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![[Hay-on-Wye]](../images/g/gb-w-hay.gif)
by Jarig Bakker
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The town of Hay proclaimed independence in January 1977. Flag was white over green (national flag of Wales, where Hay is) with the logo of the businessman Richard Booth: a castle silhouette (white, bordered black) and within a black lion from the Booth family arms. Above lion there are the letters HAY.
Jaume Ollé, 5 March 2000
Hay-on-Wye is a market town of 1,500 people on the Welsh-English border. Hay
resident Richard Booth, owner of the world's largest used-book store, declared
himself King Richard I of Hay on 1 Apr 1977. King Richard has proven himself to
be a rather mellow monarch, declaring that in Hay, "There must be no authority
from anyone. Long live Anarchy, Prosperity to the People!" The new nation
supports itself by selling dukedoms (£25)
and earldoms (£5), as well as T-shirts and
tote bags.
Flag and information based on The People's Almanac #2, by David
Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace, 1978
Jarig Bakker, 7 February 2003