Important question! They will probably start out moored to shallow areas of the continental shelf in the exclusive economic zone. Next step after that will probably be seamounts on the high seas.. When Seasteads start using station keeping, a different set of regulations will apply. Soon after, Seasteads will be very mobile as they move on their own power. But the first easiest step, from an engineering and regulatory standpoint, is an affordable spar or miniature semisubmersible with no engine moored to the seafloor which can be towed.

@@joequirk6403thanks for the reply 👍

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The Ocean Builders team has worked with the Panama government, but we really don't need to wait on governments to join the project. It will be more efficient to present them with a mostly complete process.

Unfortunately Liberland is not yet recognized internationally as a "state". Therefore, raising the flag of Liberland on the seasteads would not bring "legitimacy" before other nations to the free operations of the Seasteaders. But when Liberland finally achieves the much-desired international recognition, they could become the Seasteaders' greatest ally.

Exactly this. At some point someone with enough money and brains will just have to DO IT. You can’t comply your way to freedom. You can choose to be respectable or you can choose to be free - it’s basically impossible to be both.

So, what do you recommend for dealing with state navies invading and stealing floating platforms? All governments will consider this 'legitimate,' and seasteading communities will be shut down before they even begin. If we don't have the capabilities or technologies to build a seasteading community in international waters right now, imagine having the military capability to repel state navy invasions. Therefore, you have to play by the rules of the big players, while you are not a big player yourself to negotiate on equal terms.

@@FF-xw8gs you raise a very good point. In my opinion the only way to get around this would be to do this in Antarctica under the rubric of research and the Antarctic Treaty system. You need to be in an extreme environment. Not only is military activity banned south of 60 degrees, it is very physically difficult to conduct operations there. To add an additional layer of protection you could make the colony submarine and mobile. Is this ridiculously expensive? Yes. But it is still vastly cheaper and safer than colonizing the Moon or Mars. I agree with you in the sense that I doubt you could have a pleasant Seastead floating in temperate or tropical waters anywhere in the world and not have it shut down or otherwise screwed with. A submarine Seastead moving around beneath the Antarctic ice sheets would be a challenge to deal with even for the US navy. And this is much less fantastical than any off-world colony.

Because taxation is theft... and tax evasion is a human right... And the entire point of seasteading is to get out from under such oppression... to increase our Liberty.

It's not as easy as it sounds to convert a cruise ship into a seastead: www.seasteading.org/convert-cruise-ships-to-seasteads/