micronation n 🔊
- A non-autonomous entity, generally small and having few residents, which 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 in theory or in the mind of its creator; a micronational entity.
- Synonym of microstate (“a sovereign state which has a very small land area and population”).
- (uncommon) A very small nation (“historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common economic life, ethnicity, language, religion, and/or territory, and manifested in a common culture”) not amounting to a sovereign state.
☞ The Principality of Sealand, an unrecognized micronation on a decommissioned military offshore platform in the North Sea, was “established” on this day in 1967.
The Principality of Sealand is an unrecognized micronation (sense 1) occupying a decommissioned British military offshore platform in the North Sea.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/2026/September_2
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