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Citizen's Day, August 2nd, is a public holiday in Westarctica that celebrates the citizens of the nation.

In 2016, Westarctica became an extremely popular stop for participants of the Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen (GISHWHES, pronounced gish-wes), an annual week-long competitive media scavenger hunt held each August. That year, one of the items participants were required to collect was a citizenship certificate from an unrecognized country. During the last week of July through the first week of August, Grand Duke Travis personally processed over 1,000 citizenship applications, creating a personalized citizenship certificate for each new citizen. The extraordinary effort took him between four and eight hours each night.

After seeing how many of new citizens went on to become members of the Hereditary Nobility as well as the vast number posting pictures of their citizenship certificates on social media, Grand Duke Travis felt compelled to celebrate and recognize their love of Westarctica by creating a special day to recognize all citizens. As the impetus for the creation of the holiday, the GISHers continue to hold a special place among the citizen rolls of the nation. (Full Article...)