The Caribbean is often seen as the ideal holiday destination, with turquoise seas, white sand, rum punch, and no stress.
But on one Honduran island, a different kind of paradise is taking shape.
This isn't a place for a break but one to escape bureaucracy, regulation, and the two forces that usually catch up with everyone: death and taxes.
This is Próspera, a privately run, semi-autonomous city on the Honduran island of Roatán.
Funded by international investors and backed by Silicon Valley money, it markets itself as a low-tax haven for libertarians, tech entrepreneurs and biohackers looking to escape regulation, and, increasingly, mortality.
