"bug nation" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2001 March, “The Aerican Empire: 14th Anniversary”, in Aerican Empire (official website)",
          "text": "Nations like Cherusken and Baja helped us gain early recognition, and elevated us from the level of bug nations. Those first recognitions helped us make other contacts, and still others.",
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          "ref": "2002 April 2, Garth Spencer, “Creative nationalism”, in BCSFAzine, number 347, British Columbia Science Fiction Association, page 1",
          "text": "It is an open question whether the famous Emperor Norton was proposing a bug nation. […] Perhaps the main difference between Emperor Norton and most micronations is that the Emperor represented only himself, albeit he became a celebrity and most San Franciscans humoured his delusion.",
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          "ref": "2005, Robert Ben Madison, Ár Päts: The Classic History of the Kingdom of Talossa 1979-2005, 1 edition, Preßeu Støtanneu, page 73",
          "text": "Anglemark called the Talossan nation \"stupid\" for having its own culture, language, and politics instead of \"relations\" with bug nations. The Libs retreated into a largely inactive funk, claiming that \"we are, in effect, a banned party\".",
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          "ref": "2007, Scott Alexander, Microscope, page 20",
          "text": "The strictly enforced dichotomy between \"good nations“ and \"bug nations\" not only crippled micropatriology in the same way that macronational racism at some points crippled anthropology, but led to much fiercer and more vicious debates than tended to occur later.",
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        "(micronationalism, derogatory, obsolete) A micronation that serves no purpose other than being a source of annoyance."
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