I am a resent member of the My Metaverse community on Ning.  While surfing around this site I came across some information about Wirtland.

“Wirland claims to be the world’s first sovereign internet-based country”

A sovereign state? The problem here is that A sovereign state is usually one that is recognised by other Sovereign states.  So if World of Warcraft, Facebook, MySpace set themselves up as Sovereigns stats and recognised Wirtland then maybe there would be more to it!

Wirtland also claims to be able to give our marriage certificates, identity cards, etc.  It claims that the reason people join Wirtland is to have a greater degree of “Self-identifiaction”.  I translate this to mean join a community – period.  To Me Witland is a Massively Multiplayer Real-life role-playing Game (MMRLRPG)  rather than a MMORPG such as World of Warcraft and SecondLife (although I may get critisied for called Secondlife a game) but I think comparisions can be made between the two.

I hope that Wirtland citizens join together to create positive expereinces for themselves and the world but this may not be the case, time will tell.   When I think about negative local groups that have their own rules and regulations but also run within a sovereign state I think of the Biker Gangs of New Zealand.

I have included a video of the “Haka” scene from “Once we were Warriors” a movie all about the lives of those people living within the Biker Gang community.

Perhaps Wirtland is just another “gang”?…but maybe Facebook is just another Gang and Bebo and LinkedIn…