I dunno; maybe the primitives should be asking their fellow Vermontese primitives.
For quite some time, some primitives (more in real life than on Skins's island, though) have been calling for a free and independent Vermont, as it had been circa 1783-1791.
However, there's something wrong with the way the primitive Vermontese successionists look at the issue; for some reason, they seem to think that if Vermont were an independent country, Vermont could still send Patrick "Joe McCarthy" Leahy and Jr. to the U.S. Senate to represent them, and all the disbursements from the U.S. Treasury (grants, social security, medicare, welfare, whatnot) would continue.