>I was reading the scifi book snow crash and I began to wonder if the idea of
>"The Raft" is a truely practical idea. [...]. I propose to give this, as yet
>non-existant country Aurora, Land of the Libertarians.
If you can, read Greg Egan's sf novel DISTRESS. (It might not be available
yet in the USA, although it's been out in the UK for many months.) His
utopia is called Stateless.
Damien Broderick