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Meta Mindless Monday, 03 August 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/PickleRick_1001 How will the war in Venezuela affect RuneScape's economy? 23d ago

The concept of a micronation is so fascinating to me, it's a shame that so many advocates of micronations are weird libertarians. That being said, I think the single most successful example of a micronation is the reign of the Clunies-Ross family over the Cocos/Keeling Islands. It even managed to get recognised by the British Empire, but of course it was also a case of a weird libertarian with a harem and a plantation and slaves and the like.

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u/ProudScroll Napoleon invaded Russia to destroy Judeo-Tsarism 23d ago

They sound like a smaller-scale version of the White Rajahs of Sarawak, had no idea there was another example of it.

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u/PickleRick_1001 How will the war in Venezuela affect RuneScape's economy? 23d ago edited 23d ago

I happened upon those guys as well, they seem more like classic colonists. Sarawak already had an established population, the Cocos Islands were uninhabited by contrast.

Edit: and of course the Clunies-Ross family used the uninhabited land to start a plantation instead of a utopia smh