Dime Micronationalist of the Month

DIME Micronationalist of the Month
Type	Award
Established	28 January 2019
Country	'Intermicronational'
Eligibility	Awarded to micronationalists the Statistic-Dime board and voters deem the best of the month
Status	Currently awarded
Organiser	Statistic-Dime Board
Precedence
Related	Dime Micronationalist of the Year

Dime Micronationalist of the Month, commonly abbreviated DMM, MM or MotM, is a monthly award that features and honours a micronationalist (or a group, idea, fictional character, etc.) whom, the voters or the Dime committee (if a candidate is unopposed) deem the most influential of that month. It is ran by Statistic-Dime. It primarily represents the MicroWiki Sector. Since it was awarded in January 2019, it steadily grew into a highly anticipated and publicised event. The latest winner was Sertor Valentinus for October 2020.

Selection

See also: List of Micronationalist of the Month nominees and winners by number of votes

The deciding committee—which is headed by Statistic-Dime CEO Daniel Hamilton—, with the help from community input, chooses who gets put on the final voting ballot, which goes on to get voted on by the public. The poll is usually open for between three days and a week. If the committee has only chosen one candidate, they win unopposed, with no poll taking place.

Historically, Zabëlle Skye, the creator of the award, would solely decide on the candidates for the poll with community input. The poll for the winner would than be voted on by the general public. For the months of August and September 2019, a monthly form which would be open all month was created so any micronationalist may nominate anyone and state their reason for doing so. One could also nominate oneself.

Non-human winners

There have been two non-human winners from various non-human nominees:

• April 2019: MicroWiki@Discord administration collectively (which consisted of Jonathan I, Luxor, Aaron Green, Adam I of Adammia, Andrew, Elizabeth Lewis, Newton von Uberquie, Shamus I and Shiro)
• November 2019: "You" (the micronationalist)

Tributes

There have been three winners (including one honorary) who won as a memorial to them:

• February 2019: Prince Leonard Casley of the Principality of Hutt River (1925–2019)
• August 2020: Maria Birch, Misberian politician (2004–2020)

For September 2019, the first Honorary Winner was announced, who was Tian Abdurrahman. Abdurrahman passed away on 9 September 2019. He served as Governor of Barakstan from 2012 to 2014; as the fifth President of Indokistan from July 2013 until January 2014; and as Chief of Arkapore from its establishment in January 2014 until his death on 9 September 2019.

Women

Given the disproportion of male to female ratio within micronationalism as a whole, Micronationalist of the Month has been awarded to a considerably larger number of women.^{[citation needed]}

• May 2019: Suzuki Leōcor
• October 2019: Catherine, Queen of Kohlandia
• August 2020: Maria Birch, Misberian politician

Controversial selections

Both January 2019's Anthony Clark, the first micronationalist to receive the award, and November 2019's "You" (the micronationalist) received notable backlash.

Overview of winners

Main articles: List of Dime Micronationalists of the Month for 2019 and List of Dime Micronationalists of the Month for 2020

  n/a; usually to denote when no vote occurred

  Non-human winner; such as an object, topic, idea, animal, etc.

Month/Year	Name	Portrait	Reason	Votes
March 2021	Anthony Clark		Drafting the 2021 Charter of the Grand Unified Micronational Reformation of the Supreme Court of the Grand Unified Micronational	n/a
Feb 2021	Daniel Hamilton (Born 2006)		Hosting Statistic-Dime Micronational Organisation Survey Work in Australis Awarded GUM Development Award for most improved micronation	29 (55.8%)
Jan 2021	Karl Friedrich (Born 19??)		Work as a Wiki Bureaucrat Opened a successful Patreon for users to support Wiki hosting Successfully moved MicroWiki to another service provider with little disruption Nominated for Nicholas Randouler Award for Outstanding Contribution to Micronationalism	6 (100%)
Dec 2020	n/a	n/a	There was no winner for December due to Dime Micronationalist of the Year.	n/a
Nov 2020	Andrew (Born 1999)		Work as a MicroWiki@Discord administrator Organisation of the first administration feedback survey Professionalism	14 (56%)
Oct 2020	Sertor Valentinus (born 2002)		Opening of the La Salle Convention Journalism Diplomatic work in West Sayville Wiki editing and research	n/a
Sep 2020	Casper von Naveria (born 2004)		Cultural work in Naveria Diplomatic outreach Editing on MicroWiki Professionalism	15 (40.5%)
Aug 2020	Maria Birch (2004–2020)		Political work in Misberia Cultural influence Legacy following her passing	n/a
Jul 2020	Patrick Renwick (born 2002)		Efforts during Concordiagate Elected Vorsitzender in the August 2020 Abeldane executive election Political and leadership skills	n/a
Jun 2020	Newton von Uberquie (born 1998)	File:Newtonvonuberquie 1.jpg	Reign as Emperor of Abelden Elected for a third term to be the Chair of the Grand Unified Micronational Foundation of the Uber-Essian Union Professionalism	12 (41.3%)
May 2020	Otto Gillespie Birch (born 2001)		Defended against an attempted coup in Misberia Reestablishment of Misberia Founded the New England Sector Intermicronational diplomacy	n/a
Apr 2020	Nicholas Randouler (2004–2020)		Work in the GUM Sister Cities Program Co-organised the 24 Hour Quorum (2020) Created the Monthly MicroWiki Micronationalists Power Index Elected Stellvertreter in the Abelden March 2020 executive election	14 (37.8%)
Mar 2020	Tomáš Falešník (born 2004)		Hosted the 2020 MOF Games Elected the Secretary of the Union of Micronations of Central Europe Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in Mekniy Editing on MicroWiki	n/a
Feb 2020	Prince Zabëlle I (born 2004)		Appointed a wiki administrator Work in the GUM Editing on MicroWiki 1 Year anniversary of Dime Micronationalist of the Month	9 (42.9%)
Jan 2020	Jayden Lycon (born 2005)		Co-founded DIME Magazine Created the Micronationalist of the Year award Helpful work in the community Editing on MicroWiki	15 (39.5%)
Dec 2019	n/a	n/a	There was no winner for December due to Dime Micronationalist of the Year.	n/a
Nov 2019	You			n/a
Oct 2019	Catherine I (born 1980)		Writer of The Daily Micronationalist Positive influence on the community Professionalism Work on Kohlandia	10 (55.6%)
Sep 2019	Shiro of Zenrax (born 1991)	File:Shiro of ZenraxCrop.jpeg	Recreation of Zenrax Elections in Zenrax Helpfulness and positive influence on the community Work in the GUM	12 (44.4%)
Aug 2019	Niels I, Grand Duke of Flandrensis (born 1988)		Head of state of the Grand Duchy of Flandrensis Positive influence on the community Co-founder of the Antarctic Micronational Union Peace efforts in the community Founder of the Union Against Micronational War	13 (43.3%)
Jul 2019	Bradley, Duke of Dullahan (born 1993)		Elected for a third term to be the Chair of the Grand Unified Micronational Announced more regular Quorums Positive influence on the community	8 (66.7%)
Jun 2019	Adam I (born 1998)		Served as GUM chair from 7 July 2018 until 1 July 2019 Organised the Birmingham Summit Oversaw the adoption of the Wrythe Convention Made the GUM more active Oversaw the transition of the GUM from it's previous platform Skype to Discord Led to a large increase in membership	n/a
May 2019	Suzuki Leōcor (born 1996)		Third Annual Drunkiz Gadurō Micronational Flag Contest Work in San Dover Professionalism	8 (47.1%)
Apr 2019	MicroWiki@Discord Administrators			5 (100%)
Mar 2019	Lady Admiral Vera Hewitt (born 1999)	File:Joseph Caesar.jpeg	Re-elected Prime Minister of Austenasia Accredited work as Prime Minister	4 (66.7%)
Feb 2019	Leonard I (1925–2019)		Passing of Prince Leonard, first prince and founder of Hutt River	n/a
Jan 2019	Anthony Clark		Establishment of New Florence Expert legal knowledge Contributions to MicroWiki	n/a

Voting and polling method

Almost all polls have been conducted through Google Forms. The only exceptions were March, which was manually conducted through Discord, and May 2019, which was done with Strawpoll.me. The poll was, however, rigged with voting bots, reported giving one over candidate two-hundred votes. Google Forms has since been used for every poll. The poll is commonly advertised on several Discord servers, most commonly MicroWiki@Discord.

Records

Main article: Dime Micronationalist of the Month records

Reception

Since it was awarded in January 2019, it steadily grew into a highly anticipated and publicised event. The award has received several endorsements from both nominees and winners. Zabëlle Skye has called it both his and Statistic-Dime's most successful projects ever.

News media

Micronationalist of the Month has been mentioned on a number of journalistic sources, including The Brookside Gazette, The Micronational Times, MicroWeekly, Plushunian News Service and the Ponderosan News Agency.

Use

Emperor Adam I of Adammia, June 2019's winner, posted on Twitter that the award was "A nice way to finish my year-long term as Chair of the GUM." Jayden Lycon, January 2020's winner, mentioned the feat in the Canadian Isabelle - Shrek Super Party manifesto for the Ponderosan Hills general election.

Spins-offs

Annually on December, there is a Micronationalist of the Year, where people choose the micronationalist who was the most influential of the year.

See also

• DIME Micronationalist of the Month results
• Dime Micronationalist of the Month records
• List of people who have received multiple DMM nominations