The Plots of Bioshock and Brink Come to Life…

Bioshock is set in an underground kingdom created by a libertarian to escape the state control and taxes of everyday life.  Brink sees a high-tech utopian island for the rich overwhelmed by refusees as the seas rise due to climate change.  All fictional plots, until…

Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.

Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch–free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be “a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.”

Few restrictions on weapons? Yes sounds like the setting for a first-person shooter!