Which nation functions closest to what Norsefire wants?

Yeah, but ya' know something? With his attitude, Norsefire would probably be the first one killed in a true anarchy!

Baron Max

 

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Another false assumption: the assumption that the state is the only entity that can provide protection, or that the state even provides protection. State regulation and intervention lead to the conditions which cause much material violence, racial hatred, and wars.

And as for what you are talking about, there have been some examples in history:

The "Wild" West was, for the most part, anarcho capitalist. And yes, on television you see the violence, and I don't deny that it was there, but really it is blown out of proportions.

Also pure capitalism is anarchistic by nature, so there is no "nation". Having a state, an emphasis on collective coercion instead of individual liberty, requires that the free market is not so free.

Anarchy doesn't mean without rules; it means without rulers, men who have the right to order you to follow their set of rules merely because they decree it. Within anarchy, association (meaning people you live with, work with, etc) is voluntary; as is exchange (meaning exchange of labor, etc, for something in return: the natural way)

Humans are naturally "free market" in nature. We all have talents and skills and desires, and we voluntarily exchange; you might have need of my skills, and thus I might do something for you in exchange for you doing something/giving me something, or vice versa

That is why the free market is true freedom. There is no central authority: the authority is the individual and his choices in exchange and association.

"Celtic Ireland (650-1650)
In Celtic Irish society, the courts and the law were largely libertarian, and operated within a purely state-less manner. This society persisted in this libertarian path for roughly a thousand years until its brutal conquest by England in the seventeenth century. And, in contrast to many similarly functioning primitive tribes (such as the Ibos in West Africa, and many European tribes), preconquest Ireland was not in any sense a "primitive" society: it was a highly complex society that was, for centuries, the most advanced, most scholarly, and most civilized in all of Western Europe. A leading authority on ancient Irish law wrote, "There was no legislature, no bailiffs, no police, no public enforcement of justice... There was no trace of State-administered justice."
Icelandic Commonwealth (930 to 1262)
David Friedman has studied the legal system of this culture, and observes:
The legal and political institutions of Iceland from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries ... are of interest for two reasons. First, they are relatively well documented; the sagas were written by people who had lived under that set of institutions and provide a detailed inside view of their workings. Legal conflicts were of great interest to the medieval Icelanders: Njal, the eponymous hero of the most famous of the sagas, is not a warrior but a lawyer--"so skilled in law that no one was considered his equal." In the action of the sagas, law cases play as central a role as battles.

Second, medieval Icelandic institutions have several peculiar and interesting characteristics; they might almost have been invented by a mad economist to test the lengths to which market systems could supplant government in its most fundamental functions. Killing was a civil offense resulting in a fine paid to the survivors of the victim. Laws were made by a "parliament," seats in which were a marketable commodity. Enforcement of law was entirely a private affair. And yet these extraordinary institutions survived for over three hundred years, and the society in which they survived appears to have been in many ways an attractive one . Its citizens were, by medieval standards, free; differences in status based on rank or sex were relatively small; and its literary, output in relation to its size has been compared, with some justice, to that of Athens. - David Friedman, Private Creation and Enforcement of Law: A Historical Case
Rhode Island (1636-1648)
Religious dissenter Roger Williams, after being run out of theocratic puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636, founded Providence, Rhode Island. Unlike the brutal Puritans, he scrupulously purchased land from local indians for his settlement. In political beliefs, Williams was close to the Levellers of England. He describes Rhode Island local "government" as follows: "The masters of families have ordinarily met once a fortnight and consulted about our common peace, watch and plenty; and mutual consent have finished all matters of speed and pace." While Roger Williams was not explicitly anarchist, another Rhode Islander was: Anne Hutchinson. Anne and her followers emigrated to Rhode Island in 1638. They bought Aquidneck Island from the Indians, and founded the town of Pocasset (now Portsmouth.) Another "Rogue Island" libertarian was Samuell Gorton. He and his followers were accused of being an "anarchists." Governor Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay called Gorton a "man not fit to live upon the face of the earth," Gorton and his followers were forced in late 1642 to found an entirely new settlement of their own: Shawomet (later Warwick). In the words of Gorton, for over five years the settlement "lived peaceably together, desiring and endeavoring to do wrong to no man, neither English nor Indian, ending all our differences in a neighborly and loving way of arbitration, mutually chosen amongst us."Pf
Albemarle (1640's-1663)
The coastal area north of Albemarle Sound in what is now northeastern North Carolina had a quasi-anarchistic society in the mid-17th century. Officially a part of the Virginia colony, in fact it was independent. It was a haven for political and religious refugees, such as Quakers and dissident Presbyterians. The libertarian society ended in 1663, when the King of England granted Carolina to eight feudal proprietors backed by military.Pf
Holy Experiment (Quaker) Pennsylvania (1681-1690)
When William Penn left his Quaker colony in Pennsylvania, the people stopped paying quitrent, and any semblance of formal government evaporated. The Quakers treated Indians with respect, bought land from them voluntarily, and had even representation of Indians and Whites on juries. According to Voltaire, the Shackamaxon treaty was "the only treaty between Indians and Christians that was never sworn to and that was never broken." The Quakers refused to provide any assistance to New England's Indian wars. Penn's attempt to impose government by appointing John Blackwell, a non-Quaker military man, as governor failed miserably.Pf
The American "Not so Wild" West - various locations
Most law for settlements in the American West was established long before US government agents arrived. Property law was generally defined by local custom and/or agreement among the settlers. Mining associations established orderly mining claims, cattlemen's associations handled property rights on the plains, local "regulators" and private citizens provided enforcement. Yet most movie-watching people are surprised to learn that crime rates were lower in the West than the "civilized" East. Cf: The American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The Not so Wild, Wild, West"

http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/anarchism/faq.html#part18

These may not be pure examples but they are largely free market and without state coercion and intervention.

 

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You mentioned "The Wild (or not so wild American) West"

How about the American Indian civilizations? I realize that there were a myriad of tribes, with may differing cultures and governmental structures, but do any of these come close to what you contemplate?

 

I wouldn't think so. Native American tribes had centralized authority, in the form of chieftans and such, so they weren't voluntary and consensual

 

Perhaps, but some may meet most of your criteria...

Link:'Ennobling Savages'

Link:'Ennobling Savages'


I think you (Norsefire) will be hard pressed to find any society, present or past, which fits your ideals perfectly. It may be possible to find a compendium of nations that reflect the premises that you are advocating, but again, I can't find references to any single society encompassing all of your proposals...

The society that you are going to create will be the first of its kind!

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Let's hope it survives more than a few minutes...

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