stuff on seborga.
▶ Basic stuff
▶ Personality / Headcanon
▶ History
Feel free to correct me on anything! *A*
GENERAL STUFF
▶ BASIC STUFF:
Name: Principality of Seborga | Principato di Seborga
Human name: Luciano Vargas
Official languages: Italian, French, Ligurian
Purported currency: Luigino
Leadership: His Tremendousness, Prince Marcello I (Marcello Menegatto)
›› His main business is olives and mimosa, which is exported all over the world. He also has a tourist business, attracting approx. 2000 visitors a month. He's also known for his floriculture.
›› Has a population of a little over 300.
›› The currency, Luigino, was issued between 1994 and 1996. It can be used along with Euro in the town, but has no legal value outside of Seborga.
›› He has 3 restaurants, a hotel, post office, bank and local shop. That's it, folks.
›› Despite having his own stamps, you still have to put an Italian one if you want your postcard to get anywhere.
›› Some of his people have the status of being a prieur. To be a prieur, you must meet the following criteria:
1. Your parents must live in Seborga.
2. You must live in Seborga.
3. You must have children that live in Seborga.
Apparently you lose this status if you parents die and your children can't be prieurs unless they have children on their own. Apparently this is meant to discourage people from moving.
PERSONALITY and stuff
(work in progress, obviously. also just a bullet list for now)
๑ Definitely has some cloudcuckoolander tendencies going on.
๑ Isn't the brightest crayon in the box, but he's not completely stupid.
๑ Kind of oblivious and sometimes takes things literally.
๑ Pretty chill and doesn't really push being acknowledged.
๑ Iiis actually pretty much okay with just freeloading around.
๑ He uses "uumm" a lot, though it's not quite a verbal tic. More like a sentence starter to make the rest go more smoothly...it makes sense in my head, okay?
๑ He thinks children are adorable.
GENERAL HEADCANON:
๑ His favourite food is olives. He loves them olives.
๑ He likes to take care of flowers since he's known for his floriculture.
๑ He practises pickup lines on said flowers.
๑ He can't drive. At all.
๑ He was primarily raised by monks (see history section).
๑ Said monks discovered that his haircurl was an erogenous zone and to keep him from masturbating with it, they pulled it out and it eventually started to grow out all crooked.
HISTORY
▶ PRE MODERN DAYS
Unlike other micronations, Seborga has a a real and historical claim to nationhood. It has an indisputed past as a feudal state, albeit not as a hereditary principality, but an ecclesiastic one which clearly no longer exists.
In the year 820, the Holy Roman Emperor and Pope Paschal I created a state with the Bishop of Turin as its head, and Seborga as his seat of power. That state included the Lerin Islands off the coast of modern day Cannes, and the Italian border town of Ventimilia.
Leaping forward to 954, Seborga's territory was ceded as a fiefdom by the counts of Ventimiglia to the monks of Lerino and the Cistercian monastery was founded. In 1079 its abbots were also made Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, temporally in chief of the principality of Seborga. When the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist in the 1800s, the Pope is still in his tiny state of the Vatican and according to Seborgians, this is why Italy cannot annex Seborga.
On 20 January 1729, this independent principality was sold to the Savoy dynasty's Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and since then it has never been recognized by any state or admitted to an international organisation. However, the sale was never registered by the Kingdom of Sardinia. This would later be used as an argument for Seborga's present-day status as an independent state since it would fall into some legal twilight zone.
Subsequently, in 1815, the Congress of Vienna overlooked the village in its efforts to redistribute European territories after the Napoleonic Wars, and there is no mention of Seborga in the Act of Unification of Kingdom of Italy in 1861.
...However, establishing nationhood doesn't rely only on formal acts. Seborga, if not bought by Piedmont-Sardinia, would have reverted to Ventimiglia (which since 1139 was subordinate to Genoa) or else become terra nullius. The new state of Italy thus either inherited Seborga, as successor state to both Genoa and Piedmont-Sardinia, or annexed it. Seborga thus became an ordinary Italian commune, as the democratically elected mayor explicitly acknowledges.
▶ MODERN DAY
In the early 1960s, Giorgio Carbone, the head of a local flower-growers co-operative began promoting the idea of Seborga retaining its historic independency. The idea was based on the fact that the sale was never registered when Seborga was sold to the Kingdom of Sardinia. It was because of the demise of the Mimosa flower market, with cheap imports, and opportunities to grow the flowers elsewhere in the region, that Seborga began it’s campaign for recognition.
By 1963, the people of Seborga were convinced of the idea and elected Giorgio as their "Head of State" and he assumed the title of Giorgio I, Prince of Seborga.
In June 2006 a power struggle arose when a woman calling herself "Princess Yasmine von Hohenstaufen Anjou Plantagenet", who claims to be the rightful heir to the throne of Seborga, wrote to Italy's president offering to return the principality to the state. The claim has since been proven frivolous and void.
In 2009, Giorgio I died and Prince H.E. Alberto Romano temporarily reigned until April 25th in 2010, when Marcello I was elected. Following the election Prince Marcello said "I will create new infrastructures and new jobs for our citizens. I will reorganize the governement, our general laws and our old documents. Regarding our independence, I will continue the fight (started by Giorgio I). My dream is to see Seborga becoming a real Principality".
▶ Personality / Headcanon
▶ History
Feel free to correct me on anything! *A*
GENERAL STUFF
▶ BASIC STUFF:
Name: Principality of Seborga | Principato di Seborga
Human name: Luciano Vargas
Official languages: Italian, French, Ligurian
Purported currency: Luigino
Leadership: His Tremendousness, Prince Marcello I (Marcello Menegatto)
›› His main business is olives and mimosa, which is exported all over the world. He also has a tourist business, attracting approx. 2000 visitors a month. He's also known for his floriculture.
›› Has a population of a little over 300.
›› The currency, Luigino, was issued between 1994 and 1996. It can be used along with Euro in the town, but has no legal value outside of Seborga.
›› He has 3 restaurants, a hotel, post office, bank and local shop. That's it, folks.
›› Despite having his own stamps, you still have to put an Italian one if you want your postcard to get anywhere.
›› Some of his people have the status of being a prieur. To be a prieur, you must meet the following criteria:
1. Your parents must live in Seborga.
2. You must live in Seborga.
3. You must have children that live in Seborga.
Apparently you lose this status if you parents die and your children can't be prieurs unless they have children on their own. Apparently this is meant to discourage people from moving.
PERSONALITY and stuff
(work in progress, obviously. also just a bullet list for now)
๑ Definitely has some cloudcuckoolander tendencies going on.
๑ Isn't the brightest crayon in the box, but he's not completely stupid.
๑ Kind of oblivious and sometimes takes things literally.
๑ Pretty chill and doesn't really push being acknowledged.
๑ Iiis actually pretty much okay with just freeloading around.
๑ He uses "uumm" a lot, though it's not quite a verbal tic. More like a sentence starter to make the rest go more smoothly...it makes sense in my head, okay?
๑ He thinks children are adorable.
GENERAL HEADCANON:
๑ His favourite food is olives. He loves them olives.
๑ He likes to take care of flowers since he's known for his floriculture.
๑ He practises pickup lines on said flowers.
๑ He can't drive. At all.
๑ He was primarily raised by monks (see history section).
๑ Said monks discovered that his haircurl was an erogenous zone and to keep him from masturbating with it, they pulled it out and it eventually started to grow out all crooked.
HISTORY
▶ PRE MODERN DAYS
Unlike other micronations, Seborga has a a real and historical claim to nationhood. It has an indisputed past as a feudal state, albeit not as a hereditary principality, but an ecclesiastic one which clearly no longer exists.
In the year 820, the Holy Roman Emperor and Pope Paschal I created a state with the Bishop of Turin as its head, and Seborga as his seat of power. That state included the Lerin Islands off the coast of modern day Cannes, and the Italian border town of Ventimilia.
Leaping forward to 954, Seborga's territory was ceded as a fiefdom by the counts of Ventimiglia to the monks of Lerino and the Cistercian monastery was founded. In 1079 its abbots were also made Princes of the Holy Roman Empire, temporally in chief of the principality of Seborga. When the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist in the 1800s, the Pope is still in his tiny state of the Vatican and according to Seborgians, this is why Italy cannot annex Seborga.
On 20 January 1729, this independent principality was sold to the Savoy dynasty's Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia and since then it has never been recognized by any state or admitted to an international organisation. However, the sale was never registered by the Kingdom of Sardinia. This would later be used as an argument for Seborga's present-day status as an independent state since it would fall into some legal twilight zone.
Subsequently, in 1815, the Congress of Vienna overlooked the village in its efforts to redistribute European territories after the Napoleonic Wars, and there is no mention of Seborga in the Act of Unification of Kingdom of Italy in 1861.
...However, establishing nationhood doesn't rely only on formal acts. Seborga, if not bought by Piedmont-Sardinia, would have reverted to Ventimiglia (which since 1139 was subordinate to Genoa) or else become terra nullius. The new state of Italy thus either inherited Seborga, as successor state to both Genoa and Piedmont-Sardinia, or annexed it. Seborga thus became an ordinary Italian commune, as the democratically elected mayor explicitly acknowledges.
▶ MODERN DAY
In the early 1960s, Giorgio Carbone, the head of a local flower-growers co-operative began promoting the idea of Seborga retaining its historic independency. The idea was based on the fact that the sale was never registered when Seborga was sold to the Kingdom of Sardinia. It was because of the demise of the Mimosa flower market, with cheap imports, and opportunities to grow the flowers elsewhere in the region, that Seborga began it’s campaign for recognition.
By 1963, the people of Seborga were convinced of the idea and elected Giorgio as their "Head of State" and he assumed the title of Giorgio I, Prince of Seborga.
In June 2006 a power struggle arose when a woman calling herself "Princess Yasmine von Hohenstaufen Anjou Plantagenet", who claims to be the rightful heir to the throne of Seborga, wrote to Italy's president offering to return the principality to the state. The claim has since been proven frivolous and void.
In 2009, Giorgio I died and Prince H.E. Alberto Romano temporarily reigned until April 25th in 2010, when Marcello I was elected. Following the election Prince Marcello said "I will create new infrastructures and new jobs for our citizens. I will reorganize the governement, our general laws and our old documents. Regarding our independence, I will continue the fight (started by Giorgio I). My dream is to see Seborga becoming a real Principality".