I believe that things can grow exponentially. At the beginning, progress may seem slow. However, as time evolves and Libernesia's mission continues, we will naturally accelerate along our roadmap. Take our objective for promoting economic opportunities, for example. Although establishing a business in Libernesia was not very popular in the past, this year, so far, we have three new businesses or services started in Libernesia. In addition, I'm glad to see they're initiated with freedom as a motivation, reflecting the character of our community. They cannot be accomplished without people sharing our values, their skills, their experience, and their active participation with our community. These are added as examples that we are a vibrant community and show to people, whether they're our citizens or not, that our proposed system can work (we are surely of ideological minority). And I hope that, as a result, more people can see that they could benefit from it, and even reflect on the support for the government's approach, which means providing welfare and public services to their people, but sacrifices liberty and people's benefits with taxation and political spending.
As our community is becoming more active and innovative, with more activities being conducted and more businesses, examples being created, it would make us more attractive and easier to reach out to freedom-minded people, and thus accelerate us along our roadmap. A solid foundation of a freedom-oriented community is important. Our simple but bold libertarian background is what built our foundation and made us stand out from most micronations. I believe that most people will join with good intentions. Yet, I also understand the concern that some people we would attract may seek to impose a nation-state-like mindset or expectations (as said above, the majority of the world politics runs differently from us), or even consciously or unconsciously push us away from the libertarian track. I would rather trust that people are good will and welcome people to join us as if we're welcoming our friends, and in either way, we can't do things that oppose our root value (for example, imposing control that shouldn't be) against some undesirable situations. I also want our system to have resilience. A direction is to maintain our cherished freedom supporter network (so exchanging of ideas is valuable), letting people understand at least the basics of our system, and adapt it from time to time with community efforts (which I think will occur naturally), so that people with diverse backgrounds can feel confident and free within our community. After all, I'll be glad to see how this community grows vibrantly.
Speaking of this direction, I recalled that I've also emailed Bogdan before, asking about his plans with Libernesia. It was a while. One of his directions for this project was to build a solid but simple framework to address common concerns regarding our free country. I interpret it as being used to explain how we operate, as an effective means of communication to allow others to understand our philosophy and systems. Bogdan has also added that the framework needed to be accessible and not bigger than a brochure, and that a list of books that had inspired Libernesia would be a good addition. Fostering understanding of our common foundation is important, in my opinion. Since we have more (and will likely have even more) freedom-pursuing people and intellectuals, or libertarians, here, I think it would be nice to exchange your knowledge, ideas, and concerns about those.
BogdanIonescu Whether through Freedom Lights, ad-hoc cities, boat trips, music, or arts, we aim to make Libernesia a vibrant cultural force.
I came up with a slogan recently. It's simple: We free our hearts and make our arts.
BogdanIonescu We are planning a well-documented visit to Libernesia, during which we will install a small landmark. We also encourage other citizens to visit the area in the future.
I don't know how easy or difficult it is to visit Libernesia, but that motion will be nice!