What if you owned your own country...? - 2007/05/18 01:59Lets 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.
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Tuesday
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Re:What if you owned your own country...? - 2007/05/18 07:361) no minimum 2) no minimum 3) no minimum 4) no minimum 5) no minimum 6) all legal 7) no restrictions 8) wouldn't bother 9) no 10) none 11) no restrictions 12-18) no restrictions 19) no 20-27) no restrictions 28) anything consensual 29) no restrictions 30) no restrictions 31) want gov't services, pay for them yourself 32) anyone in the country afforded all rights and responsibilities of citizenship 33) if you can get here, you can stay 34) constitutional anarchy 35) no restrictions 36) no restrictions
for an act to be "illegal" it must be demonstrated that the victim did not consent to participate
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mddawson
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Re:What if you owned your own country...? - 2007/05/18 10:001 - 18 2 - 18 (must complete advanced driving & first aid courses) 3 - 16 4 - 18 5 - 18
6 - What types of recreational drugs (if any) would be legal? - All of them in the privacy of your own home. Drug driving is illegal.
7 - Can people have guns? (if so - who and what kind?) - Police & military.
8 - What would be the name of your country? - ?
9 - Would you have the death penalty? - Only for murder and violent crimes where there is 100% certainty of the criminal.
10 - What would be the speed limit? - Whatever was safe for that road.
11 - What types of religions would be permitted or restricted? - All of them permitted but they must be registered as a business and operate on a user pays basis, no more tax free status.
Which of the following would be legal: 12 - Y 13 - Y 14 - N 15 - Y 16 - Y 17 - Y (limited to spare parts) 18 - N 19 - N 20 - N 21 - Y 22 - Y 23 - N 24 - N 25 - Y 26 - Y 27 - Y
28 - What types of sexual activity (if any) would be illegal? - Sex with minors or against the will of a person.
29 - Would your county be clothing optional or clothing mandatory? - Optional.
30 - Would you have obscenity laws? If so - how would you define "obscene". - No.
31 - What system would you set up for collecting taxes? - Income tax? (how much?) Yes, what is fair for the wage. - Sales tax? (how much?) No - Import/Export tax? (how much?) No
32 - What criteria would someone need to pass to become a citizen? - A basic knowledge of the language and a desire to be part of the current culture.
33 - What types of people would you allow (or not allow) into your country? - Terrorists, Mormons, Murderers, Amway salesmen, John Edward.
34 - What type of government would you establish? - Democratic. Loses 1 mth in office for every pre-election promise broken. Issues like drugs, abortion, going to war voted on by the people.
35 - To what degree would your government be allowed to censor or restrict the media? - None.
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. - Aussie Rules Football as the national winter sport & cricket the national summer sport.
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Toddahhhh
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Re:What if you owned your own country...? - 2007/05/18 15:11Tuesday wrote: 1) no minimum 2) no minimum 3) no minimum 4) no minimum 5) no minimum 6) all legal 7) no restrictions 8) wouldn't bother 9) no 10) none 11) no restrictions 12-18) no restrictions 19) no 20-27) no restrictions 28) anything consensual 29) no restrictions 30) no restrictions 31) want gov't services, pay for them yourself 32) anyone in the country afforded all rights and responsibilities of citizenship 33) if you can get here, you can stay 34) constitutional anarchy 35) no restrictions 36) no restrictions
for an act to be "illegal" it must be demonstrated that the victim did not consent to participate
I'm there, when do we move in
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Pentomino
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Re:What if you owned your own country...? - 2007/05/18 15:34There's an online game where you get to rule a country through policy decisions, and compete on that basis. http://www.nationstates.net/
I forget what my username and password were...
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Hönö
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Re:What if you owned your own country...? - 2007/07/30 20:121 - 15 2 - when u gottha monny 3 - no limit 4 - no voting on my island!!!!!!! 5 - 18
6 - noes on drugs but not no on all - Pot yes - Tobacco - Cocaine - Alcohol yes - LSD - Caffeine yes - Heroin - Other?
7 - only me
8 - edmondsons land
9 - no, just torturing
10 - no limit's
11 - no religion's exept worshiping me
Which of the following would be legal: 12 - Porn? yes 13 - Prostitution? yes 14 - Polygamy? what does this mean? 15 - Homosexuality? sure 16 - Stem cell resurch? no 17 - Human Cloning? yes 18 - Cock Fighting? yes 19 - Slavery? no 20 - Hunting? yes 21 - Fishing? yes 22 - Eating meat? yes 23 - Littering? yes 24 - Unisex bathrooms? yes 25 - Suicide? nope 26 - Gay marriage? yes 27 - Abortion? why not?
28 - none 29 - no 30 - obscene?
31 - no taxes, people would gimme money bcause they are in love to me
32 - nothing 33 - no creepy ppl
34 - me
35 - all
36 - whatever
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espaceman
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Re:What if you owned your own country...? - 2007/08/06 16:41Hmm, when can I move in, Tuesday?
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