In 1824 life was bad in the region now known as Brækhistan. It was ruled by a vicious dictator king named Theodorus Franckus. Times were harsh. One famine after another razed the land. While the nobility took hold of all the food, the middle class and the poor were starving. The masses revolted but were furiously struck down. Among them was a man called Siegfriedius Brackus. He was wounded by one of Theodorus’s men and fell to the ground.

 

Right there, laying on the streets of the city he loved most, thinking his last hour had struck, he thought to himself: “If I survive this, I will be the one who knocks this kingdom down.” For years he travelled through the country, preaching his idea of what the country could be like. Complete freedom for everyone. The freedom to do as you please. Whenever you want. A libertarian country where the goats you own are your own assets. No nobility or king has the right to take anything from you.

 

The people believed in him and when, in 1832, he called for a new revolution, the whole country followed. King Theodorus was overthrown and sentenced to death. The capital city, where 8 years earlier Siegfriedius’s blood was flowing, was renamed Siegfriedsburg and the country Brækhistan was born.