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"For every dreamer there is somewhere a doer, and in the realm [of] the strange micro-nations, the Republic of Minerva has plunged a bit ahead of the nebulous status of most others."
"Careful groundwork had given Germany a highly unified micronation within the boundaries of Argentina, in many ways better prepared and better organized than the Argentine nation itself."
"Also, since Nigeria is the cornerstone of the economy of West Africa, many countries around its perimeter will suffer, including many of the "micro-nations" of the U.N. which were the biggest supporters of the actions in The Congo and Rhodesia."
"The benefits to becoming a micronation are that you're independent and therefore you are not any longer under the rule and laws of the country."
A non-autonomous entity that claims to be a sovereign state and mimics the actions of a state (with varying degrees of seriousness), but lacks any legal recognition and exists only on paper or in the mind of its creator; a micronational entity.
Common synonyms include: countercountry, ephemeral state, microcountry, micronational entity, micropatria, mini-country.
The benefits to becoming a micronation are that you're independent and therefore you are not any longer under the rule and laws of the country.
Pronounced /ˈmaɪ.kɹoʊˌneɪ.ʃən/.
From micro- (“very small”) + nation (“a sovereign state; country”). Compare microcountry, mini-nation, mini-country and ministate. The first sense was coined on 11 March 1973 by the editors of the Lansing State Journal (see quotations) in a republication of an article by Philip J. Hilts, originally writing for Potomac Magazine (Sunday supplement to The Washington Post), and so-called because most micronations are small in size. The article was referring to the unrecognised political entities listed in the Ephemeral States file, a collection of physical micronational records maintained by the Office of the Geographer of the United States Department of State, launched in 1933.
From micro- (“very small”) + nation (“a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life or ethnicity”).