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Micronations have their own science—micronationology—which was created by L’Institut Français de Micropatrologie, now defunct. There are still numerous forums dedicated to discussing and developing this science, and one of the people who maintains one of these sites is Ted. As a networks expert and an obsessive, he can talk for hours about ways to strengthen a link without sacrificing any power in the transmission, how to destroy a principal hub on a network like Inverse Power, or how the network of the biosphere, the network of the internet, and the neuronal network each possess the same topology, and can therefore, in certain situations, be considered isomorphs. He runs one of the principal servers, numerous distributors base their activities on him, particularly in the U.S., Central America, and Southeast Asia. Tonight (though, technically, it’s cycles rather than days and nights that apply on Isotope Micronation) he dreamed of an information network where the organic and the inorganic interbreed, one from which, as though it were a tree, the stories of the inhabitants of all the micronations on earth hang: the Micronation Hypernetwork.