Draft:Independent Republic of the Fortress of Deget
Independent Republic of the Fortress of Deget Den uafhænginge republik Degets skanse (Danish) | |
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| Official languages | Danish English None (de jure) |
| Government | Constitutional democratic provisional unitary republic under a presidential autocracy. |
• Captain of State | Mogens K. |
• President of the Council | Tobias W. |
| Legislature | People's Provisional Council of State |
| Secession | |
| Date format | dd/mm/yyyy |
Deget, also known by the more colloquial name Skansen, formally the Independent Republic of the Fortress of Deget (Danish: Den uafhænginge republik Degets skanse) is a self-proclaimed sovereign microstate in Northern Europe bordered on all sides by Denmark with whom the sovereignty of the state is also under inactive dispute. Due to its insignificant size and unilateral actions, Deget is considered to be a micronation. Deget is geographically composed of scattered pockets of land by the eastern coast of Vendsyssel, chiefly within and around Frederikshavn. Though the territorial integrity claimed by the state is generally fluctuating, it centres culturally around the uninhabited rock island of the same name and its neighbouring islet of Hjellen. The rock owes its cultural significance to the remains of a fortress that have served military purpose under Denmark-Norway for centuries, namely the Great Northern War, and the Napoleonic Wars. Additionally the island is littered with military installations stemming from the German occupation of Denmark under the Second World War.
Having been the subject of active deliberation since 2021, Deget formally seceded from Denmark by the ratification of a provisional constitution on 6 September 2023. A wide reaching participatory democracy in name and intent, it remains effectively governed by a group of friends, to whom is owed the insignificance of the state and its provisional government. Though the legitimacy of Degets sovereignty appears highly idealistic, it is built on practical, liberal, utilitarian grounds that serves to justify the moral existence of the state in the legal-rational model of Max Weber's classifications of authority. Additionally the cultural centralisation to local military history serve to appeal to traditionalist authority and establishes the centre of identity around which the state revolves, which draws a non-physical line as well between Deget and Denmark that isn't necessarily concerned with the "loyalist" local identity. In practice, however, Deget is unrecognized by other states, and though its internal justifications make up a functional, popular and normative legitimacy, the state's external justifications to exist must rely on compliance to the conventional norms of statehood. Accordingly, Deget constitutionally subjects itself to international conventions such as the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States of 1933 and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. The state of Deget is in principle an enactor of declarative theory of statehood by means that are aspirational yet pragmatic.
In the nature of pragmativism, Deget operates under the framework of a constitutional democratic republic, and rejects monarchy as an effective form of government. Deget is however provisionally unable to accomodate for the prerequisites of a functional and reliable democracy and takes the shape of a presidential autocracy with a bifurcated separation of power. Power is divided into the executive, embodied by the Captain of State, and the legislative, embodied by the People's Provisional Council of State. There is no judiciary power but that which has been loosely granted to said Council.