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In a 2022 analysis of small sovereign countries, Archie Simpson categorized forty-one as microstates based, in part, on the criterion of having a population under one million—for instance, Montenegro, with its population of approximately 634,000. ________ political scholar Sarina Theys suggests an intersubjective approach to classification by which a small country's status is self-defined rather than relying on externally imposed or quantitative standards.