micronation

1. (uncommon) A small nation (“historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and manifested in a common culture”).Examples: "Careful groundwork had given Germany a highly unified micronation within the boundaries of Argentina, in many ways better prepared and better organized than the Argentine nation itself."; "We are faced with micronationalisms that need be tamed, micronations that will have to be organized."; "Margery Perham once remarked that white Rhodesia was a micronation equivalent to a medium-sized British town. How has this micronation, about 80 per cent of whom live in the urban areas, been able to develop and retain control over the African population for so long?"Synonyms: ephemeral state, model country, micronational entity, new country project, project nationuncommon