The broadest version of my question is the following:
Where can I find algebrogeometric abstract nonsense that handles "rings" and "fields" like $\mathbb R_{\geq 0}$ in which there is no subtraction?
The reason I think that such a theory might have been developed is that I know that such "rings" appear in algebraic geometry: in tropical geometry, in the study of semialgebraic sets, and so on.
Some specific questions that I hope such literature might answer (but probably this is too optimistic):
Is there an "etale site" over $\mathbb R_{\geq 0}$?
What is the "etale homotopy type" or "Galois group" of $\mathbb R_{\geq 0}$?
I'm under the vague impression that $\mathbb R_{\geq 0}$ is an approximation of the absolute field $\mathbb F_1$. I also speculate that $\mathbb R_{\geq 0} \hookrightarrow \mathbb R$ is "etale" but not a cover, so that $\mathbb R_{\geq 0}$ has multiple components in etale topology. This is in spite of the fact that $\mathbb R_{\geq 0}$ seems like a "field".