page_title: Micronation
hierarchical_section_title: Micronation
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Sealand With permission of "Bureau of Internal Affairs Principality of Sealand" Because of the irreplacable nature of this photo, and the permission afforded by the "government" we ask that further consideration before deleting this image. My reading is they assigned GFDL (at least, or PD), and they would have assigned copyright to Wikipedia foundation if they had been asked again. Plus the other images on the emails - please tag as gfdl. Full clarification of which they meant would be better. Justinc 00:05, 30 September 2005 (UTC) They actually have assigned it to the public domain. I emailed them and that's what they said. See the emails subpage. - Ta bu shi da yu 14:13, 3 January 2006 (UTC)Bân-lâm-gú: Se-lân Kong-kok (Sealand). 西蘭公國 (Sealand)。
context_page_description: A micronation is a political entity whose members claim that they belong to an independent nation or sovereign state lacking legal recognition by world governments or major international organizations. Most are geographically very small, but range in size from a single square foot to millions of square miles. They are usually the outgrowth of a single individual.
  A micronation expresses a formal and persistent if unrecognized claim of sovereignty over some physical territory. Micronations are distinct from true secessionist movements; micronations' activities are almost always trivial enough to be ignored rather than challenged by the established nations whose territory they claim. Several micronations have issued coins, flags, postage stamps, passports, medals and other state-related items, often as a source of revenue.
  Some of what might now be considered micronations began in the 20th century. The advent of the Internet provided the means for people to create many new micronations, whose members are scattered all over the world and interact mostly by electronic means, often calling their nations "nomadic countries".
context_section_description: A micronation is a political entity whose members claim that they belong to an independent nation or sovereign state lacking legal recognition by world governments or major international organizations. Most are geographically very small, but range in size from a single square foot to millions of square miles (Westarctica).  They are usually the outgrowth of a single individual.
  A micronation expresses a formal and persistent if unrecognized claim of sovereignty over some physical territory. Micronations are distinct from true secessionist movements; micronations' activities are almost always trivial enough to be ignored rather than challenged by the established nations whose territory they claim. Several micronations have issued coins, flags, postage stamps, passports, medals and other state-related items, often as a source of revenue. 
  Some of what might now be considered micronations began in the 20th century. The advent of the Internet provided the means for people to create many new micronations, whose members are scattered all over the world and interact mostly by electronic means, often calling their nations "nomadic countries".  The differences between such "Internet micronations", other kinds of social networking groups and role-playing games are often difficult to define.
  The term "micronation" to describe those entities dates at least to the 1970s. The term micropatriology is sometimes used to describe the study of both micronations and microstates by micronationalists, some of whom refer to sovereign nation-states as "macronations".
  Micronations contrast with microstates, which are small but recognized sovereign states such as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City. They are also distinct from imaginary countries and from other kinds of social groups (such as eco-villages, campuses, tribes, clans, sects and residential community associations).
caption: The Principality of Sealand is a micronation located on a seafort off the coast of the United Kingdom.
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