Lusophone sector

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The Lusophone Sector, or Lusophonia (port. "Lusofonia"), is an axis of micronational activity, cultivated in portuguese language, around certain micronations, micronational media, organizations and collective initiatives. Lastly, it is a particular drama, as Lusophonia has a continuous history from 1996 to 2012. The concept of Lusophonia should not be understood as referring to the mere set of individual micronations, but in fact to the "medium", the middle of them, the activity between them.

History

In 1996, the Kingdom of Porto Claro, founded by Pedro Aguiar, appeared as the first internet-based lusophone micronation. Due to macromedia articles and advertising, it prospered as a vigorous micronation, with more than 50 active citizens. By the end of 1997, another lusophone micronation, the Holy Empire of Réunion, headed by Claudio de Castro, also grew substantially and even surpassed Porto Claro's force. Réunion was the first lusophone micronation to appeal to sectors outside Lusophonia, as it was created as bilingual micronation, and remained so until years later.

In 1998, the acute rivalry and threads between both projects produced a vivid space of intermicronational interaction, which slowly structured itself as Lusophonia. Many lusophone nations were created around Réunion and Porto Claro, but none of the same size and energy, albeit some respectful projects emerged: Orange (1997), Marajó (1999) and Sofia (2000), among a majority of weak initiatives. That time, the Latin-American Micronations Organization (OLAM, 1999-2004) was founded as main lusophone organism.

Lusophone sector style was characterized by activity through e-mail groups and messages, cultural and diplomatic isolationism (except for Réunion) and dominance of simulationism.

Starting in 2001, the Free Community of Pasargada was the first significant lusophone project to break traditional paradigm of Lusophonia, leaded by Rafael Figueira, Bruno Cava and Leonardo Carrion. Although primely built by réunian veterans, the new micronation introduced a whole new vision and practise for lusophone sector, in a movement later baptized as the Pasargadan Turn. All lusophone micronations after 2002 got influenced one way or another by realism.

Lusophonia's peak of activity happened in two eras: 2000-02 (called "golden years") and 2004-05 ("silver years"), when it reached 500 active micronationalists speaking portuguese, most of them brazilians.

In the end of 2006 and all over 2007, there happened a general cooling down of activity and enthusiasm. Many respectful micronations of the past, Orange and Marajó, simply vanished and others, like Porto Claro and Sofia, decreased their activity to a minimum. Even two greatest lusophone powers, Réunion and Pasargada, entered a stage of decadence.

Nevertheless, in the end of 2008, a risorgimento was initiated decisively in Pasargada and, later, with the return of Claudio de Castro and many important réunians, continued with enormous vitality in Réunion.

In 2009, thanks to massive efforts and investments, the Empire of Réunion arrived to its pinnacle of citizens and structure. Pasargada follows closely as second greatest in population and influence. The first represents older tradition of simulationism, and the later bears the flag of realism. Both powers can be considered the two vectors that define Lusophonia nowadays.

In 2011, the Republica of Koss was found, it was based on the brazilian city of Brasilia. The Republic had a short live, soon joining the Nemkhav Federation, it became independence again on January, 2012 under the name of 1st Grand Duchy of Koss.

In the decade of 2010, vitality once again gave way to inactivity. By 2020's, few projects based on historic-modelism still exist, most of them considered "one-man nations" and they maintain an extremely hostile stance towards derivative projects, which gave rise to a reaction from Brazilian derivatists, who created the Brazilian sector, then considering Lusophonia as a "closed system", while the Brazilian sector would be a system receptive to foreign micronations and the common practice of micronationalism.

Micronations

Micronation	City	Capital	Government	Demonym	Foundation date
Federation of Koss	Brasilia	Arceu	Direct democracy	Kossian	2011
Republic of Orange			Presidential Republic	Orangian	?
Free Community of Pasargada	Rio de Janeiro	non-territorial	Parliamentary Republic	Pasargadan	2001
Aristocratic Republic of Porto Claro	Rio de Janeiro	Saint Herculaine	Parliamentary Republic	Porto Clarense	1992
Holy Empire of Reunion	Rio de Janeiro	Saint-Denis	Parliamentary Monarchy	Reunion	1997
Reino Unido de Portugal e Algarves	Lisboa	Lisboa	Parliamentary Monarchy	Portuguese	2002
Reino da Itália		Roma	Parliamentary Monarchy	Italian	2002
Goat's Island	Balneário Camboriú	Cabralândia	Absolute Monarchy	Cabrarian	2010
Kingdom of Ebenthal	Rio de Janeiro	Arturia	Constitutional Monarchy	Ebenthali	2014
Imperial State of Badakhshan	São Paulo	Fayzabad	Constitutional monarchy	Badakhshani	2014
Deltaria		Vitorinople	Constitutional monarchy	Deltarian	2015
Guanabara	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	Semi-presidential republic	Carioca; Fluminense	2018
Zenitist Empire		Martina	Absolute Monarchy	Zenitist	2018
Karno-Ruthenian Empire	São Paulo	Persenburg	Constitutional monarchy; Personal union through dual monarchy; Corporative federalism	Karno-Ruthenian	2014
New Visigothland		Wyrms	Monarchy	Visigoth	2019
Munaland	Isla Suárez	Munaland-Ville	Constitutional monarchy	Munalandish	2019
São Guimarães		São Valeur	Constitutional monarchy	Munalandish	2018
Emirate of Takia	Curitiba	Masbahá	Emirate	Takian	2015
Technocratic Capital of Würdigeland	São Paulo	South Würdigestadt	Technocratic constitutional monarchy	Würtige	2012
Popular Republic of Bugolavija		Dara	Revolutionary republic	Bugolav	2018
Community of Mewniuvia		Mewniland	Constitutional monarchy	Mewniuvian	2017
Principality of Lomellina	Funchal	Castello di Valle	Absolute monarchy	Lomellinian	2014
Principality of the Pontinha	Funchal	Forte São José	Constitutional monarchy	Pontinhense, Fortense	1903/2007
United Provinces of Mauritia	Recife	Mauritsstad	Aristocratic Republic	Mauritiaanse	20??
Kingdom of Roschfallen	Votorantim	Baltar	Absolute monarchy	Roschfallenian	2014

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