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I also don't really understand ... especially Larry Page suggested this. I also don't get the other comment why it would not work. Imagine Google buys couple of
by kgarten 12y ago
I also don't really understand ... especially Larry Page suggested this. I also don't get the other comment why it would not work. Imagine Google buys couple of Islands and founds it's own state, they could do whatever they wanted in the boarders. It's a bit scary yet not so far fetched.
- vidarh 12y agoThere's a whole lot of complicated issues of international law around gaining sovereignty, which is highly biased against the creation of new states. And beyond that there is the issue of gaining recognition from other states. Getting the recognition of even a number of the "micro states" that likes to recognise other small states because it helps validate their own existence would be hard enough. Getting the recognition of larger countries, which with corporate involvement would instantly be suspicious this was a tax avoidance scheme or otherwise something that would not be beneficial to them would be much harder. (E.g. many countries would start looking at their maps and worrying about what companies that is important to them could be coaxed by a poorer neighbouring country to buy territory)