[NoMoreLies]

Did the system work? Judging by your presentation, it sems it did.

Not everyone would like that, though.

The samller the government, the easier it is to overthrow.

I would suggest a Union of small microstates, such as America was intended to be.

[bobunf]

Examples of how isolated communities might develop are available in the hundreds of very isolated coastal villages in Newfoundland. These villages were extremely isolated from the 18th century well into the middle of the 20th century. In 1965, for instance, the village of L’Anse aux Meadows had no roads, no train, no air access, no radio and no television. Transportation into and out of the village was exclusively by boat (a dangerous trip across part of the North Atlantic), or, in the winter, dog sled.

There were hundreds of such villages, and we have accurate portrayals of them in novels and films such as Shipping News and Random Passage, as well as the testimony of living people, voluminous documentation, photography and archaeology. These villages frequently consisted of a small number of families.

I don’t know anything about most of these villages, but the few with which I am familiar exhibited a great deal of economic cooperation and collaboration, but also a considerable degree of rivalry over the small amount of arable land, other agriculture resources, and fishing and seal hunting opportunities. Private property was very much a respected and relevant concept, as was reaping the benefits of one’s own work.

Neither communist nor entirely capitalist.

Bob

[Locksley]

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My prediction? Communism would work - nay, flourish - as it wouldn't be in a large nation, and people who don't like it could leave and those who like it could enter. Capitalism may still work, with seperate micronations ending up trading with each other, but whether it would still exist in its current state would be debatable.

Depending on the size of the nations, something more along the lines of "capitalism with a heart" (we're talking on a community level) would probably be the most common. What I mean is free trade between the nations, but because of the small size and relative isolation (I'm assuming?) of each individual micronation, it would be in everyone's best interest to help their neighbors. They wouldn't be required to help, as would be the case in a communist society, but an attitude of generosity would probably develop over time.[/u]

[NoMoreLies]

Has anyone checked out the Libertarian Ocean Colonies? The idea presented by their proponents seems to be 'have lot's of little micronations, each with different rules, so people can find the one that suits them'. Of course, a centeral governing body would be needed to ensure that one overiding right was respected - the right to emigrate to another micronation, or start their own - as well as the other rights, as laid out in the universal decleration of human rights (a document that has been completely ignored by every nation in the world, despite signing it) with modifications to ensure that the rights of 'minors' and children are respected, and to also ensure that one micronation doesn't begin to dominate others. Such an idea, if put into practice, would whittle down the numbers of micronations through natural selection, until only systems that work would remain. My prediction? Communism would work - nay, flourish - as it wouldn't be in a large nation, and people who don't like it could leave and those who like it could enter. Capitalism may still work, with seperate micronations ending up trading with each other, but whether it would still exist in its current state would be debatable. We may even see new nations appearing. But if anyone gets beaten up or shot... well, they chose to live in such a place, they essentially consented to it. As I said about modifiying the decleration of human rights to include children, a system would have to be set up to remove children (here defined as those lacking the capability to make rational descisions [such a wide sweeping term]) from dangerous siuations like that.

[Redsand11j]

I would like to second Locksley. I would have replied earlier, but I could not think of anything nearly so relevant and well stated.

I also think that, as we are all one (very) small community (6 or 7 members with posts), I think we should be able to make the decision to not waste our time discussing modern american, european, or other politics except for their relation to the CS.