Freehold and Net Assets
I've recently read Freehold by Michael Z. Williamson. I got it on one of the packages at Webscription . These packages are a great deal all around - the books are very reasonably priced for the reader, and since so many are series every time I buy a package I end getting another to cover the rest of another series. That part is great for the publisher, of course... Freehold was very nice. The Freehold of the title is a planet that has an anarchy based society, in which everything goes great - crime is non-existent (even if everyone is heavily armed), taxes are minimal to none, etc. (I can almost believe that could work - the citizens would need a completely different upbringing than any I've heard of, though) The UN-unified Earth, very incompetent, of course, enters war because they can't tolerate how well they are doing without a heavy-handed government. Now that I can sure believe in... One thing I thought was interesting were the paralels with Net Assets . Net Assets i...