General:
What do you mean by micronation? What is that?
Why is your empire on the net?
How did Aerica start?
I've been looking at other nations, and none of them are "interplanetary". Explain that.
Does it bother you to be an empire in the age of democracy?
Is Aerica capable of being serious?
What makes Aerica any better than other micronations?
What kind of name is Aerica?
What happened to all the banners?
What's with all the spelling mistakes?
Citizenship:
What does it mean to be a citizen?
Define "registered world"?
What will I have to do if I become a citizen?
What is the Culling of the Inactive?
Mailing List:
What is the mailing list?
Should I join the list?
Can I get off the list?
What sort of behavior is okay on the mailing list?
Kicked off? What about freedom of speech?
Politics:
I want to form a political party. Can I do that?
I want to join the Senate. Can I do that?
Foreign Affairs:
I have a micronation, and I want to open relations with the Empire. What do I do?
Hey, not all of your recognized states meet your foreign policy!
Hey, YOU don't even meet your own foreign policy!
The Empire refused to recognize me. Can I appeal in any way? How about I just declare war on you until you change your mind?
General:
1:What do you mean by micronation? What is that?
A micronation is a state, country, person, or whatever that has seceded from regular society. They are unrecognized nations, existing within other nations. There are a lot more than you would think.
2:Why is your empire on the net?
3:How did Aerica start?
4:I've been looking at other nations, and none of them are "interplanetary". Explain that.
5:Does it bother you to be an empire in the age of democracy?
6:Is Aerica capable of being serious?
7:What makes Aerica any better than other micronations?
8:What kind of name is Aerica?
9:What happened to all the banners?
10:What's with all the spelling mistakes?
2:Define "registered world"?
3:What will I have to do if I become a citizen?
4:What is the Culling of the Inactive?
2:Should I join the list?
3:Can I get off the list?
4:What sort of behavior is okay on the mailing list?
5:Kicked off? What about freedom of speech?
2:I want to join the Senate. Can I do that?
2:Hey, not all of your recognised states meet your foreign policy!
3:Hey, YOU don't even meet your own foreign policy!
4:The Empire refused to recognise me. Can I appeal in any way? How about I just declare war on you until you change your mind?
Many nations are on the net now. Aerica predates the internet, but many nations started when the net came out. We decided it was a good way to meet them.
We started before we had ever heard the term micronation. The Emperor decided, on his birthday, to do something no one else he knew had ever done. Therefore, he made a city called Aerica. Over the years, it grew to its present form. In 1997, the Emperor heard the term "micronation" and realized he had one. A pretty darn good one, too, if I may say so.
In 1989, the Emperor decided he wanted to be sillier than a city. Besides which, he did not want to be a country within a country. Pretty soon, it was a planet. Then a few planets. Then more. Eventually, some land off-planet was even bought legally rather than made up.
Not at all. We are only an Empire in name, because that was the best sounding name, certainly better than "commonwealth" or "federation". The Emperor is the equivalent of a democratically elected president or prime minister. He is elected, as are all the members of the senate, which is the equivalent of a house of commons. We are a democracy, and proud of it. We just have a better name this way. And, finally, because it gives us the AE symbol which we use, Aerican Empire.
Aerica is very serious. All important things, such as government and diplomacy, are handled with the utmost seriousness. Silliness is important, but we never let it conflict with organized running of the Empire.
We aren't, according to some people. It's a matter of opinion. I like Aerica best, and that's why I live there. If you want somewhere that is totally serious to the point of no longer having fun with micronationalism, be my guest. Not many micronations have even made it past Earth yet.
It's America with no M. To a five year old, it sounded great, and it stuck. The one problem, is that no one pronounces it right. It looks like it would be pronounced "Erica", but is meant to sound "Aherica", with a long A.
The Empire's website was hosted by hypermart.net until february 2004, at which point it switched to Doteasy. Doteasy doesn't force us to put up banners, god bless 'em.
There are proof readers for this site, but they're lazy. The content is the same whether it's written as enough or enuogh. Try to ignore the mistakes you find, or report them to the Emperor and they'll be fixed.
Citizenship:
1:What does it mean to be a citizen?
A citizen has to live either on earth, or a registered imperial world.
A registered world is a world where we control land, or one of our planets. For example, Earth, the capital of the Empire. Or the controversial land on Mars.
Not much. We don't demand taxes from single citizens, we don't require military service, nothing like that. We have the mailing list, and it's always nice when this list is used for discussions. Participation is encouraged but not required, and costs no money to citizens anyway. We have available jobs, but no one is required to take one.
Once every year, around late may or early June, the Empire dispatches letters to all citizens. The purpose of this letter is to make sure that e-mail addresses are still up to date, and that people still want to be members. Citizens have one month to reply to this letter or their citizenship is automatically cancelled. The rationale for this is that it is better to have twenty active citizens than four hundred inactive ones. There may or may not also be questions attached to the Culling letter, such as a census or a poll.
Mailing List:
1:What is the mailing list?
The mailing list is the main forum of communication between citizens. Available as either e-mails or a weekly digest in your e-mail, or readable online, the mailing list is for discussion, votes, debates, arguments, notices of updates to the site, and anything else the citizens use it for.
If you're a citizen, it's a good idea. If not, you'll be expected to keep track of the news page to see if you're missing anything.
People are always free to leave the list. Maybe you're getting too much e-mail or maybe you just don't want to be on it. You won't be forced to stay longer than you want to. Unsubscribe instructions are in each letter.
All citizens are free to talk or discuss on the list. That's what it's for. Any citizen can start a topic or add a comment to a discussion if they think they have something to say. It is frowned upon for people to send chain letters or advertisements to the list, and people who do so after receiving a warning will be taken off of the list. Likewise, citizens who insult other list members or send derogatory comments will be removed.
The list is owned and moderated by the Emperor and not the government. Therefore, he and the other moderators decide what is and is not acceptable on the list. Because it is a privately owned system, freedom of speech does not exist. However, members are only removed from the list if they are openly insulting to many people, and no one has ever been taken off just because they disagreed with the Emperor.
Politics:
1:I want to form a political party. Can I do that?
Yes. However, recruiting members is your job, not anyone else's. Also, you will not be allowed to form a faction based on hate or xenophobia.
Yes. The Empire is a democracy, and anyone can run for the Senate. However, just because you want to run doesn't mean that there will be any empty seats, and it might not even be an election year.
Foreign Affairs:
1:I have a micronation, and I want to open relations with the Empire. What do I do?
To open relations with the Empire, read the foreign policy and then use the e-mail address there to contact Tristan Glark. Be sure to include your name, your position in your state, your website if you have one, and any other information you think we should know.
When changes are made to the foreign policy, they are not retro-active. This means that if you were recognized before the change was made, you stay recognized even if you no longer qualify. Only newly contacted nations need fit the updated policy.
Yes, we do. There is no stipulation in the policy that the applicant nation must have real land. The policy only states that there must be a valid history and a clear system for citizenship. The Empire has both of these.
If you are unsatisfied with the outcome of speaking with Minister Glark, you can always appeal to the Emperor. However, because he has a say in all applicants before Minister Glark replies, it is unlikely that this appeal will work. Several nations have in the past tried overt threats against us, and have been summarily ignored until they went away. The very small number that actually tried to bring about some of their threats were dealt with appropriately, but never recognized.
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