6AM bath fantasy:

A consortium of aged African and African diaspora HNIs liquidate their entire net worth and will everything to a specially-constituted trust.

The Trust's founding mission is to purchase a 250,000 sq km parcel of land with an oceanfront somewhere in Africa.

This land could be located on the West coast, taking a coastal chunk of Sierra Leone and Liberia, in East Africa sitting on the coast between Kenya and Tanzania, or on the southwestern coast splitting Zambia and Angola.

The most important things are

1 - A port and

2 - No oil

If possible it should also have no known reserves of diamonds, coltan etc. Just bog standard agricultural land with good water sources.

This territory will be a sovereign country that will join the AU 15 years after coming into existence.

Upon achieving the objective of obtaining the right territory, the trust's final mission will be to retain the services of a panel of the planet's best legal, cultural and economic experts to create a template constitution for the proposed country.

Once this is done, the trust will be automatically deconstituted, and the territory will be handed over to a council made up of 90% elected and 10% permanent members representing the new country's various districts.

The initial population will be primarily an SSA immigrant one.

Territorial integrity will be maintained by an army of private military contractors whose services have been guaranteed for 10 years by an escrow payment from the now-deconstituted trust.

Immigration will be similar to a Canadian-style points system, but with a key difference.

Most prospective immigrants must demonstrate the capacity to invest at least $20,000 in the country, and they must also pass a specially designed culture-fit test.

If they fail the test regardless of financial capacity, residency will be denied. They may reapply after 24 months.

The immigration assessment will cover four key areas: Basic education (literacy, comprehension, civic knowledge, history and economics), soft skills (abstract reasoning, honesty, empathy, logic and teachability), career planning and trajectory and assessment of personal needs.

The country's governing council will have 30 members made up of 24 elected representatives with 6-year terms and 6 permanent members with non-renewable 10-year tenures.

Per the constitution, the permanent members' remit will cover security and economic & monetary policy.

The constitution, which must be ratified by the inaugural governing council and signed into law by the ceremonial president who is an elected council member, mandates certain international agencies and continental bodies to select the council's permanent members.

The ceremonial president has no powers of office beyond those in his/her role as a council member.

The ceremonial position is rotated annually across every region represented on the council.

Citizens do not vote for a president, but for local and regional council members.

Both elected and permanent council members are subject to annual performance reviews and constituency approval polls.

The performance reviews are carried out by a consortium of continental and global development bodies and they make up 40% of the weighted average score.

The approval polls make up 60% of the weighted average score. If a council member's total average score sits below 51% for two consecutive years, he/she will be constitutionally required to step down.

The country's business model will be trade and innovation. Primary and secondary production beyond agriculture and basic necessities will be de-emphasized in favour of 4th and 5th Industrial Revolution skills and businesses.

The initial 10-year PCGDP target will be $9,000

Every citizen and resident will be enrolled in a compulsory national health insurance program and subsidised medical training will be offered to students with the proviso of a 10-year post-study bond and remuneration benchmarked to OECD levels.

The country will commit to spending at least 10% of its annual government budget on education and research.

The government's main source of income will be taxes levied on the earnings of its citizens and their internationally competitive businesses.

And natural resource wealth discovered will be invested exclusively in education, infrastructure and foreign bonds under the direction of the council's permanent members in a fully transparent partnership with the constitutionally-mandated international development institutions.

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The country's initial 10-year population target is 5 million people, achieved through annual skilled migration of 250,000, annual refugee intake of 50,000, annual expat intake of 50,000 and 150,000 annual visitors.

The country will have 6 regions with 4 members each on the national governing council.

Each region will have two planned cities and several smaller towns and villages planned according to the economic comparative advantage and proximity to resources like freshwater.

The afore-mentioned private military contractors will spend their 10-year contract period training new recruits to take over from them.

While many recruits will be from the refugee intake, no discrimination will be made between refugees and skilled migrants moving up the ranks.

There will be a constitutionally-codified principle of equal representation and dispersion eliminating the possibility of a particular social, economic, cultural or ethnic group gaining a foothold over others in the military, thus removing the possibility of a politicised army.