Beginner’s guide to starting your own nation
If you’re looking for a way to kill time this Friday (before Friday free Fiction turns up, of course), why not start planning your own independent country with this concise summary of the steps required to create an internationally-recognised sovereign state? [image by dario_471]
As with business and industry, it can be tough going for the small start-ups in the statehood game, but the plucky and persistent sometimes manage to stay afloat. Once you’ve founded your micronation, you may want to join the League Of Micronations in lieu of acceptance into the UN; if nothing else, it’ll give you a social circle for bitching about the big boys.




March 2nd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
So could Taiwan join?
June 16th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
no, i think taiwan can’t because the smaller nations won’t accept it. macronations should just accept it already. besides, it’s practically its own country.
April 21st, 2011 at 11:18 am
China says Taiwan isn’t an independent nation.