# Man Discovers His Girlfriend’s “Country” Is Just a Discord Server With 47 Members, Asks If He’s the Asshole for Laughing
**CHICAGO, IL** — In a saga that reads like a Black Mirror episode written by a terminally online 14-year-old, a 28-year-old man is currently questioning his entire reality after discovering that his girlfriend’s fiercely patriotic “home country” is actually a Discord server called “The Glorious Kingdom of Veridia” with 47 active members, most of whom are furries or people who unironically use the term “fellow citizens.”
The man, who asked to be identified only as “Dave” because he’s terrified of being doxxed by a community that has a functioning Ministry of Meme Enforcement, took to Reddit’s r/AmItheAsshole to ask if he was wrong for laughing in his girlfriend’s face when she revealed the truth.
Spoiler: He was not wrong. But the internet is about to have a field day.
“I knew she was into some weird stuff,” Dave told us, staring into the middle distance like a man who has just seen the face of God and it was wearing a poorly drawn anime avatar. “She’d talk about ‘the homeland’ and ‘our ancient traditions,’ but I just thought she was, like, really into Estonia or something. Turns out Veridia was ‘founded’ in 2020 by a guy named ‘Lord_Thunderwolf_420’ on a Discord server dedicated to My Little Pony.”
The saga began innocently enough. Dave’s girlfriend, a 26-year-old freelance graphic designer who goes by “Princess Astrid of the Verdant Plains” on all platforms, had been dropping increasingly specific hints about her “cultural heritage.” She would get emotional during thunderstorms because they reminded her of “the Great Sky Battle of 2021.” She insisted on celebrating a holiday called “Founder’s Feast” every March 15th, which involved eating pizza rolls and watching a PowerPoint presentation about their “constitutional monarchy.”
“I thought it was a bit,” Dave said. “I really did. I’d be like, ‘Haha, babe, you’re so quirky with your fictional country.’ And she’d get this dead serious look and say, ‘It’s not fictional, Dave. It’s micronational.’ I didn’t even know what that word meant. I do now. I wish I didn’t.”
The breaking point came last Tuesday. Dave returned home to find his apartment decorated with green and gold streamers. His girlfriend, wearing a homemade sash that said “Minister of Cultural Affairs,” was standing next to a cake that had the Veridian flag (a green dragon eating a book) printed on it in edible ink. She announced that the “Grand Council of Veridia” had voted unanimously to declare a “Day of National Mourning” because their main ally, a server called “The Empire of Waffleton,” had been banned from Discord for violating terms of service regarding “excessive roleplay.”
Dave made the mistake of laughing.
“I didn’t mean to be cruel,” he insisted. “But she was crying. Actual tears. Over a Discord server that got in trouble for having too many pretend cat ears. I asked her if she was serious, and she showed me the Google Doc constitution. There’s a Supreme Court. They’ve tried cases. One of them was about someone stealing a virtual chicken.”
According to publicly available information (yes, this is real, and yes, I need a drink), Veridia has a functioning government structure that includes a Prime Minister, a Minister of Defense (who is 15 years old and lives in Ohio), and a Treasury that operates entirely in a currency they call “Veridian Coins,” which are just NFTs of trees. They have conducted “military exercises” that consisted of coordinated spam messages in other Discord servers. They have a “space program” that is a single guy with a telescope who writes reports about Jupiter.
The Reddit post blew up faster than a Veridian military coup. Dave’s AITA thread currently has over 14,000 comments, with the overwhelming consensus being NTA (Not the Asshole), though a significant minority went with ESH (Everyone Sucks Here) because they think Dave should have been more supportive of his girlfriend’s “passion project.”
“YTA for not realizing you’re dating a future dictator of a server with 47 people,” one user wrote. “NTA, but INFO: Does her country have a good healthcare system? Because you’re gonna need therapy,” another commented. The top comment, with over 28,000 upvotes, simply read: “Babe, wake up. New micronation drama just dropped.”
But here’s where it gets spicy. Princess Astrid—real name Megan, a name that apparently does not fit the lore—found the Reddit post. And she is not happy. In a statement released on the official Veridian government news channel (a Google Doc shared with the public), she declared that Dave has been “stripped of his honorary citizenship” and is now “persona non grata in all Veridian territories,” which means he can’t join their karaoke nights on Wednesdays.
“He mocked our sovereignty,” Megan told us through tears. “Veridia is a real country. We have a flag. We have a national anthem that I wrote myself. It’s called ‘Fields of Digital Green.’ Dave doesn’t understand what it’s like to belong to something bigger than yourself. Just because we don’t have a physical landmass doesn’t mean we don’t have a spiritual one.”
When asked to clarify where exactly Veridia is located, Megan explained that it’s “a sovereign cloud nation” that exists “in the hearts of its people and on a private Discord server with two-factor authentication.” Their population has grown from 47 to 52 since the Reddit post went viral, with several new members joining specifically to “declare war on Dave.”
Dave, for his part, is now living in a state of existential dread. His girlfriend has moved her “government meetings” to the living room, and
Final Thoughts
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