What is Kazantip?
The important facts about Kazantip Republic:
1. What is Kazantip? The eternal question
2. I think, wherefore I exist. I've thought It up, wherefore it exists
3. The Kazantip Republic through the eyes of normal people
4. History of the Kazantip Republic
5. Game rules
6. The Constitution of the Kazantip Republic
7. The Criminal Code of the Kazantip Republic
What is Kazantip? The eternal question
I think, wherefore I exist. I've thought It up, wherefore it exists
The Kazantip Republic through the eyes of normal people
History of the Kazantip Republic
It all happened back in 1992 starting as a windsurfing competition that brought together 78 participants and 600 devotees. To make their hanging out at the shore merrier, the prospective preZident of the KaZantip Republic – the president of the Russian Windsurfing Association at that time – simply switched on some little sound on the beach. The next year, even more devotees got there and among them were DJs, who carried their LPs just to keep from getting bored.
The competition was held at the peninsula called Kazantip, not far from the derelict nuclear power station. It had been left incomplete right after the Chernobyl disaster and standing alone in the middle of the field as a tremendous and unimaginable piece of Hollywood scenery set up for apocalyptic movie. And in 1997, the PreZident committed the act of pure kazantypical madness and threw 5000 people party “The Night at the Reactor”, which established a tradition of the Nuclear Nights and went down in the history of Russian rave movement.
In seven years, championship evolved from a small mix of surfers and their friends – young progressives, recreationists, extreme sports enthusiasts, musicians, DJs and journalists – to “the festival of everything related to sea, sex and summer”. A bit underground, but yet international, this open-air happening took place every august and lasted for two weeks. In 1999, it was already attended by 12 000 people.
In 2000, the festival was forced to change its place. Since then, it has no longer been a festival, but a republic. The Independent Orange KaZantip Republic that can freely move in space, wherever the president wants and where the nation is better off. The KaZantip Republic borrowed the name from the headland it occupied early on and enticed its devout followers away to become the Great Nation ruled by a small preZident.
For a couple of years the Republic was wondering around and every august it was necessarily to hunt out its uncharted location before getting there. However, since 2001 it has stationed itself where you can find it now – in little village Popovka, on the Black Sea coast of Crimea peninsula.
From then onward, The Kazantip Republic has had its own small area separated from the entire world. There are all the things its citiZens need for life – bars, restaurants, www, first-aid posts, comfort stations, visa application center, customhouse, and above all - dancehalls and stages.
Orange became the national color of the Republic, sunglasses, shorts and I-shirts turned to the national clothes and an old-fashioned yellow suitcase got to be the main national symbol granting visa-free entry. As such, a viZa regime has been finally introduced.
The Utopian Kazantip Republic has always lived under a variety of dreamy slogans like “THE BEST LAND EVER" “YOU WERE JUST DREAMING AND YOU STILL ARE” “NEXT ONES TO BE HELD ON MARS”
Last year The Kazantip Republic had admitted that all its citiZens are completely insane and proclaimed itself a lunatic asylum. And you know what? It’s not too far from the truth :]
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Game rules
The Constitution of the Kazantip Republic
Article One
Article Two
Article Three
Article Four
Article Five
Article Six
Article Seven
Belief in the reality of miracles is the official religion of the state. CitiZens of other faiths aren’t subject to legal prosecution, but thought to be cynical realists better not to mess with for the sake of keeping the faith. Allegedly, so much the worse for them.
Article Eight
Article Nine
Article Ten
Article Eleven
Article Twelve
Article Thirteen
Article Fourteen
The State Fetishes of the Kazantip Republic:
- Republican ViZa
- Yellow suitcase with chromed corners of a standard pattern.
- Mantras:
* FOR THE LIFE WITH NO PANTS, FOR SUMMER AROUND THE WORLD!
* LET THINGS BE THE WAY WE WANT, FOR WE WANT NOTHING WRONG!
* HELL ALL UP, THIS LAND IS OURS!
Article Fifteen
Article Sixteen
The Criminal Code of the Kazantip Republic
Article One
Article Two
Article Three
The important facts about Kazantip Republic:
1. What is Kazantip? The eternal question
2. I think, wherefore I exist. I've thought It up, wherefore it exists
3. The Kazantip Republic through the eyes of normal people
4. History of the Kazantip Republic
5. Game rules
6. The Constitution of the Kazantip Republic
7. The Criminal Code of the Kazantip Republic
What is Kazantip? The eternal question
What is KaZantip? - Huh, as if we know the answer!
We’ve been groping for it since 1992 and it's still somewhere out there. We hope, you too couldn’t satisfy the most important question of your life “Who am I?” in a few words. And we don’t mean your name or occupation.
What we know for a fact is what we are not. For example, we know beyond all doubt that we are not a festival, as the press is fond of saying. (We prefer the word “project”) And we are not the Kazantip headland in somewhat far Crimea peninsula, as the Google Maps would tell you, though that’s the very place we initially went from. However, Google Maps will never tell you where to find a very small and tiny – smaller than The Vatican City and tinier than Monaco – over-enclosed land not for every one -- The KaZantip Republic, though that’s what we truly are.
So, given this, now you know that The KaZantip Republic is a nonexistent state somewhere under the sun, which may remind to onlookers something of a festival.
Not bad so far, right?
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We’ve been groping for it since 1992 and it's still somewhere out there. We hope, you too couldn’t satisfy the most important question of your life “Who am I?” in a few words. And we don’t mean your name or occupation.
What we know for a fact is what we are not. For example, we know beyond all doubt that we are not a festival, as the press is fond of saying. (We prefer the word “project”) And we are not the Kazantip headland in somewhat far Crimea peninsula, as the Google Maps would tell you, though that’s the very place we initially went from. However, Google Maps will never tell you where to find a very small and tiny – smaller than The Vatican City and tinier than Monaco – over-enclosed land not for every one -- The KaZantip Republic, though that’s what we truly are.
So, given this, now you know that The KaZantip Republic is a nonexistent state somewhere under the sun, which may remind to onlookers something of a festival.
Not bad so far, right?
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I think, wherefore I exist. I've thought It up, wherefore it exists
The KaZantip Republic came along with other ideas from the head of a man who was badly displeased with the ordinary and mediocre world around him. He didn't try to criticize it, or worse, to fix it, he simply created his own one - his own Orange Land with its own, more fair laws, and made himself its PreZident.
And since it's all due to his imagination, The KaZantip Republic is an imaginary republic. It's pretty small, the area is about 2 km2 of beach in the territory of really existing neighboring state Ukraine, which is definitely no fancies. All in all, the land area where the laws of your dreams are valued more than any generally accepted laws shouldn't necessarily be too large. The point is to have it your way.
The tiny KaZantip Republic exists in a parallel reality, and everything here goes the way the PreZident came up with: "summer all year round" and "life with no pants". The sun is shining, the sea is swinging, the music is singing on every side and the wind is always blowing strong enough for flying with a kite. You can do nothing, if you want nothing to do with doing something or you can do everything you want the way you want it.
This small land of the rising fun is peopled not with damn boring grown-ups, but with cheerful bronzed lazybones, not really eager to say goodbye to their childhood, as well as their PreZident himself. The nonexistence of the KaZantip Republic for the rest of the exhausted world makes its significant independency. It lives by its own constitution; it has its own great nation, small president and lolable government, responsible for the most important things in the state, such as sound and light, love and good humour, virtual deeds and illusions. There is also a visa regime, a bureau of customs, national traditions and the official religion - belief in the reality of miracles. So, and all that jaZZZ.
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And since it's all due to his imagination, The KaZantip Republic is an imaginary republic. It's pretty small, the area is about 2 km2 of beach in the territory of really existing neighboring state Ukraine, which is definitely no fancies. All in all, the land area where the laws of your dreams are valued more than any generally accepted laws shouldn't necessarily be too large. The point is to have it your way.
The tiny KaZantip Republic exists in a parallel reality, and everything here goes the way the PreZident came up with: "summer all year round" and "life with no pants". The sun is shining, the sea is swinging, the music is singing on every side and the wind is always blowing strong enough for flying with a kite. You can do nothing, if you want nothing to do with doing something or you can do everything you want the way you want it.
This small land of the rising fun is peopled not with damn boring grown-ups, but with cheerful bronzed lazybones, not really eager to say goodbye to their childhood, as well as their PreZident himself. The nonexistence of the KaZantip Republic for the rest of the exhausted world makes its significant independency. It lives by its own constitution; it has its own great nation, small president and lolable government, responsible for the most important things in the state, such as sound and light, love and good humour, virtual deeds and illusions. There is also a visa regime, a bureau of customs, national traditions and the official religion - belief in the reality of miracles. So, and all that jaZZZ.
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The Kazantip Republic through the eyes of normal people
When it comes to what other, relatively more normal people think of our imaginary world, it's a big international annual club culture festival held in summer at the Black Sea coast of Crimea, Ukraine (Russia’s neighboring, ex-USSR country). It starts in late July and ends in late August, attracting over 100 000 attendees. The event features hundreds of best DJs, dancers, musicians, performers and other creative minds from around the world.
Despite its smallness, republic can afford about 6 dance floors, 30 bars and restaurants, 2 open air cinema halls, 3 kitesurfing stations and an amount of weird architectural structures. All of this is fitted with light and sound and, when the night comes down, looks pretty much like an extraterrestrial space base.
Most commonly normal people compare the KaZantip Republic with Ibiza and Burning Man. It probably seems to them that the KaZantip Republic as well as Ibiza is just a month long open-air party near the sea -- DJs, beautiful girls, dancers and never-ending show. Or, like Burning Man, it's a hangout for freaks and psychos obsessed with self-expression and neo paganism of fire worship.
Right, it's quite prestigious here to be a real freak, so the PreZident of the Republic is the first freak of all - absolutely one of a kind. That’s why everybody who happened to get here is going slightly mad. A little mad. Perhaps, as mad as hatter.
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Most commonly normal people compare the KaZantip Republic with Ibiza and Burning Man. It probably seems to them that the KaZantip Republic as well as Ibiza is just a month long open-air party near the sea -- DJs, beautiful girls, dancers and never-ending show. Or, like Burning Man, it's a hangout for freaks and psychos obsessed with self-expression and neo paganism of fire worship.
Right, it's quite prestigious here to be a real freak, so the PreZident of the Republic is the first freak of all - absolutely one of a kind. That’s why everybody who happened to get here is going slightly mad. A little mad. Perhaps, as mad as hatter.
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History of the Kazantip Republic
It all happened back in 1992 starting as a windsurfing competition that brought together 78 participants and 600 devotees. To make their hanging out at the shore merrier, the prospective preZident of the KaZantip Republic – the president of the Russian Windsurfing Association at that time – simply switched on some little sound on the beach. The next year, even more devotees got there and among them were DJs, who carried their LPs just to keep from getting bored.
The competition was held at the peninsula called Kazantip, not far from the derelict nuclear power station. It had been left incomplete right after the Chernobyl disaster and standing alone in the middle of the field as a tremendous and unimaginable piece of Hollywood scenery set up for apocalyptic movie. And in 1997, the PreZident committed the act of pure kazantypical madness and threw 5000 people party “The Night at the Reactor”, which established a tradition of the Nuclear Nights and went down in the history of Russian rave movement.
In seven years, championship evolved from a small mix of surfers and their friends – young progressives, recreationists, extreme sports enthusiasts, musicians, DJs and journalists – to “the festival of everything related to sea, sex and summer”. A bit underground, but yet international, this open-air happening took place every august and lasted for two weeks. In 1999, it was already attended by 12 000 people.
In 2000, the festival was forced to change its place. Since then, it has no longer been a festival, but a republic. The Independent Orange KaZantip Republic that can freely move in space, wherever the president wants and where the nation is better off. The KaZantip Republic borrowed the name from the headland it occupied early on and enticed its devout followers away to become the Great Nation ruled by a small preZident.
For a couple of years the Republic was wondering around and every august it was necessarily to hunt out its uncharted location before getting there. However, since 2001 it has stationed itself where you can find it now – in little village Popovka, on the Black Sea coast of Crimea peninsula.
From then onward, The Kazantip Republic has had its own small area separated from the entire world. There are all the things its citiZens need for life – bars, restaurants, www, first-aid posts, comfort stations, visa application center, customhouse, and above all - dancehalls and stages.
Orange became the national color of the Republic, sunglasses, shorts and I-shirts turned to the national clothes and an old-fashioned yellow suitcase got to be the main national symbol granting visa-free entry. As such, a viZa regime has been finally introduced.
The Utopian Kazantip Republic has always lived under a variety of dreamy slogans like “THE BEST LAND EVER" “YOU WERE JUST DREAMING AND YOU STILL ARE” “NEXT ONES TO BE HELD ON MARS”
Last year The Kazantip Republic had admitted that all its citiZens are completely insane and proclaimed itself a lunatic asylum. And you know what? It’s not too far from the truth :]
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Game rules
If you have no interest in a month-long dance party, and still you find a trip to the nonexistent republic pretty tempting, firstly you should take a closer look at social the structure and political system of KaZantip.
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The Constitution of the Kazantip Republic
Article One
The KaZantip Republic is movable state, which has borders, but no stable area and can occasionally change its position in space.
Any populated locality that happened to be in the center of the republic even by its own surprise, automatically becomes the Capital of the Republic.
Any populated locality that happened to be in the center of the republic even by its own surprise, automatically becomes the Capital of the Republic.
Article Two
The KaZantip Republic is a (former) democratic republic headed by a tyrannical president.
In presidential election held once a year, the PreZident successfully reelects himself, thus ensuring continuity of the totalitarian democratic power.
Article Three
The Executive and Legislative powers are exercised collectively by the Cabinet of the Ministers composed of activists of various kinds of activity, usually sprung from the people. The Minister's duties include swelling with importance, fabrication of legislations and pretending to be in charge.
Article Four
The KaZantip Republic is a Utopian society focused on achieving the impossible - freedom from social, political and historical clichés, sophistication of citizenship, democracy, culture and order. Since it doesn't work that way, the Republic is considered nonexistent.
Article Five
Holder of a multiple entry visa is regarded as a citiZen of the Republic. Persons possessing a transit or tourist one shall be granted asylum on a first-come, first-served basis and immediately afforded the same rights as the rest of the citiZens.
Article Six
BE THE ONE YOU WANNA BE AND LIVE YOUR LIFE YOUR WAY is an indispensable constitutional right of a citiZen. FROM THE ONE YOU ARE TO THE ONE YOU COULD BE is a constitutional duty. CitiZens neglecting their rights and duties are considered to be idiots and… they may thank themselves for that.
Article Seven
Belief in the reality of miracles is the official religion of the state. CitiZens of other faiths aren’t subject to legal prosecution, but thought to be cynical realists better not to mess with for the sake of keeping the faith. Allegedly, so much the worse for them.
Article Eight
Corn on the cob and fried sunflower seeds are the national food of the KaZantip citiZens.
Article Nine
The beach, the sea, the sun, the sky, the palms and the girls serve the purpose of the state and are protected by the law.
Article Ten
Creative intellectuals are the most privileged class of the KaZantip society granted with preferences for getting minister’s portfolios, a legal right to jump the toilet queue and an entitlement to be nationally acclaimed.
Article Eleven
Freaks are considered to be the National treasure protected by the Ministry of Culture.
Article Twelve
Kitesurfing is the National Sport of the Republic. CitiZen’s ability to fly guarantees upper-class affiliation and is exceedingly supported by the government.
Article Thirteen
A piece of music able to give the PreZident goose bumps is deemed the National Anthem of the Republic. Year by year any new work written and composed by any musically capable citiZen may become the National Anthem, provided its ingeniousness and goose bumps’ large-caliberness and agility.
Article Fourteen
The State Fetishes of the Kazantip Republic:
- Republican ViZa
- Yellow suitcase with chromed corners of a standard pattern.
- Mantras:
* FOR THE LIFE WITH NO PANTS, FOR SUMMER AROUND THE WORLD!
* LET THINGS BE THE WAY WE WANT, FOR WE WANT NOTHING WRONG!
* HELL ALL UP, THIS LAND IS OURS!
Article Fifteen
On the whole territory of the Republic love is welcome and encouraged in all of its aspects, but sexual promiscuity. For the avoidance of doubt, there is a special social institute - FAST MARRIED, meant to legitimate citiZens’ relationships. CitiZens suddenly fallen in love with each other may effect quickie marriage in heaven, i.e. get through The Fast Married ceremony. Quantity of heaven-made wedlocks FM is not limited.
And God bless your unions!
Article Sixteen
The Constitution of the KaZantip Republic is the supreme law of the KaZantip Republic required to be read (at least once) by all citiZens of the Republic.
The Constitution may be supplemented and modernized ad libitum in accordance with the inspiration of the legislative power and the PreZident.
Ignorance of the constitutional provision excuses no citiZen for the consequences of inobservance.
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The Constitution may be supplemented and modernized ad libitum in accordance with the inspiration of the legislative power and the PreZident.
Ignorance of the constitutional provision excuses no citiZen for the consequences of inobservance.
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The Criminal Code of the Kazantip Republic
Article One
Peeing in an unapproved place is considered a crime in the territory of the Kazantip Republic. Citizen who didn’t manage to run up to the nearest free public toilet will be arrested by the Security Service, fined and deported from the republic. (Visa revocation)
Article Two
Incitement of ethnic hatred and unleashing of chauvinistic sentiments within the territory of the Kazantip Republic is considered one of the most enormous offences against the national ideology which means to achieve the world supremacy through peaceful means i.e. through accumulation the brightest, the most cheerful and genial people from the entire planet. Citizens seen sabotaging the hospitality policy will be arrested by the Morality Police of the Kazantip Republic and deported ruthlessly regardless of their status or ethnicity.
Article Three
Sexual harassment and caddish behavior towards citizens of the Kazantip Republic, however easy to get they may look is penalized under the Criminal Code as severely as any other crime – with deportation. Besides, despite the prevailing atmosphere of free and easy nudism, promiscuous sexual relations in an inappropriate places are by no means welcome in the republic. The Fast Married institution (Article 15) is intended to regulate sex life of citizens, so, if anything, the Morality Police won’t hesitate to catch you butt naked in the act of wrongdoing.
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