Zitser Spiritual Republic

In 1992, a group of young people in the village of Tresnjevac (Magyar: Oromhegyes), close to Serbia's border with Hungary, barricaded themselves in the pizza parlor of the Magyar Cultural Center resisting draft. They declared "independence" and "sovereignty" of their pizza parlor, naming it Zitser Spiritual Republic. Making it completely official, they adopted a Constitution (which declared that their "state" has no borders - since it exists only in the spirit, no army and therefore does not go to wars), a coat of arms (slice of pizza surrounded by three billiard balls) and an anthem (Ravel's Bollero). After briefly surrounding them with heavy artillery and detaining several members of ZSR government, Serbia gave up on drafting them (probably prompted by sudden maneuvers of Hungarian army along the border). They are still around.

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