Zack Janczura

Zack Janczura is one of the two Chancellors of the Republic of NZRE. He founded the country with Nathan Holmes-King on August 4, 2016. He is a member of the Center Party, though he generally leans left in politics.

Early life and education

Zack followed a typical path in regards to education. He attended a preschool in his home town and has been in American public schools ever since.

Political positions

This section is written by Zack in the first person.

Domestic policy

Health care:

• I support a government-funded national health system, delivering services through publicly owned clinics and hospitals employing salaried staff, and controlled by locally-elected officials.

Broadband:

• Establish a broadband service as a public utility and implement net-neutrality.

Primary & secondary education:

• I support the right of school choice for parents, and I think that it is an incentive to improve bad schools.

Tertiary education:

• I support tuition-free public tertiary education.

Economics

Minimum wage:

• I do not support the idea of a high minimum wage; instead, I think that it should be the government's job to ensure that people have a living wage.

Universal basic income:

• I support this idea, and I see this as the best alternative to the minimum wage.

Government

Electoral systems:

• I think that Tideman ranked-pairs voting is the best voting system for single-winner elections. For multi-winner elections, I think that Single Transferable Vote is the best system, mostly because of its party-neutrality.

• I think that education is a better determiner than age over whether or not a person is qualified to vote. This is why I think that that the minimum voting age should be 16 (or 12 with parental consent), but that there shouldn't be age-based exemptions from the education rules.

Micronational issues

Legal status:

• I think that "NZRE Territory" is actually a condominium between NZRE and the macronation that claims the territory.

Recognition of other micronations:

• I think that other micronations should not count as legal entities in the same way that macronations count. Therefore, passports of other micronations will not be legally valid in NZRE.

• However, I think that NZRE should have informal relations with other micronations, and participate in intermicronational alliances.

Social issues

Crime & criminal justice:

• I oppose capital punishment, and I feel that life imprisonment is functionally the same. I think that the primary goal of prison should be rehabilitation using positive reinforcement.