Kingdom of Elleore

Living in a regular country, with a normal government, can get annoying sometimes. Taxes, laws, political disputes... it's all kind of a bummer. So why not go live in a tiny country of your own? Some people have done it — and here are the most creative and strangest tiny nations on Earth, past and present.
生活在一個普通的國家里，有一個正常的政府，有時候會讓人很煩。稅收啦，法律啦，政治糾紛啦，都會讓我們很不爽。所以你有想過去一個屬于你的微型小國里生活么？有些人不僅想了，而且還真的這么做了，下面我們就一起去認識一下這些或曾經(jīng)存在或仍然存在著的“奇葩小國”吧。

1. Kingdom of Elleore
1. 艾里歐里王國

Kingdom of Elleore, on the island of Elleore, Roskilde Fjord, Denmark, which was purchased by a group of Copenhagen teachers in 1944 as a summer camp, but it turned into a gentle parody of the government structure and royal traditions of Denmark. The novel Robin Crusoe is banned on the island, and everyone uses Elleore Standard Time, which is 12 minutes behind Danish time. It has had six monarchs in the last 70 years.
艾里歐里王國，位于丹麥北部海岸的一個小島，1944年一群來自哥本哈根的老師買下它來舉辦夏令營，但之后就宣布獨立成國并開始效仿丹麥政府。小說《羅賓遜漂流記》在島上是被禁止的。艾里歐里王國擁有自己的艾里歐里標準時間，比丹麥時間晚12分鐘。在過去70年里該國已經(jīng)換了6位君主。

Celestia

2. Celestia
2.星空王國

Celestia (or The Nation of Celestial Space), created by James Thomas Mangan in Evergreen Park, Illinois, on January 1, 1949, claiming all of outer space. Mangan sent some letters to the United States, United Nations, United Kingdom and Soviet Union to stop all further atmospheric tests, and warning them not to encroach on his so-called "territory".
星空王國由詹姆斯·托馬斯·曼根于1949年1月1日在美國伊利諾斯州的常青公園建立，并聲稱統(tǒng)治所有的外太空。曼根曾給美國、聯(lián)合國、英國和蘇聯(lián)寫信，禁止他們進一步對大氣進行測試，并警告他們不要侵占他所謂的“領(lǐng)土”。

The nation had more than 19,000 citizens in 1959 (after a booklet was published about Celestia), but it may have become defunct after the death of Mangan in 1970.
該國在1959年的時候擁有1萬9千名公民（根據(jù)一本由星空天國出版的小冊子），但1970年Mangan死后該國就不復存在了。

The Principality of Seborga

3. The Principality of Seborga
3.塞波加大公國

The Principality of Seborga, Seborga, Italy, founded in 1963 by Giorgio Carbone, who claimed that the town had never become part of the modern Italian state. The small constitutional elective monarchy with less than half a hundred inhabitants is now led by Prince Marcello I (Marcello Menegatto, 2010-). The town issued a local currency named luigino between 1994 and 1996, and they still have two orders of knights (The Order of Saint Bernard and the Order of the Holy Sepulchre).
塞波加大公國，由西格諾·卡波恩于1963年在意大利的塞波加建立，創(chuàng)建者聲稱從此這座城鎮(zhèn)不再受到意大利的統(tǒng)治。這座實行憲法選舉制的國家擁有不到50名居民，目前由馬塞洛一世領(lǐng)導。該國家曾在1994年至1996年期間發(fā)行了一種稱為路易吉諾的貨幣，另外，該國還擁有兩個騎士團。

The Principality of Sealand

4. The Principality of Sealand
4.西蘭公國

The Principality of Sealand, on a WWII installation to guard the port of Harwich, Essex, UK, named HM Fort Roughs. It stands six miles from the coast of Suffolk. The place was occupied by a British pirate radio broadcaster named Paddy Roy Bates (Prince Roy) and his family in 1967. Eight years later the Principality was established, and Roy led this until his death two years ago at the age of 91. He named his son Michael as the new leader of the nation.
西蘭公國是二戰(zhàn)時為保護英國不受德國入侵而建立的，當時叫做怒濤堡壘。它距離薩?？丝ず０?英里（約10公里）左右。此地在1967年被一個叫做帕迪·羅伊·貝茨的英國海盜之聲的播音員及其家人占領(lǐng)，8年后建立了公國，由派迪·羅伊·貝茨領(lǐng)導，直到其在兩年前去世，享年91歲。當時，他任命他的兒子邁克爾作為這個國家新的領(lǐng)導人。

And here's an opportunity to become a Lord, Lady, Baron or Baroness for only a few bucks, and a Count or Countess for almost $340.
在這個國家只要幾美元就可以成為男爵或男爵夫人，成為伯爵或伯爵夫人也只要340美元。

Freetown Christiania

5. Freetown Christiania
5.克里斯蒂娜自由城

Freetown Christiania, a self-proclaimed autonomous neighborhood in Christianshavn, Copenhagen, Denmark, declared in 1971, and regarded as a large commune with special laws since 1989.
克里斯蒂娜自由城是1971年在丹麥根本哈根的克里斯欽港宣布成立的自治社區(qū)，1989年之后被認為是一個擁有特殊法律的公社。

The Kingdom of Talossa

6. The Kingdom of Talossa
6.塔羅薩王國

The Kingdom of Talossa, founded in 1979 by a 14-year-old boy named Robert Madison in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
塔羅薩王國成立于1979年，是由一名叫做羅伯特·麥迪遜的14歲男孩在美國威斯康星州的密爾沃基建立的。

This micronation had the first national Webpage (in November 1995!) and it has an Anthem titled Stand Tall Talossans. Now it has a king named John I, and the current population is 222. A group of dissidents left the Kingdom, and created the Republic of Talossa in 2004, but they returned two years ago.
這個微型小國在1995年11月有了第一個國家網(wǎng)站，它的國歌叫做《Stand Tall Talossans》?，F(xiàn)在它的國王叫做喬治一世，擁有居民222人。一群擁有不同政治意見的人曾離開該國并2004年創(chuàng)建了塔羅薩共和國，但兩年前他們又回到了該國。

The nation has some wild territorial claims — stretching from part of Milwaukee to an uninhabited French island and a large part of Antarctica.
這個國家聲稱擁有廣闊的野外領(lǐng)土，從密爾沃基的一部分延伸到法國一個無人居住的小島，還包括南極的大部分。

The Republic of Kugelmugel

7. The Republic of Kugelmugel
7.庫格穆格爾共和國

The Republic of Kugelmugel, a spherical house in Vienna Prater, Vienna, Austria, designed by Edwin Lipburger. The micronation declared independence 30 years ago after some arguments between the artist and Austrian authorities due to lack of building permits.
庫格穆格爾共和國是一座由埃德溫·李普伯格設計的位于奧地利維也納的球形房子。30年前該設計師和政府之間因缺乏建筑許可等問題發(fā)生爭執(zhí)，于是宣布該小國獨立。

Aerican Empire

8. Aerican Empire
8. 艾瑞克帝國

Aerican Empire, founded in May 1987 by Eric Lis, without any territory of its own, but its few hundred members (about 400 in 2009, 233 in July 2013) started to claim sovereignty over some disconnected territories: a house-sized area in Montreal, Canada, a colony of Mars, an imaginary planet, the northern hemisphere of Pluto, an island in the middle of a lake in New Zealand, and a square kilometer of land in Australia, among others.
艾瑞克帝國于1987年5月由埃里克·利斯創(chuàng)立，這個國家沒有屬于自己的領(lǐng)土，但該國的上百名公民（2009年時約有400人，到2013年6月有233人）會對一些奇奇怪怪的地方宣布主權(quán)，比如加拿大蒙特利爾的只有一處房子大小的土地，火星上的土地、一個虛構(gòu)的星球、冥王星的北部、新西蘭某個湖中心的小島、澳大利亞某個1平方公里的土地等等。

The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands

9. The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands
9.珊瑚海群島上的同性戀王國

The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands, founded as a symbolic political protest by a group of gay rights activists, led by Dale Anderson in 2004, on Coral Sea Islands, Queensland, Australia.
珊瑚海群島上的同性戀王國，2004年以戴樂·安德森為領(lǐng)導在澳大利亞昆士蘭的珊瑚海群島建立，象征著一種由同性戀權(quán)利活動者發(fā)起的政治抗議。

Filettino

10. Filettino
10.菲力亭諾

Filettino, a small village about 40 miles (70 km) east of Rome, Italy, with a population of 577, became an "independent state" in 2011, when the Italian government announced that all villages with under 1,000 inhabitants must merge with nearby ones, to save money.
菲力亭諾，一個距意大利羅馬40英里（約70公里）的小村莊，有577人，在2011年意大利政府宣布所有人口少于1000人的村莊都必須與附近的村莊合并以節(jié)約開支的時候，這個村莊就宣布成為“獨立的國家”。