Kingdom of Atlia

The Kingdom of Atlia (in its original Spanish name Reino de Atlia'') is a micronation composed by territories enclaved in the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Coahuila and Tabasco, México; as well as Maine and New York, USA, also considering a Ceremonial Territory off the shores of New South Wales, Australia (Ball's Pyramid Archipelago). ''

Founded by H.R.H Prince Regent Luis Marcel of Atlia on the 25 July, 2017. Drafted as a Contitutional Monarchy, it was almost fully administrated by the Prince-Regent with some advice given by the Council of Representatives, from the 7 February, 2020; being an absolute monarchy for a year and three months. The Constitutional Monarchy was restored on 21 June, 2021.

The Atlian Government declared a Precaution State and published on the 16 March 2020 a document on the Kingdom’s measures to battle the global pandemic of Covid-19. For the most part of 2020 and 2021, the Kingdom of Atlia remained in a state of innactivity, reaching its peak on its 4° anniversary, happening without any activity from its people or government. On the 1st September 2021, a political reform was proposed by the Prince-Regent and approved by the Council of Representatives, where, among other matters, dissolved the ministries and established a new system of election of representatives tried by the end of the II Legislature, on the 7th February, 2022. The current legislature saw members from all over the Kingdom being appointed to the Council, which is in the process of deciding the process to select the next Prime Minister.

The Kingdom of Atlia is a member of The Solidarity Front, the CMLOE, the Union Against Micronational War; as it is signatory of the Wrythe, Edgbaston and Halcyon Conventions. Atlia is also a signatory of the Plușeni - Lubec Pact. It currently holds formal diplomatic relationships with 11 nations all across the world, being in informal diplomatic relationships with another several nations.

Background
Originally planned to be called "Reino de Regenerias" ("Kingdom of Regenerias" in English), the Kingdom of Atlia was founded on 25 July 2017 by HRH Prince Luis Marcel of Atlia and HRH Prince Héctor André of Atlia, establishing their father, HM King Geronimo II, as the Head of State. The reasons for the foundation of the Kingdom were not clear in the beginning; flags were designed and a constitution was drafted. It originally was composed by the capital and royal residence (both unnamed at the time), two colonies (Ramos and Nueva Naranja), a Duchy (San Marcos), a protectorate (Bugambilias), and the Administrative Territory of Atlia. At this point in time, the Kingdom had no more citizens than the Royal Family itself.

The First Year
The first year of the Kingdom's existence wasn't uneventful. Their Royal Highness-es (mainly HRH Prince Luis Marcel of Atlia) focused on the design of the flags of the territories and in the constitution's draft. Only by the end of 2017, the Kingdom established its first contact with another micronation, the Republic of Molossia. Like 2017, the first half of 2018 was also uneventful.

Late 2018
The Kingdom gained its first citizen, the official Twitter account of the Kingdom was created, and the inexperienced Kingdom joined the United Micronations (now the defunct Association of United Micronations). As months passed, Atlia established contact with more micronations around the globe, became an active member inside the UM and got more citizens. Major changes were made for its first anniversary, starting with the change of flag, which was resized and included the Coat of Arms. Furthermore, the classification for the land under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom was updated and the capital was named Atlium.

The first elections for ministers were held on 23 October. The newly formed Parliament decided the optimal way procedure to elect the Prime Minister, and two days later, on 25 October, José Carlos Ávalos Ruiz was elected as Prime Minister of the Kingdom.

On 2 November, citizens, members of the parliament, and HRH Luis Marcel of Atlia, celebrated the traditional "Día de Muertos" (or "Day of the Dead" in English) and on 15 November, the Kingdom adopted officially two new celebrations from the UM.

2019
On 19 January, the Empire of Guanduania officially recognized Atlia, and on 21 February, HRH Luis Marcel of Atlia appeared in a stream on the Virgan Radio Service and by 02 March, the Kingdom's Official Twitter Account reached its first 100 followers.

On 01 May, the Kingdom recognized more micronations from the Micronational Community, as it broke all relation with the micronational entity knew as Krainego. By late may, arguments started within members of the AUM, leading to its official dissolution. With the dissolution of the AUM, Atlia became an important part of the newly integrated Conference of Intermicronational Leaders, guided by Mr. Matthew Lebo.

On 27 June, the Kingdom of Atlia joined the International Assembly of Micronations (IAMN) as an observer, only to be elevated to a full member on 11 July. By 25 July the Kingdom of Atlia celebrated its second anniversary. On 05 September it cut all relation with the Republic of Wikonga, and by 12 September, it signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Empire of Byzantinum Novum.

On 22 October, the Twitter Account of the Kingdom reached 200 followers. On the 2nd of November, citizens and the Prince celebrated the 2nd Day of the Dead; and on 04 December it announced the creation of the CTAVA, Atlia's first YouTube channel.

On Christmas Day, he gave a speech to its people, and at the next day, H.R.H Prince Luis Marcel declared the end of activities of the then Parliament and called upon elections, also giving himself the title of Prince Regent. He later Broadcasted on 31 December, 2019 the Kingdom’s first New Year’s Broadcast.

The absolute monarchy
On 04 February, the Prince Regent changed the laws of Foreign Relations of the Kingdom, giving space for more treaties to be made, as well as opening more ways to approach micronations diplomatically. Three days later he edited the whole constitution, marking the end of the Constitutional Monarchy in the Kingdom of Atlia, and the start to a more absolute one, also he appointed several citizens and former ministers as the new ministers of the ministries, giving the role of Prime Minister of the Kingdom to Ximena Guzman Infante. On 19 February, the United Sovereignties officially disbanded by general consent of the Administrators, being the Prince-Regent one of them. On 23 February, the Kingdom of Atlia was accepted as a full member in the Commonwealth of Sovereignties.

At the start of March, the Kingdom created a new county: Butterscotch, voluntarily handed to the Kingdom by the citizen Diana Sanchez, now Minister of Interior and Commissioner of Culture. On 16 March, the Government declared a Precaution State within all the Kingdom, due to the rise of cases in the Mexican Republic. And three days later, the Prince Regent, under the recommendation of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Culture, prohibited any sort of reunion and social gathering all over the Kingdom. On the 29 March, the Kingdom of Atlia left the Commonwealth of Sovereignties, due to internal foreign affair changes, also announcing the reduction on diplomatic affairs it will get involved for the time being.

Activity halted to an almost full stop, with the sporadic signature of a treaty here and there; until 27 June, when the Prince-Regent appointed Ximena Díaz as Minister of Foreign Affairs. On 30 June, Atlia officialized its laws regarding LGBT+ rights, making them more detailed and clear.

On 02 July, Atlia created the Royal Atlian Language Institute (IRAI for its acronym in Spanish); as well as officializing its orders and awards; two weeks later, the Kingdom of Atlia officially signed the Wrythe and Edgbaston Conventions, and a day later, it was admitted in the Comunidad de Micronaciones de Lengua Oficial Española (Community of Micronations with Spanish as its Official Language. Atlia and Smyrna signed a Treaty of Mutual Recognition and on 19 July. Atlia celebrated its 3rd anniversary on the 25 July.

Cultural Interchange Atlia-Misberia
Just after Atlia's anniversary, an unprecedented event happened, the Kingdom of Atlia held its first ever cultural interchange with the Grand Duchy of Misberia, this Cultural Interchange, (known as the Amigo-Frend Week Misberia-Atlia in Misberia) started with a speech by both Heads of State of each nation, with the flags and anthems playing after it. From factbook presentations of each nation, to a culinary activity and an online match of Civilization VI, the Interchange seemed to go on as expected. Then, on the 31 July, Misberia announced to the world the passing of Duchess Maria Birch, tragedy which was mourned across the micronational community; Atlia lowered its flag for 8 days, starting on the 01 August. The cultural interchange ended according to plan, but dedicated a minute of silence in honor of Duchess Maria and no anthem was played on the closing speeches.

Late 2020
On the 6 of August, the Kingdom of Atlia established relations with the Karno-Ruthenian Empire, and on the 12th, Atlia signed the CMLOE's Mutual Defense and Cooperation Treaty. At the end of August, the CMLOE held the "Atlian Micronational Week", publishing facts about the Kingdom. on 11 September, the Twitter account of Atlia reached its 300 followers; and 5 days later it decreed that 16 September shal be celebrated as Atlia's "Mexican Cultural Heritage Day".

The Kingdom joined the Vespucci Zone on 05 October, and by the end of the month, it signed a treaty of Mutual recognition with the Kingdom of Hrafnarfjall. On the 01 November, Atlia, alongside a couple more nations, signed the Halcyon Convention. The next day, on Day of the Dead, a digital shrine was made by Minister Dafne Santamaría of Telecommunications; the Royal Family held the traditional shrine as tradition says. 19 days later, Atlia started formal diplomatic relationship with the People's Republic of Adonia, the first ever communist nation Atlia ever held a diplomatic relationship of any kind. On 30 November, the Kingdom celebrated its Intermicronational Friendship Day, sending letters to all nations and entities Atlia held any sort of relationship.

On 18 December, the 2020 Census was published to the citizens, lasting for 4 days; and on the 27 December, the Prince-Regent broadcasted his Christmas Message. Due to unknown reasons, the Prince-Regent published a New Year's Eve text, rather than an audiovisual one.

2021
Atlia started its year with the approval of both a 5 Year Plan 2021 - 2025 and a 2021 Annual Plan; as it signed a condominum treaty between the Antonian Empire and the Misberian Confederacy over the Ball's Pyramid Archipelago. Antonia dissolved on 03 February, having its land annexed by Misberia. A new condominium treaty was drafted to consider the changes (Treaty of the Southern Isle). Unbeknownst at the moment, Misberia would collapse merely 22 days later Antonia did. This event was heavily regreted by the Atlian Governemnt, which now claimed the entirity of the archipelago. On 07 March, Atlia merged the territory it already had, a past gift of Misberia (Territories of Ball's Pyramid), and the newly claimed Atlian Territories of the Southern Isles; the new territory, now a ceremonial claim, was named the Ceremonial Territory of Ball's Pyramid. On 20 April, by decree of the Prince-Regent, several reforms were made to the institutions, projects and government ministries; the Council of Ministers was changed into the Council of Representatives; several commissions were dissolved, the Royal Guard, although inexistant, was officially dissolved; the ministries of culture, health and telecommunications were turned into commissions under the new Ministry of the Interior; and the CTAVA ceased to be subject to the Ministry of Telecommunications. On the same decree, Atlia entered a time of diplomatic isolation, and declared that she would abstain in joining new organizations.

On 22 April, Atlia officialized the celebration of the “International Day of Mother Earth” ; and two days later, the Real Biblioteca Atlia (Royal Atlian Library) was created to have documents and information easily accessible to citizens of Atlia. On 26 May, the Acta del rol de la monarquía en el estado atlio y los derechos y obligaciones que conlleva (Act of the Role of the Monarchy in the Atlian State and the Rights and Obligations that it entails) was proposed by the Prince-Regent and ratified by the Council of Representatives two days later. On the 1st of June, Atlia celebrated her first Pride Month.

The end of the absolute monarchy
On 21 June, the Prince-Regent published a decree in which he edited several articles on the Constitution, which granted citizens again the rights to vote and be voted, marking the return to a constitutional monarchy, and the time of the absolute power of the Prince-Regent became to an end, at least de iure. On 15 July, the Atlia-Vishwamitra Summit, officially the Vishwamitra-Atlia Summit on Political and Diplomatic matters in Micronationalism, took place via a Meet-call, between the heads of state of the Kingdom of Atlia and the State of Vishwamitra: The Prince-Regent of Atlia and the Rashtradhyaksh of Vishwamitra. At the end of the summit, the heads of state signed the already drafted Treaty of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Kingdom of Atlia and the State of Vishwamitra. Around this time, the process of creation of the second capital of Atlium, Nova Atlium, was almost finished. On the 25 July, Atlia’s fourth anniversary happened without anything more than a Twitter post. The Atlian Princes were busy with his moving to Nova Atlium, the second capital and a place near their university.

Reforms and Late 2021
On 8 August, Atlia held the Atlia-Dolusia Activity and Efficiency in Government Summit, which stopped at the middle due to unforeseen circumstances. On 31 August, the Prince-Regent proposed a reform to the organization of the Atlia government, which was subsequently approved unanimously by the Council of Representatives, as an attempt to ensure a more future active on the part of the citizenry; the most notable of these reforms was the abolition of the ministries, Atlian ministers would change their name to representatives. On 6 September, the CTAVA published the Micronational Democracy Index for the Kingdom of Atlia. Atlia Scored 7.3/10, classifying her as a Flawed Democracy. On 11 September, the Vespucci Zone officially dissolved after continuous apathy and inactivity by its members. Atlia, as a founder member and part of the Vespucci Commission, put up the vote on restructure or dissolution, and the members that didn’t leave voted all on dissolution. Three days later, the Longhorn International Summit took place, hosted by the People’s Republic of Adonia. The Kingdom of Atlia was a participant of the summit.

On the 1st October, Atlia joined the Solidarity Front, an organization born from the Longhorn International Summit and initiative of the Premier of Adonia, unofficially ending its restriction on joining organizations, while keeping an overall diplomatic isolationist policy. On 2 November, Atlia celebrated its fourth Day of the Dead with an altar, now built in Nova Atlium. This was the very first time the citizens of the Province of De Las Mitras could participate on an Atlian activity. On the 4 November, the official Twitter account of Atlia announced the milestone of 400 followers. The first edition of History of the Kingdom of Atlia was finished on 7 November and published on 14 November.

Government
The Kingdom of Atlia is a sovereign nation, governed under the system of a constitutional monarchy, with the monarch as Head of State and a Prime Minister as Head of Government. Both make up the Executive Office, the Executive Branch of the Kingdom. The Council of Representatives is the Legislative Branch. The Judicial Power isn't a separate power, although it is preceded by the Executive Office, whom also have the Council of Representatives involved when this power is needed to act.

Head of State
The monarch is the Head of State of the Kingdom of Atlia, with the functions of representing the Kingdom both inside and outside the nation. The Head of State has the functions of advising, supervising and approving, together with the Head of Government, laws, activities, initiatives, reforms, etc.; that leave or go through the Council of Representatives. In case of absence or inability to hold office, a Prince-Regent is named to rule with all rights and privileges of the Head of State, except for the title and position of King as long as he is alive or without abdicating.The current Head of State is Prince Luis Marcel, Prince-Regent of Atlia.

Executive Office
The Executive Office is the main governmental body of the Kingdom of Atlia. It is made up of the Head of State and the Head of Government; and its functions are to plan, administer and supervise all the initiatives, laws, activities and projects that the Kingdom of Atlia carries out.

Council of Representatives
The Council of Representatives is the second governmental organ of the Kingdom of Atlia. It is made up of people, called "representatives" and it is the function of the Council to represent the concerns of the people of Atlia before the Executive Office, as well as to propose from laws to activities to be carried out, supporting the Executive Office in their development and implementation.

History
Originally, the Kingdom of Atlia was founded as a Constitutional Monarchy, with division of powers and nine ministries:


 * Ministry of Culture
 * Ministry of Defense
 * Ministry of Economy
 * Ministry of Education
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * Ministry of Government
 * Ministry of Health
 * Ministry of Resources and Ecology
 * Ministry of Telecommunications

The Ministers of each ministry composed the Atlian Parliament, being the Prime Minister among them as head of the Ministry of Government. Due to widespread political apathy by the people of Atlia and the Atlian Parliament itself; the Prince Luis Marcel abolished the Parliament and established himself as Prince-Regent, announcing a new election for a reformed government structure. Seeing the political apathy to continue, the Prince Regent decided to reform the Constitution of the Kingdom, abolishing the right to vote and be voted and turning the Kingdom into a more absolute one. Soon after this, he appointed various citizens and former ministers as the new ministers of the Ministries, who now composed the Council of Ministers, substituting the Parliament. By this time, the number of ministries decreased to only five:


 * Ministry of Culture
 * Ministry of Ecology
 * Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 * Ministry of Health
 * Ministry of Telecommunications

By April 2021, the Prince-Regent made changes to the organization of the government (among other matters); this reduced the number of Ministries to only three, with one of them being new, the Ministry of Interior. This one being the combination of the Minsitry of Culture, Health and Telecommunications. The Council of Minsters changed its name to Council of Representatives.

On 21 June, 2021, the Constitutional Monarchy was restored by initiative both from the Prince-Regent and the Council of Representatives. On the 1st September of the same year, a political reform proposed by the Prince-Regent and approved unanimously by the Council of Representatives formally dissolved the ministries and effectivelly ceded all power to the Executive Office and the Council itself.

Foreign relations and policy
The Kingdom of Atlia has had a reserved foreign policy. On 29 November 2017, the Kingdom made its official first contact with another micronation, which was the Republic of Molossia. Due to their foreign policy, they couldn't recognize the Kingdom, even if it does. A similar situation happens with other micronations the Kingdom of Atlia recognizes, but its only unilateral, such as Sealand, Westartica, the Grand Duchy of Flandrensis, among others.

For most of its existence, the Atlian Foreign Affairs Ministry published a list of nations the Kingdom recognized and “had a friendship bond”, that unofficially ending with the Prince Regent’s reforms of February 2020. Currently the Kingdom is experiencing a change in its foreign approach, limiting the number of diplomatic approached the Kingdom accepts for an unknown amount of time.

On 08 January, 2022, it officially ceased formal diplomatic relationships with the inactive nations of the Kingdom of the United Counties (Rabbistan), the Republic of Pølmonia and the de facto extinct, but still mentioned Kingdom of Glynawan.

Current mutual recognized nations
The Kingdom of Atlia maintains formal bilateral and diplomatic relations with nations and mutually recognize them with whom the nation has signed a treaty of mutual recognition prior to formalising the relations.

Mutual recognized nations via Solidarietas Treaty
The Kingdom of Atlia maintains formal bilateral and diplomatic relations with nations and mutually recognize them with whom the nation has signed a treaty of mutual recognition prior to formalising the relations.

Association of United Micronations
The Kingdom of Atlia joined the United Micronations (UM), now the late Association of United Micronation (AUM), on August 12, 2018, where the Kingdom established some informal relations with the other members of the organization. While there, the Kingdom was an active participant within the General Assembly, and became part of the AUM Awards Committee. By May 2019, an argument has been going on for a while between members of the organization and its founder. On Midnight UTC, 7th June 2019, the blank slate resolution took place and the AUM was reduced to only its its founder in control of it, having all other members abandoning the Association.

USov
The Kingdom of Atlia joined the United Sovereignties on 04 April 2019 as an observer, and by 25 July it became a full member within it. During its existence, the USov tried several times to reactivate its members activity and interest in the organization. With attacks from an anti-USov “movements”, leaded by accounts such as the fake “Kingdom of Liliput” and the “Anti-Micro Bullying”. That and the targeting of several member of it lead to its decline, only to officially dissolve on 19 February, 2020.

The Kingdom of Atlia still hads good relationships with its former members, such as Directive of Misberia, United Republic of Obscurium, Republic of Gaia, Empire of Zuhan, among others until the dissolution of most of them. From these nations, only Misberia, (now Confederation of the Northern Coast) and United Republic of Obscurium remain active.

It was once again founded by its original founder soon after its original dissolution; it's unknown whenever they remain active or it dissolved again.

International Assembly of Micronations
Being invited by the Principality of Rushwell into this organization, the Kingdom entered it as an observer on 27 June 2019; soon the Kingdom got a positive influence within the organization and was promoted into a full membership on 11 July of the same year. With the exit of Mr. Tsai and Rushwell from the organization, attempts were made for the development of the project. By late 2020 its idleness turned fatal, and eventually the project faded into obscurity.

CMLOE
The Kingdom of Atlia applied to the Comunidad de Micronaciones de Lengua Oficial Española (Community of Oficial Spanish Speaking Micronations) by June 2020. Soon as it was accepted, it participated in a "Micronational Week" in which the Community highlighted some aspects of Atlian cultire through its official Twitter account. Atlia is a signatory of the CMLOE's Mutual Defense and Cooperation.

Vespucci Zone
The Kingdom of Atlia joined the Vespucci Zone on 05 October, 2020. Since then, it has been part of the Vespucci Commission. For most part it was innactive, with a burst of activity here and there. It officially ceased to exist by mayority vote of the active members on 10 September, 2021.

The Solidarity Front
Atlia has been involved with the community surrounding the Solidarity Front even before its creation. From the Longhorn International Summit held in September 2021, the People's Republic of Adonia (now the Federation of Adonia) wished for a micronational organization that adjusted to the vision of them and similar-minded nations, which Atlia is one of them. Since its founding, Atlia has been a notorious voice, advocating for more diversity in membership of non-English speaking nations. On January 4 2022, General Secretary of the House Andrew Franson appointed the Prince-Regent of Atlia as the head of the Spanish Division in the Solidarity Front, as well as being the official translator for Spanish in the organization.

Since the Solidarity Front finds itself in an isolationist policy, there isn't much Atlia can do in its function of diversifying the membership of the Front, although in recent times Atlia has been investing more towards the ecological program of the Solidarity Front.

Culture
The culture of the Kingdom of Atlia is essentially "Tamaulipeca" (from the State of Tamaulipas), with a deep influence from the center of Mexico. The people of Atlia agree with the claim of Tamaulipas' capital city, Cd. Victoria, that the dish commonly known as "Flour Tacos" should be known as "Flautas". The citizens of Atlia are supportive and friendly, most from Catholic backgrounds and families, with deep desire to gather in reunions and parties. This being a very important thing for them, two of the biggest event of the year for the whole Kingdom is the Day of the Dead and the Atlian Posada party.

Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead)
The Day of the Dead is a celebration that honors the deceased and dates back to long before the arrival of the Spanish in Mexico. There are indications of this for at least three thousand years in some of the ancient Mexican ethnic groups. In its origins the central point of the cult of the dead was the belief that the souls of the deceased return from the underworld.

The Day of the Dead is considered a celebration of memory and a ritual that favors memory over oblivion.

In Mexico, the celebration of the Day of the Dead varies from state to state, from municipality to municipality and from town to town, however throughout the country it has the same principle, to bring families together to welcome their loved ones who return from the beyond. In Atlia, a shrine with photos, objects and flowers is made, as well as a prayer for the eternal rest of the souls of the faithful departed depicted there. Following this, a small gathering begins among the attendees, in which pan de muerto (Dead's Bread) is served with a drink (usually a glass of soda).

Atlian Posada
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