Explain micronations to me

[pchang]

Micronations - just another elaborate tax dodge

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Do you mean, like, really tiny countries?

I believe he means the whole concept of getting together with other individuals and creating virtual countries, whose "public forum" *ahem* is an internet forum. These people form 'countries' or become citizens of these 'countries' and get assigned positions in the 'government' in which they deal with other 'countries'.

The only physical basis of micronations are the servers the webpages are on and the location of the people... if they actually do exist.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

That's the bunnies.

Baffling, isn't it?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Did poly have a micronation at one point?

And where is Micronesia?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Micronesia is very real and spread across a couple of thousand square miles of the Pacific. It is noted for its lack of internet geeks, and its proliferation of busty Polynesian lasses.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I keep scrolling down the page to see Scarlet Johansson and Robin Cook. Imagine if they'd bred......

They could have launched a little army of little ginger retarded-looking goblins.

[Az]

dude, he just died... have you no heart?

[Stefu]

What baffles me about micronations it that I'm never quite sure how much of it is relatively harmless though quite, quite geeky fun-having and how much of it is complete, utter insanity. Which makes it akin to a lot of activities in the Internet, really.

[Odin]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
A resident sage on another site described an Asperger's afflictee he met as being "like a genius on acid". That's a brilliant depiction. Asperger's is where it's at for 2006- you heard it here first.

<------------genius on acid

[Frankychan]

The nation of Sealand rings a bell...

[Ecthy]

Originally posted by Az
dude, he just died... have you no heart?

He's the incarnation of EC's entry on cynic.

In other news, Laz is probably quite Aspy himself.

[Dr Strangelove]

Aspie's have difficulty expressing emotions and forming attachments, but they're not as screwed up as Autistic kids. They have relatively normal intelligence, speech, and impulse control.

[pchang]

Th impulse control thing pretty much rules out Laz

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

As does the difficulty expressing emotions. Ever read one of my "seriously pissed off" threads?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Any.....Micronations.

Sealand isn't the sort of thing I'm after, though it is amusingly barmy. It's the ones that get spontaneously created on the interweb by a bunch of kids who immediately become "Duke of Flatularia" or "Grand Commander of Faveringhaughmingtonshire".

It strikes me as being role-play for people too scared by the limitless powers of their own imaginations. People who'd rather play in the sandpit with a comforting backdrop of petty bureaucracy to cosset them. What do these people get out of the experience?