Libertarian Nation and Related Projects

by Stephan Kinsella on September 14, 2025

Adapted from KOL359 | State Constitutions vs. the Libertarian Private Law Code (PFS 2021):

Since I’ve been a libertarian in the early 1980s, I’ve seen various utopian libertarian projects, many of them scams, most of them failures—

Tipolis—”creator, owner and operator of a global portfolio of International Cities characterized by a high degree of autonomy”: Free private cities/charter cities movement
- Free Cities Foundation
- Veritas Villages—Latin America freedom communities (Nicaragua and Panama; Costa Rica location coming soon)
Próspera—a charter city on the island of Roatán, Honduras (wikipedia; official site; Próspera’s e-Governance Portal; Prospera legal code; Próspera ZEDE; Official ZEDE Statute, Unofficial English Translation, and Commentary) (I visited Próspera in Feb. 2025, as noted in My Failed Libertarian Speaking Hiatus; Memories of Mises Institute and Other Events, 1988–~~2019~~2025)
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC)—a special economic zone in Dubai adopting common law—wikipedia; Laws and Regulations in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC); The DIFC’s Affirmation of English Common Law into its Statutory Framework
Principality of Seborga—village in Italy claiming micronation status
cruise ship nations, now seasteading (Blueseed);
- Oceania—The Atlantis Project
- Same people: Project Lifeboat: “From the people who brought you the Oceania project so many years ago comes the Lifeboat project. An attempt to create a spaceship for the purposes of saving the human race from the singularity predicted by Vernor Vinge.” (archive)
crazy guys homesteading abandoned oil rigs and declaring sovereignty;
private justice, arbitration, and common law groups:
- The “Creative Common Law” project (Jamin Hubner), an anarcho-capitalist project in which I was enlisted as an advisor, only for it to later turn from “Creative Common Law 1.0: Anarcho-Capitalism” to “Creative Common Law 2.0: Anarcho-Socialism/Syndicalism”
  - Always be wary of “Waystation libertarians”
- Tom Bell’s “Ulex,” or “Open Source Legal Operating System”;
- LiberLand, which I helped draft an early constitution for
  - see “The Voluntaryist Constitution”
  - Liberland Constitution Christmas Party Prague 2025
- Galt’s Gulch Chile, a scam that ended in disaster;
- the Honduras special economic zones;
- General Governance (David Johnston), the idea of leveraging Indian tribes’ special status to extend their federal tax-free enclaves or zones;
- even the Free State Project
- National Constitution Center’s “The Libertarian Constitution”
- Roderick Long’s “Imagineering Freedom: A Constitution of Liberty Part I: Between Anarchy and Limited Government” and Michael Darby’s “Draft Constitution for a Reviving or New Nation,” both at http://freenation.org/a/
- Dennis Pratt https://www.quora.com/What-would-a-libertarian-bill-of-rights-look-like/answer/Dennis-Pratt-3
- Bernard H. Siegen, Drafting a Constitution for a Nation or Republic Emerging into Freedom. 2d ed. (Fairfax, Virginia: George Mason University Press, 1994)
- See also “A draft constitution for the state in the third millennium,” by Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein
- [Update: See also these older links from my old LibertarianGuide Wiki and Links (archived), under New Libertarian Nations:
  - The Free State Project
  - Seasteading Institute (Patri Friedman)
  - Limón REAL Project
  - (current) “Sealand” and Prince Roy
  - Principality of “New Utopia”
  - “Oceana”
  - Libertarian Nation Foundation’s links to other free-nation projects and related endeavors
  - and one that may actually work, Setting Sail on a Giant, Floating City]
Ultimate Law: “do no harm, or else”: “Every tradition already agrees. Click yours. Communism National Socialism Fascism Critical Theory Satanism Mainstream Media Environmentalism Modern Feminism” “Do not do to others what they would not want done to them. From this one rule, plus logic as the supreme law, a complete framework for ethics, economics, and science follows.”

I’ve been dragooned into helping some of these as consultant or advisor—

General Governance, we met with Indian tribe north of Texas; now you get a 404, as David Johnston moved on to bitcoin, after assuring me that within 6 months we’ll have a libertarian nation.
Joel Bomgar, a libertarian-leaning conservative Christian businessman and Mississippi legislator.
LiberLand (swam with Wit Jedlicka, the president, in Turkey) Mediterranean sea.
Others I’ve forgotten.
Update, June 2025: I need to update this to include others like Liberland, ¹ Live and Let Live, ² Creative Common Law, ³ Nations of Sanity, ⁴ and a new one I’m working on—The Universal Principles of Liberty.