The Anarchic Republic of the Caribbean forms!
The myths of the grandiose the pirates of centuries' past has since attracted the attention of several fishermen in the lawless isles of the Caribbean, but never have any of these men acted to revitalize it. However, with news that the world is beginning to wake up again being heard throughout the planet, groups of people have banded together, forming crews in search of glory through piracy. This is the dawn of another Golden Age of Piracy.
The Pirate Republic, as the ARC is informally known, prides itself as a Democracy. Any "pirate" crew has to be recognized by 3 or more other bands of pirates to be considered an actual pirate crew, as far as the pirate community concerned. Issues on the international scale are voted on by all recognized pirate crews. Voting power is distributed in correlation with the actual power of the pirate crew in question. A Captain over the command of several bands of pirates has more votes compared to the captain of a lowly band of pirates who just barely made the qualifications, for example.
Domestic issues on the other hand, are handled a lot differently. In times of "peace", it is generally a free-for-all in the seas and ports not recognized by the majority as "safe zones." It is against pirate code to attack anything in these safe zones. Sailing into one to flee from battle is considered just as grave. To this end, the most powerful pirate captains are in charge of keeping the peace in these areas -which usually means blowing up whoever violates the code. Besides this code, which is more of a matter of conscience than actual law, there is no regulations in the republic.
In times of war, however, a kind of martial law is put into effect by the most powerful pirate captains. All recognized pirate crews are conscripted to the navy. If they refuse, they are blown up. During this time, the entire sea and land area recognized as "Pirate land" is considered safe zone between pirates. All un-allied foreign vessels that are not permitted in any way to be in pirate seas are, however, subject to being blown up.