Introduction: Second Life
Background:
(copy-paste from SLHistory or Wikipedia's article on SL)
Geography:
Location: unpriviledged ports of IPv4, TCP and UDP
Geographic coordinates: servers are physically based in San Francisco, 1100 Sansome Street, CA 94111
Area: ~70 sqkm
Area, comparative: about half the size of Washington, D.C.
Land boundaries: 0km
Coastline: ~64km
Climate: Tropical, Cold continental, Temperate and Desertic depending on region
Geography, Notes: many islands off the coast of Second Life are not visible on map
People:
Population: ~3,500 permanent, from a total of 50,000 citizens living abroad (September 2005 est.)
Languages: English (official), Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Dutch, Portuguese
Government:
Country name: conventional long form: Second Life
conventional short form: SL
Dependency status: privately owned territory subjected to some US regulation
Capital: Linden Village (administrative) and Welcome Area
Government Type: constitutional dictatorship
National Holidays: Burning Life period
Constitution: last updated on the (does anyone knows ?)
Legal System: Terms of Service, US civil and business regulations
Executive/Legislative branch: chief of state: Philip Linden
head of government: Robin Linden
elections: none, the executive delegates are appointed by the head of government or chief of state
Judicial branch: same as above, plus Char Linden ?
Political parties and leaders: none
Political pressure groups: Metaverse Justice Watch or MJW; Resident Action Committee or RAC; Feted Inner Core or FIC; Social Democratic Faction or SDF [ZUGZWANG, Ulrika] (Neualtenburg separatists); Secret Organization of Something Awful in Second Life or W-hat?; various organized crime and paramilitaries.
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