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The old maxim that quality is better than quantity applies to micronations, too, says Sander Dieleman.
Richard Shears shows how to avoid losing your micronational citizens, and your micronation.
Q&A session transcript about the Havenco server project on Sealand.
An anthology from the Global Policy Forum.
An anthology from the Global Policy Forum.
Oliver Reed witnesses the birth of a new nation in the Pacific Ocean.
Kathy Ceceri with a positive examination of what micronations have to offer the world.
Ian MacLeod explores sovereign states that have established themselves in cyberspace and people's minds, if not in the real world.
Kieran Bennett proposes a new type of government to benefit the individual and support an alternative form of globalisation.
Stephen Appleton explores the variety of coins minted by microstates and micronations.
Micronations are just too addictive for retiring micronationalist Sander Dieleman.
John Connell reports that the last colonies may always be with us.
‘Fringe activists hope to infiltrate vote and set up a breakaway minimalist government’
A frank assessment of the rise and fall of simulated economies, by “Philip Locke”
Patri Forwalter-Friedman on the obstacles to founding a libertarian nation.
As New York—a city that often has more in common with Europe than with the United States - prepares to be invaded by the red-state hordes during an election that has much of the city fearing the prospect of four more years, a persistent fantasy resurfaces - Jennifer Senior asks if should New York secede?
Dave Wetmore of G106.3 FM interviews President Baugh (streaming MP3 - link from page)
(Embedded applet in page - or alternative file download: WMV file - 3.3Mb)
A profile of Talossa and its founder, by Alex Blumberg.
Lindsay Pereira casts an eye over some of the earlier micronations.
An examination of establishing sovereign territory in international waters.
A Maori is claiming legal sovereignty over his marae, under the terms of the Waitangi Treaty.
An anthology of articles from the Lusophone community.
Thomas Cutterham explores the political ideals behind the founding of micronations.
Kevin Baugh examines the origins and future of micronationalism.
Misleadingly-titled short posting and comments on many things micronational.
Dave Roos escapes to a world of kings and castles in a land the size of a place mat.
Royce Carlson on various attempts to found micronations and microstates.
Short feature about Micronations.Net.
Carson Smith reflects on his experiences and marvels at the speed at which things move.
Peter Rasmussen succeeds in untangling two frequently intertwined concepts.
David Arnett examines the viability of building an ocean nation on platfroms.
Micronations reflect people’s dissatisfactions with the real world, writes “HM Kasimir Diana I”.
Scott Siskind says the virtuous escapism of micronationalism should be taken in prescribed doses.
Roy Halliday recalls his simultaneous participation in an attempt to establish a libertarian country and a campaign against President Nixon’s administration.
Laurie Smith Anderson discovers the amazing history of Louisiana's eight "Florida parishes".
Matthew Vasroixe details a proposed economic system, the principles of which could be adopted at a micronational summit in 2005.
Swedish artist Lars Vilks receives thousands of applications from Pakistan for Ladonian citizenship.
A British carpenter lives on his own recycled island in the Caribbean.
A thesis on the practicalities of establishing artificial islands.
Can owning a private island help the establishment of a new country?
Jason Rhodes’ sublime rules for micronationalists.
Richard Rosecrance (UCLA) examines the emerging reality of the virtual state.
Nations may once again get the chance to make conflicting claims over a submerged island.
An examination of the characteristics of internet micronations and similar communities.
Tamils may yet live on their own sovereign island if a Tamil organisation gets its way.
Andrew Weiner asks if territory-seeking micronations are a step too far.
The chequered histories of the Dominion of Melchizedek and of fake Sealand passports.
Scott Siskind believes that there are two main types of micronations, which are both inevitably doomed to failure.
‘Gryphon Avocatio’ examines the phenomenon of internet-based micronations.
Stephen Mihm looks at people’s motives for establishing micronations.
Andrew Weiner discovers that in cyberspace, anyone can stake a claim to nationhood and rule with a scepter and a mouse.
Scott Siskind inquires into the complex nature of micronational economics.
Sascha Segan finds an altruist, a jester and a rogue.
Simson Garfinkel delves into the past, present and future of the famous microstate.
Peter Rasmussen’s definitive essay on micronationalism.
Matt Crenson examines successful and failed attempts by founders of microstates to find unclaimed territories.
Yugoslavia might have been officially abolished, but it now lives on as a microstate.
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Would-Be Nation-Builders Hunt for Land (NNCO/Associated Press - July 2005)