Ghurklas

Ghurklas
Ԑурькʌαс (Ghurklasian)
Ghurklas Ԑурькʌαс (Ghurklasian)
	Flag Coat of arms
	Motto: "Ѱαя Нαхшт ԑe ѱαя Kʌαсα" "The freedom of the sea"
	Anthem: [1]
Status	Active
Capital	Dunkerque, France
Official languages	Ghurklasian
Recognised national languages	Ghurklasian, French
Recognised regional languages	Dutch
Demonym(s)	Ghurklasian
Government	Monarchy
• Kaiser	Tvvd
• Marshall	drnc
Puppet of Opstandia
• Independence	20 October 2022
• The Dunkirk referendum	21 April 2023
• Opstandian puppet	23 October 2023
Population
• 2023 estimate	10
Membership	30
Currency	euro
Time zone	gmt+2
Date format	dd/mm/yyyy
Driving side	right
Calling code	+33

Ghurklas is a micronation made by Tvvd on the 20th of October, 2022. The micronation is situated in the flanders and the northern region of France, consisting of Lapanne, Dunkirk and its surroundings. Ghurklas is a constitutional monarchy that is led by King Tvvd I. The nation currently has two Marshalls, being Drnc and Raphaelh, who can choose a Vice-Marshall when he gets elected. The king, Tvvd, has all the rights to veto any of his decisions. To be elected as a Marshall, they must be named as a "Representative" by a party, and make that party win the elections.

Ghurklas retain a friendly view on his foreign policies, the government tries to gain allies or have good relations to other micronations, it uses events and helps their allies in wars to gain land.

Ghurklas has no military organizations, however it recruits voluntaries if sign of conflicts are aproaching

Etymology

The name Ghurklas is nativly Ԑурьклαс, in Ghurklasian, which comes from the words ԑуроьԙ and клαсα, meaning people's sea referring to the English channel. The two words were combined, adding a silent ь between them to mark the change.

History

Pre-micronational era

Tvvd first had the idea to make a micronation, after being inspired by the popular nation of Sealand. The nation first started as a minecraft project entitled the "Kingdom of Floppa" on the 15th of October, 2022. On the 16th of October, 2022, the name Ghurklas was decided upon.

Foundation of the micronation

The project later turned into a micronation the 20th of October, 2022. King Tvvd later merged the kingdom with The kingdom of Joeland. The union did not last that long and later dissolved. After dissolving the union with Joeland, Ghurklas became a constitutional monarchy and Joeland dissolved, with it's leader forming the Socialist Ghurklasian Party (SGP). The Ghurklasian discord server was made on the 28th of October, 2022. Elections were held to elect the first Marshall of Ghurklas. Eventually a Ghurklasian nationalist named Mathew became Marshall, but the elections were reheld after some controversy and Louen, the leader of the Ghurklasian Democratic Republique Party (GDRP) was elected as marshall, and stayed in power under November 15th, 2022.

The Dawn Era

In the start of 2023, a new party was created, the "nationalist party", who were actually fascists. The socialist party became peopleist, "a socialist ideology with more extra steps" as discribed by the party's leader. The 9th of January, 2023, new elections happened, this time IRL, Ghurklas's population was around 10 people (non-online). The democrats were supposed to win due to their enormous support compared to the other parties, however, the nationalist invited a lot of friends to the micronation to increase his popularity, leading to the party's election.

Under nationalist rule, Ghurklas became the "ghurklasian nationalist federation". The democrats were unhappy due to the change in politics, and the democratic leader Louen started to investigate, thinking the nationalist party won due to corruption. The democratic party started a civil war against the nationalists. The 14th of January, 2023, due to the king realizing SOHU was claiming the old turkish part of the kingdom of Joeland as ghurklasian land, the king forced them to declare indepence, as what would be soon called Valandia . The 17 January 2023, the GDR asked the king for the joining logs, after supplementary research, the GDR showed prooves of corruption to the king. Making the GPR side with the GDR.The 18 January 2023, the nationalist leader abdicated.

Political Parties in January

Name		Party Leader	Ideologies	Can be elected
Ghurklas people's party	SOHU	drncXP	peopleist	yes
Ghurklas Democratic Republique	GDR	Louen	democratic	yes
Ghurklas PRogressist party	GPR	Tvvd	progressist	No
Ghurklas nationalist party	None	cookie625226	fascist	Yes

Ghurklas was returned to Louen, and everything went back to normal, but, the democratic leader abdicated too, ending the chaos, and collapsing the GDR. Drnc was elected marshall of Ghurklas, as an individual and not a party, due to SOHU gaining independence earlier that month.

The king started to improve relations with a micronation called Schpecktenia and another called Aldonia. Schpecktenia invited Ghurklas to be part of the colonization of the Mille Lacs Lake. Susk became a puppet of Ghurklas at that time, to help them with their activities issues. Ghurklas got pretty much what they wanted out of the Mille Lacs, but a south chunck of what they wanted was unable to be annexed, so Ghurklas made it part of Susk and kept a little bit of the Land. Ghurklas made the colonies a puppet state, called the "Provisional Ghurklasian Government" also called "PGG" for short, and Ghurklas was made an empire and a new imperial flag was adopted.

PGG flag:

Ghurklas didn't want to recognize Schpecktenia, due to their land consisting of uncontrolled land back then. Schpecktenia menaced Ghurklas of war if no recognition was given, Ghurklas said no, starting the Stare War (also called Mishap war) the 21 February 2023 The "war" wasn't recognized by the ghurklasian government as a real one, as the two side did not engage in combat or either mobilized, they were just staring at eachother (being the reason of the name), the 22 February 2023 Schpecktenia gave up on the conflict and PGG's northern colony expended.

Ghurklas stoped being an empire and soon gave up their colonies due to being not real claims the 3 March 2023

The Sunset era

Ghurklas was starting to fell, as they lost most of their influence in other micronations and allies. Drnc stop running in elections and marshall kept succeeding eachothers without even needing vote, just being marshall because they were the only wanting the job. The 21 April 2023 as no marshall were running for the election, the king did a fate-deciding vote, whether that the democracy should keep going, or to abolish elections and make Ghurklas a full monarchy, the Dunkirk referendum. The people voted 100% for the abolution of democracy due to the failure that it was.

Ghurklas reached an inactivity peak, with similarities from when it was just created, in a last effort it united with his puppet Susk the 4 August 2023, who was sharing the same language, as the "Micronational Confederation of Ghurklas and susk" also called "Ghurklasian federation" for short, due to the language being ghurklasian, and even being called "Potato Confederation" as a meme from the locals. With a flag using the old kingdom of Joeland flag, but reversed and with a crown to mark the monarchy. However, this failed, and with the collapse of Susk due to Inactivity, this marked a drastic end for Ghurklas.

The Restart

The king came back, with a new idea, and better english. The 23 October 2023 Ghurklas became a puppet-state of Opstandia as a protectorate, adopting the new opstandian banner as a co-official flag and hosting a vote, if the democracy should be brought back. Most old citizens were against it or wanting a weak one, but with the new rush of opstandian citizens, democracy was back the 25 October 2023 with a revamped, easier system. The first elections happened and OPFG (Opstandian party for Ghurklas) were pretty close to losing to losing to the capitalist, but due to the capitalists lack of propaganda, all the votes they gained were just to not elect OPFG, and OPFG won by 1 vote the 26 October 2023. The 29 October 2023 a vote was hosted, if elections should either start the 25th of each months (due to the OPFG getting elected the 25 October 2023) or the 1th of each months. The 1th of each months won.

The 30 October 2023, Ghurklas made an alliance with the Oakforvian Empire, calmed their relation with Schpecktenia, and started to make back foreign relations.

The 21st of November, 2023, The protector ruling Ghurklas abdicated, and Ghurklas was made free from Opstandia. The Opstandian banner, being the co-official flag, was removed

Politics and government

The current government is run by the Marshall and his vice-marshall, with the king able to veto any decision.

Early government

The democratic government before the Dunkirk referendum, had more extra steps.

There was a ëct (pronounced /jeʃt/ in old ghurklasian), which was the one making foreign relations, but it was removed due to the king doing everything

And each regions (now disbanded) had a council, which would help the king and Marshall do decision. In the most earlier form of ghurklasian democracy, councils would do the rules who would then need to be approved by either the king of marshall

Кάйзəр

The Кάйзəр (king/kaiser) has every right possible, the only things which he can't do is choosing who runs in the titles that should be elected in a democratic way. However the king can remove a marshall, if he abuse, doesn't do well with country or disrespect the rules.

Мαрéршαлл

The Мαрéршαлл (marshall) has the right to do set any rules he wants or do any actions to the country. But any major change (change flag, name, remove a title...) or change on foreign relations (declare war, ally somebody, do a treaty...) must be approved by the king, and the king can always veto any of his choices.

Political parties

Due to Ghurklas's politics not changing for a few month, then having a chaotic event ending most parties, Ghurklas's parties most of the time don't change and then have a big revamp. The most uptaded chart of our parties would be this:

flag	name	short name	ideology	leader	representative
	Opstandian Party For Ghurklas	OPFG	pro-Opstandian monarchism	Beemsterkaas	Beemsterkaas
	capitalist Party of Ghurklas	CPG	capitalism	lord gremlin	lord gremlin
None	Ѱαй сосйαли́стен онйóн (The socialist union	ѰСО	socialism	Tvvd and drnc	drnc

Foreign relations

Alliances

Oakforvian empire
Federal Republic of Turisia

Mutual Recognition

Geography and climate

Ghurklas is in northern france, in the flanders plain, Ghurklas is pretty flat. It's cold almost every time except in summer, However the temperature is starting to become more and more warm due to climate change. It rains alot in the region, even in summer.

Culture

Ghurklas's official language is Ghurklasian, but the regional language are french and dutch. However no citizens actually speak dutch and it's rare to have a citizen speaking ghurklasian.

The official news channel of ghurklas is G.O.N.C (Ghurklas.Official.News.Channel) since January 2023

Holidays

Date	Name	Remarks
20 October-28 October	Нαѱйонен дит (national day)	A week and a day celebrating ghurklas's creation
9 January	Енемен дит (watery day)	A day to remember the chaos of January 2023, where you throw water at people and try dodging other people's water

Flag History

official flag

name	used by	date	created by
Royal Sea	No uses	~10 October 2022	Tvvd
French Floppa	Kingdom of Floppa (mincraft)	~15 October 2022	Leroihelios
Ghurklasian Floppa	Ghurklas (mincraft)	~16 October 2022	French Floppa recolored by Tvvd
First Ghurklasian Banner	Ghurklas	20 October 2022	Tvvd
Joelandian Flag	Kingdom of Joeland	~20 October 2022	Tvvd
Second Ghurklasian Banner	Ghurklas	~25 October 2022	Tvvd
Ghurklasian Nationalist Federation's flag	Ghurklasian Nationalist Federation	9 January 2023	Tvvd
Second Ghurklasian Banner	Ghurklas	18 January 2023	Tvvd
Second Ghurklasian Banner	Ghurklas	18 January 2023	Tvvd
Confederal Banner	Micronational Confederation of Ghurklas and Susk	4 August 2023	Tvvd
Second Ghurklasian Banner	Ghurklas	Jully 2023	Tvvd

co-official flag

Flag	name	used during
	First Imperial Banner	When ghurklas was an empire
	Opstandian banner	opstandian domination in Ghurklas

References

Ghurklas's archives, Ghurklasian discord server, Mile Lacs Lake Colonisation, Ghurklas's king (Tvvd)

External links