User:Wohl1917/Oceanic Citizens Republic

OCEANIC CITIZENS REPUBLIC
The Oceanic Citizens Republic is a micronation founded by His Excellency John Wohlwend and is One Square Nautical Mile located at 121.34.00W to 121.35.00W, 10.00.00S to 10.01.00S, within section ‘E’ of the International SeaLand Enterprises (ISLE) claim of September 1975. The Republic also makes Extra-Territorial Surface Claims in the Indian Ocean at or about 90.30.00E, 30.30.00S, the South Atlantic at or about 20.30.00W, 30.30.00S, the North Atlantic at or about 40.30.00W, 30.30.00N, the South Pacific at or about 125.30.00W, 48.30.00S, and the North Pacific at or about 170.30.00W, 30.30.00N. The Republic makes no claims in its Home Territorial Surface or in its Extra-Territorial Surfaces save the right of its Citizen Captains, Subject Citizens and Subjects to peaceably assemble, live and exercise the Rights of Sovereign Government sharing in the common heritage of mankind, the sea.

HISTORY
The Oceanic Citizens Republic was proclaimed and established on the 20the day of February in the year 2007 of the common era laying claim to all the rights, duties, responsibilities and privileges of a free and sovereign state as defined in Article 1 of the 1933 Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States. While the date of 20 Feb 07 shall always be remembered as the foundation day of the Republic, it has always existed in the hearts and minds of people who seek to build a new community of like-minded individuals who shall not rely on the accident of birth or geography to define each other as comrades. Individuals, who instead share a common belief in the Libertarian ideals of Freedom and Self-Determination and who desire to share in the common heritage of humankind on the sea, the final frontier left on earth.

OBJECTIVES
The Republic promotes justice and universal protection of individual human rights and establishes solidarity, fraternity, and national unity among its Citizen Captains, Subject Citizens and Subjects toward that end. The Republic encourages Education and schooling, the preservation and development of culture, the preservation and maintenance of historical objects and the protection of the environment for its own intrinsic value.