It’s safe to say that none of our readership believes in Santa Claus. Our faith in a big, jolly man propelled around the globe by a fleet of supersonic herbivores, belongs to a time in our lives when cyberpunk was a fantastical literary genre, rather than the surveillance capitalism based society in which we live our humdrum everyday lives.

But the advantage of living in a cyberpunk future is that anything is possible, and the common cyberpunk tropes could be employed by anyone with enough resources to recreate the legend of Santa for real.

There are currently more than 2,500 billionaires in the world. Here’s what they would need to bring the legend of a violent, fourth century Greek clergyman, up to date for the mid 21st century. No magic required.