Creation of a Cybernation

Thanks to martin for pointing us over to a recent story about Cyber Yuga. It's essentially the formation of an online "nation", which some requirements for citizenship, including reading the Constitution and voting on changes to it, as well as some civic responsibility in running the "country". In any case, a very cool idea-will this be the future? What do you folks think?

Very cool? Very dumb, and been done before!

This is nothing new, there's at least a half dozen other "global citizen" type scams that have been going on for years on the Internet. Usually they have you pay a stragely large amount of money for a passport and citizenship documents that wouldn't be recognized as legal proof of age at a movie theater, much less at any customs or immagration point in the world.

Its just stupid moneymaking schemes, or cult-like practices in some cases.

Lets see what do you get for your money (depending on how you push the issue with the government):

1) Useless passport and citizenship paperwork that won't be recognized by anyone.

or

2) You (at least in the US) revoke your US citizenship (you can't have dual citizenship in the US past the age of 18) and you learn REAL fast what a plus it really is in the world to be a US citizen.

Next on the agenda...

Slashdot forms it's own country and declares war on www.microsoft.com, www.aol.com and www.robsucks.com . (the Axis) After a huge bloody war in which the casualty numbers have to be written in scientific notation (the war is held in Quake 3 arena). It is decided that Hemos is to be Earth Czar. Anyone calling themselves MEEPT is hunted down and clubbed with salami.