Expropriation should be foremost in the mind of anyone who wants to invest in such a state. It would be easy enough for any state, particularly an unproductive

Expropriation should be foremost in the mind of anyone who wants to invest in such a state. It would be easy enough for any state, particularly an unproductive one, to let you play with some land to start. It would be much harder, once it's successful, to keep them from redistributing it to the elites (or conceivably even the masses).