Harsh Vardhan Jain was running a fake embassy out of a Ghaziabad bungalow. Claiming to represent 12 so-called ‘micronations’ like Westarctica and Londonia, he duped people by promising jobs and ...

A variable count suggests there are currently around 100 active micronations around the world, with more than 400 recorded in recent history. In Australia, where one-third of all micronations are ...

Vice Media, the once-high flying digital media company valued at billions of dollars, is set to be acquired out of bankruptcy by three investment companies, including Fortress Investment Group ...

Liberland is just the newest in a long history of "micronations," pieces of land that claim to be independent or sovereign nations, but are not recognized by world governments. They are founded ...

Updated Sept. 23, 2024 at 6:10 p.m.* Welcome to the far-out world of micronations, mini-states that range from a personal hobby to a geographic stake in a political stance.

Reports put the number of current micronations at over 40 0.. Photographer Leó Delafontaine found himself fascinated by these places and began photographing them in 2012, visiting six countries ...

Micronations, tiny self-declared provinces, are unrecognized and mostly for fun; one ties its currency to the price of cookie dough. Micronations, tiny self-declared provinces, are unrecognized ...

They replicate the symbols, documents, and acts of legitimate states. Micronations create flags, passports, and currency; establish constitutions; and hold elections or plan their lines of succession.

Most of these micronations declared "sovereignty" between the 1970s and 1990s. But there have been some newcomers; the Imperial Kingdom of Calsahara in southern California declared its sovereignty ...

Micronations may not be recognized by other countries, but they're weathering the coronavirus pandemic just like the rest of us.

“I think that the golden age of micronations is almost over. The famous ones, like the Principality of Hutt River and the Republic of Saugeais, are headed by very old people,” he says.