Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations

Micronations: The Lonely Planet Guide to Home-Made Nations

Author	John Ryan, George Dunford and Simon Sellars
Language	English
Subject	Micronationalism
Published	September 2006
Publisher	Lonely Planet
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print
Pages	160
ISBN	978-1-74104-730-1

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.