Member state of the Grand Unified Micronational

The Grand Unified Micronational currently has 37 full member states and 2 provisional member state – as well as 10 observers (see Observer state of the Grand Unified Micronational).

Full members are those ratifiers of the Charter that can contribute to discussions and debates, vote in Quorum sessions, and stand for election to any positions in the organisation. Provisional membership is a status granted to newly approved member states or to member states that are found in the process of expulsion. Provisional members do not hold voting rights and cannot stand for election but may partake in Quorum discussions. Only fully "sovereign" micronations may become member states. A nation must have ratify the GUM Charter and fulfil the requirements of the Wrythe Convention and Edgbaston Convention, then they may apply for full membership status. The application will be voted on in Quorum by the other members. The Chair may reject any application. If accepted, they will be granted provisional membership and a second vote for full membership will take place after two weeks.

Each member state is represented by a delegation team from that nation. A full member may have up to three delegates, and only one delegate may be present in any given Quorum session. This is opposed to observers, which may only have one delegate.

The constitutionally recognised founding member states of Grand Unified Micronational were the Kingdom of Camuria, the Democratic People's Republic of Erusia, Scientopia, the Republic of Petorio, Stigistan, Tozland and the Federal Republic of St.Charlie. However, following investigations by the organisation, the Kingdom of Camuria was suspended from membership in late February 2009. It was also later revealed on 30 July 2010, that Erusia was an experiment known as the Lethler Experiment, where it was proven, and indeed, openly admitted by Robert Lethler, that the entire Erusian micronation was a fabrication, used to further his own means.

Members

List

Nation name	Native name/ co-official name	Flag	Arms	Code	Accession	Population	Area (km2)
Empire of Adammia	Adammia			ADM	12 May 2013	54	179,030m² (0.17903 km2)
Empire of Aenopia	Aenopia			n/a	27 November 2019	15	14,140m² (0.01414 km2)
Empire of Austenasia	Austenasia			AST	11 October 2009	102	~1,217,266m² (1.217266 km2)
Unified Royal States of Australis	Australis			RSA	13 October 2020	45	~3,697,240m² (3.69724 km2)
Kingdom of Burdette	Burdette			BUR	4 June 2021	26	~94,312m² (0.0943120 km2)
Commonwealth of Essexia	Essexia			ESX	20 January 2019	25	~56,656m² (~0.056656 km2)
Gymnasium State	Stát Gymnázium			SGY	25 December 2018	26	912m² (0.000912 km2)
Kingdom of Ikonia	Ikonia			IKO	25 December 2018	18	~53,000m² (0.053 km2)
Empire of Iustus	Iustus			IUS	June 2018	88	Unknown
Juclandia	Juclandia			JUC	Early 2013	164	1,650m² (0.00165 km2) (est.)
Kingdom of Jupiter	Jupiter			JUP	22 May 2017	11	Est. 1,000,000m² (1 km2)
Jusin Republic	Jusin			n/a	30 January 2020	25	2200 m2 (0.0022 km2)
Principality of Ledilia	Ledilia			LDL	22 September 2019	19	1,875,000m² (1.875 km2)
Kingdom of Lytera	Lytera			LYT	25 August 2019	30	28,380m² (0.02838 km2)
Mercia	Mercia			MRC	November 2015	32	Unknown
Union of Millania and New Granada	Koningías Uñida Mijanja xu Granadía Noúva			MGN	11 November 2018	52	150,900m² (0.1509 km2)
Nemkhav Federation	Nemkhavia			NKV	14 August 2018	Census pending	Unknown
Republic of New Rizalia	New Rizalia			NRZ	20 January 2019	27	160,631,060m² (160.63106 km2)
Tsardom of Nolland	Nolland			NLL	11 November 2018	Unknown	Unknown
Plushunia	Pluşunia			n/a	25 August 2019	~457	Est. 20,000m² (0.02 km2)
Principality of Posaf	Posaf			PSF	28 March 2018	60	28,328m² (0.028328 km2) (2019 estimate)
Principality of Sancratosia	Sancratosia			SNC	3 October 2022	58	115 m2 (0.000115 km2)
Triumvirate of Sonderan	Sonderan			n/a	25 August 2019	25	Unknown
Uber-Essian Union	Uber-Esse			UEU	1 June 2020	Unknown	Unknown
Commonwealth of Uskor	Uskor			UOR	Mid-2016	20	9,490,000m² (9.49 km2)
Kingdom of Wyvern	Wyvern			WYV	2010	27	8,000m² (0.008 km2)

Former members

Nation name	Native name/ co-official name	Flag	Arms	Code	Accession	Withdrew/expelled	Population	Area (km2)
Kingdom of Atovia	Atovien			ATO	9 March 2019	9 July 2021 (Full Membership - Withdrew)	14	20,000m² (0.02 km2)
Federal Republic of Caddia	Caddia			CAD	20 February 2020	11 July 2021 (Full Membership - Expelled for inactivity)	17	Unknown
Grand Republic of Cycoldia	Cycoldia			n/a	10 November 2019	26 April 2020 (Full Membership - Expelled for poor conduct)	201	5,589,194m² (5.5891943km²)
Essian Commonwealth	Essiai Commensalocha			ESE	26 December 2016	16 March 2018 (Full Membership - Dissolved)	17	7.3 km2
Democratic Duchy of Francisville	Francisville			FRV	8 January 2009	20 September 2010 (Permanent Observer - Expired during GUM dormant period)	14	0.97 km2
Kingdom of Gradonia	Gradonia			GDN	27 November 2018	30 March 2021 (Full Membership - Downgraded to Observer and failed to renew status)	~43	~1,752,000m² (1.752 km2)
Kingdom of Hrafnarfjall	Hrafnarfjall			HRA	10 February 2019	28 October 2020 (Full Membership - Withdrew)	23	Unknown
Imperial Grand Duchy of Lundenwic	Lundenwic			LDW	19 January 2015 16 June 2019	17 April 2017 (Full Membership - Withdrew) 14 November 2019 (Full Membership - Withdrew)	15	5.11 km2
Misberian Confederacy	Misberia			MIS	25 August 2019	25 February 2020 (Full Membership - Dissolved)	36	Unknown
Principality of Montescano	Montescano			n/a	14 July 2019	20 June 2020 (Full Membership - Withdrew)	32	Unknown
Principality of New Eiffel	New Eiffel			NEI	19 May 2019	1 November 2020 (Full Membership - Nation dissolved)	~5	580m² (0.00058 km2)
Republic of New Westphalia	New Westphalia			NWP	25 December 2018	10 April 2020 (Full Membership - Expelled for improper conduct)	1	Unknown
Union of Nova-Occitania	Nova-Occitania			OCC	30 January 2020	3 August 2020 (Full Membership - Withdrew)	23	2.086 km2
Federation of Orientia	Orientia			n/a	11 January 2020	22 October 2020 (Full Membership - Dissolved)	100+	0.52 km2
People's Republic of Ponderosa Hills	Ponderosa Hills			n/a	19 May 2019	12 January 2020 (Full Membership - Withdrew)	3	70,000m² (0.07 km2)
Kingdom of Sabia and Verona	Sabia i Verona			SIV	17 April 2017	20 October 2019 (Full Membership - Expelled for inactivity)	131	47,000m² (0.047 km2)
Palatinate of Uberquiesenberg	Uberquiesenberg			UBQ	13 July 2017	1 June 2020 (Full Membership - Succeeded by the Uber-Essian Union)	Unknown	Unknown
Usian Republic	USI			USI	19 January 2015	1 June 2020 (Full Membership - Dissolved ~7 February 2016)	33	Unknown
Vlasynian Despotate	Vlasinia			VLS	17 June 2020	1 August 2021 (Full Membership - Dissolved)	10	20.74 km2
Free City of Vodopol	Orașul Liber Vodopol			VDP	1 August 2021	24 February 2022 (Full Membership - Withdrew)	3	0.0004 km2
Federal Union of Wegmat	Wegmat/FUW			WEG	27 November 2019	December 2022 (Full Membership - Expelled for Inactivity)	175	1,978,910m² (1.97891 km2)

Withdrawal

Member states, and provisional members and observers, may leave at any time, commonly through a referendum. Most nations leave usually after a controversial event within the organisation.

Expulsion

Members can vote for the expulsion of members for multiple reasons, most often on the grounds of inactivity.

Country codes

Main article: List of Grand Unified Micronational 3-letter country codes

The GUM maintains a list of 3-letter country codes for micronations, as an extension to the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes used by macronational organisations. The codes are set by the Chair, with the consensus of the member states. Codes are kept for former members, whither they optionally left or were expelled. A handful of micronations which have never been member states nor observers also have GUM codes.

Representation

Each member state is represented by a delegation team from that nation. A full member may have up to three delegates, and only one delegate may be present in any given Quorum session. Observers may only have one delegate. In elections, each member state is allowed one vote. Most commonly, the main delegate of the nation will solely decide who to vote for.

Offices

There are a number of offices which individuals may have.

Summits

At summits, usually, but not always, the head of state or head of government attends. Another representative may also be sent.

Political systems

The exact political system of a micronation is not limited, however, member states may independently vote against membership of an applying nation for any reason, which includes not supporting a nation's political system.

The majority of member states—21 out of 37–incorporate a monarchy into its political system; this includes 14 constitutional monarchies (and an elective-constitutional monarchy, the system of Posaf), 4 absolute monarchies, a parliamentary diarchy, federal monarchy and a constitutional triumvirate, a political regime ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals known as triumvirs, the political system of Sonderan. Of the remaining, 6 are constitutional republics, 5 are presidential republics, and 2 are semi-presidential republics. Most republics and monarchies operate a parliamentary system. The GUM Quarterly Statistical Report held between October - December 2019, found that 6 out of the total 9 nations (66.7%) were considered multi-party democracies, while two (22.2%) was a two-party democracy, and one (11.1%) was a single-party/dominant-party sate. The most common type of proportional representation is the party-list system.

The most recent GUM Quarterly Statistical Report held between October - December 2019, found that the predominant legislature type was unicameral, with 8 out of 11 (72.7%) surveys nations using unicameral parliaments. 3 nations (27.3%) had bicameral legislatures. The average amount of legislators among the surveyed nations was 8.18; the nation which had the largest legislature by the number of members was Gymnasium State, with 22, while the smallest was Ledilia, with 1.

The same GUM Quarterly Statistical Report also found that only 9 out of 11 surveyed nations (81.8%) had active political parties. Of these, the average number of political parties was 5.44. Nations with the most active political parties were New Eiffel with 12, Posaf with 11 and Millania with 10. Two nations had two-party systems.

GUM Quarterly Statistical Reports

The Quarterly Statistical Report is the chief work of the Secretariat of Statistical Research. Though the Report was assigned to the Secretariat in 2016, the first Report was presented to the organization by Tarik in August 2017. Since then, only five reports were created:

• I GUM Quarterly Statistical Report (May - June 2017)
• II GUM Quarterly Statistical Report (July - September 2017)
• III GUM Quarterly Statistical Report (May - June 2018)
• IV GUM Quarterly Statistical Report (July - September 2019)
• V GUM Quarterly Statistical Report (October - December 2019)

See also

• Aenopia and the Grand Unified Micronational
• Amissopia and the Grand Unified Micronational
• Ikonia and the Grand Unified Micronational
• New Eiffel and the Grand Unified Micronational
• Ponderosa Hills and the Grand Unified Micronational
• Vishwamitra and the Grand Unified Micronational
• Criticism of the GUM