemed the most influential micronationalists titled "[[MicroWiki's 25 Most Influential (2020)|MicroWiki's 25 Most Influential of 2020]]", which ranked Nicholas Randouler first and declared him the "[[Micronationalist of the Year]]", followed by [[Jayden Lycon]], Chair of the CA; Thomas Bainbridge, 30th Chair of the GUM; Zed, "intermicronational entrepreneur" and politician; and [[Archie Birch]], "micronational influencer" and leader of [[Misberia]] in ranks second to fifth respectively.<ref name="Blackwood5"/><ref name="Twenty"/> Nicholas Randouler released a "[[user:NickRandouler/MonthlyMWMPowerIndex|Monthly MicroWiki Micronationalists Power Index for May 2020]]" ranked by "what they can do in their most notable positions to influence and shape the community", and although further ones were planned to be released monthly it only had one edition due to his death in the following month.<ref name="mwm">Randouler, Nicholas (May 2020) [[user:NickRandouler/MonthlyMWMPowerIndex|Monthly MicroWiki Micronationalists Power Index]]. Retrieved 3 December 2020.</ref> Randouler ranked Adam I, Emperor of Adammia first, followed by [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia|Jonathan I]], [[Monarchy of Austenasia|Emperor]] of Austenasia, [[Bradley, Duke of Dullahan]], Zed and Thomas Bainbridge in ranks second to fifth respectively.<ref name="mwm"/><br />
The [[Micronationalist of the Month]] award continued monthly for its second year.<br />
=== MicroWiki's 25 Most Influential ===<br />
{{main|MicroWiki's 25 Most Influential (2020)}}<br />
Ranking according to Zed's ranking of the [[Top 25 Most Influential Micronationalists in the MicroWiki Sector of 2020]] via Statistic-Dime.<br />
#[[Nicholas Randouler]], Abelden, Iustian, Millanian, New Eiffelic, Essexian politician, GUM secretary and founder of Posaf; In memoriam to his death in June.<br />
#[[Jayden Lycon]], Chair of the [[Cupertino Alliance]]<br />
#[[Thomas Bainbridge]], 30th [[Chair of the GUM|Chair]] of the [[Grand Unified Micronational]]<br />
#[[Zed]], MicroWiki editing and statistical projects<br />
#[[Archie Birch]], "Cult following" as Madakawando Sakom (head of state) of [[Misberia]]<br />
#"[[Pavlov]] clique" — [[Yaroslav Mar]] and [[Alexander IV, Emperor of Pavlov]], the "sh*tfights their behaviour triggers"<br />
#[[Newton von Uberquie]], 31st Chair of the Grand Unified Micronational, member of [[Diarchy]]<br />
#[[Joseph Kennedy]], President of [[Commonwealth of New Virginia|New Virginia]], suggested the [[Augusta Accord]]<br />
#[[Matthew (Essexia)|Matthew of Essexia]], 30th [[Vice-Chair of the Grand Unified Micronational]]<br />
#[[Tomáš Falešník]], Organiser of the [[2020 MOF Games]] and MicroWiki editing <br />
#[[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia|Adam I]], [[Monarchy of Adammia|Emperor]] of [[Adammia]], Challenged the "Pavlov clique" as an [[MicroWiki@Discord]] [[MicroWiki@Discord#Administration|administrator]]<br />
#[[Cameron I of Ikonia|Cameron I]], King of [[Ikonia]], Technical work on [[MicroWiki]] and MicroWiki@Discord<br />
#[[Leon Montan]], Political work and centralised the [[MicroWiki@Discord Administrative Protests of 2020]]<br />
#[[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia|Jonathan I]], [[Monarchy of Austenasia|Emperor]] of [[Austenasia]], Site owner of MicroWiki<br />
#[[Karl Friedrich|Luxor]], Overseeing the MicroWiki@Discord shutdown<br />
#[[Eryn Lewis]], Brief MicroWiki@Discord admin and work as Prime Minister of New Virginia <br />
#[[Logan Ross]], Work in [[NADU]] and organiser of [[Sough2020]]<br />
#[[Bradley of Dullahan]], [[Supreme Justice of the Grand Unified Micronational]]<br />
#[[Henry Clémens]], Member of Diarchy and writer of ''[[Messenger]]''<br />
#[[James Frisch]], "Sense of humour"<br />
#[[Daniel Roscoe]], Work in the Cupertino Alliance, CEO of [[Statistic-Dime]]<br />
#[[Patrick Renwick]], Work during [[Concordiagate]]<br />
#[[Sertor Valentinus]], Work in the Cupertino Alliance and [[West Sayville]]<br />
#[[Anthony Clark]], Work in [[Abeldane law]] and politics<br />
#[[Ives Blackwood]], Writer of ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]''.<br />
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=== Micronationalists of the Month ===<br />
[[File:DIME Micronationalist of the Month logo.jpeg|160px|thumb|[[Micronationalist of the Month]], conducted in 2020 by the first and second Statistic-Dime CEO Zed and [[Daniel Roscoe]] respectively]]<br />
Statistic-Dime's [[Micronationalist of the Month|Micronationalists of the Month]] were:<br />
*January — [[Jayden Lycon]]<ref>Lycon, Jayden (26 April 2020) [https://issuu.com/curio_rblx/docs/pondomanifesto_final For you and for all. The Canadian Isabelle - Shrek Super Party manifesto 2020] on [[w:Issuu|Issuu]]. ''Curio Publications'', p. 4–5.</ref><br />
*February — [[Zed]]<ref>[https://sites.google.com/view/zeddy-smith/awards Awards]. Zed's personal website.</ref><br />
*March — [[Tomáš Falešník]]<br />
*April — [[Nicholas Randouler]]<br />
*May — [[Archie Birch]]<br />
*June — [[Newton von Uberquie]]<br />
*July — [[Patrick Renwick]]<br />
*August — [[Maria Birch]]<br />
*September — Casper von Naveria<ref>Smith, Zarel (10 October 2020) [https://micronationsweekly.blogspot.com/2020/10/casper-von-naveria-wins-september.html Casper von Naveria wins September Micronationalist of the Month award]. ''[[MicroWeekly]]''.</ref><br />
*October — [[Sertor Valentinus]]<ref name="dmmoct"/><br />
*November — [[Andrew Creed]]<br />
:December is omitted due to the [[Micronationalist of the Year]] being awarded.<br />
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=== Deaths ===<br />
[[File:IMG 2173edit.jpg|160px|thumb|[[Aenderian Coast Guard]] ship C/F Nicholas Randouler and [[SV Niantic]] at [[w:Highland Creek|Highland Creek]] in memoriam to him<ref name="feat">[[MicroWiki:Featured picture/Archive]]</ref>]]<br />
[[File:Maria Birch Memorial.jpg|160px|thumb|Candle lit service in Songo a day after the passing of [[Maria Birch]] and her unborn child<ref name="feat"/>]]<br />
*3 June: [[Nicholas Randouler]] (b. 2004), Founder and 4th Prince of [[Posaf]]<ref name="nick"/><br />
**The community was hit with an outpouring of grief after the [[Nicholas Randouler#Death|death of Nicholas Randouler]], Founder and 4th Prince of [[Posaf]], on 3 June,<ref name="mw"/> which came with declarations of days of national mourning, [[List of places named after Nicholas Randouler|places named after him]], memorial services, posthumous awards and memorial videos.<ref name="dawn20"/> The [[GUM]] held a text-based vigil for him.<ref name="adam11june"/><ref name="millan"/><br />
*31 July: [[Maria Birch]] (b. 2004), Minister of Culture for Misberia and Misberian politician<br />
**Her passing was a great shock to the Misberian and micronational community, and her unborn child passed away as well; numerous [[Maria Birch#Intermicronational Flag Lowerings:|flag lowerings took place]], various places were named after her, and [[Maria Birch#Death and Legacy|a number of memorials and religious events]] in her memory commenced. The [[CUP]] held a moment of silence, and the [[GUM]] gave member states an opportunity to send condolences.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FJWKXC7G5-PhW1SOnbaM1rUtMUe_k-XF3mGYi_HxDvw/edit In Memorial of Maria Birch].</ref><br />
*23 August: Sebastian Bermudez (b. 1943), the grandfather by fathers side of HIM [[Uriel I of Urielandia]] and "Founding Father" of the [[House of Bermudez]]<ref name="Twenty"/><br />
*29 October: Raniel I, King of the Kingdom of Tovaria<ref>Reino de Tovaria [@Reinotovariano] (29 October 2020). [https://twitter.com/Reinotovariano/status/1321897970237886464?s=20 Con mucha tristeza informamos el penoso fallecimiento de S.M.C el Rey Raniel I, consecuencia del COVID-19, en las próximas horas asumirá el trono el príncipe heredero, quien reinra bajo el nombre de Raniel II de Tovaria. Paz a su alma.] (Tweet). — Via Twitter. ''(In Spanish)''</ref><br />
*16 November: [[The Kingdom of Liahonia#Family Tree|HM Queen DeEtta]] (b. 1941)<ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1th9K4rDWzoE-vN-z34DQRIkz1UkgpR9W/view Queen DeEtta Death Announcement]</ref><br />
* 10 December: An immunocompromised maternal great aunt of HRH Grand Duke Casper I of [[Commonwealth of Naveria|Naveria]] passed away due to complications involving the novel coronavirus. She was also a sister of the late HRH Grand Duke Great Grandfather William. A period of mourning was observed, and the government of Sabiland took a leave of absence to attend her funeral.<br />
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=== Administration ===<br />
[[file:ICJA20.jpg|160px|thumb|Jonathan I of Austenasia remained the site owner for a sixth year]]<br />
Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia remained the site owner of MicroWiki for his sixth year. Wiki admins who continued serving were Adam I, Emperor of Adammia and [[Ives Blackwood]], and tech admins who continued were [[Sebastian Linden]], [[Karl Friedrich|Luxor]] and [[Andrew Creed]]. In February, Cameron I, King of Ikonia was upgraded to a tech admin after serving as a wiki admin originally, and Charles Ross and Zed were both promoted to wiki admins in February. Joseph Kennedy was dismissed as a wiki admin in the same month, though was later reinstated in July.<ref name="staff/> On MicroWiki@Discord, Luxor, Cameron I, Newton von Uberquie and Sebastian Linden remained administrators, whilst Brayden "Lee" Eaves, Casper von Naveria and Zed were promoted to the position. However, following a decision to cut back on the number of administrators, the majority of admins were demoted to moderators instead, making them alongside already moderators [[Aidan McGrath]] and [[Tomáš Falešník]]. Further moderators were appointed afterwards. Jonathan I, [[Aaron Green]], Adam I, [[Eryn Lewis]], [[Zenrax|Shiro]] and Suzuki Leōcor resigned as administrators.<ref name="discord"/><ref name="mwm"/><ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZUK71MhXUaewOLpR20onU0Bk3KX3mcpJ0P8i-TwIIDI/edit MicroWiki@Discord | Information + Rules (June 24, 2020)]. Retrieved 20 November 2020.</ref><ref>[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/User:Z_Luna_Skye/Theoretical_ranking_of_positions_of_power_within_the_MicroWiki_community Theoretical ranking of positions of power within the MicroWiki community]</ref><br />
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=== Departures ===<br />
Notable departures from the MicroWiki Sector included [[Dan Morris]], [[Edward Daniels]], [[Emiel Hardy]], [[Stephen Freayth]], Suzuki Leōcor and [[Departure of William Efton|William Efton]], while several other micronationalists semi-retired.{{citation needed|date=11 December 2020}}<br />
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== Micronations ==<br />
[[File:2020 montage of micronations.png|200px|thumb|From left, (A—Z); [[Abeldane Empire|Abelden]], [[Empire of Adammia|Adammia]], [[Empire of Austenasia|Austenasia]], [[Commonwealth of Essexia|Essexia]], [[Misberia]], [[Principality of New Eiffel|New Eiffel]], [[Commonwealth of New Virginia|New Virginia]], [[Ponderosa Hills]] and [[Principality of Posaf|Posaf]] were among the most influential [[micronations]] of 2020 according to surveys and lists of influence.]]<br />
[[File:MWIS20.jpg|200px|thumb|The [[19th MicroWiki Influence Survey]] received 105 responses, making it the largest participation of any [[list of micronational surveys|micronational survey]].]]<br />
[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|200px|thumb|[[Flag of Aenopia]].]]<br />
[[File:Flag of Australis.svg|200px|thumb|[[Flag of Australis]].]]<br />
[[file:Uberesse.png|200px|thumb|[[National symbols of Esse|Flag of Uber-Esse]].]]<br />
According to surveys and lists of influence, the most popular or favourably viewed micronations were [[Abelden]], [[Adammia]], [[Austenasia]], [[Essexia]], [[Misberia]], [[New Eiffel]], [[New Virginia]], [[Ponderosa Hills]] and [[Posaf]], whilst other frequently favoured and well-known micronations included [[Aenderia]], [[Aenopia]], [[Australis]], [[Cycoldia]], [[Elysium]], [[Gymnasium State]], [[Hrafnarfjall]], [[Iustus]], [[Lytera]], [[Millania]], [[Pavlov]], [[Uber-Esse]] and [[Wegmat]] among many others. Conversely, a number of micronations were considered largely controversial, such as [[Almendria]], [[Ernest]], [[Etukan]], [[Kebec]], [[List of MicroWiki Sector memes|Kolamia]], [[Reddit Nation]] and [[Verdis]] among others.<ref name="mmc"/><br />
=== Surveys and rankings used ===<br />
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{|class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Nation<br />
! [[GUM Member States Positivity Survey|GUM]] <small>(40)</small><br />
! [[GUM Member States Positivity Survey#20 respondents|GUM]] <small>(20)</small><br />
! [[19th MicroWiki Influence Survey|MWIS]]<br />
! [[Cupertino Member Positivity Survey|CA]] <small>(1)</small><br />
! [[Cupertino Member Positivity Survey#December 2020|CA]] <small>(2)</small><br />
! [[MicroWiki Mentions Chart!|MMC]]<br />
! [[MicroWiki Mentions Chart!|MMC]] <small>(total)</small><br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Abeldane Empire}}<br />
| T12<br />
| T9<br />
| 3<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| ''1 week''<br />
| ''185''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Adammia}}<br />
| T5<br />
| 12<br />
| 6<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| ''1 week''<br />
| ''150''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Austenasia}}<br />
| 4<br />
| T4<br />
| 1<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| ''2 weeks''<br />
| ''789''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Essexia}}<br />
| T1<br />
| 3<br />
| 11<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| ''1 week''<br />
| ''288''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Misberia}}<br />
| T7<br />
| T7<br />
| T13<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" | <br />
| ''253''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|New Eiffel}}<br />
| T1<br />
| 1<br />
| 2<br />
| 1<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| ''3 weeks''<br />
| ''517''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|New Virginia}}<br />
| T7<br />
| T4<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''325''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Ponderosa Hills}}<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| 21<br />
| T8<br />
| 9<br />
| ''2 weeks''<br />
| ''542''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Posaf}}<br />
| T1<br />
| 2<br />
| 10<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| ''2 weeks''<br />
| ''390''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Aenderia}}<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| 5<br />
| T6<br />
| 4<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''133''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Aenopia}}<br />
| T15<br />
| T13<br />
| T29<br />
| 2<br />
| 1<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''169''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Australis}}<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| 5<br />
| 2<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''575''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Cycoldia}}<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| 16<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''285'' <br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Elysium}}<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| 9<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| ''1 week''<br />
| ''131''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Gymnasium State}}<br />
| T12<br />
| T9<br />
| T29<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''53''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Hrafnarfjall}}<br />
| T39<br />
| T41<br />
| 8<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''163''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Iustus}}<br />
| T10<br />
| T16<br />
| 12<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''60''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Lytera}}<br />
| T7<br />
| T4<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| 21<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''48''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Millania}}<br />
| T5<br />
| T7<br />
| 20<br />
| T20<br />
| T22<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''96''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Orientia}}<br />
| T28<br />
| T16<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| T8<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''266''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Pavlov}}<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| ''678''<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Uber-Essian Union}}<br />
| T10<br />
| T9<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: darkgray" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
|-<br />
| {{flaglist|Wegmat}}<br />
| T35<br />
| T24<br />
| style="background-color: #f6c5c5" |<br />
| T18<br />
| T16<br />
| ''4 weeks''<br />
| ''202''<br />
|}<br />
*[GUM (40)] — [[Zed]] from [[Statistic-Dime]] (9–10 July) [[GUM Member States Positivity Survey]] (40 respondents)<br />
*[GUM (20)] — [[Zed]] from [[Statistic-Dime]] (7–8 July) [[GUM Member States Positivity Survey#20 respondents|GUM Member States Positivity Survey]] (20 respondents) <br />
*[MWIS] — [[Austin Jaax]], [[Jayden Lycon]], [[Zed]], [[Logan Ross]] and [[Nicholas Randouler]] (28 December–11 January 2020) [[19th MicroWiki Influence Survey]] (105 respondents)<br />
*[CA (1)] — [[Logan Ross]] (29 September–10 October) [[Cupertino Member Positivity Survey]] (27 respondents)<br />
*[CA (2)] — [[Logan Ross]] (December 2020) [[Cupertino Member Positivity Survey#December 2020 Result|Cupertino Member Positivity Survey]] (30 respondents)<ref>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jDyDt8U0gcxX6HkThcAhiZ2_YIrfaGbO-BE1knXlODI/mobilebasic</ref><br />
*[MMC] — [[Zed]] (1 January-17 August) [[MicroWiki Mentions Chart!]] (number of times a miconation is named on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] per week)<br />
*[MMC (total)] — [[Zed]] (1 January-11 December) [[User:Z Luna Skye/All-time chart/2020|MicroWiki Mentions Chart! All Time!]] (total number of times a miconation has been named on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] in 2020)<br />
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== COVID-19 pandemic ==<br />
{{main|COVID-19 pandemic in the micronational community}}<br />
{{further|Micronational responses to the COVID-19 pandemic}}<br />
{{see also|Category:COVID-19 pandemic}}<br />
The worldwide [[COVID-19 pandemic]] caused huge disruption, and saw delays and cancellations of various social, religious and political events, such as anniversaries, summits, elections and sporting events; bringing in a [[Micronational responses to the COVID-19 pandemic|huge response from the intermicronational community]],<ref name="covid"/> it led to a number of retired micronationalists returning to the hobby contributing to a massive surge in activity.<ref name="mw"/><ref name="covid2020"/> There were over [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|40 confirmed cases of COVID-19 within 11 micronations]], bringing 36 recoveries and 3 deaths, though some cases have been challenged by critics.<ref name="covid"/><ref>[[Lostisland]] [@LostislandGov] [https://www.facebook.com/LostislandGov/photos/a.227615020674715/2410733565696172/ COVID-19 Situational Report in Lostisland as of May 20, 2020] — [[w:Facebook|Facebook]]. Retrieved 5 December 2020.</ref><ref>[http://yuniversgov.altervista.org/governatorato/protezionecivile/covid19/30_03.pdf Daily bulletin of Civil Defence service] '''[PDF]'''. (''In Italian'')</ref><ref>Chkya, Babou (14 March 2020) [https://occitaniansun.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/nova-occitania-confirms-its-first-case-of-covid19/ Nova-Occitania confirms its first case of Covid19]. ''Occitanian Sun''. Retrieved 14 March 2020.</ref><ref>[https://enoc.miraheze.org/wiki/MINISTRY_OF_SOLIDARITIES_STATEMENT_2020/5 MINISTRY OF SOLIDARITIES STATEMENT 2020/5] ''e-noc''. Published on 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.</ref> Other micronations responded by enforcing advice from the [[w:World Health Organisation|World Health Organisation]], by increasing surveillance and caution, limiting travel, imposing self-isolation and quarantine.<ref name="covid"/><ref name="ad">Adam I (1 March 2020) [https://empireofadammia.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/adammic-government-issues-coronavirus-advice/ Adammic government issues coronavirus advice]. ''Adammic Express''. Retrieved 1 March 2020.</ref><ref>Haines, Gavin (25 March 2020) [https://www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/how-micronations-are-responding-to-the-coronavirus How micronations are responding to the coronavirus]. ''[[w:Lonely Planet|Lonely Planet]]''. Retrieved 5 December 2020.</ref><ref>Whalen, Andrew (10 April 2020) [https://www.newsweek.com/micronations-united-states-usa-coronavirus-response-international-pandemic-covid-19-1497167 Micronations in the United States Prepare for Coronavirus, Send Messages of Goodwill to the American People]. ''[[w:Newsweek|Newsweek]]''. Retrieved 5 December 2020.</ref><ref>TVT Bregusland (14 March 2020) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVEfEsBf4Vw Protect Yourself From The Coronavirus (PSA)] — YouTube. Retrieved 6 December 2020.</ref> An increased number of [[2020 in the MicroWiki community#Online events|online events]] were held.<ref name="gum24hr"/><ref name="dmmoct"/><ref>Smith, Zarel (16 Mar 2020). [https://gumnews.wordpress.com/2020/03/16/quorum-14th-march-2020/ "Quorum, 14th March 2020"]. GUM News. Retrieved 18 March 2020.</ref><br />
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== MicroWiki ==<br />
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[[File:Zed in August 2020, upscaled.jpg|thumb|160px|Zed ([[User:Z Luna Skye]]) remained the most prolific editor, and was the first user to hit 30,000 edits.<ref>[[Template:Users by edit count]]</ref><ref>[[User:Z Luna Skye/Monthly Most Edits|Monthly Most Edits]]</ref>]]<br />
MicroWiki grew to over twenty-thousand articles, one-hundred thousand pages, and ten-thousand registered users (mostly bots). The site received 2.8 million views in total and 1.8 million unique views.<ref>Editor, Chief (3 January 2021) [https://essexian.com/microwiki-statistics-from-2020-released-heres-what-they-revealed/ MicroWiki statistics from 2020 released – here’s what they revealed]. ''The Essexian Post''. Retrieved 4 January 2021.</ref> To combat the number of unproductive edits by bots, a moderation system was introduced which allows admins and patrollers to approve or reject edits made by newly registered accounts. A new good article (GA) system was also introduced, where every last week of each month, nominations which have been approved by an administrator either that month or the previous month will be voted on by the community. A monthly wiki newsletter was created, though was abandoned after just four months. Z Luna Skye (Zed) remained the most prolific editor, and was the first user to hit 30,000 edits on the site, which he achieved on 30 July, after becoming a wiki administrator earlier in February. Also in February, Niko3818 (Cameron) was upgraded to a tech admin after serving as a wiki admin originally, and MissEDconexion (Charles Ross) was also made a wiki admin. JosephKennedy2 (Joseph Kennedy) was dismissed as a wiki admin in February, though was later reinstated in July. 20 alt-accounts by the users OIMGov (Hasan Çakar) and Mahuset (Emiel Sebastiaan Hardy) were banned for vandalism in early January, causing a stir of drama in the community. There was also a largely unsuccessful attempt in revitalising the MicroWiki forums. <br />
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Furthermore, for [[MicroWiki:April Fools'|2020 April Fools']]—an annual tradition on MicroWiki—the language of the entirety of MicroWiki was changed to an unreadable font called Precursor Alpha (hovering over text with a mouse would display it normally), and the MicroWiki logo in the corner was slightly titled sideways, for a wacky appearance.<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/images/0/0e/OO_2020_Micronational_April_Fool’s_Report.pdf 2020 Micronational April Fool’s Report]. ''Orblian Observer''. '''PDF'''</ref> This change gained notable criticism from MicroWiki users since it was on every wiki page, coupled with the font couldn't be changed without third party plugins.<ref>Lycon, Jayden (31 March 2020) [https://nacrecupertino.wordpress.com/2020/03/31/how-to-remove-new-microwiki-font/ How to remove new MicroWiki font]. ''[[Nacre by Cupertino]]''. Retrieved 1 April 2020.</ref><br />
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== Culture, media and society ==<br />
[[File:DN 3.png|170px|thumb|[[Dean Network]] dominated the web series industry, with the vodcast ''[[EssexiaTalk]]'' and comedy thriller ''[[Survival of the Unfittest|The United Office: Survival of the Unfittest]]'' gaining critical acclaim.<ref name="es"/><ref name="critic"/><ref name="deanyt"/>]]<br />
[[File:2020 SGY torch.png|170px|thumb|The [[2020 MOF Games]] saw 52 athletes from 19 micronations competing in various online events.]]<br />
[[File:Leon Montan drawing.jpg|thumb|170px|On 1 September, [[Leon Montan]] began [[Face of Leon Montan|removing images of himself]] from the wiki citing it as "privacy reasons". He called it "[[deleonfaceization]]", as he was subject to the [[Face of Leon Montan|leonface]] meme. Courtesy [[Zarel Smith]], Dec. 2019]]<br />
Essexia's [[Dean Network]] dominated the web series industry, with the vodcast ''[[EssexiaTalk]]'' and comedy thriller ''[[Survival of the Unfittest|The United Office: Survival of the Unfittest]]'' gaining critical acclaim.<ref name="es"/><ref name="critic"/><ref name="deanyt"/> Garnering 129 views within its first 24 hours, ''The United Office: Survival of the Unfittest'' was widely regarded by many as one of the greatest micronational video works ever produced.<ref name="Twenty"/><ref name="critic"/><ref name="deanvideo1"/> [[MicroRamble]], a show which often invites on guests and contributors from varying parts of the MicroWiki community, was also received positively and received a large number of engagements.<ref name="microramble"/> [[Austenasian Television Productions]] released a ''[[Cool Barbie]]'' [[Christmas (Cool Barbie minisode)|Christmas special]].<ref>'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkbXZ9NwwFw ''Christmas'' minisode] on YouTube.</ref> [[Kaz]] and [[Cinema of New Eiffel|New Eiffel]] were the frontrunners in [[Film industry in micronationalism|cinema]].<ref>''See'': [[Film industry in micronationalism]]</ref> [[The Diarchy]] dominated music{{citation needed}}, returning from a two-year long hiatus, while [[DJ Zeddy|Zed]] released multiple songs which garnered moderate attention;<ref name="gum"/><ref name="djzeddy"/> "[[GUM DIS TRACK]]", a tongue-in-cheek diss track on [[contraGUMism]], [[micronational warfare]] and [[YAMO]]s<ref name="gumdis"/> and "[[FPYFF]]", a satiric hip-hop diss track.<ref name="fpyff"/> Many [[micronationalist]]s wrote and released micronational-related [[w:fan fiction|fan fiction]].<ref name="fanfic"/> The idea of "[[Micronation-Chans]]" was conceived.<ref>[https://i.gyazo.com/af236a8096839e01b3f4930d9d24e6c2.png "Micro-Chans"]</ref> The MicroWiki Hunger Games, a Hunger Games simulation with micronationalists held on MicroWiki@Discord, was also immensely popular.{{citation needed}} <br />
=== Journalism ===<br />
Admin approved publications to the MicroWiki headlines on the main page in 2020 include ''[[Aleksandropol Inquirer]]'', ''[[Australis Times]]'', [[Baustralian News Network]], ''The Brookside Gazette'', Dracul 1 News, ''The Essexian Post'', ''Heralda Pasabrilloí'', ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'', Imperial Tribune, ''Independent General Press'', ''[[L'Sydunche]]'' (formerly ''The Abeldane''), ''[[The New Virginian Herald]]'', ''Nordale Voice'', Pavlov.pl News, ''The Press'', Royal Gazette ([[Brienia]]), ''The Royal Lyteran News'', State Gazatte (Montescano) and [[TVT|TVT News]].<br />
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=== Sports ===<br />
The [[Micronational Olympic Federation]] oversaw the [[2020 MOF Games]] hosted by [[Gymnasium State]] between 14 February—10 March, which had fifty-two participating athletes from nineteen micronations in eleven different events,<ref>[https://occitaniansun.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/mof-games-day-1-occitanian-results/ #2020MOFGames Day 1 – Occitanian Results]. ''Occitanian Sun''. Published on 15 February 2020.</ref> the [[2020 MOF Rock Paper Scissors Tournament]] hosted by [[Aenderia]] between 1–8 June, which was abruptly ended following the death of MOF President Nicholas Randouler, leading to the re-designation of the closing ceremony into a tribute to Randouler's service,<ref>Lycon, Jayden (8 June 2020) [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qKPWsKLGXNUmefMJ4Ain5lecXvpfmL2Y/view?usp=sharing Micronational Olympic Federation Press Release regarding the continuation of the 2020 Rock Paper Scissors tournament]</ref> and the [[2020 MOF Checkers Tournament]], which had to be cut short.<ref>[https://novaoccitania.weebly.com/blog/why-occitania-should-host-the-2020-mof-checkers-tournament Why Occitania should host the 2020 MOF Checkers Tournament?]. ''NovaOccitania.weebly.com'', published 8 August 2019.</ref> The [[Rugbull|Third Annual New Eiffel Rugbull Tournament]] took place between 5–13 April, after having been delayed numerous times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The [[2020 Empire Tournament]], a golf tournament played against member states of the [[Baustralian Empire]] took place in May, however, it was cut short by restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The inaugural [[2020 Adammia Games]] took place in August, which led to the creation of the [[Adammic Chess Association]].<ref>Belcher, Adam (11 September 2020) [https://empireofadammia.wordpress.com/2020/09/11/adammia-games-waters-dominates-chess-whilst-simpson-wins-quiz/ Adammia Games: Waters dominates chess, whilst Simpson wins quiz]. ''Adammic Express''.</ref><br />
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=== Slang ===<br />
Originating from the [[Reddit Sector]], the word "simmie" evolved as a derogatory term for micronations which incorporated [[simulationism|simulationist]] themes. In a May 2020 editoral for ''[[Messenger]]'', former [[Chair of the Grand Unified Micronational|GUM Chairman]] [[Henry Clémens]] presented a lengthy argument where he both defended the GUM and called for changes to be made within the organisation where he coined the term [[contraGUMism]]. The phrase caught popularity among GUM advocates and critics alike.<ref name="mes"/> Other terminology coined include "[[domain hack]]" and "[[New Year's Micronation]]" by Zed<ref>[https://dictionary.micronations.wiki/wiki/Domain_hack Domain Hack] on [[MicroWikiDictionary]]</ref> and "[[serial micronationalist]]" by [[Yaroslav Mar]].<ref>''See [[MicroWikiDictionary]]''</ref><br />
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=== Memes ===<br />
Memes focused primarily on MicroWiki@Discord, and were considered considerably less tasteful than the previous year;{{citation needed}} these included the 2019 Plastic Head Protests, [[Almendria]], [[Bobism]], [[Brian's Republic]], [[Pangapedia]], [[Zedposting]] and [[Zeeky Bomb]].{{citation needed}} Lesser memes included [[admin-nsfw|#admin-nsfw]], [[Aydan Dillon vs New Almendria]], [[Carthia]] vs [[Wegmat]], [[Free Patrick Kent]], [[Nanonation]]s and "[[This ain't no cyber war, Logan|This ain't no cyberwar, Logan]]".{{citation needed}} On 1 September, [[Leon Montan]] began [[Face of Leon Montan|removing images of himself]] from the wiki citing it as "privacy reasons". He called it "[[deleonfaceization]]", as he was subject to the [[Face of Leon Montan|leonface]] meme.<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Leon_Montan&oldid=667417 revision 667417] on page [[Leon Montan]], the first edit to be titled "Deleonfaceization".</ref> The [[@New Eiffel Government]] chain reached its 10,000th ping on 17 September, however was later archived on 18 November after [[MicroWiki@Discord]] began the transition into a directory for micronational servers in early November.<ref name="blackwood"/><br />
== See also ==<br />
*[[2020s]]<br />
*[[2020]] – a timeline <br />
*[[2019]] — the previous year<br />
**[[2019 in the MicroWiki community]]<br />
*[[2021]] — the following year<br />
**[[2021 in the MicroWiki community]]<br />
*[[2020 in Baustralia]]<br />
*[[2020 in New Eiffelic music]]<br />
*[[History of the MicroWiki Community]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== References ==<br />
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{{Year subbox}}</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=OAM_(disambiguation)&diff=784063OAM (disambiguation)2021-02-12T20:41:39Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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'''OAM''' usually refers to the [[Organisation of Active Micronations]], a significant micronational organisation that existed from 2009 to 2011.<br />
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It can also refer to:<br />
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* The [[Organization of Allied Micronations]]<br />
* The [[Organization of Asian Micronations]]<br />
* The [[Order of Academic Merit]]<br />
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In addition, in 2019 and then again in 2021, two small organisations appropriated the "Organisation of Active Micronations" name, and so in certain contexts OAM can also mean:<br />
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* The [[New Eiffel Union of Micronations]], which renamed itself the "Organisation of Active Micronations" in May 2019<br />
* Cyanide's "[[Organization of Active Micronations (2021)|Organization of Active Micronations]]" (spelt with a ''z'') founded in February 2021<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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*[[OAM Influence Survey]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=OAM_(disambiguation)&diff=784059OAM (disambiguation)2021-02-12T20:31:48Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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<div>{{disambiguation}}<br />
'''OAM''' usually refers to the [[Organisation of Active Micronations]], a significant micronational organisation that existed from 2009 to 2011.<br />
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It can also refer to:<br />
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* The [[Organization of Allied Micronations]]<br />
* The [[Organization of Asian Micronations]]<br />
* The [[Order of Academic Merit]]<br />
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In addition, in 2019 and then again in 2021, two small organisations appropriated the "Organisation of Active Micronations" name, and so OAM can also mean:<br />
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* The [[New Eiffel Union of Micronations]], which renamed itself the "Organisation of Active Micronations" in May 2019<br />
* Cyanide's "[[Organization of Active Micronations (2021)|Organization of Active Micronations]]" (spelt with a ''z'') founded in February 2021<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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*[[OAM Influence Survey]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Organisation_of_Active_Micronations&diff=784052Organisation of Active Micronations2021-02-12T20:19:55Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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''"OAM" redirects here. For other uses, see [[OAM (disambiguation)]].''<br />
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|align="center" colspan="2"|<big>'''Organisation of Active Micronations'''</big><hr /><br />
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|align="center" colspan="2"|[[File:OAM logo.png|250px]]<br />
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|align="center" colspan="2"|Official logo<br />
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|'''Headquarters'''<br />
|OAM Forum<br />
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|'''Official language'''<br />
|[[w:English language|English]]<br />
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|-<br />
|'''Membership'''<br />
|91 member nations at dissolution<br><small>(NB: the inactivity of many of these members within the organisation had been noted for some time)</small><br />
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|-<br />
|'''Leadership'''<br />
|-<br />
|<small>[[Secretary-General of the Organisation of Active Micronations|Secretary-General]]</small><br />
|<small>''Vacant'' (de facto)</small><br><small>[[Anthony of Zealandia]] (de jure)</small><br />
|-<br />
|<small>[[Vice Secretary-General of the Organisation of Active Micronations|Vice-Secretaries General]]</small><br />
|<small>''Vacant''</small><br />
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|<small>Internal Affairs Secretary</small><br />
|<small>[[King Quentin I|Quentin of Wyvern]]</small><br />
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|<small>Chief Justice</small><br />
|<small>[[Adam I of Überstadt]]</small><br />
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|'''Key dates'''<br />
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|<small>Foundation</small><br />
|<small>30 October [[2009]]</small><br />
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|<small>Disestablishment</small><br />
|<small>29 December [[2011]]</small><br />
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|<small>OAM Reforms</small><br />
|<small>13 July and 19 December [[2010]]</small><br />
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|'''Websites'''<br />
|[http://oldwebsite.oamicro.org Official Website (down)]<br /> [http://web.archive.org/web/20101110030201/http://www.oamicro.org/ Archive of old website]<br />[http://oldforum.oamicro.org Official forum (archive)]<br />
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The '''Organisation of Active Micronations''' was an [[intermicronational organisation]] with a wide range of aims and functions, such as assisting the development of and maintaining peace and security amongst its members nations. As well as claiming to be the largest micronational organisation to have ever existed (despite many of its members being inactive within the organisation itself for much of its history), it was the first known [[micronation]]al multinational organisation that specifically attempted to consist only of "active" micronations, and one of the few to expand beyond peacekeeping and negotiation with the introduction of important reforms in July [[2010]]. After increasing levels of inactivity and external criticism, the organisation was dissolved by its founder on 29 December 2011.<br />
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The Organisation aimed to provide real assistance to newer and fledging micronations, maintain its numerous projects, contribute in a meaningful and relevant way to micronationalism and other aims outlined in the OAM Charter. The Council was the decision-making body of the organisation, being made up of every member nation of the OAM.<br />
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==History==<br />
===Establishment===<br />
The OAM was officially established on 30 October [[2009]], after a decision was taken by the [[Federated Republics of A1|A1]] [[Foreign relations of A1|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] and the A1 Cabinet to follow the recommendations set out in the July 2009 Foreign Affairs White Paper to establish an effective and comprehensive intermicronational organisation. Although there were no officially acknowledged founding nations, the first three nations to join after the [[MGPRA1]] were the [http://www.kingdomofvictoria.com Kingdom of Victoria], [[People's Proper Republic of Wellington]] and [[Kingdom of Barrington]]. Following heavy criticism from some micronationalists, most notably [[Robert Lethler]], and A1's withdrawal from the [[GUM]], a surge of members followed.<br />
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===First two months===<br />
[[File:Original OAM logo.jpg|250px|thumb|Original OAM logo]]<br />
During the first two months of its existence, the OAM's online headquarters were based in a mediocre forum system that allowed almost no scope for expansion and limited support. It was thus that the forum was moved to its current location, as well as the website, allowing for the first purge of inactive member nations to occur. A number of member nations were suspended, and later expelled, due to lengthy periods of inactivity. A second purge followed soon afterwards. The 'Micronational Dictionary' project was also formally begun at this time, and scope for expansion of future projects was also established.<br />
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===Honeymoon period===<br />
Following the move to the new forum, another massive surge of new member nations occurred. This greatly elevated the OAM's standing, and enabled the OAM to start work on its projects and other initial aims and goals. Members of the OAM often negotiated directly on the forums for alliances, diplomatic relations, debates on both macro and micronational issues, opinions and solving disputes. These discussions almost always produced results, such as the [[Aegis Alliance]].<br />
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===Post-Freeman period===<br />
The [[May 2010 OAM Election|election]] of Pierre d'Égtavie to the position of [[Secretary-General of the Organisation of Active Micronations|Secretary-General]] marked the end of a period of time in which Gordon Freeman was, at most times, Secretary-General of the Organisation. He announced his intention not to run for Secretary-General "...for quite some time", although this was later not to be true, following the June 29th Incident. The same election also produced the election of two Committee Chairmen positions, the OAMATC (OAM Activity Testing Committee) and the OAMPC (OAM Projects Committee), these being the [[Royal reformed States of America]] and the [[Kingdom of Sterling]] respectively.<br />
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This period has been characterised by the restarting of former projects by the newly created OAMPC, the purging of inactive members immediately following the election by the OAMATC, resulting in a slight membership decline.<br />
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===June 29th incident===<br />
On [[2010#June|29 June]] [[2010]] at 19:00 UTC, Pierre d'Égtavie suddenly and unexpectedly resigned as Secretary-General of the Organisation in protest against what he perceived to be a serious schism that had formed between its left and right wings. At the same time his nation, the Republic of Egtavia, withdrew from the OAM. This was followed by the withdrawals of the [[Sandus|Democratic People's Republic of Sandus]], the [[Democratic People's Republic of Erusia]], the [[SFR Nemkhavia|Socialist Federal Republic of Nemkhavia]] and the [[Republic of Bokonton]] from the OAM in concert with Egtavia's action. Each of the withdrawing nations blamed what they considered to be "unprofessional", "corrupt" and "aggressive" elements in the OAM for their withdrawal - the representative of [[Sandus]] specifically cited the [[Wyvern|Kingdom of Wyvern]] and its allies as being to blame. All five nations appeared to express strong support for Sir Gordon Freeman and their interpretation of his founding vision for the OAM, and only Sandus was explicitly critical of the Organisation itself.<br />
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===July reform===<br />
In mid-July [[2010]], the wordy [http://oam.50.forumer.com/no-70-question-of-oam-reform-t340304.html Resolution 70] passed through The Council, approving [[Gordon Freeman]]'s recommendations for reform. The cornerstone of the reform was the replacement of the committee system with a series of 'agencies', with specific tasks to perform both outside and inside of the OAM.<br />
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===Proposed OAM-GUM merge===<br />
Although in the past, the OAM and [[Grand Unified Micronational]] had been at odds with one another, several proposals for a merger were proposed by then Acting Chairman [[James von Puchow]] to try to "save" the institution from collapse and inactivity, after having been [http://oam.50.forumer.com/gum-oam-merge-t340467.html discussed for some time before]. Many different proposals were [http://oam.50.forumer.com/gum-oam-merge-t340467-80.html#p1976431 put forward by GUM members], but all of these proposals were rejected immediately, or discussed then rejected by the Secretariat and The Council of the OAM.<br />
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Some of the proposals included appointing [[James von Puchow]] to fill the then vacant position of [[Vice Secretary-General of the Organisation of Active Micronations|Vice Secretary-General]] to account for his recent GUM election win, and establishing a new agency in the OAM specifically for ex-GUM members to help integrate the GUM into the OAM, whereby the Secretary would have one extra vote in The Council. All the proposals were rejected by both the Secretariat and The Council, during which von Puchow accused the OAM members of having "prejudices against us [the GUM]" (noting the OAM and GUM's turbulent past), being "too '''big headed''' to accept us" [emphasis included] and unwilling "to mutually cooperate with us [the GUM]". After many weeks of negotiation, von Puchow "relaunched" the GUM with "reforms", and discussions regarding an OAM-GUM merge were dropped with no result, which later saw a temporary period of dormancy within the GUM start in September.<br />
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[[November 2010 OAM Election|Elections took place in November 2010]] and saw [[Tom Turner]] become the sixth Secretary-General, Gordon Freeman and Pierre d'Égtavie becoming Vice Secretaries-General and [[Alexander Reinhardt]] elected as [[OAMIAO]] Secretary. During the campaign, many candidates had promised reforms to the organisation and Tom Turner put forward [http://oam.50.forumer.com/december-10-oam-reforms-part-1-t341017.html two reforms] on 4 December. While neither reform was implemented, a third reform to the structure of Agencies and Secretaries was put forward on 19 December and passed in early January.<br />
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===Departure of Gordon Freeman===<br />
Following the Linden Affair, which largely took place on the OAM forum, the founder and then [[Vice Secretary-General of the Organisation of Active Micronations|Vice Secretary-General]], [[Gordon Freeman]], [http://www.fra1.net/news/2010/12/21/fish-resigns-from-oam/ resigned from the Organisation]. He had very minimal contact with the [[MicroWiki Sector]] during this time, including the OAM.<br />
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Following his departure, and the establishment of the [http://microwiki.org.uk/forum MicroWiki Forum] many micronationalists feared that the OAM had lost its power, or would even collapse. However, this was not to be, and although the number of posts and threads per day declined significantly during this period, the organisation maintained relatively high levels of activity and member participation.<br />
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Freeman and his micronation, the [[FRA1]], returned to the Organisation in February [[2011]], following a motion passed by A1's Parliament for A1 to rejoin the organisation. His continued claim to have "left the community" became increasingly ridiculed after this point, it having become clear that his so-called departure was merely temporary.<br />
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===A new direction===<br />
[[Tom Turner]] resigned as Secretary-General in March [[2011]], causing new elections. [[Gordon Freeman]] was once again elected as Secretary-General, and Aldrich Lucas, [[Anthony Fowler]] and [[Joe Foxon]] were elected as the three Vice Secretaries-General.<br />
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Widespread dissatisfaction with the leadership of Freeman prompted a [http://oam.50.forumer.com/motion-of-no-confidence-counted-up-to-page-20-t341893.html Motion of No Confidence] against him, proposed by [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia|Crown Prince Jonathan]] of [[Empire of Austenasia|Austenasia]] at the request of various other nations. Freeman was accused of using the OAM as a tool to maintain influence in the community he had claimed to have left, and was also criticised for denouncing the sovereignty of member states and making discriminatory comments against neo-Pagans during the Linden Affair. The final vote was an evenly split vote, resulting in the motion not being passed. This sparked a [http://www.fra1.net/news/2011/06/14/fish-under-fire-as-nations-leave/ mass withdrawal] of eleven member nations a week later, three of which later returned to the Organisation, as well as the founding of the short-lived Inter-Micronational Union and the even shorter-lived [[Organization of United Micronations (2011)|OUM]] in response to what was seen by some as the discrediting of the OAM. However, the Organisation of Active Micronations remained the largest intermicronational organisation active in the MicroWiki Community, and claimed to be the largest in micronational history. This episode also allowed various [[Criticism of the Organisation of Active Micronations|criticisms]] of the OAM to be brought into the public eye.<br />
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The OAM University was also established during this period (July 2011), but never gained any significance and soon became inactive. Around the same time, the nation of [[New Guinea]] was expelled, following revelations that the nation was built almost entirely on falsehoods. Furthermore, a public advertising campaign was created for the first time using online advertising. This advertising resulted in a new wave of member nations, with membership numbers rising considerably from around June to August [[2011]].<br />
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=== Dissolution ===<br />
{{Main|Online Associated Micronations}}<br />
On 22 December 2011, Gordon Freeman proposed Resolution 221, which granted members the option to either disestablish the organisation, keep it in its current state, or enact major reforms within the organisation. The majority of the members of the Council voted for disestablishment, with voting closing on 29 December. While the organisation was officially disestablished on this day, discussions began on the details of the 'reincarnation' of the OAM in a new form - an identical one to that of the [http://bastionunion.org/forum Bastion Union] - whereby different micronations' online fora would be hosted on the same 'super-forum', aiding inter-micronational communication. The new entity would not have any sort of organisational structure, nor would it bear any resemblance or have any ties to the Organisation of Active Micronations.<br />
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This new entity was eventually established on 3 January [[2012]], as the [[Online Associated Micronations]] or 'OAMicro'. It used the same domain name as the Organisation of Active Micronations used, 'oamicro.org', and was sometimes confused for a new "version" of the OAM.<br />
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== Workings ==<br />
The OAM operated similarly to the [[w:United Nations|United Nations]] and prided itself on its commitment to speedy democratic processes, as the Council, made up of every member nation, had overriding democratic authority in any matter.<br />
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=== The Council ===<br />
The Council was the decision making and debating body in the OAM. It operated on a basis of 'one nation, one vote' within it, regardless of 'standing' or any other factors.<br />
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==== Resolutions ====<br />
The most important part of the OAM was the debating and either adaptation or rejecting of resolutions, much like those debating in the [http://www.un.org United Nations General Assembly].<br />
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Such resolutions were non-binding on any micronation and in order for one to be adopted, a majority of voting members must have voted in the affirmative. A resolution may have been proposed by any member nation.<br />
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=== The Secretariat ===<br />
The Secretariat was essentially the administrative body of the OAM, consisting of the [[Secretary-General of the Organisation of Active Micronations]] and the two Vice Secretaries-General.<br />
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As outlined in the Charter:<br />
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{{Quote<br />
|1 = The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary-General and such staff as the Organisation may require. The Secretary-General shall be appointed by The Council. They shall be the chief administrative officer of the Organisation.<br />
|2 = Charter of the Organisation of Active Micronations; Chapter 3, Article 7, No. 1<br />
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The [[Secretary-General of the Organisation of Active Micronations|Secretary-General]] and three [[Vice Secretary-General of the Organisation of Active Micronations|Vice Secretaries-General]] were elected on four month terms by The Council. The first elections for Secretary-General were held in [[January 2010 OAM Election|January 2010]].<br />
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=== Agencies ===<br />
Agencies were established in the reforms adopted in July 2010, each being headed by a [[Secretaries of OAM Agencies|Secretary]]. Three major agencies run by a [[Vice Secretary-General of the Organisation of Active Micronations|Vice Secretary-General]] each and smaller agencies placed in each were adopted in the December reforms. The agencies at dissolution were (major agencies are in bold): <br />
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!Agency <br />
!Abbreviation <br />
!Forum link <br />
!Secretary (since) <br />
!Formed <br />
!Abolished<br />
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| '''[[OAM External Affairs Office]]''' <br />
| ''[[OAMEAO]]'' <br />
| [http://oam.50.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=160 ?f=160] <br />
| [[Anthony Fowler]] (15 May 2011) <br />
| 2 January 2011 <br />
| 29 December 2011<br />
|-<br />
| '''[[OAM Internal Affairs Office]]''' <br />
| ''[[OAMIAO]]'' <br />
| [http://oam.50.forumer.com/oamiao-f48313.html ?f=71] <br />
| Aldrich Lucas (15 May 2010) <br />
| 13 July 2010 <br />
| 29 December 2011<br />
|-<br />
| '''[[OAM Non-Political Office]]''' <br />
| ''[[OAMNPO]]'' <br />
| [http://oam.50.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=161 ?f=161] <br />
| [[Joe Foxon]] (18 March 2011) <br />
| 2 January 2011 <br />
| 29 December 2011<br />
|-<br />
| [[OAM Partnership Assistance Office]] <br />
| ''[[OAMPAO]]'' <br />
| [http://oam.50.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=72 ?f=72] <br />
| [[King Anthony|Anthony Fowler]] (19 November 2010) <br />
| 13 July 2010 <br />
| 29 December 2011<br />
|-<br />
| [[OAM Projects Agency]] <br />
| ''[[OAMPA]]'' <br />
| [http://oam.50.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=73 ?f=73] <br />
| [[Billy Neil]] (19 June 2011) <br />
| 13 July 2010 <br />
| 29 December 2011<br />
|-<br />
| [[OAM Public Affairs Agency]] <br />
| ''[[OAMPAA]]'' <br />
| [http://oam.50.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=75 ?f=75] <br />
| King Adam Smith I (16 August 2011) <br />
| 13 July 2010 <br />
| 29 December 2011<br />
|-<br />
| [[OAM Recruitment Office]] <br />
| ''[[OAMRO]]'' <br />
| [http://oam.50.forumer.com/oamro-f48320.html ?f=74] <br />
| Ben McKinlay (17 July 2011)<br />
| 13 July 2010 <br />
| 29 December 2011<br />
|-<br />
| OAM Sports and Culture Agency† <br />
| ''OAMSCA'' <br />
| [http://oam.50.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=162 ?f=162] <br />
| [[Joe Foxon]] (2 January 2011) <br />
| 2 January 2011 <br />
| 15 June 2011<br />
|-<br />
| [[OAM Transport Agency]]† <br />
| ''[[OAMTA]]'' <br />
| [http://oam.50.forumer.com/viewforum.php?f=142 ?f=142] <br />
| [[Ryan St. George]] (12 October 2010) <br />
| 12 October 2010 <br />
| 14 June 2011<br />
|}<br />
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† = Abolished before dissolution of OAM<br />
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=== Elections ===<br />
*[[January 2010 OAM Election|January 2010]]<br />
*[[March 2010 OAM Election|March 2010]]<br />
*[[May 2010 OAM Election|May 2010]]<br />
*[[July 2010 OAM Election|July 2010]]<br />
*[[November 2010 OAM Election|November 2010]]<br />
*[[March 2011 OAM Election|March 2011]]<br />
*[[May 2011 OAM Election|May 2011]]<br />
*[[September 2011 OAM Election|September 2011]]<br />
*November 2011<br />
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== Criticisms ==<br />
{{Main|Criticism of the Organisation of Active Micronations}}<br />
The OAM faced criticism from several micronations throughout its existence, starting from its establishment when it was argued by some that it was "redundant" and "very similar in aims to other existing organisations". They claimed that the OAM was "YAMO" (Yet Another Micronational Organisation) and simply duplicating the work of other organisations. Others claimed that the OAM existed only to jeopardise and attack the [[GUM]], due to numerous verbal public attacks by individual member states.<br />
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Such criticism was particularly heavy from leading members of the [[Grand Unified Micronational]], most notably [[Robert Lethler]], although criticisms from Mr. Lethler diminished over time, with [[Will Sœrgèl]] of [[Sandus]] stepping up verbal attacks in mid-[[2010]]. He claimed that the OAM was used as a "basis of attacks and insults", was anti-[[communist]], did not respect [[w:sovereignty|sovereignty]], existed without a united purpose and "...[did] not foster cooperation between member-states".<br />
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Other nations claimed that the Organisation was dominated by a select few elite, such as founder of the Organisation, [[Gordon Freeman]]. They maintained that despite the nominally democratic nature of the OAM, these select few continued to dominate decision making.<br />
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=== Response ===<br />
At-the-time Chairman and founder Gordon Freeman strongly argued against such claims, stating that the only similar aims with other micronational organisations is the "intermicronational peace and security" and "developing friendly relations" aims, which are "pretty much standard". He also emphasised that the other aims "...are really the crux of the existence of this organisation". He claimed that the reforms introduced in July [[2010]] rebutted this argument.<br />
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Responding also to claims that the OAM existed only to jeopardise and attack the GUM, Freeman stated that such criticisms were "without foundation" and that the public attacks made "were not a representation of any sort of policy or stance ever adopted by the OAM, as clearly stated by those involved", as said attacks came from individual OAM members and were not officially sanctioned by the OAM as a whole.<br />
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[[Gordon Freeman]] also argued against the claims by [[Will Sœrgèl|Sœrgèl]], pointing out that the OAM was established "...riding the wave of respect for sovereignty by intermicronational organisation", and has "never violated the sovereignty of any micronation, whether they be a member or not". However, by early 2011 Freeman had become well known amongst some circles for his statements denouncing the claims to sovereignty of all micronations by definition. Freeman also referred to the fact that he himself, the founder of the OAM and multiple term-serving [[Secretary-General of the Organisation of Active Micronations|Secretary-General]], believed in [[A1ism]], a far-left ideology, for much of his micronational career.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Grand Unified Micronational]]<br />
*[[League of Secessionist States]]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox official<br />
| name = Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood,<br/> Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., K.I. M.E.<br />
| image = Kingfisher_dice.png<br />
| caption = Blackwood's profile photo on Discord.<br />
| office 1 = Editor of the ''Home-made Crown Journal''<br />
| assumed/in 1 = Assumed<br />
| date 1 = 15 July 2020<br />
| predecessor 1 = Office established<br />
| father = Anthony Blackwood<br />
| mother = Gail Blackwood (''née'' Gordon-Lennox Scott)<br />
| born = 6 May 2001, Ireland<br />
| religion = Christian (Church of England)<br />
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'''Ives Blackwood, Baron Kavanah'''<ref group=note>Historically known as '''Kenneth Martin Postbridge''', '''Mark Samuel Kavanah''' (hence his barony) and '''William Michael Campbell'''.</ref> (born 6 May [[2001]], Ireland) is a journalist and micropatriologist who has served as editor of the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' since [[2020]]. He also works to develop [[micronational economics]], creating the [[Glastieven Model]]. <br />
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Historically, Blackwood has been a micronational politician.<br />
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== Early career ==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through his early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by his younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group=note>"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited his friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; he was a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate his activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, he was also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From his return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of his work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of his work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve his focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, his activity in the community declined and his micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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== Abelden ==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group=note>The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
=== Between roles: March–July 2020 ===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during his previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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=== ''Home-made Crown Journal'': July 2020–present ===<br />
[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, he was criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. His citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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== Theoretical work ==<br />
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In addition to his journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of his work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in his career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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=== New Secessionism ===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though his citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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=== Micronational compass ===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zed|Zarel Smith]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Smith released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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=== Defining classical micropatriology ===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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=== Glastieven Model ===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and his most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, he is working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood with friends.jpg|thumb|230px|Blackwood, far left, with friends.]]<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. He has stated his intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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Blackwood was raised as an [[w:atheist|atheist]] but converted to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] in 2018 and is now a practising member of the [[w:Church of England|Church of England]]. He identifies as a "skeptical, self-aware, moderate Anglican" and is critical of non-moderate religion, believing that religious belief is associated with a higher risk of violent extremism, and that critical thinking and progressive social beliefs are important safeguards against this risk. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Blackwood attended Mass most Sundays. His churchmanship is generally [[w:Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] and has said he considers his religion to be "in the tradition of [[w:C.S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]]".<br />
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He is an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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He is a self-described "wannabe author". He has written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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== Styles and honours ==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, he was also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to his current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, he was awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of his work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 he was awarded a doctorate for his paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers his surname and not his barony to be used when he is being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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=== Peerages ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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=== Honours ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group=note>Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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=== Degrees ===<br />
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* BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
* PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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=== Other aliases ===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from his previous career; his initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was his real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that his MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time he was mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020. <br />
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* 2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
* 2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
* 2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
* 2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when he was a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of his name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which he is known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
* [[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
* [[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
<references group="note"/><br />
=== References ===<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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[[Category:People]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Template:Main_Page/Headlines&diff=773331Template:Main Page/Headlines2021-02-01T13:54:13Z<p>Ives Blackwood: /* Headlines */</p>
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*[[Adammic Express]]<br />
*[[Aleksandropol Inquirer]]<br />
*Amasburg Times<br />
*Amerston Post<br />
*Ashukovski Vesti<br />
*[[Austenasian Times]]<br />
*[[Australis Times]]<br />
*[[Holderton Herald]] (formerly the Baustralian News Network)<br />
*Burnham Micropress (Mercia)<br />
*The [[Charlington Press]]<br />
*Courant van Lazia<br />
*[[Daily Micronational]]<br />
*Daily Micronationalist (Kohlandia)<br />
*Eodusian Gazette ([[Eodus]])<br />
*[[Eskhavn Guardian]]<br />
*The Essexian Post<br />
*[[Messenger]]<br />
*[[Gazet van Giddis|Gazet of Giddis]] (Flandrensis)<br />
*GUM News<br />
*Heralda Pasabrilloía (Millania)<br />
*[[Home-made Crown Journal]] (Abelden)<br />
*[[IADP]] News <br />
*[[Ikonia Post]]<br />
*Imperial State News (Lundenwic)<br />
*Imperial Tribune (Rhomania)<br />
*Independent General Press (Konmalehth)<br />
*[[The Indokistan Times]]<br />
*[[Iustian Times]]<br />
*Khamsin Molossia News<br />
*Kirkburgh Courier<br />
*Koningswyk Gazette (Natal)<br />
*[[L'Sydunche]] (Abelden)<br />
*[https://lostisland.org Lostisland News]<br />
*The Military Tribune (Sorrenia)<br />
*[[Misberian Times]]<br />
*Pavlov.pl News<br />
*Nemkhav News Service<br />
*[[The New Virginian Herald]]<br />
*Nordale Voice<br />
*[[Noticaswendatia]] (Wendatia)<br />
*Occidental Chronicle (Uberstadt/Doria)<br />
*Plushunian News Service<br />
*The Press ([[Posaf]])<br />
*The Principality of Domanglia (publication)<br />
*[[Quo Times]]<br />
* SBC News<br />
*[[The Sirocco Times]]<br />
*[[The SiV Phonograph]]<br />
*Telenot.jc (Juclandia, formerly known as ''Scânteia'')<br />
*[[Triumvirate National Press]] (Universal Triumvirate)<br />
*Veritum Sandus<br />
*Wielki Wyladowac Times (Caddia)<br />
*[[TVT|TVT News]] (Bregusland)<br />
*The Royal Lyteran News<br />
*Royal Gazette (Brienia)<br />
*Dracul 1 News<br />
*The Brookside Gazette <br />
*[[Purvanchal Times]]<br />
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br />
A new policy concerning approved headlines has been put in place. Please ensure you have read and understood it before editing the newsfeed.<br />
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==Headlines==<br />
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*[[File:Abeldane_Flag.svg|25px]] 31 Jan - [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/luxor-voted-micronationalist-of-the-month-for-january-2021/ Seventeen micronationalists launch first community micronation]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox official<br />
| name = Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood,<br/> Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., K.I. M.E.<br />
| image = Kingfisher_dice.png<br />
| caption = Blackwood's profile photo on Discord.<br />
| office 1 = Editor of the ''Home-made Crown Journal''<br />
| assumed/in 1 = Assumed<br />
| date 1 = 15 July 2020<br />
| predecessor 1 = Office established<br />
| father = Anthony Blackwood<br />
| mother = Gail Blackwood (''née'' Gordon-Lennox Scott)<br />
| born = 6 May 2001, Ireland<br />
| religion = Christian (Church of England)<br />
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'''Ives Blackwood, Baron Kavanah'''<ref group=note>Historically known as '''Kenneth Martin Postbridge''', '''Mark Samuel Kavanah''' (hence his barony) and '''William Michael Campbell'''.</ref> (born 6 May [[2001]], Ireland) is a journalist and micropatriologist who has served as editor of the ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'' since [[2020]] and has led the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]] since [[2021]], which has produced the [[Glorious Anthean Republic]], where Blackwood has no rank but is an active citizen. He also works to develop [[micronational economics]], creating the [[Glastieven Model]]. <br />
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Historically, Blackwood has been a micronational politician.<br />
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== Early career ==<br />
[[File:Kensaki_Zihau.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An image Blackwood used to represent himself in the community through his early career, showing the character Kensaki Zihau from Glastieve's constructed mythology.]]<br />
Blackwood joined the online micronational community in July 2015 as prime minister of the [[Republic of Skovaji]], a micronation formed in October 2014 on the basis of a family in-joke and formally led by his younger brother, the "Lord Wesley".<ref group=note>"Wesley" is the second word of the title, not a regnal name; a holder of the office called John would be styled "Lord Wesley John I" or "John, Lord Wesley of Skovaji".</ref> As Skovaji became a more serious project, the Lord Wesley became less involved, and Blackwood invited his friends to serve as politicians, briefly transforming Skovaji from a one-man nation to a group one. In the community, he became notable in micronational economics; he was a founding member of the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and served as its second chairman. Blackwood's initial 2015-16 period of involvement in micronationalism came to an abrupt end in mid-October 2016 due to a family crisis. He formally dissolved Skovaji and [[Lucas Campos]] seized control of the MEG in response to Blackwood's inactivity.<br />
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In March 2017, he returned to the community, having founded [[Glastieve]] a month earlier. This was a group project with a number of friends, including those who had become involved with Skovaji in 2016. Formally, Glastieve was a directorial state with no single leader or founder, but Blackwood was recognised in both the community and within the project itself as the ''de facto'' leader and founder. He held a number of government posts, largely in relation to economics and communications. In the community, he founded the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]] to coordinate his activities in relation to economics. Blackwood was also involved in [[Abeldane Empire|Abeldane]] politics and was an important figure on its left-wing in 2017, initially as communications officer of [[Edwin Farrar]]'s [[Labour Party of Abelden|Labour Party]], and after spearheading its merger with SEPA to form [[Abeldane Social Ecology]], as [[Fourth Renwick ministry#Composition|communications minister]] in the coalition [[Fourth Renwick ministry]]. For part of this period, he was also [[Prime Minister of Legatia]].<br />
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Blackwood left the community between August 2017 and January 2018, and again between January and October 2019. From his return in January 2018, he focused less on economics and more on [[micropatriology]], developing a position known as [[New Secessionism]] and formally defining [[classical micropatriology]]. Most of his work in the community was with a view to strengthening Glastieve's position, with the exception of his work in 2019 on [[The Statecraft Association]], an association of individual micronationalists formed with the aim of raising the standard of discourse in the community. Within Glastieve his focus also shifted away from economics and towards statecraft. In both the community and Glastieve, he also worked as a journalist (via ''[[The Glastieven]]'', which was at various times both a printed newspaper and a website). After Statecraft failed to take off, his activity in the community declined and his micronational work was almost exclusively focused on Glastieve, which was formally abolished in March 2020 with the [[Glastieve#Le Baisser de Rideau|Baisser de Rideau]].<br />
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== Abelden ==<br />
[[File:Ives Blackwood Discord profile image.png|200px|thumb|right|Ives's profile photo on Discord, June–September 2020.<ref group=note>The image shows the character Chara in ''The Caretaker of the Ruins'', a 2016–19 webcomic based loosely on ''Undertale'', a 2015 indie video game.</ref>]]<br />
=== Between roles: March–July 2020 ===<br />
Blackwood remained inactive in the community immediately following Glastieve's demise but returned following lockdown measures imposed during the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the micronational community|COVID-19 pandemic]]. He marked his return to the community by writing an opinion article for the ''[[Messenger]]'' arguing for a renewed focus on micronational economics in response to COVID-19.<ref><br />
Blackwood, Ives. [https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ "Opinion: Discord and COVID-19 have revived MicroWiki; Let’s revive micronational economics"]. Messenger. April 6, 2020. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200407204106/https://essianmessenger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/opinion-discord-and-covid-19-have-revived-microwiki-lets-revive-micronational-economics/ Archived] from the original on June 7, 2020. Retrieved July 11, 2020.</ref> He had become a member of [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki staff]] in May 2019, and during this period of non-affiliation with any micronation he largely identified himself as "a British micronationalist and MicroWiki administrator." Blackwood became a citizen of the [[Grand Duchy of Rai]], a federal state of the [[Abeldane Empire]], on 11 July 2020 after making an informal request to [[Nicholas Kaos|Emperor Nicholas]]. He began using the title Baron Kavanah, which had been created for him in June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]] during his previous Abeldane career. On 14 July he passed the bar and became a certified Abeldane attorney.<br />
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=== ''Home-made Crown Journal'': July 2020–present ===<br />
[[File:Kingfisher dice.png|157px|thumb|right|Blackwood's profile picture on Discord since November 2020.]]<br />
On 15 July 2020, Blackwood incorporated "Abelden News Incorporated" and founded the ''Home-made Crown Journal'', a newspaper aimed at the wider MicroWiki community (though also intended to be an Abeldane national newspaper). Shortly afterwards, he became inactive in most of the community until November due to an increasing workload outside micronationalism and distaste for the toxicity of MicroWiki@Discord. After [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]] closed [[MicroWiki@Discord]] as a general forum in November 2020, he returned, though at a somewhat lower level of activity due to continuing extra-micronational demands.<br />
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On 12 November, Blackwood accepted citizenship of the [[Kingdom of Brienia]]. Later that month, he was criticised by various members of the community for strongly advocating the closure of MicroWiki@Discord despite not having been an active member of that server for four months, and he subsequently apologised for "being so loud about supporting the Discord closure", conceding it had made the conversation more adversarial and had not contributed anything. His citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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== Theoretical work ==<br />
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In addition to his journalism (and historical political career), Blackwood has made theoretical contributions to micronationalism in the fields of [[micropatriology]] and [[micronational economics]]. Some of his work on the latter was in conjunction with the [[Micronational Economic Group]] and the [[Micronational Association for Finance and Economics]], two organisations he chaired at different times early in his career. Blackwood is also an administrator on [[MicroWiki]].<br />
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=== New Secessionism ===<br />
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Blackwood is the creator of [[New Secessionism]], a [[micropatriology|micropatriological]] position which holds that, whilst [[micronation]]s will likely never be recognised as macronations and actively striving for that goal is pointless, micronational projects can and should be used as a framework to provide services and protection to a small group of people and build a collective sense of identity. He started developing the theory in late 2017, proceeding from the idea that micronational states could be conceived of as the "governments of friendship groups" in a way that put friendship groups in an analogous position to nations, and developed a rigid early form of New Secessionism in 2018 based on [[parallel plane theory]] and influenced by [[w:Confucianism|Confucianism]]. After using in practice both pure New Secessionism and a blend of New Secessionism and soft [[simulationism]] in Glastieve in 2018 and 2019, Blackwood returned to the theory in late 2019 and developed a formal definition of a flexible form of New Secessionism rooted in [[classical micropatriology]].<br />
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Aside from Blackwood, [[Ivan of Brienia]] has been a New Secessionist since July 2020. Blackwood became a citizen of Ivan's [[Kingdom of Brienia]] in November 2020, though his citizenship was revoked in December for claiming Brienia "sucked [[Empire of Pavlov|Pavlov]]'s dick" in micronational diplomacy.<br />
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=== Micronational compass ===<br />
[[File:Micronational compass.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A blank micronational compass.]]<br />
In October 2019, Blackwood and [[Zed|Zarel Smith]] together created the [[micronational compass]], a two-dimensional representation of micropatriological positions similar to a [[w:political compass|political compass]]. It shows simulationism—defined as simulating the process of government rather than actually engaging in governance—against secessionism on one axis, and organic culture—based on the memes and traditions of a group independent of the micronation as a project—against constructed culture on the other. The compass enjoyed a brief spurt of popularity on [[MicroWiki@Discord]] shortly after Blackwood and Smith released it and several micronationalists placed their nations on it.<br />
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When later using a micronational compass in a paper on New Secessionism, Blackwood modified "constructed culture" to "constructed or taken culture" to emphasise that micronations based on particular historical cultures were towards that end of the axis, regardless of whether the historical culture co-opted for the micronation was itself organic.<br />
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=== Defining classical micropatriology ===<br />
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Blackwood was responsible for formally defining [[classical micropatriology]], the paradigm of secessionism and simulationism that has been dominant in the community since the early 2010s. Previously, there was no unambiguous way to refer to that particular set of definitions whilst avoiding confusion with other micropatriological approaches, such as the common pre-classical view that [[interactive geofiction]] was "simulationism" and all of what would now be called micronationalism was "secessionism", or such as Blackwood's own New Secessionism.<br />
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=== Glastieven Model ===<br />
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Along with [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]] and [[Henry Clémens]], Blackwood is one of the few micronationalists to have seriously considered [[micronational economics]], and his most important contribution to the field is the [[Glastieven Model]], an economic strategy for the governments of micronations whose citizens regularly meet one another in person that aims at creating a functioning [[w:market economy|market economy]] by using the valuelessness of the micronation's currency in the local macronation to artificially stimulate demand for goods and services produced in the micronation. It also includes establishing a [[w:monetarism|monetarist]] debt certificate currency based on reciprocity, and the micronational government raising funds in the currency of the local macronation. Blackwood first published an undeveloped version of the model in April 2017 and then published a final version in November 2020.<br />
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He frequently calls for other micronationalists to engage with micronational economics. Currently, he is working on a strategy for creating a functioning economy in micronations whose citizens do not regularly meet in person.<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood with friends.jpg|thumb|230px|Blackwood, far left, with friends.]]<br />
Born in Ireland to British citizen parents, Blackwood holds dual British–Irish citizenship. Blackwood speaks English fluently, has some [[w:French language|French]], and knows basic phrases in [[w:Irish language|Irish]], [[w:Latin language|Latin]] and [[w:Cornish language|Cornish]]. He has stated his intention to learn French and [[w:Welsh language|Welsh]] to fluency as a young adult.<br />
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Blackwood was raised as an [[w:atheist|atheist]] but converted to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] in 2018 and is now a practising member of the [[w:Church of England|Church of England]]. He identifies as a "skeptical, self-aware, moderate Anglican" and is critical of non-moderate religion, believing that religious belief is associated with a higher risk of violent extremism, and that critical thinking and progressive social beliefs are important safeguards against this risk. Before the COVID-19 lockdown, Blackwood attended Mass most Sundays. His churchmanship is generally [[w:Anglo-Catholicism|Anglo-Catholic]] and has said he considers his religion to be "in the tradition of [[w:C.S. Lewis|C.S. Lewis]]".<br />
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He is an active member of the Nedlandic Discord servers, though he does not hold citizenship of that micronation. Outside micronationalism, he remains close with [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|Glastievens E, K, R and T]].<br />
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He is a self-described "wannabe author". He has written one 70,000-word manuscript and is working on a second, in addition to working with a friend on a fiction project.<br />
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== Styles and honours ==<br />
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Blackwood has been awarded Shorwellese and Essian honours, both in 2017. In the same year, he was also made Baron Kavanah in Abelden; this was during a brief career in the nation that both started and ended in 2017 and has no direct connection to his current Abeldane career, which started in July 2020 after the collapse of Glastieve in March. Immediately after the foundation of the University of Glastieve in December 2019, he was awarded a master's degree with honours in recognition of his work writing ''Glastieve: A History'', a book-length history of the country, and in January 2020 he was awarded a doctorate for his paper ''Introduction to New Secessionism''. Though titled, Blackwood prefers his surname and not his barony to be used when he is being referred to with a one-word name (''Blackwood'' not ''Kavanah'').<br />
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As of November 2020, Blackwood's preferred full style is:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D. Dred., Knight of the Imperial Feathers in Shorewell, Member of the Essian Order''<br />
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Or, in abbreviated form:<br />
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:''Ives Gordon-Lennox Blackwood, Baron Kavanah, Ph.D., K.I. M.E.''<br />
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=== Peerages ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg}} [[Peerage of Abelden|Baron Kavanah]], created 30 June 2017 by [[Stephen I & II|Stephen I and II]].<br />
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=== Honours ===<br />
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*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of Peace|Knight of the Order of Peace]], awarded 8 June 2017 by [[Bilal I]].<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Kingdom of Shorewell Flag.jpg}} [[Order of the Imperial Feathers|Knight of the Order of the Imperial Feathers]], awarded 2 July 2017 by Bilal I.<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Esse flag.png}} [[Essian Order|Member of the Essian Order]],<ref group=note>Blackwood was originally made Member of the Order of St Clemens; the name of the order was changed in December 2017.</ref> awarded by [[Henry Clémens]].<br />
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=== Degrees ===<br />
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* BA (Hons) in Glastieven History, awarded December 2019 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
* PhD in Micropatriology, awarded January 2020 by the University of Glastieve.<br />
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The Latin name of the University of Glastieve is ''Universitas Dredriae'', and so the postnominal "Dred." is used with its degrees.<br />
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=== Other aliases ===<br />
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''Ives Blackwood'' is the fifth name by which Blackwood has been known on MicroWiki. When he initially joined the community with Skovaji in July 2015, he did so under the alias ''Kenneth Postbridge'', which he used through to leaving the community in October 2016. In March 2017, when he rejoined the community as a citizen of Glastieve, he introduced himself as ''Mark Kavanah'' to distance himself from his previous career; his initial intention was to present Kavanah and Postbridge as different people, but Henry Clémens released that the two were the same person. Blackwood changed aliases again in January 2018, starting to use ''Will Campbell'', which he said was short for ''William Michael Campbell'' and claimed was his real name. In 2019, he revived the ''Kenneth Postbridge'' alias in the consistent form ''K.M. Postbridge'', using this alongside ''Will Campbell'', to the extent that his MicroWiki entry was briefly titled "Will Campbell or K.M. Postbridge" and used "Campbell/Postbridge" each time he was mentioned. He abandoned both aliases and decided to be known by ''Ives Blackwood'' in March 2020. <br />
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* 2015–16: ''Kenneth Postbridge''<br />
* 2017: ''Mark Kavanah'' (sometimes ''Mark S. Kavanah'')<br />
* 2018–19: ''Will Campbell'', short for ''William Michael Campbell''<br />
* 2019: ''K.M. Postbridge''<br />
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In the general Discord server "Brienia Chit Chat", and when he was a citizen of that state, in Brienia, Blackwood used a 'Croatian version' of his name, ''Ivo Tončiović''. There is no Croation translation of ''Ives'', but in Western Europe, ''Ives'' is a variant of the name ''Ivo'', which is also a Balkan name of unrelated etymology, so Blackwood chose to use ''Ivo'' as a pseudo-translation. Blackwood's father was Anthony Blackwood, and ''Anthony'' in Croation is either ''Anton'' or ''Tončio'', hence ''Tončiović''.<br />
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Blackwood also has a [[Glastieve#Uniliteral name codes|uniliteral code]] (a letter of the alphabet by which he is known) used in discussions about Glastieve.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Abelden]]—the micronation of which Blackwood is a part.<br />
* [[Glastieve]] and [[Republic of Skovaji]]—Blackwood's former micronations.<br />
* [[New Secessionism]]—a micropatriological theory of Blackwood's.<br />
* [[Glastieven Model]]—a micronational economic theory of Blackwood's.<br />
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== Notes and references ==<br />
=== Notes ===<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/135lC3l4JK5-8MJuWIL8tPidL8sOPmBYQ/view?usp=sharing Introduction to New Secessionism]''. Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, December 2019.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives. ''[https://srv-store2.gofile.io/download/A9xcPz/The%20Glastieven%20Model.pdf The Glastieven Model]''. Self-published, November 2020.<br />
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* Blackwood, Ives and Glastieven T. ''Glastieve: A History''. Second edition, Starlight Green: Glastieven University Press, March 2020.<br />
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[[Category:People]]</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Territories_of_the_Glorious_Anthean_Republic&diff=773298Territories of the Glorious Anthean Republic2021-02-01T13:26:16Z<p>Ives Blackwood: Created page with "In addition to its main claim at Kingley Vale, there are various '''territories of the Glorious Anthean Republic''' ceded to it from other MicroWiki nations. These territo..."</p>
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<div>In addition to its main claim at Kingley Vale, there are various '''territories of the Glorious Anthean Republic''' ceded to it from other [[MicroWiki nations]]. These territories are often collectively referred to as a "kaleidoscope".</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=MicroWiki:Good_articles/Nominations&diff=773291MicroWiki:Good articles/Nominations2021-02-01T13:19:42Z<p>Ives Blackwood: oops</p>
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:<small>''Nominator: [[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]] 01:30, 1 February 2021 (UTC) ''</small><br />
It got passed the first stage last time I want to see how it does this time.<br />
*'''SUPPORT I think it is worthy.'''[[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]] 01:30, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]) 8:49PM, 31 January 2021 (EST)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Images? Check. Grammar? Check. References? Expansiveness? Formatting? Neutral? Check, check, check and check. [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 02:33, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Very nice! '''<small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#0444af solid 2px;background:#eaecf0;border-radius:8px;color:#eaecf0">[[File:Atiera flag.svg|22px|link=Atiera]]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#0444af solid 2px;background:#eaecf0;border-radius:8px;color:#0444af"><span style="background:#eaecf0;border:#0444af solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">Liam Munroe</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">My Talk Page</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#0000ff;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">Contribs</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span></small> 06:07, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Jolly good {{DanielSig}} 06:07, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Very well written [[User:MonmarkianEmpire|David Augustus I of Monmark]] ([[User talk:MonmarkianEmpire|talk]]) 06:17, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' A very nice article indeed. [[User:AtomCZ|AtomCZ]] ([[User talk:AtomCZ|talk]]) 07:41, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
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:<small>''Nominator: {{DanielSig}} 01:35, 1 February 2021 (UTC) ''</small><br />
I believe this page is worthy of Good Article status. I have expanded it to be as expansive as a flag page can be, included references, images, and a great amount of detail. {{DanielSig}} 01:35, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' I genuinely think that this page is worthy of GA status. {{DanielSig}} 01:37, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]) 8:49PM, 31 January 2021 (EST)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Pretty much about as much information you can fit into a flag article - I see no issues. [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 02:33, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' What a poggers article! Very Nice Mr. Roscoe! '''<small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#0444af solid 2px;background:#eaecf0;border-radius:8px;color:#eaecf0">[[File:Atiera flag.svg|22px|link=Atiera]]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#0444af solid 2px;background:#eaecf0;border-radius:8px;color:#0444af"><span style="background:#eaecf0;border:#0444af solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">Liam Munroe</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">My Talk Page</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#0000ff;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">Contribs</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span></small> 06:05, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' As expansive as a flag article can get [[User:MonmarkianEmpire|David Augustus I of Monmark]] ([[User talk:MonmarkianEmpire|talk]]) 06:17, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' About as expansive and well written a flag article can get. [[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]] 06:29, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Definitely one of the best if not the best article on this topic on MicroWiki. [[User:AtomCZ|AtomCZ]] ([[User talk:AtomCZ|talk]]) 07:41, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Definitely open to inclusion of some extra sections (maybe flag days for example?) but otherwise a decent page. Could do with a few more references as well though. <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 09:32, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
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===[[Gymnasium State]]===<br />
:<small>''Nominator: [[User:AtomCZ|AtomCZ]] ([[User talk:AtomCZ|talk]]) 07:41, 1 February 2021 (UTC)''</small><br />
Rather than actually aiming to get Good Article status right away, I'm interested in ways to improve it, ''but if it was approved I wouldn't complain''.<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' Don't get me wrong, this is a lovely page and definitely has potential as a Good Article. However I feel as if a majority of sections are too short and could do with some expansion. The culture section could also do with a few images but otherwise it's a great article. <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 09:29, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' I love this article! It's got loads of references, which is good, includes lots of images which is also good, but the main place where this article is brought down are the stubby sections. For a nation established in 2016, the history section could be exponentially expanded. Also, go into more detail on how the Government works. Other than that, it's pretty good. Look forward to seeing the edits! {{DanielSig}} 11:51, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
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===[[Sough2020]]===<br />
:<small>''Nominator: <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 09:27, 1 February 2021 (UTC)''</small><br />
I believe that the quality of this article is close enough to warrant GA status, excluding improvements that I'm going to continue making. Always open to improvement.<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' This article is quite good, and about as detailed as you can get for a convention article. However, I feel like more detail should be put into the Content section. Other than that, good work! {{DanielSig}} 11:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
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=== [[Glorious Anthean Republic]] ===<br />
:<small>[[User:Ives Blackwood|Ives Blackwood]] ([[User talk:Ives Blackwood|talk]]) 13:19, 1 February 2021 (UTC)</small><br />
I reckon that this meets the criteria. The ostensible lack of detail on some matters (e.g. culture, party politics) reflects the fact that the information does not yet exist — the entry is about a nation that is fewer than two hours old. —[[User:Ives Blackwood|Ives Blackwood]] ([[User talk:Ives Blackwood|talk]]) 13:19, 1 February 2021 (UTC)</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=MicroWiki:Good_articles/Nominations&diff=773290MicroWiki:Good articles/Nominations2021-02-01T13:19:23Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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===[[Kingdom of Burdette]]===<br />
:<small>''Nominator: [[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]] 01:30, 1 February 2021 (UTC) ''</small><br />
It got passed the first stage last time I want to see how it does this time.<br />
*'''SUPPORT I think it is worthy.'''[[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]] 01:30, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]) 8:49PM, 31 January 2021 (EST)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Images? Check. Grammar? Check. References? Expansiveness? Formatting? Neutral? Check, check, check and check. [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 02:33, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Very nice! '''<small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#0444af solid 2px;background:#eaecf0;border-radius:8px;color:#eaecf0">[[File:Atiera flag.svg|22px|link=Atiera]]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#0444af solid 2px;background:#eaecf0;border-radius:8px;color:#0444af"><span style="background:#eaecf0;border:#0444af solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">Liam Munroe</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">My Talk Page</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#0000ff;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">Contribs</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span></small> 06:07, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Jolly good {{DanielSig}} 06:07, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Very well written [[User:MonmarkianEmpire|David Augustus I of Monmark]] ([[User talk:MonmarkianEmpire|talk]]) 06:17, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' A very nice article indeed. [[User:AtomCZ|AtomCZ]] ([[User talk:AtomCZ|talk]]) 07:41, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
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===[[Flag of Australis]]===<br />
:<small>''Nominator: {{DanielSig}} 01:35, 1 February 2021 (UTC) ''</small><br />
I believe this page is worthy of Good Article status. I have expanded it to be as expansive as a flag page can be, included references, images, and a great amount of detail. {{DanielSig}} 01:35, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' I genuinely think that this page is worthy of GA status. {{DanielSig}} 01:37, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]) 8:49PM, 31 January 2021 (EST)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Pretty much about as much information you can fit into a flag article - I see no issues. [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 02:33, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' What a poggers article! Very Nice Mr. Roscoe! '''<small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#0444af solid 2px;background:#eaecf0;border-radius:8px;color:#eaecf0">[[File:Atiera flag.svg|22px|link=Atiera]]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#0444af solid 2px;background:#eaecf0;border-radius:8px;color:#0444af"><span style="background:#eaecf0;border:#0444af solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">Liam Munroe</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">My Talk Page</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#0000ff;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Liammunroe|<span style="color:#000000;">Contribs</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span></small> 06:05, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' As expansive as a flag article can get [[User:MonmarkianEmpire|David Augustus I of Monmark]] ([[User talk:MonmarkianEmpire|talk]]) 06:17, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' About as expansive and well written a flag article can get. [[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]] 06:29, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Definitely one of the best if not the best article on this topic on MicroWiki. [[User:AtomCZ|AtomCZ]] ([[User talk:AtomCZ|talk]]) 07:41, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Definitely open to inclusion of some extra sections (maybe flag days for example?) but otherwise a decent page. Could do with a few more references as well though. <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 09:32, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
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===[[Gymnasium State]]===<br />
:<small>''Nominator: [[User:AtomCZ|AtomCZ]] ([[User talk:AtomCZ|talk]]) 07:41, 1 February 2021 (UTC)''</small><br />
Rather than actually aiming to get Good Article status right away, I'm interested in ways to improve it, ''but if it was approved I wouldn't complain''.<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' Don't get me wrong, this is a lovely page and definitely has potential as a Good Article. However I feel as if a majority of sections are too short and could do with some expansion. The culture section could also do with a few images but otherwise it's a great article. <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 09:29, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' I love this article! It's got loads of references, which is good, includes lots of images which is also good, but the main place where this article is brought down are the stubby sections. For a nation established in 2016, the history section could be exponentially expanded. Also, go into more detail on how the Government works. Other than that, it's pretty good. Look forward to seeing the edits! {{DanielSig}} 11:51, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
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===[[Sough2020]]===<br />
:<small>''Nominator: <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 09:27, 1 February 2021 (UTC)''</small><br />
I believe that the quality of this article is close enough to warrant GA status, excluding improvements that I'm going to continue making. Always open to improvement.<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' This article is quite good, and about as detailed as you can get for a convention article. However, I feel like more detail should be put into the Content section. Other than that, good work! {{DanielSig}} 11:53, 1 February 2021 (UTC)<br />
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== [[Glorious Anthean Republic]] ==<br />
:<small>[[User:Ives Blackwood|Ives Blackwood]] ([[User talk:Ives Blackwood|talk]]) 13:19, 1 February 2021 (UTC)</small><br />
I reckon that this meets the criteria. The ostensible lack of detail on some matters (e.g. culture, party politics) reflects the fact that the information does not yet exist — the entry is about a nation that is fewer than two hours old. —[[User:Ives Blackwood|Ives Blackwood]] ([[User talk:Ives Blackwood|talk]]) 13:19, 1 February 2021 (UTC)</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Attempt_to_Create_a_Community_Micronation_(2021)&diff=773185Attempt to Create a Community Micronation (2021)2021-02-01T11:29:49Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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<div>[[File:Community micronation proposed flag December 2020.png|right|thumb|200px|Ouija's proposed flag for a community micronation, currently used as the logo of the project's Discord server.]]<br />
The '''2021 attempt to create a community micronation''' is an ongoing project to make a success of the [[Glorious Anthean Republic]] and situate it as the first [[community micronation]], a micronation based on the existing culture of the [[MicroWiki community]]. The 2021 attempt started on 25 January, declared the Glorious Anthean Republic an independent state on 1 February, and now intends to hold an election on 5 February to create a Convention Parliament that will ratify the declaration of independence, hold a flag contest in February and early March, and then hold a general election on 5 March to elect a Parliament and National Council to take over from the planners and run Anthea moving forwards.<br />
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The 2021 attempt is a joint project of [[Ives Blackwood]], "Ouija", [[Kunhee Lee]], [[Kenneth Fydtroust]], [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]], [[Jan Šťastný]], [[Isaiah Burdette]], [[Logan Ross]], [[Cristian Dobrev]], [[Sertor Valentinus]], [[Jayden Lycon]], [[Liam Munroe]], [[Archie Birch]], [[Daniel Roscoe]], [[Zarel Smith]], [[Mats Baumans]], Casper von Naveria, "Spenny", "joe biden 2024" and "Cadno"<br />
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== Criticism ==<br />
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On 25 January, Llewelyn Baker strongly criticised the idea on [[MicroWiki@Discord]], arguing that a co-operative project would undermine micronationalism's core values of [[w:individualism|individualism]] and [[w:self-determination|self-determination]],<ref>potatia government (15 January 2021). [https://discord.com/channels/490900935883882529/490901534259937290/803277565166878801 Messages to #café-randouler] in [[MicroWiki@Discord]] [Discord messages]. "isn't micronation self-determination?" and "how could you have self-determination if everyone bands together? it defeats the whole purpose"</ref> and that no project should be based on the community because such a project would involve what he called "bad people",<ref>potatia government (15 January 2021). [https://discord.com/channels/490900935883882529/490901534259937290/803277174593421332 Messages to #café-randouler] in [[MicroWiki@Discord]] [Discord messages]. "you do realise", "a community micronation", "would entail the community" and "including bad people??"</ref> citing the [[Republic of Diversa]] and [[Hasan Türk]] as examples.<ref>potatia government (15 January 2021). [https://discord.com/channels/490900935883882529/490901534259937290/803277248836272131 Messages to #café-randouler] in [[MicroWiki@Discord]] [Discord messages]. "e.g." and "diversa, hasan etc. etc."</ref> Baker also said that "if you unironically support a community micronation / there's only one thing i can tell you / fuck you".<ref>potatia government (15 January 2021). [https://discord.com/channels/490900935883882529/490901534259937290/803277025448034374 Messages to #café-randouler] in [[MicroWiki@Discord]] [Discord messages] "if you unironically support a community micronation", "there's only one thing i can tell you", and "fuck you".</ref><br />
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Blackwood has pointed out that, on the likely assumption that the project fails, 2020 will have been the only year that he has not started a [[YAMO]].<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Statecraft Association]]<br />
* [[Treaty of Nyros]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [https://discord.gg/Va3d9QRvUn Anthea - provisional name] — the Discord server for the project</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Glorious_Anthean_Republic&diff=773183Glorious Anthean Republic2021-02-01T11:29:25Z<p>Ives Blackwood: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox nation<br />
|name = Glorious Anthean Republic <br/> <small>[[w:Czech language|Czech]]: Slavný Republika Anthea</small><br />
|image1 = [[File:Noflag.png|150px]]<br />
|image2 = [[File:Nocoa.png|50px]]<br />
|motto = <!-- Motto --> <br />
|anthem = <!-- National anthem --> <br />
|location = Kingley Vale, south-east England, along with various other territories ceded from different MicroWiki nations.<br />
|capital = <!-- Capital city --><br />
|largest_city = <!-- Largest city --> <br />
|languages = English <br />
|recognised_lang = Czech<br />
|religions = <!-- Official religions --> <br />
|shortname = Anthea<br />
|demonym = Anthean<br />
|wealth = <!-- Average wealth per person --> <br />
|government = Parliamentary, directorial republic <br />
|head of state = National Council<br />
|hos_name = Will be elected on 5 March. <br />
|legislature = Parliament <br />
|type = Unicameral parliament<br />
|seats = 40<ref group=note>In total the constituencies across the community are entitled to send up to 40 MPs to Parliament. There is no minimum number of MPs that must actually be elected for a Parliament to be legitimate.</ref> <br />
|election = 5 February (convention)<br/>- 5 March (first main) <br />
|established = 1 February 2021 <br />
|area = TBD<br />
|population = ~200<br />
|population_notes = 'passive citizens' — includes members of the community entitled to get involved with the republic who have not chosen to<br />
|currency = <!-- Currency --> <br />
|gdp_nominal = <!-- The Gross Domestic Product --> <br />
|HDI = <!-- Human Development Index Score --><br />
|time_zone = <!-- Timezone --> <br />
|ris002code = <!-- RIS 002 code --><br />
|tld = <!-- Internet TLD --><br />
|nat_sport = <!-- National sport --> <br />
|nat_dish = <!-- National dish --><br />
|nat_drink = <!-- National drink --><br />
|nat_animal = <!-- National animal --> <br />
|nat_export = <!-- National export --><br />
|pat_saint = <!-- Patron saint --> <br />
|notes = Anthea is a [[community micronation]]<br />
|web = <!-- Link to website --><br />
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'''Anthea''', formally the '''Glorious Anthean Republic''' ([[w:Czech language|Czech]]: ''Slavný Republika Anthea''),<ref group="note">The absolute full name of the republic is the '''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community''', but this can be abbreviated to "Glorious Anthean Republic" at all levels of formality.</ref> is a micronation in south-east England, though with territories across the world and an exclusively online political and social life. It is the self-declared [[community micronation|nation-state of]] the [[MicroWiki community]], which has existed since 2008, and it was founded on 1 February 2021 as the outcome of the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]], which started on 25 January. Anthea claims [[w:Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve|Kingley Vale]] in south-east England, along with a kaleidoscope of [[territories of the Glorious Anthean Republic|other territories]] across the world ceded from different nations in the [[MicroWiki sector]].<br />
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Anthea has no website, flag, coat of arms or national seal, national animal or other national symbols, or time zone. The intention is that the community or the first government elected by the community will choose these features rather than a narrow planning board designing them. Unlike many other online-orientated micronations, it has no national Discord server, as [[MicroWiki@Discord]] and the other [[Micronational Discord servers|Discord servers used by the MicroWiki community]] are intended to be the venue for Anthean national life.<br />
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== Etymology ==<br />
[[File:James pradier three graces.jpg|thumb|left|150px|[[w:James Pradier|James Pradier]]'s 1831 depiction of the Charites. Antheia is in the middle.]]<br />
[[Ives Blackwood]] coined the name ''Anthea'' in December 2020 as ''an'' + ''the'' + ''a''. It was originally meant to be a short name for a community micronation formally known as the 'Republic of Articles', referencing MicroWiki entries, playing on the additional meaning of the word 'article' as the collective term for the words ''a'', ''an'' and ''the'' in English to create something that would sound like an actual country name. [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]] has interpreted ''Anthea'' as a variant of the actual word ''article'', also referencing MicroWiki entries. <br />
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''Anthea'' is also an English personal name from the Greek name Ἀνθεία (Antheia), from ᾰ̓́νθος (ánthos), meaning flower or blossom, or — unrelated to the personal name — brightness or brilliance. In [[w:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], Ἀνθεία (Antheia) was an epithet for [[w:Hera|Hera]], queen of the Gods and goddess of women, marriage, family and childbirth, and was also sometimes the name of one of the three [[w:Charites|Charites]], in this context meaning 'blossoms'.<br />
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The full name of the republic is the ''Most Serene and Glorious Anthean Republic of the MicroWiki Community''. Though abbreviated to "Glorious Anthean Republic", the full name actually refers to a "Republic of the MicroWiki Community" that is Anthean. Using adjectives describing a narrower set of cultural features in a country name that refers to a broader idea is not unprecedented among macronations, e.g. the [[w:Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan|Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan]]. The appellation [[w:Most Serene Republic|Most Serene Republic]] was used in mediaeval Europe (and in modern [[w:San Marino|San Marino]]) to emphasise the sovereignty of republics despite their not having monarchs, as historically ''serene'' meant supreme or royal. The adjective ''Glorious'' is particular to Anthea. The idea that the republic is a specifically ''Anthean'' Republic of the MicroWiki Community reflects its position as a community micronation with elements of its own distinctive culture.<br />
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== History ==<br />
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=== MicroWiki before Anthea ===<br />
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[[File:ACW.png|200px|thumb|right|A graphic representing the Austenasian Civil War in ''[[The St.Charlian Observer]]'']]<br />
The history of the MicroWiki community before the republic was created is part of Anthean national history. The website was founded in 2005 but the community that evolved into what the Glorious Anthean Republic considers its nation can only be traced back as far as October 2008. In October 2008, [[Robert Lethler]], [[Joe Foxon]] and [[Jacob Tierney]] joined the wiki, and the [[Grand Unified Micronational]] was founded in January 2009. In this early era, messages left on MicroWiki talk pages were the main venue for the community. Between August 2009 and mid-2010, Lethler and the GUM held hegemonic sway over the community, broken by the [[Organisation of Active Micronations]] being created in March 2010 and Lethler leaving in July 2010. In March and September 2010 were the [[Austenasian Civil War|Austenasian]] and [[Atlantis Civil War]]s respectively, which were both major events in the community that established its negative view of [[micronational warfare]] as immature and destructive.<br />
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From late 2010 onwards, [[micronational Skype rooms]] replaced talk pages as the main venue of the community, and MicroWiki moved from Wikia to an independent domain. In November 2010, the admins controversially banned [[Sebastian Linden]], dividing the community as one faction backed the admins and the other called for Linden to be unbanned and for the admins to be more accountable. Meanwhile, admin Aldrich Lucas became the dominant figure in the community. The OAM declined in influence and sparked controversy after it started branching into the [[Micras Sector|Micras sector]] of [[interactive geofiction]], which some denied was micronationalism. Linden was unbanned in July, and the GUM was secretly revived in August. Tensions flared up again in September with [[Yablokogate]], when Lethler briefly returned, revealed that the GUM had been revived, and showed that Lucas had been plotting to take over the community for Yabloko.<br />
[[File:Polination82.jpg|left|200px|thumb|[[PoliNation 2012]].]]<br />
Following Yablokogate, the OAM was dissolved in December 2011, and the GUM increased in power through 2012. At around this time, the community definitively decided interactive geofiction was not micronationalism, separating it from the Micras sector and representing the start of [[classical micropatriology]]. 2012 and 2013 were largely settled, characterised by formal diplomacy giving way to informal networking on Skype, other than at major events like [[PoliNation 2012]] and the [[2013 Intermicronational Summit]]. One exception was conflict over [[Bradley of Dullahan]] and [[Quentin I of Wyvern]] making alleged xenophobic remarks, and the [[2012-13 GUM leadership scandal]], when Dullahan and [[Yaroslav Mar]] were forced to resign over accusations of corruption and [[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia|Crown Prince Jonathan]] became Acting GUM Chair. From early 2013 onwards, the [[Empire of Austenasia]] became the most powerful nation in the community, and in May 2014, Jonathan became site owner of the wiki.<br />
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[[Gaius Soergel Publicola|William Soergel]] proposed the [[Denton Protocol]] in July 2014, leading to a backlash from right-wing members of the community, and over the next year or so, a distinct right-wing appeared in the community for the first time, with several micronationalists converting to [[w:Christianity|Christianity]] or abandoning socialism. There were serious tensions between the left-wing and right-wing of the community and the left mostly moved from Skype to the MicroWiki forums. In addition, newer members were concentrated on the forums and could only enter the Skype rooms when they were invited by someone already-established, and there were tensions between them and older members. The GUM changed from an organisation to a formal chatroom in June 2015 and changed back in June 2016. In early and mid-2016 was the [[intermicronational economics boom of 2016]]. Tensions between the left and right and between the older and newer members of the community started to die down in late 2016 and early 2017, but these causes were briefly revived in mid-2017 by two intertwined controversies, the [[New Community]] and a diplomatic dispute between Austenasia and Delvera. Subsequently, activity in the community seriously declined, to the point where the MicroWiki forums were abandoned and sincere concerns were expressed that the community might die out.<br />
[[File:@New Eiffel Government meme.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|A meme from MicroWiki@Discord.]]<br />
There were brief experiments in [[micronational Discord servers]] from 2017 onwards while Skype declined, and in September 2018, the community moved from Skype to [[MicroWiki@Discord]], which hugely swelled its numbers and restored activity. Initially, the GUM and the Old Guard retained their traditional hegemony, but from 2019 onwards a defined strand of New Guard politics came to be equally influential, establishing the [[Cupertino Alliance]] as a companion to the GUM. Governance of MicroWiki@Discord, concerns over its toxicity, and occasional bursts of anti-moderator sentiment culminated in a failed attempt by Jonathan in November 2020 to shut the server down, which was followed by it being spun off as a separate institution to MicroWiki with an independent moderation structure. Meanwhile, the traditional Old Guard — including some wiki admins — became inactive on MicroWiki@Discord or even left the server altogether, using the [[Micropolitan Club and Lounge]] instead.<br />
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=== Creation ===<br />
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[[Ives Blackwood]] started the [[2021 attempt to create a community micronation]] with [[Kunhee Lee]] and "Ouija" on 25 January 2021 following multiple conversations in MicroWiki@Discord. Ouija volunteered to lead the Boundaries Commission and oversee the first election. By the next morning, the project included [[Kenneth Fydtroust]], [[Jan Šťastný]] and [[Isaiah Burdette]], and by the 28th, it included [[Logan Ross]], [[Cristian Dobrev]], [[Sertor Valentinus]], [[Jayden Lycon]], [[Liam Munroe]], [[Archie Birch]], [[Daniel Roscoe]], [[Zarel Smith]], Casper von Naveria, [[Mats Baumans]], "Spenny" and "joe biden 2024", with Birch in particular emerging as another leader of the project. [[Konstantínos Hockenheim]] and "Cadno" also later joined. The twenty signed a declaration of statehood on 1 February, creating the republic and bringing the First Provisions into force.<br />
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Ouija announced that an election to a Convention Parliament would be held on 5 March and asked MP candidates to contact them.<br />
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== Politics and government ==<br />
[[File:Blackwood badge sunrise colours.png|200px|thumb|right|A proposed badge for the National Council. Nothing like this official yet — it will be decided on by the first National Council and Parliament elected on 5 March.]]<br />
The Glorious Anthean Republic is a [[w:parliamentary republic|parliamentary]], [[w:directorial republic|directorial republic]] with a [[w:Constitution#Classification 2|fully written, uncodified constitution]] (though at present it only has one constitutional document, the First Provisions). The state comprises four primary institutions — Parliament, the National Council, the Ministry, and the High Court. Parliament is an elected legislature composed of MPs who represent constituencies, which are intended to represent organic social groups in the community, like the [[History of the Fesmarian sector|Fesmarian sector]] or [[The Fun Gang]]. The first panel of people that can command a majority in Parliament after a general election becomes the National Council, a cabinet of ministers that runs the executive and effectively acts as a collective head of state. The Ministry is the central government, composed of departments which are led by the ministers who sit on the National Council and staffed by politically-neutral civil servants. The High Court is the supreme court of law, responsible for interpreting the law and working out what the law actually is in the case of ambiguities.<br />
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Each individual rule in Anthean law is formally known as a provision. There are two kinds of provisions — provisions in the Overlaw and provisions in the Underlaw. Parliament can vote to move a provision from the Underlaw to the Overlaw or vice versa. Parliament can add to, remove from or amend the Overlaw at will. The Underlaw cannot be amended and its provisions are immutable, so for part of the Underlaw to be changed, Parliament must vote to make it part of the Overlaw first. Most normal laws will be part of the Overlaw — the largely fixed Underlaw is for the constitution and other fundamental laws such as a Bill of Rights that should rarely be amended.<br />
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Anthea has a tripartite separation of powers, where Parliament creates the law, the Ministry carries out the law and the High Court interprets the law. The National Council has both a legislative and an executive role — it is expected to propose bills to Parliament and it also leads the executive.<br />
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Following the declaration of independence, currently, the only law in Anthea is the First Provisions, which are part of the Underlaw and effectively serve as the initial constitution of the country. The First Provisions define Anthean law, establish its institutions, and lay out basic procedures for government. They will be formally adopted for a second time by the Convention Parliament elected on 5 February.<br />
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=== Parliament ===<br />
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The First Provisions establish Parliament as the sole, unicameral legislature of the Glorious Anthean Republic, elected by the MicroWiki community. <br />
[[File:Boundaries Commission light hearted initial logo.png|thumb|200px|A light-hearted provisional logo for the Boundaries Commission. The castle refers to the community being 'full of guards' (e.g. the Old Guard).]]<br />
Elections to Parliament are held once every four months. The community is divided into constituencies, which between them are entitled to send forty MPs to Parliament, and the constituencies are supposed to be equivalent to natural sub-groups that already exist in the community. There are two types of constituency, borough and county. Borough constituencies refer to specific groups, such as "[[TOES]]" or "[[Fesmar]] with [[Belgica]]" (which aims to capture the whole [[History of the Fesmarian sector|Fesmarian sector]]), and tend to only have one or two MPs. In contrast, county constituencies are broad catch-alls that account for people who are not included in any borough constituency, and at present, there are only two, "MicroWiki Discord" (able to elect 28 MPs) and "Micropolitan" (able to elect 4 MPs). The First Provisions establish a Boundaries Commission, which determines the constituencies, and will also be responsible for running the first two elections on 5 February and 5 March 2021. The current Boundaries Commissioner is Ouija.<br />
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== Geography ==<br />
[[File:KingleyVale.JPG|200px|thumb|The view into Anthea from close to the British border.]]<br />
Anthea covers around five hundred acres (0.78 sq mi), in addition to the territories ceded to it from other MicroWiki nations. Its main territory, Kingley Vale, is entirely surrounded by the [[w:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]], approximately nine miles from the town of [[w:Chichester|Chichester, Sussex]] in the south-east of England. Anthea has one of the world's only surviving [[w:yew|yew]] forests (which also has beech trees, which are fairly common). The [[community micronation]] claims a yew and beech forest in reference to the [[w:Hilaire Belloc|Hilaire Belloc]] poem ''My Own Country'', which superficially appears to reference [[micronationalism]] and states that "The trees that grow in my own country / Are the beech tree and the yew".<br />
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== Culture ==<br />
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The core of Anthea's culture is the existing culture of the MicroWiki community, such as [[List of MicroWiki community memes|MicroWiki community memes]], though the republic is also expected to develop some distinct cultural features as the community works together to build the micronation.<br />
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A flag contest will run from 5 February to 5 March 2021 to choose a national flag for the Glorious Anthean Republic.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
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* [[Treaty of Nyros]]<br />
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* [https://anthean-republic.com/ www.anthean-republic.com] — the website established by the planners<br />
* [https://pdfhost.io/v/8nc0oKw3~_Declaration_of_the_Republic.pdf Declaration of the Republic] — Anthea's declaration of independence<br />
* [https://pdfhost.io/v/pKM8vP7Yc_First_Provisions.pdf First Provisions] — the First Provisions of the Underlaw, effectively Anthea's constitution</div>Ives Blackwoodhttps://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Zed&diff=772802Zed2021-02-01T00:04:16Z<p>Ives Blackwood: made GA</p>
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'''Zarel Wilhelmus Jacobus Smith''' ('''ZWJS'''){{efn|Post nominals include: <small>[[Order of Christina I|OCI]] [[Order of the Compatriots of Prestige|OCP]] [[Austenasian Order|OAO]] [[Awards and Decorations of Millania|MMX]] [[Order of the Silver Cat|GCGP]] [[Ünie|WOL]] [[Order of the Gryphon|KHC]]</small>}} ([[w:help:IPA/English|/'zaːrəl ʋɪlˈɦɛlmɵs jaːˈkoːbɵs ˈsmɪθ/]]; {{IPAc-en|audio=Zarel Wilhelmus Jacobus Smith — full name — pronounciation.wav}};<ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZZQqh628joBnkmetaf3HNOHcFdwiO3Y_O/view Pronunciation4k128fps.mov] on Google Docs. Retrieved 8 December 2020.</ref> born 18 November [[2004]]<ref name="MA">Hardy, Emiel (26 Oct 2019) [https://news.mahuset.com/post/188604152192/meet-zarel-smith-the-social-democrats-new-leader Meet Zarel Smith, the Social Democrats’ new leader]. ''Courant van Lazia''. Retrieved 30 January 2019.</ref><ref name="zed0">Renwick, Patrick (31 Dec 2019) [https://govab.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/his-imperial-and-royal-exalted-majestys-new-years-speech-of-2019/ His Imperial and Royal Exalted Majesty’s New Years Speech of 2019]. Retrieved 20 February 2020.</ref>) more commonly known mononymously as '''Zed'''<ref name="Zed">Baird, Cole (17 February 2020). [https://inwgb.wordpress.com/2020/02/17/breaking-newsanti-administration-in-microwikidiscord/ 'Breaking News:Zed to become admin on Microwiki@Discord']. ''[[Wegmat]] General Broadcasting''. Retrieved 24 May 2020.</ref><ref>Campbell, Will (23 May 2019) [https://web.archive.org/web/20191206133751/https://sites.google.com/site/theglastieven/microwiki/empireclaimingwholeearthwinsgumobservership Empire claiming whole Earth wins GUM observership]. ''The Glastieven''. Archived from [https://sites.google.com/site/theglastieven/microwiki/empireclaimingwholeearthwinsgumobservership the original] on 6 December 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020.</ref> among various [[list of names used by Zarel Smith|other names]],<ref name="zed0"/> is a retired [[w:UK|UK]]-born [[w:South Africa|South African]]<ref name="MA"/> [[micronationalist]] politician,<ref name="op">Burdette, Isaiah (18 October 2020) [https://isaiahdavidburdett.wixsite.com/micronationalgazette/post/opinion-article-isaiah-burdette-zarel-smith Opinion Article Isaiah Burdette: Zarel Smith]. ''[[Micronational Gazette]]''. Retrieved 22 October 2020.</ref> journalist, filmmaker<ref name="imdb">[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10573254/ Zarel Smith's filmography] at [[w:IMDb|IMDb]]. Retrieved 30 January 2020.</ref>, statistician and [[MicroWiki:Staff|MicroWiki administrator]], who was the first [[Monarchy of New Eiffel|Prince]] of the [[Principality of New Eiffel]] from 11 August 2018 until his [[Abdication of Zarel I|abdication]] on 20 June 2020,<ref name="DMM">[https://micronationalist.wordpress.com/2019/10/03/shiro-voted-dime-micronationalist-of-the-month/ Shiro voted DIME Micronationalist of the Month], 3 October 2019. ''The Daily Micronationalist''. Retrieved 30 January 2020.</ref><ref>[https://commons.micronations.wiki/wiki/Titles_and_Styling_of_Prince_Zarel_I_Act Titles and Styling of Prince Zarel I Act 2019] on [[MicroCommons]]. Retrieved 8 February 2020.</ref> in addition to being the head of state of its predecessors, the [[Republic of New Finland|Republic]] and [[Kingdom of New Finland]].<ref name="jef">Smith, Zarel (14 Aug 2020) [https://sites.google.com/view/journaleiffel/national-icons-of-new-eiffel National icons of New Eiffel]. ''Journal en Eiffel''. Retrieved 14 August 2020.</ref><ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mNVd7raNJL-Mae2e9YBogcC9iBWos_ZEVAkOmd7FNU4 Constitution of the Principality of New Eiffel]</ref> Smith later served as the [[Ministry of Transportation (New Eiffel)|Minister of Transportation]] and Foreign Minister of New Eiffel. He is generally credited for the vast majority of New Eiffel's cultural, architectural, industrial and [[Foreign relations of New Eiffel|diplomatic]] development, though received notable criticism from the [[Yellow Party]] for his lack of legislative lawmaking, apparent "[[LGBT rights in New Eiffel|anti-LGBT]]" sentiment and lack of activity within politics as a whole.<ref>[https://sites.google.com/view/sainturiel/about About] — Most Serene Republic of Saint Uriel's official government website</ref><ref name="newiki">[https://neweiffelwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Zarel_Smith Zarel Smith] on ''[[New Eiffel Wiki]]''. Retrieved 21 September 2020.</ref> <br />
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Smith has been a prominent and ubiquitous figure within the [[MicroWiki Sector]], and has been recognisable throughout the [[history of the MicroWiki community]] during the [[history of the MicroWiki community#Discord Era|Discord Era]].<ref name="Zed"/><ref name="op"/><ref name="Nav">von Naveria, Casper (1 October 2020) [https://its-cns.wixsite.com/orblian-observer/post/more-september-news More September News]. ''Orblian Observer''. Retrieved 5 November 2020.</ref><ref name="Blackwood5">[[Ives Blackwood|Blackwood, Ives]] (2 December 2020) [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2020/12/02/zarel-smith-pioneers-new-approach-to-ranking-community-influencers/ Zarel Smith pioneers new approach to ranking community influencers]. ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]''. Retrieved 3 December 2020.</ref> Smith used to be highly active on [[MicroWiki@Discord]],<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye/Top_Most_Messages_on_Discord Top Most Messages on Discord]. Retrieved 12 February 2020.{{unreliable source}}</ref> on which he also used to be an [[MicroWiki@Discord#Administration|administrator]].<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZUK71MhXUaewOLpR20onU0Bk3KX3mcpJ0P8i-TwIIDI/edit MicroWiki@Discord | Information + Rules (June 24, 2020)]. Retrieved 3 October 2020.</ref> Founder of [[Statistic-Dime]], Smith is known for his wiki editing, surveys, liberal policies and other frequent projects and standardisations;<ref name="pp2">Smith, Zarel (30 September 2020) [http://news.ponderosangovernment.ml/2020/09/30/zarel-smith-begins-to-leave-community-just-after-two-year-anniversary-celebrations/?preview=true Zarel Smith begins to leave community just after two year anniversary celebrations]. ''[[Ponderosan News Agency]]''. Retrieved 30 September 2020.</ref> [[Micronationalist of the Month]], [[Micronationalist of the Year]], [[DIME Magazine]], the annual [[LGBT Rights Index]], [[Microcode]], the [[Shrek Super Party]], [[Project Micronation]] and the Intermicronational Time Zones Standard.<ref name="timezone">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D8J-G8BiyvB6xmQ8eWTrH6PXSMZH2dm5DGDwyiaRVv4/edit Time zones, first edition (25 Aug 2020)]. ''Intermicronational Time Zones Standard''. Beta version 1.1. Retrieved 25 August 2020.</ref><ref>Z. Smith & J. Lycon (26 December 2019) [https://issuu.com/curio_rblx/docs/dimeissue1final DIME Magazine Issue #1]</ref> Editing under the account '''[[User:Z Luna Skye|Z Luna Skye]]''',<ref group="‡">[[User:Z Luna Skye|Z Luna Skye]]. ''[[MicroWiki]]''. Retrieved 24 June 2020.</ref>{{efn|Formerly "Z. Luna Skye" from 27 September 2018 until 12 November 2020, when he changed his username to omit the full stop after the 'Z'.<ref group="‡">[https://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=User:Z_Luna_Skye&oldid=712880 Renamed "Z. Luna Skye" to "Z Luna Skye"]</ref>}} Despite having largely retired, Smith remains active on [[MicroWiki]], and holds the [[MicroWiki:Users by edit count|record]] for the largest number of edits made on the English-language MicroWiki, exceeding over 35,000 and more than 3,000 page creations.<ref name="op"/><ref group="‡">[[User:Z. Luna Skye|Z. Luna Skye]]. [https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Special:Contributions/Z._Luna_Skye Contributions]. ''[[MicroWiki]]''. Retrieved 4 March 2020.</ref> Smith is also active in the [[London Sector]], [[TOES Sector]] and formerly the [[African sector]]. Smith has also taken various positions in his career, including federal, judicial, public sector and local work. Smith is a Deputy President of [[Ponderosa Hills]] following an after election agreement, and is the Governor of the [[Austenasian territory]] of [[Green Gate]].<ref name="sssZD">{{cite web|url=https://austenasiantimes.wordpress.com/2019/03/24/march-sees-territorial-changes-for-austenasia/|title=March sees territorial changes for Austenasia|author=|author-link=|website=Austenasian Times|access-date=24 March 2019}}</ref> Formerly, Smith served in various ministerial and judicial positions in [[Essexia]], [[Somcow]], [[Abelden]], [[Principality of Oceania|Oceania]], and was the former [[Posaf]]ian Premier of [[Nievenorte]] between 16 May—1 October 2020. Smith presently leads the Social Democratic Party of [[Mahuset]] and the Shrek Super Party of [[Naveria]],<ref name="MA"/><ref name="Nav"/> and was formerly an MP in the [[Aspen Empire]] and the later [[Kingdom of Appalachia]], [[Islamic Republic of Hala’ib Triangle|Hala'ib Triangle]], Caddia, [[Mercia]], [[Ünie]], [[Yu-Xia]] and [[Misberia]]. Smith has been the [[Ministers of the Cupertino Alliance#Non-ministerial positions|Superior Judge]] of the [[Cupertino Alliance]] since 25 March 2020.<ref>Lycon, Jayden (25 March 2020) [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uzCMj1ycL8hjht8xM2N7L8_8cGKYEb8o/view?usp=sharing Zarel Appointed as Superior Judge]. Retrieved 25 June 2020.</ref><ref>Lycon, Jayden (5 April 2020) [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TaQh5r7oqccOYy4Id6bIcZHlU90c-a3I/view?usp=sharing Zarel Smith appointed as Notary General]</ref> A vocal supporter of [[intermicronational organisations]], Smith was the founder and Chair of the [[New Eiffel Union of Micronations]]<ref name="OAM1">[https://web.archive.org/web/20191217231945/https://esecina.wordpress.com/2019/02/03/esecina-in-the-new-eiffel-union-of-micronations/ Esecina in the New Eiffel Union of Micronations]. ''Esecina.wordpress.com''. Archived from [https://esecina.wordpress.com/2019/02/03/esecina-in-the-new-eiffel-union-of-micronations/ the original] on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020</ref> (later retitled the [[Organisation of Active Micronations (New Eiffel Union)|Organisation of Active Micronations]],<ref name="OAM3">[https://web.archive.org/web/20191222142750/https://rln.home.blog/2019/07/09/lytexit-lyteran-politicians-suggest-leaving-the-oam/ Lytexit? Lyteran Politicians Suggest Leaving the OAM]. ''The Royal Lyteran News''. Published 9 July 2019. Retrieved 25 June 2020. Archived from [https://rln.home.blog/2019/07/09/lytexit-lyteran-politicians-suggest-leaving-the-oam/ the original] on 22 December 2019.</ref> a name taken from [[Organisation of Active Micronations|a major micronational organisation that was active from 2009 to 2011]]) between 21 November 2018–May 2019, and the [[Christian Micronational Union]] between 4 September 2019–2 March 2020, and held various other positions in the [[Grand Unified Micronational]] and the [[Micronational Olympic Federation]]. Smith later unsuccessfully ran as [[Jayden Lycon]]'s running mate in the [[Grand Unified Micronational election, June 2020|June 2020 election]], losing with a low 12.9% of the vote.<br />
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Smith has often been cited as being one of the most influential micronationalists in the "New Guard".<ref name="op"/><ref name="Nav"/> Smith is a member of five invitation-only micronational social clubs, and joined the [[Micropolitan Club and Lounge]] on 18 August 2019, and is also a member of [[Micronational Skype rooms#Drunkiz Gadurō|Drunkiz Gadurō]], [[Archie Birch#Microfurs:|Microfurs]] and is a co-founder of [[The Fun Gang]] and [[TOES]].<ref name="Toes">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14X6Hg7ccW-Ty6I2urRBq7p17rsg8oY9qnxoKy4b1TRk Charter of TOES] on [[w:Google Docs|Google Docs]]. Retrieved 29 June 2020.</ref> Smith was selected as Dime's "[[Micronationalist of the Month]]" for February 2020, and was also ranked fourth of ten by [[Nicholas Randouler]] in his [[user:NickRandouler/MonthlyMWMPowerIndex|Monthly MicroWiki Micronationalists Power Index for May 2020]].<ref name="mwm">Randouler, Nicholas (May 2020) [[user:NickRandouler/MonthlyMWMPowerIndex|Monthly MicroWiki Micronationalists Power Index]]. Retrieved 31 October 2020.</ref> Smith placed himself fourth on the "[[MicroWiki's 25 Most Influential (2020)|MicroWiki's 25 Most Influential]]" list for 2020 in December.<ref name="Blackwood5"/><ref name="Twenty">[[Zarel Smith|Smith, Zarel]] et al. (2 December 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/13vLhQW5st8IIJYTPVytjJZyv4Hvbf11Tpfd91EQvC-A/edit?usp=sharing MicroWiki Most Influential (2020)]. ''Published by [[Statistic-Dime]]'' — Google Docs. Retrieved 3 December 2020.</ref> Smith was also nominated for [[Micronationalist of the Year]] for 2019.<ref>Z. Smith & J. Lycon (26 December 2019) [https://issuu.com/curio_rblx/docs/dimeissue1final DIME Magazine Issue #1]</ref><br />
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Outside of micronationalism, Smith is an actor, filmmaker, film director,<ref name="imdb"/> cinematographer, statistician, musical artist, writer, and a retired artist and semi-retired film critic and photographer among other ventures.<ref name="MA"/><br />
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== Republic of New Finland ==<br />
{{further|Republic of New Finland}}<br />
Smith became interested in [[micronationalism]] after hearing about the [[Republic of Molossia]] via its website.<ref>Lycon, Jayden (26 April 2020) [https://issuu.com/curio_rblx/docs/pondomanifesto_final For you and for all. The Canadian Isabelle - Shrek Super Party manifesto 2020] on [[w:Issuu|Issuu]]. ''Curio Publications'', p. 6. Retrieved 11 October 2020.</ref> Soon after, Smith began researching micronationalism via [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]], and founded his first micronation the [[Republic of New Finland]] on 31 December 2017,<ref name="what">{{cite web | url = https://neweiffelgov.home.blog/2019/08/09/example-post/ | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20191217224353/https://neweiffelgov.home.blog/2019/08/09/example-post/ | archivedate = 17 December 2019 |title = What is New Eiffel? |author = neweiffelgov.home.blog}}</ref> on [[w:New Year's Eve|New Year's Eve]] minutes before [[w:New Year's Day|New Year's Day]]; declaring himself President and laying claim to his cousins house in [[w:South Africa|South Africa]] during a vacation to the country.<ref>[[Sertor Valentinus|Valentinus, Sertor]] (1 November 2020) [https://brooksidegazette.wordpress.com/2020/11/01/principality-of-new-eiffel-declared-dissolved/ Principality of New Eiffel declared dissolved]. ''The Brookside Gazette''. Retrieved 1 November 2020.</ref> New Finland is often considered a predecessor to New Eiffel. Smith created New Finland's flag, coat of arms, and currency. On 4 January 2018, upon Smith's return to his home in Greater London, a new claim was made in his residence, and later the original claim in South Africa was dropped entirely due to the long distance.{{efn|According to some records, the claim was dropped on 2 March 2018, and Smith's residence in the U.K. had been a territory of New Finland for a month prior.}} The Republic, however, soon became plagued with inactivity, and so Smith began plans to reform it. Smith created a new flag and coat of arms alongside various other national symbols and reformed the law by creating a supreme court and enacted democracy into the nation.<ref name="ne">[https://neweiffelwiki.fandom.com/wiki/NewEiffelwiki_Wiki Main Page]. ''[[New Eiffel Wiki]]''. Retrieved 29 June 2020.</ref> Record of what happened in-between the Republic before the foundation of the Kingdom is relatively unknown, though allegedly there seems to have been a civil war.<br />
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== Reign ==<br />
=== King of New Finland ===<br />
{{further|Kingdom of New Finland}}<br />
The Republic had been in a state of ''de facto'' anarchy for some time. Smith, wanting to bring back New Finland, decided to reform it into a [[Kingdom of New Finland|monarchy]], declaring himself as the King on 4 June 2018.{{efn|According to some records, Smith's father [[Louis Smith, Duke of Új Repülő|Louis Smith]] was the first king.}} As King, Smith oversaw the reestablishment of the court and the reform of the law, the creation of [[His Royal Army of New Eiffel]], and created the [[Łight Net]] currency. Smith also improved [[Cinema of New Eiffel|New Finlandic cinema]], [[transportation in New Eiffel|transportation]] and the [[list of news companies in New Eiffel|press]]. In early June 2018,{{efn|Probably between 10–21 June.}} the Supreme General [[Joost Smith]] (who was also the Minister of War) announced in a video that he had declared a [[w:Coup d'état|coup d'état]] on New Finland, and would try to gain control over it. Joost proceeded to attack Smith around five minutes after he declared war, attacking him in his office. Smith quickly grabbed a wooden sword and defended himself by hitting Joost in the leg, causing him to desist. Joost was suspended until 30 June{{efn|Likely suspended between 10–21 June until 30 June.}} After a short discussion, Smith made a deal with Joost that Joost would keep the peace if he made New Finland more democratic.<ref name="what"/> Smith, however, kept legal power over the courts, and pardoned himself from any accusations made against him or delayed the cases from proceeding. Smith later used [[w:Loopholes|legal loopholes]] and false accusations to steal resident's property. In late June, [[List of political scandals in New Eiffel and New Finland|following the massive scandal]], Smith willingly stepped down after heavy backlash from the population and the [[Principality of New Eiffel#Media|media]], apparently "in tears". Soon after, every position was left in vacancy, and the Kingdom was ''de facto'' left in [[w:anarchy|anarchy]].<ref name="ne"/><br />
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=== Accession to New Eiffel ===<br />
[[File:New Eiffel-Coat of arms.png|thumb|[[Coat of arms of New Eiffel (2018)|Coat of arms]] used by the Kingdom of New Finland and later New Eiffel between 4 June 2018–4 March 2019]]<br />
On 8 August 2018, Smith had rediscovered micronationalism and became increasingly fascinated by the thought of reforming and returning New Finland to a state of activity. Pegging New Finland's disestablishment to its lack of planning, Smith made a checklist of things he wanted New Finland to have, and began researching micronationalism online, where he discovered [[MicroWiki]] (though he did not register an account until 27 September) and viewed the 6-part [[w:BBC|BBC]] light entertainment television series ''[[w:How to Start Your Own Country|How to Start Your Own Country]]'' via [[w:YouTube|YouTube]]. Presented by [[Danny Wallace]], the series told the story of Wallace's experience of founding a micronation, [[Lovely]], located in his London flat. The following day, Smith began work on the recognised [[public holidays in New Eiffel|public holidays]], declared [[Church of New Eiffel|Christianity the official religion]], and outlined some [[national symbols of New Eiffel|national symbols]]. On 10 August, Smith created the [[New Eiffel Citizens Index|Citizens Index]], and filmed a digital tour of New Eiffel, calling himself "Prince Zarel I". Smith officially declared the [[Principality of New Temporary]] independent on 11 August, declaring himself the Prince. Smith created the [[flag of New Eiffel|national flag]] on 11 August and later adopted the [[Coat of arms of New Eiffel (2018)|coat of arms]] which was used by the Kingdom of New Finland on 13 August. Between 11–29 August, Smith oversaw huge territorial, cultural and architectural development. He also wrote the national anthem "[[Friendly, New Eiffel]]", On 30 August, upon Joost's recommendation, New Temporary was renamed to [[New Eiffel]] in reference to the [[w:Eiffel Tower|Eiffel Tower]].{{efn|The name of the principality is composed of two words, "New" and "Eiffel". The word "''New''" symbolises the nation's rebirth from its predecessor state (the [[Kingdom of New Finland]]), while "''Eiffel''" is a reference to the famous [[w:Eiffel Tower|Eiffel Tower]], which represents progress and integrity.}} On 1 September, Smith declared a [[New Eiffel general election, 2018|general election]] to take place between 15–25 December. On 10 September, Smith declared several national symbols and began work on a constitution on 25 September. Throughout October, Smith oversaw vast development of the law, military, maps, the media (especially television), territorial claims, and [[transportation in New Eiffel|transportation]]. Throughout November, Smith began New Eiffel's huge [[Foreign relations of New Eiffel|diplomatic outreach]] into the [[MicroWiki community]], and also created a business registry and citizenship application.<br />
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=== December 2018–2019 ===<br />
In December, Smith established the [[Royal Archives (New Eiffel)|Royal Archives]] and created ''[[His Royal Mail Service of New Eiffel]]''. Following the general election on 25 December, Daleen Smith was declared [[Prime Minister of New Eiffel]]. On 21 January 2019, Smith wrote the national anthem "[[Stand tall, New Eiffel]]", which replaced the previous anthem. The constitution which Smith had begun writing in September 2018 was finished and adopted on 1 March. Smith commissioned Walker Schroeder, current Chancellor of the [[Unitary State of Swivia]], for the creation of "[[Aardvarks on Parade]]" on 28 April, which was completed on 20 May the following year.<ref name="wayback">[https://archive.org/details/aardvarks-on-parade "Aardvarks on Parade"] at the [[w:Internet Archive|Internet Archive]]. Retrieved 30 August 2020.</ref><ref name="sw">Schroeder, Walker (20 May 2020) [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/571841844074250240/712777554423054426/Aardvarks_on_Parade.mp3 Full anthem], available as an MP3. Retrieved 30 August 2020.</ref> Smith created the [[Order of the Beaver]] on 25 March, [[Order of the Lion (New Eiffel)|Order of the Lion]] on 25 May and the [[Most Excellent Order of the Amphisbaena Potato]] on 15 June. Smith conducted New Eiffel's only census on 6 July.<ref name="cen">{{cite web | url = https://thatwascrazy330.blogspot.com/2019/07/2019-new-eiffel-demographics-survey.html | title = 2019 New Eiffel demographics survey |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20191218183728/https://thatwascrazy330.blogspot.com/2019/07/2019-new-eiffel-demographics-survey.html |archivedate= 18 December 2019 |date= 29 June 2020 |work= |publisher= [[The New Eiffel Times]] |accessdate=6 July 2019}}</ref> On 3 September, by order of Smith, [[List of Acts of the Parliament of New Eiffel|acts of the New Eiffelic parliament]] began being officially recorded. Smith wrote the [[c:Voting Reform Act|Voting Reform Act]] which was passed on 9 October, reforming the requirements to vote in the general election.<ref>[https://commons.micronations.wiki/wiki/Voting_Reform_Act Voting Reform Act] on [[MicroCommons]]. Passed on 9 October 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2020.</ref> After facing criticism from various Libertarians, Smith struck up an agreement with Joost, and wrote and proposed the [[c:Prince Powers Act 2019 (New Eiffel)|Prince Powers Act]], restricting and better defining the Monarch's powers.<ref>[https://commons.micronations.wiki/wiki/Prince_Powers_Act_2019_(New_Eiffel) Prince Powers Act 2019] on MicroCommons. Passed on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2020.</ref><br />
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=== Crisis in New Eiffel and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic ===<br />
[[File:ZedHasCovid-19.jpg|left|thumb|Smith in an unaired broadcast announcing New Eiffel's new COVID-19 restrictions]]<br />
{{Crisis in New Eiffel}}<br />
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{{further|2019–2020 New Eiffelic Constitution Crisis|Micronational responses to the COVID-19 pandemic}}<br />
On 14 December, Smith inadvertently lost the digital and only record of New Eiffel's constitution, starting the [[2019–2020 New Eiffelic Constitution Crisis]] and subsequently the [[Crisis in New Eiffel]]. Despite this, the [[New Eiffel general election, 2019|2019 general election]] still took place as scheduled, and Joost Smith was declared Prime Minister. On 11 February 2020, a non-New Eiffelic citizen [[James Frisch]] offered to Smith to write a new constitution for New Eiffel. Smith accepted and oversaw its final revisions alongside Prime Minister Joost Smith, then the constitution was adopted via a referendum on 1 April. On 14 February 2020, Smith made a royal decree decreeing all New Eiffelic island territorial claims to be dropped, disestablishing the Island of A Férfiak, the Island of New Knight, and the Island of Zackro.<ref>[[c:Royal Decree|Royal Decree]] on [[MicroCommons]]. Retrieved 29 June 2020.</ref> During the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], Smith declared the first-ever state of caution due to the continuing spread of [[w:coronavirus|coronavirus]] in the surrounding areas. Smith was slow to react to the pandemic, and controversially took a "calm" approach, and stated on 15 March that [[Principality of New Eiffel#Sports|sporting events]] and outside travel would not be restricted for the time being, however, later on 24 March Smith restricted all outside travel. Travel bans were lifted on 27 April with a set curfew. Due to the proximity of all New Eiffelic residents, no forms of [[w:social distancing|social distancing]] was ever imposed. Furthermore, frequent hand sanitation was also highly recommended, though not enforced.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/128fALBfNnV-rqdfoLlYa7JQy_xPzR8FBB6HMJkaX26M/edit#gid=0 COVID-19 Micronation Tracking Sheet]. Retrieved 29 July 2020.</ref> Smith received a mixed reception from internal as well as external critics on his response to the pandemic.<ref>[[Hasan Çakar|Çakar, Hasan]] (17 Mar 2020) [https://hasanistan-gov.blogspot.com/2020/03/cpmc-act-voted-on-again-and-passed.html CPMC Act voted on again and passed; Prime Minister gives additional statement on COVID-19 pandemic]. ''☪ Hasanistan ☪''. Retrieved 29 July 2020.</ref>{{unreliable source}} On 20 April, Joost was removed from his position through a [[w:motion of no confidence|motion of no confidence]], and Leader of the Opposition [[Christina Nowell]] became the interim Prime Minister, however, she was removed through a motion of no confidence a few days later. After [[parliament of New Eiffel|Parliament]] could not agree on who should become the next Prime Minister because of the constitution not defining it, they voted to temporarily make Smith an [[w:absolute monarchy|absolute monarch]]. On 1 May, the Document Forming the Transitional Government of New Eiffel was signed by Smith, and Parliament became the Transitional Legislature, and [[Leon Montan]] as First Minister, with Nowell becoming Deputy First Minister. Smith, alongside Montan, worked closely with [[Jayden Lycon]] from the [[Cupertino Electoral Supervisory Commission]] following New Eiffel's membership into the [[Cupertino Alliance]] to host a general election to help end the political crisis. Various delays, however, lasting for nearly a month took place, and the election finally began on 23 May and ended on 25 May, though ultimately proved unsuccessful.<br />
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=== Abdication ===<br />
[[File:Zarel I's abdication full letter.jpg|thumb|200px|Abdication letter]]<br />
{{main|Abdication of Zarel I}}<br />
On 16 June, Smith announced his wish to abdicate. Smith revealed he had been considering his abdication "for a few months" prior. Smith said Smith signed his abdication letter on 18 June, which was to be made official upon Joost's [[coronation]], whom Smith had chosen as the successor as Smith's brother. A crown was also created for the coronation, which had to be rushed due to Smith's short notice. At the coronation, the entire royal family was present — Smith took the crown and put it atop Joost's head, declaring him [[w:Majesty|His Majesty]] Joost the First, Second Prince of New Eiffel. Smith gave a speech following his abdication:<br />
{{quote|It has been an honour to be the Prince of this nation, for nearly two years. We together have held strong through the good times, as well as the tough times. I definitely have no regrets, and I will never stop loving or even being involved with New Eiffel. I wish the new Prince the best of luck, and he has my full support and confidence he will serve and lead the nation successfully.|Smith's abdication speech, spoken in person (2020)}}<br />
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Joost granted Smith the [[w:Substantive title|substantive title]] of "Duke of [[Hsed]]".<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/11_uaf8uhtZ3x6VnHWtd5yAJG-YXiUmpC1_atVVlWLhU/edit?usp=sharing Abdication letter of Zarel I (Full text)]</ref><br />
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== MicroWiki Sector ==<br />
=== Background ===<br />
The "[[MicroWiki Sector]]" is used to describe a group of [[micronation]]s who have formed an independent, largely self-contained community on [[MicroWiki]] by using its wiki, its [http://forum.micronations.wiki/ forums] or [[MicroWiki@Discord|Discord server]].<br />
=== Joining MicroWiki, the NEUM and the Furry war (27 September 2018–January 2019) ===<br />
[[file:ZedI.jpg|thumb|200px|Smith's [[Zed#Royal portraits|royal portrait]] from March—October 2019; photographed on September 2018. Courtesy Malachi Goodrich.]]<br />
Smith registered an account on MicroWiki on 27 September 2018 and made his first edit on 28 September. <ref group="‡">[[User:Z. Luna Skye|Z. Luna Skye]]. [https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Special:Contributions/Z._Luna_Skye Contributions]. ''[[MicroWiki]]''. Retrieved 8 April 2020.</ref> Initially Smith was rarely active, and his main form of communication was through talk pages on the wiki, although he did also register an account on the forums, which he did not utilise. On the same day, Smith contacted [[Austin Jaax]] via [[w:e-mail|e-mail]] requesting mutual relations with the [[Republic of Iustus]] (today part of the [[Empire of Iustus]]), however, the request was denied. Smith later created the [[New Eiffel Union of Micronations]] (later retitled the Organisation of Active Micronations<ref name="OAM3"/>) on 21 November, aiming a community of smaller and newer micronations.<ref name="OAM1"/> Gaining six members by the end of the month, it had greatly expanded Smith's outreach. It had reached eleven by December, and Smith became political friends with [[Anthony Dickson]] of [[Islamic Republic of Hala’ib Triangle|Hala'ib Triangle]], [[Lahav Morris]] of [[Blue Army]] and [[Cooper Norfolk]] of [[Seybold]]. Smith's first impression to the wider community, however, was one of ridicule, after Smith engaged in online [[micronational warfare]] via MicroWiki talk pages with [[Aidan McGrath]] of the erstwhile [[Catholique Socialist Republic]], after McGrath had declared war on New Eiffel because of their support of the [[w:furry fandom|furry fandom]] on 12 December.<ref name="seybold">[https://web.archive.org/web/20191106121332/https://seyboldtoday.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/issue-75-14-12-18/ Issue #75 – 14/12/18]. ''[[w:Seybold Today|Seybold Today]]''. Archived from [https://seyboldtoday.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/issue-75-14-12-18/ the original] on 6 November 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2020.</ref> The incident, dubbed the "Furry war{{space}}''<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[w:sic|sic]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>''"<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=Furry_war&redlink=1#/editor/all Furry war]. Deleted page on MicroWiki. ''Various authors''. Retrieved 25 June 2020.</ref> had consisted solely of exchanges of insults and threats with each other. The incident was strongly criticised by members on [[MicroWiki@Discord]], as well as from Norfolk, whom wrote critical remarks about the conflict in Issue #75 of [[Seybold Today]].<ref name="seybold"/><ref>[[c:|Talk page of User:Cookieman1.1.1]]. Retrieved 25 June 2020.</ref> Following the end of the conflict on 15 December, Smith and McGrath continued to hold opposing views, though later the two regretted the conflict and established peace after New Eiffel joined the [[League of Nations]] on 16 January 2019.<br />
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=== Early 2019 ===<br />
[[file:ZarelJune2019.jpeg|left|thumb|230px|Smith's last [[Zed#Royal portraits|royal portrait]] from October 2019–June 2020; photographed on 7 June 2019]]<br />
Smith created the now highly publicised [[Micronationalist of the Month]] award on 28 January, which has since built up a favourable legacy.<ref name="DMM"/><ref>Cristi (31 August 2019) [https://plushunia.wordpress.com/2019/09/01/august-2019s-dime-micronationalist-of-the-month-announced/August 2019’s DIME Micronationalist of the Month announced]. ''Plushunian News Service''. Retrieved 31 August 2019.</ref><ref>Valentinus, Sertor (11 October 2020) [https://brooksidegazette.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/casper-von-naveria-named-statistic-dimes-micronationalist-of-the-month/ Casper von Naveria named Statistic-DIME’s Micronationalist of the Month]. ''Brookside Gazette''. Retrieved 21 October 2020.</ref> Smith was initially ridiculed upon entering MicroWiki@Discord on 7 February, particularly due to his initial unprofessionalism and the Furry war, with some members citing him as "wacky", "egotistical" and "asocial." Luxor ([[Karl Friedrich]]), noting Smith's contributions to MicroWiki, made him a [[MicroWiki:Patroller|patroller]] on 24 February, which was Smith's first form of any recognition for his editing on MicroWiki. The first foreign micronation Smith joined was the [[Empire of Austenasia]], after he became a non-residential subject on 14 March after founding the [[Austenasian Territory]] of [[Green Gate]], which he administers as its Governor as ''Lord Zarel Smith, Baron of Green Gate''.<ref name="sssZD"/> Luxor created the website [[MicroWikiDictionary]] after it was suggested by Smith on 7 April, and Smith later founded the well-known [[Microcode]] et al on 16 April.<ref>[https://sites.google.com/view/microcode/about? About].{{dead link}} Microcode Official Website. Retrieved 10 March 2020.</ref> On 19 April, Smith became subject to the meme "[[@New Eiffel Government]]", which involves users pinging ("@ing") his Discord account on MicroWiki@Discord.<ref name="meme">Z. Smith. [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CTmB0I_OvDDcFLBlFCCW2YrytQMioSKoTX8Aizm_Lfc/edit?usp=sharing MicroWiki General Survey results]. Retrieved 16 September 2020.</ref><br />
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=== Rise in popularity (May—December 2019) ===<br />
Throughout May and June, Smith gradually became a popular and ubiquitous figure on MicroWiki@Discord, sending at one point over 4,200 messages per month, and also joined various micronations and became active in intermicronational governments, particularly ones in the [[w:Discord (software)|Discord community]], such as the [[Aspen Empire]], [[Zuhan Empire]] and [[Grand Republic of Cycoldia]]. Between June and July, Smith worked on numerous MicroWiki projects; he ran free micronational [[Zarel Smith, Duke of Hsed#Userpage advertisements|advertisements on his userpage]] between 10 June—20 July, ran the 2019 installation of the annual ''[[User:Z. Luna Skye/Maketheedit!|Make the Edit!]]'' game between 3–16 July<ref group="‡">[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye/Maketheedit!2019 Make the Edit! 2019]. Retrieved 2 July 2020.</ref> and created the ''[[MicroWiki Mentions Chart!]]'' on 16 July, a weekly list which features the micronation which had the highest number of mentions on MicroWiki@Discord of that week. Smith took a break from MicroWiki due to what he cited as "personal reasons" involving his family life between 16 August until his return on 2 September. On 27 September, Smith celebrated what he called his one year "[[User:Z. Luna Skye/Zarel's 1 Year MicroWiki Anniversary|Microversary]]", celebrating his first anniversary on MicroWiki.<ref group="‡">[[User:Z Luna Skye/Zarel's 1 Year MicroWiki Anniversary]]</ref> A tongue-in-cheek relationship between Ian "Duck" (also known as Flames) and Smith began to flourish in early October. The two later held a comical matrimonial ceremony on a Discord server on 23 October. It was jokingly advertised as the greatest and "largest micronational wedding" ever.<ref>Brandels, Richard (23 October 2019) [https://thecharlingtonpress.wordpress.com/2019/10/23/hm-william-i-performs-marriage-ceremony/ HM William I, performs marriage ceremony.] ''The [[Charlington Press]]''. Retrieved 16 July 2020.</ref> They later renewed wedding vows on 27 December. On 5 November, Smith attempted to create MicroGuiness Book, a micronational version of [[w:Guinness World Record|Guinness World Records]]. The name was stolen directly from Daniel Lee, from an idea stolen from [[Nicholas Randouler]]. The idea never took off, however, and was abandoned a day after its creation as most records could not be easily verified.<ref group="‡">[[User:Z Luna Skye/MicroGuiness Book]]. Retrieved 6 July 2020.</ref> On 25 December, Smith, alongside [[Leon Montan]] and Anna Telford, founded the [[w:elite|elite]], invitation-only [[w:social club|social club]] and organisation [[TOES]].<ref name="Toes"/><br />
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=== Peak (January—June 2020) ===<br />
[[file:Editathon.jpeg|thumb|230px|Logo of the [[Twenty-four Hour MicroWiki Edit-a-thon]]]]<br />
[[File:F8494962-A69B-4DB3-8C5D-EF46ABBA11B8.jpeg|thumb|230px|Smith in July 2020, during his departure from MicroWiki]]<br />
For New Year Honours, Smith was made a Member of the [[Iustus|Iustian]] Order of Ongwanada for his "diplomatic friendship"<ref name="ONG">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/190FrBga7hPvmsUAFxdA2XvmsvZZJt2kJG3vpuGlghhc/ Iustus 2019 End of the Year Honour] on [[w:Google Docs|Google Docs]]. Retrieved 10 January 2020.</ref> and the [[Millania]]n [[Awards and Decorations of Millania|Most Glorious Order of Millanian Excellence]] for "outstanding service to the community."<ref name="MIL">[https://drive.google.com/file/d/19rT3LIMG9QH_k_Zw3DUozyL6KnjlIEiM/view Report-3.pdf]. Retrieved 10 January 2020.</ref> Notably, Smith also made the first edit on MicroWiki for the year [[2020]] (in UTC, the server for MicroWiki's time zone).<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/529316 MicroWiki: First edit of 2020]</ref> On 28 January, Smith announced he had begun writing his first book ''The Micronation Index: A Book About Micronationalism''. Between 28 January—5 February, Smith participated in the [[Grand Theft Auto V affair]], a sarcastic conflict between various members on a MicroWiki talk page.<ref>[[User talk:ThatMLGDorito#delete gta V|delete gta V]]. ''[[User talk:ThatMLGDorito]]'' on MicroWiki. Retrieved 25 June 2020.</ref> Smith became a [[MicroWiki:Staff|wiki administrator]] on MicroWiki on 2 February,<ref>[[MicroWiki:Staff]]</ref> and shortly after was voted Dime's Micronationalist of the Month for February 2020, winning with a total of nine votes ahead of three other nominees. Smith became a recipient of the [[Ebanthal|Ebenthali]] [[Order of the Silver Cat]] on 10 February. Throughout March–April, Smith ran in various elections and gained over eighteen different offices in [[intermicronational organisation]]s and micronations; Smith also began expanding his legal knowledge. Smith was the head organiser of the [[Twenty-four Hour MicroWiki Edit-a-thon]] held between 17–18 April. Smith made over 250 edits during the edit-a-thon, up from his average daily edits of 45. Believed to have been the first-ever [[w:edit-a-thon|edit-a-thon]] on MicroWiki, it was, however, poorly organised and inadequately run. On 1 May, Smith was made an [[MicroWiki@Discord#Administration|administrator on MicroWiki@Discord]]. Throughout June–July, Smith began becoming more active on TOES and the GUM and [[Misberia]]n Discord servers, as well as other third-party micronational chat servers, somewhat leaving MicroWiki@Discord and the Abelden server. He cited his inactivity from MicroWiki@Discord as being due to the unprofessionalism, while leaving Essexia and Abelden after alleged continuous civil unrest and controversies. Smith ran the 2020 ''[[User:Z. Luna Skye/Maketheedit!|Make the Edit!]]'' game between 8–18 June. Smith became a Recipient of the [[Malinovia]]n [[Order of the Malinovian Sun]] on 9 June, and was later made a high member of the [[Most Excellent Order of the Amphisbaena Potato]], the highest honour in New Eiffel, on 23 June for "micronational fun". Between 30 June—5 July, Smith participated in the satirical [[TOES-Almendria War]] by working as a spy for TOES, until he was found out after an alleged information leak within TOES took place.<br />
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=== Hiatus (July—Present) ===<br />
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Smith had been planning on slowly leaving the wider MicroWiki community since March, due to prioritising his education and [[Zed#Mental health|§ mental health]]. Smith had by choice began spending a lot less time on MicroWiki@Discord to pursue other endeavours. Smith went on to suffer a large defeat as [[Jayden Lycon]]'s running mate in the [[Grand Unified Micronational election, June 2020|June 2020 Grand Unified Micronational election]], and his term as Secretary for Micronational Development ended on 4 July.<ref>Belcher, Adam (1 July 2020) [https://gumnews.wordpress.com/2020/07/01/result-of-the-chair-election-june-2020/ Result of the Chair election, June 2020]. ''GUM News''. Retrieved 16 July 2020.</ref> Smith became a Recipient of the [[Ünie|Ünic]] Grand Order of Dancing Wolves on 3 July for his political work in Ünie. Smith optionally allowed the Ministry of Health and Safety in New Eiffel to be dissolved on 8 July and announced on 15 July that he would be leaving Abelden, citing this as being due to his lack of attention he had given Abelden, calling it insufficient.<ref>Blackwood, Ives (16 July 2020) [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2020/07/16/zarel-smith-makes-plans-to-leave-community/ Zarel Smith makes plans to leave community]. ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]''. Retrieved 16 July 2020.</ref> Smith later announced he would be further leaving more positions, however confirmed he would remain the Minister of Culture for Essexia until early 2021.<ref>Editor, Chief (17 July 2020). [http://essexian.com/lord-zarel-announces-his-departure-from-essexia-next-year/ Lord Zarel announces his departure from Essexia next year]. ''The Essexian Post''. Retrieved 18 July 2020.</ref> Smith developed the Intermicronational Time Zones Standard (ITZS) on 25 August.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D8J-G8BiyvB6xmQ8eWTrH6PXSMZH2dm5DGDwyiaRVv4/edit Time zones, first edition (25 Aug 2020)]. ''Intermicronational Time Zones Standard''. Beta version 1.1. Retrieved 25 August 2020.</ref> Smith held a three-day [[User:Z. Luna Skye/Zed's Two Year Microversary| 2nd MicroWiki anniversary]] event between 27–29 September.<ref group="‡">[[User:Z. Luna Skye/Zed's Two Year Microversary]] on MicroWiki. Retrieved 28 September 2020.</ref> Smith formally announced his break from the MicroWiki community on 29 September, citing "I do not know for how long yet - could be anywhere between a few months and even a year."<ref>Smith, Zarel (29 September 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-rjzBf_1tMOF83RGYtJYQdCCWRIuFdTtqCparlPhS08/edit Zed is taking a break (1/10/20)]. Retrieved 29 September 2020.</ref><ref>Smith, Zarel (30 September 2020) [http://news.ponderosangovernment.ml/2020/09/30/zarel-smith-begins-to-leave-community-just-after-two-year-anniversary-celebrations/?preview=true Zarel Smith begins to leave community just after two year anniversary celebrations]. ''[[Ponderosan News Agency]]''. Retrieved 30 September 2020.</ref> Smith resigned from his position as the leader of the [[Shrek Super Party of Essexia]] on 10 October.<ref>Editor, Chief (9 October 2020) [http://essexian.com/first-televised-political-debate-in-essexian-history-to-be-aired-tomorrow/ First televised political debate in Essexian history to be aired tomorrow]. ''The Essexian Post''. Retrieved 10 October 2020.</ref> Smith is currently on a hiatus from MicroWiki and plans to return on 1 March 2021.<br />
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== Political career ==<br />
[[File:Abelden Smith Nov 2019 election poster.png|220px|left|thumb|Campaign poster for the [[Abeldane by-election, November 2019]], designed by [[Nicholas Randouler]]]]<br />
Smith has taken on federal, judicial, ministerial, public sector, and local work, running in numerous elections or by being directly appointed. In a career spanning more than two years, Smith's party memberships heads from [[w:far-left politics|far-left]] to [[w:far-right politics|far-right]] positions, as well as [[w:satire|satirical]]. <br />
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Smith is a Deputy President of [[Ponderosa Hills]] following an after-election agreement, and is the Governor of the [[Austenasian territory]] of [[Green Gate]]. Smith served as Minister of Defence and later Minister of Education and Labour in [[Somcow]] in 2019, Minister of Health and Safety in New Eiffel between 12 February 2019–8 July 2020, [[Commonwealth of Essexia#Current cabinet|Minister of Culture]] in [[Essexia]] between 3 March–10 October 2020, Minister of Orthography for [[Morgannwg]] in [[Abelden]] between 9 March—30 September 2020, and [[Posaf]]ian Premier of [[Nievenorte]] between 16 May—1 October 2020. Judicially, Smith was the Attorney General for the Sixth Renwick Cabinet in Abelden between 1 April 2020 until 29 June, after losing his seat to [[Brandon Wu]] of [[Liberty Front]], and served as the Supreme Judge of the [[Principality of Oceania]] between 27 May–30 September 2020. Smith presently leads the Social Democratic Party of [[Mahuset]] and the Shrek Super Party of [[Naveria]],<ref name="Nav"/> and was formerly an MP in the [[Aspen Empire]] and the later [[Kingdom of Appalachia]], [[Islamic Republic of Hala’ib Triangle|Hala'ib Triangle]], Caddia, [[Mercia]], [[Ünie]], [[Yu-Xia]] and [[Misberia]].<br />
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=== Intermicronational organisations ===<br />
{{further|New Eiffel and the Cupertino Alliance|New Eiffel and the Micronational Olympic Federation}}<br />
A vocal supporter of [[intermicronational organisation]]s, Smith was the founder and Chair of the [[New Eiffel Union of Micronations]] (later retitled the [[Organisation of Active Micronations (New Eiffel Union)|Organisation of Active Micronations]], a name taken from [[Organisation of Active Micronations|a major micronational organisation that was active from 2009 to 2011]]) between 21 November 2018–May 2019, overeating thirty-three member states, and the [[Christian Micronational Union]] between 4 September 2019–2 March 2020. Smith has been the [[Ministers of the Cupertino Alliance#Non-ministerial positions|Superior Judge]] and [[Ministers of the Cupertino Alliance#Non-ministerial positions|Notary General]] of the [[Cupertino Alliance]] since 25 March and 5 April 2020 respectively. Smith also participated in the Cupertino Alliance's [[69 Hour Session]] held between 14 March—17 March 2020,<ref name="ti>Lycon, Jayden (14-17 March 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IO_hnhcIEwCsqFV6ec4dOAcMLHQVKAIwh1pmnm_lHXA/edit?usp=sharing Cupertino Gazette Issue 7]</ref> and his proposed anthem "[[THE UNITED MICRANATIONS is better]]", a song he made following a young inexperienced micronationalist jokingly mocking the GUM, became one of the two national anthems of the CA on 20 March, "having higher precedence", meaning that it gets to be played first.<ref>Lycon, Jayden (19 March 2020) [https://nacrecupertino.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/meet-your-new-anthems-gum-distrack-and-is-jacking-off-a-sport/ Meet your new anthems: GUM Distrack and Is Jacking Off a Sport?]</ref>{{efn|Though ''Is Jacking Off a Sport?'' was also elected, the anthem was later repealed under a Ministerial Order.<ref>Lycon, Jayden (22 March 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CGcfci_z3KNDRFutkGkJNiqVqYWNJS6QKH4W-Ta2Jx0/edit?usp=sharing Ministerial Order enacted], 22 March 2020</ref>}} This was repealed after the passing of the ''Anthem Act'' in early June 2020.<br />
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==== Grand Unified Micronational ====<br />
{{further|New Eiffel and the Grand Unified Micronational}}<br />
Smith served as the [[Grand Unified Micronational#Secretariat for Micronational Development|Secretary for Micronational Development]] between 11 January–4 July 2020, [[Grand Unified Micronational#Secretariat for Public Relations and Press|Ad-Interim Press Secretary]] from 1 February–30 March 2020, and was a Lobby Moderator for the GUM [[w:Discord (software)|Discord]] server between 28 March–6 October 2020. Smith has been New Eiffel's primary delegate after New Eiffel was previously accepted as a provisional member on 28 April 2019. It became a full member after the Quorum of Delegates convened and voted on 21 May. Smith has served as the Delegate for New Eiffel under four Chairs; [[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]], [[Bradley of Dullahan]], [[Thomas I of Hrafnarfjall]] and [[Newton von Uberquie]]. Smith created the [[Help Joining the GUM]] organisation on 26 July 2019, and during a Quorum session in a measure which in effect consists of recognition and endorsement from the parent organisation, the project was renamed the Grand Unified Micronational Development Initiative. Smith later unsuccessfully ran as [[Jayden Lycon]]'s running mate in the [[Grand Unified Micronational election, June 2020|June 2020 election]], losing with a low 12.9% of the vote. Smith also participated in the [[24 Hour Quorum (2020)|2020 edition of the 24 Hour Quorum]].<br />
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==== Others ====<br />
Smith was the [[Micronational Olympic Federation#Vice-President|Vice-President of Sanctioned Events]] for the [[Micronational Olympic Federation]] between 17 October 2019–30 September 2020, overseeing the [[2020 MOF Rock Paper Scissors Tournament]], President of the Assembly for the [[Plush Nation Cooperation Union]], between August 2019 until the organisation went inactive due to Cristi's original disappearance, and among the former mentioned, served as the delegate for New Eiffel to the [[League of Professional Nations]], [[North Atlantic Defense Union]], [[Commonwealth of Sovereignties (ComSov)]] and the [[Asia-Pacific Alliance]].<br />
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=== Shrek Super Party ===<br />
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Smith is the founder of a chain of various [[w:List of frivolous political parties|satirical]] political parties named after the video game ''[[w:Shrek Super Party|Shrek Super Party]]''. These include the [[Shrek Super Party of Essexia|Essexian]], Misberian, and [[Canadian Isabelle - Shrek Super Party|Ponderosan Hills]] branches (with the Ponderosa Hills branch being a partnership with Jayden Lycon). The bloc is usually a third party within domestic politics, however, gained a minority government in the [[2020 Ponderosan elections|May 2020 Ponderosan Hills general election]]. <br />
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The bloc declined in late 2020, with the loss of their only seat in the [[Parliament of Essexia]], and the renaming of the Ponderosan Hills branch to the ''Federalist Party'', named after their support of a federal government.<br />
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== MicroWiki editing ==<br />
Smith began editing MicroWiki on 28 September 2018, a day after he registered an account.<ref name="user">[[User:Z. Luna Skye]] on MicroWiki. Retrieved 5 November 2020.</ref> As of October 2020, Smith had made over thirty-three thousand edits to MicroWiki<ref name="op"/>—making him responsible for five percent of all edits on the site—and created over three thousand pages,<ref>[[Special:Statistics]] on MicroWiki. Retrieved 5 November 2020.</ref> [[MicroWiki:Users by edit count|more than]] any other editor on MicroWiki. He surpassed editor [[John I of Baustralia]] for most edits on 7 November 2019. Smith was one of the most active editors,<ref group="‡">[[User:Z Luna Skye/sandbox9]]. Retrieved 3 December 2020.</ref> and by his second anniversary, Smith had made an average of 45.06 edits to MicroWiki every day. Smith became an [[microwiki:Administrators|administrator]] on MicroWiki on 2 February 2020,<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/MicroWiki:Staff MicroWiki:Staff]</ref> being promoted from a [[microwiki:patroller|patroller]] which he became on 24 February 2019. Furthermore, the most edits Smith made in a day was 728 on 7 November 2019,<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Special:Contributions/Z._Luna_Skye Contributions] for Z. Luna Skye. ''MicroWiki''. Retrieved 5 November 2020.</ref> he has authored four "[[MicroWiki:Good articles|good articles]]",<ref>[[MicroWiki:Good articles#Statistics]] on MicroWiki. Retrieved 5 November 2020.</ref>—articles which are determined by MicroWiki's editors as the best articles on the site—uploaded over six-hundred files,<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Z._Luna_Skye Uploads] from Z. Luna Skye. ''MicroWiki''. Retrieved 5 November 2020.</ref> and has blocked over fifty users,<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Special:BlockList+BlockingAdmin=Z._LunaSkye Users blocked by Z. Luna Skye] on MicroWiki. Retrieved 5 November 2020.</ref> and, according to his user page, claims to have spent more than a thousand hours on MicroWiki.<ref name="user"/><br />
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Smith made his hundredth edit on 26 November 2018, thousandth edit on 9 January 2019, ten thousandth edit on 7 June 2019, twenty thousandth edit on 5 December 2019, and thirty thousandth edit on 3 July 2020.<ref name="user"/><ref group="‡">[[User:Z Luna Skye|Edit milestones]] on MicroWiki. ''User:Z Luna Skye''. Retrieved 5 November 2020.</ref><br />
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== Statistic-Dime and surveys ==<br />
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*[[MicroWiki Influence Survey#Nineteenth Survey|19th MicroWiki Influence Survey]] (105)<br />
*[[MicroWiki General Survey|MicroWiki General Survey 2020]] (63)<ref name="sd2020">Smith, Zarel (15 November 2020) [https://micronationsweekly.blogspot.com/2020/11/statistic-dime-2020-microwiki-general.html Statistic-Dime 2020 MicroWiki General Survey - An Overview]. ''[[MicroWeekly]]''. Retrieved 15 November 2020.</ref><br />
*[[Micronational Popularity Index|Popularity Index]] (44)<br />
*[[GUM Member States Positivity Survey]] (40)<br />
*[[MicroWiki General Survey|MicroWiki General Survey 2019]] (34)<br />
*[[Statistic Fire's LGBT Rights Index#2020 index|2020 LGBT Rights Index]] (34)<br />
*[[User:Z. Luna Skye/Editors Survey|MicroWiki Editors Survey]] (29)<br />
*[[Statistic Fire's LGBT Rights Index#2019 index|2019 LGBT Rights Index]] (26)<br />
*[[Dime-Curio Micronational Organisation Poll]] (>18)<br />
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Smith is the founder of [[Statistic-Dime]]—which was formed in [[2019]] by the merger of [[Statistic-Fire]] and [[DIME (company)|DIME]]—and served as its CEO between October 2019–December 2020.<ref>Cited, Daniel Roscoe: "I, [Daniel Roscoe], have replaced Zarel Smith as CEO of Statistic-Dime. I will bring growth and development to this great company."{{unreliable source}}</ref><ref>Roscoe, Daniel (30 January 2021) [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2021/01/30/luxor-voted-micronationalist-of-the-month-for-january-2021/ Luxor voted Micronationalist of the Month for January 2021.] ''[[MicroWeekly]]''. Retrieved 30 January 2021.</ref> Statistic-Dime was the [[w:De facto|de facto]] national [[w:Statistical|statistical]] office of New Eiffel. Notable projects include the highly publicised [[Micronationalist of the Month]] and [[Micronationalist of the Year]] awards, the positively received annual [[LGBT Rights Index]], [[Microcode]], the largest two-letter code standard in the MicroWiki Sector, [[Project Micronation]], one of the most extensive micronational mapping projects, and the Intermicronational Time Zones Standard, the largest [[w:time zone|time zone]] standard within micronationalism. Smith also created the [[Micronational Macronation Index]] and [[Micronational Leaders Index]] in early 2019. In October 2019, Smith aided [[Ives Blackwood]] in creating the [[micronational compass]]. Smith also worked on a peace index, democracy index, and tourism index, though they were all later cancelled.<br />
=== Surveys ===<br />
Smith conducts an [[Statistic Fire's LGBT Rights Index|LGBTQ+ rights survey]] annually. The first was in August 2019, and the second in May 2020; the survey received 26 and 34 respondents respectively, and both were received positively.<ref>[https://mahuset.miraheze.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Mahuset LGBT rights in Mahuset] on [[Royal Wiki]]. Retrieved 5 March 2020.</ref> Smith began by conducting the controversial [[Micronational Popularity Index]] between 22 January—12 March 2019, which although it had a record high 44 respondents, suffered from a lack of advertising, unorganised scheduling, limited responses and was conducted via talk pages on MicroWiki. Owing to the confluence of these problems, the survey was completed and tabulated two months behind schedule to much popular criticism. After a two-month hiatus, Smith conducted the [[User:Z. Luna Skye/Editors Survey|MicroWiki Editors Survey]] between 29 June—1 July, with questions concerning people who edit MicroWiki. The survey had 29 respondents.<ref>https://forms.gle/jSack9HzKx8ekmCm7</ref> Smith conducted New Eiffel's first and so far only census on 6 July.<ref name="cen"/> Smith conducted the [[MicroWiki General Survey]], his last survey for 2019, between the 9 November—11 November, which had 34 respondents. The survey found ten questions, some relating to communication methods, such as "Do you use the MicroWiki forums?", [[Criticism of the GUM|approval or disapproval]] of the [[Grand Unified Micronational]], and [[micronational warfare]]. The survey was reportedly successful and found interesting results. Smith went on to co-host the controversial [[MicroWiki Influence Survey#Nineteenth Survey|19th MicroWiki Influence Survey]] in January 2020.<ref>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YCb_7pBuyzJhWBpJmMqI8kNnH_Eacb8f_3qQ1OcmK-E/edit</ref> Between 1-4 March 2020, Smith and [[Jayden Lycon]] held the [[Dime-Curio Micronational Organisation Poll]], which asked participants to rank [[Intermicronational organisation|intermicronational organisations]]. It was met with moderate criticism.<ref> J. Lycon. & Z. Smith. (4 March 2020) [https://issuu.com/curio_rblx/docs/microorgpollmarch2020 Dime-Curio Micro Organization Poll | March 2020] Retrieved 5 March 2020.</ref> Smith later conducted the [[GUM Member States Positivity Survey]] between 7–8 July and again during 9–10 July, which had 20 than 40 respondents respectively.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3AfSqeN7sPAIwxTssQE_HdDw5OiK10WoQckdmJVf1k/edit | archiveurl = https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3AfSqeN7sPAIwxTssQE_HdDw5OiK10WoQckdmJVf1k/edit | archivedate = 1 August 2020 |title = "GUM Member States Positivity Results 20 respondents" |author = Zarel Smith}}</ref><ref>[https://imgur.com/gallery/SEjDEAT GUM-MSPS — Results, 40 respondents] text archive</ref> Smith's last survey of 2020 was the 2020 edition of the [[MicroWiki General Survey]], and with 63 respondents, it was his largest and most successful survey.<br />
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== Media career ==<br />
=== Acting ===<br />
[[File:Insaniam film poster.jpg|thumb|left|230px|Poster for ''[[Insaniam]]'' (2020), which Smith regards as his "[[w:magnum opus|magnum opus]]"]]<br />
Smith starred in his own independently produced short films ''[[Layers]]'' (2018), ''[[The Farmer]]'' (2018), ''[[Being Born Twelve Times]]'' (2019), ''[[Underneath]]'' (2019), ''[[Smith iPad Record of a Sneeze]]'' (2020), ''[[Insaniam]]'' (2020), ''[[Hiking Trail]]'' (2020) and ''[[Big Fluffy Socks for the Winter Golem]]'' (2020).<ref>''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_5RPZ5Y688 Insaniam]'' on [[w:YouTube|YouTube]]</ref> Smith frequents the surrealist and thriller film genres. Smith regards ''Insaniam'' as his "[[w:magnum opus|magnum opus]]".<ref>[https://archive.org/details/insaniam "Insaniam"] is available for free download at the [[w:Internet Archive|Internet Archive]]. Retrieved 28 October 2020.</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Zarel%20Smith%22 Zarel Smith] on the [[w:Internet Archive|Internet Archive]]</ref> Smith previously made a number of video works between 2011–13 via his parents' smartphones. Smith credits his first short film as being the comedy ''At the Shop'', as it features a cast (his brother Joost), camera direction from his mother, and editing as the short was shot in two scenes. The creation date is given as [[2014]], though it was likely made years earlier. His second short film he started in was the action ''The Return of the Fluffy Ending'' (retroactively titled ''Guns Out Fire''), which was created with four of his friends. Using [[w:Nerf|Nerf]] blasters, the film was edited to add bullet and blood effects and sound effects. It was uploaded onto YouTube on 2 November 2014 (later deleted in 2019), marking it as Smith's first appearance on the platform. Smith has also created or starred in over twenty short films for [[Z&jProductions]], a studio which he co-founded alongside his brother Joost,<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0743666 https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0743666], retrieved 31 January 2020.</ref> and two for [[Farkasok és Szar Studios]], ''[[Scissor: Dawn of a New Game]]'' (2018) and ''[[Epic Action Movie]]'' (2019), both of which are regarded as some of the finest films in [[Cinema of New Eiffel|New Eiffelic cinema]] ever made. Smith also starred in short films for his film school, ''[[First Bite]]'', ''[[w:First World War centenary|WW1 100th Anniversary Poem Reading]]'' (2018),<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5gulPEvO0k</ref> ''[[imdb:tt10599200|Cutlery]]'',<ref>"[[imdb:tt10599200|Cutlery]]" on [[w:IMDb|IMDb]]. Retrieved 25 March 2020.</ref><ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_czz2DXlCRo Cutlery] on [[w:YouTube|YouTube]]. Uploaded on 25 April 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2020.</ref> ''[[imdb:tt10620080|InterYet to Come]]'' (2019),<ref>[https://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/super-8-stage-and-screen-school-‘interyet-come’-2019 'InterYet to Come' (2019)]. ''[[w:BBFC|BBFC]]''. Retrieved 12 April 2020.</ref> ''[[Imdb:tt12059466|Coughs and Sneezes Spreads Diseases 2020]]'' (2020),<ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0E5AmmPUOt8 Coughs and Sneezes Spreads Diseases 2020] on YouTube. Uploaded on 19 March 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.</ref><ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12059466/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0</ref> and due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], ''[[imdb:tt12261962|Panic in the Sitting Room!]]'' (2020),<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8PFx8tALyo</ref> which was created by students submitting footage which was later edited together to form a comprehensive story,<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12261962/</ref> and ''[[Eye Opener]]'' (2020) which Smith created with his family for the school.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/Super8StageandScreenschool/videos/746850152720169/</ref> ''InterYet to Come'' placed second in the [[w:Childnet|2019 Childnet Film Competition]]. <ref name="Childnet">[https://web.archive.org/web/20200131034833/https://www.childnet.com/resources/film-competition/2019/secondary-finalists Film Competition 2019: Secondary finalists]. ''[[w:Childnet|Childnet]]''. Archived from [https://www.childnet.com/resources/film-competition/2019/secondary-finalists the original] on 31 January 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.</ref> Notable Z&jProductions films Smith starred in include ''[[The Great War Part I]]'' (2018), ''[[Dimensions: Choices]]'' (2019) and ''[[Pick]]'' (2020), as well as the ''[[Star Warz]]'' film series (since 2018), ''[[India Trilogy]]'' (2018–2020) and ''[[Med-Evil Ghost (film series)|Med-Evil Ghost]]'' (since 2019).<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10573254/ Zarel Smith] at [[w:IMDb|IMDb]].</ref><ref name="zed">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18lxdNur7uKzW_zL71RzJEbqYlsDVPgDxo5zZDTNQFrE/view Filmography of Zarel Smith doc]. Retrieved 18 June 2020.</ref> Smith is also creating ''[[TOES: A Documentary on the Elite Organisation]]''.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gZbQ5TNJvI</ref><ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12234120/?ref_=adv_li_tt</ref> Smith is currently staring in a number of New Eiffelic television shows and web-series which are still broadcasting, such as ''[[The Squishes]]'', ''[[(Blank) Commercial!]]'' and ''[[The best soup Opera ever made]]''. Smith has also starred in ''People Dying in Movies'' (2016–2017), ''The Squishes: The Extended World'' (2017), ''Minecraft Shrek: Infinity Swamp'' (2019–2020)<ref>MemeStealer69 (12 Dec 2019) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnKWH-nlGVY Minecraft Shrek: Infinity Swamp – Part 1: A Journey Begins] on YouTube. Retrieved 1 August 2020.</ref> and the pilot episodes for ''20 Reasons Why!'' (2017) and ''Your Daily Movie Update'' (2018) which were never produced. Smith also appeared as a guest in an unaired episode of ''[[MicroRamble]]'' which was later cancelled due to technical difficulties.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13062446/</ref><br />
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=== Zínt and Win-a-lot Casino ===<br />
Smith has produced and starred in four commercials for his luxury fashion brand [[Zínt]] and three for his pop-up casino [[Win-a-lot Casino]].<br />
==== Commercials ====<br />
*[[Zínt]] September 2019 - "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XoPBgJxYwQ The Double Shoe]"<ref>Zínt Fashion (27 Sep 2019), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XoPBgJxYwQ Zínt presents: The Double Shoe]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved 19 July 2020.</ref><ref name="NEAFR>[[Zed#Works cited|New Eiffelic annual financial report]], 2019. p.10–11 "Adverts". ''Published by the Government of New Eiffel.'' 4 January 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.</ref><br />
*Zínt November 2019 - "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmDudirflyo The Zínt Wooden Stand]"<ref name="zint1">Zínt Fashion (4 Nov 2019), [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DmDudirflyo Zínt presents: The Zínt Wooden Stand]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved 3 March 2020.</ref><br />
*Zínt November 2019 - "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33vcnjn1WH0 The Zínt Luxury Plastic Bag]"<ref>Zínt Fashion (19 Nov 2019), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33vcnjn1WH0 Zínt presents: The Zínt Luxury Plastic Bag]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved 19 July 2020.</ref><br />
*[[Win-a-lot Casino]] Christmas 2019 - "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbTDJ5zPT6o This is Win-a-lot Casino]"<ref>Win-a-lot Casino (4 Mar 2020) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbTDJ5zPT6o Win-a-lot Casino Advert - Christmas 2019 - "This is Win-a-lot Casino"]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved 19 July 2020.</ref><br />
*Zínt March 2020 - "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAqjLinFjFA The Practical Shoe Line]"<ref name="zint2">Zínt Fashion (3 Mar 2020), [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAqjLinFjFA Zínt presents: The Practical Shoe Line]. ''YouTube''. Retrieved 8 May 2020.</ref><br />
*Win-a-lot Casino 23 July 2020 - "Life After Win-a-lot Casino"<br />
*Win-a-lot Casino 20 August 2020 - "Money"<br />
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=== Discography ===<br />
''Due to legal restrictions, the subject of this section's name as been [[w:Sanitization (classified information)|redacted, removed or changed]] where relevant''.<br><br />
{{redirect|DJ Zeddy|his first album|DJ Zeddy (album)}}<br />
From late 2016 onwards, Smith began taking an interest in producing music, and first produced several EDM, house and dubstep songs under the [[w:stage name|stage-name]] "'''DJ Zeddy'''".<ref>https://soundcloud.com/djzeddy</ref><ref>https://musicbrainz.org/artist/708b7054-0c49-497e-bf4a-ae4bb62a325a</ref> More recently, Smith has moved to the experimental and avant-garde music genres, as well as comical. Three albums have been released thus far, comprising twenty-four songs in total, with three more albums having been announced. Smith has also released five non-album singles, "[[Thunder]]", featuring vocals by [[Joost Smith]], "[[Explosive]]", his [[w:signature song|signature song]] "[[GUM DIS TRACK]]", a tongue-in-cheek [[w:diss track|diss track]] on [[contraGUMism]], [[micronational warfare]] and "[[YAMO|YAMOs]]", [[FPYFF]], a satiric hip-hip diss track against the rappers [redacted] and [[Leon Montan]] under [[w:stage name|stage name]] "yung foot fetish", and a single titled a [[Zero-Width Joiner (DJ Zeddy song)|Zero-width joiner]], making the name " " (<code> </code>); the song consists solely of 3 minutes and 57 seconds of silence. Smith sang a comedic cover of [[w:Gloria Gaynor|Gloria Gaynor]]'s hit song "[[w:I Will Survive|I Will Survive]]" for the [[New Eiffel in the Junior Microvison Song Contest|2019 Junior Microvision Song Contest]], however, it was later cancelled.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhVTFs5KQ4A</ref> Smith also wrote two anthems for New Eiffel, "[[Friendly, New Eiffel]]" and "[[Stand tall, New Eiffel]]".<br />
==== Albums ====<br />
*"[[DJ Zeddy (album)|DJ Zeddy]]" (2018)<br />
*"[[! (DJ Zeddy album)|!]]" (2020)<br />
*"[[1st of June 2020|1st of June 2020]]" (2020)<br />
*"[[E13 Studio Album #6]]" (2021){{efn|Fully titled ''E13 Studio Album #6 E13 Studio-album #6 featuring the great lyrical content some would describe as a masterpiece of musical notes and rhythms composed, and cleverly designed and thought out over a period of thirty-one weeks, by that of a lyrical genius who studied many years at the Institute For the Musical Arts, located in the United States of America, who later came to compose many beautiful works over a span of seven years, which came to be in his will - whom also studied for his last two years in higher education school at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, a lovely place located in Rome, Italy, which is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western musical history: Gregory the Great, for whom the Gregorian chant is named, and Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music — since 2005 it has been headquartered at the Renzo Piano designed Parco della Musica in Rome.''}}<br />
*"[[DJ Zeddy vol. 2]]" (2021)<br />
*"[[noise.]]" (2022)<br />
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==== Singles ====<br />
*"[[Thunder]]" (2018)<br />
*"[[Explosive]]" (2018)<br />
*"[[GUM DIS TRACK: THE UNITED MICRANATIONS is better]]" (2020)<ref>[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c93kzuvaISg GUM DIS TRACK - “THE UNITED MICRANATIONS is better"] (3 January 2020) on [[w:YouTube|YouTube]]. Retrieved 6 February 2020.</ref><br />
*"[[FPYFF|Fuck [redacted] and yung foot fetish]]" (2020)<br />
*"[[Zero-Width Joiner (DJ Zeddy song)| ]]"<small>(Zero-Width Joiner (ZWJ) Character)</small> (2020)<br />
==== Album singles ====<br />
*"[[DROP DA BASS]]" (2017)<br />
*"[[Courage]]" (2017)<br />
*"[[The Mannequin Challenge]]" (2017)<br />
*"[[Funky Spark]]" (2019)<br />
==== Compilation albums ====<br />
*"[[Best of DJ Zeddy]]" (2020)<br />
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==== Other recordings ====<br />
*"Let it Die" (2017, parody of [[w:Let It Go|Let It Go]])<br />
*[[w:Gloria Gaynor|Gloria Gaynor]] - "[[w:I Will Survive|I Will Survive]]" (2019, cover)<br />
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==== Music videos ====<br />
*"Bittereinde — Haartseer Gangster fan-made music video" (2018)<br />
*"[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c93kzuvaISg GUM DIS TRACK: THE UNITED MICRANATIONS is better]" (2020)<br />
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== Other ventures ==<br />
[[File:Micronational Rock Paper Scissors Tournament.jpeg|230px|thumb|The successful [[2019 Micronational Rock Paper Scissors Tournament]], which Smith hosted]]<br />
=== Journalism and writing ===<br />
Smith is a prolific journalist. Smith is the co-founder alongside Jayden Lycon of [[DIME Magazine]], and currently writes for the ''[[Ponderosan News Agency]]'',<ref>[http://news.ponderosangovernment.ml/author/zarelsmith/ Author: Zarel Smith] for the ''Ponderosan News Agency''. Retrieved 8 October 2020.</ref> and ''[[MicroWeekly]]''.<ref>Smith, Zarel (11 October 2020). [https://micronationsweekly.blogspot.com/2020/10/casper-von-naveria-wins-september.html Casper von Naveria wins September Micronationalist of the Month award]. ''MicroWeekly''. Retrieved 11 October 2020.</ref> Smith also wrote fifteen articles for ''[[List of news companies in New Eiffel|New Eiffel News]]'' between 6 October—9 October 2018,<ref>Smith, Zarel (6 Oct 2018). [https://sites.google.com/view/neweiffelnews-archives/home Archived articles]. ''New Eiffel News''. Retrieved 26 July 2020.</ref> four articles for ''[[The New Eiffel Times]]'' between 25 March—6 July 2019,<ref>[https://www.blogger.com/profile/07064689504221255297 Author: New Eiffel Government] on ''The New Eiffel Times''. ''Blogger''. Retrieved 20 October 2020.</ref> three articles for ''Journal en Eiffel'' between 12–15 August 2020,<ref>Smith, Zarel (12 Aug 2020). [https://sites.google.com/view/journaleiffel/regelis-still-wants-to-join-the-gum-after-critical-remarks-after-applicatio Regelis still wants to join the GUM after critical remarks after application rejection]. ''Journal en Eiffel''. Retrieved 12 August 2020.</ref> one article for ''[[Organisation of Active Micronations (New Eiffel Union)|OAM News]]'', ''[[Australis Times]]''<ref>Smith, Zarel (5 November 2020) [http://www.australistimes.ml/2020/11/australis-becomes-full-member-of-gum.html Australis becomes a full member of GUM]. ''[[Australis Times]]''. Retrieved 5 November 2020.</ref> and ''Orblian Observer''<ref>Smith, Zarel (14 November 2020) [https://its-cns.wixsite.com/orblian-observer/post/sertor-valentinus-named-dime-s-micronationalist-of-the-month-for-october Sertor Valentinus named Dime's Micronationalist of the Month for October]. ''Orblian Observer''. Retrieved 14 November 2020.</ref> and was employed by ''The Bannerman Online''<ref>[https://lavradabannerman.wordpress.com/author/zsrfilmreviewsowner/ Authored articles]. ''The Bannerman Online''. Retrieved 8 May 2020.</ref> for which he wrote two articles between 18 March 2019<ref>Smith, Zarel (18 March 2019) [https://lavradabannerman.wordpress.com/2019/03/18/tips-on-creating-micronational-currency/ Tips on creating micronational currency]. ''The Bannerman Online''. Retrieved 8 May 2020.</ref> until 16 April 2019.<ref>Smith, Zarel (16 April 2019) [https://lavradabannerman.wordpress.com/2019/04/16/new-eiffel-flag-referendum-finally-ends/ New Eiffel flag referendum finally ends]. ''The Bannerman Online''. Retrieved 8 May 2020.</ref> He quit on the grounds of his tardiness and incompetence. In the middle of 2020, Smith was made a Contributor for ''[[Messenger]]'' on 19 May,<ref>[[Messenger#Staff]]</ref>{{better source needed}} and was also employed at the ''[[Amerston Post]]''{{citation needed|date=August 2020}} and ''Net News''{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}, though never wrote nor contributed any news articles. Smith ran the moderately successful [[w:satire|satirical]] ''[[The Apple News]]'' from 9–23 January 2020, and oversaw 9 articles published in English.<ref group="‡">[[User:Z Luna Skye/sandboxes/The Apple News|The Apple News]] home page on MicroWiki. ''User:Z Luna Skye''. Retrieved 6 July 2020.</ref> It had four writers and was translated into three languages, English, [[w:Czech language|Czech]] (7 articles)<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/User:FTFcz/sandboxes/The_Apple_News_česky The Apple News Česky] home page on MicroWiki. ''User:FTFcz''. Retrieved 6 July 2020. ''(in Czech)''.</ref> and Afrikaans (1 article).<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye/sandboxes/The_Apple_News_Afrikaans The Apple News Afrikaans] home page on MicroWiki. ''User:Z. Luna Skye''. Retrieved 6 July 2020. ''(in Afrikaans)''.</ref> Smith was acting as Ad-Interim Press Secretary for the Grand Unified Micronational while Emperor Adam I focused on finishing his degree, and wrote nine articles on the Quorum minutes between 1 February until 30 March. Furthermore, Smith was also responsible for ''[[I stole this. fun facts!]]'', a series of daily posts of mostly [[w:trivia|trivia]] made to the [[YBM|Yellow Bear Micronational]]-3 (YBM-3 or ybm-3) channel on the [[MicroWiki@Discord]] [[w:Discord (software)|Discord]] server between 2 December 2019 until 30 May 2020. On 28 January, Smith began writing his first book ''The Micronation Index: A Book About Micronationalism'', although he had previously written a large number of shorts and poems prior, particularly ones featuring [[Hardy the Fox]]. Smith has also coined the phrases "[[domain hack]]"<ref>[https://dictionary.micronations.wiki/wiki/Domain_hack domain hack] on [[MicroWikiDictionary]]</ref> and "[[New Year's Micronation]]".<br />
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=== Sports ===<br />
Smith frequently plays the [[Principality of New Eiffel#Sport|New Eiffelic sport]] [[Rugbull]]. Smith joined the [[Micronational Chess League]] on 7 February 2019.<ref>[https://www.chess.com/member/Z_Luna_Skye Z. Luna Skye] user profile. ''chess.com''. Retrieved 2 July 2020.</ref> Smith held the [[2019 Micronational Rock Paper Scissors Tournament]] between 29 July—5 August 2019, which saw sixteen nations compete; due to its success, Smith was later made the Vice-President of Sanctioned Events of the [[Micronational Olympic Federation]], which he served between 17 October 2019—30 September 2020, overseeing the [[2020 MOF Rock Paper Scissors Tournament]]. Furthermore, Smith competed for New Eiffel in the [[2020 MOF Games]], where he won silver in ''[[w:Agar.io|Agar.io]]''.<ref>[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/2020_MOF_Games 2020 MOF Games] on MicroWiki. Retrieved 2 July 2020.</ref><br />
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=== Business ===<br />
Smith is the CEO of numerous companies, with varying industries, including [[Win-a-lot Casino]], a [[w:Pop-up retail|pop-up]] [[w:Casino|casino]] which appears in [[New Leeds]] annually,<ref>New Eiffel, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbTDJ5zPT6o Win-a-lot Casino Advert - Christmas 2019 - "This is Win-a-lot Casino"] on [[w:YouTube|YouTube]]. Uploaded on 5 March 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2020.</ref> and the [[w:Luxury goods|luxury]] fashion company and brand [[Zínt]],<ref>[https://zintfashion.tumblr.com/post/188832807979/about-z%C3%ADnt#notes Zínt News Blog] on Tumblr. Retrieved 8 May 2020.</ref><ref name="zp">[https://www.pinterest.co.uk/zntfashion/ Zínt Fashion on Pinterest]. Retrieved 8 May 2020.</ref> which has no directly operated stores, and sells shoes, bags, shirts and other non-clothing items, such as a wooden stand.<ref name="zint1"/> Also acting as the agent, Smith controls all Zínt social medias, and produces commercials for the [[w:YouTube|YouTube]] channel.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCBlL3zfhNSaihO5hRY4zVQ Zínt Fashion official YouTube channel]. Retrieved 8 May 2020.</ref> Zínt released the Practical Shoe Line on 3 March 2020, which consists of five shoes, all designed by Smith.<ref name="zint2"/><br />
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== Public profile ==<br />
=== Influence and public opinion ===<br />
[[File:Zarel in InterYet to Come.jpeg|thumb|230px|A still from the short ''[[imdb:tt10620080|InterYet to Come]]'' (2019), the image of Smith later became associated with the "[[Zedposting]]" [[meme]]]]<br />
[[File:Prince Zarel I Street, Tonvalk.png|thumb|230px|Street in Tonvalk, [[Ünie]]]]<br />
Smith has often been cited as being one of the most influential micronationalists in the "New Guard", and has been recognised throughout the [[history of the MicroWiki community]] during the [[history of the MicroWiki community#Discord Era|Discord Era]].<ref>[[History of the MicroWiki community]]</ref> [[Emiel Hardy]], writing for ''Courant van Lazia'', called Smith "film-obsessed," "colourful," "hard-working" and a combination of "creative and funny."<ref name="MA"/> In the [[MicroWiki General Survey]] conducted between 9–11 November 2019, a question asking people to fill in checkboxes from a list of eight MicroWiki micronationalists for which they had heard of Smith was tied alongside [[Jonathan I]] of [[Austenasia]] for the most with 91.2% out of 34 respondents. For the [[New Eiffel general election, 2020|May 2020 New Eiffelic general election]], a question asking respondents "What are your views regarding Prince Zarel I?" asked respondents to rank him between the numbers 1–10, 1 being bad and 10 being good. 9 respondents gave a 10, and 1 respondent each gave 9, 8, 6, and a 1.<ref>Lycon, Jayden (24 May 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l9bXjmBzSTA4WWi8_KFujoyiJtE1AUefti1ApzCO3yM/edit Final Report to the New Eiffel General Election, 2020]. ''[[Cupertino Electoral Supervisory Commission]]''.</ref> Smith came fourth out of twenty-five on the [[MicroWiki's Top 25]] survey conducted in October 2020 by [[Roscoe Statistics]]. The survey had twenty-nine respondents.<ref>[[Daniel Roscoe|Roscoe, Daniel]], [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/761281298358206505/770952501776220200/Survey.docx MicroWiki@Discord 25 User Survey]. ''[[Roscoe Statistics]]''.</ref> On [[MicroWiki@Discord]], Smith has sent over 64,000 messages since he first joined in February 2019.<ref>"from:zarel#4073", [[MicroWiki@Discord]] server chat log records.</ref> Alongside the ''[[@New Eiffel Government]]'' and ''[[Zedposting]]'' [[meme]]s, Smith is also known for constantly having his status show "offline" even when he is not, and is also known for his comedic catchphrase "smh my head." Smith was a member of five invitation-only social clubs, and joined the [[Micropolitan Club and Lounge]] on 18 August 2019, and is also a former member of Drunkiz Gadurō, [[Archie Birch#Microfurs:|Microfurs]] and is a co-founder of [[The Fun Gang]] and [[TOES]].<ref name="Toes"/><br />
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=== In the press ===<br />
Smith has been the subject of or mentioned in a number of news articles from various sources, including ''[[The Abeldane]]'' (formerly ''L'Sydunche''), ''[[Austenasian Times]]'', ''Brookside Gazette'', ''[[Charlington Press]]'', ''The Essexian Post'', ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]'', ''Orblian Observer'', Plushunian News Service and ''[[Seybold Today]]''. He was also mentioned in his self-authored articles on ''[[List of news companies in New Eiffel|Journal en Eiffel]]'', ''[[List of news companies in New Eiffel|New Eiffel News]]'' and the [[Ponderosan News Agency]]. Smith's [[w:Curriculum vitae|CV]] was posted on ''Courant van Lazia'' and his short education autobiography on ''[[The New Eiffel Times]]'', which was revised by [[Emily Gréz]]. ''[[Micronational Gazette]]'' published on opinion article on Smith.<br />
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=== Criticism ===<br />
In an opinion piece on Smith for the [[Micronational Gazette]] written by [[Isaiah Burdette]], Burdette, whom he called him one of the most well-respected micronationalists, argued that Smith's large number of positions he held at one time was consequences for his overall participation and activity, citing; "Yet he was inactive in his position of Global Councilor in [[Yu-Xia]]. I recall him not making or even voting on most bills proposed to Global Council. I think he should not have taken the position if he was not going to be very active in it." He also recalled he had barely seen Smith post messages in Yu-Xia's Discord server.<ref name="op"/><br />
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=== Popular culture ===<br />
{{Main|Zedposting|@New Eiffel Government}}<br />
In late-2019, he was the subject of the [[MicroWiki meme]] "[[Zed Face|Zedface]]". In February 2020, he was the subject of the "[[Zedposting]]" meme. Zedposting includes posting random text, memes, and images relating to Smith. Multiple forms of Zedposting include "''Zedtv''", an image of Zed wearing a cardboard computer mask, and "''Zedism''" a comical religion based around Zedtv. The popular [[MicroWiki meme]] "''[[@New Eiffel Government]]''" includes users pinging ("@ing") Smith's Discord account on MicroWiki@Discord.<ref name="blackwood">Blackwood, Ives (18 November 2020) [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/microwikidiscord-shutdown-continues-despite-user-resistance/ MicroWiki@Discord shutdown continues despite user resistance]. ''Home-made Crown Journal''. Retrieved 18 November 2020.</ref> It later became a chain on the server and had its own channel created from its popularity.<ref name="blackwood"/> The channel reached its ten-thousandth ping in September 2020. Smith is the subject of the fiction ''The NHS is at its Best'',<ref>Anonymous, [https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/668550194257985561/688823827039649832/The_NHS_is_at_its_Best.pdf The NHS is at its Best (FULL)]. '''[PDF]'''</ref> and is also mentioned in the [[Testaments of Bob]]<ref>[https://bobism.ml/The_First_and_Second_Testaments_of_Bob.pdf The First and Second Testaments of Bob]. '''[PDF]'''. Retrieved 6 November 2020.</ref> and <br />
[[Ivan of Brienia]]'s ''MICROHUNGER MICROGAMES: MICRONO MICROESCAPE''<ref>Ivan of Brienia (26 October 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O5MiV72a8lLWJ0ITeTbwBGOhi6hM_gJSURGyaaINS3c/edit?usp=sharing MICROHUNGER MICROGAMES: MICRONO MICROESCAPE] on Google Docs. Retrieved 30 October 2020.</ref> and its sequel ''MICROHUNGER MICROGAMES: MICROTHRUTH MICROREVEAL''.<ref>Ivan of Brienia (27 October 2020) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CgaxCw9EpvQZWmdKjc0cCINI7kyxExDVQsYjbYUm9Vk/edit?usp=drivesdk MICROHUNGER MICROGAMES: MICROTHRUTH MICROREVEAL] on Google Docs. Retrieved 30 October 2020.</ref><br />
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=== Accolades and honours ===<br />
{{main|List of streets and roads named after Zarel Smith}}<br />
There have been numerous micronational [[List of streets and roads named after Zarel Smith|streets and roads named after Smith]], as well as a hill in [[Bartonia]]. Smith was nominated for Dime Magazine's [[Micronationalist of the Year]] for 2019, coming close-second with eight votes to Emperor Adam's nine. Smith was selected as Dime's "[[Micronationalist of the Month]]" for February 2020, after having previously been nominated for March and August 2019,<ref>[https://sites.google.com/view/zeddy-smith/awards Awards]. Zed's personal website.</ref> and was also ranked fourth of ten by [[Nicholas Randouler]] in his [[user:NickRandouler/MonthlyMWMPowerIndex|Monthly MicroWiki Micronationalists Power Index for May 2020]].<ref name="mwm"/> Furthermore, Smith placed himself fourth on the "[[MicroWiki's 25 Most Influential (2020)|MicroWiki's 25 Most Influential]]" list for 2020 in December.<ref name="Blackwood5"/><ref name="Twenty"/><br />
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Smith has won several awards for the annual ZSR Awards in the erstwhile New Eiffel; in 2019, he won Best Picture for ''[[Epic Action Movie]]'' and Best Editing for ''[[Dimensions: Choices]]''. In 2020, he won Best Acting as Edward London II in ''India Man!'', also being nominated for the award as Gregory Hutts in ''[[Insaniam]]'', and won Best Editing for ''[[Big Fluffy Socks for the Winter Golem]]''.<br />
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== Personal life ==<br />
[[File:Zarel in Liechtenstein.jpeg|thumb|Smith in [[w:Liechtenstein|Liechtenstein]], October 2019]]<br />
[[File:ZedBoating.jpg|thumb|Smith boating on [[w:The Broads|The Broads]], [[w:Norfolk|Norfolk]], October 2020]]<br />
[[File:Trixie the Cat, 2020.jpeg|thumb|[[Royal Cat|Trixie]], Smith's cat]]<br />
Smith currently resides with his family in [[w:Greater London|Greater London]].<ref>@TheSohnlandGov (2 April 2020) [https://twitter.com/TheSohnlandGov/status/1245795838074421248 I made a new #micronations map! I hope you like it!] on [[w:Twitter|Twitter]].</ref> Smith owns a cat to keep him company,{{efn|Legal ownership is given to his father on behalf of the Smith family}} [[Royal Cat|Trixie]], whom he had declared the "[[Royal Cat]]" of New Eiffel. Alongside Trixie, another cat, [[Mango (cat)|Mango]], a dog, Rola, accompany his residence. Born in the UK to South African parents, Smith holds both [[w:British nationality law|British]] and [[w:South African nationality law|South African citizenship]], and natively speaks [[w:English|English]] and [[w:Afrikaans|Afrikaans]].<ref name="MA"/><ref name="1-5">[[Zed#Works cited|Notes, p. 1–5]]</ref> Smith claims to have the '[[w:personality type|personality type]]' [[w:INTJ|INTJ]], and is an [[w:introvert|introvert]]. He also calls himself a [[w:Night owl (person)|night owl]].<ref name="1-5"/> Smith is a [[w:cinephile|cinephile]], and documents every film he watches,<ref group="‡">[[User:Z. Luna Skye/FILM|FILM]] on MicroWiki. ''User:Z. Luna Skye''. Retrieved 27 July 2020.</ref> claiming to have seen over 1,600 [[w:feature film|feature films]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?title_type=feature,tv_movie,tv_special,documentary,video&runtime=45,&my_ratings=restrict&sort=num_votes,asc Movies Zarel has allegedly seen]. ''[[w:IMDb|IMDb]]''. Retrieved 28 April 2020.</ref> Smith is subscribed to eleven [[w:streaming service|streaming services]]. Smith has cited his favourite films as ''[[w:12 Angry Men (1957 film)|12 Angry Men]]'' (1957), ''[[w:Wolf Children|Wolf Children]]'' (2012), ''[[w:Felidae (film)|Felidae]]'' (1994), ''[[w:It's a Wonderful Life|It's a Wonderful Life]]'' (1946), ''[[w:Princess Mononoke|Princess Mononoke]]'' (1997) and ''[[w:The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (1939).<ref>[https://letterboxd.com/Z_Luna_Skye/films/ Letterboxd account "Favourite films"]. Retrieved 27 April 2020.</ref> His favourite film directer is [[w:Akira Kurosawa|Akira Kurosawa]], and his favourite living actors are [[w:Aamir Khan|Aamir Khan]], [[w:Jake Gyllenhaal|Jake Gyllenhaal]] and [[w:Eugenio Derbez|Eugenio Derbez]]. His favourite [[w:film genre|film genre]] is [[w:psychological thriller|psychological thriller]], such as the films ''[[w:Rashomon|Rashomon]]'' (1950), ''[[w:Psycho (1960 film)|Psycho]]'' (1960) and ''[[w:Taxi Driver|Taxi Driver]]'' (1976).<ref group="‡">[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye/FILM/Film_ratings Film ratings] on User:Z Luna Skye. ''MicroWiki''. Retrieved 8 November 2020.</ref><ref group="‡">[https://micronations.wiki/wiki/User:Z_Luna_Skye/FILM/Best_psychological_thrillers Best psychological thrillers]. ''User:Z Luna Skye''. Retrieved 27 November 2020</ref><br />
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Smith enjoys contributing to [[w:wiki|wikis]], encyclopaedias, archives and databases,<ref name="MA"/> namely MicroWiki, [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]],<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anonymous_7481 User:Anonymous 7481] on Wikipedia. Retrieved 3 July 2020.</ref> [[w:IMDb|IMDb]],<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/user/ur85977486/?ref_=nv_usr_prof_2 Zarel's IMDb account]. ''[[w:IMDb|IMDb]]''. Retrieved 19 April 2020.</ref> the Internet Archive,<ref>[https://archive.org/details/@zedsmith @ZedSmith] on the Internet Archive.</ref> Awful Movies Wiki,<ref>[https://awfulmovies.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye User:Z. Luna Skye] on Awful Movies Wiki. Retrieved 3 July 2020.</ref> [[Royal Wiki]],<ref>https://mahuset.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye</ref> [[w:WikiFur|WikiFur]]<ref>[https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye User:Z. Luna Skye] on WikiFur. Retrieved 3 July 2020.</ref> and [[w:WikiTree|WikiTree]],<ref>[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Smith-207204 User:Z. Luna Skye] on WikiTree. Retrieved 3 July 2020.</ref> and the former wikis [[New Eiffel Wiki]],<ref>[https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Community_Central:Not_a_valid_community?from=neweiffelwiki.fandom.com User:Z. Luna Skye] on New Eiffel Wiki. Retrieved 3 July 2020.</ref> ''[[The Konmalehth Libraries]]''<ref>[https://konmalehth.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye User:Z. Luna Skye] on ''The Konmalehth Libtaries''. Retrieved 3 July 2020.</ref> and ''Un-Recognized Nations''.<ref>[https://unrecnations.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=User:Z._Luna_Skye User:Z. Luna Skye] on Unrecnations. Retrieved 3 July 2020.</ref><ref>[https://awfulmovies.miraheze.org/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye "Wikis I edit"] on AwfulMoviesWiki. Retrieved 28 April 2020.</ref><ref>[https://dictionary.micronations.wiki/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye Z. Luna Skye] on [[MicroWikiDictionary]]. Retrieved 2 June 2020.</ref> Despite identifying as a workaholic, Smith loves the outdoors, and enjoys traveling, [[w:hiking|hiking]], [[w:camping|camping]] and [[w:glamping|glamping]], [[w:photography|photography]] and [[w:mountain biking|mountain biking]]. He frequently vacations outside of England, and has visited eleven countries on two [[w:continent|continents]]. His favourite trips were [[w:Switzerland|Switzerland]] and [[w:Liechtenstein|Liechtenstein]]. Smith collects [[w:Stuffed toy|stuffed animals]] from places he visits as a souvenir, and currently has over fifty.<ref group="‡">Smith, Zarel. [https://micronations.wiki/wiki/User:Z._Luna_Skye/Places_I_have_visited Places I have visited] on MicroWiki. Retrieved 30 June 2020.</ref> Smith is also a [[w:furry|furry]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200315020110/https://furretreat.rocks/ Team]. ''The Furretreat''. Archived from [https://furretreat.rocks/#team the original] on 15 March 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020.</ref> and is a big fan of [[w:geography|geography]], [[w:cultural geography|cultural geography]], [[w:Transport geography|transport geography]] and [[w:religious geography|religious geography]]. Smith also studies [[w:Psychopathology|psychopathology]]. Smith is a fan of the [[w:Philadelphia| Philadelphian]] singer [http://niicmusic.com/ Kyle McCarthy "NIIC the Singing Dog"] and [[w:France|French]] [[w:electro-swing|electro-swing]] band [[w:Caravan Palace|Caravan Palace]]. Smith's favourite [[w:book|book]] is ''[[w:A Christmas Carol|A Christmas Carol]]''<ref name="ti"/> and his favourite television show is the [[w:Japan|Japanese]] [[w:anime|anime]] ''[[w:Beastars|Beastars]]''.<ref>[[Zed#Works cited|Notes, p. 11]]</ref><ref>[[Zed#Data control|Microbio]]</ref><br />
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Smith is a [[w:Teetotalism|teetotaler]] (though does not advocate against [[w:Alcoholic drink|alcohol consumption]]) and non-practicing [[w:Pescetarianism|pescatarian]].<ref>[[Zarel Smith, Duke of Hsed#Data control|Notes, p. 7–10]]</ref> Smith also has a form of [[w:Rhotacism (speech impediment)|rhotacism]], meaning he has an inability to pronounce the sound ''[[w:r|r]]''.<br />
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=== Name ===<br />
{{main|List of names used by Zarel Smith}}<br />
Smith was named after his grandfather, who had died a few years before Smith was born. His full name is pronounced [[w:Help:IPA for English|zaːrəl ʋɪlˈɦɛlmɵs jaːˈkoːbɵs ˈsmɪθ]], though his name is commonly mispronounced [[w:Help:IPA for English|zɑːrɛl]]. Smith's real name, Zarel, is rarely used, as Smith restricts the use of his name online to [[w:pseudonyms|pseudonyms]], including on social media, video games, and websites, and his close family refers to him by [[w:Hypocorism|hypocoristic]] names whilst his more distant family refers to him as either the short forms "Zar" or "Zed". Within MicroWiki (where Smith spends the majority of his time) he is most commonly referred to as Zed, or a recently formed nickname "Zeddy". In Abelden, he was called "Zedy", and in [[Ikonia]] he was called "Zed Zarel", a combination of his common nickname and real name. His musical [[w:stage name|stage name]] is "[[DJ Zeddy]]" and his [[w:pen name|pen name]] and username on MicroWiki is "[[User:Z. Luna Skye|Z. Luna Skye]]".<br />
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=== Religion ===<br />
Religion has been prevalent in Smith's life. Smith was raised [[w:Protestant|Protestant]], originally attending an Afrikaans [[w:Church of England|Church of England]] church in [[w:Guildford|Guildford]]. After his family moved to Greater London, they began to attend Dundonald Church—which is apart of the Co-Mission Churches Trust charity—in [[2008]]. Smith identifies as simply "[[w:Christianity|Christian]]", asserting that he has no official [[w:Christian denomination|denomination]], though heavily leans towards [[w:Anglicanism|Anglican]] values. As Smith's family do not believe in [[w:Infant baptism|infantile christening]], believing that baptism should be for those who have confessed their sin and repented choosing to follow Jesus and wanting to publicly profess this, Smith is planning on being baptised at a later age.<ref>[[Zed#Further reading|HRANE]] archives</ref><br />
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=== Politics ===<br />
Smith identities as an "[[w:anarcho-primitivism|anarcho-primitivist]]," although this claim has been disputed by A. Tarquitius Buteo, who claims to be a "''real'' anarcho-primitivist."<ref>Personal correspondence with [[Leon Montan]]</ref> Smith also continues to use technology despite his open opposition. Smith has always been a supporter of [[w:freedom of speech|freedom of speech]], religion and expression, and been against [[w:Internet censorship|censorship of the internet]], also having a strong belief that [[w:free content|knowledge should be free]]. Smith believes in [[w:consistent life ethic|consistent life ethic]].<br />
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== Royal portraits ==<br />
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"<br />
|-<br />
! rowspan="1" | Image <br />
! rowspan="1" | Date <br />
! rowspan="1" | Photographed <br />
! rowspan="1" | Photographer<br />
! rowspan="1" | Location <br />
! rowspan="1" | Notes<br />
|-<br />
| [[file:ZedI.jpg|80px]]<br />
| 6 Mar 2019<br />
| Sep 2018<br />
| Malachi Goodrich <br><small>[[w:iPhone X|iPhone X]]</small><br />
| [[w:United Kingdom|UK]], [[w:Gloucestershire|Gloucestershire]], [[w:South Gloucestershire|South Gloucestershire]]<br />
| First royal portrait taken.<br />
|-<br />
| [[File:ZarelJune2019.jpeg|80px]]<br />
| 11 Oct 2019<br />
| 7 Jun 2019<br />
| Self — Zarel Smith <br><small>[[w:iPad 5|iPad 5]]</small><br />
| New Eiffel, [[New Leeds]]<br />
| Last royal portrait taken before his [[abdication of Zarel I|abdication]].<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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== Titles, styles, and honours ==<br />
=== Titles ===<br />
{{see also|List of names used by Zarel Smith}}<br />
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;{{flag|Austenasia}}<br />
*'''14 March 2019 – present: '''Lord Zarel Smith, Baron of Green Gate<ref name="sssZD"/><br />
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;{{flag|Baustralia}}<br />
*'''24 October 2019 – 8 November 2020: '''His Excellency Zarel Smith, Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland<br />
*'''8 November 2020 – present: '''His Excellency [[Private (Baustralian Army)|Rifleman]] Zarel Smith, Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland<br />
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=== Noble ===<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Hsed.jpeg|20px}} [[Hsed|Duke]]<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Flag of the Commonwealth of Essexia.svg|20px}} Lord<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Abeldane flag.jpg|20px}} Baron <br />
*{{flagiconstart|Flag of Green Gate.jpeg|20px}} [[Austenasian Nobles#Barons and Baronesses|Baron]]<br />
*{{flagiconstart|Flag of Socialist United Republic of Ünie.jpeg|20px}} Baron<br />
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=== Honours === <br />
;{{flag|Grand Republic of Cycoldia}}<br />
*'''18 June 2019 – present: [[File:New Bar of the Order of Christina I.png|46px|border]] '''Officer of the [[Order of Christina I]]''' OCI<br />
;{{flag|Ikonia}}<br />
*'''1 September 2019 – present: [[File:OCP civil.svg|46px]] '''Officer of the [[Order of the Compatriots of Prestige]]''' OCP<br />
;{{flag|Austenasia}}<br />
*'''21 September 2019 – present: '''Officer of the [[Austenasian Order|Austenasian Order]]''' OAO<br />
;{{flag|Iustus}}<br />
*'''1 January 2020 – present: '''Member of the Order of Ongwanada'''; ''' "for diplomatic friendship"<ref name="ONG"/><br />
;[[File:FLAGMNG.png|25px|border]] [[Millania]]<br />
*'''1 January 2020 – present: '''Member of the [[Awards and Decorations of Millania|Most Glorious Order of Millanian Excellence]]''' MMX; ''' "for outstanding service to the community"<ref name="MIL"/><br />
;[[File:KOEbenthal Flag Test4.png|24px|border]] [[Ebenthal]]<br />
*'''10 February 2020 — present: [[File:Order of the Silver Cat Ribbon3.png|46px|border]] '''Recipient of the [[Order of the Silver Cat]]''' GCGP<br />
;[[File:Fixed Malinovian Flag.png|24px|border]] [[Malinovia]]<br />
*'''9 June 2020 — present: '''Recipient of the [[Order of the Malinovian Sun]]'''<br />
;{{flaglist|Misberia}} <br />
*'''16 June 2020 — present: '''Knight of The [[Noble and Sovereign Order of Machias|Noble and Sovereign Order of Machias]]''' <br />
;{{flaglist|Kohlandia}} <br />
*'''16 October 2020 — present: '''Knight Commander of the [[Order of the Gryphon]]''' KHC; ''' "for services to micronationalism" [[file:KnightCommanderOrderGryphonMedal.png|25px]]<br />
;{{flaglist|Australis}}<br />
*'''1 January 2021 — present: '''Gold-Class Recipient of the Order of the Greyhound''' OGG<ref name="20nyh">[https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1URYLnhiqq87pmWBWGZEvrv8e6Bc4NSnzIO29iX3iuWg/mobilebasic 2021 New Years Honours]</ref><br />
;{{flaglist|Australis}}<br />
*'''1 January 2021 – present: '''Member of the Order of the Grand Duke''' MGD; ''' "for personal friendship with the [[Daniel Roscoe|Duke]]"<ref name="20nyh"/><br />
==== Former ====<br />
;{{flag|New Eiffel}}<br />
*'''23 June 2020 – 1 November 2020: [[File:Ribbon of the Most Excellent Order of the Amphisbaena Potato.jpeg|46px|border]] '''High member of the [[Most Excellent Order of the Amphisbaena Potato]]; "for micronational fun". ([[dissolution of New Eiffel|nation dissolved]]).<br />
;{{flaglist|Ünie}}<br />
*'''3 July 2020 — 16 January 2021: '''Recipient of the Grand Order of Dancing Wolves''' WOL; ''' "for political work in Ünie". (order discontinued)<br />
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=== Former titles ===<br />
;{{flag|New Eiffel}}<br />
*'''11 August 2018 – 30 August 2018: '''His Majesty Prince Zarel I of New Temporary<br />
*'''30 August 2018 – 20 June 2020: '''His Majesty Prince Zarel I of New Eiffel<br />
*'''28 February 2019 – 23 June 2020: '''Grand Peacefur<br />
*'''20 June 2020 — 1 November 2020: '''Zarel Smith, Duke of [[Hsed]]<br />
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;{{flag|Islands of Omaha}}<ref>Smith, Zarel (6 Oct 2018). [https://sites.google.com/view/neweiffelnews-archives/home More Territory]. ''New Eiffel News''. (Archived articles). Retrieved 26 July 2020.</ref><br />
*'''8 December 2018 – 29 January 2020: '''Head of state of the Islands of Omaha<br />
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==== Full style ====<br />
Smith's former shortened title before abdication was:<br />
:"[[w:Majesty|His Majesty]] Prince Zarel the First of the [[Principality of New Eiffel]], Grand Peacefur"<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/195-Ji1ezwsQfIBZ8lbKiqerddKX11qCyP0dTZYYhsQg/view 001]. ''[[Royal Archives (New Eiffel)|Royal Data]]''. Retrieved 3 June 2020.</ref><br />
While Smith had no officially accepted full title, if he did use on it would probably have been:<br />
:"[[w:Majesty|His Majesty]] Prince Zarel the First of the [[Principality of New Eiffel]], Grand Peacefur, [[Essexia|Lord of Essexia]], [[Ünie|Baron of Ünie]], [[Green Gate|Baron of Green Gate]], [[Abelden|Baron of Abelden]], [[Order of the Beaver|Sovereign of the Order of the Beaver]], [[Order of the Lion (New Eiffel)|Sovereign of the Order of the Lion]], [[Most Excellent Order of the Amphisbaena Potato|Sovereign of the Most Excellent Order of the Amphisbaena Potato]], [[Order of Christina I|Officer of the Order of Christina I]], [[2019 Birthday Honours (Ikonia)|Officer of the Order of the Campatriots of Prestige]], [[Austenasian Order|Officer of the Austenasian Order]], Member of the Order of Ongwanada, [[Awards and Decorations of Millania|Member of the Most Glorious Order of Millanian Excellence]], [[Order of the Silver Cat|Recipient of the Order of the Silver Cat]]"<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[:Category:Zarel Smith]]<br />
**[[List of names used by Zarel Smith]]<br />
**[[List of streets and roads named after Zarel Smith]]<br />
**[[Prince Zarel I Road]]<br />
*[[Monarchy of New Eiffel]]<br />
*[[Music of New Eiffel]]<br />
*[[List of micronational music artists]]<br />
*[[Timeline of New Eiffelic history]]<br />
=== Related articles ===<br />
*[[Celebrations Day]] (birthday)<br />
*[[Royal Cat]]<br />
*[[@New Eiffel Government]]<br />
*[[Zedposting]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
{{notelist}}<br />
== References ==<br />
''This section is long. Click '''[[Zed#External links|here]]''' to skip it.''<br />
*"England & Wales: Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007" [[w:Ancestry.com|Ancestry.com]] (https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/8782/?name=Zarel_Smith; accessed 2 November 2020), record for Zarel Wilhelmus J Smith. Search, > collections, citing {{URL|ancestry.co.uk}}. 8782<br />
=== Citations ===<br />
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=== Primary userpage sources ===<br />
In the text these references are preceded by a double dagger (‡):<br />
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=== Specific ===<br />
*[[User:Z. Luna Skye]] (personal)<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mNVd7raNJL-Mae2e9YBogcC9iBWos_ZEVAkOmd7FNU4 Constitution of the Principality of New Eiffel]<br />
*[https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCiLfJvTePyCGyDMMm6BiWSg Official YouTube channel of the Government of New Eiffel]<br />
*[https://sites.google.com/view/list-of-roads-in-new-eiffel/home New Eiffel roads index]<br />
*[[Zínt|Zínt social media accounts]]<br />
*[[w:Chess South Africa|Chess South Africa]] — {{URL|chessa.co.za}}; {{URL|chesssouthafrica.co.za}}<br />
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=== Works cited ===<br />
*[[Emiel Hardy|Hardy, Emiel]] (26 October 2019) [https://news.mahuset.com/post/188604152192/meet-zarel-smith-the-social-democrats-new-leader Meet Zarel Smith, the Social Democrats’ new leader]. ''Courant van Lazia''.<br />
*[[Isaiah Burdette|Burdette, Isaiah]] (18 October 2020) [https://isaiahdavidburdett.wixsite.com/micronationalgazette/post/opinion-article-isaiah-burdette-zarel-smith Opinion Article Isaiah Burdette: Zarel Smith]. ''[[Micronational Gazette]]''. <br />
*Smith, Zarel (30 September 2020) [http://news.ponderosangovernment.ml/2020/09/30/zarel-smith-begins-to-leave-community-just-after-two-year-anniversary-celebrations/?preview=true Zarel Smith begins to leave community just after two year anniversary celebrations]. ''[[Ponderosan News Agency]]''. <br />
*[[Jayden Lycon|Lycon, Jayden]] (26 April 2020) [https://issuu.com/curio_rblx/docs/pondomanifesto_final For you and for all. The Canadian Isabelle - Shrek Super Party manifesto 2020] on [[w:Issuu|Issuu]]. ''Curio Publications'', p. 6.<br />
*Norfolk, Cooper. [https://web.archive.org/web/20191106121332/https://seyboldtoday.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/issue-75-14-12-18/ Issue #75 – 14/12/18]. ''[[w:Seybold Today|Seybold Today]]''. Archived from [https://seyboldtoday.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/issue-75-14-12-18/ the original] on 6 November 2019.<br />
*Eiffelic annual financial report, 2019. p.3–6, p.10–11 "People" & "Adverts". ''Published by the Government of New Eiffel.'' 4 January 2020.<br />
*[[Ives Blackwood|Blackwood, Ives]] (16 July 2020) [https://homemadecrownjournal.wordpress.com/2020/07/16/zarel-smith-makes-plans-to-leave-community/ Zarel Smith makes plans to leave community]. ''[[Home-made Crown Journal]]''.<br />
*[[HRANE]] archives p.6–8<br />
*Notes, p.1–11<br />
*[[Emily Gréz|Gréz, Emily]] (28 December 2019) [https://web.archive.org/web/20191228234136/https://thatwascrazy330.blogspot.com/2019/12/why-did-this-filmmaker-make-10-hour.html Why did Zarel I make a 10 hour-long movie of an electric fan?]. ''[[The New Eiffel Times]]''. At [[w:Blogger|Blogger]]. Archived from [https://thatwascrazy330.blogspot.com/2019/12/why-did-this-filmmaker-make-10-hour.html the original] on 28 December 2019.<br />
*[[History of the MicroWiki community]]<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
*Smith, Zarel (revised by Gréz, Emily) [https://thatwascrazy330.blogspot.com/2019/03/prince-zed-is-short-educational-life.html Prince Zed I’s Short Educational Biography]. ''[[The New Eiffel Times]]''.<br />
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18lxdNur7uKzW_zL71RzJEbqYlsDVPgDxo5zZDTNQFrE/view Filmography of Zarel Smith doc]<br />
*[https://neweiffelwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Zarel_Smith Zarel Smith] on [[New Eiffel Wiki]]<br />
*[https://konmalehth.m.miraheze.org/wiki/Zarel_Smith Zarel Smith] on [[The Konmalehth Libraries]] <small>([https://web.archive.org/web/20200516033428/https://konmalehth.miraheze.org/wiki/Zarel_Smith Archived 16/5/2020])</small><br />
*[https://toesofficial.fandom.com/wiki/Prince_Zarel_I Zarel Smith] on [[TOES Wiki]]<br />
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*[https://austenasiantimes.wordpress.com/tag/lord-zarel-smith/ "Lord Zarel Smith"] tag on the [[Austenasian Times]]<br />
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*[https://soundcloud.com/djzeddy DJ Zeddy] on [[w:SoundCloud|SoundCloud]]<br />
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anonymous_7481 Zed's Wikipedia account] (personal)<br />
*[[file:MicroWikiQuotes-logo.png|24px]] [[User:Z. Luna Skye/MicroWikiQuotes/Prince Zarel I|Prince Zarel I]] on [[User:Z. Luna Skye/MicroWikiQuotes|MicroWikiQuotes]] <small>(Unofficial project)</small><br />
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|[[User:Cajak|Cajak]]<br />
|[[User:Fishy|Fishy]]<br />
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|[[User:SerCenKing|SerCenKing]]<br />
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|[[Þeûdspråxa]]<br />
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|[[User:Aldrich Lucas|Aldrich Lucas]]<br />
|2010-09-16<br />
|2010-09-27 <br> <small>(Later stripped of GA status)</small><br />
|5/5/0<br />
|[[User:Fishy|Fishy]]<br />
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|[[Students' Isocratic Oligarchy of Yabloko]]<br />
|[[User:Aldrich Lucas|Aldrich Lucas]]<br />
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|2010-09-27 <br> <small>(Later deleted)</small><br />
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|[[User:Fishy|Fishy]]<br />
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|[[Republic of Petorio]]<br />
|[[wikia:User:Ramtak619|Ramtak619]]<br />
|[[User:Fishy|Fishy]]<br />
|2010-09-27<br />
|2010-10-05<br />
|6/4/2<br />
|[[User:Aldrich Lucas|Aldrich Lucas]]<br />
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|[[Cheslovian Federation]]<br />
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|[[User:Aldrich Lucas|Aldrich Lucas]]<br />
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|[[User:Aldrich Lucas|Aldrich Lucas]]<br />
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|6/4/1<br />
|[[User:Aldrich Lucas|Aldrich Lucas]]<br />
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|[[Declan I, II & V]]<br />
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|[[User:Aldrich Lucas|Aldrich Lucas]]<br />
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|[[Berinese Confederation]]<br />
|[[User:Irojas|Irojas]]<br />
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|2011-07-17<br />
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|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
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|[[User:SerCenKing|SerCenKing]]<br />
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|[[Havnesgade-Amager]]<br />
|[[User:Havnegade-Amager|Havnegade-Amager]]<br />
|[[User:Havnegade-Amager|Havnegade-Amager]]<br />
|2012-04-02<br />
|2012-04-09<br />
|7/6/1<br />
|[[User:SiroccanGov|SiroccanGov]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Union of Nemkhav Communists]]<br />
|[[User:Vitcash|Vitcash]]<br />
|[[User:Vitcash|Vitcash]]<br />
|2012-04-07<br />
|2012-04-14<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Fishy|Fishy]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Juclandia]]<br />
|[[User:Dozzer X|Dozzer X]]<br />
|[[User:Jeremy Oakes|Jeremy Oakes]]<br />
|2012-05-08<br />
|2012-06-27<br />
|4/3/1<br />
|[[User:Jeremy Oakes|Jeremy Oakes]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Grand Unified Micronational]]<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|[[User:BraydenYates|BraydenYates]]<br />
|2012-06-26<br />
|2013-01-01<br />
|8/7/0<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Prsänëan language]]<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|2012-07-28<br />
|2013-01-01<br />
|7/4/0<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Bowie]]<br />
|[[User:QuentinWyvern|QuentinWyvern]]<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|2012-12-17<br />
|2013-01-01<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Federal Commonwealth of Sirocco]]<br />
|[[User:SiroccanGov|SiroccanGov]]<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|2013-01-02<br />
|2013-01-10<br />
|6/4/2<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[National Centre of Computing (Sirocco)]]<br />
|[[User:SiroccanGov|SiroccanGov]]<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|2013-01-02<br />
|2013-01-10<br />
|5/4/1<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Alexander Reinhardt]]<br />
|[[User:Cajak|Cajak]]<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|2013-01-02<br />
|2013-01-10<br />
|5/4/1<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Empire of Austenasia]]<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|2013-01-02<br />
|2013-01-10<br />
|6/6/0<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Foreign relations of Indokistan]] <br />
|[[User:Nabil nordamdie|Nabil nordamdie]]<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|2013-02-02<br />
|2013-02-09 <br> <small>(Later stripped of GA status)</small><br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Yablokogate]] <br />
|''Numerous'' <br />
|[[User:SiroccanGov|SiroccanGov]]<br />
|2013-02-02<br />
|2013-02-09<br> <small>(Later stripped of GA status)</small><br />
|1/1/0<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Inyo, Prsänëa]]<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|2013-02-03<br />
|2013-02-10<br />
|1/1/0<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Organisation of Active Micronations]]<br />
|[[User:Fishy|Fishy]]<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|2013-02-03<br />
|2013-02-10<br />
|1/1/0<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Tiana]]<br />
|[[User:Puggy|Puggy]]<br />
|[[User:Puggy|Puggy]]<br />
|2013-08-04<br />
|2014-05-29<br />
|1/1/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Ashukov Federation]]<br />
|[[User:JosephKennedy|JosephKennedy]]<br />
|[[User:JosephKennedy|JosephKennedy]]<br />
|2014-06-18<br />
|2014-06-23<br />
|1/1/0<br />
|[[User:JosephKennedy|JosephKennedy]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Adam I of Überstadt]]<br />
|[[User:Überstadt|Überstadt]]<br />
|[[User:Überstadt|Überstadt]]<br />
|2014-07-12<br />
|2014-07-31<br />
|1/1/0<br />
|[[User:JosephKennedy|JosephKennedy]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Democratic Republic of Leylandiistan]]<br />
|[[User:Leylandiistan|Leylandiistan]]<br />
|[[User:Leylandiistan|Leylandiistan]]<br />
|2015-01-07<br />
|2015-05-25<br />
|1/1/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[James Stewart]]<br />
|[[User:FrancisvilleAdmin|FrancisvilleAdmin]]<br />
|[[User:Sebastian Linden|Sebastian Linden]]<br />
|2016-01-01<br />
|2016-02-24<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]]<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|[[User:Førvania|Førvania]]<br />
|2016-02-09<br />
|2016-05-07<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Luxor|Luxor]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Kermadecia]]<br />
|[[User:DNSgov|DNSgov]]<br />
|[[User:DNSgov|DNSgov]]<br />
|2016-05-30<br />
|2016-06-11 <br> <small>(Later stripped of GA status)</small><br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Reylan Imperial Triumvirate]]<br />
|[[User:Taeglan I Nihilus|Taeglan I Nihilus]]<br />
|[[User:Kit|Kit]]<br />
|2016-06-05<br />
|2016-07-24<br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Deva Victrix]]<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|2016-12-05<br />
|2016-12-15<br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Empire of Pavlov]]<br />
|[[User:Deniz|Deniz]]<br />
|[[User:Deniz|Deniz]]<br />
|2016-12-15<br />
|2017-01-07<br />
|6/6/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Sabia and Verona]]<br />
|[[User:Ricky|Ricky]]<br />
|[[User:Ricky|Ricky]]<br />
|2016-12-21<br />
|2017-01-07<br />
|4/4/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Abeldane Empire]]<br />
|[[User:MilitarmiaGov|MilitarmiaGov]]<br />
|[[User:Mahuset|Mahuset]]<br />
|2016-12-27<br />
|2017-01-07<br />
|6/6/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Kingdom of Florenia]]<br />
|[[User:Nathan|Nathan]]<br />
|[[User:Nathan|Nathan]]<br />
|2017-01-29<br />
|2017-02-20<br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Democratic Union of British States]]<br />
|[[User:Bob Christ|Bob Christ]]<br />
|[[User:Bob Christ|Bob Christ]]<br />
|2017-05-26<br />
|2017-07-05<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Empire of Adammia]]<br />
|[[User:EmperorAdamI|EmperorAdamI]]<br />
|[[User:EmperorAdamI|EmperorAdamI]]<br />
|2017-07-13<br />
|2017-08-01<br />
|5/5/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Abeldane federal election, August 2017]]<br />
|''Numerous''<br />
|[[User:Ricky|Ricky]]<br />
|2017-08-31<br />
|2017-09-07<br />
|4/4/0<br />
|[[User:Twain|Twain]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Essian Commonwealth]]<br />
|[[User:Twain|Twain]]<br />
|[[User:Twain|Twain]]<br />
|2017-09-07<br />
|2017-09-25<br />
|4/4/0<br />
|[[User:Überstadt|Überstadt]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Democratic Duchy of Francisville]]<br />
|[[User:FrancisvilleArchive|FrancisvilleArchive]]<br />
|[[User:FrancisvilleArchive|FrancisvilleArchive]]<br />
|2018-06-05<br />
|2018-07-30<br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Royal coat of arms of Baustralia]]<br />
|[[User:KingdomOfBaustralia|KingdomOfBaustralia]]<br />
|[[User:KingdomOfBaustralia|KingdomOfBaustralia]]<br />
|2018-12-15<br />
|2019-01-16<br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[New Florence]]<br />
|[[User:AnthonyClark|AnthonyClark]]<br />
|[[User:AnthonyClark|AnthonyClark]]<br />
|2018-01-10<br />
|2019-02-04 <br> <small>(Later stripped of GA status)</small><br />
|1/1/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Tsardom of Phokland]]<br />
|[[User:People's Republic of Phokland|People's Republic of Phokland]]<br />
|[[User:People's Republic of Phokland|People's Republic of Phokland]]<br />
|2019-04-02<br />
|2019-04-27<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Flag Model of Theodian history]]<br />
|[[User:Swena|Swena]]<br />
|[[User:Swena|Swena]]<br />
|2019-05-09<br />
|2019-06-18<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Kingdom of Gradonia]]<br />
|[[User:William GF Wilson|William GF Wilson]]<br />
|[[User:William GF Wilson|William GF Wilson]]<br />
|2019-08-07<br />
|2019-08-20<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Principality of New Eiffel]]<br />
|[[User:Z. Luna Skye|Z. Luna Skye]]<br />
|[[User:MissEDconexion|MissEDconexion]]<br />
|2019-09-20<br />
|2019-10-05<br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Esmond III, Emperor of Austenasia]]<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|[[User:Malinovia|Malinovia]]<br />
|2019-09-27<br />
|2019-10-17<br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[New Eiffel Main Route 1]]<br />
|[[User:Z. Luna Skye|Z. Luna Skye]]<br />
|[[User:Z. Luna Skye|Z. Luna Skye]]<br />
|2019-11-11<br />
|2019-11-20<br />
|6/5/1<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]]<br />
|[[User:EmperorAdamI|EmperorAdamI]]<br />
|[[User:NickRandouler|NickRandouler]]<br />
|2019-11-12<br />
|2019-12-10<br />
|3/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Kingdom of Kohlandia]]<br />
|[[User:Catherine of Kohlandia|Catherine of Kohlandia]]<br />
|[[User:Catherine of Kohlandia|Catherine of Kohlandia]]<br />
|2019-11-13<br />
|2019-12-11<br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Principality of Montescano]]<br />
|[[User:Deniz|Deniz]]<br />
|[[User:Deniz|Deniz]]<br />
|2019-12-10<br />
|2019-12-29<br />
|2/2/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Fifth Aenderian Republic]]<br />
|[[User:Jaydenfromcanada|Jaydenfromcanada]]<br />
|[[User:Jaydenfromcanada|Jaydenfromcanada]]<br />
|2020-01-02<br />
|2020-01-23<br />
|9/6/3<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Empire of Aenopia]]<br />
|[[User:Aenopia|Aenopia]]<br />
|[[User:Aenopia|Aenopia]]<br />
|2020-01-09<br />
|2020-02-03<br />
|4/3/1<br />
|[[User:MissEDconexion|MissEDconexion]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Kingdom of Baustralia]]<br />
|[[User:KingdomOfBaustralia|KingdomOfBaustralia]]<br />
|[[User:KingdomOfBaustralia|KingdomOfBaustralia]]<br />
|2020-02-10<br />
|2020-02-19<br />
|4/4/0<br />
|[[User:Niko3818|Niko3818]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[New Llandudno]]<br />
|[[User:Aenopia|Aenopia]]<br />
|[[User:Aenopia|Aenopia]]<br />
|2020-02-09<br />
|2020-02-23<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[New Leeds]]<br />
|[[User:Z. Luna Skye|Z. Luna Skye]]<br />
|[[User:Z. Luna Skye|Z. Luna Skye]]<br />
|2020-07-23<br />
|2020-07-24<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Federal Republic of Francisville]]<br />
|[[User:FrancisvilleArchive|FrancisvilleArchive]]<br />
|[[User:FrancisvilleArchive|FrancisvilleArchive]]<br />
|2020-07-11<br />
|2020-09-02<br />
|5/5/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[William I of Gradonia]]<br />
|[[User:William GF Wilson|William GF Wilson]]<br />
|[[User:William GF Wilson|William GF Wilson]]<br />
|2020-09-02<br />
|2020-10-01<br />
|8/7/1<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[Kingdom of Ikonia]]<br />
|[[User:Niko3818|Niko3818]]<br />
|[[User:Niko3818|Niko3818]]<br />
|2020-09-02<br />
|2020-11-01<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[State of Vishwamitra]]<br />
|[[User:Oritsu.me|Oritsu.me]]<br />
|[[User:Oritsu.me|Oritsu.me]]<br />
|2020-11-01<br />
|2020-12-16<br />
|5/5/0<br />
|[[User:Ives Blackwood|Ives Blackwood]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[2020 in the MicroWiki community]]<br />
|[[User:Z Luna Skye|Z Luna Skye]]<br />
|[[User:Z Luna Skye|Z Luna Skye]]<br />
|2020-12-14<br />
|2020-12-26<br />
|3/3/0<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|}<br />
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|-<br />
! rowspan="2"|User<br />
! colspan="2"|Authored<br />
! colspan="2"|Nominated<br />
|-<br />
!No.<br />
!Articles<br />
!No.<br />
!Articles<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Aenopia|Aenopia]]<br />
|2<br />
|<br />
*[[Empire of Aenopia]]<br />
*[[New Llandudno]]<br />
|2<br />
|<br />
*[[Empire of Aenopia]] <br />
*[[New Llandudno]]<br />
|-<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Aldrich Lucas|Aldrich Lucas]]<br />
|2<br />
|<br />
*[[Students' Isocratic Oligarchy of Yabloko]] (later deleted)<br />
*[[MicroWiki Influence Survey]]<br />
|5<br />
|<br />
*[[Þeûdspråxa]] (later stripped of GA status)<br />
*[[Technological Federation of Erephisia]]<br />
*[[Überstadt]]<br />
*[[MicroWiki Influence Survey]]<br />
*[[Federated Republics of A1]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:AnthonyClark|AnthonyClark]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[New Florence]] (later stripped of GA status)<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[New Florence]] (later stripped of GA status)<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Asam79|Asam79]]<br />
|colspan="2" style="background: #efefef;"|<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Students' Isocratic Oligarchy of Yabloko]] (later deleted)<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:AuburnAttack21|AuburnAttack21]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Republic of Ultamiya]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Republic of Ultamiya]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]]<br />
|6<br />
|<br />
*[[Declan I, II & V]]<br />
*[[Esmond III, Emperor of Austenasia]]<br />
*[[Grand Unified Micronational]]<br />
*[[Empire of Austenasia]]<br />
*[[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]]<br />
*[[Deva Victrix]]<br />
|3<br />
|<br />
*[[Declan I, II & V]]<br />
*[[Bowie]]<br />
*[[Deva Victrix]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Billyneil|Billyneil]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Technological Federation of Erephisia]]<br />
|colspan="2" style="background: #efefef;"|<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Bob Christ|Bob Christ]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Democratic Union of British States]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Democratic Union of British States]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:BraydenYates|BraydenYates]]<br />
|colspan="2" style="background: #efefef;"|<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Grand Unified Micronational]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Cajak|Cajak]]<br />
|4<br />
|<br />
*[[Federal Republic of St.Charlie]] (later stripped of GA status)<br />
*[[St.Charlie Armed Forces]]<br />
*[[Nick Maggiore]]<br />
*[[Alexander Reinhardt]]<br />
|3<br />
|<br />
*[[Observergate]]<br />
*[[Nick Maggiore]]<br />
*[[Heinrich Schneider]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Catherine of Kohlandia|Catherine of Kohlandia]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Kingdom of Kohlandia]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Kingdom of Kohlandia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Deniz|Deniz]]<br />
|2<br />
|<br />
*[[Empire of Pavlov]]<br />
*[[Principality of Montescano]]<br />
|2<br />
|<br />
*[[Empire of Pavlov]]<br />
*[[Principality of Montescano]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:DNSgov|DNSgov]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Kermadecia]] (later stripped of GA status)<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Kermadecia]] (later stripped of GA status)<br />
<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Dozzer X|Dozzer X]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Juclandia]]<br />
|colspan="2" style="background: #efefef;"|<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:EmperorAdamI|EmperorAdamI]]<br />
|2<br />
|<br />
*[[Empire of Adammia]]<br />
*[[Adam I, Emperor of Adammia]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Empire of Adammia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Fishy|Fishy]]<br />
|2<br />
|<br />
*[[Federated Republics of A1]]<br />
*[[Organisation of Active Micronations]]<br />
|4<br />
|<br />
*[[Federal Republic of St.Charlie]] (later stripped of GA status)<br />
*[[Republic of Petorio]]<br />
*[[Cheslovian Federation]] (later stripped of GA status)<br />
*[[St.Charlie Armed Forces]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Flandrensis|Flandrensis]]<br />
|2<br />
|<br />
*[[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis]]<br />
*[[Niels of Flandrensis]]<br />
|2<br />
|<br />
*[[Grand Duchy of Flandrensis]]<br />
*[[Niels of Flandrensis]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Førvania|Førvania]]<br />
|colspan="2" style="background: #efefef;"|<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Jonathan I, Emperor of Austenasia]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:FrancisvilleAdmin|FrancisvilleAdmin]]<br />
|3<br />
|<br />
*[[James Stewart]]<br />
*[[Democratic Duchy of Francisville]]<br />
*[[Federal Republic of Francisville]]<br />
|2<br />
|<br />
*[[Democratic Duchy of Francisville]]<br />
*[[Federal Republic of Francisville]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Havnegade-Amager|Havnegade-Amager]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Havnesgade-Amager]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Havnesgade-Amager]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Irojas|Irojas]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Berinese Confederation]]<br />
|1<br />
|<br />
*[[Berinese Confederation]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:James Wilary|James Wilary]]<br />
|3<br />
|<br />
*[[Prsänëan Credit]]<br />
*[[Prsänëan language]]<br />
*[[Inyo, Prsänëa]]<br />
|9<br />
|<br />
*[[Prsänëan Credit]]<br />
*[[Prsänëan language]]<br />
*[[Federal Commonwealth of Sirocco]]<br />
*[[National Centre of Computing (Sirocco)]]<br />
*[[Alexander Reinhardt]]<br />
*[[Empire of Austenasia]]<br />
*[[Foreign relations of Indokistan]] (later stripped of GA status)<br />
*[[Inyo, Prsänëa]]<br />
*[[Organisation of Active Micronations]]<br />
|-<br />
|[[User:Jaydenfromcanada|Jaydenfromcanada]]<br />
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===[[Aleunnic Czardom]]===<br />
<small>''Nominator: [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]). 2:40PM, 1 January 2021 (EST)</small><br />
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I know it isn't much, but since the Aleunnic Czardom is relatively new with relevant info and references, it could work. Any comments on how to improve it is appreciated.<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' Far too short for a nation. The rest is self explanatory. <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 19:43, 1 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' It's to short [[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]]<br />
:*'''WITHDRAWN''' From the comments received, I've decided to withdraw this article and probably renominate if more info gets added. [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]). 3:03PM, 2 January 2021 (EST)<br />
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===Overturn GA status of [[State of Berin]]===<br />
<small>''Nominator: [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]). 2:40PM, 1 January 2021 (EST)</small><br />
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Not a lot of info, no pictures other than flags, and the lack of references.<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' For good articles you do not only look for articles that meet the expected criteria for an article of its category—i.e. the necessary images, expansive and well-written information, citations—a good article should encompass above average material which defies expectations; while information/length is not an issue for this article, as neither is references, and it is of historical importance, there is nothing exceptionally amazing about the article. In fact, it would be improved with at least one physical image, and the text could nevertheless be expanded a bit and do with some refreshing for grammar and spelling, such as the unnecessary bold text for its flags. [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 23:49, 3 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
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*'''SUPPORT''' The article isn't worthy of GA at all. [[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]]<br />
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*'''SUPPORT''' As above. <small>[[User:Ricky|<span style="color: #DE5285;">ricky</span>]] <span style="color: #DE5285;">•</span> [[User talk:Ricky|<span style="color: #DE5285;">sup?</span>]]</small> 02:30, 5 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
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*'''SUPPORT''' I believe that I was initially going to oppose this, but I decided to support this call because even though I think it could be updated, Good Articles are meant to stay as.. good articles. Unfortunately, this one isn't right now. ([[User:ReesesPuffs, Puffs I]])<br />
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*'''COMMENT''' I the believe that this article must have been worthy of being a good article by the time it was created, and its historic relevance, when it comes to good articles, should be preserved. But I understand that for today's standarts the article isn't by far a "good article", it is too short and simple, although well done. I'm just not fond of the ideia of witch-hunting older good articles which, for today's standarts, aren't that good, otherwise we might start something that could end in chopping the list of good articles by the middle, hypoteticaly speaking. [[User:Grand Duke Arthur|Arthur Brum]] ([[User talk:Grand Duke Arthur|talk]]) 21:24, 11 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**'''COMMENT''' On this note, the article was radically different at the time it received GA. The article as it exists now may as well be a completely different page altogether, and as such degraded GA pages should expect to have their status relinquished. Here is the revision: https://micronations.wiki/index.php?title=State_of_Berin&oldid=53027 <br> [[User:Sertor Valentinus|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Sertor </span>]][[User talk:Sertor Valentinus|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]] 04:44, 31 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
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*'''SUPPORT''' <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 22:19, 11 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**'''APPROVED''' [[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]] ([[User talk:Austenasia|talk]]) 11:20, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
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===[[Ebenthal]]===<br />
<small>''Nominator: [[User:Grand Duke Arthur|Arthur Brum]] ([[User talk:Grand Duke Arthur|talk]]) 19:59, 1 January 2021 (UTC) ''</small><br />
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I believe the article fulfills all the required criteira. It is well-written (specialy if one takes into account that the micronation isn't natively English-speaker), it speaks coherently and reasonably in all of the micronation's facts and matters without going into unnecessarily detailed mega-texts, it provides a fair amount of sources, quality images providing detailed descriptions with no false/simulationist claims, it does not magnifies the micronation, it is honest on its position, and its structure follows the Wikipedia countries' articles' pattern. [[User:Grand Duke Arthur|Arthur Brum]] ([[User talk:Grand Duke Arthur|talk]]) 19:59, 1 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Ebenthal's article is one of the most elaborate on entire MicroWiki, especially considering that it's from a relatively recent micronation. Without wishing to dwell on Ebenthal's regional importance as a micronation of preponderance, the work done to create a first-rate article has been achieved a long time ago, surpassing several articles accepted as good and which, due to elegance, should not be mentioned. However, once the quality threshold has been established, it's undisputed that this article far exceeds expectations and that failure to recognize its quality is more a political or xenophobic statement than a sincere opposition for some failure in it. This article has already been submitted for consideration and has been rejected; fair or not, the author dedicated himself to perfecting the article and now, there is little to criticize negatively, being more than apt to receive qualification, but being truly worthy of being placed in a differentiated rank, being an example for articles to be written in the future. [[User:Ruthenia|Karno-Ruthenian Imperial Government]] ([[User talk:Ruthenia|talk]]) 18:17, 01 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' This is a great article, being a template for detailing a micronation, and with a high level of information, details and references, the Ebenthal article reflects the great nation that is. [[Sildavia|Sildavia Government]] ([[User talk:Secretaria de Imprensa Sildava|talk]]) 17:26, 01 January 2021 (UTC−3)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]) 3:31PM, 1 January 2021 (EST)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' This is by far the most well written article at this website, it is rich in information and content and I think it deserves the title of 'Good article'. [[Villa Alicia|Villa Alicia Government]] ([[User talk:Zagalo|talk]]) 22:03, 01 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' This is one of the best written articles on Microwiki, that still does not have a GA tag. I would like this article to be a Good Article on Microwiki. [[User:Oritsu.me|Oritsu.me]] ([[User talk:Oritsu.me|Oritsu.me]]) 7:08, 3 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' I have absolutely no idea what [[User:Ruthenia|Karno-Ruthenian Imperial Government]] is talking about but I am sure somewhere in there are good reasons to support. [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 23:36, 3 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' As above. <small>[[User:Ricky|<span style="color: #DE5285;">ricky</span>]] <span style="color: #DE5285;">•</span> [[User talk:Ricky|<span style="color: #DE5285;">sup?</span>]]</small> 02:30, 5 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' This is a not a good article but it is a gold article. This page is an inspiration to other micronationalists in aiding them to creating a way of writing about their nation in MicroWiki.[[User:Aakair|Chandrachur Basu]] ([[User talk:Aakair|talk]]) 19:11, 13 January 2021 (UTC+5.5)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Nice page, I recommend that others take inspiration from it. [[User:StefanSNG|StefanSNG]] ([[User talk:StefanSNG|talk]]) 16:46, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**'''APPROVED''' [[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]] ([[User talk:Austenasia|talk]]) 11:20, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
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===[[Statistic-Dime]]===<br />
<small>''Nominator: [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 21:27, 1 January 2021 (UTC) ''</small><br />
*'''SUPPORT''' [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]) 4:36PM, 1 January 2021 (EST)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' This article definitely deserves good article status. It is well written, well referenced, and is expansive. A big yes from me! {{DanielSig}} 16:00, 13 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' [[User:Oritsu.me|Oritsu.me]], ([[User talk:Oritsu.me|talk]]) 8.07AM, 25 January 2021 (IST)<br />
**'''COMMENT''' Change vote from oppose to support, [[User:Oritsu.me|Oritsu.me]], ([[User talk:Oritsu.me|talk]]) 8.23AM, 25 January 2021 (IST)<br />
***'''APPROVED''' [[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]] ([[User talk:Austenasia|talk]]) 11:20, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
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===[[Ela'r'oech]]===<br />
<small>''Nominator: [[Charles Madgett|Ela'r'oech Charles]] ([[User:Ela'r'oech_Charles|Ela'r'oech Charles]]). 12:00Am, 3 January 2021 (CDT)</small><br><br />
I think it's grown a lot since the last time it was submitted. Some "biased" things were removed. Yadda Yadda, let's see how it works this time. If y'all gonna oppose, please lemme know why and give feedback.<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' I like the article, it's informative and explanatory. [[User:Kaiser-Koenig Christoph I|Kaiser-Koenig Christoph I]]<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Should note that in foreign relations it should state the name of the nation. Overall, it's good. [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]) 12:00PM, 1 January 2021 (EST)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Yes! I think this article is honestly amazing and provides a lot of information useful to any micronationalist. It's fairly a "new" micronation but it's got a good-looking article and I believe it's worthy of GA status. Not to go off topic, but I was really disappointed to see it get revoked the first time, especially when someone used "MW@D Discrimination" and claimed it to be biased, when it is just in the Elarian culture that unfortunately it is believed they are discriminated against. And that person who said it was biased... was a moderator! Really? Proving the point of that sentence right there. But now that I'm done with my little rant, I really do think that this article is worthy of the GA status especially with more informational changes with the map and such on the infobox. [[User:Anthony Ramirez 3rd]] 3:12PM, 3 January 2021 (CDT)<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' Sections are rather stubby and some parts are worded rather badly. The Civil War section embodies these problems whilst also making absolutely no sense to the reader without context. Some dates utilise an incorrect date format and the article seems rather biased (and again make no sense) in sections . There are also a few spelling and grammar mistakes sprinkled throughout the article whilst some parts are written in both past and present tense AND first and third person. Some sections go into far too much detail and are quite messy such as the foreign affairs section - instead of having a defined section for recognition, organisations, foreign relations, ect. these groups are needlessly clumped together.<small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 22:27, 3 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''WEAK OPPOSE''' Article is stubby in certain sections like Ela'r'oech after Charles and MW manual of style is not followed so it is a no from me. it doesn't even have a government section like a MW about a nation should.[[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]]<br />
*'''COMMENT''' May I be informed as to which sections you believe are stubby? As said If you oppose giving Ela'r'oech the GA status please inform me of what I can do to amend this especially regarding bias. I am currently editing the article still as I was during the last time the article was submitted to hopefully amend anything I notice myself and add details.([[User:Ela'r'oech_Charles|Ela'r'oech Charles]])<br />
*'''COMMENT''' Thanks for the info. Will update to amend. Please check it afterwards and perhaps consider changing your position.([[User:Ela'r'oech_Charles|Ela'r'oech Charles]])<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' Much improved since last nomination, good prose, well-written in most parts and perfect images, though some sections are rather confusing, such as "It was founded accidentally by Charles Madgett in 2018, then in 2019 he made another nation which went defunct for a while until 2020, when on 15 August, it was purposefully established", which should explain more on how it was accidentally and later purposefully founded. Some subsections of its history are short, and I would remove the ones under "Pre-Ela'r'oech" - I would also move Locations and Climate into its own section titled "Geography". I agree with [[User:Aenopia|Logan (Aenopia)]] on the foreign affairs section. Furthermore, all date formats should be dd/mm/yyyy, so not September 16, 2020 or 16th of September 2020, but rather "16 September 2020". Also contains mild spelling mistakes or sentences that can be better worded. [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 02:11, 5 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''COMMENT''' I am confused though as to why there are any people necessarily opposing the GA Status of this article for the reason of Charles is listening to them and this article is continuously updated. I feel like a good amount of reasoning for these "oppose" views have been amended. (1/2) ([[User:Anthony Ramirez 3rd]])<br />
*'''COMMENT''' (2/2) Charles has been waiting and patiently amending this all listening to the opposition, which is one thing I really respect and I have seen votes change before so I stand with him with reminding you and advising you to change your vote. Do not look at Ela'r'oech's article once. Look at it every day or a few times a day. There's many changes to it constantly. I see it as ; you're never voting for the exact same article in this nomination. Please listen to Charles when he advises you to change your vote. Please look at this article constantly, study it's changes. ([[User:Anthony Ramirez 3rd]])<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' I always liked [[Charles Madgett|Charles]], however it won't give me any bias when saying this article genuinely blew me away first reading it. Looking at the "OPPOSE" section it would say that there are incorrect date formats (there are none), stubby sections (there are none, maybe one or two I didn't catch), and bad grammar (which I'm admittedly not too good at so I wouldn't know), but at face value without nitpicking I really liked the article. But I'll also admit GA status is for those nitpicked articles that are still good. Could use some more work but I'm gonna support this one, since I really agree with [[User:Anthony Ramirez 3rd|Anthony]], but I also agree somewhat with [[User:Aenopia|Logan (Aenopia)]] on the Civil War section. I'm sure it was worse before anything was said about it, but maybe that section could be removed or just expanded upon. I also don't think it fits in History/Ela'r'oech Era. Maybe Domestic Forces/Civil War would have been a better area for it. ([[User:ReesesPuffs, Puffs I|Puffs I]])<br />
**'''REJECTED''' [[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]] ([[User talk:Austenasia|talk]]) 11:20, 25 January 2021 (UTC) - 4:3 isn't consensus<br />
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===[[Kingdom of Burdette]]===<br />
<small>''Nominator:[[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]]</small><br><br />
I would like as much feedback as you can give I also wanna see how good the article is.<br><br />
*'''SUPPORT''' I wrote it and think it's good quality.[[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]]<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' Zero images, lack of references, sections need expanding such as Economy, could probably do with a few more blue links and overall the article could do with expansion. <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 10:41, 8 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Definitely could use more images, but I helped expand the economy area and it doesn't look too bad. Could use more work but it does look like a good article. [[User:Ela'r'oech Charles|Charles]]<br />
*'''COMMENT''' I added quite a few images. [[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]]<br />
*'''COMMENT''' The opening is good, Etymology could be worded better, Geography is a bit short, and Climate can be expanded (i.e. "In general, the climate of Burdette is cool and often cloudy, and mid-year temperatures are generally warm, sometimes hot."), Government and Law and order have minor sentences which could be worded better and can have more blue links. Also if possible images of the land would help improve the overall feel of the article. [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 03:43, 13 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''COMMENT''' I will beginning fixing the things you have named.<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]) 12:22PM, 19 January 2021 (EST)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' [[User:Oritsu.me|Oritsu.me]] ([[User talk:Oritsu.me|talk]]) 8:00PM, 25 January 2021 (EST)<br />
**'''APPROVED''' [[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]] ([[User talk:Austenasia|talk]]) 11:20, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
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=== [[Kingdom of Trebor]] ===<br />
<small>''Nominator: [[User:Ives Blackwood|Ives Blackwood]] ([[User talk:Ives Blackwood|talk]]) 19:23, 12 January 2021 (UTC)''</small><br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Well written, expansive enough and cited. [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 15:09, 19 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''SUPPORT''' Seems good. I think there should be more images. [[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]) 12:21PM, 19 January 2021 (EST)<br />
::'''RESPONSE''' It's slim pickings for images about the golden toilet joke nation that lasted for about a month, but I've added an image of Trebor mints — with which the country shares a name and a colour scheme — and of Glastieven E. I did think about adding the Myré flag to the 'Position in Glastieven history' section but I don't want to encourage the confusion! —[[User:Ives Blackwood|Ives Blackwood]] ([[User talk:Ives Blackwood|talk]]) 09:08, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**'''APPROVED''' [[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]] ([[User talk:Austenasia|talk]]) 11:20, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
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=== [[Ecologist Republic of Bartonia]] ===<br />
<small>''Nominator: [[User:Jak123|Jak123]] ([[User talk:Jak123|talk]]) 13:51, 22 January 2021 (CET)''</small><br />
*'''OPPOSE''' lack of images and references, some sections are very stubby and large amounts of the article is more of a list. <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 13:47, 22 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' As above - too many lists. [[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 02:49, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*'''OPPOSE''' This is not — to be blunt — a finished article. Sorry. —[[User:Ives Blackwood|Ives Blackwood]] ([[User talk:Ives Blackwood|talk]]) 08:31, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**'''REJECTED''' [[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]] ([[User talk:Austenasia|talk]]) 11:20, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
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==VOTING==<br />
Voting is now open for January 2021's Good Article! Please vote below, by signing your username <nowiki>("~~~~")</nowiki> underneath the approved article you think best deserves Good Article status.<br />
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The first five articles are included in this month's vote due to having been approved last month.<br />
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*[[Ives Blackwood]]<br />
*[[John I of Baustralia]]<br />
*[[Democratic Liberal Party (Plushunia)]]<br />
*[[Zed]]<br />
**[[User:Austenasia|Austenasia]] ([[User talk:Austenasia|talk]]) 11:46, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**<small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#d7cdfe;border-radius:6px;color:#000000">[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]<span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#000000 solid 2px;background:#000000;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff"><span style="background:#d2fac0;border:#000000 solid 2px;border-left:0px;border-right:0px;border-radius:8px;">&nbsp;[[User:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">'''Logan (Aenopia)'''</span>]]&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family:comicsans;">&nbsp;[[User talk:Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Terry Tibbs talk to me</span>]]&nbsp;<span style="color:#000000;">•</span>&nbsp;[[Special:Contributions/Aenopia|<span style="color:#000000;">Look at what I've done.</span>]]&nbsp;</span>[[File:Empire of Aenopia flag.png|25px|link=Empire of Aenopia]]</span></small> 13:24, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Liammunroe|L. Munroe]] - King of Atiera 14:39, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Ives Blackwood|Ives Blackwood]] ([[User talk:Ives Blackwood|talk]]) 14:51, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**{{ALsig}}, 15:34, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Naveria|Naveria]] ([[User talk:Naveria|talk]]) 15:39, 25 January 2021 (UTC) [How could I not support?! This is one high quality article.]<br />
**{{DanielSig}} 15:40, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;"> Isaiah </span>]][[User talk:Isaiah Burdette|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]] 14:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Anthony Dickson|Anthony Dickson]] ([[User talk:Anthony Dickson|talk]]) 03:08, 26 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Tsar Stefan I|Tsar Stefan I]] ([[User talk:Tsar Stefan I|talk]]) 11:20PM, 25 January 2021 (EST)<br />
**[[User:Bob122|Bob122]] ([[User talk:Bob122|talk]]) 17:34, 26 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Archie IV|Archie Birch]] 19:10, 26 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Summi Imperatoris|𝙷𝙸𝙼 𝙲𝚑𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚊 𝙸 𝚘𝚏 𝙲𝚢𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚊]] ([[User talk:Summi Imperatoris|𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔]]) 16:14, 27 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Sertor Valentinus|<span style="color:red; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Sertor </span>]][[User talk:Sertor Valentinus|<span style="color:purple; text-shadow:blue 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(Chat)''</span>]] 17:09, 27 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Emperor Anthony I|Emperor Anthony I]] ([[User talk:Emperor Anthony I|talk]]) 18:20, 27 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Niko3818|cameron]] ([[User talk:Niko3818|talk]]) 00:01, 30 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Sep|<span style="color:white; text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Sep </span>]][[User talk:Sep|<span style="color:white; text-shadow:black 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">''(talk)''</span>]] 02:52, 30 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Mdhs|Mdhs]] ([[User talk:Mdhs|talk]]) 17:10, 30 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
** [[User:Aminan|Aminan]] ([[User talk:Aminan|talk]]) 19:23, 30 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Jaydenfromcanada|Jaydenfromcanada]] ([[User talk:Jaydenfromcanada|talk]]) | Sent from [[w:Mail (Windows)|Mail]] for [[w:Windows 10|Windows 10]] <small><span style="white-space:nowrap;border:#0000ff solid 2px;background:#ffffff;border-radius:8px;color:#0000ff">&nbsp;these signature styles are terrible&nbsp;</span></span></small> | 16:52, 31 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*[[Florania]]<br />
*[[Ebenthal]]<br />
**[[User:LouisPhilippeTheoton|LouisPhilippeTheoton]] ([[User talk:LouisPhilippeTheoton|talk]]) 15:14, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Secretaria de Imprensa Sildava|Secretaria de Imprensa Sildava]] ([[User talk:Secretaria de Imprensa Sildava|talk]]) 09:59, 25 January 2021 (UTC−3)<br />
**[[User:Aakair|Chandrachur Basu]] 18:38, 25 January 2021 (UTC+5.5)<br />
**[[User:Ruthenia|Karno-Ruthenian Government]] ([[User talk:Ruthenia|talk]]) 12:37, 25 January 2021 (UTC−3)<br />
**[[User:Oritsu.me|Oritsu.me]] ([[User talk:Oritsu.me|talk]]) 14:42, 25 January 2021 (UTC+5.30)<br />
**[[User:StefanSNG|StefanSNG]] ([[User talk:StefanSNG|talk]]) 16:48, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Cobrakai|Cobrakai]] ([[User talk:Cobrakai|talk]]) 18:58, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:MarcoAntonioRino|MarcoAntonioRino]] ([[User talk:MarcoAntonioRino|talk]]) 20:14, 25 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Grand Duchy of Queensland|Grand Duchy of Queensland]] ([[User talk:Grand Duchy of Queensland|talk]]) 14.26, 26 January 2021 (UTC+7)<br />
**[[User:MonmarkianEmpire|David Augustus I of Monmark]] ([[User talk:MonmarkianEmpire|talk]]) 07:29, 26 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:InvincibleAdmiral|His Imperial Majesty, Vincent I, Emperor of Arthuria]] ([[User talk:InvincibleAdmiral|talk]]) 13.49, 26 January 2021 (EST)<br />
**[[User:Pierre Pellen|Pierre Pellen]] ([[User talk:Pierre Pellen|talk]]) 17:55, 26 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**<small>[[User:Ricky|<span style="color: #DE5285;">ricky</span>]] <span style="color: #DE5285;">•</span> [[User talk:Ricky|<span style="color: #DE5285;">sup?</span>]]</small> 21:19, 26 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Rafael of Luna|Rafael of Luna]] ([[User talk:Rafael of Luna|talk]]) 17:26, 27 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Zagalo|Villa Alicia Government]] ([[User talk:Zagalo|talk]]) 17:15, 27 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:SamohT|Quinta Velha]] ([[User talk:SamohT|talk]]) 17:40, 27 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
**[[User:Grand Duke Arthur|Arthur Brum]] ([[User talk:Grand Duke Arthur|talk]]) 04:52, 29 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*[[Statistic-Dime]]<br />
**[[User:Z Luna Skye|★ ♥︎ Zed 。]] <span style="color:pink;">~</span> <small>([[User talk:Z Luna Skye|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Z Luna Skye|edits]] | [[User:Z Luna Skye/Subsection|full]])</small> 23:58, 31 January 2021 (UTC)<br />
*[[Kingdom of Burdette]]<br />
*[[Kingdom of Trebor]]</div>Ives Blackwood