There was a census in the UK a few years ago, and there was a big campaign to get people to put jedi down as their religious belief, so that there would be enough people believing in it for it to be an official religion. 🙂
They got enough people, but the goverment still refused to classify it as an official religion 🙁
Err... please read what I said.
That whole idea was false. At no point ever does any census in a western country- that I kno of- have the power to create a new religion. It was false in New Zealand and it was false here too. They did not get enough people for anything other than for it to be recognised as a respondant category- no amount of people could have made it a religion; that is just not possible.