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This micronation existed only as a concept until its founder, Kevin Baugh, bought land in Nevada in 1998. [47] The micronation was featured as the setting for Doug Walker's 2010 film "Kickassia" where Kevin Baugh played a fictional version of himself and primary opponent of Walker's YouTube persona the Nostalgia Critic.
Micronations are aspirant states that claim independence but lack legal recognition by world governments or major international organisations. [5] [6] Micronations are classified separately from states with limited recognition and quasi-states, nor are they considered to be autonomous or self-governing as they lack the legal basis in international law for their existence. [7]
"micronation" as a catch-all term has been applied by the media, by major public institutions, in educational discourse and in printed publications to describe any and all of the above for well over a decade. Wikipedia is not the arbiter of whether the concept of micronations is "trivial" or not. The concept exists and has been clearly defined.
Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations has 160 pages, and includes an introduction and a full index. [P 2] It is fully illustrated. [14] The book's profile of micronations offers information on their flags, leaders, currencies, maps and other facts.
[4] [10] In the Cambridge University Press book Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, MicroWiki is mentioned several times as an online community for online micronations. [11] In late 2024, a group of MicroWiki users strongly criticised the wiki's practices and biased administrators, which made strong waves in the micronational community ...
Micronations in France (5 P) G. Micronations in Germany (5 P) I. Micronations in Italy (5 P) S. Micronations in Sweden (3 P) U. Micronations in the United Kingdom (2 ...
Flags of micronations and intermicronational organisations at MicroCon 2022. Micronations are ephemeral, self-proclaimed entities that claim to be independent sovereign states, but which are not acknowledged as such by any recognised sovereign state, or by any supranational organisation.
The micronation promotes direct democracy and the micro-nationalism movement. Their coat of arms contains the symbol of the eye of providence, and there are many references to Masonic terminology in the text of the constitution. [10] None of the citizens live on the island and the country is not recognized by any country in the world.