http://shireroth.org/shirewiki/Shirerot ... om_outside - copied from MicroWiki, how others perceive us. Most illuminating and amusing quotes:
Shirerithians can go on for hours about their subdivisions, each of which is fiercely patriotic and occasionally locked in deadly war or alliance with various other subdivisions.
In terms of real-world territory, Shireroth claims Sonoma County, California as its capital. However, this claim was placed when a much higher proportion of Shirerithians resided in the county, and is now generally ignored.
Shireroth deliberately avoids basing itself wholesale on any particular real world country or even around a coherent idea or political system. Instead, its culture evolved chaotically over its existence.
Never was a truer word spoken.
Much of Shireroth's culture is an accretion of the dozens of other micronations that have risen and fallen over Shireroth's lifetime. Shirerithian conversations are peppered with references to Menelmacar, PRH, Diga, YAMOs, magigarp, and the apocollapse. Although most citizens understand these, they present a formidable barrier to foreigners trying to make sense of Shirerithian life.
Did Phillip Locke write this?
Shireroth uses the ASC calendar for most of its historical business, both real and fictional. The calendar records the number of days since 6 August 1999, when Shireroth's distant ancestor, the micronation of Audentior, was founded. For example, February 7 2010 is 3838 ASC. This system allows Shirerithians to make events seem a bit more grand scale: for example, saying that Kaiser Ari i ruled from 2064-2098 ASC.
Shireroth is frequently accused of believing their country is better than everyone else, to which the most traditionally Shirerithian response is "But we ARE better than everyone else, aren't we?" The nation's attitude to foreign relations has been compared, not unfairly, to that of Imperial China.
Jingdao has out-Jingdaoed us?
