Charter cities’ advantage is their lax regulatory environment relative to their host countries. Such permissiveness could be a good environment for deploying nuclear reactors, which are controversial and regulated to death in many countries. Charter cities are good environments for experimenting with governance structures; they can also be good for experimenting with controversial technologies.
Wild idea: Install a small modular reactor in a charter city and make energy its biggest export!
Charter cities’ advantage is their lax regulatory environment relative to their host countries. Such permissiveness could be a good environment for deploying nuclear reactors, which are controversial and regulated to death in many countries. Charter cities are good environments for experimenting with governance structures; they can also be good for experimenting with controversial technologies.