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Emperor George II of Atlantium
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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."
