The Vigorian
Empire
All for One and One for All
The Future Is Not Guaranteed, It Is Built.
We Are Building It On Land & Beyond.
About
“You have power over your mind, not outside events.
Realise this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius.
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.”
Seneca.
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
Epictetus.
Founder Sovereign Emperor
Nicholas I
I was born in 1975 and raised in England. My upbringing was grounded but real; my mother ran a couple of pubs, and my father served in the Army, seeing much active service.
When they separated during my teenage years, I was raised primarily by my mother, while maintaining a connection with my father, who is originally from Scotland.
Both of my parents have since passed, but their influence, discipline, resilience, and independence have stayed with me.
Like many, my path wasn’t linear. I attended college and university more than once, always drawn toward science, medicine, philosophy, and trying to understand how things work, both in the world around me and in people.
Today, run a couple of businesses and live a relatively grounded life, shared with two energetic puppies who keep things balanced and grounded.
For most of my life, I had little interest in politics. But over time, through experience, work, and simply paying attention, I began to see patterns. Inequality, conflict, instability… the same concerning issues repeating, generation after generation. It becomes difficult to ignore once you’ve seen enough. You can't unsee things.
Outside of that, I’ve always been drawn to the outdoors and to my colourful Scottish heritage. I’ve spent time exploring my ancestry, including many connections through Scottish lineage and ancestral woodlands in the Highlands, something that has shaped my appreciation for nature, ecology, land, legacy, and long-term sustainable thinking.
Like many people, I’ve also felt the weight of the world at times. The constant cycle of division, war, division and disconnection between humans, and like many, I found that in the future science fiction, visions of utopian societies that function better than how we function today, where people cooperate, evolve, and build something meaningful together.
Like many, this utopian sci-fi was my escapism and my hope for the future.
Vision
At some point, simply watching sci-fi and dreaming is no longer tenable; the escapism must stop, and reality of doing something real starts to become a question, and hopefully an action:
Why does it have to stay fictional or a dream?
What I’m working toward is simple in principle, even if complex in execution, a merit-based system, where people contribute, grow, and work together toward something better. Not perfect, but better than what we continue to repeat. Think Star Trek or The Orville Sci-fi shows on TV. It's not perfect, but it's getting there.
I know people still like pomp and ceremony, and storng cultural tradition. Hence, The Vigorian Empire and I naturally as the Founding Emperor.
This is the start of our history, culture and traditions. All made by us, the citizens. This identity is important to cohesion, band it can be designed by us, for us. Avoiding all the trappings of the past.
Personally, like many others, I'm now at a stage in life where hesitation matters less because I'm getting on.
Whether this is understood, supported, or criticised is secondary; I don't care. I'm just interested in making genuine connections with like-minded individuals and organisations who share similar values, and with whom we can grow peacefully and lawfully.
If not now, then when?
If not us, then who?
My Beautiful Ancestral Land in the Highlands
