In front of you is a mountain of platinum, saphire and other precious materials. The golden eyes. The workers around you are whiping the sweat from their brows and muttering profanities behing your back. The expedition was a sucsess - you found ElDorado. After a hour long shootout between your mercenaries and the Brazillian military and a ten year long argument in the international court you finally inheret 15 trillion dollars in any currency of your choice.
You partner recommends you to find your own haven to keep your ill gotten wealth. The Panama islands are out of question, due to various hitmen searching for you, so there is only one solution - start a nation of your own.
If you were to start your own country, how would you do it and how would it look like?
You can go to an unclaimed desert and attempt to build a city there, you can conquer a part of Somalia and and defend yourself long enough to form a community and become recognised internationally. You can also build a platform at sea or create an artificial island. Unfortunatelly you are unable to create a space base, a flying religious city or a libertarian polis at the bottom of the ocean as they have some bad luck attached to them.
What climate would you pick? Would it be a dictatorship or a constitutional republic? How are you planning on defending yourself if you are planning to do so at all? How are you planning to attract migrants and what will be your migration policy. Will you create your own infrastructure and housing or just hope for a free market paradise and wait for it to build itself? How will you protect yourself from internal power struggles?
What architecture, culture and currency do you want your new country to have? Plus, those trillions arn't infinite, so you'll have to think about the economy sooner or later.
By the way, your final goal is to grow your country to 50k people and get recognition from the international community, what will be your steps to doing so?
http://micronations.wikia.com/wiki/Minerva
Minerva was a small attempt at creating a libertarian Utopia via artificial islands. With 100 million dollar starting budger the creator didn't spend a single dime on security, so the country was taken over after three weeks by the Tonga military. Multible groups attempted to reistablish the reef's soveregnty, however the territory remains desputed to this day.
http://www.sealandgov.org/
A well known (probably the most well known) micronation located at the coast of the United Kingdom. Originally a small limitary base used during WWII, then a home for a trigger happy familly with an ambition to become royalty. The nation had takeovers, wars and conflicts with the British Royal Navy. However, it earned recognition from Germany in the 1990's and has a fairly profitable brand that remains to this day.
https://liberland.org/en/about/
A republic created in a disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia in april of 2015 by a Czech economics professor. A slightly more sucsessful attempt at a libertarian utopia (despite the president repeatedly detained by the Serbian police for repeated tresspassing) it has a strong public image and survived through donations and payed lectures by the unelected president. So far, the republic has the population of 5-7 people and consists out of a few houses and shacks which act as government building.
Viva la Republic?
You partner recommends you to find your own haven to keep your ill gotten wealth. The Panama islands are out of question, due to various hitmen searching for you, so there is only one solution - start a nation of your own.
If you were to start your own country, how would you do it and how would it look like?
You can go to an unclaimed desert and attempt to build a city there, you can conquer a part of Somalia and and defend yourself long enough to form a community and become recognised internationally. You can also build a platform at sea or create an artificial island. Unfortunatelly you are unable to create a space base, a flying religious city or a libertarian polis at the bottom of the ocean as they have some bad luck attached to them.
What climate would you pick? Would it be a dictatorship or a constitutional republic? How are you planning on defending yourself if you are planning to do so at all? How are you planning to attract migrants and what will be your migration policy. Will you create your own infrastructure and housing or just hope for a free market paradise and wait for it to build itself? How will you protect yourself from internal power struggles?
What architecture, culture and currency do you want your new country to have? Plus, those trillions arn't infinite, so you'll have to think about the economy sooner or later.
By the way, your final goal is to grow your country to 50k people and get recognition from the international community, what will be your steps to doing so?
http://micronations.wikia.com/wiki/Minerva
Minerva was a small attempt at creating a libertarian Utopia via artificial islands. With 100 million dollar starting budger the creator didn't spend a single dime on security, so the country was taken over after three weeks by the Tonga military. Multible groups attempted to reistablish the reef's soveregnty, however the territory remains desputed to this day.
http://www.sealandgov.org/
A well known (probably the most well known) micronation located at the coast of the United Kingdom. Originally a small limitary base used during WWII, then a home for a trigger happy familly with an ambition to become royalty. The nation had takeovers, wars and conflicts with the British Royal Navy. However, it earned recognition from Germany in the 1990's and has a fairly profitable brand that remains to this day.
https://liberland.org/en/about/
A republic created in a disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia in april of 2015 by a Czech economics professor. A slightly more sucsessful attempt at a libertarian utopia (despite the president repeatedly detained by the Serbian police for repeated tresspassing) it has a strong public image and survived through donations and payed lectures by the unelected president. So far, the republic has the population of 5-7 people and consists out of a few houses and shacks which act as government building.
The Republic of Borealia
Located to the South of Greenland, the young nation is an archetypical Chesterton-esque European town. Ruled by a senate which is elected every three years, it is a somewhat inefficient democracy. The island is constructed on an artificial reef and has to be constantly maintained in order to counter the effects of global warming and rising sea levels.
The bulk of its economy is a mix of mining the precious ores in the reef and trading with the various ships. The community is never short on contact due to the fact that it is located in the middle of a major transatlantic trade route.
The climate is rather cold and arid with long winters and arctic nights that last for up to three months.
The island is divided into three parts, each representing a pillar of society. The magister district, which houses the academic and government organs. The urb district, which consists out of blue collar workers and entrepeneurs and the mars district which houses the mercenaries and the trade port.
The millitary for the most part is outsourced to Blackwater, however with the recent changing many mercenaries have decided to accept citizenship and join the perminent army. The defence is barebones and relies on good relationship with NATO.
Diplomacy is rather difficult due to the state's will to accept political refugees and dissidents, so the archepelago has quite a few notorious hackers and whistleblowers under its wings.
Located to the South of Greenland, the young nation is an archetypical Chesterton-esque European town. Ruled by a senate which is elected every three years, it is a somewhat inefficient democracy. The island is constructed on an artificial reef and has to be constantly maintained in order to counter the effects of global warming and rising sea levels.
The bulk of its economy is a mix of mining the precious ores in the reef and trading with the various ships. The community is never short on contact due to the fact that it is located in the middle of a major transatlantic trade route.
The climate is rather cold and arid with long winters and arctic nights that last for up to three months.
The island is divided into three parts, each representing a pillar of society. The magister district, which houses the academic and government organs. The urb district, which consists out of blue collar workers and entrepeneurs and the mars district which houses the mercenaries and the trade port.
The millitary for the most part is outsourced to Blackwater, however with the recent changing many mercenaries have decided to accept citizenship and join the perminent army. The defence is barebones and relies on good relationship with NATO.
Diplomacy is rather difficult due to the state's will to accept political refugees and dissidents, so the archepelago has quite a few notorious hackers and whistleblowers under its wings.
[timer=03/31/2020 9:29 AM UTC] before CIA coup
Viva la Republic?
