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Happy belated Fourth of July! This potentially-recurring column is about modern-day independence-seekers: charter cities, utopian communes, secessionist movements, and the like. I've always found these fascinating, and finally remembered that nobody can prevent me from talking about them.

I want to start by making it clear that, as the old saying goes, retweets ≠ endorsements. Some of these projects violate my ethical beliefs. Some of them are scams. Some of them are very nice, very earnest people, who will very earnestly all move to a godforsaken desert and then very earnestly starve to death. I'm trusting you all not to do the thing where you say "I saw it on a blog, so it has to be a good idea!"