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List of micronations

Purpose: To neatly organise the micronations that have articles on Wikipedia into a single/multiple list(s). How: By defining what reliable sources do and don't refer to as a micronations, and which notable places (historical or present) that definition applies to.

Requirements

• Must be referred to as a micronation by a significant number of academic or reliable third party sources (e.g. international news, Lonely Planet)
• Must be notable enough to have (or be eligable for) its own Wikipedia article (e.g. international news, multiple academic sources)

Article sections

• Intro: Summary of what a micronation is, how the term is ambiguous, what the list includes and what it intentionally leaves out.
• S1-Historical: Individual coverage of the notable micronations created before the usage of the term "micronation" (~pre-1978), followed by a table clearly summarising the information mentioned (see below parameters).
• S2-Modern: Broad coverage of the notable micronations created following the first usage of the term (includes the first contemporary place to be referred to as such), followed by a table (see below parameters).

• Possible parameters for table:
  • Name
  • Flag/Symbol (can be CoA or other symbol that is/was used by the micronation as identification)
  • Period (date founded – date abolished/abandoned)
  • Soverign State(s) (the UN-recognised country/countries or area(s) (e.g. Antarctica) that the micronations claim territory from)
  • Founder (with claimed title, link (if there is one) and lifespan)
  • Sources (any relevant sources for the table).

Relevant sources

• Books:
  • Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations by John Ryan, George Dunford and Simon Sellars (2006)
    • Sellar's micronation articles
    • Sellars's article about the book
  • Micronations: Invent Your Own Country and Culture with 25 Projects by Kathy Ceceri (2014)
  • Ils ne siègent pas à l'ONU (French; trans. "They Don't Work at the UN") by Fabrice O'Driscoll (2000)
• TV:
  • How to Start Your Own Country by Danny Wallace (2005)

News

• Canada:
  • Montreal Mirror WP
• US:
  • Atlanta WP
  • Boston Phoenix WP
  • The New York Times WP

To-Do List

1. Define the term "micronation", citing reliable academic/third-party sources (non-micronationalist)

• • Encyclopædia Britannica
  • The People's Almanac #2
  • WorldAtlas

Micronations - Checklist

Note: Those which aren't notable may still be mentioned on other pages related to the topic (e.g. BRN can be mentioned in Dresden)

Sources

• De Facto - provides links to relevant news articles
• MicroWiki - dubious, due to being open for anyone to edit, but provides a good jumping-off point
• Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations - Not definate, but a good starting point

Sources

• Micronations: Invent Your Own Country and Culture with 25 Projects (ISBN 1619302225)
• You probably didn’t know, but leaders from 26 micronations just gathered in Atlanta – Atlanta
• Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Self-Proclaimed Nations (ISBN 1-74104-730-7)
• Utopian Rulers, and Spoofs, Stake Out Territory Online – The New York Times

Draft

Name	Flag/Symbol	Claimed territory	Founder	Period active	Notes
Aerican Empire		Worldwide 1km2 of Australia A house in Montreal Several other areas of the Earth Interplanetary A colony on Mars The northern hemisphere of Pluto "Verden", an imaginary planet	Emperor Eric Lis b. 8 May 1982	8 May 1987 – present
Akhzivland		A house in Israel	President Eli Avivi c. 1930 – 16 May 2018	1971 – 16 May 2018