alaska

Developers then come up with crazy schemes to move to Thailand or Alaska where they can live cheaply.

There are self driving trucks right now at work on oil fields in Alaska and in mines in Australia.

For example, you aren't allowed to remain at a bar in Alaska if you're drunk.

My first search shows Alaska Airlines flies multiple daily flights between MFR and PDX.

I'm not telling you to buy an RV and travel from Alaska to southern Mexico for four years.

If I want to reach Alaska I will gladly take whatever transportation suits me best at the time.

The Americans now have the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense in Alaska and California.

Gogo wifi on Alaska between SJC and SEA, service is quite variable.

I spent 2 years on the Pan-American from Alaska to Argentina because I wanted to.

I spent $27k total in 2 years driing 40k miles from Alaska to Argentina [1] I expect Africa to push closer to $20k/year.

I would guess the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend among the closest things currently running, though of course it's not nearly as high as BI proponents would want.

Though I don't want to sound populistic here, this enterprise we are talking about is the one that created the disaster in Alaska with the oil spill.

Since everyone is held to own an equal share of these by right, the revenues should be either distributed equally to everyone as "shareholders" (as in the Alaska dividend), or used to finance public goods.

Alaska could simply abolish the severance tax entirely, and just let private mineral-rights owners reap the full profits.

And in Alaska, the choice isn't only between paying out a dividend and letting the government keep the money.

Alaska has a variable annual payout, and while $1,900 a year is better than $0 a year, it has not led to economic/artistic/scientific revolutions described by basic income proponents.