Late last week, BBC reported that conservative Party of Free Citizens in the Czech Republic member Vit Jedlicka has declared a 2.7-square-mile "no man's land" between the borders of Serbia and Croatia ...
This place has its own quirks. You can easily become a citizen, buy a passport, and if you get lucky, you might even get a ...
Never heard of the Imperial Kingdom of Calsahara? The Conch Republic? The Principality of Sealand? You’re not alone. Léo Delafontaine hadn’t either until 2012, when he visited the Republic of Saugeais ...
Ever been so fed up with your government that you decided to break away and form your own nation? A surprising number of Australians have. There are about 100 micronations spread out across the world, ...
California’s 11-acre micronation, complete with its own sultan and quirky laws such as banning Crocs, forbidding ‘reply all’ ...
A statue of Leonard George Casley, founder of the Principality of Hutt River. | Chris Fithall, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 2.0 A micronation is a piece of land, either geographical or hypothetical, ...
Never heard of the Imperial Kingdom of Calsahara? The Conch Republic? The Principality of Sealand? You’re not alone. Léo Delafontaine hadn’t either until 2012, when he visited the Republic of Saugeais ...
Randy Williams, the ‘sultan’ of the 11-acre micronation in the California desert. An 11-acre plot in the California desert ruled over by a faux sultan is attracting thousands of ‘citizens’ looking for ...
A dried-up strawberry field, a spherical house, and other nations you didn’t know existed. The People’s Republic of Donetsk, a theoretical splinter nation from Eastern Ukraine, currently consists of ...
Tired of the usual travel checklist? Micronations are self-declared countries that often exist inside larger nations, with their own flags, leaders, and sometimes even passports. If you’re curious ...
Imagine escaping the confines of bureaucracy and founding your own state, where you make all the rules. Sounds like the stuff of fantasy novels. But some people actually make it a reality by creating ...