Kingdom of De Witt

The Kingdom of De Witt
The Kingdom of De Witt
	Flag Coat of arms
	Motto: Non ducor, duco. (We are not led, we lead.)
	Anthem: Land of Hope and Glory
	File:Tennessee, USA
Capital	Memeistrum
Largest city	The Memeistry
Official languages	English
Demonym(s)	Memeisters
Government	Absolute Monarch
Establishment	May 1st 2020
Population
• Census	8
Currency	USD, The De Wittian (10 DW = 1 USD)
Time zone	US Central
	Website; Kingdom of De Witt website

The Kingdom of De Witt or more commonly known as De Witt is a Kingdom established in the Royal Capital of Memeistrum, Founded on May 1, 2020. De Witt and it's citizens believe in free use of Internet, Freedom of Religion online, more respect to Memers as people, removal of internet censorship, and free trade of all e commerce and knowledge across the internet. Most Citizens of De Witt follow the Christian Meme Account "The Memeistry."

Etymology

The Kingdom of De Witt is named after its founding father King Nathaniel De Witt as a little project. The name De Witt derives form the words "The White" in Dutch.

Flag

The current Flag of Memeistry was adopted on May 5, 2020. The flag was created by King Nathaniel De Witt. The flag's Blue and White Diamond represents the King's Arkansas roots, The Lion represents Dutch Heritage, The CoA represents the King's heritage of Japanese and Dutch.

History

The Memeistry Instagram page began on December 30, 2018 named the "Student Memeistry" created by Nathaniel De Witt, the page for a long time in the beginning was private and Nathaniel only allowed people form his church to follow it until August 2019 when Nathaniel changed the Account to the "Bellevue Memeistry" in honor of his Church, by December 30, 2019 a year after its founding the account had around 700 followers. On December 31, 2019 the account was finally renamed to "The Memeistry" after the church got suspicious of the account looking to tarnish their name, Nathaniel had looked to create a "Meme Empire" of sorts controlling multiple meme accounts and YouTube Channels but this dream never came to fruition. On July 29 of 2020 King Nathaniel returned to his Kingly duties over the Kingdom after preparing himself more properly this time. During his return he renamed the Kingdom from Kingdom of Memeistry to the Kingdom of De Witt.

Politics and Government

De Witt consist of a Absolute Monarchy along with a Regency who leads along side the King or Queen (similar to the US Vice President) and a Peoples Council consisting of 3 representatives for each territory and Social Media account. The King usually makes most decisions with or without consent of the Regent or Peoples Council, but if the King wishes he may delegate the passing of Laws, Bills, or Treaties to the Regent or the Council. Most Territories or Accounts have a Governor who passes local bills or laws for the Territories and Accounts, most laws can be override by either National laws or the Peoples Council.

Ministries

National Ministries are referred to as Memeistries in honor of the King and his Account.

The Memeistry of Finance, headed by the King Nathaniel De Witt, serves as the Financial branch.

The Memeistry of War, also headed by the King, serves as the Armed forces branch.
The Memeistry of the Monarch, currently vacant,serves as the Royal Announcement branch
The Memeistry of Foreign Affairs, filled by Prime Memeister Totallynothunter, serves as the Kingdom's Foreign Relations branch
The Memeistry of Defense, currently vacant, serves as the Kingdom's Defense branch
The Memeistry of The Church, currently vacant, serves as the Kingdom's Church relations branch
The Memeistry of Tourism, currently vacant, serves as the Kingdom's Tourism branch
The Memeistry of Justice, currently vacant, serves as the Kingdom's Juridical branch
The Memeistry of Internet Safety, currently vacant, serves as the Kingdom's cyber security branch

Foreign Relations

De Witt has cordial relations with the Nexan Republic and the Internet Union and has an Embassy in the Republic of Ernest

Military

Meme Knights

King Nathaniel is a former 4chan CNN war veteran and a retired 4Chan user, as such Nathaniel has made sure the Memeistry on Social Media is impenitrable to online attacks and harassment, thus he has created a Online Army called the Meme Knights, a group of online Memers and Followers who has learned how to use 4chan tactics to invade, conquer, and destroy internet targets. There is a total of 15 Meme Knights with General "Sir Meme" one of Nathaniel's close friends and fellow memer, Nathaniel has developed the "Memeistry Memetic Doctrine" a guideline of Internet Warfare and code of conduct for the Meme Knights.

Inner Meme Circle (IMC)

The IMC is Nathaniel's intellegence agency and functions along side the Meme Knights to work on operations involving finding account owners, detecting threats online, and ensuring The Memeistry is uncontested in Nathaniel's sphere. The IMC is headed by Director "Regent Meme" another close friend of Nathaniel's and the Regent of the Memeistry, there are a total of 4 spies working for the IMC.

Geography and culture

The Culture of De Witt is a very internet based culture along with a very Christian one, many De Wittians recognize Sunday as a Holy Day and perfer not to work during then. De Wittians are very active on the Internet and as such is why the Kingdoms claim to Internet territories are much larger than real land claims.

Holidays

Celebrated Holidays

New Years (Janurary 1st)
Mardi Gras (Day before Ash Wednesday)
Ash Wednesday (Based on Moon cycle)
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (Third Monday of Janurary)
May The Fourth Be With You (May 4th)
Cinco De Mayo (National Mexican food Day) (May 5)
Palm Sunday (Sunday before Easter)
Good Friday (Friday before Easter)
Easter (6 weeks after Ash Wednesday)
4/20 (National Dank Meme Day) (April 20)
Thanksgiving (The Fourth Thursday of November)
Black Friday (Day after Easter)
Singles Awareness Day (Feburary 14th)
Super Bowl Sunday (First Sunday of Feburary)
King's Day (Always on the day the King/Queen was born on) (December 30) (Changes with new King/Queen)
De Witt Day (Celebrates the Founding of the Memeistry on Instagram) (Day of December 31)
New Years Eve (Night of December 31)
Founders Day (December 30)
Singing Christmas Week (second week of December)
Japanese Culture Day (November 3)

Sundays are also recognized as Holidays as well and require companies in the Kingdom to close in observance of these Holidays.

Cuisine

The Kingdom being located inside the Southern US draws much of it's Cuisine from the South, along with this King Nathaniel's Japanese heritage makes Sushi the National dish, Sushi making is a widely regarded skill in the Kingdom. Common dishes may include:

Sushi
Memphis style Barbecue
Burgers
Rice (fried, Mexican, and white)
Burritos
Fried Chicken

Sports

While Football is the National sport no De Wittians currently plays it. De Witt has multiple Basketball and Baseball players but not enough to form a League for the nation. De Wittians commonly watch NCAA Football and the NFL along with MLB, NBA, and other NCAA sports. The King is known to be a big fan of Motorsports.

Teams cheered for by Memeisters

NFL

Dallas Cowboys (King Nathaniel and Regent Sidney are fans of the Cowboys)

NCAA Sports

Arkansas Razorbacks (King Nathaniel's first choice)
Mississippi State Bulldogs (Regent Sidney)
Memphis Tigers (Majority of Residents)
Utah Utes (King Nathaniel's second choice)
Wyoming Cowboys (King Nathaniel's perfered College)
Liberty Flames (Nathaniel's third choice)

NBA

Memphis Grizzlies (Majority of Residents)
Utah Jazz (King Nathaniel's favorite)

MLB

New York Yankees (King Nathaniel's favorite)

Motorsports

Redbull Formula 1 Team (King Nathaniel's favorite)
Alpha Tauri Formula 1 Team (King Nathaniel's second choice)

Games

De Witt is very diverse among Video Games played but 2 common games include Minecraft and Call of Duty: Warzone, King Nathaniel perfers Strategy, Racing and City Building games, Nathaniel commonly plays Cities Skylines, Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Forza 7, War Thunder, and Apex Legends.

Music

De Witt is very big on Musical preformances, many De Wittians are fans of Disney Musicals, Christian Music is very popular as well Artist such as Elevation Worship, Hillsong, and People & Songs. King Nathaniel is known for listening to American, Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Japanese, Dutch, and Syrian Patriotic, along with Classical music, Jazz, Movie Scores, Traditional Japanese Music, Southern Folk Music along with Metal.

Economy

Internet Economics

De Witt has an online Store for Meme account Merchendise, King Nathaniel has considered Expansion of the Shop to include Citizen Documents, Passports, Currency, Flags, and other National Items. The Shop is currently closed due to Covid-19 and the Kingdoms funds running dry, The King plans on reviving the Shop once the pandemic passes over.

Future Internet Economics

De Witt plans on expanding to include a Filming Industry along with On Demand Printing for Shirts. Future Goals of Sponsorship on the Memeistry, and Supporter based services have been purposed.

Local Economics

The Kingdom has been working on establishing tourist based sites along with an Agricultural Industry

Territories and Provinces

Cities

Flags	Name	Aberration	Annexation	location	Population
	City of Memeistrum	MEMM	5/1/2020	Collierville, TN	1
	The Memeistry	MMSY	12/31/2018	Internet	1000 not registered

Provinces

Flags	Name	Annexation	Capital	Population
	Memeistrum	5/1/2020	City of Memeistrum	1
TBD	Memeistria	12/31/2018	The Memeistry	1000 not registered
	Discordesia	5/6/2020	N/A	7

National Recognition

The Kingdom of De Witt has relations with a total of 3 nations and has membership in one Organization

Micronations

Recognized by

Organizations

Grand Micronation Alliance

Rankings

De Witt ranked through all Ranking systems used in the Micronational Community.

Goono Power: 5
Goono Recognition: 4 or 3
Bllibrough-Miles: unranked
Boodlesmythe-Tallini: Brick and Motar, Tiny, Community - 6th world
Dan's: 6th or 5th world
MPI: 2.6
CSGC: 2.2
Freayth: 3.6
Linden Revised: 2.2
MDS: 2.5
Skywalker: 2.6
Sturd: 1.86
USB: 3.4
MPI: 2.125
SJNPI: 3
UNC: 6