Próspera
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Próspera is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between April 14, 2021 and June 21, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Can I have my house be in Próspera while my neighbor’s house is in regular Honduras?”; “The corporation will only make money if the ZEDE becomes economically productive”; “Próspera expects 10,000 residents by 2025”. It most often appears alongside America, Bloomberg, Brimen.
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- Category: Places
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: April 14, 2021
- Last seen: June 21, 2024
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- America (2 shared issues)
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- Bloomberg (2 shared issues)
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- Brimen (2 shared issues)
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- Charter Cities Institute (2 shared issues)
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- Crawfish Rock (2 shared issues)
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- Europe (2 shared issues)
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- Germany (2 shared issues)
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- Honduras (2 shared issues)
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- Hong Kong (2 shared issues)
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- Japan (2 shared issues)
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- La Ceiba (2 shared issues)
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- Próspera (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Not Erick Brimen, and not Honduras Próspera Inc. You might have read about them last month in Bloomberg: A Private Tech City Opens For Business In Honduras. Or in NACLA: A Private Government In Honduras Moves Forward. Or FT: An Investor's Prosperity Vision For Honduras. I read all of this and still didn't feel like I quite understood what was going on. Then a fortuitious mistake led me to an email exchange with Trey Goff, Próspera's extremely open and thorough Chief of Staff, who kindly let me grill him on all the stuff I didn't understand.
Inline links: A Private Tech City Opens For Business In Honduras, A Private Government In Honduras Moves Forward, An Investor's Prosperity Vision For Honduras
In case demand ever exceeds supply, HPI is already reaching out to NGOs that work with Honduran refugees trying to illegally immigrate to America. They plan to see if they can convince these people to legally immigrate to Próspera instead (“Hey, we heard you liked jobs and capitalism...”) info.prospera.hn/talent\nWe're at just under 15 new jobs... if you want to be among the first 100, move fast!\n#hondurasprospera","username":"erickbrimen","name":"Erick A. Brimen","profile_image_url":"","date":"Mon Aug 03 23:02:39 +0000 2020","photos":[],"quoted_tweet":{},"reply_count":0,"retweet_count":0,"like_count":14,"impression_count":0,"expanded_url":{"url":"https://info.prospera.hn/talent","image":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6f0aa1b4-439e-4cf3-a07f-869c85a12e79_1600x418.jpeg","title":"Próspera Talent - EN","description":null,"domain":"info.prospera.hn"},"video_url":null,"belowTheFold":true}" data-component-name="Twitter2ToDOM"> Interested parties who don’t want to move to Roatan can seek “virtual residency” / “e-residency”, a concept pioneered by Estonia in 2014. This mostly allows virtual residents to set up companies in Próspera, governed by Prósperan law. In keeping with their usual modus operandi, HPI has already hired Ott Vatter, the leader of the Estonian project, to design their system.
Inline links: “virtual residency” / “e-residency”
You can read the details in the Industrial Regulation Statute starting on page 317 of their law code , but I think the basics of “pick a country” are - you can choose what country’s regulations you want to operate under, with your options being Honduras or a list of Best Practice Peer Countries including:
Inline links: their law code
Still, if they can pull this off it would be amazing. Right now we can’t create big cities at will. There’s a lot of demand for big cities (witness all the people moving to NYC and SF despite high prices), but the supply stays capped. It’s a coordination problem: if three million people agreed to create a new big city, a new big city would happen - and they’d be in on the ground floor with land prices. But nobody wants to be the first (or the second, or the 99,999th) person to move to a random uninhabited desert that could potentially become a new metropolis later. Maybe making a lot of big promises like this is what the city creation process looks like. In the end you’d get a new big city, it would probably be more sustainable and walkable than average just because it’s new and well-planned, and even if it wasn’t any more innovative and diverse and inclusive than everywhere else, at least it’s no worse. And all your investors are super rich. Prospera, Honduras The latest from Prospera is some kind of drama with the neighboring community of Crawfish Rock over water rights. News site Rest Of World gives local leaders’ version:
Inline links: Rest Of World
The latest from Prospera is some kind of drama with the neighboring community of Crawfish Rock over water rights. News site Rest Of World gives local leaders’ version:
Inline links: Rest Of World
Devon Zuegel, a friend of the blog who was on the ground at Prospera at the time, gives the ZEDE’s version:
Imagine it: a new Hong Kong without the authoritarianism, a Próspera with better sushi. Many islands in Japan are now populated by more cats than people. There’s not a shortage of promising sites.
Inline links: cats