Republic of Istvanistan

Republic of Istvanistan
Respublíka Ištvanistáni

Official language	Istvanistani (official), English (administrative)
Capital	Vladagrad
Largest cities	Brzgrad, Sapa Selc, Rijaka Vraca
Website	Istvanistani Website
Forum	Istvanistan Forum
Number of citizens	5
Number of active citizens	0 (Nation Inactive)
Date founded	January 2000
Government	Parliamentary Democracy
Current leader	Tomislav Trpimirovic
Currency	Istvanistani §
National animal	Eagle
National fruit/food	unknown
National drink	Old Czech Beer (Staročesko Pivo)
Map versions	3.5.0 - 14.2.2

The Republic of Istvanistan (also known as the Chaocracy of Istvanistan) was one of the longest-lasting micronations on Micras and throughout its history was located on the Micran island of the same name. Istvanistan was noted for being a running joke within the Micran community, as it remained on the MCS map until August 2010, nearly ten years after its official death. To all extents and purposes Istvanistan ceased functioning as a political simulation on the 7th of November 2000, but it continued to serve as a community forum for non-micronational discussion for many years after. The MCS' refusal to remove Istvanistan became a running joke and was perhaps the result of political pressure, as Istvanistan was a nation in association with the Grand Commonwealth and hosted some of its military bases.

Early History and Foundation

The Republic of Istvanistan as we know it today, was founded in the early days of 2000, however, its history can be traced back all the way to 1999, as the Republic of Humanistan.

Tomislav Trpimirovic, one of the two founders of the Republic, was spurred on by two events. The first was the creation and subsequent collapse of the Apolyton Independent Nation. Tomislav had been familiar with micronations for quite some time at that point, but had not joined one until the Apolyton Independent Nation was founded. Micronationalism appealed to Tomislav's own fascination with government and history. However, seeing the confusion around him and sensing that it could not last long, Tomislav never did much there and sure enough, Apolyton collapsed. It is at this point that Tomislav came to the conclusion that the only way to start off a micronation would be to have certain key institutions in place, and have them operate as efficiently as possible in order to support the growth of the nation.

However, Tomislav did not start off making the nation at this time. The Republic needed another spur before it would take shape and this would come from Tomislav's Croatian roots and his interest in the politics of his ancestral homeland. This last spark was the 1999 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Croatia. The authoritarian President of Croatia at that time, Franjo Tudman, had died and the stage for a completley new Croatian government was set. Tudman's corrupt party, the Croatian Democratic Union(HDZ) was utterly smashed in the elections, losing to a coalition of the Social Democrats and Social Liberals who later formed a coalition with the Croatian Peasant Party, Istrian Democratic Assembly, and Croatian People's Party. A completley new Center-left government was brought in and the course of Croatian political history was greatly changed. So it was at this time that the Republic of Humanistan was formed. It had no website, or a population, but it had a political process that would become the embryo of the Istvanistani political system.

Soon the new micronation was going to build itself from the ground up. A web page, the symbols of state, a new constitution, everything was going to be built on the internet. For help, he was joined by SpriteLemming, the second founder of the nation, and they began turning the theoretical Republic into a micronation and soon the initial base of citizens, centered around the founders' local high school, Governor Livingston High School, developed and grew.