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There's international maritime law about what ships can and cannot be armed, which is the whole reason groups like Somali Pirates with podunk little speedboats can threaten entire super-freighters with impunity. A fleet of large ships with even a moderate armament, would make a lot of...

Eh, this at least isn't a socialist utopia concept. It's a concept that would fail due to external forces, not internal. Some of the seasteads would fail to internal forces, but that's part of their point. Have a lot of different political experiments. Here in the US, if the Federal Government...

It's an interesting thought experiment. It would require a power like the US using its military to guarantee the safety and security of these seasteads. Otherwise nations like China would happily sail over and snap up that big chunk of skilled labor just waiting for new masters. It might be a...