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While its theoretically possible that a country could be
convinced to sell sovereign title to some of its land, this path
is difficult, uncertain, and extremely expensive. Hence it does
not seem like a good way to proceed.
Source: http://seastead.org/commented/paper/faq.html#While_its_theoretically_possible_that_a_country_co
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[Mon Mar 29 18:19:00 PST 2004-88] Bill Walker (NOSPAMtelomerase2@aol.com.NOSPAM):
Guyana was willing to "lease" a big parcel to Beal Aerospace for a launch center. My second-hand understanding was that Beal was to be largely autonomous (as long as they paid campaign contributions to the right people). A factor in the Guyanans' decision was that Venezuela keeps threatening to "adjust" their border; the Guyanan Army is less powerful than one District of the BSA, so this is a continuing problem for them. A lot of little bandits would like to have buffer zones on their borders, especially buffer zones that would pay direct bribes.
The Beal project did fail... because Beal couldn't figure out how to "export" his own rockets from the uncooperative US. Floating platforms would have the same problem, of course.
[Fri Dec 16 11:21:25 PST 2005-349] Eliot Grey:
Expensive and difficult yes, but you could at least give a nod to the VERY MAJOR ADVANTAGE that unlike your concept, people who actually have lives already on land can continue on with them while the money is raised, legal issues settled, etc., rather than chucking everything to take a risky 'flyer' on a Seastead...
[Wed Feb 7 23:45:30 PST 2007-37] Unknown:
It seems the only way to get a new country on an existing island is to fight for it which is not really the best idea out there.
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