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No, not utopia. Just government with the incentive to govern well because its citizens' exit costs are dramatically reduced. See Patri's original post on the theory of Dynamic Geography here:

http://seasteading.org/seastead.org/new_pages/dynamic_geogra...

Patri also blogs and puts in frequent appearances on the Distributed Republic blog, where I also write.

It should be noted that Dynamic Geography is not explicitly libertarian. Rather, it is meant to align the interest of government more closely with those of its people. Since libertarians started the Dynamic Geography movement, they believe that most seasteads will be libertarian since those policies are believed to be best for the welfare of its residents. But if there were a large demand for non-libertarian societies, the market would meet this demand.

If you think Dynamic Geography is interesting, you also might be interested in Moldbug's Neocameralism, which seeks to replace land governments with for-profit corporations:

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/11/patchwo...

A few weeks ago, I explored several of these ideas on the Distributed Republic, which I dubbed as "structural libertarian" ideas:

http://distributedrepublic.net/archives/2008/12/24/down-with...




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