Thread:SpanionAuthority/@comment-5303542-20120726022240/@comment-5019798-20120728061545

No. It doesn't. It happens only if you are in Exclusive economic zone. If you are in some other nation's exclusive economic zone and your structure isn't moving than it is property of your macronation. Only bet is high seas where sea dept is often 1km to 2 km.

Another problem is the 'Common Heritage of Mankind'. High Seas(beyond exclusive economic zone) come under CHM just like Antarctica. So you can't legally do military activities and your claim of soverignity can not be recongnized. However, you can have autonomy and can have military presence for defese.

No more reef is now unclaimed. So you have to build structure in high seas. You can not build minerva like structure in high seas because of dept. Best would be to create artificial platform.

If you build a artificial platform then it should be at least 1000 m sq. and have military of 100 soldiers with automatic weapons and should have some cheap anti ship missiles like Chinese Silkworm missile. This would be enough to scare away invaders as your nation isn't the best bet. Specially, no pirate would dare to attack.

For more information and detailed reports, you should research by materials made public by Seasteading Institute.