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Sorry if this sounds dumb, but what is a "charter country"? Are there examples of startups doing this?

• jonny_eh 6y ago
  Sounds like “seasteading”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading
  • RNCTX 6y ago
    aka peter's pedophile paradise.
  • newbie789 6y ago
    It doesn't look like that's had a great track record in terms of actual country building. If they meant seasteading I suppose I can see why they'd avoid using that phrase but then I'm doubly confused as to why they'd point it out as a category for investment. I'm curious as to how historically "charter countries" are significantly different from a model like imperialism, and if I'm entirely off base here what startups would qualify as a success in this category (that I've obviously clearly failed to understand.)
    • abdullahkhalids 6y ago
      Because starting a country is really hard. Technical issues aside, you have to convince at least one, and ideally several, countries to accept the passport you issue and engage with you diplomatically. Besides, there is no real history of country creation without violence to assert borders, and a charter country would assert a monopoly on violence within its geographic borders, which can displease a lot of other countries. > significantly different from a model like imperialism You can imagine a direct democracy anarchist commune charter country. Which is pretty opposite to imperialism.