Dylan Callahan

Dylan John Callahan is a Delveran and Karno-Ruthenian politician and military officer. He previously served as the Secretary of State of NottaLotta Acres, a position equal to Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. The third son in the NottaLottan family, he is singly credited with naming NottaLotta Acres, and with its rise to statehood. He played a significant role in the early development of the Commonwealth of Lavrasia, constituent of the immediate predecessor of the Grand Republic of Delvera, the NottaLottan Empire, and in the Grand Republican Army of Delvera. He has served as Minister of Commerce of the Grand Republic of Delvera, as well as Quartermaster and Adjutant Supreme Commander of the Delveran Armed Services and twice elected Consul. He is the current Minister of Finances of Karnia-Ruthenia.

Politics
Callahan founded NottaLotta Acres in 2008, serving as Secretary Secretariat, then Secretary of State, until stepping down and passing the position to his brother in 2014. He is known for authoring and signing a treaty with the Grand Republic of Salania that established the NottaLottan Empire in 2011. In 2015, he was appointed Military Governor of the District of Neosho, a military district of the Grand Republic of Delvera, and soon thereafter NottaLotta Acres, which was the only remaining and original constituent state of the NottaLottan Empire, was annexed into Delvera as part of the District of Neosho. Callahan was appointed Minister of State of the Grand Republic of Delvera on 10 April 2016. In 2017, the District of Neosho was granted province status as the Province of Neosho, granting representation in the Delveran Chamber of Deputies. After acquiring Karno-Ruthenian citizenship in July 2020, he was appointed Minister of Finances.

Military
Callahan created the NottaLottan Armed Forces, which he was responsible for training, equipping, and leading as Adjutant General, in 2008. He officially resigned from the post in 2014. In early August 2015, Callahan offered his services to the Grand Republican Army of Delvera as Quartermaster. His request was approved, and he was commissioned as a Major. On 22 December 2015, Callahan created the District of Neosho, a military jurisdiction in Kansas which later became the Province of Neosho.

Private life
Born in Illinois in 1991, Callahan was raised in a conservative home, and after some years engaged in macronational political activism as a young adult, he has declared his intentional absence from the macronational political scene. He also is an adherent to the Austrian school of economics, which he studied at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, a think-tank established by Murray Rothbard in 1982. He was married to Hannah Callahan, nee Graveling, on May 30 2014; the couple has two children, Kathleen and Charlotte.

Effects on Micronationalism
Callahan is credited for deriving the definitions of micronationalism found in the Delveran Resolution of Micronational Sovereignty, sometimes referred to as "the Delveran definition," which places micronationalism and macronationalism on parallel but separate planes of authority based on the macronational monopoly of force and the micronational consensus ad idem. He was the scrivener and driving force for the adoption of the Articles of Intermicronational Order by the Grand Republic of Delvera, the Empire of Karnia-Ruthenia, and the North American Confederation during the Congress of Colo.

Honors, awards and decorations






Foreign

 * Flag of Ikonia (Pantone).png Stranger Knight Companion of the Order of the Diaconus
 * Vishwamitra-National Flag.png Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the Vishwamitra

Domestic
"For service in Operation Vicuna." "For service in Operation Genesis." "For service in Operation Exodus." "For an especially meritorious contribution to the furtherance of the Grand Republic, the cause of micronationalism, or other significant public or private endeavors." "For meritorious significant contribution to a military campaign of the Grand Republic. (Operation Genesis)"
 * Flag of Delvera.png Lord Governor's Commendation - 2012
 * Flagofdelvera.jpg Operation Vicuna Campaign Medal - 13 October 2016
 * Flagofdelvera.jpg Operation Genesis Campaign Medal - 13 October 2016
 * Flagofdelvera.jpg Operation Exodus Campaign Medal - 13 October 2016
 * Flagofdelvera.jpg Order of Liberty, 2nd Class - 14 October 2016
 * Flagofdelvera.jpg Legion of Merit - 15 October 2016

Other

 * Flag of Austenasia.png Knight Commander of the Austenasian Order
 * Pythian Flag Subordinate Lodge.png Past Chancellor of the Order Knights of Pythias