Grand Kingdom of Matachewan

Matachewan is a Polish Micronation that was created by Brandon Mierzwa on 30 June 2015. The name Matachewan comes from the Matachewan First Nation and means "Meeting of the Waters". The nation was named after Fort Matachewan a former Gold Mining Community just south of Timmins Ontario. Matachewan is a very Polish based micronation as many of the national symbols are Polish. The Military and Currencies also take from the Polish Culture. Matachewan's official name is the Grand Kingdom of Matachewan although many in the micronational community just refer to Matachewan as Matachewan.

Grand Kingdom of Matachewan
Motto God Save Matachewan
Anthem "Free Matachewan"
Capital city	Oblate City
Largest city	Oblate
Official language(s)	English, Polish
Official religion(s)	Catholicism
Demonym	Matachewanian
Government	Constitutional Monarchy
- King of Matachewan	His Majesty Brandon I
- Premier of Matachewan	Simon Fraser
- Premier of Matachewan for Global Affairs	Christopher Miller
Legislature	Grand Sejm
- Type	- Unicameral
- Number of seats	- 12
- Last election	- March 1st 2020
Established	June 30th, 2015
Population	Information will be released shortly official citizens
Currency	Matachewanian Złoty
Time zone	Eastern Time Zone
National sport	Baseball
National dish	Pierogies
National drink	Warka Beer
National animal	White Eagle
Patron saint	Saint Andrew

Etymology

The name of Matachewan came from its original geographical location. The word Matachewan comes from the Matachewan First Nation that first settled Matachewan and the word means "Meeting of the Waters". The word doesn't have an official origin on why it was created but we like to believe that the Matachewan First Nation made and named themselves off the Upper and Lower Matachewanian Lakes that feed into the Montreal River.

Matachewan never had a Demonym and just went by Matachewan until 3 December 2018 when King Brandon Mierzwa introduced "Matachewanian" adding "-ian" to the end of Matachewan.

History

Early Matachewan (2015 - 2017)

The Grand Kingdom of Matachewan was founded in June 2015 under the Independent City of Matachewan by Brandon Mierzwa. The nation was like any other growing micronation at the time, it was proud in its work and it tried to look and strive for a better future. Matachewan wasn't widely known at this time and refused to move onto the internet.

Matachewanian Civil War

Like most micronations back in 2015, Matachewan felt like it was necessary to get involved in some sort of conflict and apparently that conflict was with itself. Matachewan did fight small land battles around its claimed territory but nothing was to become of this and the country eventually died off.

2018 and Matachewan

August - October

After two long years of no national progress and absolutely no activity, Matachewan eventually came back on 3 August 2018, as the Kingdom of Matachewan. The Kingdom of Matachewan was a small discord dependent micronation with nothing really going for it until it meat the Fifth Aenderian Republic and Auvenum. Matachewan was to get involved in some conflict between the two nations eventually leading the Matachewanian-Nerdystanian War which was never physically fought and is really just a relic of when Matachewan was more of a simulationist state.

Politics

Sejm of Matachewan

Early Sejm

The first legislature of Matachewan was not called the Sejm but rather just Parliament. The early Parliament (Sejm) had many power problems and was inefficient since its beginning terms. The problems with the Parliament became evident when the democratically elected officials started pushing for more democratic offices and eventually proposed cutting the Monarchy's control of Parliament. After a week of bitter discussion and debate the Monarchy removed the members of Parliament eventually leading to a 2nd Republic and then a 6th Monarchy and then back to a stable nation. It was on May 16th when the first reference to the word Sejm was used when speaking about Matachewanian Parliament.

Leaders of State

• 

  Brandon Mierzwa
  HM Brandon I of Matachewan, Emperor of the Grand Matachewanian Commonwealth.
• 

  Beau Edwards
  Head General/General Broni, of the 1st St. Catharines Royal Infantry.

Parties

Party	Logo	Party Leader	Ideology	Sejm	Premier	Premier Global	Cabinet
Progressive Conservative Party of Matachewan		Christopher Miller	Monarchism, Flexible Conservatism	7 / 12	0 / 1	1 / 1	4 / 4
United Northern Liberal Party of Matachewan		Nicholas Lokin	Liberalism, Left Nationalism	4 / 12	1 / 1	0 / 1	0 / 5

Diplomacy

Country	Matachewan Recognizes	Recognizes Matachewan	Alliance	War	Official Diplomat to Matachewan	Official Diplomat from Matachewan
Principality of Bomistan	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Imperial Federation of Elysium	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Grand Republic of Cycoldia	Yes	Yes	Unknown	No	Unknown	Unknown

Geography

Commonwealth States

Commonwealth Members

Country	Is in Commonwealth
Grand-Duchy of Antranador	No/Disbanding of Commonwealth
Kingdom of Humberlea	No/Disbanding of Commonwealth
2nd Caribbean Empire	No/No Representation
3rd Empire of New Prussia	No/Nation Defunct

Economy

Industry

Matachewan is currently undergoing localization and a key part of localization is the development of the economy through industrial means.

Mining Attempts and Plans

On 30 November 2019 Beau Edwards and Brandon Mierzwa went out on a mining expedition in hopes of finding quarts and other surface rocks. What they came back with was a small amount of quarts and small fossils.

On the 2nd of December 2019 Brandon and a few other ministers decided they would go mining for clay to create pottery to sell off and make bricks. The work done was impressive as they dug almost 8 feet into the ground striking what they thought was clay. After 1 week of digging and further examination of the "clay" it was found out that the "clay" they've been mining was just hardened dirt. After the news the operation soon was abandoned.

Farming Plans

Matachewan is preparing to make small planters which will be used to grow small plants like Dill and Parsley. Matachewan also has plans to make an all year farm using potatoes. The attempts at farming are small but a nation must start somewhere.

Matachewanian Zloty

Matachewanian Zloty
Official users	Matachewan
Unofficial users	None
Pegged to	CAD - $00.10 Soon to be pegged to Silver
Symbol	MZL
Code	MZL
Plural	Zloty
Banknotes	1mzl, 2mzl, 5mzl, 10mzl, 20mzl
Central bank	Royal Bank of Matachewan
Printer	Royal Mint of Matachewan
Mint	Royal Mint of Matachewan

Coat of Arms & Flags

Coat of Arms

The Matachewanian Coat of Arms has always been important to the people and the nation to better favor the nations global representation through heraldry.

Meaning Behind the Coat of Arms

The National CoA of Matachewan has always been changed depending on if the nation identified as a certain leading ideology or a way of delegating power. Much of Matachewan's life was fighting, instability and the transition of power from one leader to another and then falling back on a former leader. Matachewan has always been built around its Polish culture and local Catholic majority. With these two things along with Matachewan's troubled times Matachewan's CoA has religious symbols and of course an Eagle to represent the population and to respect the culture. Often times the Eagle of Matachewan can be seen holding a sword or even a gun during times of war or times of trouble to represent that Matachewan herself will raise over any enemy even in the face of defeat.

Greater Coat of Arms December 2019 - Present

Lesser Coat of Arms December 24th 2019 - Present

Old Greater Coat of Arms

May 14th 2019 - May 27th 2019

October 2019 - December 2019

Awards

• Order of King Brandon I

• Cross of Regent Tablekitten

• Order of the White Eagle

• Matachewan-Prussia Order of the Double Eagle (Not In Service Anymore)

• Order of the Imperial Eagle 1

• Order of the Imperial Eagle 2

• Cross of St. Peter

• Cross of Kaiser Kleinmann I

• Cross of King Johann