With in a society who is both space based in principle and decentralized in nature, is there a such thing as patriotism? Can Asgardians find patriotism in non locality? What does that look like? What in today's world encourages ones dedication to ones country? isn't a controversial leader, the commitment of the countries warriors? or is it something more ethereal, can patriotism be found in an idea? Is the idea of Asgardia similar to that of a religion to maintain it's citizens commitment to country? What of matters dealing in National Asgardia Security?

As we are upon the closing of Asgardian elections, one thing is certain, everyone believes in this path, but do they know how to get us there. I would argue that to be no. Make no mistake, its no small feat to have launched a cube sat into space and have an exchange of information between Asgardia 1 and its terrestrial communication source, but the reality is...how do you accomplish your long term goals when before we as humans could even crawl, we needed to touch, taste, and see, everything around us.

Asgardia needs a home, it needs a space port to launch from, it needs a place to invite its citizens. Unless we all wish to move to Antarctica, landmass options are very limited.  However water is not, and new sources of green sustainable resources are ever increasing. Over the next several weeks I am going to post articles and research that will allow Asgardia to become a new sovereign nation built on an Artificial land mass, self powered, able to sustain its needs for food, water, and energy. As a nation we must first crawl....

https://www.quora.com/If-someone-were-to-build-an-artificial-island-in-international-waters-could-they-legally-declare-it-as-a-sovereign-nation-If-not-to-what-country-would-this-island-belong

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/quora/if-someone-were-to-build_b_3602289.html

There is no doubt that the United Nations with all of its political nuances makes it difficult for burgeoning countries such as Asgardia to reach Global legitimacy. Afterall, the UN can't even decide on the small strip of land called Isreal. If the UN existed in 1775, would the 13 colonies of the America's have been recognized?

Is there another way? Empires of great power over the ages have risen and fallen. Great alliances have joined in force and in peace, but how many in the last 1000 years of human history have remained constant and steadfast.

Like many examples in today's world were the ability to take part in legitimate enterprises with equally matched micro opportunities there exists success and opertunity, from the big investmennt traders of Americas Wall-street to the home office of a day trader, to the global currency exchanges of the world to the digital currencies like Bitcoin, from the global nations dictating policy for the world, there are Micro-nations, individually with a small voice but under a chartered United Micro-Nation (UMN) organization, Asgardia can find allies, investors, friends, and a common voice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations

Just How Is a Country Recognized?

From the Sealand wiki article:

In international law , the two most common schools of thought for the creation of statehood are the constitutive and declaratory theories of state creation. The constitutive theory was the standard nineteenth-century model of statehood, and the declaratory theory was developed in the twentieth century to address shortcomings of the constitutive theory. In the constitutive theory, a state exists exclusively via recognition by other states. The theory splits on whether this recognition requires "diplomatic recognition" or merely "recognition of existence".

Just How Is a Country Recognized?

From the Sealand wiki article:

In international law , the two most common schools of thought for the creation of statehood are the constitutive and declaratory theories of state creation. The constitutive theory was the standard nineteenth-century model of statehood, and the declaratory theory was developed in the twentieth century to address shortcomings of the constitutive theory. In the constitutive theory, a state exists exclusively via recognition by other states. The theory splits on whether this recognition requires "diplomatic recognition" or merely "recognition of existence".