Libertarian utopia

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A libertarian utopia or libertarian paradise is any of the following:

1. a hypothetical society in which marketist (i.e. US libertarian) ideas are taken to their logical conclusion
2. any actual society or group which has substantially adopted (or was founded upon) such principles
3. any populated area of the world that has been essentially free of government for a substantial length of time

The second definition tends to be sarcastic, since such societies invariably degenerate into corrupt hell-holes – despite frequent marketist claims that such principles will inevitably lead to a happier, more egalitarian and economically just society.

Examples

Actual

• /Guatemala
  • 2002-01-01 A Libertarian Visits Guatemala: apparently they like it
• /Honduras " the highest murder rate in the world. No Social Security. No Medicare--in fact no health care at all for the masses--except prayer. Everything is owned by a tiny elite. They had a progressive president who tried to reform the rotten system, but a military coup sponsored by the elite deposed him in 2009."[1]
• Liberland
  • 2016-11-01 Welcome to Liberland: How to Create Your Own Country
• New Hampshire: the Free State Project
  • Grafton: the Free Town Project
    • 2020-10-13 The Town That Went Feral
• Slab City: "a snowbird campsite in the Sonoran Desert 156 miles northeast of San Diego California, used by recreational vehicle owners and squatters from across North America" [W]
• /Somalia
• /Texas
• /Zomia (Wikipedia)

Hypothetical

• Seasteading