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Your own private country
A new country makes a good stepping stone for governmental experimentation
Imagine that you could build, rent or claim an island, and run it as an autonomous country. The steps have already been made. Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah is among the most famous man-made islands and today people live along the 16 fronds and the surrounding 11 kilometre crescent that was build at the start of the millennium. In 1967 Paddy Roy Bates occupied an abandoned military front near the cost of the United Kingdom and claimed that the fort belonged to him because it was in international waters. If you could get your own autonomous country, what would you do with it?
In the future it might be possible to get recognition for a new country easier than now. Artificial islands could be run as autonomous country which would make an ideal test environment for new ideas. Newly created land could be used in various ways: as an entrepreneurial experimentation of mainstream corporation, as unforeseen resort or even as a blank slate to create new governmental systems.
A newly formed island makes it possible to change our views about the best or right way to run the governmental. There are several types of governments, like full presidential system, parliamentary systems, absolute monarchies and military dictatorships, and the change for one to another is never trouble-free. There are no indigenous people and no existing governmental structure in a new island. The whole system could be built through trial and error to something new.
These new island countries could serve as real-world test environments and could be pioneers in areas like eGovernment. This would not be the first time when men have crossed the sea to establish a settlement where they could live under self-rule.
Frey, T. (2009). Own your own island nation. The Futurist, 43(3), 30–35.
Opportunity: Testing new forms of governing a nation
Threat: Growth of tax havens might seriously affect tax retuns of "normal" countries
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