Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations

Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations
AuthorJohn Ryan, George Dunford and Simon Sellars
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMicronationalism
PublishedSeptember 2006
PublisherLonely Planet
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages160
ISBN978-1-74104-730-1

Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations is an Australian gazetteer about micronations, published in September 2006 by Lonely Planet. It was written by John Ryan, George Dunford and Simon Sellars. Self-described as a humorous guidebook and written in a light-hearted tone, the book's profile of micronations offers information on their flags, leaders, currencies, maps and other facts. It was re-subtitled Guide to Self-Proclaimed Nations in later publications.

Ryan first became interested in the concept of micronationalism upon his discovery of the Principality of Hutt River. While pitching the idea to the staff at Lonely Planet, Sellars, who founded his own micronation as a child, overheard Ryan and pestered him for several months after the book's concept had been approved by the publisher until Ryan finally agreed to accept him as a co-writer. Dunford was later also invited by Ryan.