User blog comment:Ty Rezac/should the conch republic become a country?/@comment-1630894-20120730232152

The declaration of independence was a spoof, created to protest a US border patrol checkpoint. It has since been promoted soley for tourism. No real micronationalist secession movement exists.

This took only 20 seconds to find on google and wikipedia. How you even found out about the Conch Republic without discovering that the whole "secession" was a joke is beyond me.