Micronation

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File:Sealand fortress.jpg

The Principality of Sealand is a micronation located on a seafort off the coast of the United Kingdom.

A micronation is an entity whose members claim that they belong to an independent nation or sovereign state, but which lacks legal recognition by world governments or major international organizations.[1] Most are geographically very small, but range in size from less than one square meter to more than a million square km (Westarctica). They are usually the outgrowth of a single individual.

A micronation expresses a formal and persistent if unrecognized claim of sovereignty over some physical territory. Micronations are distinct from true secessionist movements; micronations' activities are almost always trivial enough to be ignored rather than challenged by the established nations whose territory they claim. Several micronations have issued coins, flags, postage stamps, passports, medals and other state-related items, often as a source of revenue.

The term "micronation" to describe those entities dates at least to the 1970s.[2] The term micropatrology is sometimes used to describe the study of both micronations and microstates by micronationalists, some of whom refer to sovereign nation-states as "macronations"[3]

Micronations contrast with microstates, which are small but recognized sovereign states such as Andorra, Bahrain, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Singapore, and Vatican City.[4] They are also distinct from imaginary countries and from other kinds of social groups (such as eco-villages, campuses, tribes, clans, sects, and residential community associations).

## Contents

* 1 Definition
* 2 List of micronations
* 2.1 Notable micronations
* 2.2 Micronations based on historical claims
* 3 History
* 3.1 Early history and evolution
* 3.2 History during 1960 to 1980
* 3.3 Japanese micronations in the 1980s
* 3.4 Australian and New Zealand developments
* 3.5 Effects of the Internet
* 4 Academic, literary and media attention
* 5 Currency
* 5.1 Banknotes
* 5.2 Coins
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 Further reading

## Definition[edit | edit source]

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"Welcome to the Conch Republic", a sign at Key West International Airport.

Micronations generally have a number of common features, although these may vary widely. They may have a structure similar to established sovereign states, including territorial claims, government institutions, official symbols and citizens, albeit on a much smaller scale. Micronations are often quite small, in both their claimed territory and claimed populations—although there are some exceptions to this rule, with different micronations having different methods of citizenship. Micronations may also issue formal instruments such as postage stamps, coins, banknotes and passports, and bestow honours and titles of nobility.

The Montevideo Convention was one attempt to create a legal definition distinguishing between states and non-states, with states having "(a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states". Some micronations meet this definition, while some do not, and others reject the convention. Some micronations like Sealand and Austenasia reject the term micronation and consider themselves as sovereign states; other micronations like Flandrensis or Molossia, while also officially considering themselves as such, have no intention to be actually recognized as real states.[5]

Academics Harry Hobbs and George Williams in their Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty define them as "self-declared nations that perform and mimic acts of sovereignty, and adopt many of the protocols of nations, but lack a foundation in domestic and international law for their existence and are not recognised as nations in domestic or international forums."[6]

## List of micronations[edit | edit source]

Main article: List of micronations

There are many different types of micronations that have been claimed over the years.

### Notable micronations[edit | edit source]

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Republic of Rose Island

* Operation Atlantis, an early 1970s New York–based libertarian group, built a concrete-hulled ship called Freedom, which they sailed to the Caribbean, intending to permanently anchor it as their "territory". The ship sank in a hurricane and the project was then abandoned.

File:MinervaReef3.jpg

Landing on Minerva

* Republic of Minerva, another libertarian project that succeeded in building a small man-made island on the Minerva Reefs south of Fiji in 1972 before being invaded by troops from Tonga, who annexed it before destroying the island.[7]: 14
* Principality of Freedonia, a libertarian project that supported the Awdal Road Company's attempts to lease land from the Sultan of Awdal in Somaliland in 2001. If the Awdal Road Company is able to build a road, then the Sultan of Awdal will give land to allow the ARC to create an economic free zone, and some of that territory will then be handed over to the Principality of Freedonia. After the men from Awdal Roads Company were deported following false allegations about the lease, resulting public dissatisfaction led to rioting, and the reported death of a Somali.[7]: 56–60
* Republic of Rose Island, an artificial island constructed in 1968 by Italian architect Giorgio Rosa in the Adriatic Sea. The structure was built as a tourist attraction, but soon after it was finished, Rosa declared sovereignty.[7]: 14 The Italian navy dynamited the structure the following year.[8]
* Global Country of World Peace, "a country without borders for peace-loving people everywhere", was declared by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 2000. It made several attempts to buy or lease land for a sovereign territory.[9] It is now governed by Maharaja Tony Nader.[10] Its currency is the Raam and its capitals include Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa and Vlodrop.
* Asgardia, founded on October 12, 2016, by Igor Ashurbeyli, is a proposed nation based in outer space. Plans are for the country to be pacifist, have no official language, to hold a competition to design its flag, insignia and national anthem, and to become part of the United Nations. As of 25 March 2017[update] over 169,327 people[11] have signed up and become officially recognised members of the country.[12]
* The Free Republic of Liberland, founded in 2015, claims a small parcel of land between Croatia and Serbia called Siga. It shares a land border with Croatia and has its eastern border on the Danube. Because of the Croatia-Serbia border dispute some land is claimed by both countries and other parcels are claimed by neither.[13] It has established formal relations with Somaliland.[14]

### Micronations based on historical claims[edit | edit source]

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The putative border crossing from Italy into the Principality of Seborga

A small number of micronations are founded based on historical anomalies or on legal anomalies (deriving from disputed interpretations of law). These types of micronations are usually located on small (usually disputed) territorial enclaves, generate limited economic activity founded on tourism and philatelic and numismatic sales, and are tolerated or ignored by the nations from which they claim to have seceded. This category includes:

* Principality of Seborga, a town in the region of Liguria, Italy (near the southern end of the border with France and encompassing the town of Seborga), which traces its history back to the Middle Ages.[7]
* The Principality of Hutt River (formerly "Hutt River Province"), a farm in Western Australia, claimed to have seceded from Australia to become an independent principality, with a worldwide population numbered in the tens of thousands.[7]: 22–27 Hutt River ceased to exist in 2020, when tourism dropped to zero due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and farming income was no longer sufficient to keep it going.[15]
* The Principality of Sealand, a World War II-era anti-aircraft platform built in the North Sea beyond Britain's then territorial limit, seized by a pirate radio group in 1967 as a base for their operations, and now used as the site of a secure web-hosting facility. Sealand has continued to promote its independence by issuing stamps and money, and appointing an official national athlete. It has been described as the "world's most notorious micronation" as well as the "world's smallest and weirdest country".[7]: 8–31 [16]
* The Crown Dependency of Forvik is an island in Shetland, currently recognized as part of the UK. Stuart Hill claims that independence comes from an arrangement struck in 1468 between King Christian I of Denmark/Norway and Scotland's James III, whereby Christian pawned the Shetland Islands to James in order to raise money for his daughter's dowry. Hill claims that the dowry was never paid and therefore Forvik is not part of the UK and should be a crown dependency like the Isle of Man. Hill encouraged the rest of Shetland to declare independence.[17]
* The Imperial Throne, formerly the Russian Empire, is a micronation created in 2011 by Russian businessman and politician Prince Anton Bakov, chairman of the Monarchist Party of the Russian Federation. In 2014, the Imperial Throne proclaimed that Prince Karl Emich of Leiningen, one of several claimants to the royal Romanov line, was now Nicholas III, Emperor of All Russia. The Imperial Throne claims to be in contact with the governments of Montenegro and North Macedonia about a grant of territory and state recognition.
* The Principality of Pontinha was founded based on a document written by the king of Portugal in 1903.[18]

## History[edit | edit source]

### Early history and evolution[edit | edit source]

Martin Coles Harman purchased the British island of Lundy in 1925,[19] declared himself King and issued private coinage and postage stamps for local use. Although the island was ruled as a virtual fiefdom, its owner never claimed to be independent of the United Kingdom, so Lundy can at best be described as a precursor to later territorial micronations. Another example is the Kingdom of Elleore declared August 27, 1944 when a group of schoolteachers purchased the Danish island and still exists today. A third example is the Principality of Outer Baldonia, a 16-acre (65,000 m2) rocky island off the coast of Nova Scotia, founded by Russell Arundel, chairman of the Pepsi Cola Company (later: PepsiCo), in 1945 and comprising a population of 69 fishermen.

### History during 1960 to 1980[edit | edit source]

File:Sealand-sky.jpg

The 550 m2 (5,900 sq ft) Principality of Sealand

The 1960s and 1970s witnessed the foundation of a number of territorial micronations. The first of these, Sealand, was established in 1967 on an abandoned World War II gun platform in the North Sea just off the East Anglian coast of England, and still survives. Others were founded on libertarian principles and involved schemes to construct artificial islands, but only three are known to have had even limited success in realizing that goal.

The Republic of Rose Island was a 400 m2 (4,300 sq ft) platform built in 1968 in Italian national waters in the Adriatic Sea, 7 miles (11 km) off the Italian town of Rimini. It is known to have issued stamps, and to have declared Esperanto to be its official language. Shortly after completion, however, it was seized and destroyed by the Italian Navy for failing to pay state taxes.[8]

In the late 1960s, Leicester Hemingway, brother of author Ernest, was involved in another such project; a small timber platform in international waters off the west coast of Jamaica. This territory, consisting of an 8-foot (2.4 m) by 30-foot (9.1 m) barge, he called "New Atlantis". Hemingway was an honorary citizen and President; however, the structure was damaged by storms and finally pillaged by Mexican fishermen. In 1973, Hemingway was reported to have moved on from New Atlantis to promoting a 1,000 sq yd (840 m2) platform near the Bahamas. The new country was called "Tierra del Mar" (Land of the Sea). (Ernest Hemingway's adopted hometown of Key West was later itself part of another micronation; see Conch Republic.)

The Republic of Minerva was set up in 1972 as a libertarian new-country project by Nevada businessman Michael Oliver.[20] Oliver's group conducted dredging operations at the Minerva Reefs, a shoal located in the Pacific Ocean south of Fiji. They succeeded in creating a small artificial island, but their efforts at securing international recognition met with little success, and near-neighbour Tonga sent a military force to the area and annexed it.

On 1 April 1977, bibliophile Richard Booth declared the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye an independent kingdom with himself as its monarch. The publicity may have assisted the town's tourism industry based on literary interests, and "King Richard" (whose sceptre was a recycled toilet plunger) awarded Hay-on-Wye peerages and honours to anyone prepared to pay for them.[21]

### Japanese micronations in the 1980s[edit | edit source]

In 1981, drawing on a news report about Leicester Hemingway's "New Atlantis", novelist Hisashi Inoue wrote a 700-page work of magic realism, Kirikirijin, about a village that secedes from Japan and proclaims its bumpkinish, marginalized dialect its national language, and its subsequent war of independence. This single-handedly inspired a large number of Japanese villages, mostly in the northern regions, to "declare independence", generally as a move to raise awareness of their unique culture and crafts for urban Japanese who saw village life as backwards and uncultured. These micronations even held "international summits" from 1983 to 1985, and some of them formed confederations. Throughout the 1980s there was a "micronation boom" in Japan that brought many urban tourists to these wayward villages. But the harsh economic impact of the Japanese asset price bubble in 1991 ended the boom. Many of the villages were forced to merge with larger cities, and the micronations and confederations were generally dissolved.[22]

### Australian and New Zealand developments[edit | edit source]

Micronational developments that occurred in New Zealand and Australia in the final three decades of the 20th century included:

* The Principality of Hutt River was founded in 1970, when Leonard Casley declared his property independent after a dispute over wheat quotas.<[7]: 22–27
* In 1976 the Province of Bumbunga was created on a rural property near Snowtown, South Australia, by an eccentric British monarchist.[23]
* The Sovereign State of Aeterna Lucina was created in a hamlet on the New South Wales north coast in 1978.[24]
* In Victoria, a long-running dispute over flood damage to farm properties led to the creation of the Independent State of Rainbow Creek in 1979.[7]: 145
* John Charlton Rudge founded the Grand Duchy of Avram in western Tasmania in the 1980s; "His Grace the Duke of Avram" was later elected to the Tasmanian Parliament.[7]: 144
* The Independent State of Aramoana was established in New Zealand in 1980.[25]
* The Empire of Atlantium was established in Sydney, in 1981 as a non-territorial global government.[7]: 74–77
* The Republic of Whangamomona was established in 1989.[7]: 34–37
* A mortgage foreclosure dispute led George and Stephanie Muirhead of Rockhampton, Queensland, to briefly and abortively secede as the Principality of Marlborough in 1993.[26]

The micronations established in Australia have no legal standing.[27]

### Effects of the Internet[edit | edit source]

Micronationalism shed much of its traditionally eccentric anti-establishment mantle and took on a distinct hobbyist perspective in the mid-1990s when the emerging popularity of the Internet made it possible to create and promote statelike entities in an entirely electronic medium with relative ease. An early example is the Kingdom of Talossa, a micronation created in 1979 by then-14-year-old Robert Ben Madison, which went online in November 1995, and was reported in The New York Times and other print media in 2000.[28] As a result, the number of exclusively online, fantasy or simulation-based micronations expanded dramatically using MicroWiki or platforms on Reddit and Facebook.[29]

A number of traditional territorial micronations, including the Hutt River Province, Seborga, and Sealand, maintain websites that serve largely to promote their claims and sell merchandise.

## Academic, literary and media attention[edit | edit source]

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Citizens and Officials of the Commonwealth of Dracul at their annual Tsar Nicholas II parade in Houston, Texas, US.

There has been a small but growing amount of attention paid to the micronation phenomenon in recent years. Most interest in academic circles has been concerned with studying the apparently anomalous legal situations affecting such entities as Sealand and the Hutt River Province, in exploring how some micronations represent grassroots political ideas, and in the creation of role-playing entities for instructional purposes.

* The 1949 British comedy film Passport to Pimlico shows how the inhabitants of the London neighbourhood of Pimlico proclaim themselves independent to avoid the restrictions of post-war Britain. The film was an inspiration for Frestonia.[30]
* In 2000, Fabrice O'Driscoll, of the Aix-Marseille University, published a book about micronations: Ils ne siègent pas à l'ONU (They are not in the United Nations), with more than 300 pages dedicated to the subject.[31]
* In May 2000, an article in The New York Times titled "Utopian Rulers, and Spoofs, Stake Out Territory Online" brought the phenomenon to a wider audience.[28] Similar articles were published by newspapers such as the Italian La Repubblica,[citation needed] O Estado de S. Paulo in Brazil,[citation needed] and Portugal's Visão[citation needed] at around the same time.
* E. Peterbus Unum, the 18th episode of the animated sitcom Family Guy involves protagonist Peter Griffin establishing his home and yard as the micronation of Petoria.
* Several recent publications have dealt with the subject of particular historical micronations, including Republic of Indian Stream (University Press), by Dartmouth College geographer Daniel Doan, The Land that Never Was, about Gregor MacGregor and the Principality of Poyais, by David Sinclair (Review, 2003, ISBN 0-7553-1080-2) and An Australian Monarch about the Principality of Hutt River by William Pitt (CopyRight Publishing, ISBN 978-1-876344-67-2).
* In August 2003, a summit of micronations took place in Helsinki at Finlandia Hall, the site of the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE). The summit was attended by delegations of the Principality of Sealand, the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, NSK-State in Time, Ladonia, the Transnational Republic, the State of Sabotage and by scholars from various academic institutions.[32]
* From 7 November to 17 December 2004, the Reg Vardy Gallery at the University of Sunderland (hosted an exhibition on the subject of micronational group identity and symbolism. The exhibition focused on numismatic, philatelic and vexillological artifacts, as well as other symbols and instruments created and used by a number of micronations from the 1950s through to the present day. A summit of micronations conducted as part of this exhibition was attended by representatives of Sealand, Elgaland-Vargaland, New Utopia, Atlantium, Frestonia and Fusa.[33] The exhibition was reprised at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York City from 24 June – 29 July of the following year and organized by R. Blackson and Peter Coffin. Peter Coffin organized a more extensive exhibition about micronations at Paris' Palais de Tokyo in early 2007 called ÉTATS (faites-le vous-même)/States (Do it yourself).[citation needed]
* The Sunderland summit was later featured in the 5-part BBC light entertainment television series How to Start Your Own Country presented by Danny Wallace. The series told the story of Wallace's experience of founding a micronation, Lovely, located in his London flat. It screened in the UK in 2005.[7]: 28
* Similar programs have also aired on television networks in other parts of Europe. In France, several Canal+ programs have centered on the satirical Principality of Groland, while in Belgium a series by Rob Vanoudenhoven and broadcast on the Flemish commercial network VTM in April 2006 was reminiscent of Wallace's series, and centred on the producer's creation of Robland. Among other things Vanoudenhoven minted his own coins denominated in "Robbies".
* In 2006 the travel guide company Lonely Planet published a light-hearted guide micronations named Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations.[7]
* The Democratic Empire of Sunda, which claims to be the Government of the Kingdom of Sunda (an ancient kingdom, in present-day Indonesia) in exile in Switzerland, made media headlines when two so-called princesses, Lamia Roro Wiranatadikusumah Siliwangi Al Misri, 21, and Fathia Reza Wiranatadikusumah Siliwangi Al Misiri, 23, were detained by Malaysian authorities at the border with Brunei, on 13 July 2007, and are charged for entering the country without a valid passport. The hearing continues.[34]
* In 2010, a documentary film by Jody Shapiro entitled How to Start Your Own Country was screened as part of the Toronto International Film Festival. The documentary explored various micronations around the world, and included an analysis of the concept of statehood and citizenship. Erwin Strauss, author of the eponymous book, was interviewed as part of the film.[35]
* In 2010, a conference of micronations was held on Dangar Island in Sydney, Australia. Micronations with representatives in attendance included the Empire of Atlantium, the Principality of Hutt River, the Principality of Wy and the Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands.[36]

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Grand Duchy of Flandrensis and the Republic of St. Charlie on 15 July 2012 at the PoliNation Micronational Conference in London

* The manga and anime series Hetalia: Axis Powers, in which the main characters are the stereotyped personifications of the nations of the world, features several micronations as characters. As of 2011[update] micronations represented include Sealand, Seborga, Wy, Kugelmugel, Molossia, Hutt River, Ladonia, and the former micronation of Nikko Nikko.[37]
* In 2012, a conference of micronations (PoliNation 2012) was held in London. Micronations with representatives in attendance included the Empire of Atlantium, the Republic of Molossia, the Grand Duchy of Flandrensis, Ladonia, Neue Slowenische Kunst and Austenasia.[38][39][40][41][42] A second conference was organized in 2015 in the Free Republic of Alcatraz in Perugia[5][43][44][45][46] and conventions and conferences were also organized in Aigues-Mortes (2016), Atlanta (2017) and Vincennes (2018).[47][48]
* MicroCon, a convention of micronationalists created by the government of Molossia,[49] has been held biannually in odd years since 2015, although its 2021 convention was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. MicroCon 2015 was held in Anaheim, California,[50] 2017 was in Tucker, Georgia,[51] and MicroCon 2019, which was the largest convention with 113 attendees, was held in Hamilton, Ontario.[52]
* The Australian television comedy series Micro Nation is set on the fictional island micronation of Pullamawang, which remained independent from Australia because they "forgot to mail in their paperwork" at the Federation of Australia in 1901.[53]
* In 2020 Netflix released the film Rose Island based on the story of engineer Giorgio Rosa and the Republic of Rose Island.[54]
* In 2022, academics Harry Hobbs and George Williams published Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, the "first comprehensive examination of the phenomenon of people purporting to secede and create their own country." The book discusses over 100 micronations.[55]

## Currency[edit | edit source]

### Banknotes[edit | edit source]

* Paloman 10 Dinero.jpg

10 Dinero; Paloma

* Eismark.jpg

20 Ice marks; Westarctica

* 10Flandri.jpg

Bill of 10 Flandri, Flandrensis[40][56][57]

### Coins[edit | edit source]

* Ourania Gold Coins 001.jpg

Kingdom of Ourania coin

* Seborga Coin - Prince.JPG

A Principality of Seborga coin

* Minerva Republic.JPG

35 Dollars; Republic of Minerva coin

* Hutt River Province coin 1991.JPG

20 Dollars; Hutt River Province (Note that this image is of a Desert Storm coin issue)

* 1puffin1929.JPG

Lundy Island—1 Puffin coin

* Wirtland crane.png

10 ICU gold "Wirtland Crane"

* Sealand Coins Flag.jpg

Sealandic coins, from left to right: Cupronickel Half Dollar, Silver One Dollar and Bronze Quarter Dollar

## See also[edit | edit source]

* Flags of micronations
* League of Small and Subject Nationalities
* List of micronations
* List of unrecognized countries
* Aspirant state

## References[edit | edit source]

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## Further reading[edit | edit source]

* Anonymous (2003-07-24). "Prince finds if all else fails, secede". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney.
* Alex Blumberg (March 2000). "It's Good to Be King". Wired. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
* Adam Clanton, "The Men Who Would Be King: Forgotten Challenges to U.S. Sovereignty", UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, Fall 2008, pp. 1–50.
* Dapin, Mark (2005-02-12). "If at first you don't secede ...". The Sydney Morning Herald.
* Bruno Fuligni (1997). L'État C'est Moi: Histoire des monarchies privées, criptarchies [L'État C'est Moi: History of private monarchies and cryptarchies]. Max Chaleil.
* Keating, Joshua (2018). Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood. Yale. ISBN 978-0-300-22162-6.
* Kochta & Kalleinen, editors. Amorph! 03 Summit of Micronations–Documents/Asiakirjoja, 2003, ISBN 3-936919-45-3
* Menefee, Samuel Pyeatt. "'Republics of the Reefs': Nation-Building on the Continental Shelf and in the World's Oceans", California Western International Law Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, Fall 1994, pp. 81–111
* Peter Needham (2006-09-26). "Born to rule". The Australian.
* Nick Squires (2005-02-24). "Mini-states Down Under are sure they can secede". The Daily Telegraph.
* Strauss, Erwin (1984). How to Start Your Own Country. Loompanics. ISBN 0915179016.
* Hobbs, Harry; Williams, George (2022). Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty. Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-15012-5.

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