Shavijan

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**Shavijan** is a micronation located inside California. It is a mere 12.8 acres. It has recently expanded to across a whole school, but that is only it. They even managed to get a canyon, named Silent Canyon. Silent Canyon sits at an elevation of 275'.

## History

Shavijan was created by two guys named Tony Austin and Ronin Álvarez. They are both really good friends in school and they decided to make their own country. They first started off with a lot of names. But then later, they ended up with Shavijan.

## Currency

They currently use the United States dollar. The plan was to make their own currency named the Shavijan dollar, but never got to making it. It was going to be inflated by 2x the United States dollar. Making $100 worth $200 in Shavijan. But, they decided that it was going to be way more confusing and they settled in on the United States dollar.

## Shavijan City

*Main article: Shavijan City*

Shavijan City is the largest city and capital of Shavijan. This place used to be a city state, meaning that this was the only city inside the country. The population used to be 3, but then boomed to 35.

## Population boom

On February 2, 2020, Shavijan experienced a massive population boom inside the country. It went from the population of 5, to 36 people.

Before this happened, Tony Austin; the current president of this country, gave his first speech. He was declaring a bunch of different things about Shavijan and the current jobs that are available. After this speech, the population was booming. It went from 5, to over 35 people in just a few minutes.

On 2/10/2020, they experienced another population boom. The president, Tony Austin at the time gave another speech. The country went from 36 to 57 in again, in a matter of minutes.

## Government switch

On 2/10/2020, the same day they experienced the 2nd population boom, Ronin Alvarez complained to Tony Austin that he should be president because he came up with the idea. After a complete discussion, Tony would drop down to Vice-President and let Ronin be president. But, Tony also wanted to be an astronaut. Since by Shavijan law that you cannot be more than 2 jobs at once when you are in the government, he decided he wanted to be an astronaut. So, Tony gave his Vice-President to Connor Wilborn. Then, Salvador Ruiz got promoted to Main Governor and Callen Martinez also got promoted to Armed Governor (A.K.A Riot and Control Governor). A Shavijan Times article was also made on this.

## Flag switch

Once Tony Austin was no longer president, Ronin Alvarez made a plan to instantly change the flag because of copyright reasons. Around two weeks later, he shared this idea with Salvador Ruiz. He liked the idea and then once Ronin was done with his job, he instantly got to work on some flags. He designed nine flag in a few days but the flags are currently not available to the public yet and have not been shown to anyone. As of 2/22/2020, this is still going down.

## Expansion

On 2/21/2020, a massive expansion happened that will probably change Shavijan for a lifetime. It was at a mere 12.8 acres but after this expansion, it grew rapidly to 54.7 acres. How? You may ask. Well, it's because they got 2 new areas of land. No, they didn't expand the main part of Shavijan. Instead, they got two new enclaves; Melrose and Waterleaf. These two enclaves are a huge part of Shavijan. It is where a lot of people live. Shavijan has also stated in the past that *"We will not expand to people's houses because of privacy reasons. When we release the map to the public, people can potentially have their addresses doxxed and we do not want to be responsible or cause any controversy between that."*