Of course in amongst all of this I would suspect if the resources were handed out, there would be a lot of depeering and null routing going on in relation to the poor, forced-to-spam, citizens of the Grand Duchy. :)
Once again, based upon the available evidence, I would claim that it would in fact be improbable that any substantial amount of deppeering and/or null routing would occur, in practice. It is a classic "trajedy of the commons" problem, and no operator would wish to have to explain to its user base why they, end end lusers, can no longer send e-mail to their cousins in Grand Fenwick.
I'm not sure, Spamhaus were quite happy to block Latvia for a far smaller reason. I think if it was a mandated activity for all citizens the reaction of the international community might be interesting.
Brian
For those that want to read up on what actually happened on that specific incident in Latvia (July/August 2010), have a read on the following open letter from CERT.lv https://cert.lv/uploads/uploads/OpenLetter.pdf Erik Bais