OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 32921

micronation

/ˈmaɪ.kɹəʊ.neɪ̯.ʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
micronación
A non-autonomous entity that claims to be a sovereign state and mimics the actions of a state (with varying degrees of seriousness), but lacks any legal recognition and exists only on paper or in the mind of its creator; a micronational entity.
For every dreamer there is somewhere a doer, and in the realm [of] the strange micro-nations, the Republic of Minerva has plunged a bit ahead of the nebulous status of most others.
Oceanus ... This is the world's largest micronation, taking up all the seas of the world beyond national 3-mi. limits.