The Principality of Sealand has its own flag, a white diagonal stripe dividing fields of red and black. It has currency, postage stamps, a national anthem (“E Mare Libertas,” which is also its ...

During the 2018 World Cup in Russia, it emerged that a seven-page document had been supplied to stadium security staff, detailing dozens of flags that tournament organisers had banned from being ...

In the choppy North Sea about six miles off the English coast, a floating, rusty World War II fort is a self-proclaimed independent nation. Owned by one family for nearly 50 years, the Principality of ...

Yet the “hard as nails” Bates family have put their lives on the line on more than one occasion to remain the undisputed monarchs of their self-styled kingdom since 1966. For them it’s certainly not ...

The Pirate Bay, Swedish I.P. Loki extraordinaire, wants to buy the Principality of Sealand, a passport-issuing micronation (this is to say, abandoned naval defense platform) occupied by self-styled ...

As a former World War Two sea fort, it is used to crashing waves, bitter winds and passing ships. What you are less likely to associate with the Principality of Sealand, a self-declared state 12km ...

SEALAND (AFP) - It's a hulking metal-and-concrete platform in the North Sea that has been run as an independent micronation in defiance of the British government for the last 54 years. But even on ...