Micronation-chans

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Micronation-Chans
"GUM-Chan" - A personification of the GUM and the first well-known -chan made by the micronational community
Image by: Seann Torres
Author(s)Various
WebsiteVarious
Launch date1 May 2020 (De-Jure),
12 June 2009 (De-Facto)
Alternate name(s)GUM-Chan, Micro-Chan
Genre(s)Political cartoons, comedy.

Micronation-chans (popularly referred to as Micro-chans)[1] are a form of micronational comic designed to satirize current events within the MicroWiki sector. Similarly to Microball, Characters are represented as an often over-the-top allegory of political and historic events as well as more general cultural comparisons. Similar to the popular anime Hetalia: Axis Powers, the countries (and organisations) are represented as humans. Both positive and negative cultural stereotypes form part of each character's personality. Unlike Microballs, countries are usually just referred to as their country or organisation name.

History

Possibly the first anime-style representation of a micronation was made in 2009 by Japanese manga writer Hidekaz Himaruya, with Sealand's appearance on Hetalia: Axis Powers, an anime series about personified nations. Additional micronations were depicted in 2013 (Seborga and Wy) and 2015 (Hutt River, Kugelmugel, Ladonia, and Molossia)

The first-known anime-style representation of a micronation outside of Hetalia was Ella Jones, created in 2014 to be a representation of Theodia by an unknown fan of that micronation.[2] Swena, the founder of Theodia, discovered this in 2016, and promptly made it known to a few micronationalists and to MicroWiki itself.[3]

However, this idea of personifying micronations as anime-style characters did not become a widespread phenomenon in the micronational community until the 24 Hour Quorum of 2020, when Amelia I of Lytera jokingly suggested creating a "GUM-Chan"[4] in a similar vein to the Earth-Chan meme. Chloris, the representative of Gaia, drafted the first design for this GUM-Chan, but Amelia was the creator of the GUM-Chan's most-recognised and accepted design. For the rest of the Quorum, additional sketches were made of GUM-Chan, and by the next day, people were discussing creating additional characters in -chan form.

Examples

See also

References

  1. ↑ Skye, Zabëlle (18 October 2022). "Micro-chan". Micronational Dictionary. MicroLunarius Publications. Institute of Micropatriological Research. p. 10. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 APH_Theodia. (2014). Theodia. Le Book of Characters. Retrieved 2020-08-01.
  3. ↑ The edit in which Swena first linked Ella (Theodia-chan) to the wiki.
  4. ↑ Amelia suggesting the idea
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