See micronation on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1973 March 11, Philip J. Hilts, “Micro-nations Nebulous Fourth World”, in Lansing State Journal, page C-5:",
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"ref": "1978, David Wallechinsky, Irving Wallace, The People's Almanac #2: A Completely New Book from Cover to Cover, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 330:",
"text": "Oceanus ... This is the world's largest micronation, taking up all the seas of the world beyond national 3-mi. limits.",
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"ref": "1996 April 1, David Zgodziński, “Net full of nations”, in The Montreal Gazette, page B3:",
"text": "The list of micro-nations is long and colorful. The spirit of new nation-building that resonates from King Robert's descriptions of these countries, is seductive.",
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"ref": "2006 November 1, Alex Chadwick, “'Lonely Planet' Explores Micronations”, in NPR:",
"text": "Even if you are very well traveled, you may not yet have visited any of the world's micronations. There are places all over where someone or some group has declared a sort of mock sovereignty. Real nations mostly ignore them, and so does everyone else usually.",
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"ref": "2014 November 18, Jordan Teicher, “The World's Tiniest Countries and the Eccentrics Who Rule Them”, in Wired:",
"text": "[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, a self-proclaimed micronation in eastern France. He's since become fascinated with \"countries\" unrecognized by world governments and organizations.",
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"ref": "2021, Harry Hobbs, George Williams, Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty (Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 21:",
"text": "After exploring several classificatory accounts that identify commonalities and distinctions among and between different types of micronation, we outline our definition. We find that micronations are 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 states in domestic or international forums.",
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"ref": "1991 July 7, “Wanna try driving a 'Yugo,' Mister?”, in Robert M. McKinney, editor, The Santa Fe New Mexican, page A-6:",
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"ref": "2021 April 2, Chico Harlan, Stefano Pitrelli, “San Marino, the micronation within Italy, stokes envy with speedy Russian-supplied vaccine campaign”, in The Washington Post:",
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