• Phase I: How to Lose an Election (X Magazine #12)
  (Wherein He Who Wants to be Left Alone by Politicians Tries to Achieve This By Becoming One Himself)

• Phase II: Calling All Countries: The Freedom Project (Planet Magazine, 94nov)
  (Wherein He Who Got Stomped in the Election Casts About for Freer Shores Whereon to Spread His Humble Tent)

• Phase III: Starting Your Own Country: Oceania (Planet Magazine, 96apr11)
  (Wherein He Who Looks to be Pretty Well Stuck Here Tries to Join a Manmade Island Nation)
• Phase IV:

It's the earliest known occurrence (Lagash, Sumeria, 2300 B.C.), in any language, of a written word for freedom. I stole it from a publisher who uses it as an endpaper design. Hope I don't get sued, though I doubt it, 'cos I'm reasonably sure this publisher wasn't around at the Dawn of Written Language in order to stake a proprietary claim on cuneiform characters.