A real-world political unit governing a physical populace larger than one immediate family, building toward a physical, sovereign homeland for the physical populace

Not to be confused with a micronation, which once was synonymous with Pocket State, but has since become a wasteland of Sims, Gamers, and individual Hobbyists, mostly children.
Tibet, Taiwan, Palestine, as well as several serious "micronations" are actually Pocket States.
by Spaten October 3, 2011
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