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

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.