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[Julian Szembek-Michelloti]

Wymiana myśli pomiędzy mikrozofią i micropatriology byłaby niezwykle interesująca!

I might as well do my part here and try to explain what micropatriology is. The more technical version of what I'll say can be found here.

Micropatriology, similar to microsophy, seeks to study the micronational world; whether or not there is some sort of difference between the two (besides one being localized to the v-sector, and the other not so much) is really anyone's guess. I'd venture to say there isn't that much of a difference, personally.

Currently, there are two "strains" (so to speak) of micropatriology, classical and postclassical. Classical micropatriology generally consists of a paradigm that is organized into a spectrum of "simulationist" and "secessionist" micronations (the first type mainly existing as some sort of political simulation, the other seeking to imitate real-life countries / 'macronations' and aiming for international recognition, no matter how ridiculous it sounds) and has existed more or less since the 2000s (though I have strong belief that its predecessors go back the 1980s and 90s, in Hutt River & Talossa. I do want to note that, even though Talossa and such have previously been described in years past as v-states, they claimed legitimate territory and tried to act as macronations would, so such a categorization is dubious at best).

The other strain, "postclassical micropatriology", was developed around 2021 and was intended originally to "rehabilitate" classical micropatriology, though it has since gone its own way. Postclassical micropatriology primarily focuses on one of two things: either on the cultural development of a micronation (e.g. New Secessionism in Anglophony and socioculturalism in Lusophony way before that) or on the complete upheaval of classical micropatriology with something different (e.g. the "political theology of micronations" and the so-called Hewittian micropatriology, of which not much information exists online), or some combination of the two. 

Hopefully, this served as a brief (yet decent) introduction to micropatriology. I do hope that in years to come there is more contact between micropatriologists and microsophists (if there's any difference between the two), though this is probably a pipe dream since there are so few people researching the field of micropatriology in Anglophony. We might as well keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best.