Alexis Madrigal, Contributing Writer, Wired

Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies

May 20, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Tired of the United States and the other 190-odd nations on Earth? If a small team of Silicon Valley millionaires get their way, in a few years, you could have a new option for global citizenship: A permanent, quasi-sovereign nation floating in international waters. With a $500,000 donation from PayPal founder Peter Thiel, a Google engineer and a former Sun Microsystems programmer have launched the Seasteading Institute, an organization dedicated to creating experimental ocean communities “with diverse social, political and legal systems.”

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