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Full Idea
Imagine a new original position where we adopted rules for global justice without knowing which country we would inhabit.
Gist of Idea
For global justice, adopt rules without knowing which country you will inhabit
Source
Tuckness,A/Wolf,C (This is Political Philosophy [2017], 4 'Cosmopolitan')
Book Ref
Tuckness,A / Wolf,C: 'This is Political Philosophy' [Wiley Blackwell 2017], p.98
A Reaction
Nice question. North Korea!! Rawls says it is only within a nation, because there is a co-operative enterprise going on. That is, I presume, that the choosers involved are a 'people'. See Kant's 'Perpetual Peace' for an alternative.