Decades after its introduction, it continues to be popular, with millions of copies having been distributed, including by the group Advocates for Self-Government as the "World's Smallest Political Quiz".

[7] Nolan believed that in August 1971, President Richard Nixon's imposition of wage and price controls and closing the foreign gold window along with his belief that the Vietnam War was both ill-considered and illegal,[2] were three of the final straws for Nolan and his group of initial founders of the Libertarian Party.

[6] He ran unsuccessfully as a Libertarian for the United States House of Representatives in the 2006 Arizona's 8th congressional district election and received 1.9% of the vote.

He also ran as the Libertarian candidate in the 2010 United States Senate election in Arizona, and received 63,000 votes,[8] 4.7% of the total.

"[9] In 2009, Nolan publicly endorsed the Free State Project,[10] an attempt to move 20,000 Libertarians to New Hampshire to experience "Liberty in their Lifetimes".