A speculative experiment in redefining sovereignty, capital, and people — searching for its coordinates in the Pacific.
Beauville SEZ — a speculative novel about sovereignty, capital, and migration. Follow a proposal born in a G7 summit room as an idealistic blueprint gets negotiated into reality, one deal at a time — and slowly reveals the cracks running through it.
We invite participants from around the world to help shape a new social contract — redefining public value, the right to migrate, and collective prosperity for the age of the Beau Dollar.
The questions Beauville is asking. What's your answer?
- When both "supporting them" and "deporting them" are dead ends, what's the third way?
- If every child is an immigrant, does "us versus them" still exist?
- A zone that welcomes every faith but caps the size of every place of worship — does that protect belief, or tame it?
- Could a special zone built to house undocumented migrants end up surpassing the very Western cities that created it?
"We don't know yet how so much of this world will turn out. But Beauville was built for those who are still finding their way. It's open to anyone who feels lost.
If you need a place that accepts you instead of judging you — Beauville welcomes you with open arms."
— MARCUS LIM
However you found this place, there are many ways to take part.
Read the Beauville Fiction
The story begins with Marcus, who presents the case for a special economic zone to the G7 — and starts something no one can fully predict.
Start with the storyExplore Governance Documents
Study the charter, currency protocols, and civic safeguards that outline how sovereignty and shared mandate coexist.
Review the frameworkJoin Design Participation
Design the symbols of a new society — its flag, emblem, currency, documents, and perhaps even its anthem.
Enter the design commonsE-Wedding Registration
Not a legal marriage anywhere in the real world — a civic ritual within Beauville's story, formal enough to mean something.
Learn how it works & RegisterApply for E-Residency
Submit your background, skills, and reasons for joining — and take your place in Beauville's founding chapter.
Begin the applicationShare your story
This isn't an application form, and you don't need to play a role. We want to hear an experience, a turning point, a decision you still think about.
Share your storyEarn Beau Dollars
Registering, reading the novel, or entering a design competition all earn Beau Dollar — the currency of a place still being built.
Civic rewards program coming soonSpend Beau Dollars
From merchandise to an oceanview lease to a day at the water park — piloting a boat, a seaplane, even a water bike — Beau Dollar is becoming Beauville's real civic currency, one use at a time.
Civic marketplace coming soon