Lake Michigan Government Territory

The United States Lake Michigan Exclusionary Territory, or the Lake Michigan Government Territory, or simply referred to as the USLMET or LMGT is a government-owned territory that occupies a large area of land in Lake Michigan. It borders the Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin states.It is one of the most recent additions to the country, beginning service to the United States in 2017. The area is excluded to anyone besides military personnel and serves as a mixture of a training site, airfield and other form of military purpose.

History
The LMGT was formed in 2017 by the United States in order to serve as an area where all six branches of the military force of the country could train. As numerous sparse locations were getting worse to train in, a single unified area was proposed in a way similar to the Four Corners Government Territory. Before 2017, the area that would become the LMGT was land that the United States never bothered with, and numerous supporters (called [state]-gatherers) called for its annexation to their denoted state.

It's presence is controversial and groups have started for transferring the LMGT to statehood, however the amount of work required to transfer military equipment outside of this possible state would be numerous. Seventy-three different proposals with varying reasons were sent through between 2018 to 2021, and all of them failed to pass.

Flags
The flag of the LMGT is simply the flag of the United States as a whole, as it is directly controlled by the government. However, unofficial flags have popped up including the (pictured) most popular one, which is a United-States striped flag with bars that form to create an iconic Morse code distress signal, as many people seem to think the LMGT's presence causes distress to those in it. A common form of LMGT separatism has a flag called the "Tri-Lake" flag. The flag consists of the common US flag, but rearranged to form a tricolor (picture France) and the canton occupying the center. The stars in the canton are often readjusted to fit it, but an exact number is never specified, and many variants exist.