I am trying to speculate what kind of people this new country can attract and give its citizenship? I tend to think (sorry for sounding biased) that it would be adventurers, hippies, suspicious characters, illegal migrants, fraudsters. The topic about legalisation of marijuana is quite popular on their forum so it may attract drug dealers and drug addicts.
Can this microstate be interesting for entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, doctors, economists - those who can contribute a lot to build some prosper experimental state, say micro-Singapore?
How can this country attract them, maybe, introduce sort of point based system for giving residence / citizenship?
What does legalizing marijuana have to do with drug dealers? Isn't the reverse more likely? I live in a country with legal marijuana(1) and I don't see the correlation (it does attract marijuana-related tourism though).
(1) Uruguay. It's legal for now, the current president is not happy at all about legal marijuana and wants to revoke the law.
I agree with you about legalizing marijuana in an established state with working institutions. I see Netherlands as a successful example of it. But here we have the state in the very beginning of its existence, without the recognised law enforcing institutions. Thus it may be more difficult to control drug traffic.
The current president is more like a king at the moment with a lot of influence to shape the country, but can also be heavily influenced by external forces (by money, armed force). A lot of things depend on personalities and hidden agendas of people who will rule there, and it may be difficult to control them. Money from illegal activities like drug traffic may be very attractive.
I am just speculating about this potentially interesting experiment.
Cannabis is not legal in NL and there are many problems with their current setup involving organized crime. You say you "see" NL as a successful example, but I think it's more of a belief based on assumptions. In reality it's a bit of a mess.
The U.S. ironically (they're the ones who got the world to sign treaties promising to never legalize) has the some of the best decriminalizatoin/legalization laws on the planet
Never been legal, but tolerated. If you're smoking in the streets you can still get into trouble with the police. That's why there's coffeeshops. Smoke there or home and NL looks the other way. But on the supply side there are many problems.
Can this microstate be interesting for entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, doctors, economists - those who can contribute a lot to build some prosper experimental state, say micro-Singapore?
How can this country attract them, maybe, introduce sort of point based system for giving residence / citizenship?