Gosland

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Gosland is a grand duchy established in 2015. It is ruled by The von Gosling dynasty. It sees itself as a nation created with the main goal of protecting nature. It claims a sector of Victoria Land close to cape Adare.

Grand Duchy of Gosland
Flag
Coat of arms of Gosland
Coat of arms
Motto: “Gens, libertas, dux”
Antarctica Bir Tawil
Official languagesEnglish, Russian
Demonym(s)Goslandian
Government
• Grand Duke
Calvin von Gosling
• Premier
Count Shane Bruton (appointed March 2024)
LegislatureParliament
Population
• Census
42
CurrencyGosland Dollar
Time zone(UTC: -6:00)

The grand duchy of Gosland was founded in 2015. It was originally the Republic of Callachia and was founded by Calvin Gosling, the reigning duke with Secretary William Paxton, the state secretary who held a number of roles at the time including defence minister and interior minister. It is unrecognized but hopes to have a status similar to Sealand or Abkhazia. The royal family is based in London at the declared British embassy and is run by a government in exile.

Its parliament is comprised of aristocrats and the current reigning party is the nationalist party, the only party currently in existence, a small senate exists made up of government ministers. Any legislation must be approved by the grand duke.

Governance and the royal family

The nation was founded originally along a small stretch of Marie Byrd land in the unclaimed sector of Antarctica. A temporary constitution was written in late that year. An aspiring protectorate, the grand Duke has always used the argument of climate protection, a key policy as a reason for wanting to become close to the Uk with it being the Grand dukes country of origin. In November 2023 Gosland changed its claim to the area surrounding the adare peninsula, south of the Adelli station in the zone claimed by New Zealand. 73057'40"S 168007'07"E to 70°42'03"S 168012'12"E to be exact.

History

On the 23rd of October 2015 Gosland was created as a fun project, inspired by Sealand and Molossia, on top of the environmentalist and conservationist views between the Grand Duke, and his close friends, some from school, others from elsewhere. After a coronation and a constitution a few days later, William Paxton was made the premier. In late 2015/early 2016 Gosland activated it's official Instagram account, from which It regularly interacted with other micronations, such as the republic of Luxe, and Italian Micronation ran by Luca Mirante, which became Gosland's main ally. The main land claims at the time were the portion of Marie Byrd land next to the Ross ice shelf, and then west Bir Tawil, known as the colony of Callachia.


A fear of the government which at this point was at it's peak with an active privy council was that due to Gosland being within the borders of WestArctica, it would prevent any good relations between the two neighbouring Grand Dukes. This however was quelled when the Instagram post detailing our claims was liked by Grand duke Travis, thus quelling any fears of conflict. Over this time conflict happened between micronations around Gosland in the general micro nationalist community. Both the former and the latter examples lead to Gosland's 2017 decree of peace. This stated that Gosland would aim to enter relations with as many micronations as possible, staying out of any wars, unless our sovereignty was compromised, which has survived to this very day. Other micronations Gosland interacted with include Airedalandia, Edristan, Beaulakerland, Elska, Verenium and JingKang just to name a few. Most of which have since became defunct. Gosland was also a member of UMEC for a short time period.

In 2019, a few Goslandic aristocrats in the privy council began to miss the ''first era'', in which it was a nation ruled by the grand duke and his real life friends and relations, despite the fact it had gained quite a few citizens online. The privy council voted in favour of isolationism, leading to the selling of the official foreign ministry ran Instagram account. The Grand duke at the time was in favour of this as by this point Gosland had quite a few external affairs to worry about and most of the government was beginning to get busy with examinations and a few even left the country entirely. This led to Premier Paxton resigning, as well as the end of the newspaper publications. During the isolationist period, the Grand duke decided to drop the Bir Tawil land claim, with Gosland only existing in the London embassy, with the flags and government box still visible on the desk. during this period between June 2019 and June 2023 It was only the Grand duke and a few select relatives which held onto Gosland, mainly by using the title of Grand duke.

In November 2023 The territorial claim was changed to the area around the Victoria mountains next to the Ross Sea, surrounding Cape Adare.

June 2023 revival

On the 18th of June, a national holiday for the Goslandic people, The Grand duke, now 20, started a twitter account in order to interact with other nations and come back ''better than ever'' as the Grand duke said in a speech. It started with a state visit to Thailand, as well as the release of a portrait on the Grand duke's birthday. Gosland entered swiftly into the Candrean imperial confederacy, a large scale micronational union in which the Grand duke is the culture secretary. The first alliances that were made was with the Swiss kingdom of Wannada, followed by the prominent Japanese micronation, the empire of Arcadia. As of the 9th of October 2023 the twitter account has almost 300 followers, with Gosland further entering relations with over 15 micronations. These include west who, Wakoku, Angosvria and the kingdom of Berg. it's closest allies include Arcadia and the nations within the Candrean imperial confederacy In late 2023, Gosland rejoined UMEC..

On the 20th of February, count Bruton, a freind of the Grand Duke was appointed as defense minister. Such a motion started the restarting of government operations.