Libertalia

"Fortune has clearly brought us here..."

- Hector Barbossa to Jack Sparrow on Libertalia

Libertalia is a utopia for pirates looking to live in safety and harmony once they've retired from their lives of plunder. Located somewhere in the Atlantic, the town was founded by the infamous Captain Mission many years before the adventures of Jack Sparrow and his crew. Stories of Libertalia's extravagance are known all over the world, although some pirates (such as Billy Turner) have been led to believe that the place is nothing more than legend. A jolly roger depicting a white skeleton and a pirate holding an hourglass above a dripping heart together ripples atop the town's largest building. As observed by Carolina during the Black Pearl crew's stay at Libertalia, the town's population is made up of Indian, Arabic, Dutch, French, English, Chinese, and most numerous of all, African sailors. This is probably due to the townspeople's tendencies to attack ships leaving Africa loaded with slaves, and then offering the slaves the chance to live in Libertalia as freed men. Many take up cattle ranching once they settle in the town; however, as Jack Sparrow is quick to point out, most have not completely abandoned their criminal nature, as a lot of looting and pillaging for treasure still goes on there. Captain Teague, who had moved to Libertalia with the rest of the Sparrow family after his son ran away, owned the largest mansion in the entire town, and was observed by Jack to hold significant respect amongst its citizens. However, Teague's fellow Pirate Lord, King Samuel, was the one pirate in the world absolutely forbidden from ever returning there. As Jack finds out shortly after his arrival, King Samuel was regarded by Libertalia's citizens as a traitor and outright violator of the Pirate Code, due to his underhanded deals with the Dutch and Portuguese to let their slave ships through the town, as well as his selling of captured prisoners, conquered warriors, and own employees as slaves. However, this did not stop King Samuel from sneaking into his fortress in the town from time to time.