The League of Secessionist States was founded on the 26th of November, 1980 by the Kingdom of Talossa, the Kingdom of Thord and the Imperial Jahn Empire, as an organization to unite micronations and to serve as a forum for serious and relevant debates about the micronational movement. Micronations, also known as ephemeral states, nationettes, imaginary states, model nations, counter-countries and unrecognized states, are a growing phenomenon.

They range from the inventions of single individuals to (virtually) functioning societies with populations in the thousands, often spread across 'national' boundaries. What they have in common is the voluntary and spontaneous nature of citizenship, which is unrecognized by the established (Macro-)nations. They have often been described as the future of nationhood; communities of like minded individuals who do not rely on an accident of birth or geography to define themselves as compatriots. It is an evolved notion of citizenship: as an option, and not a fact.

Micronationalism (or micronationry) is practiced in countless ways and styles, throughout all the linguistic sectors. These micronations have such peculiar characteristics that make them so much different from one another. There are some which are in fact projects of new nations, with real aspirations to become a soverign entity, those which intend to simulate an actual nation in all its aspects and characteristics, and even those individual projects that are very fantasious and virtualistic. Sometimes, they are not so pure, and merge such characteristics, becoming unique micronational projects.

Currently, the League of Secessionist States is an organization of around 50 (fifty) such micronations, from all linguistic sectors; it exists to promote intermicronational communication and partnership, and serves to act as a supramicronational, impartial Body where such a need for one may exist. The LoSS has an Intermicronational Court and also a General Assembly, exercizing functions that are very similar to those of the macronational United Nations.

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