Lusophone sector

The Lusophone Sector or Lusophonia ("Lusofonia", in Portuguese), is an axis of micronational activity, cultivated in Portuguese language, around certain micronations, micronational media, organizations and collective initiatives and has a continuous history since 1996, being a concept of that should not be understood as referring to the mere set of individual micronations, but in fact to the "medium", the middle of them, the activity between them.

History
In 1992, the Kingdom of Porto Claro, founded by Pedro Aguiar, appeared as the first internet-based lusophone micronation. Due to macromedia articles and advertising, it prospered as a vigorous micronation, with more than 600 active citizens until 2010. By the end of 1997, another lusophone micronation, the Holy Empire of Réunion, headed by Claudio de Castro, also grew substantially and even surpassed Porto Claro's force. Réunion was the first lusophone micronation to appeal to sectors outside Lusophonia, as it was created as bilingual micronation and remained so until 1999.

In 1998, the acute rivalry and threads between both projects produced a vivid space of intermicronational interaction, which slowly structured itself as the Lusophone sector of micronationalism. Many lusophone nations were created around Réunion and Porto Claro, but none of the same size and energy, albeit some respectful projects emerged: Orange (1997), Marajó (1998) and Sofia (1998) , among a majority of weak initiatives.

Lusophone sector style was characterized by activity through e-mail groups and messages, cultural and diplomatic isolationism and dominance of simulationism and historical-modelism, being its exponents the German Empire, the Kingdom of Italy , the United Kingdom of Portugal and Algarves and the Kingdom of France.

Starting in 2001, the Free Community of Pasargada was the first significant lusophone project to break traditional paradigm of Lusophonia, leaded by Rafael Figueira, Bruno Cava and Leonardo Carrion. Although primely built by Réunian veterans, the new micronation introduced a whole new vision and practise for lusophone sector, in a movement later baptized as the Pasargadan Turn. All lusophone micronations after 2002 got influenced one way or another by Pasargadan Realism.

Lusophonia's peak of activity happened in two eras: 2000-02 (called "golden years") and 2004-05 ("silver years"), when it reached 500 active micronationalists speaking portuguese, most of them brazilians.

In the end of 2006 and all over 2007, there happened a general cooling down of activity and enthusiasm. Many respectful micronations of the past, Orange and Marajó, simply vanished and others, like Porto Claro and Sofia, decreased their activity to a minimum. Even two greatest lusophone powers, Réunion and Pasargada, entered a stage of decadence.

Nevertheless, in the end of 2008, a risorgimento was initiated decisively in Pasargada and, later, with the return of Claudio de Castro and many important réunians, continued with enormous vitality in Réunion.

In 2009, thanks to massive efforts and investments, the Empire of Réunion arrived to its pinnacle of citizens and structure. Pasargada follows closely as second greatest in population and influence. The first represents older tradition of simulationism, and the later bears the flag of Pasargadan Realism. Both powers can be considered the two vectors that define Lusophonia nowadays.