New Songdo City, South Korea

  New Territories

  Newton, Huey

  New York, New York

  New Zealand

  Nicaragua

  Noble House

  nodes

  noncitizens. See also citizenship(s)

  non-territorial nations

  Norman conquest

  North, Gary

  North America. See also specific locations

  zones in

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  North Carolina Global TransPark

  North Dakota

  North Korea

  Nova Scotia

  novelty

  Ntshanga, Masande

  Obama, Barack

  OCBC Tower

  Occupy Central movement

  Ogle, Vanessa

  oil

  oil embargo of 1973–74

  oil industry

  oil prices

  Okinawa, Japan

  One Canada Square

  online communities

  Operation Gatekeeper

  opium

  Opium Wars

  “Opportunity Zones”

  Orangeburg County, South Carolina

  Orania

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

  Orientalism

  Ottoman Empire

  ownership. See also private property; property rights

  Oxagon

  P&A Corporate Services Trust of Vaduz

  P&O shipping company

  Pacific Research Institute

  Page, Larry

  Palantir

  paleo alliance

  “paleo-libertarianism”

  Palestine

  Palestinians

  Palm Jebel Ali

  Palm Jumeirah

  Panama

  Panama Canal

  Panama Papers

  Pandora Papers

  Papua New Guinea

  Paradise Papers

  patchwork

  Patri du Chat Gris

  patron states

  Paul, Ron

  PayPal

  PBS

  Pearl Harbor, bombing of

  Pearl River Delta

  Pei, I. M.

  Pelli, César

  Pennsic Wars

  pensions

  People’s Armada

  People’s Charter for the Docklands

  People’s Plan Center

  Pepe the Frog

  perforation, metaphor of

  Persian Gulf

  personal freedom, economic freedom and

  Peru

  Philippines

  Philips

  phyles

  Piano, Renzo

  Piketty, Thomas

  Pinkerton

  Pinochet, Augusto

  Piraeus

  Plan Oranje

  Plant, Raymond

  police forces, unionization of

  police state, in South Africa

  political autonomy, economic means of survival and

  political freedom

  politics

  capitalism and

  of disappearance

  economics and

  political ideology

  prefigurative

  polycentric law

  Poon, Alice

  popular sovereignty

  Portable Hong Kong

  Portable Somalia

  Port Cities

  Porter, Oliver

  Port Klang, Malaysia

  Port of Djibouti

  Port of Jebel Ali

  positive freedom, vs. negative freedom

  postcolonial nationalism

  power, concentration of

  Princeton University

  prison abolition

  prison staff, unionization of

  privately owned public spaces (POPs)

  private property, inviolability of

  private restitution, punishment and

  private security

  “private utopias”

  privatization

  of justice

  of law and order

  privatization projects

  reversals of

  productivity

  Property and Freedom Society (PFS)

  property rights

  proprietary communities

  Próspera

  Próspera Arbitration Center

  protectionism

  public housing

  Puerto Cortés, Honduras

  Puerto Rico

  punishment, private restitution and

  Qatar

  Qatari Investment Authority

  Quebec

  “quicksilver capital”

  Rabois, Keith

  Rabushka, Alvin

  race

  racial consciousness

  racialized economic power

  racial secession

  racial separatism (see also segregation)

  racial solidarity

  radical capitalism

  radical legal pluralism

  radical libertarianism

  Raffles, Stamford

  Rajaratnam, S.

  Rand, Ayn

  Rashid, Sheikh

  Ravalomanana, Marc

  Reagan, Ronald

  real estate

  Reason

  recolonization

  redistribution

  Red London

  red zones

  Rees-Mogg, William

  referendums

  Región Especial de Desarrollo (special development region), or RED

  regulations. See also deregulation; rules

  relocation, forced

  remote work

  republican democracy

  resources

  restitution

  restrictive covenants

  “reverse diaspora”

  Rice, Condoleezza

  the Ring

  “Ring City Singapore”

  Roatán, Honduras

  robots

  Rockford Institute

  Rockwell, Llewellyn “Lew” Jr.

  Roman Empire, fall of

  Romania

  Romer, Paul

  Ron Paul Survival Report

  Rothbard, Murray

  Rothbard-Rockwell Report (Triple R)

  Rothschild, Baron de

  “roving capital”

  Royal Docks Enterprise Zone

  Royal Dutch Shell

  Royal Navy

  rubber

  rule of law

  rules

  Russia. See also Soviet Union

  in 1990s

  Big Bang overnight price reforms in

  Dubai and

  invasion of Ukraine

  oligarchs in

  special economic zones (SEZs) in

  Russians

  sacrifice zones

  Saez, Emmanuel

  Sandy Springs, Georgia

  San Francisco, California

  Sani Abacha

  San Marino

  São Paulo, Brazil

  Sarah Scaife Foundation

  Sassen, Saskia

  Saudi Arabia

  Schumacher, Patrik

  Scotland

  sea-level rise

  Sea Ranch, California

  Seasteading Institute

  “seasteads”

  Sebe, Lennox

  secession

  dream of

  illegality of calls for in Hong Kong

  of individuals

  nationalism and

  permitted in Liechtenstein’s constitution

  by plebiscite

  reversals of

  revival of

  as revolutionary praxis

  right of

  secession movements (see also specific locations)

  soft secession

  “Second British Empire”

  Second Life

  Second Opium War

  secrecy jurisdictions

  segregation

  market intervention and

  utilitarian outcomes

  voluntary

  self-determination

  self-policing

  self-sorting, elective

  semi-sovereignty

  Seoul, South Korea

  separatist movements. See also secession

  settler ideology

  shale revolution

  Shanghai, China

  Shanghai Stock Exchange

  Shanghai World Financial Center

  Shannon Airport

  Shard (building)

  shardettes

  Shawarma (sculpture)

  Shaxson, Nicholas

  shell companies

  Shenzhen, China

  Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base

  Shenzhen OPPO headquarters

  Shenzhen Science and Technology Museum

  Shining Path

  shipping. See also container ships

  shopping malls, as models

  Shriver, Lionel

  Sierra Leone

  Silicon Oasis

  Silicon Valley colonialism

  Singapore

  China and

  City of London and

  as city-state

  Confucian-communitarian values in

  democracy in

  elections in

  “good governance” and

  growth model of

  “Housing for the People” program

  in index of economic freedom

  inequality in

  Intelligent Island initiative

  Japan and

  location of

  as microstate

  as model

  nation branding and

  noncitizens in

  opium economy and

  political freedom in

  popular legitimacy and

  public housing in

  real estate in

  resources in

  riot in Little India

  role of state in

  Singapore Solution

  as “smart city”

  success of

  underclass in

  United States and

  Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984

  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

  Skype

  small states, viability of

  “smart cities”

  smuggling networks

  social conservatism

  social contract

  metaphor of

  mutation of

  social democracy, movement away from

  social housing projects

  after World War I

  elimination of

  socialism

  China’s abandonment of

  failure of

  liberalism and

  social justice

  social media

  social security

  social services

  Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA)

  sociological federalism

  “soft authoritarianism”

  soft secession

  Solomon Islands

  Somalia. See also Somaliland

  clans in

  “commerce without a state” in

  decolonization and

  history of

  statelessness in

  Somaliland

  Soomaali ‘Ad (“White Somalis”)

  Sophia

  South Africa

  government aid in

  homelands in

  murders in

  police state in

  postapartheid

  prohibition on trade unions in

  repression of resistance in

  in science fiction

  state subsidies in

  “Swiss solution” for

  South African Allied Workers

  South African Defense Forces

  South African Libertarian Society

  South America. See also specific locations

  South Asia. See also specific locations

  South Carolina

  South China Sea

  South Dakota

  Southeast Asia. See also specific locations

  Southern League

  South Korea

  South Tirol, Italy

  “sovereign collective”

  sovereign corporations (sovcorps)

  sovereign individuals

  sovereignty

  changing nature of

  commodification of

  fragmentation of

  “rethinking”

  Soviet bloc, dissolution of

  Soviet Union

  China and

  dissolution of

  fragmentation of

  glasnost and

  Soviet Union, former, “shock therapy” privatization in

  SpaceX

  Spain

  Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong

  special economic zones (SEZs)

  “speculative communities”

  Spencer, Richard

  the Spire

  “Square Mile” of financial district, London

  Sri Lanka

  Srinivasan, Balaji

  Standard Oil

  Starbase

  start-up political jurisdictions

  Startup Societies Foundation

  statecraft, free market in

  statehood, premodern idea of

  “state in the third millennium”

  statelessness

  state power

  decentralization of

  limits of

  in Singapore

  state(s). See also nation-states; state power

  death of

  disintegration of

  exit from

  role of

  as service provider

  “state within a state”

  Stephenson, Neal

  Sterling, Bruce

  Stiefel, Werner

  Sudan

  Suez Canal

  suffrage

  Sumatra

  Sunshine Mountain Ridge Homeowners Association

  Suriname

  “surplus population”

  sustainability

  Suzhou Industrial Park, China

  sweatshops

  Switzerland

  Tahiti

  Taiwan

  Tamils

  tariffs, suspension of. See also free trade; specific agreements

  Tata Group

  taxation. See also under specific locations

  elimination of

  flat tax

  in Hong Kong

  inheritance tax

  tax avoidance

  tax breaks

  tax havens

  tax pirates

  tax rates

  as theft

  Taylor, Jared

  Tebbit, Norman

  tech criticism

  tech libertarianism

  tech sector

  “techxodus”

  telecommunications

  terrorism

  Texas

  Texas Instruments

  Thailand

  Thatcher, Margaret

  Big Bang and

  as patron saint of Euroskeptics

  Right to Buy program

  Singapore and

  Thatcherism

  Theranos

  Thiel, Peter

  “three withouts”

  Thyssen

  Tiananmen Square, protest at

  tin

  Tlon

  Tories

  Total

  trade

  foreign trade zones

  free trade

  free trade zones

  international trade law

  supercharged maritime

  transition

  transitology

  Transkei, South Africa

  transnational capitalism

  Transparency Commission

  Transport and General Workers Union

  treaties

  Treaty of Nanking

  treaty ports

  Trucial States

  trucking

  Trump, Donald

  Trump Tower, New York

  Trump Tower Dubai

  Truss, Liz

  trusts

  Tullock, Gordon

  Turkey

  Twain, Mark

  T-zones

  Uber

  Ugland House

  UK Independence Party (UKIP)

  Ukraine, Russian invasion of

  Umbrella Movement

  underclass

  underthrow

  unemployment

  Unicorn Island

  unions

  absence of

  breaking of

  prohibition of in South Africa

  union breakers

  union laws

  United Arab Emirates

  United Kingdom. See also British Empire; specific locations

  in 1976

  in 1978

  Big Bang in

  after Brexit

  Brexit and

  drift away from manufacturing and agriculture

  Hong Kong and

  invasion of Iraq and

  London Docklands

  National Health Service in

  nation branding and

  secession and

  Singapore model and (see also City of London)

  tax rates in

  Trucial States and

  welfare state in

  United Nations

  General Assembly

  Honduras and

  International Development organization

  Liechtenstein and

  member states and when they joined

  micronations in

  national movements and

  policy against secession

  “Ring City Singapore” and

  secession movements and

  Somalia and

  Somaliland and

  United States

  in 1978

  as anocracy

  COVID-19 pandemic in

  Dubai and

  foreign policy of

  gated communities in

  invasion of Afghanistan and

  invasion of Iraq and

  laws of

  market radicals in

  military interventions in Persian Gulf

  NAFTA and

  neo-Confederate movement in

  political polarization in

  post–Jim Crow

  proprietary communities in

  segregation through the market in

  Singapore and

  tax rates in

  white nationalism in

  as zone

  universal suffrage

  University of Chicago

  University of Hong Kong

  University of Nevada

  Urban Development Corporation

  urban megaprojects

  urban new left

  US banana companies

  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

  US military

  US Navy

  US postal service, metaphor of

  USS Vicksburg

  utopia, commodification and

  utopian architecture, free market and

  Vaduz, Liechtenstein

  value chains

  Van Notten, Michael

  Vanuatu

  Venda, South Africa

  venture capital funds

  verticality

  Verwoerd, Hendrik

  Victor Verster Prison

  Vietnam

  Vietnam War

  vigilante violence

  virtual worlds

  Vogel, Ezra

  voided patterning

  Voortrekkers

  voting rights. See also democracy

  Wackenhut