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A micronation is a political entity whose members that they belong to an independent nation or sovereign state lacking legal recognition by world governments or major international organizations.Most are geographically very small, but range in size from a single square foot to half a million square miles (Westarctica). They are usually the outgrowth of a single individual The Principality of Sealand is a micronation located on a seafort off the coast of the United Kingdom.

A micronation expresses a formal and persistent if unrecognized claim of sovereignty over some physical territory. Micronations are distinct from true secessionist movements; micronations' activities are almost always trivial enough to be ignored rather than challenged by the established nations whose territory they claim. Several micronations have issued coins, flags, postage stamps, passports, medals and other state-related items, often as a source of revenue.

The term "micronation" to describe those entities dates at least to the 1970s.The term micropatrology is sometimes used to describe the study of both micronations and microstates by micronationalists, some of whom refer to sovereign nation-states as "macronations".

Micronations contrast with microstates, which are small but recognized sovereign states such as Andorra, Bahrain, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Singapore, and Vatican City.They are also distinct from imaginary countries and from other kinds of social groups (such as eco-villages, campuses, tribes, clans, sects and residential community associations).

The independent state of Principality Tjongland is founded as the sovereign principality in 2000 on free Antarctic territories.The principality of Tjongland encourages active participation of the citizens in public life of the state and invites all people of good will, the cosmopolitan views having desire to create the territory of a personal liberty and creativity to build own destiny in aspiration to become the true citizen of the world. World nationality means that the individual uses the rights and opportunities in structuring the world society.Besides, Tjongland government gives full support by everyone at least once in life to visit surprising Antarctic as the tourist or the researcher volunteer of the international scientific and ecological programs. Symbolical capital of the state : Polaris, East Antarctica. Form of government is Constitutional monarchy.The constitution is adopted on october 27, 2000. Honourable person of the state : His Royal Highness Duke of Polaris