In my country, the Prince has declared: >The State should treat its citizens like an enterprise treats its customers. For this to work, the State also needs competition. We therefore support the right of self-determination at the municipal level, in order to end the monopoly of the State over its territory.

Therefore, we are allowed to secede if we so wish. This keeps the government in check, because if it fails to stay better than the alternative, we can up and leave and they have no right to stop us. Our Prince has called the state as it is an “inefficient” entity with a “poor price-performance ratio” that no company would survive with. He believes that the longer it lives as a monopolist, the more of a threat it stands to humanity. I agree.

For the record, his country, if it were a city, would be the fifth largest city in my state.

I live in North Dakota.