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Prince George C. Nelson has been appointed to Consul General in California, USA on the 14th of May 2008.

I remember that Tesibius from Alexandria after visiting the Temple of King Ladon, decided to engineer his water clock for measuring accurately time.

Later Archimedes inspired by Tesibius’ work designed and engineered his clock.

The Navy’s Laboratories have built a prototype of King Ladon’s Water Clock. The prototype is a replica of King Ladon’s Water Clock developped around 27000BC. Note that even today we are not able to replicate the time precision they achieved with the technology they had available at that time.

Amazingly it has an Atomic precision, probably due to the magical power King Ladon himself possessed.

Adm. Pedro

King Ladon’s Clock

“Of course we use Ladonian calendar, the one that wise King Ladon once
established. This calendar works like this (quoting King Ladon
himself): ‘After every meal, have a rest until the candle has burned
out. Have a rest every night until the dawn. Land should be tilled
when it is not covered with snow, birds should be killed to be fried
when they fly by.’

Ladonian Academy of Science has scientifically measured that we are to
rest for 2000 ladoseconds after every meal. Note also how King Ladon
already has a modern sense of cyclical change between hours and
seasons (spring, winter, and autumn are all referred to). Academy
estimates that at the time of King Ladon a calendar year was most
probably more or less of the same length as ours, otherwise the
wintertime and times for bird migrations would not have kept up with
calendar.

Taru
Department of History
Ladonian Academy of Science”

Another research has been done by Minister and Prince James Hartman:

“In CLARIS ET LARIS, the sister of Laris and daugther of Henry, Emperor of Germany. Her first husband was King Ladon of Ladonia, a man of advancing years, after whose demise she was captured by Savari, King of Spain. Arthur rescued her and she married Laris’ companion, Claris. # 30 - 156″ Source

Old King Ladon in Ladonia (reconstruction photo by James Hartman)

Spring has arrived in Ladonia. The beeches are bursting into leaves.

Nimis and forest of beeches

The main road, National Road no. 1, to Nimis

Citizens of Ladonia can now meet on facebook. All citizens are welcome to join.

Concerning what countries have been recognized by Ladonia, our Consul Baron Koeze immediately reminded me:

“Why is the Kingdom of the Netherlands still not recognised?

The Consul-General of Ladonia in The Netherlands.”

The Netherlands are recognized by Ladonia. I am very sorry for this mistake. Long live the country of Frans Hals.

I want to repeat that Ladonia do not issue passports. Especially from Nigeria and Pakistan we still have a lot of applications for citizenship with the aim of receiving passports for international use.

The writer of this letter which I recieved from Nigeria a couple of days ago wanted me to issue a Swedish passport.

Any one is welcome to become a citizen of Ladonia. But we cannot offer any jobs or housing nor passports.

Ladonia has, after a decision by the cabinet, recognized the BjornSocialist Republic.

Countries recognized by Ladonia:

Austria
BjornSocialist Republic
Brazil
Canada
Denmark
Finland
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy
KREV
Lakota Nation
Mexico
Norway
Portugal
Russia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Tibet
USA

Concerning Sweden Ladonia has de facto recognized this country as 1) we are at war with Sweden, and 2) we have a consulate and have had an ambassador. Still we do not believe that Sweden really exists. It has never been proclaimed.

He is limping and complaining our president and minister of art & jump Fredrik Axwik:

“The Ministers foot is still sore after the bad spraining last week. It’s getting better, but still can’t support the Minister for a whole days walking. The walking stick is still doing service for support of the bad foot.”

This is interesting as he speaks of himself not as president but as minister. And one can question the way he made himself president though it has been supported by the cabinet.

You can read about the president and his accident here.

But it might be that there is another reason for the bad foot. Rumours say that the president with his bad foot and walking stick is imitating Lord Byron. This could very well be the explanation for his long rehabilitation.

President of Ladonia imitating Lord Byron

The production and consumption of oil and petrol in Ladonia is balanced. Ladonia is self-sufficient.

Petrol, exported: 0 m gallons
Petrol, imported: 0 m gallons

Oil exported: 0 m tons
Oil imported: 0 m tons

Domestic demand for petrol: 0 m gallons
Domestic demand for oil: 0 m gallons

Iran, e. g., has to import 40 % of its petrol.

Ladonia oil platform
“We could sell our oil. But does it make the world a better place?”

From our colony in Antarctica a swimming team has already arrived in China to train for the competitions.

A member of our Antarctic Ladonian Swim Team practicing at the new Olympic Pool in Beijing, China.
(Photo: James Hartman)