Woman convicted in German far-right coup plot, sentence waived | dpa international

Her punishment is going through the justice system.

That sounds like the "American Sovereign Citizen". Maybe if they just believe really really hard...

They have a King

They are a heterogenous scene and therefore not uniformly organised (something to be thankful for). There's more than one King (I haven't read about a selfproclaimed queen though), different "Governments", self-governing bodies... some of them cooperate, some can't cooperate... As long as you don't have to deal with them it sounds quite funny - They produce their own ID cards and driving licences because they do not believe in the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany. But if it exists it's only a Ltd. Or Germany is still under military occupation. But if you encounter them irl... oh boy. And funny left as soon as some of them got their hands on weapons and actually started attacking people.

I read a more in-depth analysis some time ago and a lot of them are just desperate people with financial or other problems, and becoming a Reichsbürger is more like a form of escapism from reality than something they really believe in. Imagine you have a crippling amount of debt and/or are about to be evicted for example, and then you read on some nutjob website that the state actually doesn't exist so you don't owe them anything and they have no authority to evict you, doesn't that sound great? All your problems solved by just burning your German ID card and printing out a new one of some made-up country. Of course reality gets them eventually but psychologically it's easier to bear for some people to believe that they're the victim of a huge conspiracy rather than face the fact that they fucked up and are screwed.

Sounds like mental illness to me. Like serious delusion.