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.