Help us to build Norway's first private city.
In a private city all property is private and all services are performed by private actors. Liberstad will be a city built on the philosophy of anarchism, the non-aggression-principle and private property rights.
We are a small group of voluntaryists who are seeking a change in the way societies are organized. We want to establish the foundations for a new society where people are not subject to a central political power organization that determines how people should live and how the society should develop. We want a society where the people them self can decide the development of the society by respecting natural human rights and moral principles.
The ideas behind the Liberstad project comes from a number of renowned economists and philosophers, and is based on anarcho-capitalism, natural law and natural rights, non-aggression principle, spontaneous order, market economy, voluntaryism and the Austrian School of economics.
We want to demonstrate that voluntary cooperation and free market economy is a better and more moral alternative to organize a society than central planning of political power organizations.
We believe that private actors can deliver both better and more affordable public services without the use of force and coercion, and that politicians and political power is not needed in a society, at least on a local level.
We believe that Liberstad will be an exciting and educational project to see how the challenges and issues in a community, both socially and practically can be solved through voluntary and peaceful cooperation.
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To implement the establishment and start the development of Norway's first private town we need all the help we can get, and we aim to presell 150.000 sqm of land in Liberstad to finance the purchase of the main property where Liberstad will be founded. You can read more about the presale here
The presales will only bring in enough capital to cover the purchase of the main property and costs, in addition we need capital for rezoning, tools and machinery for the initial development.
The property we would like to establish Liberstad on is located on Tjelland in Marnardal Municipality and consists of 1,5 mill sqm of scenic countryside land. We have signed a purchase agreement with the seller and we have established a temporary headquarters on the property. You can read more about the property here
We have established a company Liberstad Drift AS, which will be responsible for the establishment and initial development of Liberstad. The firm will act as a city-company and will be providing public services to the citizens. Some of Liberstad Drift's tasks will be to establish road networks and their maintenance, parks, playgrounds, water and sewer systems, security services, garbage collection and much more.
Liberstad is an ambitious project but we are determined to establish Norway's first private town no matter what obstacles and challenges we might face. We believe this is a beneficial project for all societies not only for Liberstad's citizens. It can eventually show other towns and communities that political power is not needed to solve social and societal challenges.
All work related to the project is based on voluntary and unpaid work and we expect it will take 3-4 years before the company has enough income and we can withdraw money for our work. Until then, the development is based on voluntary work, savings from the founders and donations. We are deeply grateful for all contributions and support we can get to develop this project and all contributions will go directly to the establishment and development of Liberstad.
ABOUT US
My name is John Holmesland and I've been working in construction and real estate development on a small scale for 20 years. I study Austrian economics and philosophy and I've been a Voluntaryist for the past 8 years . I have now dedicated my life to work for peace and liberty and I want to establish the foundation for a new society that adheres to the natural rights and the moral principles of Voluntaryism.
I want to use my expertise and knowledge from my previous work to make a more civilized society for both my self and my family and others to live, work and prosper in.
My co-partner on this project Sondre Bjellås is also a Volyntaryist and works as an IT- consultant and has more than 15 years of experience with IT-network and security systems. Sondre is a co-editor for the Norwegian Mises institute and has been writing about Austrian economics, voluntaryism and anarcho-capitalism for several years.
WHY?
We want to make an impact on the way society is organized through coercion and aggression from political power organizations. We see the authoritarian power of the political system to be unmoral, destructive and unnecessary for the development and organization of a civilized society.
We do not want to change the system through the political process as we see this as a waste of time and energy in addition to being unmoral. We believe that by creating a new private town and society from scratch we will have a much bigger impact and a more effective way of changing the society we live in.
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FINAL WORDS
We hope that you will help us to establish and build this new society and community so that we can grow and spread peace and freedom to other parts of the world. Every penny helps and even if you cant afford to contribute financially we hope that you can share and spread the project and this campaign to help us reach more people.
You can also donate using the following crypto currencies to the Liberstad Development CryptoFund
BITCOIN LITECOIN
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Norwegian website
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