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| ==The Republic of Verelexia ==
| | A rather unsuccessful attempt at an initial micronation that never really got off the ground due to lack of originality. |
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| The Republic of Verelexia was founded in June 2003 by a small group of
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| students interested in politics, who wanted to see if they could run
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| their own (small) state. The Republic of Verelexia was thus founded as
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| a constitutional republic under the charismatic leadership of
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| [http://mnn.mncentre.net/wiki/index.php?title=Benjamin_Gray Benjamin Gray], who held the position of President and
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| [http://mnn.mncentre.net/wiki/index.php?title=Lord_Protector Lord Protector] (essentially a secondary but permanent president)
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| The Republic later considered seceding from the United Kingdom of Great
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| Britain and Northern Ireland and for a short time had "annexed"
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| territory in London, making the homes of its citizens embassies and
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| consulates. More patriotic members of the Republic however opposed this
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| move and eventually Lord Gray revoked their citizenship as Lord
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| Protector, claiming that they had undermined the constitution. Other
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| members renounced their citizenship.
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| The Republic was left alone for some time until the "Rebirth". Gray,
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| now an [[Attera]]n citizen, rewrote the Constitution, limiting the
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| powers of the Lord Protector and allowing for a freer society. A
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| website was created, consisting of one webpage containing a link to the
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| constitution and Gray's e-mail address. After some e-mails from
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| interested potential citizens, a website and forum was built and went
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| public in September 2004.
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| Verelexia has in the online micronational sector however been mostly
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| unsuccessful. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has failed to | |
| respond to any of the President's e-mails and the other two citizens
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| fail to post on the forums and have expressed a lack of interest in the
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| nation.
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| == The Future of the Republic ==
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| The Republic has essentially become an egostan however there are hopes
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| to revive it and make it into a proper state. There have been some
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| talks with micronationalists about how to resurrect the nation, and
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| applications for citizenship are still accepted. The Emperor of
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| Alexandria, formerly [[Madland]], has offered to merge with Verelexia,
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| but given what happened regarding [[Antica]], the offer was declined.
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| == The Third Republic ==
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| Verelexia was resurrected in December 2004 with an emergency
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| presidential act dissolving all legal institutions save that of the
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| Office of the President of the Republic and the creation of the
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| Constituent Assembly, an organ comprised of all Verelek citizens tasked
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| with creating a new constitution. The Constituent Assembly was called
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| to order on Wednesday 8th December 2004.
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| == Death ==
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| After the EzBoard attacks of 2005, Verelexia's forums were completely
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| wiped out. Given the general failure of the country, partly due to
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| having no specific purpose or culture, a generic constitution, and no
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| active citizen base outside of a few "multi-nationals", it was decided
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| to close down the Republic and it is now dead. The founder has since
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| left to create the [[Stratocracy of Treithar]].
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| == Links ==
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| Official Website: [http://www.verelexia.tk www.verelexia.tk]
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| Alternate Link: [http://www.freewebs.com/verelexia
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| www.freewebs.com/verelexia]
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| Verelek National Forums: [http://go.ezboard.com/bverelexianationalforum
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| go.ezboard.com/bverelexiationalforum]
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| [[category:international]]
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