How to Start Your Own Country (book)
How to Start Your Own Country (ISBN 1581605242) is a book about micronations written by Erwin S Strauss, and originally published in the late 1970s.
It is generally considered to be the first attempt at documenting the micronation phenomenon.
The book was republished in a revised and extended Chinese-language version in July 2008 by Taipei, Taiwan-based publisher Editions du Flaneur. The Chinese-language title of the book translates as: Microcountries: A Simple Operation Manual for the Founding of Independent States, although the accompanying English-language title mirrors that of the first edition.
The new edition includes numerous insertions as well as a 100-page illustrated addendum entitled 10 Classic Country-Building Stories. This explores the development of micronations which were not in existence, or about which Strauss was not aware, when the original book was published, including: Lovely, Atlantium, Molossia, Caux, Elleore, Seborga, Conch Republic, Christiania, Sabotage and Citynoland.
External links
- Amazon.com link (original edition)
- Editions du Flaneur (Chinese language 2nd edition)
Category: Micronations
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