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The miners created their own. They established districts, registries, procedures for establishing and
registering a claim and buying and selling claim titles, and a system for resolving disputes. Officers were
usually elected, including the recorder of claims. Their private arrangements were recognized in California
state courts; and Congress's 1866 statute "explicitly noted that all explorations for minerals would be
subject to those 'local customs or rules of miners in the several mining districts' that were not in conflict
with the laws of the United States."2

This is just one of many historical examples of what Friedrich Hayek calls "spontaneous order,"
demonstrating that neither government nor even leaders are needed for order to appear.
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So perhaps Freelandia is possible after all. And thanks to the rich imagination of science fiction authors,
we can visit a plethora of Freelandias.

Although there's a strong individualistic streak within science fiction, until recently very few stories were
set in a completely free society. One reason, perhaps, is that all fiction thrives on conflict and a truly free
society is so peaceful that there's not very much to write about. So in stories like Eric Frank Russell's
classic " . . . And Then There Were None," the conflict comes from outside, in the form of invaders from
an authoritarian empire. (You'll find this story—and some other classics of this genre—in this book's
companion volume,Give Me Liberty ,also published by Baen Books.)

Another example is James Hogan's (in my opinion) sadly neglectedVoyage From Yesteryear. L. Neil
Smith has been very prolific in this area, two of his novels,The Probability Broach andPallas , winning
the Prometheus Award for Best Libertarian Fiction. In his most recent book,Forge of Elders , humans
meet aliens who are, horror of horrors, capitalists!

Here in this volume are nine more visions of liberty, all set in societies without governments that work.
As you'd expect from the fertile minds of science fiction authors, each is very different from the others.

They are not Utopias. Like real life, there's pain and suffering, as one story here (I won't tell you which
one) tragically shows us.

And there are visions of how, in the words of Aristotle, life could and should be. A cornucopia of
Freelandias that I hope inspire and entertain you as they have me.



1Ayn Rand,The Fountainhead (Plume, New York, 1994), pp. 101-102
2Hernando de Soto,The Mystery of Capital (Basic Books: New York, 2000), pp. 146–147




The Unnullified World
by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
The world was named Llayless. Its principal community—in fact, its only community of any size—was a
desert mining center named Pummery. A number of narrow-gauge electric railway lines left Pummery