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Old 11-23-2009, 05:24 PM   #11 (permalink)
Martian
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Originally Posted by genuinegirly View Post
Seems like it'd be easier to grab a bunch of people and settle Io or Callisto. Jupiter's moons are so far off from anyone else's radar, you'd be able to set up quite a population center before anyone else bothers to get there.
Y'know, I'm a Canadian, and I think we're pretty much up there with the Russians in terms of resistance to cold. However, I seem to recall the surface temperature of Io maxing out somehwere around -70C. That's a wee bit too cold for me.

Sealand is a good example of how to do it. Set yourself up in international waters. It seems like floating an oil derrick or something out there would be a good way to start -- then find an unclaimed island or two, maybe somewhere out in the Pacific (there's loads of them along the Pacific Rim, from what I understand) and claim it in the name of your recently declared principality. Start minting a currency, get some infrastructure in place and build a small military. Done.

The hardest part would be getting people to emigrate to your new nation, but with the right incentives it ought to be doable.
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