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UZHUPIS
A tiny republic of free spirits
TSUKANOVA STEFANIA
INTERESTING FACTS
ABOUT THE REPUBLIC OF UZHUPIS
IN 1998, RESIDENTS OF THE UZHUPIS DISTRICT OF VILNIUS, LITHUANIA DECLARED IT A REPUBLIC
UNBELIEVABLE
Uzhupis has its own currency (euro-horror// eurojas), anthem, customs, honorary citizens, ambassadors and consuls in 320 cities around the world, elections and carnivals. Uzhupis is a member of the Antarctic Union of Micronations.
FREE REPUBLIC OF UZHUPIS: EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HOT WATER!!!
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LEADERSHIP OF THE STATE
•The President of the Republic of Uzhupis is the poet, musician and film director Romas Lileikis.
•The Prime Minister is Sakalas Gorodetskis.
•Finance Minister - financier Alus Lekevicius.
•The Minister of Information is entrepreneur Vytautas Ratkevicius.
•The Minister of Foreign Affairs is an essayist, screenwriter Thomas Chepaitis.T
•The minister without portfolio is entrepreneur Vitas Machiulis.
The life-long President to the Republic of Uzhupis, Romas Lileikis,
is himself a poet, musician, and film director.
« ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS ARE THE MAIN PREOCCUPATION OF THE REPUBLIC »
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF UZHUPIS
The decision to place Uzhupis Day on April 1st may not be coincidental, emphasizing the importance of humor and nonimportance of “serious” political decisions.
FIGHT BOREDOM
Copies of the 39 articles of the Republic’s constitution and 3 mottos – “Don’t Fight”, “Don’t Win”, “Don’t Surrender” –
The charter, printed on large mirrored rectangles, hangs along the road known locally as the Avenue of Constitutions. More than 30 of these metal plates now line the wall, with Latin being the latest language to be hung – it was blessed by the Pope himself during his visit to the Baltics in September. The Avenue of Constitutions leads to the centre of the republic, where a statue of Archangel Gabriel, ‘The Angel of
Užupis’, was erected in 2002 as a symbol of growth and rebirth, his trumpet heralding a new free-thinking age for the nation.