Peter Thiel became a New Zealand citizen after spending just 12 days in the country. Then he bought 193 hectares on Lake Wānaka, in the mountains near Queenstown, and filed plans for a 330-meter compound built INTO the hillside. Grass roof. Room for 30 people. The council rejected it, the court rejected it again. Officially, nothing was built. But in 2016, Sam Altman told The New Yorker his pandemic backup plan: fly with Peter Thiel to Thiel's house in New Zealand. In the same interview he listed his stockpile: guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, gas masks. That part is documented. Rumor has it the real bunkers aren't on any map. The owners only get GPS coordinates. And Thiel isn't the only one. New Zealand has become the super-rich's favorite bolthole. LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman said telling someone you're "buying a house in New Zealand" is "kind of a wink, wink, say no more." Look at what surrounds this place: 🏔 Mt Aspiring / Tititea – 3,033 m 🏔 Mt Earnslaw / Pikirakatahi – 2,819 m 🏔 The Remarkables (Single Cone) – 2,319 m 🏔 Ben Lomond – 1,748 m Solid rock overhead. Glacial lakes. Snowmelt water. One of the most isolated countries on Earth. If the Geophysical Event comes, with crustal displacement and oceans spilling over the continents, this is exactly where you'd want to be: deep inside a mountain, with your own clean water. They're not preparing for nothing.