can you buy an island and make your own rules?

Question

is there any island you can buy and make your own rules? any island that is away from other territories and abide by no form of goverment but your own? i know that the UN has rules but is every part of the world completely under other nations jurisdicition? is there a place i can buy and make my own rules but abide by UN rules....

Answer 1

Yes, you can make a micronation.Check Wikipedia sealand

Answer 2

I would be very surprised if there was a single piece of land above sea level anywhere on the globe that is not claimed by a particular country.

Simply because by claiming the land, you then get fishing and mineral rights surrounding that land.

There are heaps of privately "owned" islands but they ultimately have to report to the sovereign nation that gives them the right to purchase it. The degree of autonomy given by the soveriegn nation varies.

The last privately owned islands that I know of, that did not report to any authority, are the Cocos (Keeling) islands in the Indian Ocean. They were granted to the CluniesRoss family by Queen Victoria in the 1850s and run as a private company until about 1955 when Australia took them over.

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Answer 3

Wow you have same thougths of me!!!!
1 am 13 and i thougth this one year before, my dad told me that you can buy island, but that will be still under control of government, as the land where your house is build, which is our land but main owner is goverment.

And secondly it will cost you alot and no citizen is able to get that, even bill gates, even if someone gets, he or she wil never like, to allow people to live there, he / she will make house, factories etc over there.

And yes, the island you will buy will have to be occopied by any government (unles you discover your own, which is not possible becuse usa have discovered all by settlite)

After you will buy island that goverment will interfare in that, or just will send army, take you and your island!!!

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Answer 4

An island can be bought but only for private ownership. Thus, the government has jurisdiction over it.

For a person to make his own rules, buy a large island and make it a country to be recognized by the international community.

Answer 5

You probably could if you bought an island that was not in the territorial waters of any other nation. F the UN. All they do is talk a lot anyway.

If you do this what will your immigration laws be like?

Answer 6

Basically if you buy your own island you can make your own rules...unless you get caught. The only territory not controled by the UN is one country in upper west africa.

Answer 7

Yes, but the US would deem you a threat and bomb the poop out of you until you gave up all natural resources, best wait to see how the next election goes.


as for a serious answer I believe I saw in the news that a man made Island off the coast of Britian was for sale and it was a country to itself.

Answer 8

If you had enough money to, you would be free here anyway.

I have often wished I could go build an Island-like one of those offshore rigs, maybe mounted to one of those underwater hills that comes almost to the surface. That way it would not belong to another government already.

Of course you would be a fool to think you could defend yourself. Someone would attack you-probably with more force than you could resist.

Answer 9

oh, you can you know.
i saw this prog where they show this artist who bought an island and make it his island. he will go there for holiday. now it's open for public with his own rules.

Answer 10

That is how the florida keys are. The conch republic. They seceeded from the us but no one recognises them and take it lightly although they are serious.