> If you're flying some made-up flag on the high seas there is no reason that the navy of some actual county can't just roll up and sink your stupid dinghy. No

> If you're flying some made-up flag on the high seas there is no reason that the navy of some actual county can't just roll up and sink your stupid dinghy. No, thats silly. There are lots of tiny nations, with no ability to defend themselves, but we don't see them getting nuked for no reason. The idea that just because some people decided to go live on a boat somewhere, that this means that nation states are just going to start murdering people, is just a made up story, in the minds of people who just want to fantasize about killing people who they disagree with politically. Nation states would be harmed very significantly, on the political side, if they just started blowing up ships, for no reason, lived in by people who just want to live in the ocean somewhere. The world is not some RPG civilizations game, where an unclaimed NPC boat, is going to be "taken over" for its resources. There are serious political ramifications, to this military fantasy that people have, about houseboats getting invaded.