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 "It is a historic day at the United Nations headquarters after a referendum miraculously passed agreeing on the project that has been dubbed 'Atheya', named after an island which will now be declared a lawless zone. With what is just barely a majority it has been mostly the realization of western nations such as the USA and the EU, Russia against and China abstaining from the vote after pressure has mounted on them to give citizens the option to 'opt out' of being governed. Today's referendum is the culmination of a decade worth of law reforms and court cases against the various states seeking to abolish laws that, quote, 'they did not consent to'. Over the last few decades, a significant portion of the nation's populations have become increasingly discontent and state that the laws of their nations are holding them back and present to them an unnecessary, bureaucratic burden. They say that no one should have a right to tell citizens what or what not to do just because they were born on their territory, and therefore seek to abolish governmental structures altogether. Here at the United Nations today a compromise has been found, a remote island, 'Atheya', out in the pacific in which everyone is free from any laws whatsoever and where lawmakers state that the only law applying to the citizens there are 'the laws of physics'. Proponents of this change are proclaiming that this is 'how it should be' while critics remark that such an idea is absurd and undermines the value of society. Ever since a concise plan on how and where to establish this region has been formalized the Russian ambassador to the UN has been very vocal about his discontent with the proposition, calling it a "step back in the history of mankind" and strongly criticizing especially the USA for advancing it so rigorously. We have, in the studio, interviewed our UN correspondent who was able to give us further detail on what is going on, straight from New York City where the voting results were announced less than an hour ago." The camera transitions to a shot of a man in a spectator cabin above the UN conference room.