League of Small Nations
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| Headquarters: | ? |
| Membership: | 4 member states |
| Establishment: | ? |
| Website: | Official website |
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| Secretary General: | Paul, Grand Duke of Greifenberg |
The League of Small Nations is an intermicronational organization that restricts membership to micronation
Micronation
Micronations, sometimes also referred to as model countries and new country projects, are entities that claim to be independent nations or states but which are not recognized by world governments or major international organizations...
s that control physical territory.
Membership
Membership in the League of Small Nations is restricted to those micronations who meet the requirements of the Montevideo ConventionMontevideo Convention
The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States was a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933, during the Seventh International Conference of American States. The Convention codified the declarative theory of statehood as accepted as part of customary international...
. Those requirements are:
- a permanent population
- a defined territory
- government
- capacity to enter into relations with the other states
Current members include the Republic of Molossia
Republic of Molossia
The Republic of Molossia is an unrecognized micronation, founded by Kevin Baugh semi-humorously as a "dictatorial banana-republic" and headquartered solely from a tiny home near Dayton, Nevada....
, the Dominion of British West Florida
Dominion of British West Florida
The Dominion of British West Florida is a separatist micronation founded in 2005 "on an eccentric interpretation of actual historic events" and based in the Gulf coast region of the United States...
, the Sovereign Barony of Caux
Barony of Caux
The Sovereign Barony of Caux is a micronation founded in 2001 on the basis of an ancient hereditary barony. It claims territory in Shropshire, UK, and in the Pays de Caux in Normandy, France, but is ruled from an embassy in Toronto, Canada....
, the Principality of Vikesland
Principality of Vikesland
The Kingdom of Vikesland is a micronation located in Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in 2005 by Christopher Barry Joseph Beyette , a television news cameraman employed by the CHUM network....
, and the Grand Duchy of Greifenberg
Greifenberg
Greifenberg is a municipality in the district of Landsberg in Bavaria in Germany.-External links:*Webpage of the local Shooting Club "Schmied von Kochel"...
.