Ad / C'est un secret publicAfin d’aider l’Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantique Nord (OTAN) à garantir sa sécurité au 21ème siècle, la Principauté de Sealand offre aujourd’hui son assistance. Située à six milles nautiques du territoire Britannique, Sealand est l’emplacement idéal pour le futur quartier général de crise de l’OTAN. Nous sommes connectés. Nous sommes eloignées. Nous sommes autonomes. Nous sommes ouverts aux propositions. Et nul n’a besion de le savoir.

(A selection of ten different proposals seeks to develop a new political ideology for Sealand that will, physically as well as virtually, confidently invest in its sovereign position. Connected through its ‘data haven’, Sealand becomes Mainport to Imagination. Sealand’s non-agenda / non-identity in terms of its socio-political, cultural and fictional values makes it hard to visualize what Sealand can become or could mean for its audience. The proposals open up a new international context in which Sealand can be imagined to operate. In fact, they only emphasize what Sealand has always been: an Ersatz-Nation for the internet (Ersatz – substitute). The proposals create fictive models and vast collections of associative meanings. Sealand exists in multiple settings and fictional ‘realities’ that make it illegible to be branded as a country; it rather disrupts our day-to-day reality. It exists beyond the binary form of good – bad. The ambiguity and contradiction of the different target groups emphasise that Sealand is in fact lacking its own ideology. In the end, all these possible, but different scenarios could create a momentum of the absurd in Sealand.)