Královec Region

[1][2] On 27 September 2022, the Czech satirical website AZ247.cz [cs] made a petition for the Czech Republic to send soldiers to Kaliningrad Oblast, hold an annexation referendum that would have a 98% vote in favor, and make the region a formal part of the country renamed as Královec, thus gaining access to the sea.

It was named after Franz Joseph I, the Emperor-King of Austria-Hungary, the state the modern Czech Republic was part of at the time.

[6] Various official figures and entities, including Jana Černochová (Czech Minister of Defence),[7] Zuzana Čaputová (President of Slovakia),[8] and the Embassy of the United States in Prague (as a followup to the planned F-35 acquisition by the Czech Republic) made satirical comments regarding the movement on Twitter.

[9] On 10 October 2022, a few hundred people attended a mock referendum to perform the annexation of the region in front of the Embassy of Russia in Prague.

The predominantly German crusaders did so out of the pride of accompanying such an important person as the King of Bohemia, who was a respected person in the Holy Roman Empire, of which Bohemia was part, as his mother belonged to the prominent Hohenstaufen noble family.