Foreign Relations

Listed below are criteria for entering foreign relations with the United Provinces and Territories of the Cat Republic. Meeting all of these requirements is not a guarantee of establishing relations, and breaking/missing a few requirements will not bar a nation from establishing relations. But, as a rule of thumb:

The Cat Republic will be hesitant to establish relations if:

The nation has no physical land claims

The nation has absurdly small land claims, or organizes its territory into absurdly small pieces (a room, a section of yard, etc)

The nation has absurd land claims, including extraterrestrial bodies, any part of Antarctica, and Bir Tawil. Extraterrestrial land claims will not be recognized until humankind has the capability to travel to and colonize other worlds, The Cat Republic recognizes no land claims in Antarctica (not even by U.N. Member states), and the Cat Republican government believes that the only three or four entities that have the right to claim Bir Tawil are (in no particular order) Egypt, Sudan, the native peoples in the area, and MAYBE the Kingdom of North Sudan (which the C.R. does not currently recognize, but at least a flag was planted there by the micronation)

The nation claims land that doesn’t exist (such as falsified maps showing land on earth where there is none, or nonexistent/fantastical/otherworldly lands)

The nation claims an unrealistic portion of an existing macronation (such as an entire state/province, a large chunk of one, or an area encompassing one or several large cities)

The nation claims citizens based on claimed land, not based on willing participants (this is why the Cat Republic separates its population into Citizens and Territorial Residents)

The nation or its officials refer to an online debate or disagreement as a “war”

The nation has land claims overlapping with those of The Cat Republic or nations it is on friendly terms with (currently the Republic of Molossia, and the Foster Island Republic)

The MICROnation calls itself an empire (especially since these are usually monocultural, monolingual, and claim less than 1 square kilometer)

The nation is fascist or communist (the former being a definite disqualifier)

The nation bans or criminalizes what the Cat Republic considers moral/legal (includes free speech, freedom of religion, homosexuality/non-heterosexuality, and so on) or shows any negative racial/sexual/religious bias

The nation seriously lists an animal in any government position (the exclusion being “animal ambassador”, referring to an animal used for educational purposes)

The nation and its government include non-sapient animals, plants or inanimate objects as citizens (to clarify, sapient animals would include great apes, elephants, cetaceans, some corvids, some parrots, and octopi- all animals that show higher intelligence).

The current head of state, founder, and/or the majority of the population is under the age of 16.

The Cat Republic will likely be willing to establish relations if:

The nation, its officials and its citizens are shown to have common interests with those of the Cat Republic

The nation shows an interest in preserving world wildlife and biodiversity

The nation is multilingual (includes constructed languages)

The nation’s officials are capable of acting diplomatically and mature when needed

Most of the nation’s land claims are compromised of land either owned by citizens, or owned but unoccupied land not being used/planned to be used for anything else

The nation has printed/minted currency, and/or produces any products of its own (examples include Molossia’s planned rabbitbrush rubber, Foster Island’s paper and combat knives, and the Cat Republic’s apples and basic protective masks)

The nation has some sort of business inside it (even if only used/accessible to the citizens, or for a limited amount of time), such as Molossia’s Tiki Hut Bar and Grill, and the Cat Republic’s Frosted Weapons Bakery

The nation has a population of 10 or more (that is to say, 10 or more permanent resident citizens)

The majority of the nation’s population lives within its claimed borders.

The nation has been active for at least a year after founding

The nation has a page or website where one could learn more about it

These guidelines are subject to addition and change. They are not meant to discourage other micronationalists from having their fun, but rather to filter in like-minded micronations. These guidelines are up to date as of July 19th, 2018.