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Here's a list of the 50 poorest nations: 

Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kiribati, Laos, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sudan, East Timor, Togo, Tuvalu, Uganda, Tanzania, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zambia.

Would it be possible to pay off the leaders of one of these small, poor countries to allow the whole country become anarchic?  There would have to be a process of privatization, but I'm not yet sure that this is an impossible scenario.

Once this place becomes known as a tax-free, business friendly zone it would attract business and monetary interests like crazy and become a beacon of safety and economic hope for the rest of the world to model.

I'm sure there's some huge flaw I've overlooked in my 5 minutues of thinking about this.  That's why I'd like to throw the idea out there.

It's not really the leaders that are the problem. It's all the other people (who outnumber the leaders), that believe in the system. I think anarchy would be to fragile if you don't have the support of a large number of the population. Anarchy have to come from within, you cant impose it. It would be a false kind of anarchy.

Why are those nations poor?

James A Pyrich:

Why are those nations poor?

My guess is that they have a history of very little freedom.

Logic fan:

James A Pyrich:

Why are those nations poor?

My guess is that they have a history of very little freedom.

OK, so why do they have a history of very little freedom?

James A Pyrich:

OK, so why do they have a history of very little freedom?

It's a mixture of a difficult living environment, personal choice and luck. We have a more stabil and nurturing weather and land areas. We also had a enough people who  developed ideas and inventions. Luck comes in, because enough people in a given area need to be open to new ideas for it to be transmitted and survive. Im not 100% sure of this, but It seems likely to me.

 The impression I've gotten is that this anarchy thing won't work without advanced communication and tracking technology.  That means you'll need a massive investment of capital to get it started and continued investment in keeping it running.  Poor countries are going to have trouble with that.

Everyone remember that those countries are getting screwed in one way or another by either western powers or regional ones, so attempting to establish an Anarchy there would get you on the terrorist watch list  or black bagged.

No, I believe that it's been tried before, (at least to let dictators allow communism).

For the people in those sorts of governemtent it's not about the money, or power, but is about the domination.

this is why the creation/promotion of 'parrallel institutions' is often touted as the way to anarchism...that way you take away the power base of that 'domination'...