Micro-nations

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.

This micronation's flag honors its favorite drink, Kaffegöken, or "cuckoo-coffee."

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

A failed utopia, shut down by a more legitimate nation.

A self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state on a tiny bit of disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia.

A proto micro-nation sometimes populated by artists, surrounded on all sides by a Utah most barren.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.