New Bergen has a Micronational Guest

His Majesty was joined by Raymond Habilis, a man who has been interested in Micronationalism for a while and hopes to found his own nation some day. He was kind enough to conscent to a photo, shown below.

During the meeting His majesty asked him, among other things, what he thought New Bergen meant to Micronationalism at large and Raymond Habilis had this to say:

I have had an interest in micronations for about a year or so now. I discovered a few micronation forums a week ago, and there is where I saw entries for New Bergen. It seems quite innovative, to bring a micronation online. Such an environment could be a good test grounds for government.

That is exactly the point. New Bergen offers an entire new set of possibilities for governments to have to cope with. The virtual environment is not a fantasy in the same way that some forums dependant nations are. Things in Second Life are real in the sence that they are whole in the closed system that is Second Life. A building to an avatar is as substantial as a building to a human body. That is, one operates in using the laws that govern the virtual universe, and the other using the laws that govern the physical universe.