Kennyite International Mission
| Omigodtheyclonedkenny Free Community of Nirvana Island Micronation |
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| Motto: i comply. | |||
 Location within Omigodtheykilledkenny (green)
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| Region | The Rejected Realms | ||
| Capital | Frisco Ferry | ||
| Largest city | Harper's Bay (claimed) | ||
| Government | Occupation/drum circle | ||
| - | Status | fractured and leaderless | |
| Population | |||
| - | 2015 estimate | 2,500 (claimed) | |
| Currency | free-tiddy | ||
Omigodtheyclonedkenny is an ongoing occupation protest, claiming to be an independent nation, on the tiny sub-Antarctic outpost of Harper's Island. Legally the island is administered by the Kennyite state of Marsh Islands. It contains a single settlement, unaffiliated with the occupiers, known as Harper's Bay, on the east shore. The "occupation" is a small tent city on the west shore, centered around an abandoned ferry dock, known as Frisco Ferry. At the height of the protests, there were hundreds of activists regularly occupying the ferry; as the years passed, most of them went home, but small groups of committed occupiers still take shifts holding the fort.
Nirvana Island
In 2006, a bunch of filthy hippies with no jobs or prospects attempted to paper over their mediocrity by proclaiming themselves "rebels" against the "tyranny and oppression" of "the Fernanda regime," and sailing out to a little-known island on the outskirts of Omigodtheykilledkenny to establish a new nation, free from the Kennyites' "corporate dictatorship." The protest attracted modest media attention, and in all about 500 people managed to sign up to "occupy" Harper's Island. They renamed it "Nirvana Island," and designed a flag for it -- which was the subject of ridicule on the mainland, since it looked so much like one of the Federal Republic's variant flags. Kennyite commentators likened "Nirvana Island's" denizens to the mindless clones of the Star Wars franchise; Ann Coulter began to mock them as "Omigodtheyclonedkenny," and much to the chagrin of the occupiers, the name stuck.
Jurisdiction
One thing the protesters had overlooked was the fact that Harper's Island already had people on it -- Kennyite citizens, no less. This was swiftly sorted by passing out Nirvana Island "passports" to the townspeople and officially presenting a copy of their flag at town hall. When the town started to fly the flag ironically, the occupiers took it to mean they recognized Nirvana Island's sovereignty, and officially claimed Harper's Bay as part of the country. This also allowed the protesters to go into town for supplies "without crossing international borders," which they saw as a plus.
According to a resolution passed by the first occupation drum circle, Nirvana Island would respect no laws except as the World Assembly dictated. In a sense, they literally decided that the WA did need to "hold their hand for everything." The State Department eventually told them they would hold them to their word, and in 2009 "ceded" control of the island to the gnomes, as the setting of a proposed World Assembly spinoff chronicling the idiocy of WA laws in an actual community. Unfortunately, the show never got off the ground.
