LUC ARDEN • ATHENS 2026
THE FIRST DIGITAL NATION
What if the world we take for granted
is not the only one possible?
LIBERTALIA, by Luc Arden, is a single work developed through three distinct books, each approaching the same idea from a different perspective.
The story begins with an ordinary man who questions what is taken for granted. It continues by asking whether an idea could become something real. And it culminates in an extensive framework of principles, rules and institutions for a different way of organising society.
“The goal is not to impose 4,000 answers. The goal is to open 4,000 discussions.”
The work does not claim to know what humanity’s future should be. It asks questions about the world ahead and creates a space in which to think about them.
BOOK I
Mike Harris, an ordinary man, decides to question what everyone else accepts as given. Facing powerful interests, structures of power and a world that seems impossible to change, he tries to turn an idea into a vision.
The story in which the vision of Libertalia is born.
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BOOK II
A chapter that moves beyond the narrative and touches the foundation on which Mike’s vision might move from idea to reality.
The protagonist is not presented as infallible or fearless. He doubts, he fears, he understands the risks and still chooses to hope for the future.
Can an idea find a path through the real world?
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BOOK III • IN 3 VOLUMES
In the third book, the vision moves from theory to structure. Its three volumes examine principles, rules and institutions concerning people, technology, artificial intelligence, democracy, justice, the economy and the changes that may shape the future.
Not a finished code. An experiment about the future.
Amazon — coming soonThe first two books and the three volumes of The Way to Liberty form the complete Libertalia series.
The series begins as a story, continues as a plan and ends in a three-volume Charter.
If we could design the rules of a society from the beginning today, knowing the mistakes of the past and seeing the technologies that are coming…
The third book of the work — The Way to Liberty — is organised around three main pillars. Below are the contents of all three volumes, so you can quickly see the breadth of the project.
You do not have to agree.
The work moves between philosophical questions, social proposals and technological scenarios. They are not presented here as final answers, but as subjects the books invite the reader to examine.
Rights, dignity, privacy, family, health, education and protection of the citizen.
Limits of power, black boxes, safety, human oversight and responsibility in critical systems.
Institutional oversight, independent judgment, transparency and new forms of legal support.
Professional certification, open knowledge, libraries and common standards.
Accountability, public data, observatories and limits on the concentration of power.
Robots, biotechnology, implants, synthetic media, new cities and new rules for coexistence.
“Freedom does not begin when someone else changes the world for us.”
“It begins the moment we believe that a different world can truly exist.”
Because every great change, before it became real, was first an idea.
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