An adjoining post office sells currency, stamps and postcards, the latter of which can be slotted into a red post box. The off-grid, 0.75-sq-km (0.29-sq-mile) property consists of bushland and a cabin that functions as Government House. The Auroran Hymn is the excerpt of a soaring symphony by 19th Century composer, Camille Saint Saens.Ītlantium supports the right to unrestricted international freedom of movement, so it doesn't issue visas to visitors like myself who come to stay at the capital, which is listed on Airbnb as "the smallest country in Australia". Atlantium’s national anthem takes its name from the province. The emperor spends most of his weekends at Concordia in the Province of Aurora, where he drafts policy statements and exchanges letters with other micronation leaders and Atlantium’s "unaccredited diplomatic representatives" in the United States, Singapore and Switzerland. In 2008, he bought an 80-hectare rural property about 350km (217 miles) from Sydney, which became Atlantium’s administrative capital. He also adopted a decimal calendar system which divides the year into 10 months. He issued stamps, minted coins and banknotes, appointed diplomatic representatives and designed a series of flags and insignia. While the interest of Atlantium’s other co-founders eventually waned, Cruickshank became increasingly absorbed by the affairs of his micronation. "The idea of a sovereign nation state having complete authority over its citizens within defined borders is only a fairly recent development, and it led to all of the horrors of the 20th Century," says Cruickshank. Micronation founders like Cruickshank seek to challenge the notion of a nation state by proving how artificial a construct they really are. Imitation is not necessarily a form of flattery, however. As a consequence, micronations are not recognised by established nation states, but that does not deter them from assuming the ceremony, pomp and even governance structures of them. A micronation is a self-proclaimed sovereign state that lacks a legal basis for its existence. The trio hoisted a flag and the micronation of Atlantium officially came into being.Ītlantium is one of more than a hundred micronations across the world. After being crowned Emperor George II, Cruickshank issued a unilateral declaration of independence from the Commonwealth of Australia. In a Sydney suburb in 1981, a teenage George Cruickshank and his two friends painted a border line in his backyard and declared the 10-sq-metre patch the provisional territory of the Empire of Atlantium.
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