What would you do with $700 Billion?
rsheridan6: I'd buy a sovereign country and break it up into city-states, and allow them to compete with each other as an experiment to see which policies and forms of government are the most effective.  It would be kind of like Pokemon for social science geeks.  You could have libertaritopia, commietopia, fascistopia, etc, and you'd get to see what happens.  For motivational purposes, after 50 years I would have barbarian hordes burn and pillage the unsuccessful ones.If I couldn't find somebody to sell me a country I would build large offshore platforms or rafts that would fulfill the same function.