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[Star Wars] How was the blockade of Naboo "perfectly legal"?

Do we know when a private group blockading an entire planet became ok? That seems like an insane proposition. Could you imagine if some shipping company decided to blockade an entire island nation here on Earth?
gpt
It's not.  This is rhetoric by the trade federation, who are acting under prior instructions.  Calling it legal allows them to stall for time and makes sure the blockade actually takes effect.  They're unhappy about something the Naboo government is doing, they have droids to back it up, so they hold everything up.

It makes more sense if you consider the private groups as more like sub-nations.  Almost everyone is under the republic, but the republic is a little like a more powerful version of the UN.  Like the UN, they have a big discussion forum and they have a peacekeeping force, but they're not going to intervene unless they absolutely have to.  Mostly this has worked pretty well for them.

In this case, as per usual protocol, they're not too keen on the blockade.  They don't think it's legal, so they send some Jedi to negotiate.  Hopefully this can calm things down and they can avoid some sort of escalating violence.