abstract
| - The Micronational Professional Registry (MPR) is a serious unrecognised government organisation (SUGO). It will accept an endorsed micronation if the endorser is 21 or older, and a true professional. A small one-time registration fee may apply. Joining the MPR gives a new micronation Sixth World status; one could also acquire Fifth World status with enough time and effort. If a professional joins, he can register with a pseudonym or fictitious name, but he must also inform the MPR of his real name, so his rights can be more effectively protected. Besides being a real professional registry, the MPR also issues independent intellectual property instruments such as Print Monopolies, Enterprise Names, Enterprise Marks, and MPR Patents. In the past, the MPR has also published official warnings about terrorist organisations or scam micronations, and has succeeded in prosecuting scam artists who were running a diploma mill under the name of the "University of Sealand". Paradoxically, the MPR is not a governmental organisation. It is a nongovernmental organisation whose primary purpose is the development of an independent Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth World economy. The MPR recognises all real professionals and semiprofessionals 21 and older, and does not otherwise discriminate on the basis of sex, race, age, national origin, Micronational allegiance, sexual orientation, family composition or type, religion, disability, or veteran status. The MPR also recognises all real professional and semiprofessional companies, institutions, or nations, and does not discriminate on the basis of registered or incorporated status, institutional or national accreditation, territorial status, or UN/UNPO membership. The MPR is not a party or signatory to the Hague Convention of 1961 abolishing the requirement of diplomatic or consular legalisation for foreign public documents. It recognises all foreign documents because professional or semiprofessional persons have presented them, and then it recognises any possible companies, organisations, schools, universities, institutions, jurisdictions, dominions, Nations, Micronations, territories, or States. This is a 'bottom-up' or grassroots honour system, not the 'top-down' or imperialistic recognition implied by the Hague Convention of 1961. It should thus be clear that cybernetic Nations, or territorial Nations and jurisdictions which do not have professionals and/or companies that have been registered with the MPR, enjoy little legitimacy before the MPR. MPR recognition does not imply diplomatic recognition (it is de facto rather than de jure recognition), only that minimal professional and/or academic criteria have been met, and the MPR can certify the professional, organisation, institution, micronation, or nation.
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