They followed the lead of Palau and declared themselves an island republic, not subject to Micronesia's constitution or anyone else's.

Námar-Tol is an eponymous island oligarchic republic.

The two island republics cast their lot with him after Japan began eyeing the Western Pacific as a potential dumping ground.

Nauru is an island republic of 7.7 square miles 2,400 miles northeast of Australia.

Some actually proposed declaring war on the island republic, but this was averted.

In November, the island republic of Maldives held a similar conference of small states on sea-level rise.

If we look at the map we see that this island republic is of supreme strategic importance.

Then there is request from president of island republic in Caribbean, who does not want to get heave-ho from political rivals.

They intended to declare Baja a free nation the moment it broke from the continent, an island republic belonging to them.

This was followed by other experiments in the Paris Commune of 1871 and the island republic of Franceville (1889).