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Maybe that'd make for a good startup? We outsource your government!

Of course, if things get bad enough, Italy could always adopt a successful country's laws and practices. Just pretend to be a German provice, for example; follow all their laws and proceedings, adopt their charter, etc, etc. Then after a while once things stablize it can be customized to fit Italy.




> Maybe that'd make for a good startup? We outsource your government!

It's been tried, and it was incredibly profitable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_East_India_Company

Indeed, it was in a sense the origin of the modern limited-liability corporation, the foundation of modern capitalism. Not so good for the people whose government was outsourced, though.




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