Can society be stateless?

Excepts from a recent article on the stateless societies:

In pursuing his vision of freeports at sea, Werner Stiefel put into motion in a practical way a plan for a wholly proprietary, nonpolitical public authority. Here was his answer to the question of how to have public administration and yet each and every person be fully empowered over his own person and property. He believed that humankind would outgrow government as we know it today. Perhaps what is most intriguing and heartening about his formula for an internally consistent, open social software is that it is not conjectural, but is extrapolated from a century and a half of empirical data gleaned from observation of the marketplace.

-- Spencer MacCallum, Werner K. Steifel's Pursuit of a Practicum of Freedom.

Read about efforts to establish the framework for a civil society consistent with liberty and natural rights, in this intriguing book: The Law of the Somalis.