https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronations:_The_Lonely_Planet_Guide_to_Home-Made_Nations
I don't know if it's ever been discussed on Witt before, but I recently got a copy of this. I guess it was originally published in September, 2006. Talossa is mentioned!...but in a section called "Gone, but not forgotten". The text reads:
TALOSSA - GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
The glorious Kingdom of Talossa - inspiration for many micronations throughout the 1980s, '90s and beyond - was founded in the bedroom of a 13-year-old on 26 December 1979. Robert Ben Madison took the throne of his new kingdom, and ruled alone for more than a year. In 1981 he began admitting citizens, and the Kingdom of Talossa was on its way to glory...and ultimate oblivion.
King Robert I, having extended his territorial claim to include a large part of the city of Mil-waukee, Wisconsin, opened up the political process to Talossan citizens, declaring a constitutional monarchy in 1985. The following year saw a crisis in which Robert was deposed, although he was restored to the throne in 1988.
With well-developed, good-natured governmental systems (the national cuisine was Taco Bell) and an active approach to intermicronational affairs, Talossa was - for two decades - one of the great micronational superpowers. With such open policies and an outward-looking philosophy, though, all of the worst excesses of the global micronational movement emerged. King Robert closed his kingdom down in late 2005.
While there are still online groups claiming to be Talossa, Madison says that none of the original Talossan figures are involved. Citing the old adage 'local politics is so vicious because the stakes are so low', Madison says he had to withdraw from his creation because of constant political in-fighting. Isn't micronationalism mostly about fun? Madison says sadly, 'Part of the problem is that different people define "fun" in different ways.
I doubt Lonely Planet will ever make an updated re-issue of this book (but they should, considering how much the Micronational world has exploded since it was published), but it pains me to read their version of Talossa. Someone with a higher position than Admiral (cough...uh, King?) should send them a note saying that, if a future edition is ever planned, then Talossa is not gone, hasn't been gone, and is in fact a thriving community with coins and Talossafests, embassies, and even subcultures. (Shameless plug for the Cjovani.)
(I got it for cheap on eBay from Thriftbooks. A slim little tome that should be of interest to people like us. I enjoyed thumbing thru it.)