By Alexander Taylor Clayton Seasteading Institute

Our Chairman of the Board, Titus Gebel, has written a whitepaper called “Free Private cities — A New Operating System for Living Together.” The whitepaper makes the moral case for Free Private Cities and addresses some common objections, in a concise twelve pages. I highly recommend you read the full whitepaper for yourself.

Free Private Cities: A New Operating System For Living Together begins with a definition of Free Private Cities. A Free Private City is run by a for-profit corporation known as an “Operator” who provides services and security, with an outside mediator acting in cases of arbitration.

He talks about how the current social contract of government and citizens is essentially a bad deal, where the citizen has virtually no real options on their side. Government has a monopoly on force and often oversteps its place due to interest groups and politicization, and how it is fundamentally untenable unless all can agree to it.

Titus then proposes criteria for an alternative system. In order for such a system to remain “inherently stable”, those in charge must be required to:

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