The Kingdon of Tycho

There is sometimes some confusion as to the exact status of the Sovereign vis-a-vis the Duke of Street vis-a-vis Declan Stanley.
This confusion need not occur. While physically all three are the same person, legally they are three distinct entities.
Firstly we have “Declan Stanley”, a real person, a father, a husband, an author. He was born in Ireland and founded The Kingdom of Tycho.
Secondly we have the legal entity of “Duke of Street”. Under the Proclamation of Honours and Titles the Sovereign can bestow a honorable title upon anyone. The title of Duke of Street was granted to Declan Stanley as a permanent recognition of his role in founding The Kingdom of Tycho and as payment for his services as the first Sovereign.

Thirdly we have The Sovereign of The Kingdom of Tycho. Under the constitution of The Kingdom of Tycho, the Sovereign is an elected position that any citizen may be elected to. The Sovereign is elect to represent the entire Kingdom and to govern the Kingdom in broad concurrence with the entire citizenship of the Kingdom. Currently Declan Stanley is the Sovereign. But if Declan resigns, or dies, then someone else will be elected to be Sovereign, it is a legal entity independent of Declan.

When Declan, as the Sovereign, makes a proclamation, or attends an official function, he is expressing the will of the people of the Kingdom, and representing the entire Kingdom in his official capacity as Sovereign, rather than stating just his own personal views, or attending as a private individual.

Usually when Declan speaks or posts to this web site he is expressing his own personal opinion and this should not be confused with the official opinion of the Sovereign

However, it should be noted that, Declan’s personal opinion does have a great influence on the official opinion of the Sovereign.

I am always conscious of the fact that while there are many reasons people found new nations(micronations) the main public perception of the founders of micronations is of someone who “can’t cut it” in the real world and wants to escape to a fantasy world where they are king.

How many times have you thought or heard someone say something along the lines of “if I were King” or “if I ruled the world” then I would do things differently. Even if it is “to have everyone who cuts me off in traffic lined up and shot”.

While there are many micronations, and web sites of micronations, where there is just one person who has started a new nation and given himself a grand title, most of these don’t last very long, or go beyond a simple web site(that has not been updated in quite a while).

The world of micronations covers a board spectrum, with many micronations founded for many different reasons and The Kingdom of Tycho is way towards the serious end of the scale. We really do own our land, we really are going to go and live there and we do not believe that any government on earth has any right to stop us, nor any right to govern us once we get there.

I have also self published my novel Alexandra and I aware that there is a similar stigma to people who publish their own books. I decided to self-published not because I want to inflate my own ego by having a book “published”, or call myself a “Published Author”, but because I thought my book was good enough to be published and I could not find a publisher who was willing to take a risk on it. You may read my work and think I am wrong and the publishers who rejected me were right, and that is fine with me. We can both go into any bookshop and find published books we do not think are worth publishing.

So The kingdom of Tycho is proud to call itself a micronation and to join the ranks of other micronations such as The Vatican and The Principality of Monaco.

And remember the saying “From little acorns do great oak trees grow”.

There is an interesting historical anomaly regarding the current Sovereign, HRH Declan I. (If a country founded in 2001 can said to be old enough to have a historical anomaly)
While legally The Kingdom of Tycho is a democracy (were a country’s sovereignty is derived from the people who elect a government to govern on their behalf), with the people electing a Sovereign to govern on their behalf, the current Sovereign was not actually elected as such.
The founding of our country happened like this:

• Declan Stanley made a public claim to own the land that forms the territory of The Kingdom of Tycho.
  
• In the absence of any other country claiming ownership of this land he then claimed status as an independent country.
  
• Having declared himself King he then declared the constitution, which turned the country into a democracy.
  

However Declan had declared himself King before declaring the constitution, so whether he is Sovereign under the constitution, or King above the constitution is an interesting legal grey area.