Sweden was planning to open the first "diplomatic representation" in the virtual reality of web-based Second Life on 30 May 2007.

However the tiny country of The Maldives (pop. less than 300,000) has pipped Sweden to the post by unveiling the world's first virtual embassy in Second Life just days before the Scandinavian country's planned launch.

Stewart Gibbon from the Maldives Mission in Geneva explained "I suppose it's nice to be first but this was not a deliberate attempt to beat Sweden to it".

As at May 2007 there are around 6,500,000 residents living in the alternative reality of Second Life - over twenty times the population of the Maldives.

See also: http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/882087.htm

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