I wish I could support the
Brooklyn Torch currency project, but unfortunately the torch stands for the torch of the Statue of Liberty, a US National Monument, and the statue itself is situated on Liberty Island, which is the property of the US federal government, and not a part of Brooklyn or Kings county.
So the currency is just about as
matriotic — that means
macronational, since Independent Long Island is a
macronation, not a micronation — as American Express Travelers Cheques.
It is for this reason that while the territorial capital of Independent Long Island is Brooklyn, the virtual or ideal capital is really Jamaica Square, which is closer to "home" than Brooklyn will ever be:
jmsq.liMore people care about Esperanto than community currencies, and micronational currencies would not be valuable in a micronational community which has made
zero progress towards intermicronational recognition. If we cannot recognise
MPR Categories, and all the nations and micronations represented there, all nations and micronations that are more than
cults, more than
vanity nations, so how can we ever benefit from a micronational currency? I think people pushing for intermicronational currencies before wide intermicronational treaties have got the cart before the horse.
Micronations too, not just Brooklynites, worship the same dual demigods that the Official World worships: Caesar and Mammon. The
realism in international relations theory is so dominant in the world today that even micronations often refuse to formally recognise other micronations, or as one micronation put it, "entities not States in their own right".
This political realism theory, however, is useless, and I can show it is essentially illegitimate when studied closely.
I've also proven that "the jurisdiction under which a server or client falls is not determined by the territory on which the server lies, or even the territory on which it was built, but by the hypercitizenship or citizenship of the owner of the server or client", but micronationalists prefer to continue to believe that Roman law, not Cesidian law, applies to the Internet, even though it is complete nonsense, and actually in violation of international law.
At this stage of micronational development, I'd rather print
UMMOA Certificates of Citizenship which are actually legal before Italian authorities. I can get those more easily recognised than a micronational currency, and benefit a whole lot more.