{"id":3639,"date":"2013-07-14T23:36:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T03:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:13","slug":"does-disney-world-have-sovereign-nation-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/does-disney-world-have-sovereign-nation-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Disney World have sovereign nation status?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.29.25-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.29.25-PM-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"Disney World\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.29.25-PM-300x244.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.29.25-PM-225x183.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-07-14-at-11.29.25-PM.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What&#8217;s the status of Disney World relative to United States law? If it exists outside the law and is &#8220;detached from&#8221; the State of Florida<\/a>, is Disney World a sovereign nation or &#8230;. or, what?<\/p>\n<p>This and other issues are explored in <a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/print\/2007\/03\/orlando\/allman-text\">National Geographic&#8217;s brilliant article<\/a> on the entertainment empire:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Disney&#8217;s new empire in central Florida would be marketed as Disney World. Its official name was, and remains, the Reedy Creek Improvement District. Thanks to a sweetheart deal with the state legislature, the lands Disney purchased were detached from the rest of Florida to form a Magic Kingdom, above and outside the law. Even now, Disney World&#8217;s rides are exempt from state safety inspections. Democratic process is excluded, too. Power remains in the hands of a board of supervisors composed of Disney allies. However much you pay for a time-share condo in Disney World, you cannot buy property outright, and therefore establish official residence, and therefore vote for the board. Celebration, Disney&#8217;s residential community themed to evoke pre-1940s small-town America, has a city hall but no actual municipal government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe the question is, how much does Disney World look like a duck? Also see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/nothing-left-to-chance-in-disney-world-people-cant-get-enough-of-pre-planned-living\/\">Nothing left to chance in Disney World. People can\u2019t get enough of pre-planned living<\/a> and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/disney-the-plasticizing-of-america\/\">Disney: The Plasticizing of America<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the status of Disney World relative to United States law? If it exists outside the law and is &#8220;detached from&#8221; the State of Florida, is Disney World a sovereign nation or &#8230;. or, what? This and other issues are explored in National Geographic&#8217;s brilliant article on the entertainment empire: Disney&#8217;s new empire in central &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/does-disney-world-have-sovereign-nation-status\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does Disney World have sovereign nation status?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":3640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5,563,160],"tags":[1154,1157,793,1156,1155,1158],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-government-trade","category-justice","category-news-truths","tag-disney-world","tag-florida","tag-government","tag-orlando","tag-outside-the-law","tag-sovereign-nation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4326,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions\/4326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}