I remember talking to people there when the scandal broke, they were especially furious with Thiel since he was the one who had started the whole citizenshi buy-in rush.
I read about the bunkers with the pools, hydroponics, and artificial sunlight and set about coming up with a story line that was equal parts Asimov's Foundation series, Rand's execrable fiction, and a large helping of Douglas Adams. It's a good thing I went blind, the world has been spared another truly bad sci fi novel, although it would have been fun to write. It featured separate hidey holes coming into use when nuclear holocaust seemed imminent, governments freed from the malignant influence of that class calling off their suicides and moving toward functionality although none was Utopian. The billionaires found themselves sealed in, their worlds created by their former trolls and assisted by AI and in which they did business as usual, never realizing the planet was doing well enough without them. At the end of ten years the billionaires emerged, ready to assume the roles they thought they'd be welcomed into and hilarity ensued. It was a good plot line--tissue thin but sci fi often is. Anyone who wants it can have it.
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