Many of his plans were grand to the point of derangement. He dreamed up “Country Zero,” a theme‑park-cum nation state to be built on his ranch in Park City, Utah. It would be a place with its own time zone, filled with hot air balloons and run on a seashell-based barter economy. He believed the project, which never broke ground, would draw billions of people in a matter of months and usher in world peace.