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There are just five nations ranked below the microstate in the world rankings, including the US and British Virgin Islands and San Marino.

The first comes, not surprisingly, from San Marino – the independent microstate that nestles inside north-central Italy.

Though the company is headquartered in Vancouver, its application is sponsored by the Pacific microstate of Nauru, via a wholly owned subsidiary in that country — an arrangement that allows it to take advantage of the ISA’s policy of holding surveyed areas in trust for developing nations.

Its gravity creates a microstate for the black hole.

The call for Russian protection by Transnistria, a self-declared but internationally unrecognized microstate on the eastern bank of the Dniester River, escalated tensions that date to the collapse of the Soviet Union.