Peter Houlihan said:
Honestly, the wording of any particular international agreement probably isn’t worth dwelling on. When it comes to interaction on an international level, there’s very little law, in practice it’s more a question of what they can get away with.
If you build a seastead, and seriously piss off a nation larger than, say, Fiji, they will invade and annex your seastead no matter what flag you’re flying and how many UN declarations you’re compliant with. There is no magic form of words which will protect you, if they decide to send in their navy, and no one of consequence objects, then they will.
On the other hand, if you don’t piss anyone off, and keep your head down, I doubt anyone is going to be bothered enforcing some UN mandate on a bunch of hippies living in the middle of the ocean.
http://www.seasteading.org/forum-list/topic/what-defines-a-seastead/page/2/#post-25070
