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What is the Fifth World?
Examples of First World nations are Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Examples of Second World nations are Albania, Burma, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Venezuela, and Vietnam.
Examples of Third World nations are Bangladesh, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Laos, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.
These are the nation-states we study in our school geography classes. Most of these entities are sovereign states, but at least three dozen are considered quasi-states (failed or collapsed states). This is the Official World.
Then there are old and new nations, with small-, medium-, to large-sized territories (they are not necessarily 'macro' in size), that have yet to become fully recognised states such as the Dominion of British West Florida, the League of Indian Nations of North America, and the Republic of Texas (group). The most evolved of these are de facto states, but all of these nations are secessionist by nature. These are Fourth World nations.
Fifth World nations look a lot like Internet micronations superficially, but are usually older, more resilient, and have complex cultures. These nations are not secessionist by nature, as they either have primarily irredentist claims, or no territorial claims. This is the most basic form of authentic nationhood. An example of a Fifth World nation is Sealand. Something "Fifth Worldish" is something larger than a family, yet smaller and more culturally specific than "humanity".
The words "Fifth Worlder" and "Indigo" can be compared to
the words "Asian" and "Oriental" respectively. "Fifth
Worlder" is a special geography term, one that is more
Web-based than Earth-based, while "Indigo" is a special
racial term, one that is a phenotype, not a genotype. The
Fifth World is as ethnic as the Fourth World, and as
virtual as the Sixth World.
The Fifth World (sample
of nations)
- Capitals: Saint-Denis, Fort of Saint José, HM
Fort Roughs, Cyberterra
- Official languages: Portuguese, English, Italian
- Demonyms: Réunian, Pontinhense, Sealander, Ummoagian
- Date of foundation: circa 1997-1998
- Date of juridical establishment: circa 2008
- Population (de jure):
965+
- Currencies (local): Réunian cifra, Sealander
dollar, Cyberterra dollar
- Nations: Holy Empire of Reunion, Principality of the
Pontinha, Principality of Sealand, UMMOA
- Bilateral Treaties with: Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta), République du Kabinda
- Multilateral Treaties: Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Treaty, Multi-Oceanic Garbage Patch Treaty, Space Debris
Treaty, Declaration of Washington (OEAS)
- Organisational Memberships: Micronational Professional Registry, Micro State, Fifth World Health Organisation, Commonwealth Nations Research Society, Organization of Emerging African States, International States Parliament for Safety and Peace
A Short History of the Fifth World
The fiirst real Fifth World nation came to life in November 1968, and its name is the Principality of Sealand. An English court back then declared itself outside the jurisdiction of Sealand, and this action made the Principality of Sealand the first Fifth World nation/micronation to gain some de facto recognition.
In April 1982 the world's first self-declared Fifth World country was born, the Conch Republic. The Conch Republic was born in response to a United States border blockade of the Florida Keys. Since the US government insisted on treating the Keys like a foreign country, Key West Mayor Dennis Wardlow seceded from the Union, declared war, surrendered, and demanded foreign aid.
In reality, however, since the Conch Republic is primarily a tongue-in-cheek secessionist entity, it is really a small Fourth World nation. These are the differences between the Fourth and Fifth Worlds: in the Fourth World they want to reform the state in order to reform man, while in the Fifth World they want to reform the man in order to reform the state. So in the Fourth World revolution is secessionist and political in nature, while in the Fifth World revolution is generally non-secessionist (irredentist or entirely aterritorial) and sociological in nature.
In July 2008 the first micronation with an international legal (de jure) status came into being, the United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA), which is recognised and incorporated into the International (States) Parliament for Safety and Peace [I(S)PSP], an intergovernmental organisation of states. The UMMOA was later recognised also by the Organization of African Emerging States (OEAS), an intergovernmental organisation of emerging states, and by the the Federation of International Blue Cross & Blue Crescent Organisations (FIBCO), an international NGO.
In August 2010 the Fifth World Community (5WC) came into being, an inhabited locality distributed across several continents, and the world's first diaxenospitia. A diaxenospitia is an inhabited locality, but it is distributed not across a single geographic area, archipelago, or conurbation, but across several continents. It is "a collection of houses or buildings scattered around the world, and treated like a distributed town or city." Before diaxenospitias, territorial micronations had no logical way to grow and expand their influence except by aping cities and how they developed.
In November 2011 Lo Gal is started, the world's first Fifth World culture centre [article].
Observations about the Fifth World
There is no such thing as a "micronational community". In reality there are many intermicronational communities, and each real micronation comprises a community as well. As Peter Ravn Rasmussen has accurately written in the past, "There is in the micronational community no single version of the semantic content of the word micronation." [source].
Part of the problem with micronationalism is certainly a lack of seriousness and professionalism in many micronations. However, the greatest problem is that micronationalists remind me of those Independent Catholic Bishops, which are often called episcopi vagantes ("wandering bishops"). In order to succeed in any significant way, however, many micronations, perhaps even dozens of them, would have to become like episcopi collegiales ("collegial bishops"), and there just isn't that kind of sentiment.
There are real micronations with hundreds of members, even thousands, so they are not really as ephemeral as the Wikipedia would have you believe. I've got a few stats to back my claim:
http://dvs.mpr.io
Intermicronational communities can either be associated with wikis and/or forums, or they are connected by common interests, work, language, and/or similar personalities. Often a forum may be the connective tissue which brings micronations together in some superficial way, but the connective tissue can also be an email list, or periodic news emails that keep people together.
I am connected with at least one micronation through the Fifth World Community Forum (5WC Forum), and I'm also an active member of another forum. However, I am primarily connected to the Fifth World through Fifth World institutions, not all of them founded or co-founded by myself, and the real work they accomplish.
The Intermicronational World (IW) site shows that not only there are impressive intermicronational organisations out there, but one in particular is even recognised by two IGOs, and is an affiliated institutional member of an international NGO as well.
There are micronational "social organisations", and IW only mentiones the ones where people and their opinions are treated with civility and decorum. But there are also micronational professional organisations, health organisations, treaty organisations, accreditation organisations, and 'Fifth World' organisations (organisations of mature or strong micronations). Someone even came up with the idea of turning the average university, which is mainly a teaching institution, into a scholars' organisation.
Don't assume, therefore, that a real micronation, which is ultimately a real community of people, is a weak thing, and politically little more than an imaginary or aspirational state. There are a few micronations out there that are quite substantial as human communities and political entities, and just because the Wikipedia doesn't see micronational sovereignty being exercised, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Micronations exercise soft power, not hard power. Soft power is less overt than the hard, and often tyrannical power that states exercise, but it nonetheless exists, and should be meaningful and respected in a world where true democracy is still valued.
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