Somalia sucks less than its Statist neighbors:
https://www.peterleeson.com/Better_Off_Stateless.pdf
And that is _after_ the US, UN, Sa'udi and Turkey spent ~USF$1 tn trying to turn Somalia into a normal African dictatorship.
They haven't given up, of course. Freedom anywhere is a threat to Statism everywhere.
But a robust toolkit of non-State customs and culture can resist and win.
It's interesting seeing the resurgence of the things this old Ancap drummed a lot about back twenty tears ago. Indeed, it's true that Somalia fared a good deal better under Anarchy than under the predecessor nominally Socialist dictatorship, but there's also some other things that seem to be a constant: e.g.
That everything not nailed down or deeply embedded in the ground get ripped off and stolen, which is reason that mobile telephony was such a relative success in Somalia compared to the rest of Africa, because they simply couldn't run a traditional phone network due to the cabling consistently getting stolen by the locals. Wireless was the *only* way to run a functional communication system in this country!
Facts, but, Africa.
Ethiopia and Kenya shared this problem, but dealt with it by not serving non-elite areas with landlines.
Somalia fared better, not just compared to under the US- and UN-sponsored Siad Barre dictatorship, but better than its Statist neighbours.
Somalia has an important geographic spot. Almost everything that is going on there, has to do with it.
