Meanings
plural bedroom nations
- generally derogatoryA micronation located solely in a bedroom (or, less strictly, any room).
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 20083 more examples
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 8Not 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 2025PS, 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
Origin
From bedroom + nation, as a clipping of micronation.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
bedroom nation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedroom%20nation
“bedroom nation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedroom%20nation. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bedroom nation,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bedroom%20nation.
Source: bedroom nation on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.