Even if it's swamped it's still cheaper than building an island from scratch, like China's been doing in the South China Sea - but Belize is a little less strat

Even if it's swamped it's still cheaper than building an island from scratch, like China's been doing in the South China Sea - but Belize is a little less strategically important... Still, I could imagine some kind of storm-hardened resort on stilts or something. Otherwise they'd need to try and capitalize on extralegal things that having a pseudo-nation could provide: tax haven, smuggling, etc., hard to get traditional investors excited for that, though I am sure there would be takers somewhere.