Self-determination.

Can apply to the single person, the Nation State, or other scales (down to City Region, all the way to Self Government).

In Systems Of Survival a character suggests forming an international NGO called "Friends of the Kurds" which solicits donations/grants to buy up property for the creation of a [Kurdish State]. Kurdi Stan?

A [P J O Rourke] article notes Yad-Mordechai was founded in 1943 on an untilled, sandy patch of the Negev. The land was bought from the sheik of a neighboring village. And there, in the common little verb of the preceding sentence, is the moral genius of [ZionIsm]. Theodor Herzl, when he set down the design of Zionism in The [Jewish State] (1896), wrote, "The land ... must, of course, be privately acquired." The Zionists intended to buy a nation rather than conquer one. This had never been tried. Albeit various colonists, such as the American ones, had foisted purchase-and-sale agreements on peoples who had no concept of fee-simple tenure or of geography as anything but a free good. But Zionists wanted an honest title search. (IsRael)

Joel Garreau 1991 book Nine Nations Of North America ISBN:0-380-57885-9 covers the current USA, Canada, and Mexico.

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