Sometimes there are rules we don’t like. For example, if you live in a country, you have to follow its laws and pay its taxes, and if you don’t, the only option is to either be punished or move to another country. But imagine for a moment if you could live in Britain but follow the laws of France or vice versa. It would be a pretty strange state of affairs, but it’s precisely how a volcanic archipelago in the South Pacific was governed for almost a century.
Ned, I love this, thank you and it's good to find your site here.
I wrote an article in part about my trip to Vanuatu here:
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/12/on-the-road-vanuatu.html
and found precious little background stuff to cite. Thanks for this.