Does it have to be put to vote to the population Who agrees the price, what happens to the money. Does a country have deeds like a house? What happens to the sovereignty of the natives if a sale goes ahead. Do they become citizens on the purchasing country? If a nation were considering the offer, do they have to put the country up to tender and accept alternative bids? When was the last time a country was sold? Sorry, I have many questions.
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My guess is it would vary quite wildly depending on the countries and governments involved.
I don’t know if it helps, but the the Brazilian state of Acre was bought from Bolivia. Since there was already a big population of Brazilians, people were quite happy.
the only way i know is that if you run narcos operations or scams etc, as long as you have infamous name there ( tons of illegal stuff you done like murder/ kidnapping etc), that town is yours.
if you are going toward a country, it’s be making the local police force bend for you via violence and corruptions. which path a way to buying politicians and law maker.
look at pablo escabar and gentlemen of cali. those were examples. almost succeeded example btw.
You shouldn’t think about it like buying a country so much as you should think about it as buying land and declaring sovereignty.
Image, for instance, that you were somehow capable of buying all of the property in California. Now, imagine that you declare soverienty against the United States. You are now in rebellion. The United States mark’s you as a traitor. They have a stronger military so they easily defeat you in warfare, strip you of your land, and potentially sentence you to death (this wouldn’t necessarily happen unless your rebellion was a violent one).
Let’s take it further.
Imagine that you didn’t just have the money to buy California but you also had the money for a military as well. Let’s go into the super hypothetical and imagine that your military is somehow equal to the United States. This could result in either a terrible war or a recognition of sovereignty from the United States. Or, most likely, it would result in a stalemate without recognition.
It would actually be far easier to corrupt a country rather than purchasing it. Buy a large plot of land that is capable of producing a valuable resource and then use the wealth generated from those resources to corrupt and shape the country as you see fit.
Imagine, for example, that you somehow buy a piece of land in a poor country and that land happens to have a major oil field beneath it.
You turn this into industry. Your employees are paid well above the national average. They live in company towns. Small independent business’s pop up to support the community (grocery, restaurants, retail, etc…). They all benefit from the greater economy created by oil.
You now train and hire private security loyal to you. This has three benefits. One, you can provide a better life for the people in your community through security and law enforcement. Two: it allows you to build up your arsenal. Three: if you are particularly ruthless, you can silent desenters.
Now, you are in a good place to do real damage.
Start early with subliminal anti-government messages to the employees that work for you. Reinforce your positive image with an equal amount of propaganda in your favor.
Banners with your image line the streets of your community in order to remind people that there good life is the result of your leadership.
The goal is to rapidly build loyalty in your community and outside of it.
If you get to a point of enough political capital then you can run for office. Once in office, you offer well paid positions within your oil company to loyal members of the legislator. Your control of the legislative branch enable you to write the laws that you want. The country is now objectively yours.
I’m drastically oversimplifying. The truth is that there are a number of ways to take a country. The question is why do you need to?
There is no standard way of buying a country. It’s not like a house or a lawn mower where the market exists and such exchanges happen regularly. All of the questions you have asked, and more, have to be answered anew every single time somebody considers buying a country. EX: What counts as a country? Its land? Its people? Its government? The right to taxation?
> Who agrees the price
The countries doing the negotiation.
> Does a country have deeds like a house?
No. The “Owning” country and “Buying” country each pass a law confirming the trade.
> do they have to put the country up to tender and accept alternative bids?
No.
> When was the last time a country was sold?
Most recent example I know of is the purchase of Alaska, but then again this is very dependent on what you mean by “country being bought”. Generally, sovereign nations don’t sell their own land for obvious reasons.
> Literally every other question
No set standard, is part of the negotiation. This isn’t a common thing, and the process is different every time it happens.
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