In addition to necessity, it seems that disdain can also be a mother of invention. I've always been impressed with Australia, even more so after discovering how progressive a nation it is. So progressive, it seems, that it allows itself to welcome not only a diverse group of ethnicities, but
nations, as well, numbering nearly twenty. I suppose that makes sense beacuse Australia is, after all, a continent unto itself.
Actually, it appears that the citizens of Australia are just as disdainful of authority as they are progressive. Don't like paying taxes? Start your own nation. Can't get permission to build a driveway for your home? Simple, create your own state. Is this legal? Not very likely, say the "authorities":
Constitutional lawyers beg to differ. "These states have no recognition or status under Australian law whatsoever," said Prof George Williams of the University of New South Wales.
"It's a nice way of thumbing your nose at authority but ultimately it's just a fantasy."
On the contrary, the Emperor of Atlantium begs, proclaims rather, to differ. Never mind that the empire is confined to His Majesty's apartment in Sydney. Equipped with a Constitution, official symbols, an adopted anthem, currency, and open administrative positions who would be brash enough to be so undiplomatic in denouncing such autonomy?
The Empire of Atlantium is a unique parallel sovereign state based in Sydney, Australia.
Atlantium recognises that the days of nation-states founded on fixed geographical locations or majority ethnic identities are numbered, as global mobility, cultural evolution, and the growth of electronic communication networks render the assumptions that underlie and provide justification for their existence increasingly obsolete.
In an age where people increasingly are unified by common interests and purposes across - rather than within - traditional national boundaries Atlantium offers an alternative to the discriminatory historic practice of assigning nationality to individuals on the basis of accidents of birth or circumstance.
Atlantium has a heritage that spans three decades. What began as a local political statement by three Sydney teenagers on 3rd Decimus, 10500 (27th November, 1981) has since evolved into the world's foremost non-territorial global sovereignty movement and state entity, with a diverse, rapidly growing population living in some ninety countries.
Atlantium is predicated on a belief in the inevitability and the desirability of eventual global social, economic and political union, and it operates as a secular, pluralistic, liberal, social democratic republican monarchy. We encourage the active participation of Citizens in the public life of the Empire, and invite anyone with the desire and motivation to forge their own destiny as a true citizen of the world to consider joining us.
Now who would renounce such aspirations? The fact of the matter is that fascists like to use the tactic of just making shit up, and in order to combat their hegemony it is necessary to oppose it with an equal amount of progressive hegemony. So I suppose preemptive nationbuilding is one way to stay ahead of preserving our autonomy while we still have it. George Bush can't even define sovereignty. So if the leader of the free world doesn't even know what the word means, tell me who, then, has the authority to denounce Emperor George II of Atlantium?