Income from what, taxation? Unless you plan to engage in plunder
nation building (indeed almost all forms of political action) are
huge resource drains. If you want income learn a useful skill
and/or start a business, save, and invest. Say FAR away from
things political (unless you need to engage in rent seeking to
pursue a money making opportunity).
> Founding a new nation gives a sense of direction to transhumanism,
> and it's an useful drill for the next logical step: migration to space.
> This should be possible if all pioneer groups interested in this combine
> their forces. Differences can always be settled once we're offplanet.
Founding a new nation would be a horrible direction for
transhumanism and an awful drill for migration into space. I
want nothing to do with nations in space and/or as a posthuman.
Nations suck, please don't start another one!
Nonetheless I find these discussions somewhat interesting, not
because I thinking founding an extropian state (sounds like an
oxymoron) is a good idea, but because thinking about locations
and strategies that would maximize my freedom in this reality
is fun and perhaps will be useful someday.
In this spirit I find James Rogers' suggestion of the southeast
Alaskan islands interesting. One other nice thing about this
location is that it seems to be seismically inactive relative to
neighboring regions. See
<http://www.ei.gov.bc.ca/geosmin/mapinv/surfical/quake/eq3.htm>.
I'd guess that the southern islands of Chile may be another
good location to investigate: relatively nice climate, relatively
benign government. They aren't near a major tech center, but
they are far from the U.S., which could be useful. Apparently
it is possible for foreigners to buy large amounts of land. I
read recently that one of the founders of Espirit (the clothing
company) raised the ire of some Chilean businesspeople for
buying a huge amount of land -- not because he is a foreigner,
but because he plans to give the land to the government for
a national park, thus closing it to development.
-- Mike Linksvayer http://gondwanaland.com/ml/