# Erick Brimen **Erick Brimen** is the founder and chief executive of Honduras Próspera Inc., the company behind [[Próspera]], the privately run zone on the Honduran island of Roatán. He set the zone up under Honduras's ZEDE law and has led its fight to survive that law's repeal in 2022 and the Supreme Court ruling against it in 2024, including an international arbitration claim against Honduras first put at $10.775 billion. In October 2026 interviews with the Honduran papers *La Prensa* and *El Heraldo*, he called for a negotiated settlement and said Próspera could bring $1 billion of investment to the country over ten years. ## Why he's on the map Brimen runs the most advanced project on the [[Network State Experiments Roster]], and the one that has gone furthest in using investment treaties to resist a host country's decision to shut it down. > [!note] Stub > This is a short entry that hasn't been fully written yet. ## See Also - [[Próspera]] - [[Charter City]] - [[Freedom Cities Coalition]]