hanseatic

There is a great podcast, The History of the Germans, that have a season on the Hanseatic League.

How about Novgorod, which was a member of the Hanseatic Union back in the day, among other things?

Many of the old Hanseatic buildings still stand as they were relatively untouched by the war.

These privileges ensured that Hanseatic merchants paid even lower tax rates than their English counterparts.

The model should be the Hanseatic League or something similar, not a fully-fledged nation state.

Check out the History of the Germans season on the Hanseatic League [0].

There's no way you can compare their schemes with historical examples with HK, Trieste, the Hanseatic League etc (if that's what you're thinking).

Also fiat currencies predate Nixon, the paper contracts between members of the Hanseatic League can be thought of as a form of fiat currency.

This is still, underneath it all, Hanseatic League and East India Company domination style colonialism, but adapted to and shaped by the digital age.

Britain seems distinct from the European nations that, for example, Burgundy or the Hanseatic League, or modern Germany, are not.

The Hanseatic league stretched from England to Novgorod, and highlights the strong need for small independent sovereign city states, rather than top-heavy bureaucracies like the EU.

We can find examples from the Hanseatic League, the Holy Roman Empire, the Dutch East Indies Company, the South Seas Bubble or anything else from our history.

The first stock exchange ("bourse") for this was actually French(?) (hazy here, possibly Belgian or Dutch, and probably roots in Hanseatic League financing if not beyond).

"one of the largest" is surely hanseatic understatement.

There's a remarkable painting depicting that (Hanseatic-era Visby).