#self-proclaimed

• Self-named — Having assigned to oneself a certain name, title, or official quality, without a formal validation from an external authority or general public recognition. In anthropology, it describes an ethnic group or community that uses its own ethnonym (endonym) created within its structural culture.
• Self-proclaimed — Having declared or proclaimed oneself into a certain office, dignity, quality, or legal status without holding legal confirmation, a legitimate title, a democratic vote, or official recognition from a higher authority or the international community. In historical and political analysis, the term describes leaders, regimes, or state entities whose structural authority derives exclusively from a unilateral act of their own will, often being contested or deemed illegal.