User:AtomCZ/History of the Gymnasium State

History of Gymnasium State refers to the history of the Gymnasium State, the land it consists of and, sometimes, of its neighbouring areas. The micronational history of the area begins on 2 September 2017, when the Socialist State of Gymnasium declared independence from the Czech Republic.

Pre-micronational history (until 2017)

Historical affiliations

• Great Moravia 9th century
• Bohemia 9th–12th century
• Bavaria 12th–13th century
• Bohemia c. 1257–1918
• Czechoslovakia 1918–1939
• Bohemia and Moravia 1939–1945
• Czechoslovakia 1945–1992
• Czech Republic 1993–2018
• Socialist State of Gymnasium 2017–2018
• Gymnasium State 2018–present

Main article: Sušice#History

According to archaeological findings, the earliest human settlement of the area surrounding the modern Gymnasium State was in the Paleolithic Era. The earliest long-term settlement was founded in the sixth or fifth century BC by the Boii on the nearby hill Sedlo. After the Celts, the area was populated by the Marcomanni and eventually the Dulebes, who founded the first agricultural and gold-panning settlements along the river Otava, which would eventually merge into Sušice by the 9th century. In the 12th century, the area came under control of the Duchy of Bavaria and the House of Bogen under unclear circumstances, but it was reconquered by king Ottokar II around 1257.

The plot of land that is now claimed by the Gymnasium State was mostly unused until the early 20th century. Since the second half of the 19th century, Sušice hoped to become the location of a new Czech real school, and the plot was selected for this purpose in 1902, when its owner, the town mayor Karel Uhl, sold it to the town council in 1902. The decision to form a Czech school in Sušice was made by the Cisleithanian government in 1906 and construction of the school took place from 1909 to 1911. After World War I, the school was slowly transformed into a gymnasium. In the later years of the German occupation during World War II, the gymnasium was closed until the US Army liberated the town in 1945. However, the school was forced to move to a new location after the 1948 coup d'état and the building was briefly used by the Czechoslovak People's Army at the start of the 1950s. The building was not used by the gymnasium again until 1992. In 2009, the building was proclaimed a cultural monument by the Czech government.

Reconstruction of the flag of The Imperium

In 2015, the class that would later form the main base of the Gymnasium State started school and shortly after, first proto-micronations began to form. The earliest known micronational entity preceding the Gymnasium State was a communist state, formed in 2015 by František Prášek and two of his friends. This entity was a parody of the regimes of the Eastern Bloc, but it was abandoned by 2016 and most of the information about it, including its name and exact form of government, were lost to time. In the autumn of 2016, a new micronational entity was founded called The Imperium (Czech: Impérium). The Imperium was initially a triumvirate and later a tetrarchy as it acquired a fourth member, where all members of The Imperium shared power through different noble titles, however, by 2017, Radek Vastl, the founder of The Imperium, had been trying to consolidate power, which eventually led to rising disinterest from the other three members and ultimately abandonment of The Imperium altogether. Numerous other groups existed at various times throughout the period from 2015 to the independence of the Gymnasium State in 2017, but it is unknown if any more groups operated in a micronational-like manner. A small number of similar groups also coexisted alongside the Gymnasium State in the period from 2017 until the graduation in 2023.

First Republic (2017–2018)

Socialist State of Gymnasium

Main article: Socialist State of Gymnasium

On 2 September 2017, Tomáš Falešník declared the independence of the Socialist State of Gymnasium. The SSG (or TSSG for The Socialist State of Gymnasium, as it was initally abbreviated), claimed a classroom in the first floor of the Sušice gymnasium, and three of Falešník's classmates were granted citizenship, all of who accepted. The Socialist State of Gymnasium also established its online presence through an article on MicroWikia. On 4 September, the first day of the 2017/18 school year the four citizens (Tomáš Falešník, Joel Novotný, Adam Pivetz and František Prášek, now considered the founding fathers of the nation) met at the first session of the Council, where the independence of the Socialist State was approved. Although the micronation did not exist on 1 September 2017 in any capacity, the date was designated as the Independence Day since shortly after the formation and is still observed as such today.

In the first week, the Council discussed several pieces of legislation, although none were formally adopted yet. Proposals to change the national symbols to remove association with undemocratic regimes of the Eastern Bloc and to lay claim to a small unused plot of land on the south edge of the town were both also rejected. As time went on, activity declined rapidly, although new members joined during the autumn of 2017, bringing the total number of Council members to six by early November.

Transitional Period

In November, interest in the Socialist State of Gymnasium increased again as basic political science began to be taught in the civics lessons. The number of Gymnazists nearly doubled from six to eleven by January 2018. The Council felt that a reform was needed to maintain activity and prevent a second collapse of the micronation, which ushered in the so-called Transitional Period. The micronation ceased to be a socialist state and as a result of this shift it was briefly renamed to the Unofficial State of Gymnasium on 18 November 2017, when the nation entered the Czech sector by creating its Czech MicroWiki article. Debates on the new system of government took place during the late November and December, which laid the foundation for the parliamentary system centered around the Government with frequent presidential elections that was later enshrined in the Provisional and First Constitutions. The Transitional Period culminated on 29 December 2017, when the Gymnasium State first used the modern name and flag and a new national anthem and motto were adopted, emphasising the micronation's character of a democratic society of students and signifying the formal end of the SSG. The Gymnasium State also made the first step towards joining the wider MicroWiki sector with an article on the English MicroWiki; the first official website was also published through the Webnode hosting service around the same time.

Second Republic (2018–2019)

Provisional Constitution of the Gymnasium State