Micronation

Micronations are countries started by one or a group of people which are not seen as actual countries by the United Nations. These countries are mostly used in people's heads, or on the internet.

People make micronations for lots of reasons. Some are to show they do not like their main country (for example the United Kingdom), or if they want to make money, or to use it as a place for themselves.

List

Here is a list of some Micronations;

Name	Flag	Made on	Description	Website
Aerican Empire		8 May 1987	Made by Eric Lis as a boy for a bit of fun.	Website
Adammia		13 April 2013	Made by Adam the first. Most of it is in the United Kingdom and the United States.	http://www.empireofadammia.org.uk/
Verdis		10 May 2019	Made by British-Australian activist Daniel Jackson along Pocket-3 of the Croatia-Serbia border dispute.	Website
Empire Austenasia		20 September 2008	Made by Terry and Jonathan Austen. Most of it is in Great Britain and North America.	Website
Conch Republic		23 April 1982	Made by people from the city of Key West because they did not like the USA stopping them from getting stuff from other places.	Website
Lovely		1 January 2005	Made for a TV special by Danny Wallace.	Website
Sealand		2 September 1967	Made by Paddy Roy Bates on an old RAF fort named Roughs Tower.	Website
Molossia		3 September 1999	An old nation run by Kevin Baugh. It was made in 1977.	Website
Talossa		December 26 1979	One of oldest still existing micro nations.	[1]
Koya Colonies		July 20 1990	Is a micronation that has claims to states and counties.	[2]
Sotian		2013		Sotian
Metagalaxy Empire		2018

Competitions

Some micronations play in competitions.

Football

The biggest football organisation for micronations is known as the MFA (Micronational Football Association), founded by Joe Foxon in 2009. It has 13 micronations from 7 countries as members. It makes a competition every 4 years called the MFA World Cup for all the micronations in the world to play in. The first World Cup will be in Southern England in 2013.

Chess

Every year there is a chess competition for micronations to play in. It is played on the computer and in the first year, 3 micronations took part.

Singing

Every year there is a singing competition called the MicroVision Song Contest. Micronations make a song and put it on the internet, and then other micronations vote for the best song. The winner then makes the next one.

Other websites

• Wiki of Micronations