How the micronation became a state: What started as a Maunsell Sea Fort named Roughs Tower in the south eastern coast of the UK to protect from a potential Nazi invasion was declared the sovereign state of Sealand by pirate radio broadcaster Roy Bates in 1967 when he ejected the former tenants, Wonderful Radio London, writes Philip Perry for Big Think. According to the Montevideo Convention on the rights and duties of states signed in 1933, the state should possess a permanent population, a defined territory, a government, and a capacity to enter into relations with other states, all of which Sealand has, but according to the Constitutive Theory of Statehood, what constitutes a country is if other countries recognize it as a country (runtime 06:59).

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