ABSTRACT
Libertarians tend to focus on two important units of analysis: the individual and the state. And yet, one of the most dramatic and significant events of our time has been the re-emergence—with a bang—in the last few years of a third and much-neglected aspect of the real world, the "nation". When the nation has been thought of at all, it usually comes attached to the state, as in the common word nation-state, but this concept takes a particular development of recent centuries and elaborates it into a universal maxim. This chapter raises the pure anarcho–capitalist model not so much to advocate the model per se as to propose it as a guide for settling vexed current disputes about nationality. One obvious problem with the secession of nationalities from centralized states concerns mixed areas, or enclaves and exclaves. One vexing current problem centers on who becomes the citizen of a given country, since citizenship confers voting rights.
