The Weirdest Micronations That Have Ever Existed
Living in a regular country, with a normal government, can get annoying sometimes. Taxes, laws, political disputes... it's all kind of a bummer. So why not go live in a tiny country of your own? Some people have done it — and here are the most creative and strangest tiny nations on Earth, past and present.
Kingdom of Elleore, on the island of Elleore, Roskilde Fjord, Denmark, which was purchased by a group of Copenhagen teachers in 1944 as a summer camp, but it turned into a gentle parody of the government structure and royal traditions of Denmark.
The novel Robin Crusoe is banned on the island, and everyone uses Elleore Standard Time, which is 12 minutes behind Danish time. It has had six monarchs in the last 70 years.
Celestia (or The Nation of Celestial Space), created by James Thomas Mangan in Evergreen Park, Illinois, on January 1, 1949, claiming all of outer space.
Mangan sent some letters to the United States, United Nations, United Kingdom and Soviet Union to stop all further atmospheric tests, and warning them not to encroach on his so-called "territory".
The nation had more than 19,000 citizens in 1959 (after a booklet was published about Celestia), but it may have become defunct after the death of Mangan in 1970.
The Principality of Seborga, Seborga, Italy, founded in 1963 by Giorgio Carbone, who claimed that the town had never become part of the modern Italian state.
The small constitutional elective monarchy with less than half a hundred inhabitants is now led by Prince Marcello I (Marcello Menegatto, 2010-). The town issued a local currency named luigino between 1994 and 1996, and they still have two orders of knights (The Order of Saint Bernard and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre).
The Principality of Sealand, on a WWII installation to guard the port of Harwich, Essex, UK, named HM Fort Roughs. It stands six miles from the coast of Suffolk.
The place was occupied by a British pirate radio broadcaster named Paddy Roy Bates (Prince Roy) and his family in 1967. Eight years later the Principality was established, and Roy led this until his death two years ago at the age of 91. He named his son Michael as the new leader of the nation.
And here's an opportunity to become a Lord, Lady, Baron or Baroness for only a few bucks, and a Count or Countess for almost $340.
Freetown Christiania, a self-proclaimed autonomous neighborhood in Christianshavn, Copenhagen, Denmark, declared in 1971, and regarded as a large commune with special laws since 1989.
The Kingdom of Talossa, founded in 1979 by a 14-year-old boy named Robert Madison in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This micronation had the first national Webpage (in November 1995!) and it has an Anthem titled Stand Tall Talossans. Now it has a king named John I, and the current population is 222. A group of dissidents left the Kingdom, and created the Republic of Talossa in 2004, but they returned two years ago.
The nation has some wild territorial claims — stretching from part of Milwaukee to anuninhabited French island and a large part of Antarctica.
The Republic of Kugelmugel, a spherical house in Vienna Prater, Vienna, Austria, designed by Edwin Lipburger. The micronation declared independence 30 years ago after some arguments between the artist and Austrian authorities due to lack of building permits.
Aerican Empire, founded in May 1987 by Eric Lis, without any territory of its own, but its few hundred members (about 400 in 2009, 233 in July 2013) started to claim sovereignty over some disconnected territories: a house-sized area in Montreal, Canada, a colony of Mars, an imaginary planet, the northern hemisphere of Pluto, an island in the middle of a lake in New Zealand, and a square kilometer of land in Australia, among others.
The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands, founded as a symbolic political protest by a group of gay rights activists, led by Dale Anderson in 2004, on Coral Sea Islands, Queensland, Australia.
Filettino, a small village about 40 miles (70 km) east of Rome, Italy, with a population of 577, became an "independent state" in 2011, when the Italian government announced that all villages with under 1,000 inhabitants must merge with nearby ones, to save money.
生活在一个普通的国家里，有一个正常的政府，有时候会让人很烦躁。税收、政治、法律纠纷这些都会打扰我们的正常生活。所以为什么不生活在一个属于自己的小国家呢？有些人真的已经这么做了，下面这些是曾经存在和正在存在的那些有创意和奇怪的小国家。
Elleore王国坐落在丹麦Roskilde峡湾Elleore岛上，1944年一群来自哥本哈根的老师为了举办夏令营而购买了它，之后开始效仿丹麦政府。
《罗宾逊漂流记》这本小说在岛上是被禁止的，Elleore王国拥有属于自己的Elleore标准时间，比丹麦时间慢12分钟。在过去70年里已经换了6个君主。
Celestia天国由James Thomas Mangan在1949年1月1日在伊利诺斯州的 Evergreen公园建立的，声称统治所有的外太空。
Mangan给美国、联合国、英国和苏联送去了一些信件，禁止他们进一步对大气进行测试，并警告他们不要侵占他所谓的“领土”。
这个国家在1959年时拥有19000名公民(根据一本由Celestia出版的小册子)，但1970年Mangan死后就不再存在了。
Seborga公国于1963年由Giorgio Carbone在意大利的Seborga建立，他声称这座城镇不再受到意大利的统治。
这座宪法选举制的国家拥有不到50名居民，目前有Marcello一世王子领导。这个国家在1994年至1996年间发行了一种称为路易吉诺的货币。
西兰(Sealand)公国，是二战时为保护英国Essex的Harwich港所建造的，当时叫做HM Fort Roughs。它距离Suffolk海岸6英里左右。
这个地方在1967年被Paddy Roy Bates以及他的家人占领。8年之后建立了公国，Roy一直领导这个国家知道两年前去世，享年91岁。他任命他的儿子Michael作为这个国家新的领导人。
在这个国家只要几元钱就能成为男爵或男爵夫人，成为伯爵或伯爵夫人也只要340美元。
自由城Christiania，是1971年在丹麦根本哈根宣布成立的自治社区，1989年以来被认为是一个拥有特殊法律的公社。
Talossa王国成立于1979年，是一名叫做Robert Madison的男孩在威斯康星州的密尔沃基建立的。
这个微型国家在1995年11月有了第一个国家网站，它的国歌叫做《 Stand Tall Talossans》。现在它的国王叫做John一世，居民有222人。一群拥有不同政治意见的人离开了这个国家，2004年的时候他们创建了Talossa共和国，但两年前他们回来了。
这个国家声称拥有很广阔的野外领土，从密尔沃基延伸到French岛甚至是南极的大部分。
Kugelmugel共和国，是一座位于奥地利维也纳的球形房子，由Edwin Lipburger设计。30年前设计师和政府之间由于缺乏一些建筑许可发生了一些争论，于是这个迷你国家就宣布独立。
Aerican帝国于1987年5月由Eric Lis创立，这个国家没有自己的领土，但有几百名公民(2009年时约有400人，2013年时有233人)刚开始对一些不相邻的领土宣布主权：加拿大蒙特利尔的房子大小的土地，火星上的土地、一个虚构的形象、冥王星的背部、新西兰某个湖中心的小岛、澳大利亚某个1平方公里的土地等等。
珊瑚海群岛上的同性恋王国，作为一群同性恋权利活动者象征性的政治抗议2004年由Dale Anderson领导在澳大利亚昆士兰的珊瑚海群岛建立。
Filettino一个是距意大利罗马70公里的小村庄，有577人，2011年意大利政府宣布所有人口低于1000人的村庄都必须与附近的村庄合并以节约开支，于是这个村庄就宣布成为“独立的国家”。
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那个笑脸国旗太萌了！