Somalia

[adanthar]

Hell, I'll go one further:

AC-land is doomed to real world failure because, among many other reasons, it's a gigantically inefficient hamster wheel where everyone spends 24 hours a day paying off a myriad of transaction costs or dying from 'unfortunate market failure' prior to 'market correction' (which happens over and over). This inefficiency is an asset on one level, however; a genocidal, worst case scenario government is far more efficient than AC-land in slaughtering its population in the short term. That's not to say that AC-land wouldn't result in (insert horrible outcome or neo-feudalism here), but it'd take longer - Mogadishu is one of the most violent places on Earth, but enough money, resources or know-how buys you a chance at survival. Therefore, I'd probably rather live in AC-land than under the Khmer Rouge, having more faith than I would still be alive after the "thank God it's finally over" ending of one than the other.

Is that a huge concession, or what?