Aver

State confidently (v.)

Frank Nambler wrote a letter to the Cheyenne Times averring that his farmland was no longer a part of the state of Wyoming or the United States but rather a "plot unto the Earth" belonging to no government, no religious authority, or any hierarchy of any kind.
Nambler justified his plan for secession with language taken from federal land regulations for embassies, which say that the land where an embassy stands does not belong to the country where the embassy is located but rather the country that the embassy represents. Nambler used the South Korean embassy in the US as an example. Technically, this embassy does not stand on US soil, it stands on South Korean soil. And Nambler wrote in his letter that his farmhouse was the Embassy of the World, that his new country was no country in particular but a state representative of all countries. He defined "state of all countries" as a viable international entity in his constitution, which he had been developing since he finished his doctorate in political science some ten years ago. Nambler wrote that everything in his constitution was in accordance with United Nations stipulations and that the entire enterprise was "kosher." He wrote that he was willing to join fair trade organizations to sell his mulch (his primary commodity) on the world market and that, in his expert geopolitical opinion, tourism in his State of all Countries would outrank mulch in contributions to his GDP because "everyone wants a little peace, and I got mine right here."
The letter was published on a Sunday and Nambler read it with pride so the words echoed through his house.