The Grand Duchy of Scheinhafen turns eight! Celebrations have been ongoing throughout the week, including a delicious round of one of the Duchy’s national dishes, crepes served with sugar and lemon!
On the 23rd July 2018, Scheinhafen declared independent from the United Kingdom following the founders’ unresolvable disagreements with the direction the United Kingdom was headed as a country.
The first act 8 years ago was to establish the foundations of the Duchy, with a bill of rights and formal government being created within the first few months of Scheinhafen’s creation. Grand Duke Simon I was installed as the monarch and remains to this day the only recorded example of a cat as the figurehead of a nation.
Largely happy to ‘just get on with it’, the citizens of the Duchy have enjoyed many years of relative peace in isolation, a small group bound together by a shared purpose and common principles. However the tides are shifting as the emergence and rise to power of the first formal Scheinhafen political part, the Young Democrats Party led by Rupert Wood, has required the Duchy to re-evaluate how it presents itself to the world.
As the Duchy turns eight, it is now at a crucial crossroads. Prime Minister Rupert Wood has just announced that the upcoming general election will take place on the 31st August 2026, with August acting as the official election period. Rupert Wood has been returned twice as Prime Minister and is hoping to win a third term, looking to continue to keep his political rival (though long term friend) Jim Marlow on the side-lines.
Here is to another eight years of prosperity and progress.