Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, is putting $1.25 million of his own money toward the creation of artificial libertarian island-nations. Here are some of the features the islands will include:
Large monument paying tribute to Bob Barr and his heroic 0.4 percent of the popular vote in the 2008 presidential election
Annual contest to see which island-dweller can best hijack a normal conversation with a tirade about the corrupt U.S. tax code
Huge pile of free guns right in the middle of each island
Canning operation free from restrictive boiling and acidity-regulation rules
Penn and Teller, every Thursday night
Large ceremonial nonfunctioning national debt clock that just reads “0”
A swimmin’ hole
Emergency blue-light phones that connect directly to the Cato Institute
A bunch of Republicans anyway
Occasional arbitrary tax on the population just to give them something to get riled up about, which, for many libertarians, is their sole reason for existing
