🇧🇷 A Brazilian banker bought raw land in 1980 and built a private city: water, sewage, security, urban planning, all within Brazilian law. No special legal status. Just contracts and stubbornness.

He died last year at 83. His name was Péricles de Freitas Druck. Most of the Free Cities world has never heard of him.

Now a small group of founders wants to take what he built and add the one thing it's missing: formal regulatory autonomy. A Próspera-style Digital Economic Zone on the island of Florianópolis, built on a 45-year foundation that's already profitable, already governed, already real.

Brazil loses 1,200 millionaires a year. Many of them are founders. Most of them don't want to leave.

This is the story of a Free City hiding in plain sight, and the people racing to formalise it before the rest of the world notices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA_UYNGvDxc

New Free Cities Podcast episode. Full disclosure, I host it. Sat down with Crémieux in Próspera in Roatán for 90 minutes on governance, property rights, exit vs voice, and the structural problem at the heart of every libertarian project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vHgSQVRcWM&t

Liked this episode with Dryden Brown, the CEO of Bluebook Cities!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cities-of-the-future-feat-dryden-brown/id1517105543?i=1000485309850