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by zo1 3748 days ago
>"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.