Virtual Nation

Governance system: presidential, parliamentary, elective

The first President of the Virtual Nation was appointed on the basis of an idea that needed to be nurtured, an idea that was looking for the right person to adopt it and give it life. The President-appointee consulted with her real and virtual friends and they together put the first virtual foundations of the Virtual Nation and its provisional government.

Once the number of registered citizens reaches 30,000, some Ministers have suggested that we apply for full membership in the United Nations (since the smallest members of the UN has about that many citizens). But this is one of many strategic issues that requires further information and deliberation since some citizens think we are not just any other nation. And the President and Ministers and concerned citizens will discuss this and other constitutional issues in future audio programmes of the Virtual Nation.

Ministers are appointed by the Provisional Government after an extensive interview by the President with the candidate citizen. All Ministers are expected to make their own case for the importance of the Ministry they wish to champion, and depending on their Ministerial record and performance, they can run in the coming elections for renewal or even for a new post.

The names of appointed Ministers and Ministers awaiting confirmation, as well as vacant portfolios, appear on a separate page and are updated regularly on this site.

Citizenship: rights and obligations

The Virtual National flag will be adopted after a call for proposals from citizen artists and we will eventually issue passports featuring a proposed rainbow emblem.

Citizens of any other nation, or even stateless refugees, can request a passport by a simple phone call or email, and asylum seekers will not be placed in refugee camps in the Virtual Nation, but rather will enjoy the same rights of any other virtual citizen. The Virtual Nation permits dual nationality, so upon taking virtual nationality citizens do not need to surrender any other nationality they might already have.

The Virtual Nation is a place to enjoy all those rights which have been denied for so long:

· a homeland for where those people whose voices have been silenced in their countries;

· a place where those who have been driven to madness by hunger can be nourished; and,

Every virtual citizen is automatically an ambassador for the Virtual Nation in the country where they reside.

Among the most important duties of all citizens is opening an embassy in their home – already we have some 250 provisional embassies worldwide (as many as we have citizens). Citizens are expected to dedicate a room in their house as a Virtual Nation embassy and report its total surface area to the Minister of the Virtual Interior so we can keep an accurate record of the expanding total area under Virtual National sovereignty.

As for obligations other than serving the Nation, these can be agreed with the concerned citizen in future interviews with the President and members of the Government according to each citizen’s abilities.