The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

A micronation of epic proportions.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Land that belongs to no nation.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

The smallest country in the world.

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

A hotly contested micro-nation off the coast of Montserrat.

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

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

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

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

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

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

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

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 California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.