Quote Originally Posted by Voldmer View Post
About the noisy neighbour: the others could build a soundproof wall surrounding his property, so that his noise would not reach them. During this building process, he and they would almost certainly reach an agreement.
That would be blocking him in, and he would have a big issue to raise. Why should neighbors have the responsibility of building the walls? Shouldn't he have to do that? Also, what about above his property?

What should be done once the story had reached the level where I asked the question?

Quote Originally Posted by Voldmer View Post
As for Russia invading the US, if it had no formal government: what would be the purpose for doing so? The US is valuable, to other governments, only for as long as the US itself has a government (with all the power structures that such a government wields over the public). An invading government, in an area without such power structures, would have to take each valuable asset in turn. In order to actually gain anything at all, Russia would have to seize control of every single thing they wanted - an insurmountable task. Especially so, since the people would not surrender without a fight (and, if they were not intensely stupid, they would be well organized - something that can not really be said about the US federal government ).
Russia has a major history of conquest, and so do countries in general. World history is covered with wars over invasions.

Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
If you define true anarchy as 100% "every person for themselves," it's not sustainable because people will always form groups (government, basically) for protection and for "justice" from other people out to dominate and destroy.
Anarchy is the absence of government. I agree that such a situation would result in the formation of government. History is full of examples of gangs fighting for rulership. When none of them take full control, the result is chaos. That is happening in Somalia right now.

Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
Russia invade the US? Um, no. Believe it or not, not every country in the world follows the western model of "exceptionalist" imperialist conquest in order to prop up an otherwise unsustainable debt-based fantasy-casino economy (and no, Crimea is very very clearly not such a case).
Have you studied the history of Soviet Russia? They were big time into conquest. The Soviet Union was an empire.

War over conquest is so prevalent in world history that it could be the title of a world history book.