Your own micronation

> Given a tiny/small island - pic related
> billions of dollars
> How would you go about creating your own economy/ civilization
> Can import people, or crate your own lineage
What would you do?

probably run an export company off the island
build housing, nececcities, etc, to support staff as required

downsize/deport the population when necessary

It's one of my long term goals, but I'm not sure if I'll ever achieve it because I'm a lazy cunt.

>What would you do?
Buy island with native population.
Secure all major resources. (Food, water, shelter, etc.)
Make orgy island.

Wouldn't that island eventually just run out of everything and turn to shit, you're gonna have to have a sufficient source of money for the future of the island

No laws whatsoever invite the reach pedophiles and drug addicts to party it up for a massive fee. Buy surrounding nations with the wealth I accumulate until I have enough military to take over a middle eastern oil producing country. Stop the flow of oil unless I'm admitted into NATO. Destabilize neighbouring middle eastern countries and insert myour troops to restore order. Take control of the neighbouring countries. Expand to Europe then North America.

It's so simple guys.

Fuck. Rich pedophiles**

> 5,000 people, all with important graduate degrees and families
> Start a world class university that people the world over would kill to attend
> Best elementary school in the world
> Best middle school in the world
> Best Highschool in the world
> Teachers make 100k
> Free tuition for University for 1% of Alumni salary for life
> Also a shipping business to pay for everything else + import resources free
> Universal free healthcare
> Excellent, free government run daycare
> Wifi and birth control are human rights
> Prostitution is legal
> Drinking age is 16
> No cars on island
> Pot is legal at 16
Take a few years to establish, but once Alumni go out into the world with their coveted degree they'll make $$$ for the country. If they fail to pay then we'll deny that they attended, withhold recommendations, ect. People would flock to the island because of the relaxed laws. They could work high profile jobs in major international companies that don't require their actual presence, which is the way business is trending anyway.

> + No guns on island
It would be the perfect place to retire/raise a family.

Probable with a micronation is that it would be annexed by some petty neighboring country or occupied by a bigger interventionist one over some contrived outrage or another.

Since nobody gives a shit about your country nobody will come to your defense, especially if you are some tax-haven, pedophile, unethical research anarchist pirate island.

See: Minerva, Rose Island, Grenada, ect

>What would you do?
sell that crap real estate
move to the us

Your country would crash and burn quicker than your people could reproduce, you sound like a stupid fucking hippy.

>No guns on island

Enjoy getting invaded by /pol/ or some ancap sect you retarded hippy.

No guns in a world filled with guns = no long term survival prospects.

It would've been fine if you said "oh okay, no civilian ownership of firearms" but you had to be a fucking hippy.

Some countries have defence of other countries, like Nauru by New Zealand for instance, moral countries stand up for each other.

I bet in his utopia, rend and taxes will be sky high, which will price out poorfags and what not. It would likely be an enclave for rich white liberals, and there are plenty of successful examples of those in the West

Not if big enough nations want what you have

>build solar for mainframe for wire deposits
>become tax haven
>??????
>PROFIT

Exactly. Do you know why socialism doesn't work? Poor people.

Tourism ?

Let's run some numbers. Assuming you have the necessary capital to build and run the school, we'll skip to the graduation of your college students. MIT graduates make around $80,000 for the first 4 years, then progressing on to around $155,000 at 20+ years of experience and most people work around 43 years in their life, and most graduate classes are around 2000 students. Therefore, you will be making $800 per student for the first class, i.e. after 1 year, you will make 1.6 million, after the second year 3.2 million, after the third 4.8 million and after the fourth 6.4 million. This gives you 16 million total at the end of four years. At this stage, median salary is around $101,300 for your first class. Therefore, after 9 years, you will have $63,886,000 total earnings. Keep doing this until your first class retires and you will have $1.944 billion saved if you haven't spend anything since the first class graduated. You will also be making about $109 million each year after this point. This might seem like a lot, but the endowment of MIT is $12 billion, and this is low compared to Harvard's $36 billion. You could employ 1000 teachers/professors yearly on these annual earnings (at 100k each), but seeing as you would need to pay them for the 43 years it takes you to become established, I think you would need to employ fewer. A $1.9 billion university is more on-par with Georgia Tech or Caltech, meaning your graduates probably wouldn't earn so much. Of course, all of this would probably require a loan from a billionaire and for the university to be immediately prestigious and world-class, and for you to miraculously build a world-class university on a small budget. I'm thinking it probably wouldn't work, unless you dipped into taxpayer money

Hmmmmm...


>Get on airplane too Shanghai
>Enter the SCO headquarters
>Offer them a 100 year lease for a Naval tender pier, 4 ships + space for office, barracks, fuel tank farm and warehouse
>all for the low low price of $1 billion upfront, and $20 million/year thereafter, inflation adjusted for 2016 $'s.

>Island now has military protection, a steady revenue stream, and a localized economy of entertaining bored naval personnel


STEP TWO

>Build giant commercial shipping dock
>Sign "Free Trade Agreements" with every nation on the planet
>Charge a "per container" transfer fee
>Rake in $$$$$ as multinational corporations & nations use my Free Trade Hub to skirt embargoes and tariffs

Then with all this money, I create a PMC based on a set of converted floating drill platforms, and invade some shitty country.

And set up a moon base on the south Lunar pole.

>commercial shipping in a restricted military zone
Also, have fun when the chinks decide they don't need you. Nip nong, so long.

I would invest most of that money in the most advanced defence systems possible. By using ai and ignoring old unnecessary and expensive military hardware I would hopefully be able to have a nation capable of defending itself from all comers (USA). At that point I would charge a very expensive land tax for anyone to live there. There would be no other taxes and people could basically do what they want which is why they would be willing to pay the land tax.

Have fun getting decent internet

israel?

I would create an offshore financial centre. No income tax, no real disclosure, no questions asked. I would fund it through a tax on bank assets, property tax, and some excise taxes on things like tobacco, alcohol, fuel etc. (lower than in neighboring countries to encourage smuggling in outward and not inward direction). Additional revenue could be extracted from seigniorage (if I managed to maintain a strong currency), low-yield government bonds in bearer form (which would be bought to secretly store and move wealth and thus could carry a low interest) and reasonable deficit spending. All of this would allow me to fund infrastructure, law enforcement, quality public education and healthcare. Not sure about immigration policies, when considering a micronation I've always thought about an already established community, like a city.

You think the world in the wild west.