Confederation of Mahuset

Mahuset, officially the Confederation of Mahuset (Dutch: Confederatie Mahuset), is a self-declared political entity and exercise of the right to self determination commonly referred to as a micronation, established in its current form on 3 January 2016 and its original form on 29 May 2012. It claims nominal sovereignty over seven pieces of land: two in the Netherlands, two in the United Kingdom, two in the United States and one on the border between Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, which is in turn an enclave within the micronation of Hasanistan.

Mahuset is a federal presidential constitutional republic with elements of technocracy and direct democracy whose politics are largely dominated by the Conservative Liberal Party. The country's head of state and head of government is the President — currently Emiel Sebastiaan Hardy — and its deputy head of state and head of government is the Prime Minister — currently Chase Nanatovich. Legislative power is vested in the Lazian Chamber, a democratically elected semi-monistic unicameral parliament, named after the capital city Lazia. Laws of constituent entities are officially subordinate to federal law, the Federal Government does not regulate the governments of constituent entities however, and as such each constituent entity has their own unique system of government.

Mahuset claims to be the successor in law, in dignity, and in territory to the Kingdom of Mahuset, the Empire of Alkmaar, the Co-Kingdom of Krasota, the Royal Union of Mahuset, the Kingdom of Ihuset, the Kingdom of Matsia, the United Nations of Mahuset and the Cookielandic and Kittylandic States. Mahuset can largely trace its origin to the MicroWikia community and its interactions with the wider micronational community, especially that of MicroWiki, have stayed limited in scope. It has a turbulent history, having gone through several changes in government, dis- and reestablishments, and changes in territory before reaching its current shape and state of relative stability.

Mahuset has a largely organic culture which largely derives from the cultures of its patres patriae — those being the cultures of the Netherlands and England — the cultures of other micronations, especially Abelden, Radon, Slin, Hasanistan, Brennonia, Nedland and the broader MicroWikia community, internet culture, meme culture, anime culture as well as artificially introduced elements from other cultures. Mahuset is religiously diverse and politically secular, with its constitution protecting what it calls the "Judaeo–Christian tradition and western secular humanist culture". It is an active and founding participant state in the Batyr Bloc and has long practised a diplomatic tradition of neutrality — it does however consider other micronations to be allies and it maintains an official policy of opposition to what it considers GUM influence.

Mahuset is a "fifth world" micronation, with the highest assigned score of 12 under the Boodlesmythe-Tallini System, and a score of 4.4 on the Categoric-Gradial System, also known as Linden's (Revised) System.

Etymology and pronunciation
Although the exact etymology of the name "Mahuset" has been lost to the mists of time, there are two prominent theories on its etymology. The most commonly accepted etymology is for it to have originated as a portmanteau of Matsia and Ihuset, which are the two nations which merged to form the Kingdom of Mahuset, the Confederation of Mahuset's predecessor. A much less commonly accepted, yet still prominent etymology is for it to have originated as a portmanteau of "muh", an internet slang term for "my", and "huset", Norwegian for house.

As a non-native English word, "Mahuset" doesn't have a single standard pronunciation and is therefore pronounced how the reader sees fit. Known pronunciations include [meɪ(ː)juːsɛt], [meɪ(ː)hjuːsɛt], [maːhy(ː)sɛt], [maːhu(ː)sɛt], [məhuːsɛt], [məhjuːsɛt], [məhuːsət], [məhjuːsət], [məhəsɛt] and [məhəsət]

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