Oceangoing Utopias?

[sawyl]

Yesterday's Guardian Weekend contained a feature (which I can't currently find online) on sea cities — vast ships intended to act as as mobile city states, the majority of which seem to have been dreamt up by libertarian americans in order to avoid paying tax. What amused me most was the way that all these schemes seemed collapse into a morass of bitter recriminations and financial problems — not so much a Nozickean framework for utopia as a recipe for disaster...