Virginia State Del. Bob Marshall (via Facebook)

After the inevitable collapse of the dollar, only Virginia will be left standing. Why? Because it will have created its own alternate currency that will sustain it through global economic chaos.

Or something like that. Del. Robert Marshall (R-Prince William)—he of bills to declare fetal personhood and require teachers to be armed—has proposed a bill that would mandate a feasibility study on whether Virginia should create its own alternate currency. The alternate currency—the Dominion Dollar?—would serve “in the event of a major breakdown of the Federal Reserve System.”

Marshall similarly proposed that Virginia mint its own coins in 2011, though the idea went nowhere back then.

Alternate currencies enjoy some currency—ha!—of support among both conservative and liberals. Conservatives see them as a way to prepare for the impending economic collapse, while liberals enjoy them as a means to stay out of the world of corporate banking. As the Post reported last November, locally there are “Anacostia Hours” and “Potomacs.” Marshall’s plan would differ, though, since it would be a state currency.