盘点十个奇葩小国:艾里欧里王国(双语)

2014年08月15日15:59  新浪教育     收藏本文     
Kingdom of Elleore Kingdom of Elleore
Celestia Celestia
The Principality of Seborga The Principality of Seborga
The Principality of Sealand The Principality of Sealand
Freetown Christiania Freetown Christiania
The Kingdom of Talossa The Kingdom of Talossa
The Republic of Kugelmugel The Republic of Kugelmugel
Aerican Empire Aerican Empire
The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands
Filettino Filettino

  Living in a regular country, with a normal government, can get annoying sometimes. Taxes, laws, political disputes... it's all kind of a bummer. So why not go live in a tiny country of your own? Some people have done it — and here are the most creative and strangest tiny nations on Earth, past and present。

  生活在一个普通的国家里,有一个正常的政府,有时候会让人很烦。税收啦,法律啦,政治纠纷啦,都会让我们很不爽。所以你有想过去一个属于你的微型小国里生活么?有些人不仅想了,而且还真的这么做了,下面我们就一起去认识一下这些或曾经存在或仍然存在着的“奇葩小国”吧。

  1. Kingdom of Elleore

  1. 艾里欧里王国

  Kingdom of Elleore, on the island of Elleore, Roskilde Fjord, Denmark, which was purchased by a group of Copenhagen teachers in 1944 as a summer camp, but it turned into a gentle parody of the government structure and royal traditions of Denmark. The novel Robin Crusoe is banned on the island, and everyone uses Elleore Standard Time, which is 12 minutes behind Danish time. It has had six monarchs in the last 70 years。

  艾里欧里王国,位于丹麦北部海岸的一个小岛,1944年一群来自哥本哈根的老师买下它来举办夏令营,但之后就宣布独立成国并开始效仿丹麦政府。小说《罗宾逊漂流记》在岛上是被禁止的。艾里欧里王国拥有自己的艾里欧里标准时间,比丹麦时间晚12分钟。在过去70年里该国已经换了6位君主。

  2. Celestia

  2.星空王国

  Celestia (or The Nation of Celestial Space), created by James Thomas Mangan in Evergreen Park, Illinois, on January 1, 1949, claiming all of outer space. Mangan sent some letters to the United States, United Nations, United Kingdom and Soviet Union to stop all further atmospheric tests, and warning them not to encroach on his so-called "territory"。

  星空王国由詹姆斯·托马斯·曼根于1949年1月1日在美国伊利诺斯州的常青公园建立,并声称统治所有的外太空。曼根曾给美国、联合国、英国和苏联写信,禁止他们进一步对大气进行测试,并警告他们不要侵占他所谓的“领土”。

  The nation had more than 19,000 citizens in 1959 (after a booklet was published about Celestia), but it may have become defunct after the death of Mangan in 1970.

  该国在1959年的时候拥有1万9千名公民(根据一本由星空天国出版的小册子),但1970年Mangan死后该国就不复存在了。

  3. The Principality of Seborga

  3.塞波加大公国

  The Principality of Seborga, Seborga, Italy, founded in 1963 by Giorgio Carbone, who claimed that the town had never become part of the modern Italian state. The small constitutional elective monarchy with less than half a hundred inhabitants is now led by Prince Marcello I (Marcello Menegatto, 2010-). The town issued a local currency named luigino between 1994 and 1996, and they still have two orders of knights (The Order of Saint Bernard and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre)。

  塞波加大公国,由西格诺·卡波恩于1963年在意大利的塞波加建立,创建者声称从此这座城镇不再受到意大利的统治。这座实行宪法选举制的国家拥有不到50名居民,目前由马塞洛一世领导。该国家曾在1994年至1996年期间发行了一种称为路易吉诺的货币,另外,该国还拥有两个骑士团。

  4. The Principality of Sealand

  4.西兰公国

  The Principality of Sealand, on a WWII installation to guard the port of Harwich, Essex, UK, named HM Fort Roughs. It stands six miles from the coast of Suffolk. The place was occupied by a British pirate radio broadcaster named Paddy Roy Bates (Prince Roy) and his family in 1967. Eight years later the Principality was established, and Roy led this until his death two years ago at the age of 91. He named his son Michael as the new leader of the nation。

  西兰公国是二战时为保护英国不受德国入侵而建立的,当时叫做怒涛堡垒。它距离萨福克郡海岸6英里(约10公里)左右。此地在1967年被一个叫做帕迪·罗伊·贝茨的英国海盗之声的播音员及其家人占领,8年后建立了公国,由派迪·罗伊·贝茨领导,直到其在两年前去世,享年91岁。当时,他任命他的儿子迈克尔作为这个国家新的领导人。

  And here's an opportunity to become a Lord, Lady, Baron or Baroness for only a few bucks, and a Count or Countess for almost $340.

  在这个国家只要几美元就可以成为男爵或男爵夫人,成为伯爵或伯爵夫人也只要340美元。

  5. Freetown Christiania

  5.克里斯蒂娜自由城

  Freetown Christiania, a self-proclaimed autonomous neighborhood in Christianshavn, Copenhagen, Denmark, declared in 1971, and regarded as a large commune with special laws since 1989.

  克里斯蒂娜自由城是1971年在丹麦根本哈根的克里斯钦港宣布成立的自治社区,1989年之后被认为是一个拥有特殊法律的公社。

  6. The Kingdom of Talossa

  6.塔罗萨王国

  The Kingdom of Talossa, founded in 1979 by a 14-year-old boy named Robert Madison in Milwaukee, Wisconsin。

  塔罗萨王国成立于1979年,是由一名叫做罗伯特·麦迪逊的14岁男孩在美国威斯康星州的密尔沃基建立的。

  This micronation had the first national Webpage (in November 1995!) and it has an Anthem titled Stand Tall Talossans. Now it has a king named John I, and the current population is 222. A group of dissidents left the Kingdom, and created the Republic of Talossa in 2004, but they returned two years ago。

  这个微型小国在1995年11月有了第一个国家网站,它的国歌叫做《Stand Tall Talossans》。现在它的国王叫做乔治一世,拥有居民222人。一群拥有不同政治意见的人曾离开该国并2004年创建了塔罗萨共和国,但两年前他们又回到了该国。

  The nation has some wild territorial claims — stretching from part of Milwaukee to an uninhabited French island and a large part of Antarctica。

  这个国家声称拥有广阔的野外领土,从密尔沃基的一部分延伸到法国一个无人居住的小岛,还包括南极的大部分。

  7. The Republic of Kugelmugel

  7.库格穆格尔共和国

  The Republic of Kugelmugel, a spherical house in Vienna Prater, Vienna, Austria, designed by Edwin Lipburger. The micronation declared independence 30 years ago after some arguments between the artist and Austrian authorities due to lack of building permits。

  库格穆格尔共和国是一座由埃德温·李普伯格设计的位于奥地利维也纳的球形房子。30年前该设计师和政府之间因缺乏建筑许可等问题发生争执,于是宣布该小国独立。

  8. Aerican Empire

  8. 艾瑞克帝国

  Aerican Empire, founded in May 1987 by Eric Lis, without any territory of its own, but its few hundred members (about 400 in 2009, 233 in July 2013) started to claim sovereignty over some disconnected territories: a house-sized area in Montreal, Canada, a colony of Mars, an imaginary planet, the northern hemisphere of Pluto, an island in the middle of a lake in New Zealand, and a square kilometer of land in Australia, among others。

  艾瑞克帝国于1987年5月由埃里克·利斯创立,这个国家没有属于自己的领土,但该国的上百名公民(2009年时约有400人,到2013年6月有233人)会对一些奇奇怪怪的地方宣布主权,比如加拿大蒙特利尔的只有一处房子大小的土地,火星上的土地、一个虚构的星球、冥王星的北部、新西兰某个湖中心的小岛、澳大利亚某个1平方公里的土地等等。

  9. The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands

  9.珊瑚海群岛上的同性恋王国

  The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands, founded as a symbolic political protest by a group of gay rights activists, led by Dale Anderson in 2004, on Coral Sea Islands, Queensland, Australia。

  珊瑚海群岛上的同性恋王国,2004年以戴乐·安德森为领导在澳大利亚昆士兰的珊瑚海群岛建立,象征着一种由同性恋权利活动者发起的政治抗议。

  10. Filettino

  10.菲力亭诺

  Filettino, a small village about 40 miles (70 km) east of Rome, Italy, with a population of 577, became an "independent state" in 2011, when the Italian government announced that all villages with under 1,000 inhabitants must merge with nearby ones, to save money。

  菲力亭诺,一个距意大利罗马40英里(约70公里)的小村庄,有577人,在2011年意大利政府宣布所有人口少于1000人的村庄都必须与附近的村庄合并以节约开支的时候,这个村庄就宣布成为“独立的国家”。

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