The Region of Clyro has recently encountered a serious worry; the Lord of Clyro, His Lordship Richard 1st, by the Grace of God, Lord of Mercia, began his three year University education in the United Kingdom, almost three hundred miles away from the Clyran Home Shires. The threat of Clyro’s leader not being local enough to rule effectively was a dire concern, and was therefore countered in the space of just over a week. On the 13th September 2014, His Lordship entered his new accommodation; today, on September 22nd 2014, two new Shires of the Region of Clyro have been declared, each consisting of a single Parish. The Shire of Saracenshire was the first to be claimed, and includes the Parish of Villa, which has been declared as the new Capital Parish of the Region of Clyro. The second Shire, called Tremmoshire, consists of a parish called Campus. Campus Parish is to be where the Region of Clyro will focus its agricultural efforts in the coming months. The former Capital Parish of the Region, the Parish of Burnham Majora, has become the Homeland Capital Parish, and will only become the primary administrative centre of Clyro when the Lord of Clyro returns to it during holidays and visits. Burnham Majora has also returned to its original, more Christian sounding name; Saint’s Rest.
Surrounded now by both University students and southwestern English locals, the Lord of Clyro is to begin recruiting more citizens to the Region of Clyro and to the Micronational community as a whole.
In other news, the Scottish Independence Referendum, held on September 18th 2014, failed to declare Scotland as the world’s newest nation state, as 55% of the electorate who voted (which was already almost 90% of those eligible to vote) decided to remain as a part of the United Kingdom. On the day of the 18th September, the Lord of Clyro posted the following message to the Micronational Social Media community of ‘Microgroup’:
Just to say on this day of all days, I decree, as Lord of Clyro, that the Region of Clyro (not the joint Lordship of Mercia, nor the Wuertige Empire) supports Scottish Independence and the ‘Yes campaign’.
Go get ’em, pollers.
The following image was also placed beneath the Lord of Clyro’s message, showing a Clyran national flag with the Saltire (the national cross of the Scottish flag) across it.
Although 45% of the Scottish nation voted for Independence, the 10% majority of ‘No’ voters meant that the ‘Yes’ campaign was defeated, leading to the resignation of Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond. Following the Referendum, sporadic violence of jubilant ‘No’ voters clashing with the defeated ‘Yes’ voters in Glasgow has prompted the Lord of Clyro to declare Clyran support for the ‘We are the 45%’ campaign, an organisation of former ‘yes’ voters who, constituting a large minority of the Scottish electorate, are campaigning for the Westminster Government to make good on its promises for devolution in Scotland. The Lord of Clyro also declares Clyro’s support for the further devolution of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, to create a federalised British state.
In further news, the Holy Empire of New Israel, the nation that was the chief proponent of what became known in the Würtige Empire as the ‘Freedomian Aggression’, and who ended that conflict with the signing of the Rocklund Armistice on 9th August, has agreed to become a Territorial Concession of the Kingdoms and lands Represented in the Council of the Diarchal Crowns of the Disciples (Mercia). When the treaty for such an action is signed, New Israel will be able to have a delegate representing their interests in the Mercian Parliament House, and may act autonomously and with their own government and laws. In addition to this, however, New Israel will be forced to comply with the Imperial Laws of the Würtige Empire, meaning that their armed forces will have to be reformed into National Guards. Furthermore, if the Lords of Mercia are in agreement, New Israel may be declared independent and removed from Mercia, without any legal hassle.
Finally, on the 20th September 2014, Clyro turned three years old. It’s first incarnation, the St Peters’ Republic, was believed to have been formed around late September 2011, but as no citizens of that time remember the exact date, the 20th was adopted as the Independence Day of Clyro. Of course, with the Lord of Clyro away at University, in the Villa Parish, celebrations of the third birthday of Clyro were muted.