Zaadz declares status as an independent nation
Posted on Apr 1st, 2007
by
Gaia Team
AHEM. Everyone? Check the date on which this was posted before you start getting too excited. Zaadz is still a company, not a country. The language of business is universal. :)
Congratulations, everyone! You are now dual citizens of the country in which you were born and the People's Republic of Zaadz.
As of this date, April 1st, 2007, The People's Republic of Zaadz has declared itself a sovereign entity with a population of 47,229. Located wholly in cyberspace, and with diplomatic outposts in the homes of each of its citizens, Zaadz has established itself as a place of political refuge for MySpace immigrants.
Zaadz is founded on the principles of conscious capitalism, spirituality, enthusiasm, love, service, inspiration, passion, humor, and teamwork. All that is required for citizenship is a commitment to empowerment, inspiration, and a better future for all; Zaadz does not discriminate by race, gender, economic status, or area of birth.
With over 1200 Ambassadors and a growing economy, Zaadz holds to the Philosopher-king model of the ancient Greeks, where wisdom--and the love of wisdom--prevailed. The fledgling nation anticipates exponential growth over the coming months and years, as more and more people come to recognize the values laid out in Zaadz's constitution.
The move for secession came as a result of Zaadz's initial principles. The site began with the stated purpose of changing the world by being the change. "Being the world," said founder Brian Johnson, "seems a quicker route."

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~ r u being serious…. it didnt take even a year for my request to come true ^.^
* now waiting for the flag n + in stead of “(don't display my country's flag (we're all one!)” to say “choose People's Republic of Zaadz as we are all one”
* Happy April 1st to u too ^.^
That is just lovely!
~ Jica what r u talking about… we already have a post office… check the stamp ^.^
“Zaadz holds to the Philosopher-king model of the ancient Greeks”.
oohh, does this mean i can be a Spartan too? pick me! pick me!
I really, really, really, hope that this is not just a cruel April Fool's joke. At last, World Citizens have a country!
Well sheeeeyoooot!! This is awesome. Now that Zaadz has denigrated itself to a despotic autocracy I think now is the perfect time to have a Coup and install a new puppet regime. I put “W” in as first idiot and CEO. I just sold all of my pork barrel stocks to fund this little political piece of knuckle headed derring do! And not to be outdone here, I am also installing an equally brilliant second in command; Anna Nicole Smith with the backup default player Justin Timberlake.
WHERE'S MY T-SHIRT?
As a born-here done-that citizen of the People's Republic of Zaadz, i have earned my Philosopher-Queen shirt.
Bring on the shirts (trumphets blaring) bring on the shirts… Bring on the shirts:) Hallelujah Queendom come:)!
And yes I want the choice of People's Republic flag on my profile! Pronto!
I am totally enamored of Princes's Village Flag. Everyone go see Princess's Village Flag!! If I had a real one I'd run it up the flag pole! (Does it take an entire village to raise a flag?)
I don't know about the stamp - I love it's beauty - simple clean lines, smashing content - but it may not be a great idea to give some administrations of some governments - whose name I will not mention - any ideas about cyber-stamps. The next thing you know, you'll be paying 37 cents to send an email. No wait … it's 39 now … no wait …
~ sooooooooo happy u like it… n i totally love this foto of urs ^.^
April Fool…. Never felt so good to be fooled though ….
I knew I should have gotten this t-shirt for Zaady

Much, much better than Google's sewer thingy. :D
Excellent! And with sovereignty comes the right to control fiscal and economic systems… just one step closer to The People's Bank of Zaadz and the new Zeconomy - sign me up.
Niiiiiiiiiice!!!!!!!!!!!!!
zaadz universe of connectivity feels so good. count me in! such a great statement to make, and it puts the energy of unity out into the world (consciousness) through cyber-quantum space and mind.
its great!
yes… lets have a t-shirt for the zaadz global republic!
:)
THIS IS NO JOKE FOR ME BRIAN, FRIENDS !!!!!
And even if for many it is; i foresee internet communities retain sovereignty just like nations
~ Philosopher apparently is A politician of the spirit
Pollination of the seeds has occurred.
and now onto the galaxy~
This IS a joke, isn't it? I mean can we do that for real?
Like Forrest Gump buying all the air time?
Can we claim territory in Cyberspace…?
Put up a Flag, like on the Moon and just say We Claim It As Our Own???
Oh Well…
Still, we have a Big population here…
;-)
“Excellent! And with sovereignty comes the right to control fiscal and economic systems… just one step closer to The People's Bank of Zaadz and the new Zeconomy …”
Hear, hear!
One of he world's largest and most successfull co operative communities is the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation. Established about fifty years ago, its founders had the wisdom to set up their own bank (People's Worker Bank).
extremely wonder full…and kinda creepy…in the best way of course…
And L'el's added a declaration!
Ressurected1 and yosyama: I don't see why we can't make it official. ;)
And Dryad? zMail will always be free.
Wow! Amazing news! Can't wait to hear more details and see our tee shirts! :))))
Oh Oh citizen complaint…
the Z needs to be in the center of the flag… balance in all things….
T shirts with the Flag on the back & the zFlower on the front, Okay?
L'el's declaration is FABULOUS!!!
I see Zaadz Flags in all different colors & sizes spread across mountain tops, backyards,
porches, car antennas, wherever we'd like them to be, like Tibetan Prayer Flags.
Spreading the Seeds of Being The Change.
BRAVO!
~ hey thats a cool zFlag ^.^
* n that declaration totally rocks!!!
Let the new era begin ….
I'm truly honored to be a part of it all….
( ( ( ( ((( zaadz ))) ) ) ) )
Love, Galynne
Well, good glory…
we be our own city! Congrats, to all.
Well I'm so glad we've finally done that. Now we are established on the Day of Fools and are Fools, and indeed this will give us the wisdom to LOVE one another, do the things that are needful, and, of course DANCE and be foolish. Ah, a nation that is Paradise!
Truly truly honored to be part of this ;)
Kudos to Brian and all at Zaadz!
God bless and peace to everyone.
Zaadzania?
Zaadzovlokia?
Whatever - I'm into it!
God Bless Zaadzerica! (And even Zaadzerical!)
Yay! Now I have THREE citizenships: U.S., Zaadzland, and Space!
f.c.
Thanks ~Princess for the flag-thingy adjustment:)!
~ i just posted u a comment…
* actually i hacked it from siona… its her problem she didnt put copyright (lol)…
* love uuu ^.^
Yay! This is great news!
And SAMME's already written the anthem.
…We're a zero emissions state, right?
careful, you know what they did to Koresh- and he didnt even try to secede!
congrats on the bold manuever- i am happy to finally have dual citizenship- one of the world, and one with zaadz!
Wow, truly exciting. Let's occupy Fort Sumpter, I don't think it is defended heavily these days : ) Seriously, the power of this group of people can be a tremendous force in shifting paradigms globally and nothing's more exciting to me than participating in that.
And
MsCapriKell
has written Our Pledge
Awesome! :)
Love you guys!Finally, I can belong to a place without boundaries, visas and passports.
Keep it up! Somehow, we will get somewhere!
peace,
Nada
Raine and I are in!! 47 thousand members!!! Why joke about it?
Excellent and wonderful !!!
And the next step - in changing the world - is
to create a new and better United Nations,
a United Humanity.
Many thanks to Brian and the Zaadz team for
this beautiful dream, a real dream !.
Barin
2-4-2007
Very good news! Now it's time to change the world for the better.
LOL!
And now there is a t-shirt, even.
http://www.cafepress.com/zaadz_republic.121762383#
too funny. We want to make sure it has the “official” off to the right *z. :)
too fun. :)
consider it done. Now people can get a t-shirt with the Republic of Zaadz flag on it. Its even in multiple colors. :-)
For a moment, there, I thought you were going to try and pull off another Free State Project. ;-)
And Planet Zaadz is now available for colonization by registered Zaadsters. Flights departing daily from the Camp Happiness Space Station at L-5. Planet Zaadz sends greetings to the new Republic of Zaadz and looks forward to galactic transformation adventures! Welcome to the Universe! Happy Birthday!
http://www.cafepress.com/zaadz_republic
Now you can get almost everything with the Republic of Zaadz flag on it. Including a variety of t-shirts for you to sport and wear proudly of our flag.
Good initiative. We are already moving towards a goal of global nation. Its like evolution and in totality also we are like a species. Human race is doing good on this earth for long. One human is a singular, a group of humans is also a singular. We are evolving from one sigular to other singular. From little groups to small human settlements - tribes - city states - kingdoms - modern nations, we have evolved a lot and now we are on the verge of opening up other planets for life and making this earth one united entity is somewhat essential for that. With all our diverse cultures, religions, languages, ways of life, set of ideas we all are one - part of same flow.
Brian, brother you are doing a good efforts and we all are also contributing our little precious bits to achieve this grand pious goal. Wishes to you and to all our fellow brothers and sisters on zaadz.
EUROPE ON ZAADZ —– UNIFICATION OF THE TRANSATLANTIC BRIDGE IN 4. AND 5. PERSPECTIVE ——WHAT AN ADVENTURE OF CONSCIOUSNESS—- LETS CELEBRATE AUROBINDO WHO SAW ALL THAT ALREADY IN THE 30 IES——WELLCOME ALL CITIZENS OF ZAADZ TO VISIT ONE PART OF ITS OWN EMPIRE = CONSCIOUSNESS IN
THE FORM OF EUROPE…..W E L C O M E !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!::):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
BIG HUG TO PRESIDENT BRIAN AND HIS CREW::::HERE WE ACT ALSO WITH HUGS:::::AND LOVE:::::AND TRUE EMOTIONS::::::::):):):):) PASSION WANTED ::::::::::::::::::!!!!!
BRAVO!!
I just LOVE it.
I'm slowly hatching a Paean to Zaadz blog, and this 'declaration' speaks truly to how I experience this beautiful place. For me, it is a place. I do not have a home; I travel so much and do so many different things that I've lost any sense of where I am, and sometimes who or what I am — but there is always here, always Zaadz, my home, my family, my support, my life - always here, ever expanding, ever deepening.
Thank you!
p.s. And why not a micro nation??
I don't feel like a member of an independent nation here at zaadz, with the addition of the large ads running along the right of the web pages. I feel more like I am somehow owned by the advertisers and corporations listed, no matter how “socially-conscious” and “positive” they may be. Takes up too much real estate on the page. In flickr there are ads too, but at least there is an option to remove them when you become a paying member. Maybe zaadz can offer this option? I'd gladly contribute to zaadz if that would remove the ads on the side.
cobalt: We definitely plan on offering the ability to upgrade, so thank you so, so much for bringing that up! What do you think is a resonable price for an ad-free Zaadz, considering that the site does need to be profitable in order to keep the community alive?
(And thank you, too, for your thoughtful insight into how you feel about those sponsors and advertisers; I'm sorry about your experience of feeling 'owned.' We'd love to hear, again, community feedback about what businesses you'd like to see us including, so you feel less as though you're being impinged upon and more as though you're helping to spread the word about those companies you feel are doing good in the world. So please let us know! We've started a discussion forum on the topic over here.)
Glad to see staff are actually reading these comments several days after introduced. Thank you for your reply Siona. I will go to that link where there are only a few comments thus far and hopefully others will find it. It is hard to navigate about the site and it just took me about 20 minutes to find this comment thread again. Didn't know if if was “team blog”, news, “hot” or questions and all the links are a bit competing with each other to find what you are looking for. A site map or index would be great, with a short description of each feature or link. Just in case others don't wend their way over THERE to the new discussion, I think about $25 is about right. There won't be a lot of members that will pay it, but those that do will be likely to spread the word more and to re-pay each year. Seriously, a lot of folks just don't hang around sites long if ads are too intrustive and take up too much space on each page.
Thank you, cobalt! I won't say too much more here in hopes of continuing the conversation elsewhere, but I wanted to thank you for your response and for the wonderful suggstions about a site map.
(A tip: you can go into your 'my account,' which is in the upper right of your screen, and subscribe to 'comments' under the subscriptions and notifications. If you do this, you'll get a note alerting you whenever someone responds to a blog or comment you've posted–and you'll receive a link to that posting. It helps greatly in tracking where you've been on the site. We're planning on both a site map and a 'feed' that will help you keep tabs on where you've been, so that it's easier to find past discussions and posts, but until then, the subscriptions might help.)
Thanks again, and I very, very much recognize the truth of your last statement. I've abandoned more than a few ad-heavy sites in my day. We're commited to making sure that our sponsors and advertisers are integrated with the site content and not obnoxious or intrusive–after all, this is in their best interest as well as ours. And again, we want to hear what businesses and companies other Zaadzsters already appreciate, so we can help spread the word about them. Good businesses don't get enough attention, as far as we're concerned. :)
I'm always humbled & inspired by your absolute care love in all your communications, dear Siona.
you can go into your 'my account,' which is in the upper right of your screen, and subscribe to 'comments' under the subscriptions and notifications.
I know this one, but I often forget it. I find myself looking about the screen for 'my account' and I just don't see it, at least not for a bit. Maybe it's just me, but maybe it could be a bit more obvious? - I''ll post this to ThinkTank as well.
love,
Sandra
wow, I can't believe I missed this entry… been browsing a bit today…. and came across this post! And just look at the growth of this nation…. 4 months and 88% more members! We've nearly doubled in size! We will be seen, we will be heard… and we ARE changing the world!
Booyah!