Some aspects have worked out better than others.

Minerva was more of an eccentric joke than anything serious. I mean what kind of libertarian is going to build an island and then let the Tongan "navy" take it over because he had no guns. IF you're building a country and you have no guns, you aren't really building a country. Hell, Sealand, has successfully put off a german invasion, and, having been recognized by the UK and still standing for decades now counts as a success.

Honduras is in the starting stages. But unlike the FSP they have the endorsement of the federal government. Sure it has its risk- no joke- but I'm glad to see they are trying.

I count Sealand as a win, disqualify minerva, and claim the free state project recognized it wasn't viable and didn't try.

Ignores the numbers...sounds like politics as usual.

> I count Sealand as a win,..."

I observe that the bar for "win" is very, very low.

There wasn't a deadline or anything; the FSP is still active.

Sealand doesn't count since it wasn't a libertarian, just an eccentric who wanted to call himself a prince. And he succeeded in persistently squatting on an abandoned fortification in the English Channel, not creating a new society.

I didn't know about Minerva--I was talking about the Seasteading Institute, actually.

No, there was a deadline, and a contract. That deadline passed, and the contract became null. The FSP is dead, according to its own bylaws. What continues to this day is a fraud. Of course, since that deadline was almost a decade ago, and the people running the FSP took down all the info from the website, and have been pretending otherwise, most people have never heard any of this.