Ladonia Herald issue 64, October 2003

64th issue, October 2003

THE FIRST WORLD CONGRESS FOR MICRONATIONS

At the meeting in Helsinki at the end of August, Ladonia met represents from The Principality of Sealand, Elgaland-Vargaland, Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK), The Transnational Republic and The State of Sabotage. Among these, Sealand was a state working commercially (their fascinating history can be found at www.sealandgov.com), the others, in some way or other, connected to art. The general meeting took place during one day in the Finlandia House. The next two days all the participating nations had exhibitions on the Harakka island in their temporary embassies.

Can micronations find something common? Ladonia was not interested in finding simle solutions as Sealand did (creating a nation as a commercial project) or The Transnational Republic (believing that it is possible for all people in the world to buy their money and thus get all the cash in, break down capitalism and make the world a better place). We could be satisfied with not finding something to do, or a lot of things that have to be done. We have to work hard for the right to become idle.

Ladonia in the conference, showing state secr Lars Vilks, Minister Martin Schibli and Minister Jaidie in the foreground. Picture was taken by Minister Fredrik Larsson.

Long day of conference in the Finlandia House. Some of the nations, like Ladonia, were not out for changing the world.

Minister Jaidie on his way to perform the Ladonia National Anthem. State secr doing the Ladonian greeting, Fredrik Larsson and Martin Schibli holding the flag.

From the exhibition in the temporary Ladonia Embassy: video of war methods instructions, Ladonia stamps and currency, the balloon landmine…

Minister of Art & Jump performing at Harakka island: Before the jump

Minister of Art & Jump jumping.

LADONIAN WEDDING

After a long time of courting and going through all tests, they married. Jeremy Turner, Minister of Avatars, and Elizabeth Pickard, both of them Ladonian citizens living in Canada. This is almost one year after the minister of avatars made a successful groom test in Wotan's tower in Ladonia: shaking the tower until a bell start ringing in the front.

The happy wedding couple.

ANNOUNCEMENT: CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENCY

It is again time for election for president. Our most dear Fernando Rodrigues has been holding this position since 1997. Candidates are welcome, send information about your candidacy to the state secretary: lars.vilks@swipnet.se

And understand that we are fully open to proposals. The cabinet has had an extensive discussion concerning the possibility of a dead president. So take that under consideration. Our minister of finance, Mike Arman, has pointed out some advantages:

"As I was reading today's digest from Ladonia, the idea occurred to me that a dead president instead of a living president might be a good concept. It isn't often that I am beaten to the punch, but this time I was - the idea was put forward before this reply was drafted.
Dead presidents do have a number of advantages over living ones. You always know where to find them.
They are never too busy to listen to you.
Their opinions do not change.
In most cases, their "scandals" are already history, and do not embarrass current citizens.
They are inexpensive to feed and entertain at state functions (assuming they show up at all, which isn't likely).
They never refuse the office, and if we decide to impeach or replace them, they won't argue with that, either.
They don't raise your taxes.
Best of all, they don't go and start wars with little or no provocation!"

ON A HIGH LEVEL

It has not been known until now that the Swedish king has taken great interest in Ladonia. Minister Hartman can present this view of King Karl Gustav when his is visiting the Ladonian exhibition in Malmö.

The Swedish King and Ladonia.

SECURITY IN LADONIA

Minister Per Cod has found this solution to the security problems in Ladonia:

There really isn't any need for a secret police though. secret police forces usually deals only with threats within a country's borders, any outside threats are handled by military intelligence (oxymoron, I know, I know). If we make Ladonia a Homicidal Maniac Free Zone, there will be no enemies within. For border control I suggest a questionnaire:

Do you come in
1. Peace
2. or Unpeace
Are you a Homicidal Maniac?
1. Yes
2. No
Have you ever, or do you plan to in the future, committed or been party to:
1. Random acts of violence (more than 50 victims)
2. Random acts of violence (less than 50 victims)
3. Human sacrifice (children and/or sexually inactive women [virgins])
4. Human sacrifice (others)
5. Wrongfully parked in spaces reserved for disabled persons?
6. Failed to purchase a valid ticked on bus/train/underground (subway) or other mass transport system?
Did you pack your baggage?
Have you ever seen the rain?
Would you like fries with that?

CITIZEN IN LADONIA

Ladonia has now more than 10.800 registered citizens. Half of them come from Sweden, all other countries are shown here. The list from the last Herald is updated and corrected in several details. As you can see Ladonia has citizens from 108 different countries.

1. Hungary 724
2. USA 669
3. England 436
4. Spain 356
5. Portugal 288
6. Mexico 276
7. Pakistan 275
8. Norway 228
9. France 194
10. Germany 189
11. Russia 172
12. Brazil 162
13. Denmark 160
14. Canada 158
15. Belgium 145
16. India 143
17. Italy 128
18. Poland 122
19. S Korea 106
20. Holland 99
21. Turkey 98
22. Argentina 94
23. Nigeria 83
24. Israel 83
25. Rumania 82
26. Bulgaria 82
27. Peru 70
28. China 64
29. Colombia 55
30. Australia 55
31. Greece 51
32. Yugoslavia 48
33. Croatia 45
34. South Africa 40
35. Finland 38
36. Austria 32

37. Iran 30
38. Switzerland 26
39. Latvija 25
40. Ireland 24
41. Japan 23
42. Slovakia 21
43. Vietnam 20
44. Bangladesh 20
45. Ukraina 19
46. Algeria 19
47. Scotland 17
48. New Zealand 14
49. Hongkong 13
50. Wales 13
51. Thailand 13
52. Venezuela 12
53. Belorussia 12
54. Estonia 11
55. Indonesia 11
56. Slovenia 11
57. Bosnia 9
58. Macedonia 9
59. Cyprus 8
60. Libya 8
61. Togo 8
62. Uruguay 7
63. Malaysia 7
64. Chile 7
65. Catalonia 6
66. Egypt 6
67. Cuba 6
68. Dominican Rep. 6
69. Sri Lanka 5
70. Philippines 5
71. Libanon 5
72. Marocko 5

73. Panama 4
74. Ghana 4
75. Nepal 4
76. Iceland 4
77. Georgia 4
78. Tjeckia 3
79. Bolivia 3
80. Benin 2
81. Armenia 2
82. Luxembourg 2
83. Singapore 2
84. Azerbaijan 2
85. Etiopia 2
86. Uzbekistan 2
87. Kurdistan 2
88. Liberia 2
89. Lithuania 1
90. Sudan 1
91. Guatemala 1
92. Malta 1
93. N Korea 1
94. Moçambique 1
95. Madagascar 1
96. Ecuador 1
97. Kuwait 1
98. Uganda 1
99. Burkina Faso 1
100. Honduras 1
101. Oman 1
102. Albania1
103. Tanzania 1
104. Andorra 1
105. Mali 1
106. Jordan 1
107. Sierra Leone 1
108. Bretagne 1

AT THE END OF THE DAY

A word from our Minister of Health

Again, on the last pages of yet another Ladonia Herald, I am compelled to say something of importance. So let me think of something really hilarious, like the belief among scientists today, yesterday's wig-men from Köningsberg, good old Kant among them, the town itself unfortunately blown off the face of the earth in the last World War with all the seven bridges and everything and subsequently turned into a neo-socialist city, alas, but not not to mourn anymore, we have a new century with new crazy warlords about, some kind of revival of obsolete ghosts from the remote past, and as long as we can relax from those polarity programmed entities, we might, for instance, direct our thoughts to that hilarious theory held in considerable esteem by the learned establishment, namely, the Big Bang theory. Bang! (with no sexual allusion whatsoever) - the existence of everything was granted, we are told. What people usually don't think of, however, is how they think, if they think at all. If thinking is directing ones attention towards attaining a certain goal, most people never think - they however react, something insults them, and they react one way, something brings luck, they react another way. That is by the way one of the greatest health problems we have to struggle against - people seek to justify and victimize themselves, and thus fall prey to unconscious black magic. Very dangerous! Or, something strikes them in that incessant haphazard stream of associations in our brains, and they consider themselves geniouses. But now Big Bang and thinking! We have learnt to think in polarities, we have logic, we have counting, comparing, that is to say, mathematics, and mathematics is great. But what about thinking in triads? The only way of thinking with three equally independent elements is writing counterpoint - although you might try and parallel Thomas Talli's Speem in Alium with 40 voices, the truly independent ones still remain three. Because of the living triad, music has enormous intellectual power, it goes right through the heart to something immensly much greater than the ordinary everyday corners of our brains. Maybe you can add a fourth equally important as well as independent factor - the occasion of performance. We now have a means to understand deeper things than logic ever could grasp, and still remain entirely intecllectual - Now, do we really believe the Big Bang was the origin of all there is?

The question itself is stupid, we can get a hang of the problem already with ordinary logic - by refuting the proposition (but should we have wished to affirm it, not even all the marrow of all our bones would have sufficed). What we don't experience, we cannot see - the whole - the universe - is whatwe experience - but how could that be the totality of all there is - the whole question is already a polarity long before it ever became unity, we
only dreamt about unity, instead we have to face what we can know and what we cannot know. The Big Bang is where our observational data collapse, and our thinking ability with this data, as long as we stay with polarities
thinking, simple comparison, simple rules. Before we know the all, every theory about the all will be nothing more than the self portrait of a philosopher or an age. We cannot go back to wholeness from polarity, neither
can we walk the opposite path and reach infinity, we hardly even can make the first step, and think with three independent factors, doing polyphony...

So, deeper thinking cannot be isolated from being. On the other hand, being is possible without thinking. The level of being we need to attain has power. Thinking is exercising will, or shall we say, opening up for that
mysterious power, in the right occasion - when magic is possible. This bringing about, to the "here and now", making "just so" is known in deeper philosophies all over the world, and in the West it is named 'subsistence' -
the fourth category after wholeness, polarity, and relating. There is no upper limit to the possible number of these categories, the more we can understand and master, the greater our sophistication - but the fourth category is where we first touch reality. Hence, probably, the ancient four elements, and perhaps Carl Jung's life long preoccupation with the number four, most prevalent in the basic structures of our dreams.

With this short & humble essay, To All Peoples, all over the World, the Ladonian Ministry of Health wishes beautiful days and beautiful nights, enough sunshine, inspiring thinking and refreshing rain, for good rest with its pitty-pattering the roofs, and not to forget, always uncountable stars!

Emanuel von Bock, Minister of Health.

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