The Next Generation Of Pilgrims Want To Start Their Own Countries That Float At Sea

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Your hip, politically savvy friends probably say something like this with every election: "If [so-and-so] wins, I'm leaving the country."

That might soon become so possible that they'll have to follow through with it.

Seasteading is a Libertarian's dream realized. It involves setting up floating cities at sea, 200 miles off the coast of a country so as to not be subject to its laws. Call it an experiment in governance, call it a way to live under a new set of rules of your own creation, maybe even a way to start your life over. You may one day be setting up your own sovereign nation.

Patri Friedman (grandson of the famed Milton Friedman) is one of the main proponents of seasteading, and he set up The Seasteading Foundation to educate people and generate interest. And there's loads of interest. Even billionaire investor Peter Thiel, known for his outspoken Libertarian leanings, is pushing for this to become a practical reality.