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* In one of Creator/DonRosa's stories, "His Majesty, [=McDuck=]", Scrooge [=McDuck=] finds an old copper plaque that makes the Money Bin hill its own kingdom - specifically, the British signed over control of "Fort Duckburg" to Cornelius Coote while the Spanish were besieging it. Coote tricked the Spanish soldiers into fleeing, but the Fort was not the property of either the British or the Spanish when both signed over their respective possessions in "Calisota"[[note]]A fictional {{Expy}} of California[[/note]] to the United States. Scrooge declares independence to evade taxes, but it backfires when the scheming Ankers [=MacCovet=] teams up with the Beagle Boys to invade and conquer "[=McDuckland=]". As [=MacCovet=] smugly points out, his action is not even illegal, as it occurred before Scrooge or any of his "ministers" (Donald and the nephews) had bothered to write any laws.
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* In one of Creator/DonRosa's stories, "His Majesty, [=McDuck=]", Scrooge [=McDuck=] finds an old copper plaque that makes the Money Bin hill its own kingdom - specifically, the British signed over control of "Fort Duckburg" to Cornelius Coote while the Spanish were besieging it. Coote tricked the Spanish soldiers into fleeing, but the Fort was not the property of either the British or the Spanish when both signed over their respective possessions in "Calisota"[[note]]A fictional {{Expy}} of state representing northern California[[/note]] to the United States. Scrooge declares independence to evade taxes, but it backfires when the scheming Ankers [=MacCovet=] teams up with the Beagle Boys to invade and conquer "[=McDuckland=]". As [=MacCovet=] smugly points out, his action is not even illegal, as it occurred before Scrooge or any of his "ministers" (Donald and the nephews) had bothered to write any laws.
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* Averted with Marshal Michel Ney, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's field commander at the Battle of Waterloo. After Napoleon's second abdication and exile and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, Ney was arrested and tried for treason, having previously sworn loyalty to Louis XVIII before abandoning him to join the returned Napoleon. Ney's lawyer tried to save his life by pointing out that his client's birthplace of Saarlouis had reverted to Prussian control after Waterloo, which made Ney a German citizen and exempt from a French court's jurisdiction. Ney refused this defense, declaring he had been born a Frenchman and would always be a Frenchman. He was convicted and sentenced to execution.
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* Averted with Marshal Michel Ney, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's field commander at the Battle of Waterloo. After Napoleon's second abdication and exile and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, Ney was arrested and tried for treason, having previously sworn loyalty to Louis XVIII before abandoning him to join the returned Napoleon. Ney's lawyer tried to save his life by pointing out that his client's birthplace of Saarlouis had reverted to Prussian control after Waterloo, Napoleon's first abdication, which made Ney a German citizen and exempt from a French court's jurisdiction. Ney refused this defense, declaring he had been born a Frenchman and would always be a Frenchman. He was convicted and sentenced to execution.
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* Poor UsefulNotes/AlbertSchweitzer got bounced back and forth between German and French citizenship through no fault of his own. He was born in 1875 in Alsace, which had been a province of France until four years before his birth, when it had been annexed by Prussia after the Franco-Prussian War and made part of the "Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine." At birth, therefore, he was nationalized as a citizen of the German Empire, while his parents had had French citizenship until 1871, when they were likewise reclassified as German. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, Schweitzer was imprisoned as an enemy combatant, despite being a committed pacifist doing humanitarian work in Africa. After the war, Alsace was returned to French control, and Schweitzer and his parents were both reclassified as French citizens.
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* Poor UsefulNotes/AlbertSchweitzer Albert Schweitzer got bounced back and forth between German and French citizenship through no fault of his own. He was born in 1875 in Alsace, which had been a province of France until four years before his birth, when it had been annexed by Prussia after the Franco-Prussian War and made part of the "Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine." At birth, therefore, he was nationalized as a citizen of the German Empire, while his parents had had French citizenship until 1871, when they were likewise reclassified as German. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, Schweitzer was imprisoned as an enemy combatant, despite being a committed pacifist doing humanitarian work in Africa. After the war, Alsace was returned to French control, and Schweitzer and his parents were both reclassified as French citizens.
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* Poor UsefulNotes/AlbertSchweitzer got bounced back and forth between German and French citizenship through no fault of his own. He was born in 1875 in Alsace, which had been a province of France until four years before his birth, when it had been annexed by Prussia after the Franco-Prussian War and made part of the "Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine." At birth, therefore, he was nationalized as a citizen of the German Empire, while his parents had had French citizenship until 1871, when they were likewise reclassified as German. During UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, Schweitzer was imprisoned as an enemy combatant, despite being a committed pacifist doing humanitarian work in Africa. After the war, Alsace was returned to French control, and Schweitzer and his parents were both reclassified as French citizens.
* Averted with Marshal Michel Ney, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's field commander at the Battle of Waterloo. After Napoleon's second abdication and exile and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, Ney was arrested and tried for treason, having previously sworn loyalty to Louis XVIII before abandoning him to join the returned Napoleon. Ney's lawyer tried to save his life by pointing out that his client's birthplace of Saarlouis had reverted to Prussian control after Waterloo, which made Ney a German citizen and exempt from a French court's jurisdiction. Ney refused this defense, declaring he had been born a Frenchman and would always be a Frenchman. He was convicted and sentenced to execution.
* Averted with Marshal Michel Ney, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's field commander at the Battle of Waterloo. After Napoleon's second abdication and exile and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, Ney was arrested and tried for treason, having previously sworn loyalty to Louis XVIII before abandoning him to join the returned Napoleon. Ney's lawyer tried to save his life by pointing out that his client's birthplace of Saarlouis had reverted to Prussian control after Waterloo, which made Ney a German citizen and exempt from a French court's jurisdiction. Ney refused this defense, declaring he had been born a Frenchman and would always be a Frenchman. He was convicted and sentenced to execution.
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* In Creator/JanetEvanovich's Series/StephaniePlum novel ''Lean Mean Thirteen'', one of Stephanie's despised ex-husband Dickie Orr's clients was a man who declared his apartment complex to be a sovereign nation. Orr quickly dropped him as a client after the man tried to pay him in currency issued by the "nation."
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* In one of Creator/DonRosa's stories, "His Majesty, Mcduck", [=Scrooge McDuck=] finds an old copper plaque that makes the Money Bin hill its own kingdom. He declares independence to evade taxes, but it backfires when the scheming Akers Maccovet teams up with the Beagle Boys to invade and conquer "[=McDuckland=]".
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* In one of Creator/DonRosa's stories, "His Majesty, Mcduck", [=Scrooge McDuck=] [=McDuck=]", Scrooge [=McDuck=] finds an old copper plaque that makes the Money Bin hill its own kingdom. He kingdom - specifically, the British signed over control of "Fort Duckburg" to Cornelius Coote while the Spanish were besieging it. Coote tricked the Spanish soldiers into fleeing, but the Fort was not the property of either the British or the Spanish when both signed over their respective possessions in "Calisota"[[note]]A fictional {{Expy}} of California[[/note]] to the United States. Scrooge declares independence to evade taxes, but it backfires when the scheming Akers Maccovet Ankers [=MacCovet=] teams up with the Beagle Boys to invade and conquer "[=McDuckland=]"."[=McDuckland=]". As [=MacCovet=] smugly points out, his action is not even illegal, as it occurred before Scrooge or any of his "ministers" (Donald and the nephews) had bothered to write any laws.
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* A running joke in ''Literature/LakeWobegonDays'' involves how Lake Wobegon regards itself as part of Minnesota (and the United States) despite not officially being part of the state because of a cartographer's error when Minnesota was offically surveyed.
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* A running joke in ''Literature/LakeWobegonDays'' involves how Lake Wobegon regards itself as part of Minnesota (and the United States) despite not officially being part of the state because of a cartographer's error when Minnesota was offically officially surveyed.
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* In Creator/GKChesterton's ''The Napoleon of Notting Hill'', not only does Notting Hill secede, [[spoiler: it then proceeds to conquer the ''rest of the British Empire''.]]
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* In Creator/GKChesterton's ''The Napoleon of Notting Hill'', not ''Literature/TheNapoleonOfNottingHill'': Not only does Notting Hill secede, [[spoiler: it then proceeds to conquer the ''rest of the British Empire''.]]
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* According to Pliny the Elder, in Ancient Rome, during the days of the kings, it was traditional for the city's priests to declare war on a rival Italian city or state by traveling to the border and hurling a spear onto the soil of the enemy's territory. During the Republic, as Rome expanded beyond Italy and became an imperial power, this became impractical, so the [[AppealtoTradition custom was adapted]]: instead of having the priests travel abroad, a patch of earth on the Campus Martius was declared, temporarily, to be "foreign soil," belonging to whichever nation Rome was declaring war on, and the spear was hurled into it.
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* Italy has the island of Tavolara (inside the territory of the city of Olbia in Sardinia), with the family Bertoleoni (who, as the first ones to settle there when there was no owner, at one point owned the entire place, and still own a few houses there) claiming to be the reigning dynasty. It apparently started out as a joke (the "founder" Giuseppe saying that Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia, had once visited the island and presented himself with his regnal title, Giuseppe, not realizing who he was talking to, had claimed being the king of Tavolara, and Carlo Alberto actually took him seriously or was amused enough to grant him the place), but then they and the following settlers noticed the attention it brought them and started using it as a tourist gimmick.
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* Italy has the island of Tavolara (inside the territory of the city of Olbia in Sardinia), with the family Bertoleoni (who, as the first ones to settle there when there was no owner, at one point owned the entire place, and still own a few houses there) claiming to be the reigning dynasty. It apparently started out as a joke (the "founder" Giuseppe saying that Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia, had once visited the island and presented himself with his regnal title, Giuseppe, not realizing who he was talking to, had [[AndImTheQueenOfSheba claimed being the king of Tavolara, Tavolara]], and Carlo Alberto actually took him seriously or was amused enough to grant him the place), but then they and the following settlers noticed the attention it brought them and started using it as a tourist gimmick.
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* In ([[LostEpisode sadly lost in original English]]) ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' episode "Rebel in Regents Park" an old gardener of the titular park refuses to retire on Ministry's orders, instead creating his own country on small island in the middle of park's Duck Pond. Turns out that back in 1818 Prince Edward gave away the island to his family for all time.
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* In ([[LostEpisode ([[MissingEpisode sadly lost in original English]]) ''Radio/TheMenFromTheMinistry'' episode "Rebel in Regents Park" an old gardener of the titular park refuses to retire on Ministry's orders, instead creating his own country on small island in the middle of park's Duck Pond. Turns out that back in 1818 Prince Edward gave away the island to his family for all time.
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* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Cospaia Republic of Cospaia]] accidently gained independence in 1440 from the Papal States and Florence due to a misunderstanding leading to a small strip of land being unclaimed by either party.[[note]]Part of the new border between the Papal States and Florence was gonna be defined by a small stream named Rio. There were however another small stream also called Rio 500 meter away from the first one. The Papal States considered the southern stream as the border while Florence thought the northern stream was the border, leading to the area between the two streams being unclaimed. The inhabitants there consequently declared themselves independent.[[/note]]
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->''"We've always been English and we'll always be English; and it's precisely because we are English that we're sticking up for our right to be Burgundians!"''
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-->-- '''Shirley Pemberton''', ''Film/PassportToPimlico''
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* Italy has the island of Tavolara (inside the territory of the city of Olbia in Sardinia), with the family Bertoleoni (who, as the first ones to settle there when there was no owner, at one point owned the entire place, and still own a few houses there) claiming to be the reigning dynasty. It apparently started out as a joke (the "founder" Giuseppe saying that Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia, had once visited the island and presented himself with his regnal title, Giuseppe, not realizing who he was talking to, had claimed being the king of Tavolara, and Carlo Alberto actually took him seriously or was amused enough to grant him the place), but then they and the following settlers noticed the attention it brought them and started using it as a tourist gymmick.
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* Italy has the island of Tavolara (inside the territory of the city of Olbia in Sardinia), with the family Bertoleoni (who, as the first ones to settle there when there was no owner, at one point owned the entire place, and still own a few houses there) claiming to be the reigning dynasty. It apparently started out as a joke (the "founder" Giuseppe saying that Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia, had once visited the island and presented himself with his regnal title, Giuseppe, not realizing who he was talking to, had claimed being the king of Tavolara, and Carlo Alberto actually took him seriously or was amused enough to grant him the place), but then they and the following settlers noticed the attention it brought them and started using it as a tourist gymmick.
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* In the obscure BritCom ''Series/APerfectState'', it is found that the coastal town Flatby-On-The-Bog is actually not formally ratifified as part of the British mainland. The deputy mayor, Laura Fitzgerald, proceeds to pursue the idea of having the town declare independence, which drives the plot of the series.
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* In the ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' episode "Dominion of New South Mimico", Rupert Newsome declares himself king of the eponymous dominion (pronounced "[[{{Egopolis}} Newsomimico]]", and appoints his friends and relatives to government. It turns out this actually has a superficial degree of legitimacy, since his lawyer managed to slip a passage recognising it into a Canada-US treaty, and it was signed without anyone noticing. Steps are taken to revoke this, by which time Rupert has got bored of the whole thing anyway.
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* In the ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' episode "Dominion of New South Mimico", Rupert Newsome declares himself king of the eponymous dominion (pronounced "[[{{Egopolis}} Newsomimico]]", Newsomimico]]"), and appoints his friends and relatives to government. It turns out this actually has a superficial degree of legitimacy, since his lawyer managed to slip a passage recognising it into a Canada-US treaty, and it was signed without anyone noticing. Steps are taken to revoke this, by which time Rupert has got bored of the whole thing anyway.
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* In the ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' episode "Dominion of New South Mimico", Rupert Newsome declares himself king of the eponymous dominion (pronounced "[[{{Egopolis}} Newsomimico]]", and appoints his friends and relatives to government. It turns out this actually has a superficial degree of legitimacy, since his lawyer managed to slip a passage recognising it into a Canada-US treaty, and it was signed without anyone noticing. Steps are taken to revoke this, by which time Rupert has got bored of the whole thing anyway.
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* In one ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode, [[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E18EPeterbusUnum "E. Peterbus Unum"]], the town zoning map revealed that the Griffins' property was not even a part of the US. Thus was born the tiny, four-bedroom republic of Petoria (It would have been Peterland, but that was already the name of a gay club by the airport). HilarityEnsues when Peter then "annexes" Joe's backyard pool,leading the US government to declare war on Petoria.
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* In one ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode, [[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E18EPeterbusUnum "E. Peterbus Unum"]], the town zoning map revealed that the Griffins' property was not even a part of the US. Thus was born the tiny, four-bedroom republic of Petoria (It would have been Peterland, but that was already the name of a gay club by the airport). HilarityEnsues when Peter then "annexes" Joe's backyard pool,leading pool, leading the US government to declare war on Petoria.
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* The Glorious People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road in ''Discworld/NightWatch''.
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* The Glorious People's Republic of Treacle Mine Road in ''Discworld/NightWatch''.
''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}''.
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* In one ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode, [[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E18EPeterbusUnum "E. Peterbus Unum"]], the town zoning map revealed that the Griffin's land was not even a part of the US. Thus was born the tiny, four-bedroom republic of Petoria (It would have been Peterland, but that was already the name of a gay club by the airport).
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* In one ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode, [[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E18EPeterbusUnum "E. Peterbus Unum"]], the town zoning map revealed that the Griffin's land Griffins' property was not even a part of the US. Thus was born the tiny, four-bedroom republic of Petoria (It would have been Peterland, but that was already the name of a gay club by the airport). HilarityEnsues when Peter then "annexes" Joe's backyard pool,leading the US government to declare war on Petoria.
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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' titled "For Hat and Country", Corey declares his house as "The People's Rockpublic of Grojland" as part of a plan to acquire a cowboy hat that will only be given to [[LiteralMinded the most "country" of country musicians.]] Then HilarityEnsues when Mayor Mellow declares war on Grojland for seceding from Peaceville.
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* Italy has the island of Tavolara (inside the territory of the city of Olbia in Sardinia), with the family Bertoleoni (who, as the first ones to settle there when there was no owner, at one point owned the entire place, and still own a few houses there) claiming to be the reigning dinasty.dynasty. It apparently started out as a joke (the "founder" Giuseppe saying that Carlo Alberto, King of Sardinia, had once visited the island and presented himself with his regnal title, Giuseppe, not realizing who he was talking to, had claimed being the king of Tavolara, and Carlo Alberto actually took him seriously or was amused enough to grant him the place), but then they and the following settlers noticed the attention it brought them and started using it as a tourist gymmick.
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* In ''Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel'', a small, exclusively African-American city in Illinois secedes from the Union after [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a dim-witted Texas governor fraudulently wins the presidency]] by claiming its citizens are all former felons (and therefore ineligible to vote under US law). [[spoiler:Being an AuthorTract co-written by ReginaldHudlin and ComicStrip/TheBoondocks' Aaron [=McGruder=], they manage to thrive [[DeusExMachina somehow]].]]
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* In ''Birth of a Nation: A Comic Novel'', a small, exclusively African-American city in Illinois secedes from the Union after [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a dim-witted Texas governor fraudulently wins the presidency]] by claiming its citizens are all former felons (and therefore ineligible to vote under US law). [[spoiler:Being an AuthorTract co-written by ReginaldHudlin Creator/ReginaldHudlin and ComicStrip/TheBoondocks' Aaron [=McGruder=], they manage to thrive [[DeusExMachina somehow]].]]
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