AntÃnio Martins-TuvÃlkin <antonio at tuvalkin dot web dot pt> wrote:Deseret in use (?) by "micronation" Molossia: It is explained at < http://www.molossia.org/alphabet.html >, but they put GIFs on-line, making no use of the U+10400 block...
I visited their site, wondering if they could use some assistance with transcription and Unicode from an American "foreign national" who reads and writes Deseret (and has been to the area recently). But they seem more interested in relations with residents of other micronations than with Americans. ð ððð, ðð ððð.
Seriously, do these kings and emperors, that "reign" on these lands and claim various disputed places around the world, or even on the Moon or Mars, and can issue currency by buying Monopoly(tm) game bills, be taken seriously?
On these micro"nations", you'll find so many consitutional changes, for so few peoples (most often not more than a handful), that I doubt these peoples can claim create a "standard".
What is real is that they have found a legal way to escape from their hosting country to put them out of laws, but also out of assistance. None of them are recognized internationally, except between themselves in a virtual forum (if they can pay for their Internet access used "abroad"...)
We can accept their volonty of independance, but they have also to accept what this implies. Most of these self-claimed lands have disappeared after less than a dozen of years (divorce, family conflicts, or simply poverty caused by lack of local job and resources; none of these lands could live without tourism, if people visiting them accept to pay their tax in full-fledged US dollars or Euros...)
I remember such self-claimed country by someone who bought an old oil platform, and anchored it in the international waters North of Europe. This platform is under International laws, but is not a homeland (nobody lives there), despite it is out of laws of the neighboring country. This has allowed the man owning it to escape from taxes and to found a financial company with "black" money that resists from fiscal inspections... until the status of the waters was resolved at the UN, by an agreement between neighbouring countries;
