By Mark Hamilton, Founder, Neothink Institute · Governance · February 2026

Two men spent their fortunes and most of their adult lives trying to found a free country, and both failed for the same reason. They had the will, the capital, and even a place. What they did not have was the one law that holds such a country together. The Institute now has that law, and what closes the gap between their failure and its completion is the Prime Law.

A 50-year lineage: from the Republic of Minerva to Immortalis

Mike Oliver was a Holocaust survivor who made millions in real estate and then set out on a project almost no private citizen has ever attempted: founding a new country, free of the tyranny he had survived. He got further than anyone expected. He founded the Republic of Minerva on a reef in the South Pacific, a micro-nation that briefly existed before Tonga claimed the reef and ended it.

Oliver and Frank R. Wallace identified the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British territory in the Caribbean, as the next opportunity. Wallace negotiated with the British government for recognized sovereignty over a portion of the islands. The negotiations were real and the path was concrete. It did not reach completion in his lifetime.

Both efforts failed for the same structural reason: neither had a single enforceable principle simple enough to keep a young country from drifting back into the same coercion every other country runs on. That principle now exists. Immortalis is the end-vision civilization built on it, with 50+ years of additional development behind it and a global network of free-space allies around it. The Institute frames Immortalis as the direct descendant of what Oliver and Wallace started.

MARK HAMILTON ON MIKE OLIVER

"Mike Oliver was a genius. A Holocaust survivor who made millions in real estate and then said: I'm going to start a new country. And he did it."

The two parts Immortalis holds together

Immortalis fits together two parts that have always been pursued separately.

The first is a zone where the world's geniuses and scientists work free of the regulatory suppression that delays breakthrough research. This is the Neovia function: a freedom zone that compresses the time between a discovery and its deployment, cures first. The world's best minds relocate to the one jurisdiction where their work is protected rather than criminalized.

The second is the economy the Institute calls the great goal: making people wealthy, healthy, and safe, so that demand for biological extension of life becomes ordinary. When survival is no longer the daily problem, when disease is conquered and cost approaches zero, the demand is overwhelming, and supply follows demand.

Neither part works alone. A jurisdiction full of geniuses with no economic foundation collapses. An economic boom with no protection from regulation repeats the suppression it set out to escape. Immortalis is built to hold both at once, with the Prime Law as the constitutional foundation that connects them.

A ZONE FOR DISCOVERY

Neovia is the freedom zone inside Immortalis where scientists pursue longevity research without being turned into criminals. Its purpose is narrow and measurable: cut the years between a working cure and a patient who needs it.

THE GREAT GOAL

Make people wealthy, healthy, and safe. Once survival is solved, demand for longer life is ordinary, and supply follows demand.

The largest network state

The Neothink Society is a distributed nation connected by a shared commitment to the Prime Law, not by geography. A network state of that scale carries political weight; tens of thousands of committed citizens draw the attention of sitting leaders. The Institute notes an invitation to a presidential inauguration ball, under non-disclosure, as one early sign of that recognition.

The country is being built from the citizens up rather than the borders down. A traditional nation needs contiguous territory before it can act. A network state derives its power from committed people distributed across the map, which means it can project influence without first waiting for land.

Eternal simplicity: Paine, Thoreau, and the Prime Law

Thomas Paine's central insight in Common Sense was that government becomes corrupt in exact proportion to its complexity. Simple government protects freedom. Complex government manufactures the openings through which power concentrates. Paine called this eternal simplicity. Henry David Thoreau reached the same place from another direction: "Simplify, simplify, simplify."

The whole history of political philosophy has circled this truth without arriving at the final formulation. Paine saw it. Thoreau felt it. The founders approximated it in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. None of them reduced it to its irreducible core.

The Prime Law is that core, in one sentence: no person, group of persons, or government may initiate force, threat of force, or fraud against any individual's self or property. The Institute borrows a term from cosmology and calls it the point of singularity, the infinitely simple point from which an entire civilization of freedom and value creation unfolds.

POINT OF SINGULARITY

In cosmology the singularity is the dense point from which the universe expanded. The Prime Law plays the same role for a free civilization: one irreducible principle, the ban on initiatory force, from which freedom, value creation, and long life follow.

The intellectual roots: Rand, Rothbard, and Wallace

Three lineages converge in the Prime Law. Ayn Rand built objectivism, the philosophical case for individual rights, rational self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism. Murray Rothbard extended it into anarcho-capitalism, the argument that every service, law and defense included, should come from voluntary markets rather than a monopolistic state. Frank R. Wallace added Neo-Tech, the discipline of fully integrated honesty.

Rand and Rothbard agreed on nearly everything and still could not work together. Neo-Tech addresses exactly that fault: when fully integrated honesty is the foundation, ego cannot corrupt the collaboration between great minds.

The Prime Law is the synthesis. It takes Rand's defense of individual rights, Rothbard's removal of the state's monopoly on force, and Wallace's commitment to honesty, and distills all three into a single constitutional principle, the point where the three traditions finally meet.

THE EGO PROBLEM

Rand and Rothbard agreed on individual rights, free markets, and opposition to the state, and still could not collaborate, because ego overrode honesty. Neo-Tech removes the obstacle: with fully integrated honesty as the floor, great minds can build together.

The Prime Law Coalition: one amendment for every freedom movement

The freedom movement has a structural problem. Libertarians, objectivists, anarcho-capitalists, and Neo-Tech advocates all understand that initiatory force is the root of political harm, and they fight it piecemeal across drug legalization, gun rights, tax reform, and deregulation, and none of those fights reaches the root.

The Prime Law replaces a thousand separate battles with one. Rather than contesting each individual application of initiatory force, it eliminates initiatory force itself, in a single constitutional amendment. The Institute frames it as a proposed 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, advanced through the 12 Visions Party.

The Prime Law Coalition unites every freedom movement under that one common denominator. Libertarians, objectivists, anarcho-capitalists, constitutionalists, and free-market advocates already agree that initiatory force is wrong. The Prime Law turns that existing agreement into a single, actionable principle. The path to political weight runs through that existing common ground, now named and formalized rather than presented as a new ideology.

THE COMMON DENOMINATOR

Every freedom movement has fought the same thing: initiatory force. The Prime Law formalizes the one principle objectivists, libertarians, anarcho-capitalists, and Neo-Tech advocates already share. One amendment. One coalition.

Immortalis completes the free country two men spent their lives chasing and never founded, because it supplies the one thing they lacked: the Prime Law, the irreducible ban on initiatory force that any nation can now adopt as a single constitutional amendment.

Javier Milei and the global experiment

Outreach is already reaching sitting heads of state. Jose Cordero, author of The Death of Death and a personal connection to Javier Milei, met the Argentine president in Mexico City, and the Institute is arranging a deeper conversation about the Prime Law as a governance experiment.

The framing is simple. America was an experiment, a deliberate break from monarchy and aristocracy. The Prime Law offers the same kind of experiment to any nation willing to test one hypothesis: that removing initiatory force produces a wealthier, healthier, safer civilization. The Institute is also engaging the wider world of chartered cities and free zones, including free-zone infrastructure at Roatan, Honduras, where the governance-innovation community already gathers.

The result is self-reinforcing. The Neovia zone demonstrates results, a working jurisdiction built on the Prime Law. Those results draw the attention of leaders. Leaders adopt Prime Law amendments at home. What began with Mike Oliver on a reef in the South Pacific becomes a principle any nation can adopt.

THE FULL CIRCLE

The Neovia zone, a working jurisdiction on the Prime Law, produces visible results. Results attract leaders. Leaders adopt the amendment. The vision Oliver and Wallace could not complete reaches the nations they hoped to reach.

What is finally in place

Every part is now present at once: the philosophical foundation in Neo-Tech, the thinking method in New Think, the protective principle in the Prime Law, and the working jurisdiction in Neovia. Oliver's Minerva and Wallace's Turks and Caicos negotiations each held some of the pieces. None held all of them.

The Prime Law itself is the part that travels. Every freedom-minded person, libertarian, objectivist, or constitutionalist, already agrees that initiatory force is wrong. The Prime Law gives that agreement a name, a format, and a constitutional vehicle. The vision two men spent their lives chasing now has the Prime Law, the one thing they were missing.

Common Questions

What is Immortalis? Immortalis is the end-vision civilization built on a single principle, the Prime Law: no person, group, or government may initiate force, threat of force, or fraud against any individual's self or property. It is the civilizational expression of the Unified Field of Conscious Civilization made concrete, a society designed from the ground up to remove hierarchy and initiated force as governing principles.

How is Immortalis different from Neovia? Immortalis is the whole end-vision civilization. Neovia is the freedom zone inside it where scientists pursue longevity and cure research free of the regulation that delays deployment. Neovia compresses the time between a discovery and the patient who needs it; Immortalis is the larger civilization that zone proves the principle for. Neovia is the near-term proof; Immortalis is the destination.

What is the Prime Law? The Prime Law is one sentence: no person, group of persons, or government may initiate force, threat of force, or fraud against any individual's self or property. It is the irreducible core that Thomas Paine reached for as eternal simplicity and Thoreau approximated with "simplify, simplify, simplify." The Institute calls it the point of singularity: the infinitely simple point from which an entire civilization of freedom and value creation unfolds.

What is the Prime Law Coalition? The Prime Law Coalition gathers every freedom movement under one common denominator: a constitutional ban on initiatory force. Libertarians, objectivists, anarcho-capitalists, and constitutionalists already agree that initiatory force is wrong and fight it piecemeal across drug policy, gun rights, tax reform, and deregulation. The Coalition replaces a thousand separate battles with one, advanced as a proposed 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Why does a network state matter for spreading the Prime Law? A traditional nation needs contiguous territory before it can act. A network state derives its power from committed people distributed across the map, which lets it project political influence without first waiting for land. Tens of thousands of citizens committed to the Prime Law draw the attention of sitting leaders, which is how the principle reaches heads of state.

Why approach world leaders with the Prime Law? Because America began as an experiment, a deliberate break from monarchy and aristocracy, and any nation can run the same experiment by removing initiatory force. Outreach to sitting heads of state carries one hypothesis to test: that removing initiatory force produces a wealthier, healthier, safer civilization. A working Neovia jurisdiction demonstrates the result; leaders then adopt the amendment at home.

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