First problem is that without support of the local Sovereign (Be it state or local warlord) in this class of states you will be robbed sooner or later.
The other problem of marginal states is that they will catch you and present you as a token of good will to "The Empire", as soon as "The Empire" only mentions about "investing" around 10$ MM.
I really don't understand why (some) shady people feel safe in banana republics. Its a fact that as soon as Eye of Sauron turns towards you, you will be betrayed and given over. Plus you have to endure many other hardships.
The other way is that you serve eg. Russia vs USA or any other permutation of world powers, where one power keeps you in its area of influence and keeps signaling to your adversaries that you are off limits. This enables you to operate from where ever. Or if you become a possible diplomatic problem, your sponsor will tell you where to go.
It's now at the point where you can stand up a datacenter for $100-200k and provide the same cloud API to there as to anywhere else. You can then write off that infrastructure entirely if you get raided. Obviously you don't stick around, you have it set up by contractors who may or may not know you, etc.
As long as your content in a given country is only slightly annoying to the US (which is really the only global power that matters; within regions, there are other countries which are important regional powers though), it won't warrant a $10-100mm effort to shut it down. The US isn't going to invade Somalia for Adobe or Universal, and the Somaliland government doesn't care much for the Transitional Government down in Mogadishu. Paying $100k/yr in local "taxes" would make you the most fifth most profitable industry in the country (after remittances, international aid (small to Somaliland, mainly from Islamic or Diaspora charities), the ~4 cell providers, the airport).
The other problem of marginal states is that they will catch you and present you as a token of good will to "The Empire", as soon as "The Empire" only mentions about "investing" around 10$ MM.
I really don't understand why (some) shady people feel safe in banana republics. Its a fact that as soon as Eye of Sauron turns towards you, you will be betrayed and given over. Plus you have to endure many other hardships.
The other way is that you serve eg. Russia vs USA or any other permutation of world powers, where one power keeps you in its area of influence and keeps signaling to your adversaries that you are off limits. This enables you to operate from where ever. Or if you become a possible diplomatic problem, your sponsor will tell you where to go.