Pacifica Island

Pacifica Island is a former luxury resort and floating city project turned micronation owned and operated by billionaire Alexander Monroe. It still has the trappings of a luxury resort, complete with elaborate pools, rooms, shopping venues, clubs, etc. It is located at the mid-point between the U.S. territory of Hawaii and the southernmost tip of Baja California Sur in Mexico, in the Pacific Ocean. It is approximately 24 miles (38.6 km) east of the OPHELIA particle accelerator. It is located more than 1,200 miles southwest of San Diego, California. It sits over 1,000 miles off the shore of Mexico and the United States, but is still not recognized by any sovereign state.
The city is held up by a large metal hull and is more aptly referred to as the world's first "floating city." It is held in place by enormous tethers that can be adjusted for weather hazards. It is often considered to be the richest city in the world and how the richest 1% of the 1% of the world lives. The micronation is well-guarded, with a full armory and security detail. It was originally intended to cater to the "free" international lifestyle facilitated by a mobile ocean colony; the project is a series of linked barges. 
It is a 5,900 feet (1,800 meters long) integrated city with condominium housing for 80,000 people, a hospital, school system, hotel, casino, commercial and office occupancies, duty-free shopping and other facilities, large enough to require rapid transit. It was said that it would have been the largest seasteading project ever undertaken, seasteading is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea outside the territory claimed by any government. As of 2021, it was home to 54,513 people.
Within Pacifica Island there is a local chapter of the Church of the Eight-Pointed Star. 
Demographically, permanent residents tend to be made up of Americans, Canadians, Japanese, Mexicans, and Russians.
It was first proposed in the late 1990s and was completed by late 2009. 
Also nearby is the Great Northern Pacific Wind Farm which supplies ample power to Pacifica Island, OPHELIA, and Launcher Pacifica, in addition to embedded solar power generators on each. 
== Basis ==
Pacifica Island is based on the Freedom Ship project and the Principality of Sealand.
The Pacifica Island Republic is an artificially-created floating island and micronation located 270 miles from the western shores of North America in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The nation practices the act of seasteading. [1]
== History ==
Vidian Corporation jr. executive Vikram Salam proposed the idea to Chairman Oakley in 2015, the project was seriously considered funded by 2025 and took over 10 years to construct and complete, it was known initially as Vidian Sealand. In 2035, the artificial island chain was opened to the public (mostly rich) as Pacifica. In 2037, Pacifica declared itself an independent nation. In 2065, after a 5-year renovation, the island republic celebrated 30 years of activity. Chairman Oakley lived for 30 years after the initial proposal, a tomb incased with his ashes was built and erected in his honor in 2047.
It became a hotbed of scandal for harboring a known fellon in 2065 which led to the assassination of the 4th Premier of the Pacifica Island Republic, the shareholders of Pacifica Island voted to "not be a safe haven for tax fraud and other criminal ilk."
== Government ==
Initially, the government was a non-elected group that appointed a "Premier" to administrate the island chain. After, its declaration in 2037, a Constitution mandated that to maintain a democracy, an elected leader would need to be set in place. The Premier serves one seven-year term.
# (2038-2045): Chairman Oakley
# (2045-2052): Vikram Salam
# (2052-2059):  unknown, medium-influence, celebrates 20 years of govt activity in 2058.
# (2059-2065)*: friend of Salam and Oakley, assassinated by unknown due to scandal
# (2065-2066): appointed by Salam as interium Premier
# (2066-2073): Newly elected Premier term, celebrates 30 years of govt activity in 2068.
# (2073-2080): Premier after newest election, celebrates 40 years of govt activity in 2078. 
# (2080-2085/2086)*: Last premier of the Pacifica Island Republic, abandoned and sold
# (2087-2094): First non-corporate Premier under his leadership Pacifica Island becomes a Burgeois colony for "poor nations" and refuges from Oceania in the wake of the virus of '83. Celebrate 50 years of govt activity in 2088.
# (2094-2101): Premier presides over the celebration of 60 years since the founding of Pacifica in 2095 and govt activity in 2098.
# ....
== Suggestions ==
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offshore_geotechnical_engineering
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Islands
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Ship
* http://cybernations.wikia.com/wiki/Pacifica_Island
* Most ocean colonies were built within five miles from the native countries coastlines, i.e. New Calcutta, New Bangkok and New Amsterdam.
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