George
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Post by George on Mar 2, 2011 20:31:12 GMT 10
6 months ago I was contacted by a micronation I'd never heard of before, based in South Korea. Today I finally got around to doing some proper research, in preparation for writing a Lomwiki article about it. As a consequence I am both surprised and delighted to advise that the world's most popular micronation - with a whopping 1.5 MILLION visitors annually is... The Naminara Republic. Never let it be said that there's nothing new under the micronational sun :-)
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Post by rareearth on Mar 3, 2011 0:12:07 GMT 10
6 months ago I was contacted by a micronation I'd never heard of before, based in South Korea. Today I finally got around to doing some proper research, in preparation for writing a Lomwiki article about it. As a consequence I am both surprised and delighted to advise that the world's most popular micronation - with a whopping 1.5 MILLION visitors annually is... The Naminara Republic. Never let it be said that there's nothing new under the micronational sun :-) I agree, also because there is so much unrealised intermicronational potential, the last great land grab left. I tried starting something with the Naminara Republic, however, and nothing has happened, despite initial interest. There is so much unrealised intermicronational potential, especially among Fifth World powers. Together, and through international treaties, we could go were no man (or woman) has gone before.
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George
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Post by George on Mar 3, 2011 7:20:13 GMT 10
I'm not sure about "land grabs", but what Naminara demonstrates to me is that with the application of some creative thinking, dedication and cold hard cash, a micronation can easily gain respectability and realworld credibility by serving a clearly defined, worthwhile, real-world purpose.
This is the middle path between kiddie online role-playing gamers and demented adults who think their backyard is going to be "recognised" by the UN one day.
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Post by rareearth on Mar 4, 2011 9:23:40 GMT 10
I'm not sure about "land grabs", but what Naminara demonstrates to me is that with the application of some creative thinking, dedication and cold hard cash, a micronation can easily gain respectability and realworld credibility by serving a clearly defined, worthwhile, real-world purpose. This is the middle path between kiddie online role-playing gamers and demented adults who think their backyard is going to be "recognised" by the UN one day. Yes, but micronations by themselves don't have it easy, even when the situations are pretty good. Without real independent political power they are essentially sheep in a world full of wolves. Actually, for some micronations success could turn against them in the long term, as they come to be perceived as the next cash cow by the failing nation-state. Without any sense of intermicronational community, without a more or less global society of like-minded people, any singular gains sociologically and/or economically are likely to remain isolated gains of the few only. So maybe a serious micronation in three succeeds to some extent, but micronationalism itself, as a way of life, doesn't ultimately provide a solution to the myriad of problems we face all over the world. How is that any different from the situation we are already witnessing around the world?
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