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  • Lets say that a large tropical island (about the size of Cuba) formed overnight in the middle of international waters. You were the first person there and you claimed it as your own. Your claim is uncontested, so now you have your very own country that is completely independent from any government. At this time you are the only person who lives on the island, but many people want to move there because it is a tropical paradise.

    You now have the opportunity to establish your own set of laws prior to anyone immigrating to your new country. Assuming you WANT people to EVENTUALLY move to your island nation – what laws would you establish and why?

    For example:

    1 – What would you make the legal drinking age?
    2 – Driving age?
    3 – Age of sexual consent?
    4 – Voting age?
    5 – At what age would someone become an adult (free from parental control)?
    6 – What types of recreational drugs (if any) would be legal?

    – Pot
    – Tobacco
    – Cocaine
    – Alcohol
    – LSD
    – Caffeine
    – Heroin
    – Other?

    7 – Can people have guns? (if so – who and what kind?)
    8 – What would be the name of your country?
    9 – Would you have the death penalty?
    10 – What would be the speed limit?
    11 – What types of religions would be permitted or restricted?

    Which of the following would be legal:

    12 – Porn?
    13 – Prostitution?
    14 – Polygamy?
    15 – Homosexuality?
    16 – Stem cell resurch?
    17 – Human Cloning?
    18 – Cock Fighting?
    19 – Slavery?
    20 – Hunting?
    21 – Fishing?
    22 – Eating meat?
    23 – Littering?
    24 – Unisex bathrooms?
    25 – Suicide?
    26 – Gay marriage?
    27 – Abortion?
    28 – What types of sexual activity (if any) would be illegal?
    29 – Would your county be clothing optional or clothing mandatory?
    30 – Would you have obscenity laws? If so – how would you define “obscene”.
    31 – What system would you set up for collecting taxes?

    – Income tax? (how much?)
    – Sales tax? (how much?)
    – Import/Export tax? (how much?)

    32 – What criteria would someone need to pass to become a citizen?
    33 – What types of people would you allow (or not allow) into your country?
    34 – What type of government would you establish?
    35 – To what degree would your government be allowed to censor or restrict the media?
    36 – Aside from laws – what sort of unofficial (and unenforced) cultural rules and traditions would you like to establish?

    For example – taking shoes off before entering someone’s home.

    Or not eating with the left hand.

    i’d make it a collective with the only ground rules being no religion, no currency, no cars

    for now

    i’d ban all people apart from my loved ones, live in hammocks and let the country be run by bugs, animals and trees… no rules, except wednesdays would have to be compulsory fancy dress days

    rach wrote:
    wednesdays would have to be compulsory fancy dress days

    Lol. Im having that rule as well!

    One rule – everyone has to be nice to each other

    (or i will personally beat the crap out of them 😉 )

    I’d lease out the land to dump hevay metal and nuclear waste…………..

    not really. I’d tun it into a huge farm and live on it by myself with visitors coming and going as they wish.

    I’d grow fruit and veg as well as raise pigs and chickens all to eat. Then I’d grow hemp to make cloth and plastic and coconut palms to mix with the hemp oil to make biodiesel. I can get power from a huge diesel generator running on my own biodiesel and internet stolen using a wifi antenna made out of the hull of a ship.

    So thats food, clothes, internet and power. I’m sorted.

    elretardo87 wrote:
    Then I’d grow hemp to make cloth and plastic and coconut palms to mix with the hemp oil to make biodiesel.

    think you’ve missed something there 😉

    djprocess wrote:
    think you’ve missed something there 😉

    I’m not gona smoke hemp. I’d be growing some lovely hawaiian landrace sativas for my that purpose.

    If i owned my own country………. It would be a fucking disaster! 😉

    1 – What would you make the legal drinking age? 14. Or any age with an adult.
    2 – Driving age? 16 probably.
    3 – Age of sexual consent? 14 for boys and girls.
    4 – Voting age? 14 or 16. Probably 16.
    5 – At what age would someone become an adult (free from parental control)? 16.
    6 – What types of recreational drugs (if any) would be legal? All recreational drugs would be legal. And we’d have proper education, too.

    7 – Can people have guns? (if so – who and what kind?) Undecided. I suppose so if the people could be trusted.
    8 – What would be the name of your country? Utopia.
    9 – Would you have the death penalty? Fuck no.
    10 – What would be the speed limit? No speed limit, but dangerous driving would not be acceptable.
    11 – What types of religions would be permitted or restricted? All permitted.

    Which of the following would be legal:

    12 – Porn? Legal.
    13 – Prostitution? Legal.
    14 – Polygamy? What?
    15 – Homosexuality? Legal.
    16 – Stem cell resurch? Um… I’m shit at science.
    17 – Human Cloning? Nah. Well maybe. But regulated. Strictly.
    18 – Cock Fighting? Nope.
    19 – Slavery? Yeah, why not? Obviously no!
    20 – Hunting? Depends whether it’s hunting for food or not.
    21 – Fishing? Yeah.
    22 – Eating meat? Yeah.
    23 – Littering? No.
    24 – Unisex bathrooms? Um… I dunno. Upto the landowner, I suppose.
    25 – Suicide? Yeah.
    26 – Gay marriage? Yep.
    27 – Abortion? Yep.
    28 – What types of sexual activity (if any) would be illegal? Necrophilia.
    29 – Would your county be clothing optional or clothing mandatory? Optional.
    30 – Would you have obscenity laws? If so – how would you define “obscene”. Nope.
    31 – What system would you set up for collecting taxes? I wouldn’t. Self providing kinda system. Self reliant thingy.

    – Income tax? (how much?)
    – Sales tax? (how much?)
    – Import/Export tax? (how much?)

    32 – What criteria would someone need to pass to become a citizen? None.
    33 – What types of people would you allow (or not allow) into your country? Everyone’s Welcome.
    34 – What type of government would you establish? A sort of, bordering anarchist one.
    35 – To what degree would your government be allowed to censor or restrict the media? Not at all, unless some cunt like Murdoch is dominating unfairly. Oh, and they gotta tell the truth.
    36 – Aside from laws – what sort of unofficial (and unenforced) cultural rules and traditions would you like to establish?

    For example – taking shoes off before entering someone’s home.

    Or not eating with the left hand.

    None, people can make their own.

    Big time communism! (id be a dictator but im pretty benevolent with regards to my own people)

    industry i would make as many large economic high rise cities as i can fit on the land and attempt to become an economic power via banking and attracting foreign investment with my very relaxed views on illegal money.

    Pot, speed, lsd, shrooms, ket, mdma n pills all legal, but no opiates not good for my society, except in war time in which case powerful opiates

    drugs would be manufactured to the highest standards by private coporations but they must meet regulations and prices are capped by the government

    compulsery military service, i have the opportunity to sort out some of the shit shit things that are happening in the world so military is a big factor in my country, i am not pro war but when theres countries still gassing people for there religion it will not stand if i have a military country by country my tanks will be greeted as liberators STARTING WITH AMERICA

    tourism, my cities will be bright and exotic with lots of space tourism is another large source of income, maybe a few man made islands like dubai

    violent crime will not be tolerated and will be met with deportation to rather undesirable locations, maybe strike a deal with the russians to send violent criminals to siberia. anyone is welcome but if you immigrate u can only claim benefits for a certain amount of time

    if you chose to celebrate a religion you may but it must be done so within your own home, organised religious meetings are outlawed, religion cause more harm than good,

    government sponsored houseing plans homelessness is not an option!

    this is all i can think of for now

    everyone is completely equal in the eyes of the law and everyone receives equal pay and distinction for there work, if anyone takes advantage of this by not working hard they are not welcome. the people will work hard to better the country the more money the government has the better the country is for the people,

    my home will be the same as everyone else’s in size and wealth

    Big time education you are not allowed to leave school until you have proven that you are intelligent enough

    Freedom of movement unless it means a certain area is not able to perform its given industrial sector efficiently

    the first 30 years will be hard but the rewards will be great when the country prospers

    were an island so off coast geothermal power stations and off shore wind farms would create our power if we have to much we sell it to any near by countries, i’m talking a lot of wind farms they could act as coastal defense systems when those americans try to attack us

    Some guy actually declared his own country within Australia. And got away with it.

    http://www.snopes.com/legal/prince.asp

    I would legalise prostitution, drugs, gambling and all things bad until they came to stop me..

    apparently you can get round the smoking ban by buying a country and declaring your pub as the embassy of that country… therefore the pub is under your countrys rules

    I’d prob have a collective too –

    only as I was too lazy to even begin to consider the above – let alone personally decide and enforce……

    rach wrote:
    apparently you can get round the smoking ban by buying a country and declaring your pub as the embassy of that country… therefore the pub is under your countrys rules

    Only if the UK government recognises you as a country.

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