Neat concept, but seems in total violation of the Space Treaty which I'm sure whatever country they're all from now follows.
EDIT: Just refreshed myself, it seems the Outer Space Treaty is more about claiming celestial bodies and seems mainly focused only military purposes.
Last edited by Ryme; 2016-10-14 at 08:09 AM.
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Anarchy does work but only if the population is small and spread out. It wont last though as when some households become successful, they'll get more people wanting to come and work there ruled by the original family and eventually will evolve into bigger settlements and then cities.
Constitutional anarchy or a council or corporations can work though. Basically same as anarchy but there are bigger corporations around and you want a service, say police protection, you pay one to provide it to you. If they're not doing a good job at it, the words spreads and people will just go to a competing company.
It still falls apart pretty damn quick at scales larger than, say, a mid-sized town. Such communes fall to pressures either from within (assholes using the relative lack of gv't regulation to enforce what is in reality mob rule) or from without (someone sees the opportunity and just bulldozes all over your precious anarchistic utopia, if not a neighbor state than another big fish like a corporation/company/mafia). The last time in history this actually worked was for Slavic/East Germanic tribes that governed themselves with a sort of veche/thing assembly of free men. Ofc these proto-states were steamrolled into extinction by the Holy Roman (which is to say, German) Empire or incorporated into what is now East Euro countries like Poland etc.
Sad but true. States are a thing for a reason.
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Hmmm i doubt that when Europeans were settling in America their governments were tolerant towards them establishing their own countries.
So yes, while the UN forbids it. I dont think that anyone can do much about Martians declaring independence once Mars is colonized and a large number of people move into it. That is if they fins a way to live independantly and be self-reliant.
They would still be dependant on earth for supplies. So they will have to ally with a nation here. And there goes the independence once again.
What can they offer in return? They would have to be much more technologically advanced than any nation on earth if we're talking about asteroid mining for example to have leverage, and that's very unlikely. If an eath nation can mine for asteroids just fine then where's the need for this space nation?
No laws? So someone could just murder everyone and sell their lab equipment back on earth without consequence? It's just like a Bethesda game... in space!
don't see how long they are going to last with all the radiation and sub zero temperatures.
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i will never forgive you for this blizzard.