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Startup country. Hi-tech, high-IQ, wealthy you're in, if not you're out. Bells and whistles in Musk, Thiel,
Andreessen circles, come one and (oops, sorry not all) it's the biblical-secular end-time overlap polka.

"The rise of end times fascism
[...]The movement for corporate city states cannot believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own high-tech fiefdoms, whether new countries on artificial islands in international waters (“seasteading” .. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/24/seasteading-a-vanity-project-for-the-rich-or-the-future-of-humanity ) or pro-business “freedom cities” such as Próspera .. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/05/honduras-land-rights-fight-crypto-colonialists , a glorified gated community combined with a wild west med spa on a Honduran island.
P - Yet despite backing from the heavy-hitter venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, their extreme libertarian dreams kept bogging down: it turns out most self-respecting rich people don’t actually want to live on floating oil rigs, even if it means lower taxes, and while Próspera might be nice for a holiday and some body “upgrades”, its extra-national status is currently being challenged in court.
P - Now, all of a sudden, this once-fringe network of corporate secessionists finds itself knocking on open doors at the dead center of global power.
P - The first sign that fortunes were shifting came in 2023, when a campaigning Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, promised to hold a contest that would lead to the creation of 10 “freedom cities” .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/26/trump-project-2025-sanctuary-cities .. on federal lands. The trial balloon barely registered at the time, lost in the daily deluge of outrageous claims. Since the new administration took office, however, would-be country starters have been on a lobbying blitz, determined to turn Trump’s pledge into reality.
P - “The energy in DC is absolutely electric,” Trey Goff, the chief of staff of Próspera, recently enthused after a trip to Capitol Hill. Legislation paving the way for a bevy of corporate city-states should be complete by the end of the year, he claims.
P - Inspired by a warped reading [/b]of the political philosopher Albert Hirschman, figures including Goff, Thiel and the investor and writer Balaji Srinivasan have been championing what they call “exit” – the principle that those with means have the right to walk away from the obligations of citizenship, especially taxes and burdensome regulation. Retooling and rebranding the old ambitions and privileges of empires, they dream of splintering governments and carving up the world into hyper-capitalist, democracy-free havens under the sole control of the supremely wealthy, protected by private mercenaries, serviced by AI robots and financed by cryptocurrencies."

Related: Naomi Klein on Trump, Musk, Far Right & "End Times Fascism"
"The rise of end times fascism"

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AI Overview

A "startup country" designed around secular end-times, exclusionary principles represents a sovereign entity, likely a city-state or technocratic enclave, built by elite engineers, investors, and thinkers to survive a predicted, imminent collapse of global civilization—climate catastrophe, pandemics, or AI apocalypse
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Rooted in techno-eschatology (a secular faith that technology will provide salvation, not God), the startup country aims to isolate its citizens from the "end times" and usher in a post-human or hyper-advanced future.

1. Ideological Core: Secular Techno-Eschatology

* Post-Human Saviorism: The mission is not just to survive, but to transcend human limitations (longevity, mind-uploading, and genetic engineering).

* The "Zero-One" Mindset: A binary worldview where the world is split into winners and losers, the saved (inside the enclave) and the damned (the "hungry hordes" outside).

* Rejection of Tradition: The state is explicitly secular, scientific, and anti-traditional, viewing current global social structures as dysfunctional.

2. Exclusionary Survival Mechanisms

* The Gated Sovereign: Physical and digital security is paramount. The country is designed as a maximum-security compound, utilizing private AI-monitored security, drone surveillance, and automatic airlocks.

* Elite Selection: Admission is strictly meritocratic based on high-value skills (AI engineering, biotechnology, defense), or high-net-worth status (funding the enterprise).

* Necropolitical Boundary: It practices "exclusive-inclusion," relying on a highly advanced, automated infrastructure that renders the outside world's suffering irrelevant.

3. Advanced Technical Infrastructure

* Self-Sustaining Biome: The startup country is powered by cutting-edge, decentralized technology—advanced geothermal/nuclear energy, vertical hydroponic farming, and 3D-printed synthetic food systems.

* The Singularity Lab: A central hub focused on accelerating AI development to reach the Technological Singularity, aiming to create "godlike" AI to manage the new society.

* Digital Immortality Vaults: Infrastructure dedicated to storing the digital consciousness of citizens, allowing them to exist after the physical body fails.

4. Implementation Concept

* Location: Remote high-altitude, island, or subterranean locations, likely taking over existing secure, decommissioned military bunkers.

* Governance: A technocracy run by a "CEO-president" and council of technologists, prioritizing rapid iteration over democratic consensus.

* Economy: A decentralized, cryptographic economy (advanced blockchain) to ensure autonomy from failing global financial systems.

This model echoes the "techno-utopianism" described in studies of Silicon Valley's, which seeks to escape the "human obsolescence" they believe their own technology has rendered inevitable.

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See also:

Yeah, as you know, Trump did not consult Congress as required because he is still working hard to sideline Congress. Trump is still working hard to destroy the founders' idea of three equal layers of government. Still working hard on further expanding the powers of the presidency. See again:
Trump Takes America’s ‘Imperial Presidency’ to a New Level
[... to end ..]
rump is ‘remarkably like’ 1930s far-right regimes, billionaire investor warns

"Felt it was Orwell in the first three sentences - "Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake." Guess it felt like that because we are experiencing it today more than we ever have before. It really is spot on isn't it ..
[...] Yarvin: “Until this “unitary executive” is so much “more powerful” than the present office that the President considers both the judicial and legislative branches purely ceremonial and advisory — with the same level of actual sovereignty as Charles III today — the “unitary executive” will not work.” “A Conversation About Monarchy”, Gray Mirror, March 12, 2024.
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P - Ray Dalio writes in book president wants to ‘dictate’ Maga policies and calls his skirting of democratic norms more ‘aggressive’ than Andrew Jackson and FDR
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