George Williams is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales. He's co-written a book with constitutional rights lawyer, Harry Hobbs about micronations and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

“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.