Late last week, BBC reported that conservative Party of Free Citizens in the Czech Republic member Vit Jedlicka has declared a 2.7-square-mile "no man's land" between the borders of Serbia and Croatia ...

Never heard of the Imperial Kingdom of Calsahara? The Conch Republic? The Principality of Sealand? You’re not alone. Léo Delafontaine hadn’t either until 2012, when he visited the Republic of Saugeais ...

Never heard of the Imperial Kingdom of Calsahara? The Conch Republic? The Principality of Sealand? You’re not alone. Léo Delafontaine hadn’t either until 2012, when he visited the Republic of Saugeais ...

Ever been so fed up with your government that you decided to break away and form your own nation? A surprising number of Australians have. There are about 100 micronations spread out across the world, ...

Randy Williams, the ‘sultan’ of the 11-acre micronation in the California desert. An 11-acre plot in the California desert ruled over by a faux sultan is attracting thousands of ‘citizens’ looking for ...

A dried-up strawberry field, a spherical house, and other nations you didn’t know existed. The People’s Republic of Donetsk, a theoretical splinter nation from Eastern Ukraine, currently consists of ...

From the Florida Keys and Nevada to Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, bands of plucky citizens across the world are declaring their parcels of land to be micronations – independent states ...

A trolley load of books, chapters and treatises have been written on the subject of sovereignty. Usually, the concept entails control and power, the latter a corollary of the former. In international ...

Imagine escaping the confines of bureaucracy and founding your own state, where you make all the rules. Sounds like the stuff of fantasy novels. But some people actually make it a reality by creating ...