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Kingdom of Sorrenia (English)
Tiarnas Sorrenya (Cumbric)
Teyrnas Sorrenia (Welsh)
Næluŕtoomerp ul Sorrenia (Mezerizeb)

Sorrenian emblem.png
National emblem

The North Stands Proud
Highland Cathedral

Northern England
Capital cityDurham
Largest cityLeeds
Official language(s)English (British English, Northumbrian dialects) and Cumbric
Various regional languages
Official religion(s)Catholicism
GovernmentUnitary Constitutional Monarchy
- KingKing Ronald
- Prime MinisterLlewelyn Lawton
LegislatureKing's Council
Area claimed26,400km2 (estimate)
Population4.95mn (estimate)
CurrencySorrenian Rosmerta
Pound Sterling
Time zoneSorrenian Standard Time
National dishHaggis
National drinkNewcastle Brown Ale
National animalLambton Worm
Patron saintSaint Cuthbert

Map of Sorrenia

The Kingdom of Sorrenia (Cumbric: Tiarnas Sorrenya), also occasionally known as the New Kingdom of Northumbria is a micronation claiming sovereignty over all of Northern England. Founded in 2013 as the Sorrenian Federation, the Kingdom now claims almost 29,000 km2 of land which is divided into nineteen counties. The entirety of Sorrenia's claim is located in Great Britain, and is part of one contiguous mass.


The name "Sorrenia" is an adaptation of "Sorrento", a small town in southern Italy, near Naples.



Sorrenia's direct predecessor was the Democratic People's Republic of Kozlova, founded in June of 2012. The idea of micronationalism was first introduced to the founders of Sorrenia by Rilgar Ompastre, a friend from school who had earlier founded Dalton, which later became Dradelia.

Martin Aquinas, Dominik of Kozlova, and Lewis Wild, were enthused by the idea, and founded Kozlova together. Intended to be a communist nation, Kozlova was nevertheless generally dismissive of soviet-style politics, and open to multi-party elections.

Kozlova saw an immediate burst of activity, and reached a population of ten citizens. By the end of 2012 however, Kozlova had entered into a period of inactivity. This was exacerbated when Lewis Wild left, founding Yavaria; Dominik followed suit, leaving micronationalism altogether. Kozlova entered into a period of dormancy, while several ex-Kozlovans took the opportunity to secede, founding anti-Kozlovan micronations.

By the summer of 2013, the remaining Kozlovan rump state entered into negotiations with the rebel micronations, who collectively agreed to disband their micronations and form a new one. This new micronation, named Sorrenia, was to retain an egalitarian and multi-party ethos, while abandoning references to communism. The Sorrenian Federation was officially created in November of 2013.

Sorrenian Federation

War of the Sorrenian Succession

Map of the War of Succession Battles
Gold: New Monarchists victory
Red: Socialist League victory
Blue: Dradelian victory
Brown: Morgannwgydd victory
Grey: Inconclusive result

After several years of hiatus, a group of leftists located in Bowburn and Sherburn formed the Socialist League, with the explicit intention of overthrowing the State of Sorrenia and reforming the Federation. Adam Scargill emerged as a leader of the League, with Harold Wanton leading the Sherburn contingent. Only a small number of the League however had participated in the Sorrenian Federation, and most were new to micronationalism altogether.

The League saw great success, first pushing State troops from southern Sorrenia, after which they attacked Durham, seizing the historic capital of Levaria. As the League saw successes in the south and east however, a disparate number of groups began to organise in the north and west; fearful of a return to socialism, conservatives, monarchists, and centrists coalesced around King Ronald I, who hoped to establish a new monarchy in Sorrenia.

The two groups first met each other in Bernicia, where they fought over a store of armaments. Led by Michael Disraeli and Phillip Pompeia, the Royal Army defeated the socialists, securing a major victory.


Scargill and the remnants of the League retreated to Horden, where they were beset upon by the Dradelian National Army. Close to defeat, the Socialists were ironically saved by an invasion of Dradelia by the Sorrenian Royal Army. The DNA turned to face the royalists to the north, but were soundly defeated, resulting in the incorporation of Dradelia once again into Sorrenia.

In response, the Kingdom of Morgannwg launched a surprise attack on Sorrenia from the south, seizing Bowburn and Ertawa. The Royal Army speedily departed to Ertawa, where they met Morgannwgydd forces in Brancepeth, once again securing a victory. The Morgannwgydd defeat at Brancepeth, followed up by a defeat in Eryn Galen, led to the incorporation of Morgannwg (renamed Amon Lasgalen) into Sorrenia.

On the fourth of April, 2018, Ronald I announced a complete and total victory, and was crowned King of Sorrenia and Dradelia, Amon Lasgalen, Morgannwg, and Duke of Creton, birthing the Kingdom of Sorrenia.

The War of the Sorrenian Succession had a lasting impact on Sorrenia. Ronald's successes allowed him to create a powerful monarchy with many executive and legislative powers, far beyond what the moderates within his coalition intended. Many leading Sorrenian politicians, such as Harold Wanton, Michael Disraeli, Phillip Pompeia, Llewelyn Lawton, and others, took part in the War, and engrained political divisions emerged from the dissatisfaction of the socialists and Dradelian nationalists with the result.

Foundations and the Great Expansion

The Kingdom's early period was marked by the construction of a new Sorrenian Constitution, attempts to address continued insurgency in Dradelia, and early elections for the King's Council. Though it was clear King Ronald was to play some political role, his coalition that won the War of Succession contained many moderates and centrists who envisaged a constitutional monarchy with strict limitations on the king's power. Others, including Ronald himself, wished to vest most executive power within the King himself.

The April 2018 election resulted in a New Monarchist-Old Monarchist coalition government, happy to formalise a system granting Ronald a wide array of powers. For the first month however, power arrangements were largely ad hoc, with few institutions' rules adequately laid out. It was not until the 5th of June that the new constitution was ratified.

The new constitution was controversial on two counts. Firstly, it angered many centrists and moderates by granting the monarch significant executive and legislative powers. King Ronald was given the power to raise and alter taxes, seize private goods, act as a supreme adjudicator in legal matters, create and disband subsidiary organisations, and veto decisions made by the newly created Papal Directorate (the King also received a permanent seat in Sorrenia's unicameral legislature). This Directorate was the second controversy; Ronald took the decision to designate Roman Catholicism as the new state religion of Sorrenia, despite the nation's history of secularism and large population of Anglicans and non-believers. An ecclesiastical court named the Papal Directorate was established, with the power to implement new policies related to social and moral matters. The constitution caused most moderates to abandon the New Monarchists, most of whom joined the NDLP.

By the June 2018 election, Richard Brooker - head of the Old Monarchists - began to envisage a massive extension in Sorrenia's territorial claim, matched with a reimagination of the Sorrenian project altogether. Brooker is generally attributed with the introduction of Northumbrianism into Sorrenian politics, a school of cultural theory emphasising the distinct history of northern England and Sorrenia's connection to this unique history and culture.

Brooker introduced his idea through a number of conversations with the king, who was quickly convinced. Together they formed the Cuthbert Council, consisting also of Michael Disraeli, Peter Otterson, Mark Rawlton and eventually Republican leader Martin Aquinas. Concerned that the immediate publication of their ideas would lead to outright dismissal, the Council collaborated to introduce the ideas into their respective parties.

July 2018 - November 2018: Monarchist Dominance

November 2018 - November 2019: NDLP Surge

November 2019 - January 2020: The Tumultuous Months







Administrative Divisions





HM Frankland, a Category A prison located in New Durham
Blanchland, the largest village located in the Western Territory
Flag Emblem Name Representatives
Durham Area
Eurania Flag.png BerniciaCOA1.png Bernicia 1x New Monarchists
1x The Republicans
1x Christian Alliance
Bowburn Flag.png BowburnCOA.png Bowburn 1x NDLP
Dunelm Flag.png Durham Crest.gif Dunelm 1x New Monarchists
New Durham Flag.png Durham Crest.gif South Durham 1x New Monarchists
Ertawa.JPG Ertawa 1x Christian Alliance
Cadets flag.png ConsettCOA.jpg Great Derwent 2x New Monarchists
ESC Flag.png Sherburn 1x The Republicans
Durham Uni Flag.png Uni arms.png University Town 1x NDLP
Tyne-Wear Area
VRD Flag.png Dradelian Emblem.png Dradelia 1x DRF
Newcastleflag.png NewcastleCOA.png Newcastle 5x The Republicans
Flag of Northumberland.svg.png NorthumbriaCOA.png Northumberland 3x New Monarchists
Sunderland.png SunderlandCOA.png Sunderland 2x The Republicans
1x New Monarchists
Tees Area
Amon Lasgalen Flag.png Coat of arms of Amon Lasgalen.png Amon Lasgalen 1x NDLP
Middlesbrough COA.jpg Teesside 1x The Republicans
1x New Monarchists
Yorkshire Area
Hortania Flag.png HortaniaCOA.jpg Hortania 3x HNP
1x The Republicans
HullCOA.jpg Humberside 1x The Republicans
Yorkshire.png YorkshireRose.png Yorkshire 2x New Monarchists
North-west Area
Cumbria.jpg CumbriaCOA.jpg Cumbria 3x NDLP
Lancashireflag.jpg LancasterCOA.png Lancashire 1x NDLP






Political Parties





Party Name Logo Leader Position Seats in the King's Council Seats in the Papal Directorate
The Republicans The Republicans.png Harold Wanton Left (Republican)
18 / 58
0 / 5
New Democratic-Liberty Party Ndlplogo3.png Llewelyn Lawton Centre-left (Konpantzian)
17 / 58
1 / 5
New Monarchists New-Monarchists.png King Ronald Right (Monarchist)
14 / 58
3 / 5
Christian Alliance Christian Alliance.png Richard Brooker Right (Monarchist/Millomist)
4 / 58
1 / 5
Hortanian National Party HNP2.png Damian Billbrough Centre-right (Monarchist/Millomist)
3 / 58
0 / 5
Dradelian Revolutionary Front VRD Flag.png Rilgar Ompastre Left (Separatist)
1 / 58
0 / 5
Communist Party of Sorrenia Cpsflogo.png Adam Scargill Left (Republican)
1 / 58
0 / 5



A modern rendition of the Lambton Worm, Sorrenia's national animal










Sorrenian Federation

Sorrenia Rap Radio, a music station playing hip hop




Kingdom of Sorrenia



English is by far the most understood and practised language in Sorrenia, with effectively all Sorrenians understanding the language. Sorrenian Cumrbic is also an official language derived from the Cumbric language, once spoken in Northern England before the invasion of the Anglo-Saxons; it is only used sparingly for cultural purposes, with no citizens speaking it daily.


Cultural minorities may often speak several other languages, often as their language of choice. Examples include Welsh, Hindi, Urdu and Hebrew.


The 2009 University College vs. Newcastle University Regatta



Along with the more popular sports, many of the active citizens enjoy ice hockey, with the Los Angeles Kings being the most popular team from the NHL. Rowing is also very popular, given its prevalence at Durham University. The Durham Regatta is an annual event in which Durham colleges compete against crews from as far afield as the Netherlands.

Foreign Relations

After several years of stagnation, inter-micronational diplomacy in Sorrenia has suffered. The Kingdom recognises many macronational nations, but possesses formal recognition from only one country - the Republic of Oxford.

Recognised, no relations

Mutual recognition


Northern England has a rich academic history. Durham University is the third oldest university in England, and the seventh oldest in the United Kingdom. Since receiving its royal charcter in 1837, the university has been one of the most prestigious faculties of higher learning in the world, and has completely transformed the city of Durham due to the influx of students and academics.

In 1904, the red brick University of Leeds was founded, and though granted a charter only in 1963, Newcastle University traces its history back to the School of Medicine and Surgery, established in 1834. The University of Hull was founded in 1927 as University College Hull, receiving a charter in 1954.

The 1960s saw an emergence of many universities throughout the United Kingdom. In Northern England, one saw the establishment of the University of York (1963), Newcastle University (1963) and Lancaster University (1964). With the passage of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, many polytechnics were converted into universities, including Leeds Beckett University (1992), Northumbria University (1992), the University of Sunderland (1992), Teesside University (1992), York St John University (2006) and Leeds Trinity University (2012).

Many Sorrenian universities retain a prestigious academic record: Durham, Lancaster and York consistently rank in the top ten of British universities, while Durham and York are members of the Russell Group alongside Newcastle and Leeds.

The sole micronational faculty of higher learning present in Sorrenia is the University of Sorrenia. Located in Durham, the university also offers online teaching, predominantly on the arts and humanities. The university also offers an introductory course to the history, culture and political institutions of the Kingdom of Sorrenia and the Sorrenian people. The course does not confer a degree, but is required to become a Sorrenian citizen (with an exception granted to citizens of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland).







Age and Gender





Historically, the area consisting of Sorrenia was ethnically diverse - it included the remnants of Celtic tribes, Anglo-Saxon migrants who formed the powerful Kingdom of Northumbria, Viking raiders who in turn settled into the region, and Pictish/Scottish migrants who regularly entered the region throughout its long history.






The Roman Catholic Church is the official state religion of Sorrenia, although leniency is granted to the county of Amon Lasgalen who have a long tradition of Anglicanism. Here, the Amon Lasgalen Church acts as the official county religion. The Methodist Mezerizeb people are also granted additional religious provisions, with the Mezerizeb Church consisting of three churches in two counties. The Sorrenian Mosque also operates as a country-wide organisation uniting the many mosques in Sorrenia.