Id say so. As you say, meta-politics is kinda abstract; an utopia of utopia’s is less emotionally engaging than any single utopia; the latter make for good attention-grabbing flamewars.

First, with the “thousand nations” concept, you made the seasteading tent much larger and invited non-libertarians to join in and help make the prospect of forming communities on the sea a reality. By explicitly welcoming those who are interested in the problem of ‘governance’ or ‘meta-governance’ but who have little direct experience operating on the sea and little ability to contribute novel mechanisms for doing so, you further expand the tent.

Second, there will hopefully come a time, let it be sooner than later, when the physical means have been well addressed and the big issue for most is “which group, if any, shall I join?” It would be very helpful if we have already determined the truly important questions to ask.

G.