Basically, the idea is to move 20,000 people, who are interested in having a smaller government, into a single state with a relatively low population. what happens from there is up to the people.
Take a look at the
The Free State Project website and say what you think. Is it just stupid? funny? Interesting? Vital?
I would suggest browsing the Forums under the 'community' heading and see all the activity which is occuring in developing groups, strategies, planning for housing, businesses/jobs, and what the political agenda might look like.
I would say that at least these folks (of which I am one) seem to be serious about trying this, in fact, people have already begun to move 'early' considering that the 'pledge' only 'requires' you to move AFTER 20,000 members have signed up. Shows some strong committment by at least a few.
If you have any questions/critisisms/rants or whatever, lemme know and perhaps I can answer a few.
Although the Free State Project is not a libertarian project, it does have a vast amount of libertarian members. Other groups involved are: Right Democrats, Left republicans, the Constitution Party, the Green Party, Objectivists, Anarchists, Anarchro-Capitalists, Christians, Anti-Christians, Wiccans, and pretty much some sort of representative of any other group one might care to name (except, possibly, socialists or communists). Its quite a 'big tent' and we do have alot of 'friction' between some parts - but it has been amazing to see everyone pull together to reduce the size of government.
BTW: I am a libertarian (with a dash of Ancap thrown in for fun)
thanks for your time,
Michael