Vertias Villages
Description
Veritas Villages are a series of off-grid freedom oriented communities in Latin America.
Discussion
Veritas Villages are a brand project by Autris, a public company. It and Veritas Villages embodies five F-I-R-S-T principles:
- f: freedom;
- i: independence;
- r: resilience;
- s: sustainability; and
- t: transparency.
Veritas Villages are designed for people who value freedom, self-sufficiency, and a high quality of life. Each community includes renewable energy systems, natural water sources, and food production spaces such as orchards, gardens, hydroponics, and areas for small livestock — with the option to grow food on your own property. - Veritas Villages website
As at June 2026 Veritas Villages hosts communities in Playa Pacifica in Nicaragua and in Coronado and Chiriqui in Panama. Membership to the Veritas Villages Club allows for one's residency in a community to access the amenities across all communities.
Veritas Villages are largely bitcoin-enabled with homes purchased in Bitcoin and using Bitcoin mining through surplus solar power. One community condition is that all in-community businesses must accept Bitcoin.
What makes Veritas Villages unique is its fundamental community self sustainability. There is no connection to state or corporation run electricity grid systems, all power is produced within the community. There is no need for reliance on state run water systems as all water is internally supplied. There is food self sufficiency as well, giving the community the ability to supply its residents with food, water and power, making it fully free from government interference.
Frameworks
Decision making
Veritas Villages operate through a decentralized-autonomous-organization (DAO) with quadratic voting for governance.
All material HOA decisions are made through the Veritas Villages blockchain-based HOA Management system. This removes the need for an HOA president, board or committee.
Dispute resolution
Veritas Villages accommodates free people to resolve their conflicts without the need for courts, government authority or outside institutions. The F-I-R-S-T principles guide the dispute resolution:
- Freedom: individuals have the right to resolve disputes on their own terms, and at every stage of the dispute resolution process
- Independence: the community controls its own processes without any authority from outside governance
- Resilience: clear processes prevent disputes from becoming aggravated and risking fracturing the community
- Transparency: all outcomes of disputes are recorded on the DAO.
In Veritas Villages the goal is resolution fit for all concerned parties, not necessarily punishment.
Residents are encouraged to follow a three-tiered process:
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attempt direct resolution, which, if successful, no no formal record is made on the DAO this is based on the principle of giving people space and respecting their dignity to solve their own problems in the first instance
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if direct resolution is unsuccessful by seven days, a party may submit a request for community mediation if accepted, a panel of three mediators (one mediator selected by each party and a third selected from a pre-approved mediator roster) hears the parties in confidence following which the parties may agree to record the (non-enforceable) outcome on the DAO
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where mediation is unsuccessful, the parties may turn to arbitration, the decisions of which are binding on the parties five members are convened to form the an arbitration council for a dispute with members elected annually by residents. Decisions are handed down within ten days after the hearing concludes and the outcomes are always recorded on the DAO.
In some circumstances of criminal behaviour, such as fraud of physical assault, or real property (land and real estate) disputes, Veritas Villages does not prevent parties using external legal mechanisms. Rather, Veritas Villages encourages residents to at least attempt to resolve disputes internally prior to deferring the state or to other third parties.