So what's a Slabovia, exactly?

As mentioned before, I'm the king of a micronation called Slabovia.  You won't find us on any maps - the only territory we claim is the ground under our feet and the sky above our heads (and, uh, a few hundred acres on Mars).  As far as Slabovia is concerned, the rest of planet Earth is a big nature preserve, where all of the flora and fauna of this planet (including humans) can live out their days in peace, without fear of intergalactic predators feasting on their brains.  Okay, I might have made that last bit up just now.

We've actually been around quite a long time as far as micronations go - our archives go back to at least 1988, and the official history dates the founding of the nation a few years before that.  But, for most of our existence, we were pretty much doing our own thing - it's only a few years ago that we became aware of the greater micronational community.

Oh, and when I say "we", that's not just the royal sense of the word ("We are not amused.").  Slabovia has somewhere around 50 citizens, mostly in Canada but some in the USA and even in Australia.  Trans-national weirdness is probably a reasonable approximation of what we do.

So, in this blog, I'm hoping to give you more of a glimpse into the life of micronational royalty (not nearly as glamorous as it sounds), discuss micronational philosophies (including what works and what doesn't, at least in my opinion), and maybe entertain you for a while.