Become a citizen of Felicia
Before you ask to become a citizen of Felicia, some clarification is needed. The State of Felicia is a digital recreation of the fictional country of Felicia in the book series The Chronicle of Felicia by Jacques Persil. Therefore, the State of Felicia exists only on this website. It begins and ends on the pages of StateofFelicia.org.
It does not provide healthcare, student loans, or pension benefits. The government positions you may run for in the forum do not confer any authority outside this website. Their role is ceremonial and limited to the civic life of Felicia.
What the State of Felicia does give everyone who asks is guaranteed citizenship that cannot be taken away, a free vote, and a platform on which to exercise that vote. Many real countries in the world do not give you that.
In the book Centiki: Mirror of the State, the first volume of the series The Chronicle of Felicia by Jacques Persil, the State of Felicia is a fictional country built by political and climate refugees. It begins as an Antarctic colony built around the colossal golden mushroom and grows into a nation of nearly two billion immigrants and their descendants. Its significance lies not simply in creating a new country, but in creating a new kind of society that repeatedly rebuilds itself around two central questions:
How can human beings live together in harmony while making inequality bearable and happiness possible for everyone?
How do we shape an ethical enterprise that creates prosperity without damaging the environment or diminishing the quality of human life?
You will continue the same debates in the forum on this website. Here we rewrite the constitution of Felicia with every turn we take.
Why become a citizen of Felicia?
A fantasy country can be nothing more than entertainment. The State of Felicia was conceived with a purpose and a practical use in mind. It is a place for open social discourse that will ultimately make you a better citizen of your country and of the world. Felicia has physical dimensions only within the bounds of this website. But its citizens are real people, and that makes it alive. The State of Felicia will give your mind a place to exist and flourish. It makes the act of belonging tangible by granting you formal, free, inalienable citizenship and issuing a Proclamation of Rights in your own name. Like every citizen of fictional Felicia, you will receive a home: your own Colossal Golden Mushroom.
