How to Create Your Nation

In April 2015, it was announced that Liberian nation had begun to exist. There was no violence or political negotiations. A man with some friends simply raised a flag and claimed that a small piece of land between Srbia and Croatia known as no one's country had already become a microcombin called Liberian. With plans for the constitution, financial system, and a slogan, the country seems on track for legitimacy.

But... can you just invent a new nation? Turns out, technically this is possible.

Qualification for what constitutes a nation was presented at the Montevideo Convention in 1933. This agreement defined a state on the basis of sovereignty, regardless of whether they recognise it. This is called deklarative; it's different from the Constitutive Commentary, which says other states must recognize legitimacy.

Technically, without international compliance, your nation is relevant only within your borders. But if that's enough for you, then here's what you have to do.

First, you must have a resident population. So far, no state has been denied citizenship because of a small population. As long as you want to live individually in your nation, continue to insist on independence. That's why the Grand Duke of Westarchics is unknown, because no one, including its founder, has lived permanently there.

Next step, it's to have a defined territory. This is the step in which most nations fail. With few exceptions, nearly all the visible earth in the world is occupied by other countries. That leaves them with little choice. The first is to build, annex or buy your own island, which may be very distant. The second choice is to evacuate a piece of land, and hope you can protect those boundaries, or just hope nobody cares about it. You should also be able to define your borders and control them.

The Microcomb of the Minerva Republic was evacuated by Tonga because it was in its territory. Don't get confused, because if you can't fight, you shouldn't take the land of another country.

Once you have found or built a designated area for the nation, something else you need to do is a government. The government is the source of administrative power that makes political decisions about the country's goals, security, justice system, infrastructure and the economy. Now you have to decide what political system you're going to decide: democratic, despotic or anarchist and therefore you have to establish your microcommunist constitution.

In the end, you should have the capacity to get into relationship with other countries by sending e-mails, faxes, letters. Starting your nation is an easy thing. Of course, it is easier said than done. But if you take the land from another country, then that place will pay you taxes. As with the independent state of Christiania in Denmark. ) Nowthiesworld