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A world divided into independent city-states and microstates that compete like a market, with free secession, the right of exit and political experimentation, from the medieval free cities to Yarvin's "patchwork" and seasteading.
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I want thousands of sovereign city-states competing for residents, with free secession, the right of exit and each city choosing its own laws.
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Leans further toward federal than 96% of the 273 ideologies in the catalog.
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A German economist, Hoppe radicalized anarcho-capitalism, defending absolute private property and criticizing democracy as a system that erodes freedom, proposing social orders based on voluntary contract.
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Switzerland's smallest canton and one of the lowest-taxed jurisdictions in the world, Zug attracts holdings and foundations through low taxation, hosts the Crypto Valley around Ethereum and accepts tax payments in bitcoin, under cantonal direct democracy.
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A tiny European principality, Liechtenstein is a prosperous constitutional monarchy, with strong local autonomy, a liberal economy based on finance and industry, and one of the highest income levels per capita in the world.
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A pioneering modern merchant republic, the United Provinces were a confederation governed by a commercial oligarchy, marked by religious tolerance, free trade, and immense naval and financial power at their height.
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A neoreactionary current that rejects democracy in favor of microstates run like firms. It favors competition among jurisdictions, free markets, the right of exit, and technological innovation as principles of government.
Current that sees monarchy as a guarantee of freedom and stability, defending a king with limited power who protects property and individual rights and maintains a lean, minimally interventionist state.
Libertarian branch that defends a minimal state limited to police, courts, and defense, leaving everything else to the market and private initiative, to protect individual rights without oppressing freedom.
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Economic system based on private property, free markets, and the pursuit of profit, in which production and prices are regulated by competition and supply and demand, with individual initiative as its engine.
Political tradition that places individual freedom at the center, defending rights, tolerance, the rule of law, a market economy, and limits on power, with government subject to the consent of citizens.
Current that advocates free markets, deregulation, privatization, and fiscal discipline, reducing the state's economic role and trusting competition and monetary stability as engines of prosperity.
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