A ways back I got my hands on a nifty little book called Micronations and left it on my shelf for a rainy day. The book was published by the good folks at Lonely Planet who, in case you haven’t noticed, have taken their Aussie-based publishing empire way beyond the realm of travel guides. Anyway, it rained last night. Hard. So I plucked Micronations off the shelf and decided to thumb through it. I wasn’t quite sure what it was about, but as I got through it i realized what a clever concept it was.
You know how a man is the king of his domain? Well, that may be an outdated, if not chauvinist cliche, but in a way it’s accurate here. Micronations is all about people who have decided to shun the burdens (tax and otherwise) of their home countries and went out to start their own…country, that is. Sure most of them here are jokes, but some of them, like the nation of Sealand, an island/platform/nation off the coast of Great Britain.
In case you want to know more about what a Micronation is, you can always check Wikipedia.