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”.
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