Have you ever created your own 'country'?

[Bencass 28]

Instead of changing nationality, some people create their own small 'country', and that is called a 'micronation'.

Sometimes I didn't like the country I live in, so I thought about emigrating. But I'm young and not that rich, so I thought it would be difficult to emigrate. So one day I declared my home as the 'Principality of Freeland'. Hehe...

Have you ever tried creating your own little 'country' and gathering its inhabitants?

 

 

[abronymouse 6,142]

when I was a kid I made my own lil world :3

but I've never thought of myself as living anywhere else but in my country

 

[Envy 6,363]

Never thought of that specifically as it just isn't practical. But I do like to dream of a country that consists of New England states. I'm far from the first person to ever think of it, though.

Either way I consider myself a member of my region and state before I do the country.  I have very little pride or faith left in my depraved, stupid country.

[Maxmillian 140]

A gem island. Here is my flag.

 

[ZiggWheelsManning 13,084]

An episode of Arthur did this, I'm not going on that burden of a route  

[Bencass 28]

6 hours ago, ZiggWheelsManning said:

An episode of Arthur did this, I'm not going on that burden of a route  

Of course, I didn't seriously intend to create an independent country

[DubWolf 18,411]

@Clawdeenwhat will your flag look like ??

 

I haven’t myself and haven’t given it much thought.

[Crypty Scribbles 6,367]

I haven't. But being a kid I had thought about creating a clan like in medieval Japan or noble house like in medieval Europe or certain fantasy books =] For people united by caring about each other and reaching common goals to prosper. With heraldic symbols and aristocratic inner traditions.

OHOLOL! Now it sounds like a secret society. 

[Xada 512]

I kinda did but purely for pony and Furry RP. Maybe i should or pay someone to make a physical copies of my flag. Put it on my house and declare it a province of Anocratic empire.

[ComanderZhabikKlavik 4,395]

When I was a child, I came up with not only my own country, but also an imaginary world. This world is called the "Universe of Worlds" where all the worlds are. I then became the ruler of a country called Garry's Mod, I even made a flag.

I also came up with the idea that the world we are in now is a matrix created on a computer, and I accidentally got here, and when the body in the matrix dies, I will return to the Universe of Worlds again. In the Universe of Worlds, I was a Superbeing of the God class. I am still the ruler of my country, by the way, Garry's Mod includes Equestria and all the other countries in MLP. I would like my fictional world to exist and everything I came up with to be real. Or maybe my fictional world exists? The creator of the Matrix lives in my country and we are best friends with him.

[Dreambiscuit 11,126]

I haven’t created my own country, but I have created, so to speak, an alternate world. It’s very detailed and populated by many wonderful inhabitants that defy description. I’m not the ruler of this world but just a happy inhabitant, and it’s been a major part of my life for many years.

I also create small places within this (‘real’) world, in my imagination and even on paper, that represent my own idealized versions of things that are real but have become less desirable than they should be. So I have my own worlds and places, if not specifically ‘countries.’

[TheRockARooster 53,871]

1 minute ago, Dreambiscuit said:

I haven’t created my own country, but I have created, so to speak, an alternate world. It’s very detailed and populated by many wonderful inhabitants that defy description. I’m not the ruler of this world but just a happy inhabitant, and it’s been a major part of my life for many years.

I also create small places within this (‘real’) world, in my imagination and even on paper, that represent my own idealized versions of things that are real but have become less desirable than they should be. So I have my own worlds and places, if not specifically ‘countries.’

Dreamland? 

[Dreambiscuit 11,126]

35 minutes ago, TheRockARooster said:

Dreamland? 

That could work, and it looks good on a bumper sticker. 

(My idyllic world doesn't overlook the benefits of cheap advertising)

[Iforgotmybrain 6,913]

I don’t think I’ve ever fully written a completely unique country before. Usually my stories are set in something akin to our world and countries or in already developed fantasy countries like Equestria. I like world building, just not enough to go all the way and create an entirely new country with its own culture, language, customs, all that. I much prefer writing characters over world building.

Now if we’re talking something like making a whole new country in the current state of the world, I’ve always been attracted to the idea of the Great Lake states and provinces becoming their own full fledged country. Kaiserreich, a mod for HOI4 where Germany won the First World War, has this to an extent. As the Second American Civil War in that mod has the entirety of the Great Lakes declaring independence and becoming their own country.

[fim y 104]

No Saturday not maybe someday.

[Snoopy Fan 7,704]

Not exactly a country, but I did once create my own world with all my favorite Disney things.

[Raskolnikov 1,701]

Does having countries on NationStates count? 

Don't use it anymore though.

[Night Sky 848]

Not a country. But as I got ready to graduate college, I had my eye on a property that had a decent sized cave on it. 

I also had my eye on a group of friends, and it was kind of an off grid, art commune kind of idea, before going off grid really arrived on the internet.

Of course the idea is nothing new, but it seemed radical and dope at the time, at least to me.

All my friends told me that 1.) I was dreaming and 2.) that if they had to live together, they'd tear each other too pieces.

So I got all pouty for a few years about the matter, I felt stung. 

I didn't act nasty about it, but it took a foolishly long time for me to internally process the fact that it's never gonna happen.

There's a game I've played since high school that features a level with an inhabited cave system, that had a lot to do with it.

There was also the idea that we're not gonna be students anymore so as adults we're gonna go our own way and change everything.

Ha. Ah ha ha.

Depending on your age, my bitter laughter may or may not sit well with you.

But if it doesn't, try doing something like this or wait ten years and reevaluate.

Countries that already exist don't like new countries being founded. 

A new country has to come from somewhere, and us humans live everywhere on this planet that it's practicable to live.

Most of those areas are owned by countries...

[Clawdeen 20,007]

Yes and I ruled it. The entire country in a massive castle where I am waited on hand and foot by my attractive staff. 

Everyone who lives in my country gets their own personal demon. Isn’t that fun?