how would you even sustain it?

>>1321696
outer ops and fultoned sheep duh

>Build floating nation powered by the Sun and sea
>Raise funds by selling farmed fish to coastal nations
>Slowly grow more and more powerful
>Take over Somolia

>>1321592
where would we aquire land? How will we defend it if another nation decides to take it from us?

>>1321942
Nukes

>>1321592
you can ask on r9k.

>>1321592
>Father worked high up in an oil company
>once went with him out to some of the platforms off the shore of the Gulf
>costs around $5 million a year to run
And that's for a small-decent sized one. To say nothing about insurance, constantly supplying it, possibilities of accidents, etc.

If you really want a free independent nation, your best shot these dailies is to peddle Liberland and hope Vit Jedlicka decides to give you citizenship.

>>1321592
I think /pol/ is looking for someplace they can freely hate niggers and muslims. Maybe you could team up with them?

>>1322597
$5 mill in total? Is this figure including the cost of running the drills and all the power that consumes as well as transporting the oil. Or just to keep the lights on, food, water?

>>1322604
That $5 million is just for keeping the thing floating.

If you want to factor in daily operations (including food, water, etc), inspections/reviews, and of course, the actual cost of the ship itself, the price goes up. Exponentially.

Hope this hypothetical nation can make, say, $200 million a year to break even.

>>1321592

Patri Friedman's seasteading institute has some interesting studies and documents on logical stuff of living on the water.

Fort Galt (S. America I believe) is something semi-autonomous and sells living spots. They are pretty spendy and small, but there are good shared spaces.

Free State movement, just kicked in so a bunch of libertarians (10k I believe) are moving to part of N.H., in an attempt to influence policy from the local level.

Not that any of these answers your questions, but just thought you might be interested.