In the sunshine..

Finally it has gotten warm enough for me to get out there and begin the first exploration (of many to come) of the multi acre claim that I claimed for the Empire in Georgia. This came after I postponed the same a few times due to cold weather and realized just how thin skinned my time in Florida has made me. Freezing in 70 degrees thin skinned. It also it came after everyone kept telling me for the last month and a half that: “Next week it will be warmer”. Suffice to say, their warm and my warm were two very different things.

So, today, in the nice and warm afternoon sunshine hours I made my first way out there and let me say one thing. Nice. Very nice. And big. Holy smoke, I could not believe how much there is over there. It will likely take us a while to completely cover fully! Pretty too. This will definitely do and I’m sure we can come up with plenty of creative uses and activities involving the area over time in addition to the initial ideas I had. Claiming and solidifying the claim should come easy as well considering we’re close by and can go there at any time with ease.

Already the place looks really promising on a cultural cuisine level for I tasted just one little clover flower and it was delicious. The amounts of plants and nature there is insane; it is a foragers dream covering many acres. Most of the area is hilly and covered by woods, with several grassy fields and pathways leading in various directions. Exploration will reveal if there is stream or pond, none of which is known as of yet. There seem to be many hidden as well as well maintained paths and clearings, however, it was hard to tell from my still limited vantage point today. Over the next few months I’ll be getting over there a lot more often and I’ll be posting more in depth then including pictures, thoughts and potentials for the future. For now a little aerial view, courtesy of google maps.

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Google maps has been very helpful; a quick shot of the claim area.

My better half has already agreed to explore the area thoroughly with me over the next few, so this will be an interesting set of adventures. Furthermore since this will be part of the Empress’s regular cardiovascular exercise routine for summer slenderizing purposes you can bet that I’ll be there a lot. Like three times a week often.

If claim validity depends solely on number of visitations and occupation of said claimed area, we’ll have this one in the bag.

Initial Claims : Part 3

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Claim validity date:

All of our sovereign claims are valid as of February 17th, 2016.
A shortened list is presented below:

(1) Residence around Atlanta, Ga. A public area, Atlanta, Ga.
(2) Bir Tawil / Red Rock; between Sudan / Egypt.
(3) Marie Byrd Land / White Rock; West Antarctica
(4) Mia Tip; ocean claim off the coast of Florida.
(5) Three ocean claims by the west coast of Africa.
(6)  one ocean claim by the west coast of Spain / Portugal.
(7) one ocean claim by the east coast of Brazil.
(8) two ocean claims by the east coast of Madagascar.
(9) Nine Wilderness areas on the North American Continent.
(10) Seven Wilderness areas on the Central and South American Continents.
(11) Six Wilderness areas on the continent of Africa.
(12) Three Wilderness areas on the European continent.
(13) Five Wilderness areas on the Australian Continent and Pacific Ocean.
(14) Two Wilderness areas on the Indian Continent.
(15) Two Wilderness areas on the Asian Continent.
(16) Four off world claims: Sol, Luna, Mars, Venus.

Claim Files will be filed:

Each of these sovereign claims will be getting a claim file created in our database listing basic information in regards to the claim in question. Additional information and amendments may be made via the claim files.

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Remaining qualified as a sovereign state:

Each of these is a fulfillment of us holding and claiming Sovereign Territory.  As long as even one of these remains viable our fulfillment of having sovereign territory remains in effect. The way to make our claims invalid is to actively counter our claim in these areas, colonize them and then administer over said territories effectively. If we colonize any of these areas and find another civilization of permanent inhabitants living in the areas thereof that we are seeking to colonize; we will move coordinates into another free area of the territory and amend our claim. If they are fully inhabited and they are claimed by another state or nation, we will remove our claim upon the area or territory and amend this document.

As we hold territorial claims over areas spanning throughout every continent and region of the world, we feel secure in our sovereignty, even if the same should be challenged in one territory. In addition our focus on active research, planning, expeditions and colonization of these areas will further solidify our validity of these claims.

Challenging claims of our Sovereign Territories:

It is hereby set forth that by Hanian Law anyone may challenge our claims on our Sovereign Territories while we prepare to administer them appropriately. This includes traditional nations and states, ethnic and tribal groups, micro nations, unrecognized states, authorized representatives of alien civilizations and private individuals. Be aware time is limited to make your challenge, anyone who has not challenged a claim within one solar rotation (one year) of the announcement of this document may not state such challenge in the future. This means the right to challenge expires on 28th February, 2017 for any claim listed on this document. The exception to challenge is not open for spaces occupied and used by empire citizens, especially private residences. If you challenge a claim, your situation and right to the claim will be evaluated. In cases additional proof may be necessary, in other cases we may drop the claim or move our claim to another similar territory. Be aware Hanian Law is specific to claims.

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Finding people living in our Sovereign Territories:

Should we travel to a said territory and find people who have made themselves a home there or are using wilderness areas, public areas or parks  we will co-exist with them and not bother them. There are specific laws in place governing the Empire’s interaction with non – citizens found living in our areas, communities and even sovereign territories. We will however, whenever possible, keep an active eye on our holdings and work with territories when and however it is possible for us.

Temporary visitors and nomads:

In addition we realize that a number of researchers may grace our shores, nomadic peoples may travel through our borders and tourists may find themselves wandering or traveling through our sovereign areas. In most cases there will not be any heavy border enforcement as we believe in freedom of movement. Free passage is permitted for most people through any Hanian Sovereign Territory with exception of the private property and residences used for official purposes by citizens thereof and areas deemed as restricted access.

In regards to off world claims of Sovereign Territory:

Due to the presence of active sovereign claims of territories off world we will be seeking to engage in active research and development to make eventual colonization there possible and a reality within the next century. Currently we, as everyone else, are constricted by the technological restrictions that hamper effective colonization as of this time. We are certain, however, that in time our proper research utilization of red rock, white rock and the Devon island wilderness will prove invaluable to our needs in that regards. Through innovation these problems will be addressed appropriately.

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Auxiliary Territories claimed:

Due the unique nature of our empire, we are also hereby endowed with the authority to establish an alternative government to allow proper administration and providing services to our citizenry who may live in areas other than our sovereign territories. In most regions and cities we will be co- governing with established authorities of other nations and states. This is only normal for the type of nation we are; since only in the above mentioned places do we hold sovereignty or any future of administrating our own affairs without the interference from another nation or state. Many of these auxiliary territories do not fall under that sovereignty clause; for now.

The Empire hereby claims auxiliary status for administrative purposes over thirteen total divisional regions; whereas in many of these the jurisdiction and governance is shared with other authorities as determined by all the people residing in those territories. The only places exempt from this shared jurisdiction are the ones laid forth in point one, two, three and five of the sovereign territory section. For instance white rock, and red rock are both sovereign territories respectively; but still require their own administrative division. Citizens living in traditional nation states still need access to proper Empire services and embassies, even if these be contained in territories where we do not currently hold sovereignty. As such, the empire hereby is creating administrative divisions. These are broken down into thirteen administrative divisions; almost equally spread into three sectors: Love, Wisdom and Beauty. Among the auxiliary territories the most advanced is tasked with leadership of the sector and being a positive guide for the others in its sector; specifically tublia, gjnala and intara. Usually those are also those divisions with the most resources and stable infrastructure in the sector.

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List of administrative divisions and sectors:

Love: fj riala {feye rih ; ah ; la}

* tublia > {tu ; blih ; ah} North America, Canada, Greenland, Iceland
zoloz > {zoh ; loz} Mexico / Central America / South America
chakin > {chah ; kin}  Atlantic Ocean / Caribbean Islands
zulljro > {zul ; leye ; ro}  White rock / Antarctica

Wisdom: fj naala {feye nah ; ah ; la}

* gjnala > {geye ; na ; lah} European Countries and Russia
tzutwa > {tsut ; wah} Africa and Madagascar
rjbiti > {reye ; bih ; tih} Middle East
rolorm >  {ro ; lorm} Red rock / Bir Tawil

Beauty : fj liala {feye lih ; ah ; la}

* inttara > {int ; ta ; rah} China / Mongolia / Japan
alixen > {ah ; lih ; xen} Australia, New Zealand
nazdon > {naz ; don} India, Nepal, Bhutan, Himalayas
attuor >  {at ; tu ; or} The rest of Asia
chapura > {cha ; pu ; rah} Pacific region with Islands / Indian ocean

Creating the administrative division files:

At a later date we will be creating and filing the administrative division files, each a singular file describing the administrative division in more detail and listing exactly which traditional territories fall within their borders. In additions it will list the citizen’s original state of habitation which would be covered under a particular division and any sovereign territories which may fall under it’s jurisdiction. (Wilderness areas, ocean claims or even sovereign land claims).

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These are all of our sovereign claimed lands as well as our administrative divisions.

Any part of this document may be amended and updated as needed through the claim files and / or the administrative divisions files. Additional documents will be filed to highlight various laws governing these territories.

Typed on the 16th of February, 2016
Made official on the 17th of February, 2016 by Authority of Empress HayaH.

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Initial Claims – part 2

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Three – The Waters:

Claimed territories in International Waters, terra nullius ocean claims.

Currently they can only be listed by informal coordinates, they will be standardized in the near future.

Lat: 30.18  Lon: -76.32                               by east coast of Florida, USA        lat: 3566273.74 lon : 8539004.79 * tiny tip off the coast of South Florida.

Lat: -6.46  Lon: 1.16                                    by west coast of Africa

Lat: -25.64 Lon: 5.73                                   by west coast of Africa

Lat: -41.97  Lon: 0.17                                  by west coast of Africa

Lat: 36.76  Lon: -14.27                                by west coast of Spain/Portugal

Lat -20.68 Lon: – 34.76                                by east coast of Brazil

Lat:  -8.91 Lon: 60.16                                  by east coast of Madagascar

Lat: -10.45 Lon: 62.01                                 by east coast of Madagascar

*The formats of the coordinates will be made uniform on the official claim pages, it seems difficult to get maps with the better coordinate system listed on them which show the economic zones well enough.

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Four – The Wilderness Territories:

Places that are either unoccupied and lack permanent population or they are sparsely populated by citizens of another state or nation. This results in tracts of land which are open for claim and eventual colonization attempts; if these are handled properly. Most of these are wilderness areas. Exact claim acreage is currently unknown until further study of our sovereign areas has been conducted. These operate on a vonu basis, out of sight, out of mind.

In North America:

Greenland Wilderness, Greenland (arctic)
Devon Island – Canada (island . arctic)
Alaskan Wilderness, America (arctic. mountain . forest)
Northern Canada Wilderness, Canada (arctic. mountain. forest)
Rocky Mountains, North America (mountains)
Appalachian mountains, America (mountains)
Texas Wilderness, America (rugged. hills)
Kansas / Dakota Area, America (farmland)
Hawaiian Area, America (island, tropic)

In Caribbean, Central and South America:

Wilderness in the Dominican republic (jungle)
Amazon Rain forest, South America (jungle)
Remote areas in Ecuador, Central America (jungle)
Suriname Wilderness; South America (tropic. jungle)
French Guiana Wilderness, South America
Chile Wilderness, South America (desert . mountains)
Falkland Islands, South America (island)

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In Asia:

Tibetan plateau Wilderness
Mongolia Wilderness

In Australia / Pacific:

Australian Outback (desert . rugged)
Philippine islands which are uninhabited or sparsely (tropics)
Papua New Guinea Wilderness (jungle)
New Zealand Wilderness (mountain . forest)
Maldives Islands (tropics)

In Europe:

Iceland Wilderness; Europe (arctic)
Siberia, Europe (arctic . forest)
The alps mountain range (mountain)

In Africa:

West Sahara / Morocco Wilderness, Africa (desert)
Namibia Wilderness, Africa (desert)
Mauritania Wilderness, Africa (desert)
Congo Wilderness, Africa (jungles)
Sierra Leone and Liberia Wilderness (jungles)

In India:

Bhutan Wilderness (mountain)
Himalayan Wilderness (mountain)

In the Middle East:

Undetermined for now due to political instability.

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For now, only the overall area in each of these territories is defined until further studies can be conducted. Eventual specific square miles and actual borders will be defined and made available. Everyone knows where these are at and it is very clear that many of these vast territories are barely inhabited by others allowing us to move citizenry into those areas and establish official colonies at will. Most are so remote we are certain that our people will not be hassled by anyone.

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Five: Extraterrestrial Lands:

It is our right at any time to engage colonization or administration of our solar territories hereby claimed as well. We see fit to claim off world territories as we plan on engaging in space colonization and research in space endeavors. In addition we will be pursuing research and planning for first contact with civilizations from elsewhere.

Sol – the sun of our solar system.
Luna – the moon; satellite of earth.
Mars – the fourth planet of our solar system.
Venus – the second planet of our solar system.

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Claims Document: Version 1.0

Since this is a beast I will be posting this in several stages; as a series of blog posts. Then putting it whole on it’s own page linked from the top and HERE. So far it’s only been defined and typed up; made as of 17th February, 2016.

It still has to be:

  • printed
  • signed
  • publicized past this blog
  • a claim file made out for each of them
  • made, uhmm, much more official

Yes, I know I’m being all informal here so let’s get more official here for a moment.

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Official Hanian Earth Empire Initial Claims Document:
Version 1.0                                                     February 17th, 2016

Whereas the Empire has claimed and occupies defined territory, has citizenry, a governmental system and is able to enter into relations with other states the Empire fulfills all necessary steps of statehood. Thus we are hereby considered a state by the definition given thereof by the 1933 Montevideo Convention. Our sovereignty and statehood is not dependent upon the recognition by any other individual, organization, state or sovereign; henceforth this is binding as of 17 February, 2016.

The first thing the Empire as a state sets to do is to officially announce our claims on various territories as our sovereign space as well as to organize our administrative divisions. This document serves to do both: to record initial claims onto various territories and to define our administrative divisions for our shared / auxiliary territories where we form an alternative government in those regions.

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Defined Territories:

Defined territory consists of specific claims made by the Empire. They consist of Sovereign and Auxiliary claimed territories. Sovereign is where we either hold sole authority and absolute sovereignty or where we are active in remote areas that are vonu; out of sight thus out of mind.

Sovereign Territorial Claims:

Sovereign claims are found in various locations all over the planet and are:

One: directly occupied by our citizenry or public places close to citizens
Two: in dispute by two or more states or terra nullius territories.
Three: in the terra nullius zone of international waters.
Four: unoccupied by or remote wilderness areas of other states. (vonu)
Five: are well outside the jurisdiction of other nations and states.

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List of Sovereign Territories claimed by the Empire:

One – The Colonized Areas:

These are locations directly occupied by our citizenry; usually only consisting of private residences or tracts of parks and public acres that are found around them. Every space occupied by citizens of the empire can be designated as official sovereign territory; though many of them may not be made public knowledge. Even if not specifically listed, it is to be expected that our citizenry as we grow will control and influence spaces in places around the world. Private residences are just that, private. Public spaces are used for gathering and as wild – life areas, parks and for walking trails or other public uses. They remain open even after claiming, but we may hold events or gatherings there in the future or pursue other cool activities there.

Atlanta, Ga North America
*Private; location not disclosed.
(1100 Square Feet; private residence)

Atlanta, Ga, North America *Public
*Public; location not disclosed (yet).
(Approximately 1000 Acres of public land scattered in that area.)

– Once the document is signed physically and we have done an official physical claiming of the area, the public location will have the exact coordinates entered here.

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Two – The Unwanted Lands:

These are territories which are either in dispute by two or more states or nations or are terra nullius territories; no mans land.

Bir Tawil, Africa
{21°52’14″N 33°44’14″E}
A 795 Square mile territory found between Egypt and Sudan.
Not officially claimed by either Egypt or Sudan.
It is in our African territory and is informally called red rock by Hanian.

Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica
{80°00’S 120°00’W}
A 620,000 Square Mile Territory found on the Western Side of Antarctica.
Not officially claimed by any nation.
It is in our Antarctic territory and is informally called white rock by Hanian.

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Go to the second part of this post.

Wilderness areas and vonu

In typing up the aforementioned beast of claiming documents I had a stunning thought about wilderness areas. It was something I had considered earlier already to some extent to do things in regards to out of sight / out of mind. Lots of things, creative, sneaky and very Hanian type of things.

However I didn’t fully realize it until I was writing on a section of my science fiction book and thought, yeah, aliens would so not claim or go after what was immediately visible or conventional. So I thought, what should I do being Hanian about that given we’d follow a similar cultural trajectory with such things.

With that in mind I thought that perhaps some places being claimed should be various wilderness areas, places that are far removed where we’d be vonu if we’d go there and do something. Yeah, some places still have various considerations (such as that pesky lack of infrastructure) but isn’t that why governments exist in the first place? Almost all of them are also pretty remote, part of their selling point such also becomes their weakness. We’d have to get to them first!  Yeah, so says the empress after claiming red rock. Which is very remote. Followed by white rock, which is even more remote. Ants don’t even make their habitat on white rock for crying out loud and I’m complaining about the remoteness of Papua New Guinea or the Canadian Wilderness! So, anyhow, I placed a number of these on our claim file separated nice and neatly by continent; but for now without coordinates. We’d need to do some serious research and scouting before we could figure out where in these vast places to do things. And how to get there to do them!

At least the borders of one of them isn’t particularly far from here and that’s as good a start as any to these types of things.

 

So claims…

Claiming land is turning out to be quite a chore.Especially since I want the whole thing to look rather official, not just randomly put on a sheet of paper and sitting around somewhere saying oh yes, we claim these rocks over here and that ice over there.

I had already started with it months ago to research places and do things like getting coordinates. Then when I needed it I found that the file was difficult to find; specifically the file mentioning the ocean claims. To make matters worse they were in the wrong format, not like how I wanted the coordinates to show on everything. No matter what I tried to fix it, this would not budge. Ocean points are even harder when you have to make sure the places aren’t in anyone’s economic zones. Land spots are relatively easy if a known point is there, Wikipedia is a blessing and so are most map programs.  So I had to toss them on the file as they were, horribly non – conformed. That was just the headaches with the ocean territories. Then there was the land stuff and all the other things going into claiming territories.

How should it be organized? What was sovereign and what wasn’t? What should we call the ones where we share jurisdiction with others? How should the planet be divided up for administrative purposes? Oh, mess, I better put that in the cultural language too while I’m at it. These two main ones don’t have a name, would it work to just call them red rock and white rock for a little longer and give someone else the honor of naming them later? How could people dispute the territory claims? Would we do claims differently depending on what they where? Literally a million questions had to be answered, most of them right on the spot as I tried to organize and type up the document. Others still had to be answered right on the spot, but the information kept for later documents. But trust me, 14 agonizing pages later, all presented nice and nearly, we officially now have claimed territory. Or rather I have claimed territory so we can now set up more officially. Lots and lots and lots of things to work with both for now and for much later. At the cost of 14 agonizing pages about claiming territories. That doesn’t even include all of the laws governing those areas, it doesn’t touch on the planning needed to make them more official. Or at least to look like we have more than a passing interest in that particular area. The planning session about red rock a few months back was classic had you been a fly on the wall there. Suffice to say the initial claims document won’t define everything right away, as it’s just an initial document saying we claim these bases to be ours and we’re going to be working at making it so. Now lets see in the next coming months how many people will want to challenge us for white rock….

*Rubs hands in gleeful anticipation at going all Hanian on them about it and throwing various Hanian Empire laws at them in the process!*

 

 

Micronations…. oh glorious MN…

I was getting a little burned out with the writing of the science fiction over the last two days. It’s not something that happens often but when I’m stressed it happens more often than when everything is completely at an even keel. And being a woman, stress happens and there is only so much that chocolate can do for you. Had a week that was riddled with conflict with family that was probably not as bad as it seemed when I was going through it and of just not feeling well immediately thereafter. Empresses it seems are not exempt from feeling like rubbish. I could have played another round of civilization. While that is fun most of the time has been starting to bore me more lately every time I opened up the program. And it feels like a colossal waste of good time. Not even messing with alien verbs was doing it for me this time either; so the linguistics has been meh as well. So I surfed the internet. Yeah I know. Not very productive either. In fact, it’s the kill switch for just about any writing project, bad writer I am. After surfing hours through memes about writers and internet procrastination I thought why not check micronation stuff. It had been a while and I wanted to see what people were up to there. So I checked out Molossia and was like, yeah, way cool so still want to go visit the place! Then I looked to see who had languages too and saw Talossa has been doing great in that regards.  Looking through a few more I noticed someone claiming a region between Serbia and Croatia and their adventures in forming Liberland. And then I knew what I had to do to banish the boredom…..

Bring the tiny Empire which I run (out of my place no less) out into the wider world. I had fiddled with it on and off for a while now, primarily informally with the hubby. We’re both Hanian to the core and I have been working hard to create a working form of governance, culture and arts as well as a language all these years anyway. We had relocated from Florida to Georgia and rather than sit here and hate the weather I decided to do something about it. To be Hanian and to seize opportunity when it arose. So…. well… look for it and look for plenty of more posts about it here too over the next few months….