While big powers get all the attention, tiny nations are making big moves. They’re like political startups, quick and effective. They make a big impact despite their small size. UNU research shows a ...

“Seasteaders” are a group of people who want to create libertarian-paradise countries on floating platforms in the ocean, free from the laws and regulations of traditional countries that they feel are ...

Microstates were, for many centuries, the most common form of political structure in Europe. A handful of these tiny nations, such as Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, and San Marino, still exist today.

Continental Europe is home to four microstates with populations of between 30,000 and 80,000 people: Andorra, on the border between France and Spain; Liechtenstein, nestled between Switzerland and ...

Threatened by geographic and demographic factors, the sovereignty of Oceania’s microstates has been precarious from their inception. Each of these states has a small but highly diverse population ...

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