In June 2012, coincident with that year's Culling of the Inactive, the Aerican Empire distributed a census to all citizens. After the Culling, the population was 181 people; of these, 141 individuals agreed to complete the census. One of those was deleted as the responses were obviously non-sensical. A total of 140 individuals were therefore included in the census, making this the single largest set of data ever collected from a micronational population to that date.
The questionnaire consisted of 15 questions. All questions were voluntary and could be leftBlank. All questions also included a specific option which read, "I Decline: to answer this question."
Results are presented below, by question. After some options, a percentage is displayed in backets; this indicates what percentage of respondents chose this option and generally indicates what the most "popular" choices were.
Age:
- Younger than 12: 1
- 13-18: 51 (36%)
- 19-25: 43 (31%)
- 26-40: 27 (19%)
- 41-65: 15
- Older than 65: 1
- Decline: 2
- Blank: 0
Sex:
- Male: 101 (72%)
- Female: 37 (26%)
- Transgender: 2
- Decline: 0
- Blank: 0
Country:
- Afghanistan: 2
- Argentina: 2
- Australia: 10
- Austria: 1
- Belgium: 1
- Brazil: 2
- Canada: 17
- Croatia: 1
- France: 1
- Ireland: 1
- Israel: 2
- Italy: 1
- Japan: 1
- Malaysia: 2
- Mexico: 1
- Netherlands: 1
- New Zealand: 2
- South Africa: 1
- Spain: 2
- UK: 6
- United States: 81 (58%)
- Venezuela: 1
- Zimbabwe: 1
- Decline/Blank: 0
Level of Education:
- Primary: 5
- Secondary: 57 (41%)
- University: 55 (39%)
- Master’s: 14
- Doctorate: 3 (2%)
- Post-doctorate: 0
- Decline: 6
- Blank: 0
Employment Status:
- Employed/self-employed: 43 (31%)
- Student: 83 (59%)
- Student, employed: 31
- Student, unemployed: 52
- Unemployed: 8 (6%)
- Stay-at-home: 3
- Retired: 0
- Decline: 3
- Blank: 0
Do you consider yourself...
- Religious: 29 (21%)
- Spiritual: 29 (21%)
- Atheist: 37 (26%)
- Agnostic: 24 (17%)
- Undecided: 9
- None of above: 7
- Decline: 5
- Blank: 0
Please Specify:
- A faith of my own devising: 1
- A mix of Fatalism and Determinism: 1
- Atheist/agnostic hippie-spiritual: 1
- Baptist: 1
- Buddhism/Silinism: 1
- Catholic: 5
- Catholic agnostic: 1
- Christian: 6
- Christian, sort of: 1
- Deist Protestant: 2
- Discordian: 2
- Discordian and Pastafarian: 1
- Follower of god: 1
- I know God exists but no particular religion: 1
- I like to eat waffles in the evening: 1
- Jewish: 4
- Jewish, deist Wiccan: 1
- Lean more towards paganism: 1
- Lutheran, and occasionally questioning: 1
- Methodist: 3
- Pagan (and variant spellings): 3
- Pantheist, studies teachings of Bhuddhas: 1
- Panthiest as defined by richard dawkins: 1
- Pastafarian: 1
- Pastafarian catholix: 1
- Path of Forsteri: 1
- Presbytarian: 1
- Scientific/Empiric: 1
- Shinto animism: 1
- Silinist: 2
- Sinanist Pagan: 1
- Theravada Buddhism: 1
- Unitarian Universalist: 1
- Wiccan, Otaku: 1
Sexual Orientation:
- Entirely heterosexual: 74 (53%)
- Mostly heterosexual: 40 (29%)
- Bisexual: 11 (8%)
- Mostly homosexual: 3 (2%)
- Entirely homosexual: 4 (3%)
- Undecided: 4 (3%)
- Decline: 4
- Blank: 0
Are you married:
- Yes: 22
- No: 115 (82%)
- Decline: 3
- Blank: 0
Do you have children:
- Yes: 20
- No: 117 (84%)
- Decline: 2
- Blank: 0
Do you play videogames (such as World of Warcraft):
- Yes: 68 (49%)
- No: 65
- Decline: 5
- Blank: 2
Do you play role-playing games (such as Dungeons & Dragons):
- Yes: 53 (38%)
- No: 82
- Decline: 4
- Blank: 1
Do you vote in local (non-Aerican) politics :
- Yes: 65 (46%)
- No: 45 (32%)
- Sometimes: 21 (15%)
- Decline: 6
- Blank: 3
Have you ever competed in (non-Aerican) politics :
- Yes: 10 (7%)
- No: 110 (79%)
- I’m considering it: 13 (9%)
- Decline: 3
- Blank: 4
Are you a member of more than one micronation :
- Yes: 8
- No: 129 (92%)
- Decline: 2
- Blank: 1
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