Somalia is often brought up by Libertarians as an example of a distributed legal system. The argument is that Somalia has done better than their African peers over recent years...no idea if that is still the case or not.
IME it's far more often brought up as a cautionary example by "antilibertarians". As in, if we limit the authority of some official government agency in some small fashion, we'll soon live in a poor violent sub-Saharan hellhole. (Not my characterization, but rather that of the antilibertarians.)
>"Somalia is often brought up by Libertarians as an example of a distributed legal system."
It was inevitable, as "Somalia" has been "thrown" at libertarian-type ideas for a very long time. Somalia is a failed state, yet served as some sort of "A-ha! Gotcha, silly Libertarian!" type of retort to almost all suggestions of a stateless, or limited-state society.