Last month saw the Crown Dependency of Bregusland return to the Empire of Austenasia nearly five years after it was ceded.

November 27th saw the passage of the Bregusland Act 2025 by Parliament, resuming a claim of Austenasian sovereignty over the residential property of three situated near Gilbert, Arizona.

Lord Charles Ross, Duke of Occidentia initially founded Bregusland as an uninhabited Austenasian Territory on 14 March 2019 composed of land in his family’s back yard. A year later, it was expanded to include the neighbouring house, becoming an inhabited Crown Dependency with Lord Ross as Governing Commissioner.

By late 2020, the Ross family were planning to move to a new property, and so the Austenasian claim over Bregusland was withdrawn on New Year’s Eve, albeit with its residents being made non-residential subjects by their request.

However, the move did not ultimately go ahead, and by the time Lord Ross was certain he and his parents would be staying in the property, he had also become involved with the Grand Duchy of Westarctica. On 8 September 2023, Bregusland was claimed as part of the Westarctican colony of Raphania.

Now, however, by the request of Lord Ross and with the consent of its population and of Westarctican Grand Duke Travis, the claim has returned to Austenasia, with Emperor Alexander VI granting Imperial Consent to the re-annexation legislation last Thursday.

The subjectship granted to the residents of Bregusland at the time of its dissolution was not revoked, meaning that it is now unique among crown dependencies in that it is populated by full subjects rather than non-voting residents.