noun A non-autonomous entity, generally small and having few residents, which claims to be a sovereign state and mimics the actions of a state (with varying degrees of seriousness), but lacks any legal recognition and exists only in theory or in the mind of its creator; a micronational entity. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
noun Synonym of microstate (“a sovereign state which has a very small land area and population”).
noun A very small nation (“historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common economic life, ethnicity, language, religion, and/or territory, and manifested in a common culture”) not amounting to a sovereign state.