Early life Bruce Henderson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1950. Sultanate of Occussi-Ambeno In the 1970s and 1980s he gained notoriety for a hoax involving the fabrication of the utopian Sultanate State of Occussi-Ambeno, located as an exclave on the Island of Timor, with himself as the self-proclaimed Sultan. Stamps were produced for the "Sultanate". The Oecusse District is located in East Timor. Other fabrications Grenville's artistamp output encompasses an entire alternative universe of artistamp countries. These include the Kingdom of all the Sedang (not to be confused with the historic Kingdom of Sedang), the Sultanate of Upper Yafa, the People's Republic of Kempland, the Free Vinland Republic, the Republic of Liegerland, the Republic of Port Maria, Tui Tui, Aldabra, Raoul, the Land of Muggy, Cryonica, Aramoana, Whangamomona, Lar?, Nova Arcadia, the Antarctic Confederation and the Khanate of Bokhara. Grenville's artistamp world even has its own imaginary "United Nations," the "International Council of Independent States" (ICIS). His creations are sometimes identified as micronations; however, being completely fictitious and without "participants", they do not fit the definition. He produced stamps and labels for the Karenni, being in contact with some leaders of the KNPP, the Karenni revolutionary party on the border with Thailand. At the time the KNPP was controlling part of Karenni State (Kayah State).
Early life
 Bruce Henderson was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1950. Sultanate of Occussi-Ambeno
 In the 1970s and 1980s he gained notoriety for a hoax involving the fabrication of the utopian Sultanate State of Occussi-Ambeno, located as an exclave on the Island of Timor, with themselves as the self-proclaimed Sultan. Stamps were produced for the "Sultanate". The Oecusse District is located in East Timor. Other fabrications
 Grenville's artistamp output encompasses an entire alternative universe of artistamp countries. These include the Kingdom of all the Sedang (not to be confused with the historic Kingdom of Sedang), the Sultanate of Upper Yafa, the People's Republic of Kempland, the Free Vinland Republic, the Republic of Liegerland, the Republic of Port Maria, Tui Tui, Aldabra, Raoul, the Land of Muggy, Cryonica, Aramoana, Whangamomona, Lar?, Nova Arcadia, the Antarctic Confederation and the Khanate of Bokhara. Grenville's artistamp world even has its own imaginary "United Nations," the "International Council of Independent States" (ICIS). His creations are sometimes identified as micronations; however, being completely fictitious and without "participants", they do not fit the definition. He produced stamps and labels for the Karenni, being in contact with some leaders of the KNPP, the Karenni revolutionary party on the border with Thailand. At the time the KNPP was controlling part of Karenni State (Kayah State).