Galtian paradise for idiots

Galtian fantasy. Dumbasses.

Detroit ' As the broken city thinks big and radically about its future, a developer is stepping forward with a revolutionary idea: Sell the city's Belle Isle park for $1 billion to private investors who will transform it into a free-market utopia.

The 982-acre island would then be developed into a U.S. commonwealth or city-state of 35,000 people with its own laws, customs and currency.

Let's ignore for a moment the wisdom of surrendering prime parkland and what it could mean for a rebuilt, rejuvenated Detroit. Let's just pretend that the idea of selling the island made sense. It doesn't! And it won't happen.

But let's just pretend, and take a look below the fold at what this sovereign Galtian nation would look like.