Synopsis of the “Don’t Repeat History” Series for Liberland

Synopsis of the “Don’t Repeat History” Series for Liberland

Overview

As I started writing my first article in this series I didn’t fully realize what I was getting myself into and after writing my second article, I saw the need to write a synopsis as more ideas began forming in my mind, so that everyone knows where I am coming from and why I feel the need to write this series.

With that being said I present to the people of Liberland my “Don’t Repeat History” series to steer the Free Republic of Liberland’s growth as a libertarian micronation to become an internationally recognized microstate with a large diaspora population.

Liberland champions minimal government, voluntary contributions, property rights, and blockchain transparency. With the recent blockchain elections for Congress, a $30 million Danube revitalization plan, and nearly 800,000 citizenship applicants; Liberland faces challenges: Croatian disruptions, infrastructure limits, and scaling from 1,400 citizens to a global model. This series promotes voluntary systems like Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) and Community Land Trusts (CLTs) to ensure sustainable expansion, drawing lessons from past decentralized societies that include the Icelandic Commonwealth, Zomia, Hanseatic League, Iroquois Confederacy, and U.S. Articles of Confederation to preserve Liberland’s “To Live and Let Live” ethos.

Purpose and Vision

The series advances Liberland’s evolution into a scalable, freedom-driven society, avoiding centralization traps that doomed historical experiments. It proposes clear, blockchain-based governance and CLT-managed land to address geopolitical tensions, infrastructure gaps, and e-residency growth. Each article delivers practical solutions for governance, economics, land, or diplomacy, ensuring liberty while expanding diaspora villages like ARK in Serbia or the Central American hubs. By learning from past societies’ failures, the series guides Liberland to build a decentralized, resilient community that inspires global freedom, rooted in voluntary cooperation and technological innovation.

Historical Analogues

The series draws from the following decentralized societies: the Icelandic Commonwealth (930–1262), collapsed by wealth inequality; Zomia (Southeast Asia, 1000 BCE–20th century), fragmented by external empires; the Hanseatic League (1159–1669), split by internal rivalries; the Iroquois Confederacy (c. 1142–1777), weakened by colonial pressures; and the U.S. Articles of Confederation (1781–1789), crippled by coordination failures. These lessons warn Liberland against inequality, disunity, or external coercion, while guiding the design of voluntary, robust systems for sustainable growth.

Articles in the Series (Possibly more?)

1. Liberland’s Libertarian Experiment: Safeguarding Freedom Against Historical Centralization Proposes DAO arbitration and voluntary militias to uphold liberty without coercion, learning from the Icelandic Commonwealth collapse due to wealth concentration. It addresses governance amid geopolitical strains and to prevent land speculation.

2. Why a DAO-CLT Hybrid System is Essential for Liberland’s Growth
Argues DAO-CLTs fuel expansion, with DAOs automating transparent governance and CLTs ensuring affordable land. The Icelandic Commonwealth’s inequality bred chaos; My proposed DAO-CLT hybrid system for Liberland is to support the 2025 Danube plan and the diaspora villages, and to prevent land speculation.

3. A Clear Constitution: Freedom with Structure Recommends a clear, easy to read constitution with time-limited laws and blockchain votes. Being detailed enough to avoid the U.S. Articles of Confederation vague chaos, the current U.S. Constitution and the governments exploitation of loopholes, and the Swiss Constitution which is structurally sound, and allows direct democracy input from the citizens at large.

4. Inheritance: Fair Wealth Without an Elite Class Advocates for DAO trusts to curb wealth gaps, inspired by the Hanseatic League’s elite divides, for a fair Liberland economy. All voluntary but must be encouraged by society at large to be successful.

5. Intellectual Property: Free Innovation Proposes blockchain registries to protect creators without force, drawing from Zomia’s open knowledge, to drive innovation.

6. Diaspora Growth: Sustainable Expansion Recommends DAO-CLTs for diaspora villages, learning from the Hanseatic League’s disunity, to support 2025 infrastructure goals.

7. Diplomacy: Allies Without Compromise
Suggests blockchain treaties, from the Iroquois Confederacy’s recognition struggles, to navigate geopolitical hurdles.

8. Few Laws: Order Without Force
Proposes non-aggression rules with citizen vetoes, avoiding the Iroquois League’s under-regulation, for governance stability.

9. Smart Voting: Informed Citizens
Suggests civics training within DAO’s for active and informed citizen voting, learned from flawed democracies like Athens, to ensure knowledgeable governance.

10. Land Liberty: No Monopolies on land
Recommends to use CLTs for free building, inspired by Iroquois communal land, to expand diaspora villages.

11. Preventing External Overreach: Spanish Civil War Warnings for Liberland’s Sovereignty.
Focuses on foreign intervention (e.g., Soviet, fascist support) in Spain, warning Liberland against entangling alliances.

12. Avoiding Balkan Escalation: Lessons from the 1990s Wars for Liberland’s Peace How Liberland can avoid repeating the Balkan Wars through peace.

13. Absolute Rights in Practice: Free Speech and the Dangers of Athenian Fragmentation: Explores how Athens’ suppression of free speech (e.g., Socrates’ trial, 399 BCE) fueled factionalism, weakening its democracy. Inspired by Charlie Kirk’s campus engagements, to ensure absolute free speech unites Liberland’s 700,000 e-residents without coercion.

14 Education for Liberty: Preventing the Ignorance Traps of Historical Confederacies: Draws from the Iroquois Confederacy’s oral traditions failing under colonial misinformation, advocating voluntary blockchain civics modules to teach libertarian principles, ensuring informed e-residents avoid the U.S. Articles’ uninformed chaos.

15 Voluntary Welfare: Mutual Aid Without State Overreach: References the Hanseatic League’s guild-based support systems crumbling into rivalries, proposing DAO-managed mutual aid networks for Liberland to provide safety nets voluntarily, avoiding Iceland’s inequality-driven collapse.

16 Environmental Stewardship: Libertarian Land Use in Fragile Regions: Inspired by Zomia’s sustainable practices eroded by external exploitation, recommends CLT-based eco-rules with blockchain tracking to protect diaspora villages, ensuring voluntary conservation without regulatory coercion.

17 Decentralized Justice: Arbitration to Avoid Legal Elites: Examines the Icelandic Commonwealth’s private arbitration devolving into feuds due to elite capture, advocating blockchain-based voluntary courts for Liberland to resolve disputes equitably, preserving absolute rights without state courts.

18 Crypto Economy Safeguards: Preventing Financial Fragmentation: Draws from the Hanseatic League’s trade networks fracturing over unequal access, proposing DAO-governed crypto standards for Liberland to ensure fair LLM token use, avoiding wealth-driven oligarchy in e-residency.

19 Cultural Identity: Building Unity Without Nationalism: Inspired by the Iroquois Confederacy’s Great Law of Peace unifying tribes but failing against colonial division, suggests voluntary blockchain cultural platforms to foster shared libertarian identity, upholding free speech amid diversity.

20 State Symbolism: Why such superlatives like a national flag, national anthem, etc. are essential for a national identity, fostering a unified idea that can be rallied behind.

21 The Danube Plan: Can it become the Marshall Plan for the Balkans? Looking at the successes of the Marshall for Western Europe after WWII.

22 Long-Term Succession: Avoiding Dynastic Decay in Libertarian Societies: References Zomia’s tribal knowledge loss over generations, advocating DAO succession protocols for Liberland’s leadership to ensure merit-based transitions, preventing elite dynasties like in the Hanseatic League.

23 Global Trade: Libertarian Markets in a Regulated World
Draws from the Republic of Venice’s trade collapse under regulatory pressures, proposing blockchain trade platforms for equitable partnerships, ensuring Liberland integrates globally without compromise.

24 Tech Resilience: Safeguarding Blockchain Against Cyber Threats
Inspired by the Silk Road’s ancient network plagued by banditry, proposes DAO-managed cybersecurity protocols to protect Liberland’s blockchain from hacks, ensuring system integrity for elections and treaties.

25 Community Resilience: Preparing for Natural and Geopolitical Crises
References Pompeii’s collapse under Vesuvius and societal failures, proposing DAO-managed emergency networks for Liberland to withstand disasters or conflicts, avoiding external overreach (Article 11).

Summary

I hope to generate a successful dialogue for everyone interested in Liberland because in order for Liberland to be successful we must learn from history what pitfalls have occurred so that we can find new and innovative ways to prevent them from repeating, which as a student of history have learned is constant is that history tends to repeat itself, maybe not exactly but for certain that societies tend to eventually consolidate power into the hands of a few. Maybe not into totalitarian dictatorships necessarily but at a minimum an elitist oligarchic type class as wealth and power tends to concentrate to those that wish to seize it for their own means. Remember Lord Acton’s quote, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” There must be safeguards and I will do my best to explain how the people of Liberland can do their best to prevent this from happening.

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Thank you for this! Can’t wait to read more material and probably join the discussion.

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You’re putting in some serious work on these posts. And it’s not often anyone mentions multiple historic groups of people that I’ve never heard of before: Zomia, Hanseatic league. And I never would have thought to bring up the Iroquois, but it makes a lot of sense here.

This is why there should be public discourse in Liberland, and not a bunch of hidden backroom conversations. When the conversations are public, it forces those involved to do thorough research to have strongly backed opinions to not look like an idiot. In backroom conversations bad ideas can fester indefinitely.

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I have been researching different groups that were stateless but were functioning societies the last remnants of the Hanseatic League existed until Hitlers invasion of Poland. The free state of Danzig was one of the cities in the Hanseatic League. It was independent until Prussia annexed it in 1793 and merged into the German empire upon its creation. After the treaty of Versailles it was made an independent city-state again under Polish protection. Danzig was one of Hitler’s targets, he thought he could provoke Poland into giving him Danzig like the Czech’s folded and gave him Sudetenland. Of course Poland did not give in and Hitler invaded anyway and started WWII.

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That’s another interesting place I hadn’t heard of; Danzig, I will have to research into that. Venice was a well known affluent city-state too, I wonder if there are any good lessons to be learnt from them and how they got wrapped up into Italy.

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I am considering compiling and reorganizing my article series into a e-book, I think I am about done with the writing of this series but I may add a few more before I am done. The series will end with a long form conclusion. I hope everyone has had as much fun reading these as I have writing and doing research about these different subjects.

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It has been a phenomenal series so far. Many good things to think about.

I have enjoyed your substack articles too. One idea stuck out to me as needing serious consideration and was about direct democracy voting, “cooling-off periods to curb snap judgments.” We have not given enough thought to the e-voter experience. So far the e-voter is expected to look at the issue up for vote and then make their vote within seconds or minutes of their first hearing about the topic.

A far better idea would be that an e-voter has to log in and review the material up for vote. The system logs that they have reviewed the material and then “check-marks” them to be eligible for voting. The vote comes 2-4 weeks after they have reviewed the voting material, and so, in theory, they have had weeks to think about the issue and do their own research or talk to their friends/family about the issue and then vote later on the voting day. Any voter that is mentally incapable of doing the above steps would disqualify themselves via the e-system.

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I think reviewing the relevant material for voting is a great way to keep the body politic properly informed as part of the voting process. I think there is currently a “cooling off” period of 10 days I want to say before a law is enacted now but it isn’t fully fleshed out yet as in this period the Supreme Court which hasn’t yet been established would review the proposed law to make sure it is constitutional in the mean time the provisional government I think is the one in charge. We really need to get all 3 branches fully operational before all of these actions that we want to take place can truly be operational.

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