Territorial innovation – Rural Spain - Paul Elvere DELSART

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Territorial innovation – Rural Spain is now taking control of the country through non-state networks – A concrete Mediterranean, European, and global civilizational project – A coordinated response to the crisis affecting Spain and Europe – From Torreblanca, Castellón, Valencian Autonomous Community

A new peaceful, Mediterranean, European, and global Reconquista is being born in Spain, from Torreblanca, Castellón, in the Valencian Autonomous Community.

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Members of Congress and Senate, members of the parliaments of the autonomous communities, members of provincial councils, mayors, municipal councillors, municipal employees, representatives and employees of regional and central governments, political party administrators, academics, students, citizens of Spain, South American countries, Europe, and the world, journalists, online content creators, and residents of the municipality of Torreblanca, Castellón.

What if the future of Spain, the Mediterranean basin, Europe, South America, and even the world were being decided… in small towns?

In a context where old imperial dreams are being reborn, driven by secret alliances and invisible strategies, Europe is faltering. Orchestrated migrations, deliberate deindustrialization and social fractures: the chess game seems lost from the start.

However, in the face of this threat, another vision is emerging. Paul Elvere DELSART, social engineer, thinker, and anticipatory narrator, envisions a peaceful Reconquista: that of small towns and villages transformed into prosperous rural city-states, connected by a unique Information System, cooperation agreements (operational contracts), and innovative multifunctional ecological infrastructures - the LE PAPILLON SOURCE complexes and the Vegetal Calderas.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am writing to you from Torreblanca, in the province of Castellón, to inform you of a large-scale social transformation initiative, unprecedented in our contemporary history.

By this letter, I take the liberty of announcing that rural Spain, long marginalized and ignored by major decision-making currents, is finally taking control of its destiny. Not through an insurrection, but through the constructive action of non-state transnational networks, methodically orchestrated by the EL4DEV social engineering program.

This process, which I call the Reconquista of Small Towns and Villages, Reconquista EL4DEV, or Reconquista 3.0, is being implemented through the ambitious sub-program entitled The Municipalities Counter-Attack. Its goal is to restore the autonomy, territorial sovereignty, intellectual cooperation, and dignity of small towns with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants (but potentially up to 7,000), elevating them to the status of key actors in local, regional, and national renewal.

Through a set of innovative agreements and Societal Economic Interest Groups, these small towns become co-owners of ecotourism, educational, and agro-climatic infrastructures bearing the LE PAPILLON SOURCE label. These are not mere structures: they are the commanderies of the new Green Empire of the East and the West, also known as the EL4DEV Confederation.

From Torreblanca, a pioneering town despite a still hesitant local administration (as it has not taken a stance), I am asymmetrically mobilizing youth and citizens around this transformation project which, although globally recognized, is still seeking its first official Spanish allies (or perhaps they may not be necessary). Fear not, they will come. Just as castles took time to rise, each Vegetal Caldera, our vegetative fortresses emitting beneficial electromagnetic fields, will rise with patience, humility, and grandeur.

We are not merely offering infrastructures. We are laying the foundations of a new social contract, a new geopolitical organization, and a societal New World Order based on intellectual cooperation, societal diplomacy, and shared progress. This model, which some might call utopian, is already taking root in minds around the world and will soon become tangible through concrete tools: the Big Smart Data EL4DEV, the GREEN COIN EL4DEV, intellectual and artistic cooperation initiatives, among many others.

This initiative is neither a fantasy nor a megalomaniacal delusion, but a systemic, multidisciplinary, and profoundly human response to the ongoing civilizational collapse: economic, ecological, cultural, social, and institutional.

I extend my hand to you in all seriousness, but also with a touch of mischief: for, you see, power no longer hides in Madrid, Barcelona, or Brussels. It is germinating in experimental cities and complexes, as well as in the co-creations of the future. The Reconquista is gentle, intellectual, vegetal, and resolutely joyful.

This international action plan places Torreblanca at the heart of the EL4DEV Second Renaissance Movement, mobilizing its inhabitants around a collective project driven by purpose, innovation, solidarity, and local sovereignty. It can be replicated in other small Mediterranean towns, thereby creating a network of territories committed to global and sustainable transformation.

I am an ideological influencer because I support a structuring ideology: that of societal globalization, a model of distributed governance, a new diplomacy based on intellectual and cultural exchange, and a hypercollective society that rejects dehumanized individualism and technocratic domination. I propose another path: one in which small territories have the power to initiate change, where citizens become designers of their environment, and where the values of sharing, spirituality, cooperation, and regeneration replace those of competition, predation, and consumption.

My project is disruptive because it breaks the codes, returns power to the collective imagination, and is based on systemic intelligence, social innovation, a new political aesthetic, and active spirituality. I accept being polarizing because what I propose is demanding, requiring a profound reevaluation of established certainties. The polarization I provoke is not an obstacle; it is proof that my message is effective, that it resonates, and that it generates inner movements. It is a necessary step toward spreading my realistic utopia.

My vision transcends borders and includes the creation of a new global social contract, collectively developed by peoples through local experiments connected by systemic similarities. This contract is born from action, not imposition. It is structured around cooperation dynamics established through the infrastructures, events, collaboration platforms, and participatory governance tools that I have designed. I do not act on the margins of nations, but in collaboration with them, guiding them toward renewed sovereignty through collective intelligence and rediscovered spirituality.

My action is conceived at all scales, from the smallest village to the regional geopolitical union. Thus, I propose a new globalization, not economic but social, where the geointellectual, geocreative, and geospiritual densities of territories replace the logics of financial domination. The Mediterranean region is its cradle, destined to radiate toward Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania through a mimetic effect.

As a world-system builder, I integrate systemic thinking, transmedia storytelling, soft geoengineering, network science, and social experimentation into a global project of civilizational scale.

I am a craftsman of systemic transformation. I use fiction to awaken consciousness, data to structure progress, diplomacy to reconcile peoples, engineering to build structures, and art to inspire creative momentum. My counter-society is a platform for unifying diversities, a matrix of ethical convergence, and a force of joyful and peaceful resistance against uniformizing and reductive models.

Thus, I do not offer one solution among others. I carve a path. I extend my hand to those who share this ambition. I offer them a framework, a language, tools, a narrative, and spaces. I invite them to enter a process of experiential transformation. What I am offering is not a project. What I am triggering is a gentle revolution. What I impose is not public policy. What I embody is a civilizational vision.

I bring to life a world that is both real and symbolic, a continuously expanding universe where the roles of rulers, designers, ambassadors, and citizens are redistributed. The complexes I envision, the commanderies of the Green Empire of the East and the West, are simultaneously living spaces, learning centers, research hubs, spiritual retreats, and platforms for social experimentation.

My geek culture is not on the margins of this endeavor. It is the foundation of a universal language that speaks to new generations, a channel through which utopia becomes attractive, alive, and participatory. By integrating transmedia storytelling, the mechanisms of Live Action Role-Playing (LARP) in Alternate Reality Games (ARG), elements of science fiction, and persistent world architectures, I create a unique immersive experience. My metaverse is therefore a serious game, a total work of art, a soft diplomacy strategy, and a civilizational project.

I invite you, as representatives of our institutions, to consider this profound transformation with the utmost attention and to participate, with full awareness, in this historic endeavor.

Whether you believe it or not, I assure you that government bodies have been studying my proposals for years, in the shadows, far from media spotlights and official statements.

Torreblanca is today, by strategic decision, the beating heart of a global movement, and you can be its first allies.

Please accept, Ladies and Gentlemen, the expression of my highest consideration and my unwavering determination to make the light of cooperation triumph over the ruins of the old world.

If you want to know more:

A - A new European Reconquista is being born in Spain, from Torreblanca, Castellón

The Reconquista of Small Towns and Villages, also called Reconquista EL4DEV or Reconquista 3.0, is the cultural movement initiated by Paul Elvere DELSART from Spain, a country with characteristics conducive to the emergence of a project of this magnitude. This movement aims to gradually and massively unite around a symbolic and inspiring work of sociocultural and institutional change: the Green Empire of the East and the West, also known as the EL4DEV Confederation. It relies on mechanisms such as the EL4DEV program, LE PAPILLON SOURCE, The Municipalities Counter-Attack, EL4DEV societal diplomacy, and international artistic and intellectual cooperation events. It also mobilizes specific tools such as the Big Smart Data EL4DEV, the EL4DEV Web TV, and the Green Coin EL4DEV. The goal is to launch a broader, more general movement of creation, improvement, or redefinition of models, which its founder calls the EL4DEV Second Renaissance Movement.

This is in no way a military or violent reconquest. It is an ideological and cultural project promoted by Paul Elvere DELSART, a visionary thinker, social engineer, author, and French artist, founder of the societal change and change-support program called EL4DEV, who sometimes presents himself under the name Henry HARPER, the Green Emperor of the East and the West. He proposes a Reconquista of Small Towns and Villages in Spain, southern Europe, and subsequently across Europe and other countries worldwide; a project focused on rural renewal, local autonomy, and peaceful social transformation, taking the town of Torreblanca, in the province of Castellón, Spain, as its starting point. The ambition is to restore vitality and sovereignty to forgotten rural towns through participatory governance, an ecological currency, experimental and educational living infrastructures, and collaborative influence on a transnational scale.

This project seeks to expand beyond Spanish borders, initially toward Portugal, France, Italy, and Greece, as part of a civilization-rebuilding approach based on cooperation, beauty, and exemplary practices. It is therefore not a military reconquest, but an intellectual and local, non-violent movement aimed at reinventing territorial sovereignty starting at the municipal level. The Reconquista of Small Towns and Villages is a civil, cultural, ecological, and participatory project, announced from Spain during the summer of 2025 (July and August) and accompanied by numerous online publications, including eight e-books available in French, English, and Spanish, entitled: EL4DEV – The Reconquista of Small Towns and Villages, Reconquista EL4DEV – The Rural Empire, Reconquista 3.0 – The Empire of city-states, The new global migration pact, Henry HARPER – The Green Emperor, GREEN COIN EL4DEV – Planetary monetary network, BIG SMART DATA EL4DEV – Social network of peace, and THE MUNICIPALITIES COUNTER-ATTACK – Planetary cooperative mechanism.

In these short works, positioned at the crossroads of social fiction, political essay, and strategic guide, Paul Elvere DELSART, also known by the name Henry HARPER (his avatar’s name), invites the reader on a peaceful epic. He outlines the contours of a concrete civilizational project in which each chapter becomes an act of regeneration. The work combines symbolic narrative and operational strategy, elevating rurality to the role of a driving force for global transformation. Through these manifestos, the author suggests that the rebirth of our civilization could arise from small, forgotten towns and villages, placing Torreblanca at the heart of a new ecological, ethical, social, intellectual, and highly entrepreneurial empire, one in which each small town and village finds its place as a radiant city-state (autonomous, self-managed, green, and interconnected).

B – The Green Empire of the East and the West or EL4DEV Confederation – A cultural ecosystem and an immersive social fiction

I am Paul Elvere DELSART, founder of the EL4DEV program and the EL4DEV Confederation, also known as the Green Empire of the East and the West. From Torreblanca, Spain, I am initiating a movement that some might call a peaceful revolution, but which I proudly name the Reconquista of Small Towns and Villages. This is not merely a return to rural roots, but a strategic, geopolitical, cultural, and spiritual renaissance led by small towns, the forgotten ones of the modern world.

This Reconquista is driven by an unprecedented program: THE MUNICIPALITIES COUNTER-ATTACK. It is not just a slogan, but a mechanism for profound territorial transformation. Through this program, small towns and villages with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants in Spain, France, Portugal, Italy, and Greece will stand together. They will no longer be mere administrative units: they will become modern, autonomous, visionary, and interconnected city-states. Each of these cities will play a central role in the co-construction of a regenerated societal model, freed from the centralizing systems that have long paralyzed local creativity.

At the heart of this gentle Reconquista, the 21st-century Templar Commanderies, called LE PAPILLON SOURCE, act as beacons. They are hybrid spaces: educational parks, experimental farms, research hubs, alternative tourist centers, and biodiversity sanctuaries. These commanderies are the fortresses of our new social order. They are also refuges of collective intelligence, where the new ‘knights’ of peace and sustainability are trained: the philosopher-kings of the modern age.

The Reconquista is also economic. It has its own currency, the GREEN COIN EL4DEV. This is not a speculative cryptocurrency, but a ‘stablecoin’ whose value is backed by farmland enriched with biodiversity and certified LE PAPILLON SOURCE: a fair, ethical, and circular unit of exchange. It powers an alternative economy that rewards virtuous action, local creation, education, culture, and ecology. It is the currency of cooperation, not competition.

To coordinate this networked epic, I have been designing for years a strategic tool: the Information System called Big Smart Data EL4DEV. As the digital brain of our intellectual, cultural, social, ecological, and highly entrepreneurial empire, it allows real-time modeling of the dynamics of each territory, connects actors, optimizes decisions, and generates new synergies. It is the invisible catalyst of a new geopolitics: one of peoples allied in their diversity and complementarity.

The Reconquista of Small Towns and Villages (Reconquista EL4DEV or Reconquista 3.0) does not aim merely to save small towns: it elevates them into geopolitical powers. Through the Societal Economic Interest Groups formed, these small towns and villages will unite at the national level and then integrate into other regional blocs within Politico-Societal Unions. From these blocs will emerge a new geopolitical balance - decentralized, ethical, and resilient. Europe will no longer be seen as a centralized technocracy, but as an archipelago of local powers united by shared values.

This dynamic is part of a broader framework: the EL4DEV Second Renaissance Movement. A renaissance that is neither academic nor museum-like, but alive, transdisciplinary, rooted in experience and the living world. It appeals to sensitivity, spirituality, collective intelligence, the poetry of places, and the enthusiasm of youth. It rejects the planned obsolescence of cultures, knowledge, and human beings. In contrast, it values slowness, beauty, justice, and harmony with nature.

Everything begins here, in Torreblanca, a modest Mediterranean coastal town in the province of Castellón, within the Valencian Autonomous Community of Spain. This is no coincidence. It is a simple place, rich in telluric energy. From this anchor point, the wave will spread to other Mediterranean territories. Spain will unite with its sister nation, Portugal, and then with France, Italy, and Greece. An ancient yet renewed alliance, born from a shared awareness: the duty to repair the world, not through force, but through cooperation, beauty, creation, and example.

Thus, through the Reconquista of Small Towns and Villages (Reconquista EL4DEV or Reconquista 3.0), we are not merely rebuilding local economies: we are rewriting the codes of a new civilization. An Empire without an authoritarian emperor, an Empire of East and West, North and South, green, spiritual, humanist, and participatory, where every individual has a role to play and every territory has a mission to fulfill.

I am Paul Elvere DELSART, and I invite you to take part in this great endeavor. The future will not be written in Brussels, Washington, Paris, or Beijing. It is being written today in our villages, in our fields, in our minds, in our hearts, and in our actions. The time has come for the Municipalities to counter-attack. The time has come for small towns and villages to win the war of peace.

C - The inter-municipal cooperation sub-program ‘THE MUNICIPALITIES COUNTER-ATTACK’

The sub-program THE MUNICIPALITIES COUNTER-ATTACK (in Spanish, EL CONTRAATAQUE DE LOS MUNICIPIOS, and in French, LES COMMUNES CONTRE-ATTAQUENT) is part of the ambitious global societal transformation program called EL4DEV, designed by Paul Elvere DELSART, founder of the Think and Do Tank LE PAPILLON SOURCE EL4DEV. This sub-program focuses specifically on inter-municipal cooperation and targets small towns and villages, particularly those with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants, although it also extends to those with up to 7,000 inhabitants.

This sub-program proposes a new form of inter-municipal cooperation based on social and solidarity criteria, aiming to promote financial autonomy, local self-financing, and the international role of these small territorial entities. Its operation relies on the creation of a Societal Economic Interest Group at the national level (one group per country), made up of several small towns and villages that choose to unite in order to jointly fund large-scale, high-impact projects.

The action mechanism includes operational contracts between this national group and the Think and Do Tank LE PAPILLON SOURCE EL4DEV. Through these agreements, the participating municipalities fund the creation of vertical agro-climatic, tourist, educational, and ecological structures called Vegetal Calderas, which are integrated into the LE PAPILLON SOURCE experimental complexes.

The sub-program includes a mixed financial component, involving public funds from municipal investment budgets and participatory financing mechanisms, including international micro-sponsorship campaigns. This model ensures that economic returns are not dependent on private capital or shareholders, as the profits are distributed equitably among the participating municipalities, regardless of their size or economic contribution.

At a practical level, the sub-program allows a municipality to fund projects even outside its own territory, provided there is a justified local interest. This establishes a decentralized dynamic of territorial cooperation, in which collective benefit takes precedence over traditional administrative boundaries.

The Vegetal Calderas built under the program function as multifunctional ecological towers that generate atmospheric humidity, emit beneficial electromagnetic fields, serve as habitats for local wildlife and pollinators, and are used for tourism, agriculture, education, and scientific purposes. These structures form the core of the LE PAPILLON SOURCE complexes, which are educational and agro-climatic parks designed to promote sustainability, experiential learning, and food self-sufficiency.

The Vegetal Calderas are not merely autonomous structures with high ecological and educational value. They are also designed as the fundamental links of a strategic territorial network: the Bioclimatic Corridors, whose function goes far beyond simple local development. Once activated by the installation of the Vegetal Calderas, these corridors become vectors of large-scale climate transformation, contributing to the creation of artificial Flying Rivers, a phenomenon inspired by the natural water cycle and atmospheric biogeography.

Thanks to their terraced green architecture and circular irrigation processes using condensed atmospheric water, they create a humid microclimate around them, even in arid areas. This moisture released into the air is then carried by the winds, forming true atmospheric flows of water vapor, comparable to the natural ‘Flying Rivers’ observed in the Amazon rainforest.

Beyond its technical aspect, THE MUNICIPALITIES COUNTER-ATTACK has a profound diplomatic and geopolitical dimension, promoting a form of decentralized diplomacy called EL4DEV societal diplomacy, which fosters international collaboration between municipalities without the intermediation of central governments. The intention is for these municipal groupings to become the driving force of a new, more horizontal, transparent, and ethical governance, where small communities are transformed into key actors in regional and global development.

The sub-program also has a strong educational and cultural dimension. The participatory, intellectual, and artistic events organized within the sub-program mobilize local talents and generate creative dynamics capable of inspiring other territories. In this way, the model becomes replicable at an international scale, particularly in regions with similar climatic, social or economic characteristics.

In summary, THE MUNICIPALITIES COUNTER-ATTACK is not merely a sub-program for participatory funding of ecological infrastructures; it is a comprehensive strategy to reorganize territorial development through municipal cooperation, strengthen local sovereignty, decentralize diplomacy, distribute wealth, and transform the Mediterranean region (and eventually the world) into a living laboratory of cohesion, resilience, and shared prosperity. It is a key pillar in the creation of the last, most powerful, and fairest of Empires: the Green Empire of the East and the West (a rural empire composed of small municipalities around the world transformed into true 21st-century city-states), also known as the EL4DEV Confederation, a utopian and transformative vision of society, driven by social innovation, spirituality, and human cooperation.

D - Torreblanca, Castellón, Spain, cradle of the Alternative New World Order (Fiction)

I am Paul Elvere DELSART, also known as Henry HARPER, the Green Emperor of the East and the West. Torreblanca, in the province of Castellón, Spain, is today much more than a mere place of residence. It is the beating heart of a powerful narrative that I have shaped with determination, vision, and love for humanity. It is here, in this still discreet town, that I have chosen to anchor the first phase of the deployment of an Alternative New World Order.

Torreblanca is a strategic narrative lever. It is the deliberately modest cradle of a transformative and immersive fiction, a real-world stage serving a collective imagination in the making. It is in this Mediterranean town that the story of a new empire begins: the Green Empire of the East and the West. This empire, intellectual, spiritual, social, ecological, and highly entrepreneurial, is embodied by the EL4DEV Confederation, the product of my systemic thinking, applied social science, and quest for universal peace.

In the first phase, Torreblanca becomes a narrative stage, a center of awakening, the starting point of a philosophical, educational and civilizational Live Action Role-Playing game (LARP). Through a dense and elaborated transmedia narrative, I immerse participants from around the world in a universe where fiction impacts reality, and where every initiative becomes an act of societal transformation. This fiction, supported by novels, manifestos, videos, graphic works, artistic events, and digital tools, allows for the testing and experimentation of the principles of EL4DEV Societal Diplomacy and participatory engineering.

But this imaginative phase is only a prelude. For Torreblanca is not just a stage: it is also the tangible starting point of a global metamorphosis. In a second phase, the town becomes the first real stronghold of a structured, multidisciplinary, cooperative, and decentralized global movement. It is here that a new geopolitical bloc emerges: the Mediterranean Societal Union. It is here that the first modern Templar Commanderies bearing the LE PAPILLON SOURCE label are established. It is here that the first Vegetal Calderas rise, these vertical, life-filled vegetal structures acting as climatic, educational, and community generators.

Torreblanca is the prototype, the laboratory, the reproducible model. Through this town, I open a new path, founded on ethical post-capitalism, the sovereignty of small municipalities, transnational cooperation between peoples and generations, and the revitalization of the rural world. The projects of educational tourist towns and agro-climatic vegetal complexes labeled LE PAPILLON SOURCE, the sub-program for decentralized inter-municipal empowerment and cooperation called THE MUNICIPALITIES COUNTER-ATTACK, the Societal Economic Interest Groups giving rise to new geopolitical blocs, as well as the viral dynamics of intellectual, environmental, social, and spiritual development modeled in the information system called Big Smart Data EL4DEV, all take shape and substance here.

What I am establishing in Torreblanca is a radical rethinking of development logics. It is the Reconquista of marginalized and forgotten small towns and villages. It is the assertion that global transformation does not come from hierarchical summits, but from territorial depths. It is a demonstration through action that every individual, every municipality, every territory can become an active node in a vast self-regulating network, a vector for a new golden age for humanity.

Here, I am building a parallel world, not to escape reality, but to transform it from within. By becoming the inaugural center of the EL4DEV program, Torreblanca is now destined to inspire other territories in Spain, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Americas, and beyond. It is the seed of a non-imperial empire, that of a Confederation of hearts, consciences, and solidarity-driven initiatives. It is proof that utopia becomes strategy, that fiction becomes politics, and that the invisible becomes visible.

I am the initiator of an unprecedented civilizational narrative. And this narrative begins here, in Torreblanca, Castellón, Spain.

E - This project could serve as an interesting case study for universities, political parties, think tanks, NGOs, and governments.

I propose an alternative scenario and share the operational framework for transforming society. This approach can be compared with more conventional models.
The project is a blend of radical ecology, spirituality, citizen participation, and local/inter-municipal governance, offering an alternative to traditional development paradigms.
It includes concrete proposals, ideal for studying the implementation of public policies, territorial planning, participatory or municipal financing and rural development.
The project also opens avenues of research in political philosophy, environmental ethics, sociology of values, territorial development, international cooperation, etc.

Specific themes that can be explored as case studies

Possible directions for academic or policy-oriented studies:

• Study of innovative local governance: how municipalities can co-design ambitious social projects, share benefits, pool resources, and form inter-municipal alliances, etc.
• Alternative financing models and social economy: exploring the proposed economic models, the concept of Economic Interest Groups (EIGs), redistribution, and the co-ownership of infrastructures.
• Urban planning and ecological rurality approaches: the Vegetal Calderas, bioclimatic corridors, ecological and agroclimatic tourism, etc., as alternatives to conventional urban development or mass tourism.
• Ethics and values in societal projects: the role of spirituality, living systems, and energetic consciousness in political or social initiatives.
• Citizen participation and political culture: how to mobilize, engage, and involve local and transnational populations - acceptance, resistance, and collective dynamics.

Important information: This email is intended solely for informational purposes. I am not selling any goods, requesting anything from anyone, nor do I have anything to hide. I act with kindness and complete transparency in all my actions and communications. This email does not constitute a threat but rather an authentic proposal aimed at offering a systemic solution for territorial, national, and international revitalization.

Long live Spain, long live Europe, long live the rural municipalities and long live Torreblanca, Castellón!

The Spanish TV show “Volando Voy,” hosted by Jesús Calleja, is completely outdated…

Kind regards,

Paul Elvere DELSART
Also known as Henry HARPER (avatar in the Live-Action Role-Playing game), the Green Emperor of the East and the West