Founding a town...

How would I go about founding a town? I’m just curious, because I spent too many hours as a child playing the various incarnations of SimCity…

Consult your state’s constitution and laws, each state has different laws if you want to incorporate a town, city, village, township, et al.

Now if you just want to form an informal town, round up a whole bunch of friends, buy some land and settle down.

But to get the approval of your state government, you are probably going to need to do mundane things like elect a government, hire a police force and fire squad, arrange to get utilities to your town, build schools and all that other dull stuff that makes 21st Century living bearable.