Nova Roma, based in Wells, Maine (USA) is a micronation founded on 1 March, 1998. It has several thousand citizens all over the world, and professes to be the vehicle by which a contemporary revival of the Roman Republic and its state religion (the Religio Romana) may be achieved. In 2004 Nova Roma announced the purchase of a 10 acres parcel in Texas upon which a temple to the gods of Rome was to be built - the first such since antiquity.