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State of Sabotage Official designation: State of Sabotage, Abbreviation: SoS SoS is a secular, sovereign and democratic state. All citizens of the SoS state are to adhere to these principles. The Constitution is the highest law of the SoS state and is binding for all SoS state authorities. The SoS State Constitution was publicly recited and resolved on September 4, 2005 and has been valid and legally binding since that time. The SoS state symbols are the colors black and white, the coat of arms in the state flag, as well as the state anthem. The two official SoS state and diplomatic languages are German and English. The assets of the SoS state are the creation, protection, mediation, and positioning of art and culture. SoS is the first sovereign cultural state according to international law. SoS fulfills all criteria required of a sovereign state (territory, population, and state organization), as well as education and training in terms of artistic freedom.

I. Formation On August 30, 2003 at 1:00 pm Finnish time, on the island of Harakka just off of Helsinki, SoS (the State of Sabotage) was called into existence before a large audience. ROBERT JELINEK and H.R. GIGER, together with “HUUTAJAT,” the Finnish 25-man screaming men’s choir, ceremonially inaugurated the state. The state declaration took place under the patronage of the following micronations: the PRINCIPALITY OF SEALAND, LADONIA, the NSK STATE, ELGALAND-VARGALAND and the TRANSNATIONAL REPUBLIC. Representatives of the micronations also signed an SoS state charter. To duly commemorate this historic event, the State of Sabotage declares the 30th of August its State holiday, to be celebrated annually.

The word “sabotage” comes from the French word “sabot” and means “to trample with wooden shoes.” A sabot is a clog with a leather top. At the beginning of agricultural mechanization French farm workers threw their “sabotes” into harvesting and processing machines (which were taking their jobs), thereby blocking the complicated mechanics of the mowing and threshing machines and rendering them useless. For the sake of their labor, they engaged in “sabotage.”

A state is the highest existent authority because it is more static than the other forces that influence our lives. On the other hand, the state is subject to these same forces, yet it lags helplessly behind emerging cultural, scientific and technological developments. Today’s states have the condition of realized utopias, the condition of all realized utopias in which one must paradoxically continue to live as if they had not been realized. When things, signs and actions are freed from their ideas and concepts, from their values and references, and from their sources and designations, they enter the realm of endless self-reproduction. Things continue to function, but the idea of them has long been lost, in total indifference to their content. The paradox is that they function even better this way. Since all tendencies lack what was once specific to them, they can now coexist in the same cultural space. And as they only affect us with deep complacency, we can accept them without indifference.