The current King of Talossa is Sir Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvá,[5] who in December 2024 succeeded John I.
This changed in the mid-1990s, when a series of stories in the New York Times[12][13] and Wired,[10] subsequently republished elsewhere, drew his website to popular attention.
Several new "citizens" joined Talossa as a result, and Madison began to claim that he was the inventor of the term "micronation".
[citation needed] In April 1996, Madison reestablished the dormant League of Secessionist States—an intermicronational organisation originally founded by him and two friends in 1980—and launched a website for it.
[12][15] Madison disestablished the "kingdom" in late 2005, but Talossa is still active today despite the lack of involvement of the original founder.
be created with the formation of la Società per l'Ilesnaziun del Glheþ Naziunal (Society for the Facilitation of the National Language, SIGN).