A Nation-Island between US & Canada?

November 2, 2006 1:06 AM

Overheard-conversation-filter: someone described a fascinating book, but I didn't catch the author nor title, just the plot. A guy creates an independent nation on a small island between the US and Canada....

Overheard-conversation filter: someone described a fascinating book, but I didn't catch the author nor title, just the plot. A guy creates an independent nation on a small island between the US and Canada. I didn't catch much more than that, the island-state has just a house and a garden, and the guy dresses in the militaristic manner of a South American dictator.
It was described as being an older book if that helps.

posted by archae to society & culture (9 answers total)

Moosylvania?
posted by wemayfreeze at 1:34 AM on November 2, 2006

Wikipedia also has a really page about micronations - real and fictional -too - if Moosylvania is not where you were thinking of you might find the place listed here.
posted by rongorongo at 1:47 AM on November 2, 2006

It sounds very much like the Family Guy episode E. Peterbus Unum. Perhaps it was based on the book you're after.
posted by brockerst at 5:37 AM on November 2, 2006

I've heard of this book some time ago but can't dig up the title. If it helps anyone search, I believe there was also a movie (perhaps made for TV/cable) based on it.
posted by mikepop at 5:49 AM on November 2, 2006

I think it may have been "Meanwhile Back At the Castle" from Scholastic. I remember having it when I was a kid in the 1970s.
posted by Robert Angelo at 6:41 AM on November 2, 2006

Here it is.
posted by Robert Angelo at 6:43 AM on November 2, 2006

Not your book, but Thomas Perry's Island is a good read about a fictional nation created on an island in the Caribbean.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:45 AM on November 2, 2006 [1 favorite]

At first I thought you were talking about Quebec.
posted by ChuckLeChuck at 7:05 AM on November 2, 2006

Robert, thanks for the answer (at least to the story I am recollecting), not finding it was annoying me greatly!
posted by mikepop at 7:22 AM on November 2, 2006