Lobbyist tried to buy entire nation to lab-create 'superhumans' for apocalypse, lawsuit says

WASHINGTON (TND) — The tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru nearly became a lab for a wealthy lobbyist to create a race of "superhumans" in a lab for his vision of creating a fortified apocalypse bunker state, a lawsuit states.

Gabe Bankman-Fried is former a lobbyist for FTX — a failed cryptocurrency exchange — and he's also the younger brother of FTX creator Sam Bankman-Fried.

Gabe Bankman-Fried is accused of trying to purchase Nauru "in the event where 50%-99.99% of people [worldwide] die" so he can protect his "allies" and so he can create a new species of genetically modified humans in a lab on the island.

That's all according to a lawsuit filed in Delaware bankruptcy court against the Bankman-Fried brothers by attorneys from Sullivan & Cromwell, which is trying to collect billions from the collapse of FTX.

Only two nations — Tuvalu and Vatican City — have fewer people than Nauru, which has a population of roughly 10,800 as of 2020. The same applies for size as only Vatican City and Monaco are smaller in area than Nauru. Nauru sits 2,793 miles northeast of Australia

A representative from Nauru says the country is not and has never been for sale.

Life in a bunker in case of an apocalypse is a common trend among the uber-wealthy.

Sam Bankman-Fried was known to practice a concept known as "effective altruism" while he was running FTX. According to CNBC, those who practice "effective altruism" work "to maximize their income so they can give away their money in a fashion they see as most beneficial to humankind."

Gabe Bankman-Fried was a well-known Washington, D.C. lobbyist for FTX, and along with an unnamed associate wanted to purchase Nauru to develop “sensible regulation around human genetic enhancement and build a lab there.”

The apocalyptic base Gabe Bankman-Fried imagined would house other "effective altruists" if most of the world's population was to die off.