# Is it possible to declare my house a soveriegn nation?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 25, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-declare-my-house-a-soveriegn-nation/42608 "2000-11-25T02:34:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Total-Kaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@Total-Kaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Total-Kaos)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-declare-my-house-a-soveriegn-nation/42608/1 "2000-11-25T02:34:28Z")

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I have often wondered if it would be possible to declare the property that my home sits on a soveriegn nation. What steps would I have to take declare it such? A letter to the goverment? To the United Nations? Would I have to set up relations with the United States just to leave my own front  
yard? I’ve heared that a company declared a defunct military base off the coast of England a nation. What are the requirements of being a nation? Am I obsessed?

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**Author:** ![murano13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dec6dc/32.png) [@murano13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/murano13)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-declare-my-house-a-soveriegn-nation/42608/2 "2000-11-25T02:49:21Z")

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Cecil wrote a column about this. You can find it here:

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3\_300.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_300.html)

Basically, you can declare anything you want, its getting other people to accept that declaration thats the hard part.