Swedish Embassy moves to Second Life
Second Life, the extremely popular online game, has come a long way. The online game where “residents” can communicate with each other and buy and sell property has attracted a great deal of attention from the media recently and now appears to have interested the Swedish government to the extent where it hopes to build an online embassy.
Though this embassy will not be able to issue visas or passports, it will provide instructions to visitors on doing so in the real world (thought I’d imagine anyone looking for that information would try the Swedish government website and not an online game).
The Swedish Embassy of Second Life may also be an attempt by the government to promote its country to a world wide audience and perhaps gain more visitors.
There have been other embassies in the game though these have not been official, rather they have been created by users with no ties to a real world counterpart.
Reference for posting: http://www.game-addicts.com
