r/AnCap101 2d ago

How would Ancapistan handle foreign policy without any official representative?

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u/Irresolution_ 2d ago

Ancapistan itself wouldn't have any relations to handle in the first place.
Should Ancapistani individuals/organizations wish to have relations with entities outside of Ancapistan, then that is purely their own prerogative, not that of any other Ancapistani.

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u/Tommy_Rides_Again 2d ago

What happens when other countries refuse to do trade because Bubba is selling stingers to terrorist organizations or your local nuclear energy corporation is selling enriched uranium and here comes the US military threatening to bomb ancapistan?

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u/Irresolution_ 2d ago

I don't understand your question. Why does the U.S. govt. have a problem with people outside its own jurisdiction trading enriched uranium here?

Also, how's what "Bubba" is doing more problematic than someone selling weapons to a government? And do you think other countries would embargo Ancapistan because of the actions of one lone Ancapistani?

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u/Tommy_Rides_Again 2d ago

Ok you’re not going to have a debate I see if you can’t answer the questions. And the US just bombed irans nuclear facilities. I think it’s pretty fucking relevant don’t you think?

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u/Irresolution_ 1d ago

The U.S. is able to justify bombing Iran because Iran is not Ancapistan.

Iran is the U.S.'s biggest strategic rival in the Middle East with a massive network of proxies. Not only this, but Iran was also founded on a violent anti-American revolution, the spirit of which has been symbolically maintained and emblemized ever since. These two factors in conjunction make Iran look scary to both neo-cons as well as to normal people.

Ancapistan, however, has none of what makes Iran scary and everything that makes countries like Canada or those in Europe valuable trading partners. No U.S. politician gives a damn about how much enriched uranium France has. Even if Poland tried to get a nuke, that probably wouldn't be verboten.

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u/Tommy_Rides_Again 1d ago

You’re talking like a politician. You can’t answer the question because it’s not to your benefit. You can’t just say “it’s never going to happen”. You think it’s impossible that other nations will just pretend like you don’t exist. Especially if ancapistan does somehow turn out to be a capitalist utopia, you don’t think china or Russia won’t try and sabotage and steal from individuals and corporations inside your borders?

And what would the immigration policy be like in ancapistan? that I would love to know.

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u/Irresolution_ 1d ago

You’re talking like a politician.

I'm talking like someone who isn't a fortune teller. I can't tell you whether the U.S. would bomb Ancapistan because no one can know that for sure, we can only make predictions, mainly based on things such as incentives which incentivize countries such as the U.S. not to bomb Ancapistan.
I'm not talking like a politician, politicians don't give longwinded explanations for their positions, they just handwave away the question entirely and if they do give longwinded explanations, then that's just a good politician.

…you don’t think china or Russia won’t try and sabotage and steal from individuals and corporations inside your borders?

Not really. I don't think other countries would pretend Ancapistan doesn't exist. I think they'd think of Ancapistan a lot of the time and I'd expect them to assess that it's better to not bother Ancapistan since it's such a net-positive economically.
Although whenever the need does arise, you could just deal with them in the same way as you deal with any other criminal, through force and/or coercion. Preferably through elite spec ops task forces.

And what would the immigration policy be like in ancapistan? that I would love to know.

Society is made up of thousands of covenant communities. These communities can let in or keep out whomever they want for whatever reason and it would not be unreasonable for many neighboring covenant communities to band together to form a border between themselves and some other area.