I have given that more than casual thought. <Maybe we should all start a fund for the purpose of buying a chunk of land somewhere and make our own country.. ;)
I vote for some nice pacific island with an excellent lagoon, and coral reef.. >
Since all land is "taken" it would only be "their own country" which it already is, persuaded to re-establish it, or reconstitute it into a form which would enable them to derive enormous benefits.
I know nothing [almost] about Nauru but they could well be a suitable country as they have fallen on very hard times since they ran out of bird fertilizer to sell at huge prices. For a while they were the richest country in the world if I remember rightly [per person]. But of course they squandered that wealth as people tend to do. I dare say it could be redeveloped into a Pacific Paradise. There is also Cook Islands, which has all the makings of paradise. Pitcairn is more problematic but perhaps more doable as constitutionally it is sort of independent of everywhere except that England still owns it more or less. Norfolk Island is one that is close to home and a couple of my great grandfathers and their families did indeed own chunks of it as citizens. It is nominally Australian though the local yokels are not at all sure that that has ever been properly established.
Fiji is a more substantial place with a much bigger population and coups and civil wars [not very bloody ones fortunately] complicating the situation but could be ideal.
Or perhaps a whole collection of countries could form a Federal Pacific States, perhaps photocopying large tracts of the early USA constitution but with a Tradable Citizenship component to make it very clear that the people are in charge, not the people in Washington.
It doesn't really take much to make such changes if people come to think of it as a good idea. Ideas are weightless and changes can happen pretty well overnight.
As with so many things which are new, it's the little innovators who tend to make it happen. It's not the behemoths like Microsoft which come up with Google. IBM didn't do the iPhone and iPad. The Federal Reserve won't invent the new currency [that's me].
I'm thinking New Zealand and Cook Islands might repossess Hawaii which was mistakenly included into the USA [it's rightfully part of Cook Islands, as is NZ]. That would enable northern winter in NZ, southern winter in Hawaii, and Rarotonga anytime. A dozen A380s shuttling up and down should keep the crowds in the right place. 500 people a day per aircraft could move [flying back empty would be annoying but maybe that space could be used for freight or snow tourists]. So 10 shuttling could do 5000 a day x 100 days = half a million moved. That's about 10% of NZ's population [after 1 million citizenships have been sold].
I have been to Hawaii a few times in preparation for invasion and conquest and have local supporters ready to do like in Libya [LindyBill has agreed - I'm pretty sure he's still on board] and to Rarotonga last year, getting infrastructure established for local support. You could fly in from your base there, perhaps with some of that high-powered military equipment stuff to wave around, though that might look a bit silly in such an idyllic locale. But it might look good on tv back in the USA, and to get UN support and prompt recognition.
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