Empire of Atlantium

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Empire of Atlantium Imperium Atlantium
Micronation (unrecognised entity)
Location of Atlantium's Concordia Capital District in New South Wales, Australia
Type	primarily non-territorial
Claimed by	George Francis Cruickshank
Dates claimed	27 November 1981–present
Website www.atlantium.org

The Empire of Atlantium is a micronation and secular, pluralist progressive lobby group^[1] based in New South Wales, Australia.

Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations described Atlantium in 2006 as "a refreshing antidote to the reactionary self-aggrandisement of so many micronations", and "an extremely sophisticated nation-state experiment, as well as an entirely serious claimant to legitimate statehood". The book's entry on Atlantium notes its espousal of "progressive, liberal policies" and characterises it as a "secular humanist utopia".^[2]

Among the causes Atlantium supports are the right to unrestricted international freedom of movement, the right to abortion, the right to assisted suicide^[3] and decimal calendar reform.^[4]

In 2015, the micronation had almost 3,000 "citizens", most of whom signed up online from over a hundred countries, and have never been to Atlantium.^[5][6]