Patria to sit on LOSS Court of Justice

The League of Secessionist States (LOSS) has nominated Patria to serve as a member of the LOSS Court of Justice, along with representatives from the Republic of Talossa and of Secundomia.

The Court rules on various inter-micronational affairs between LOSS member states, but does not rule on internal legal issues in Patria or other micronations. Note that Patria's legal system is not based on Anglo-Saxon/Anglo-American Common Law but on a Napoleonic-style civil code. If you are unfortunate enough to get arrested in Patria, note that you are considered GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT, particularly if charged with a heinous crime such as kiddie porn or statutory rape. Just be thankful that Patria has abolished the death penalty, despite the National Union's ongoing effort to bring back public executions.

In another legal issue (see previous blog entry), the Occupy Castoropolis protesters are still camped out in Vivekananda Park, having survived at least two attempts to evict them by Federal District of Castoropolis police, tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray at the ready. But they should be gone in a week or two, when it just gets too damn cold to camp out in tents. Yes, Patria does get snow and a real winter, as you might have guessed by the presence of the Patrienish Hockey League.

Occupy Patria, anyone?

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past couple months, you know about Occupy Wall Street and the proliferation of similar "occupations" throughout North America, Europe and much of the macro-world, whose alleged main purpose is to fight back against the corrosive power of major banks and multinational corporations (the so-called "one percent") over the democratic process, and the role of Wall Street in creating an economic collapse that has caused the greatest recession since the 1930s depression.

Yes, there is an "Occupy Castoropolis" in Patria's capital. You will find the bunch of unemployed losers, left-over hippies, 1960s flower children (or flower children wannabes who weren't yet born in the 38th Congress), blissed-out stoners, discredited union bosses, and other assorted leftist rabble camped out in Vivekananda Park (the grounds of Castoropolis City Hall), just across the street from the Patrienish Stock Exchange on the corner of 1st and Upsilon Street NW. If you need a map and some basic orientation to Patria's capital city. Expect them to be evicted and mass arrested sooner rather than later, possibly with the help of rubber bullets and tear gas, given that there is still a strong National Union law-and-order element in Castoropolis even though the NU no longer holds the majority of seats in the Federal District legislature.