Rockets, Teslas, a Giant Head: Musk Adds a Texas City to Empire

Some 1,500 miles from Donald Trump’s White House, Elon Musk is about to put his stamp on a new government.

Residents of the tiny community near SpaceX’s rocket launch site are voting this week on whether to officially incorporate the area as its own city, Starbase, Texas. The outcome is hardly in doubt: Almost all of the eligible voters work for the company or live with someone who does. Musk, who owns a house in the 1.45 square-mile tract, on Memes Street, is all in on the plan to form a new government.

Cementing legal status for the country’s newest company town doesn’t ...