Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Morovia's Citizenship 'Explosion'
Briesk- A year ago, during the almost one year hiatus from activity that Vincent III was obliged to take in light of other obligations, the Kingdom of Morovia was almost as dead as Marley.
There was a weak pulse in the person of the Lord Regent and a brief, dying splendor in last summer's RealPeace Roundtable Discussion but, all in all, Morovia was in suspended animation.
Then came the return of the King (with apologies to Tolkien) in November of 2003... Now, things began to happen - notably, the return of active citizens, constitutional government and even our very own micronational controversy which, in this iteration of the Big Wheel of History, took the form of informal unification talks with Hanover which managed to prompt a Royal Conniption (and every PR person's dream of free publicity :-) from a former Hanoverian monarch (James I, now Varennes' King Louis I of the French persuasion :-).
Following all this, in winter, spring and summer of 2004, Morovia received no less than 12 citizenship applications (4 in February, 1 in March, 1 in April, 3 in June and 3 in July). Of those who applied for citizenship (which, so far at least, has been granted for just about everyone who applies) 8 have posted at least once to the ezBoard forums, 4 have contributed to Salon discussions on a more-or-less consistent basis and 3 have been elected to, and are currently serving in, HM Royal Assembly and HM Cabinet.
Beyond that, Lord David Oatney returned (at least briefly) to active participation, Sir Adam Graham has returned and is currently reprising his role as Speaker of HM Royal Assembly as well as serving in HM Cabinet and Mr. Robert Kee and even Mr. Iain Lindley have popped in from time-to-time to say, 'hi'. Only Lord Marc Lanson remains terminally AWOL.
All Morovia needs is former citizen Mr. Robert Gresham to return and things would be perfect (at least, according to one of our editors whose last news desk was in Hell :-)
Asked about the significance of the above mentioned statistics, HM Minister of Home Affairs, the Hon. Bill Bekkenhuis, said he'd have to think it through a bit. "I've always thought that the difficult part of building a micronation's citizenship based was getting the word out that the micronation exists and getting tourists to visit it. Now I'm beginning to think the tougher nut to crack is the conversion of citizen-applicants to active participants. Why do most drift away while a small minority become very active? Is it simply a self-selection process or are there things a micronation can do to help new citizens get connected?"
Apparently thoughts along these lines are also on His Majesty's People's Representative, the Rt. Hon. Steven Foong's mind.
In his clarification to the Hon. Bekkenhuis regarding the Rt. Hon. Foong's directive to develop a Post-Naturalisation Affirmative Actions.
" A document that states the guidelines and procedures on what actions need to be done after citizenship has been approved. Although mainly dealing with post-naturalisation, the document will also do well to specify pre-naturalisation. Therefore, a procedure on what we need to do from the moment we receive a new citizenship application to the moment he takes up active citizenship."
Bill Bekkenhuis
Reporter, The Morovian Telegraph
bekkenhuis@fast.net
8/3/2004
There was a weak pulse in the person of the Lord Regent and a brief, dying splendor in last summer's RealPeace Roundtable Discussion but, all in all, Morovia was in suspended animation.
Then came the return of the King (with apologies to Tolkien) in November of 2003... Now, things began to happen - notably, the return of active citizens, constitutional government and even our very own micronational controversy which, in this iteration of the Big Wheel of History, took the form of informal unification talks with Hanover which managed to prompt a Royal Conniption (and every PR person's dream of free publicity :-) from a former Hanoverian monarch (James I, now Varennes' King Louis I of the French persuasion :-).
Following all this, in winter, spring and summer of 2004, Morovia received no less than 12 citizenship applications (4 in February, 1 in March, 1 in April, 3 in June and 3 in July). Of those who applied for citizenship (which, so far at least, has been granted for just about everyone who applies) 8 have posted at least once to the ezBoard forums, 4 have contributed to Salon discussions on a more-or-less consistent basis and 3 have been elected to, and are currently serving in, HM Royal Assembly and HM Cabinet.
Beyond that, Lord David Oatney returned (at least briefly) to active participation, Sir Adam Graham has returned and is currently reprising his role as Speaker of HM Royal Assembly as well as serving in HM Cabinet and Mr. Robert Kee and even Mr. Iain Lindley have popped in from time-to-time to say, 'hi'. Only Lord Marc Lanson remains terminally AWOL.
All Morovia needs is former citizen Mr. Robert Gresham to return and things would be perfect (at least, according to one of our editors whose last news desk was in Hell :-)
Asked about the significance of the above mentioned statistics, HM Minister of Home Affairs, the Hon. Bill Bekkenhuis, said he'd have to think it through a bit. "I've always thought that the difficult part of building a micronation's citizenship based was getting the word out that the micronation exists and getting tourists to visit it. Now I'm beginning to think the tougher nut to crack is the conversion of citizen-applicants to active participants. Why do most drift away while a small minority become very active? Is it simply a self-selection process or are there things a micronation can do to help new citizens get connected?"
Apparently thoughts along these lines are also on His Majesty's People's Representative, the Rt. Hon. Steven Foong's mind.
In his clarification to the Hon. Bekkenhuis regarding the Rt. Hon. Foong's directive to develop a Post-Naturalisation Affirmative Actions.
" A document that states the guidelines and procedures on what actions need to be done after citizenship has been approved. Although mainly dealing with post-naturalisation, the document will also do well to specify pre-naturalisation. Therefore, a procedure on what we need to do from the moment we receive a new citizenship application to the moment he takes up active citizenship."
Bill Bekkenhuis
Reporter, The Morovian Telegraph
bekkenhuis@fast.net
8/3/2004
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