Atlantium: Micronationalism Down Under

Emperor George II of Atlantium

The Empire of Atlantium, an Australian-based micronation, was featured on the ABC Radio National program RN Drive. 'It's twice the size of the Vatican and half the size of Monaco,' boasts Emperor George II, otherwise known as George Cruickshank. Atlantium claims jurisdiction over a 0.76 square kilometre enclave in New South Wales' Lachlan Valley. (Note that Patria has never attempted to claim sovereignty over any part of Canada or the United States, although back in the 1970s, Patria claimed Madagascar and the Spratly Islands as part of its colonial empire.)

The Emperor considers Liberland (see previous blog entry) a "failed libertarian micronation", adding that "this is the problem with libertarian micronations: they actually think that by setting up this entity, by finding ways to get around existing laws that they think nobody has ever thought of before, that they can somehow become part of the global community of nations and become a sovereign state."

Liberland - new micronation created out of Serbia-Croatia border dispute

The Ministry of External Affairs of Patria welcomes a new member of the micronational community: the Free Republic of Liberland, which came into existence earlier this month due to a border dispute between Croatia and Serbia. This area along the west bank of the Danube river is not claimed by Croatia, Serbia or any other country. It was therefore terra nullius, a no man’s land, until Czech activist Vít Jedlička, a member of the Czech Republic's libertarian Party of Free Citizens, seized the opportunity and on 13 April 2015 formed a new state in this territory – Liberland. The boundary was defined so as not to interfere with the territory of Croatia or Serbia. Its total area is approximately 7 square kilometers. The motto of Liberland is “To live and let live” because Liberland prides itself on personal and economic freedom of its people.

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