Intermicronational World (IW)
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Intermicronational Organisations In the most ideal cases, they are a lot more than talk shops, and provide potential territorial claims to nations or micronations without claims. May also provide a good foundation for intermicronational relations or basic foreign affairs.
External legitimacy: Professional Organisations In the most ideal cases, they provide generic professional registration for authentic professionals. May also provide a sounder foundation for micronational registration. Moreover, they may provide intellectual property instruments independent of any other nation, organisation, or international convention, and a sounder foundation for therecognition of states, nations, and other kinds of entities.
External legitimacy: Health Organisations In the most ideal cases, they provide professional registration for authentic health professionals. May also provide a sounder foundation for micronational registration.
External legitimacy: Accreditation Organisations In the most ideal cases, they provide certain kinds of institutions — real service-providing government agencies, professional registries,employment agencies, chambers of commerce, universities, schools, news agencies, root nameserver systems, etc. — with accreditation when they meet the highest standards as real and reliable public services.
External legitimacy: Fifth World Organisations In the most ideal cases, they provide strong and/or importantmicronations, i.e. Fourth and Fifth World nations, or nations enjoying an unusual degree of legitimacy, with hosting, email, and third-level domain redirection services.
External legitimacy: Intermicronational Treaty Organisations In the most ideal cases, they provide the foundation for legitimate land, sea, or outerspace claims. Moreover, they may also provide incentives to the powers that be to clean up the environment, and/or to begin to take greater responsibility for the actions.
External legitimacy: Scholars' Organisations In the most ideal cases, they are both embryonic tertiary educational institutions and intermicronational communities of scholars. Social Organisations In the most ideal cases, they provide relatively free micronational news sources and forums for intermicronational socialisation. Moreover, they may also provide wikis for micronations and micronational institutions.
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Micronation
The earliest recognizable micronations on record date from the beginning of the 19th century. Most were founded by eccentric adventurers or business speculators, and several were remarkably successful. One early example of a micronation is the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, ruled by the Clunies-Ross family.
Less successful micronations are the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia (1860–62) in southern Chile and Argentina; the Republic of Indian Stream(1832–35) in North America; and the Kingdom of Sedang (1888–90) in French Indochina. The oldest extant micronation to arise in modern times is theKingdom of Redonda, founded in 1865 in the Caribbean. It failed to establish itself as a real country, but has nonetheless managed to survive into the present day as a unique literary foundation with its own king and aristocracy—although it is not without its controversies: there are presently at least four competing claimants to the Redondan throne.
Martin Coles Harman, owner of the British island of Lundy in the early decades of the 20th century, declared himself King and issued private coinage and postage stamps for local use. Although the island was ruled as a virtual fiefdom, its owner never claimed to be independent of the United Kingdom, so Lundy can at best be described as a precursor to later territorial micronations. Another example is the Principality of Outer Baldonia, a 16-acre (65,000 m2) rocky island off the coast of Nova Scotia, founded by Russell Arundel, chairman of the Pepsi Cola Company (later: PepsiCo), in 1945 and comprising a population of 69 fishermen. "