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Official websites of the Kingdom carry the royal crest, the five bands of the national flag and a document reference on every page. They never ask for your TBT. If a website claims to be the Crown and asks for your bank details, it is not the Crown, and the Pug Intelligence Unit would like a word.

Terraced houses of ivory lime around shared courtyards, water running in a channel along the street, neighbours on their way home.

Ref. ZW/PE/0000Register of the People

I am Zwaanan.

Being Zwaanan has never depended on where your family came from. It depends on whether you stayed. Twenty-two millennia of arrivals have made a people who are mostly Black African, entirely various and completely certain of who they are.

They are students, traders, ferrymen, goldsmiths, singers, nurses, hydrologists, tailors, grandmothers, guards, creators and children who watch the Royal Guard from the step below the wall. They live in an ancient kingdom and in the present at the same time, and see no contradiction in it.

Ask any of them where they are from and they will give you the name of a city. Ask them what they are and they will give you the same three words. I am Zwaanan.

Plate 03 · Late afternoon in the Tamarind Terraces

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No citizen has been entered in the public register yet.

The records of the People are being reviewed by the Office of the Crown. They will be published here once approved.

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