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bedroom nation en · NOUN

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Etymology

From bedroom + nation, as a clipping of micronation.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:generally derogatory) A micronation located solely in a bedroom (or, less strictly, any room).
   • PS, we will not accept house,online, or bedroom nation you must have an actual territory that could one day become an actual recognized nation 2018 January 28, u/Cooey_11, “Looking for members!!”, in Reddit, r/micronations, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2023:
   • Not counting a secessionist bedroom-nation I had as a kid (briefly allied with Sander Dieleman’s Pacary), my first introduction to micronations as this sector understands them was in the spring of 2003. 2014 February 28, “An Interview with a Micronationalist (3): Kaiser Mo'll”, in The Micras Observer, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2025:
   • At first he wanted to call it Seltsam ('silly', in German), but instead settled on The Kingdom of Talossa, "talossa" [author's italics] being Finnish for "inside the house," the perfect name for a bedroom nation. 2005, Robert Ben Madison, Ár Päts: The Classic History of the Kingdom of Talossa 1979-2005, 3 edition, Preßeu Støtanneu, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2025, page 8:
   • While there has never been a macronational bedroom nation, some exclaves have been barely larger. 2006 March 24, r, “World's smallest enclave?”, in Micro-Nations.com (MNO), archived from the original on 10 Aug 2008:

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