Since Brian and Lea have become public figures, people worldwide are in tune with the immortality pill. In fact, the average person sees an advertisement for the immortality pill at least once a day. Because of this widespread exposure, sales of the immortality pill have skyrocketed.

One effect of the successful immortality pill is competition. Entrepreneurial individuals craft competing products and related services. Now that human immortality is accepted in the culture, people are free to openly promote their competing immortality products and services. Some companies enjoy enormous prosperity as a result of transforming mortal man into immortal man.

However, Brian Storm’s company Transchrome leads the market in brand recognition and sales. Plus, Transchrome offers a generous profit-sharing program to all employees ranging from janitor to CEO. This way, employees can rise in prosperity proportional to the wealth of the company. And that is what occurs; all workers are prosperous. They all earn competitive wages plus a percentage of the company’s profit. As an added bonus, employees also receive shares of stock, which are an incentive to attract and retain high-quality workers. However, employees such as Chad Taylor who began working for Transchrome since the beginning grew so rich that within their first five years they no longer needed to earn money. They all became millionaires.

This presented a problem for Transchrome management because some employees lost their motivation to continue working. Certain people retired early and spent the rest of their life traveling and pursuing hobbies. Fortunately, Transchrome primarily hired people who were motivated to usher in a new era of immortality. So when an employee’s net worth surpassed one million dollars, he or she usually continued working. Employees enjoyed working for Transchrome and knew they were part of a larger purpose: to make human life immortal.

The prosperity enjoyed by Transchrome employees was not limited to Transchrome or even the new immortality industry. In fact, due to the cultural shift toward sovereign individuals, everyone grew in prosperity. In the newly arising non-political civilization created partly by the World Freedom Foundation, the cost of living fell while wages rose. Also, since individuals had become free from oppressive authorities, each person developed his or her most competitive attributes. People were free spiritually and physically to develop themselves in those areas where they were highly motivated. Individuals then exploited their developed talents in the marketplace for compounding benefits.

Soon everyone rose into prosperity including families that had lived in poverty for generations. People no longer worked for a paycheck; they did not work merely to stay alive. Most people had abundant wealth. That meant people did not have to work at dead-end jobs, so dead-end jobs vanished. In their place arose exciting jobs that appealed to workers and kept them stimulated. These new jobs were psychologically and financially rewarding beyond all comparison to dead-end jobs. The result of millions of motivated workers was even more products, services, and prosperity than ever before. The world grew richer every year.

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Brian and Lea were talking with each other one evening when Brian mentioned the idea of creating theme parks. These theme parks would combine the best in education with the best in entertainment. Lea became fascinated by the idea.

Brian said, "We can create our own communities where people would come to live, learn, and be entertained. It’d be like combining Disneyland, Oxford University, and Summerlin, Nevada all in one package. You can call it a theme park because it’ll unite the theme of rational living. But really, the more I think about it, the more I realize we’d be creating entirely new communities."

Lea replied by saying, "That sounds great Brian. We could even include immortality treatment centers in our communities."

"Sure. We could have immortality clinics as adjuncts to hospitals. But more generally, I’d like to bring in the best teachers, doctors, businesspeople, and entertainers to our communities. I want to offer visitors and residents the best learning and entertainment experiences possible. People would come to these communities to learn, grow, become super healthy, find romantic love partners, make business contacts, and have fun—all in a beautiful environment." Brian said.

"Ooh, I like that. And now that you mention it, I’d like to give a lecture on business—on how to boost productivity and profitability. Do you think anyone would attend my lectures?" asked Lea.

"I would." Brian replied.

"You’d do anything for me Brian." Lea said with a smile.

"You know it; I love you Lea." Brian replied.

He thought some more and said, "We’d develop one community and if it becomes a commercially successful venture, we would replicate it around the world. This would enable people of all nationalities to visit and live in our communities. Each community would be politically autonomous."

"What do you mean by ‘politically autonomous’ and how would you achieve this?" asked Lea.

"In order to provide the best education possible for our visitors and residents, the structure of each community has to be capitalistic. And by taking an even wider perspective, you can see that each community has to be immune from controls by outside governments. Therefore, we need to establish each community as a sovereign entity or as I say it has to be politically autonomous." Brian said.

"Wow! How the heck are you going to accomplish that? I mean, if you start a community in the United States, the federal government is going to expect that you abide by its rules: taxation, inflation, regulations, controls, and all the rest." Lea replied.

"Yeah, I know what you’re saying. I’ve thought about it and realize that for our communities to be successful, they’ve got to be immune from the Establishment. I think you’ll understand when you see the political structure of our communities. First, each community will have a commercial police force and legal system to protect all residents and visitors. In order to attract maximum people, each community needs to be safe, clean, entertaining, and enlightening. Next, each community will be governed not by a ruler or group of rulers. Instead, a universal constitution that forbids initiatory force and fraud will govern each community." Brian said.

He thought for a moment and continued, "You see, once initiatory force, coercion, and fraud are prohibited, then incentive to commit crimes will fall toward zero. Each community will have a Government Corporation to whom people voluntarily pay for bodily and property protection. Those who run the Government Corporation will be responsible for formulating impartial laws, adjudicating legal disputes, running an efficient police force, and prosecuting criminals. That’s all government employees will do. And they’ll be paid through free-market dynamics like other businesses are paid. If part or all of the government does a poor job, then citizens can stop purchasing protective services from the Government Corporation and look elsewhere for these services. So government employees have an incentive to be honest and efficient. Their job depends on it."

"My goodness," Lea replied, "I can see that you’ve really been thinking about all this."

"Yes I have," Brian said and continued, "Now that I’ve explained the internal political structure, I must tell you how our communities will relate to the outside world."

"Okay, I’m ready." Lea said.

"We’ll arrange a contract with the federal government so our communities acquire the status of immunity from external laws somewhat like American Indian Reservations are immune to the corpus of laws established by American Government. This will be tricky and require skilled attorneys to accomplish our goal. But since the culture is shifting toward a reasonable, individualistic paradigm, I think we can achieve our goal." Brian said confidently.

"Geez Brian, how do you come up with all this stuff? I mean, I thought you were a biological scientist, not a political scientist." Lea said.

"Oh, I’m no political scientist. Really, I hate politics." Brian replied.

"I sure couldn’t tell by the way you go into such detail." Lea said.

"I’m laying out the political structure for our communities because I want to live in a community where I’m a free agent, where my rights to my own self and property are fully protected. And I’m willing to pay for such protection so long as the protector is bound by a logically consistent constitution." Brian said.

Lea replied, "You know that I don’t have a political mind, but I’m actually beginning to understand all this."

"Good, because now I’m going to reveal the next and final step for our communities. After we establish several communities around the world and each are operating independently of the governments around them, we’ll legally incorporate all these communities. In the end, there’ll be a super corporation, perhaps called Earth Inc. At that point, planet Earth will be a business-driven, immortal world. Not only will its inhabitants be free and rich, they’ll be immortal." Brian said.

"Come over here Brian." Lea demanded.

"Why? What do you want?" asked Brian.

"I want to put my arms around you and hold you close to me. You’re unlike anyone I’ve ever known. I never want to lose you." Lea said.

Brian walked over to Lea and she hugged him, resting her head on his shoulder. Her pleasurable scent and touch distracted Brian. He remained quiet, enjoying the intimate moments with Lea.