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| rdfs:comment | - The Free District is the liberated colony of the former city of Washington DC. Until 1964, DC could not participate in any elections whatsoever, either national or local. The colony was under strict rule by the federal government, voted for by no one in Washington DC, and who ignored the needs of the population entirely. Until 1973, the District could only participate in national elections and had no manner by which to govern itself: no mayor, no governor, no senator, no congressperson. In 1973, after substantial unrest, the people of DC wrested a small amount of political power away from the federal government when they were enabled to elect a mayor, but congress (a governing body in which Washington DC has no voting representation) oversaw every vote and decision, and cherry picked what
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| Alliance | - Libertarian Socialist Federation
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| Languages | - English, Spanish, Amharic, DC Urban Patois
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| Motto | - "Terra quod Libertas Omnibus"
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| Flag | - District_of_nulombia.jpg.gif
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| abstract | - The Free District is the liberated colony of the former city of Washington DC. Until 1964, DC could not participate in any elections whatsoever, either national or local. The colony was under strict rule by the federal government, voted for by no one in Washington DC, and who ignored the needs of the population entirely. Until 1973, the District could only participate in national elections and had no manner by which to govern itself: no mayor, no governor, no senator, no congressperson. In 1973, after substantial unrest, the people of DC wrested a small amount of political power away from the federal government when they were enabled to elect a mayor, but congress (a governing body in which Washington DC has no voting representation) oversaw every vote and decision, and cherry picked what they wanted from those decisions to be the ones enacted: at different times stepping in to prevent gun control law, changing a city park names from Malcom X Park (chosen by an overwhelming majority of residents) to Meridian Hill Park, removing from budgets school funding, library funding, and funding towards AIDS prevention, even though the AIDS rate in Washington DC is higher than that of most sub-Saharan African countries. Right-wing politicians in Congress set out to overturn the Assault Weapons Ban, and did so in 2004. The "DC Fair and Equal House Voting Rights Act of 2006" (which would enable DC voting representation in Congress) failed in 2007.
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