In April of 1939
the New York World's Fair, "Building The World of Tomorrow," opened
on what was once a marshy wasteland in Flushing Meadows, just east of
the great metropolis. From its inception to its closing ceremonies,
the Fair promoted one of the last great metanarratives of the Machine
Age: the unqualified belief in science and technology as a means to
economic prosperity and personal freedom. Wedged between the greatest
economic disaster in America and the growing international tension that
would result in World War II, The World of Tomorrow was a much-needed
antidote to the depression and confusion of the times. It provided the
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The 1939 -
1940 World's Fair - Was a moment in time when the human
race believed in itself, believed in tomorrow and believed in
the unqualified greatness of humanity. It is our belief that
those innovative thinkers who want to start a new nation have
within them a reflection of the spirit of that moment in time.
We don't know that for a fact; but we'd like to think it so.
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A new nation could mean many
things... freedom from the constipated idiocy of the current
governments that misrule the worlds nations. It could mean freedom
from taxation, freedom from repression, and the right to live
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Now for Something Completely Different... Freedom Ship -
The World’s Biggest Ship—The World’s Newest Tax Haven? - And
Now for Something Completely Different... Freedom Ship -
The World’s Biggest Ship—The World’s Newest Tax Haven?
- Mark Nestmann analyzes Freedom Ship's potential as a tax
haven. Freedom Ship International, Inc. (FSI ) plans to offer
the opportunity for an unprecedented lifestyle by constructing
a sea-based, mobile, full-spectrum residential, commercial, and
resort community on a mammoth, mobile, sea platform. The community
will travel the entire globe over a two-year cycle, never leaving
international waters. It will spend only 30% of its time in transit
and the other 70% standing offshore points of interest. A fleet
of aircraft and watercraft will ferry people from ship-to-shore,
around-the-clock, residents for touring and business, and as many
as 30,000 onshore guests and visitors daily. What is it's potential
as a tax haven?
Alameigh - Principality of Alameigh
- Alameigh
- Principality of Alameigh - A well laid out
website with photos and informatinon about the Principality of
Alameigh, which is a soveriegn nation-state and only one of many
such entities classified as a "micronation." Micronationry has
several different meanings; and within the international community
there are as many worldviews, interpretations and definitions
as there are national entities.
Artemis Project
- Artemis Project -
The Artemis Project is going to take you there! The
Project is a private venture to establish a permanent, self-supporting
community on the Moon. Here, you will find out how we are
going to get there, how we are going to pay for it, and how you
can come too!
Atlantium (The Empire of) - Atlantium (The Empire of) -
Founded in 1981, and with Citizens resident in some 35 countries
on 6 continents, the Sydney-based Empire of Atlantium is the world's
foremost primarily non-territorial state and global sovereignty
advocacy.
BuildFreedom.com - BuildFreedom.com -
We aim to provide you with the most advanced and widest range
of practical freedom information available -- not only the freedom
information on our site, but also links to thousands of the best
freedom sites on the web. Deeper knowledge of freedom can
be applied to improve many areas of your life and the world in
general. We provide all our information free of charge. There's
much more to freedom than most freedom lovers and activists realize...
Freedom Ship City - Freedom Ship City- A city
that floats around the world and allows freedom from restrictive
government. It sounds amazing, perhaps improbable, but it also
sounds exciting. It may happen some day and some day may
be tomorrow. We think is a great concept and we hope they succeed.
As they say in their literature. " If you are looking for the
ideal place to live, work, retire, or vacation, or run a business
you will be interested in the Freedom community."
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SeaLand - Principality of SeaLand
- An amazing project with a unique history.
Soon to be an offshore free zone for data
- "Hunkered
down on a North Sea fortress, a crew of
armed cypherpunks, amped-up networking geeks,
and libertarian swashbucklers is seceding
from the world to pursue a revolutionary
idea: an offshore, fat-pipe data haven that
answers to nobody." see links.
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Addendum to the above ~ From a visitor: Due to my interest in
the Freedom Ship project, I have started my own web site which
includes a bulletin board for discussing the Freedom Ship.
Please feel free to visit Ship-World at http://www.ship-world.com/.
I am always interested in discussing the project with others,
so don't hesitate to write me if you wish.
Freedom
Ship Is Not About Freedom; or, How To Live On A Floating Police
State -Freedom
Ship! - A Criticism - The name grabs you and
makes you want to learn more, especially if you dream of freedom,
traveling and the high seas. The web site beckons with
promises of leaving it all behind and living in freedom, in
your very own condominium, on a ship so stable that you won’t
even get seasick. But is it really as free as they say?
We are all used to media hype, and in this short article I would
like to dig beneath the decks a little and see what the bulkheads
look like.
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Related Subject:
Global Nomadic Housing For Expatriates - Global
Nomadic Housing For Expatriates - Global Nomadic Housing
for expats? Why not? Design your living space & workshop
and take it with you... Maverick designer Colin Reedy tells
us how. In this the second part of this innovative concept Colin provides
drawings of what a shipping container can be turned into. The
finished product is amazing! You can use this concept to turn
a shipping container into a portable dwelling that you can cheaply ship
anywhere in the world. It's sort of like global backpacking with
your own house. Colin provides details on how to build one yourself.
Related Subject: Global Nomadic Housing
For Expatriates ~ Part One - Global Nomadic
Housing For Expatriates ~ Part One- Global Nomadic Housing for expats?
Why not? Design your living space & workshop and take it with
you... Maverick designer Colin Reedy tells us how.
"I felt like I had enough information to start designing.
I searched for examples of prior efforts to modify shipping containers
for housing. The companies that sold the containers sometimes
made modifications like windows or doors for the contractors to use
at construction sites, but nothing interesting. I found
images from Hong Kong where people were living in containers set on
huge metal frames in an apartment-like arrangement. Not
much had been done to the containers except stairway access.
The best examples I found were not for shipping containers, but from
mid-century efforts at modular housing or “utopian” mass housing."
French Micropatrological
Institute - French
Micropatrological Institute - The French observatory of Microstates
and Micronations.
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World's Fair
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Hutt River Province Principality - Hutt River Province Principality
- The Province came into being in 1970, when Leonard Casley formally
seceded from the Commonwealth of Australia, following a protracted
dispute on wheat quotas. The Province was later declared a principality
to protect Leonard Casley's supporters from prosecution.
Laissez Faire City - Laissez Faire City - "The First Sovereign
City of the Information Age" ~ We will open the gates of our city
to those who deserve to enter ... Those who choose to join us, will
join us, those who don't, will not have the power to stop us; hoards
of savages have never been an obstacle to men who carried the banner
of the mind... The [laissez-faire] world you desired can be won, it
exists, it is real, it is now, it's yours."
Las Portadas - Las Portadas
- Las Portadas - Make a risk-free investment in the most Capitalistic
free-nation project to date. No money changes hands until a host country
agrees to terms of sale or lease. Promoters also earn a transparent
share of privatization proceeds.
Libertocracy,
Where Freedom is the Law - Libertocracy, Where Freedom is the Law
- A polycentric free enterprise government and socio-economic system
whereby sovereign individuals join together by mutual consent in a
civilization that respects and defends the freedom, dignity and rights
or all human beings equally. Where people live by the rule of sovereign
individual freedom, where a person is free to do anything that one
chooses as long as its not imposed on others and doesn't infringe
upon the equal right of other individuals to the same freedom.
Living Universe
Foundation - Living Universe Foundation
- (Formerly called The Millennial Project) ~ The planet is in crisis
because of the human population explosion. We have five billion new
relatives coming to dinner in the next few decades. What will they
all eat? Where will they all live? If the planet's ecosystem is collapsing
under the weight of 5 billion people, what will happen to us when
there are 10 billion, then 15 billion? At some point, we must expand
our horizons beyond the land mass of this single planet. Our survival
depends on it.
Micronation and Sovereignty Website Index
- Micronation
and Sovereignty Website Index - A "micronation" is any
number of things... This website has a ton of great information,
to enter the website, click on the swinging Liberty Bell.
New Utopia
- New Utopia- proposes
to build a new city-state in the Caribbean Sea, upon piers on the
top of a submerged mountain. The nation of New Utopia will be a principality,
regulated by a formal declaration of sovereignty and a constitution,
somewhat resembling the Principality of Monaco.
Nova Roma
- Nova Roma - NOVA
ROMA is an organization dedicated to the study and restoration of
ancient Roman culture. From its legendary founding in 753 BCE to 330
CE, when it ceased to be the center of Imperial authority, Rome set
the standard and laid the foundation for our modern Western civilization.
Rome civilized the world, and we see the need for that divine mission
to begin again.
Oceania -The Atlantis Project for a
New Country - Oceania -The Atlantis
Project for a New Country - Oceania is a proposal
for a new country. The Atlantis Project is dedicated to the goal of
establishing a new country named Oceania. This country will be devoted
to the value of freedom, and will first exist as a sea city in the
Caribbean. As no collectivist nation is likely to sell us the land
we need, we will build an island out of concrete and steel.
Oceanus - Government of
The Country of Oceanus - Oceanus
- Government of The Country of Oceanus - The ocean seas
belong to us all. Oceanus Government is the world's only non-exclusive
consensus management plan for the environment.
Principality of New Pacific
- Principality
of New Pacific - A new nation project, Principality of New Pacific
is a working government, with an economy, administration, armed forces
and citizens. The government runs the affairs of state of a 110 foot
cargo ship.
Principality of New Utopia - Principality of New Utopia- Quote:
"Visualize, if you will...An oasis in the middle of the ocean: Office
buildings, hotels, theaters and shopping centers, sitting slightly
above the surface of the sea greenery and flowers, with canals
of clear blue water, water taxis and gondolas providing transportation.
This is a new Country...that has never existed before, which will
be built in a moderately tropical sea, a perfect climate, a paradise:
Utopia!"
Republic of Lomar - Republic of Lomar- A non-territorial
governmental organization structured and organized as a nation, specifically
as a constitutional republic.
Republic of
Molossia - Republic of Molossia-
The Republic of Molossia (moe-LOHSS-eeyah) is a sovereign, independent
nation, located in and completely surrounded by territory of the United
States. With an area of .5 hectares (1.3 acres), Molossia is one of
the smallest countries on earth, but what it lacks in size it makes
up for in spirit. A sense of humor characterizes most Molossian people,
which, coupled with the casual and comfortable western lifestyle,
makes Molossia an enjoyable place to visit.
ResidenSea - ResidenSea- What better way
is there to travel around the globe than from the luxury of your own
home? It may sound like a dream, but it's now a reality. From Norway
comes the ultimate in resorts-the first residential ocean going resort
appropriately named The World of ResidenSea.
Sealand - ABC News video
report on the Sealand/HavenCo project - Sealand
- ABC News video report on the Sealand/HavenCo project -
SeaLand - Principality of SeaLand - SeaLand - Principality of SeaLand
- Sealand was founded as a sovereign Principality in 1967 in international
waters, six miles off the eastern shores of Britain. The island fortess
is conveniently situated from 65 to 100 miles from the coasts of France,
Belgium, Holland and Germany. The official language of Sealand is
English and the Sealand Dollar has a fixed exchange rate of one U.S.
dollar. Passports and stamps have been in circulation since 1969,
however, contrary to many misleading websites and news articles, Sealand
passports are not for sale, and anyone offering such are selling forgeries.
Within a radius of 500 miles of Sealand live more than 200 million
people who enjoy some of the highest standards of living in the world.
This area also encompasses the financial, industrial and cultural
heart of Europe. The platform/island is currently being fitted by HavenCo as
an off-shore database, outside of any governmental jurisdiction. There
is an article
in Wired Magazine on this project
Sealand: Taking "Offshore
Hosting" to A New Level - Sealand: Taking "Offshore
Hosting" to A New Level - When people think of hosting
their data offshore, the first place that often comes to mind is the
Caribbean. After all, the sunny countries to the south are warm, close
to the United States and typically feature lax policies related to
business and privacy. Now people are thinking of Sealand.
Sealand - The Original Sealand Website -
Sealand
- The Original Sealand Website -
Sealand Wired Magazine
Article - A Data Sanctuary Is Born - Sealand Wired
Magazine Article - A Data Sanctuary Is Born - A windswept
gun tower anchored six miles off the stormy coast of England is about
to become the first Internet data haven.
Sealand Wired Magazine
Article II - Welcome to Sealand - Now Bugger Off - Sealand Wired
Magazine Article II - Welcome to Sealand - Now Bugger Off- Hunkered
down on a North Sea fortress, a crew of armed cypherpunks, amped-up
networking geeks, and libertarian swashbucklers is seceding from the
world to pursue a revolutionary idea: an offshore, fat-pipe data haven
that answers to nobody. By Simson Garfinkel - Wired Magazine.
Sea State Government Page - Sea State Government Page
- [Not to be confused with Sealand]The Office for Governmental
Affairs welcomes visitors to the Sea State Government page. An artificial
island construction project.
The Kingdom of Torhavn
- The Kingdom of Torhavn
- A self-declared "new nation" currently buying land, and seeking
to gain sovereignty and independence. also known as the "world's first
'green' country," green referrring to the environmental stance of
the nation. Land is being bought and paid for now.
The Principality of Freedonia
- The Principality of Freedonia
- Libertarian (minarchist) new country project utilizing a unique
system of constitutional monarchy to ensure the preservation of freedom.
The Principality of Seborga - The Principality of Seborga
- The principality of Seborga is located in Liguria, Italy's famous
Flower Riviera, close to the French border. The
Principality's territory amounts to 14 square kilometres with a
population of 2000 inhabitants. The capital occupies 5 square kilometres,
where 362 Seborgans live: the citizens of the Principality.
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