bug nation
/bʌɡ ˈneɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A micronation that serves no purpose other than being a source of annoyance.
Derogatory; Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "WHEREAS the King vetoed PD 9 of the August Clark 1998; and WHEREAS Porto Claro really is a bug nation; THEREFORE the Cosâ hereby overrules the King's veto and introduces the following as Law in Talossa: […]"
- "Evan Gallagher, a 20-year-old law student from Australia, found the kingdom arrogant and left it to start the Commonwealth of Penguinea. "There was something rotten in the State of Talossa," complained Gallagher. Hardly smarting from the loss, Madison dismisses Penguinea as an insignificant "bug nation.""
- "Nations like Cherusken and Baja helped us gain early recognition, and elevated us from the level of bug nations. Those first recognitions helped us make other contacts, and still others."
- "It is an open question whether the famous Emperor Norton was proposing a bug nation. […] Perhaps the main difference between Emperor Norton and most micronations is that the Emperor represented only himself, albeit he became a celebrity and most San Franciscans humoured his delusion."
- "Our position, as enshrined in our Organic Law, against the futile folly of "micronational war" shows us to the world as a serious, intelligent player -- almost nostalgic for the good old days when advocating and causing micronational wars was the calling card of a "bug nation" that quickly got ostracized from the community."
- "Which of the following terrorist-supporting, single-citizen, bug nations do you wish would die off first?"