We like eccentricity in England. It means being off-centre; not behaving like everyone else. A popular television programme on the BBC is “Last of the Summer Wine”. It’s about a group of elderly eccentric men who live in the English countryside and have their adventures. I like it. It also provides work for actors and actresses who would normally be retired and of course have lots of experience and so the acting is brilliant. One of the main characters was “Foggy”, the actor who played him unfortunately passed away and it hasn’t been the same without him. But it seems to provide work for more and more “elderly” actors. It’s a comedy and a tragedy.

I’m happy to be a little eccentric. I wrote not long ago about an imaginary island, I called Zip Island. I found out this week there is an island and it is a little like Britain in that it has its territories and even Embassies. I like it. But I don’t like the name; unfortunately, they called it the State of Sabotage. It is basically a rock in the sea and its citizen’s are nomads scattered around the world. They call it SOS and that is engraved on the rock. Go take a look at their website; it’s impressive - '>http://www.sabotage.at/sos/index.php'> http://www.sabotage.at/sos/index.php – they call it their electronic Embassy. The name though, Sabotage, it makes them sound like terrorists.

But the idea of a State, that we can all become citizens of with its own territories in cyber-space. Its own constitution, elections, embassies, territories and so on could be a great idea. Online communities are very fashionable. We could even have a Royal Family. How many young girls like to be princesses? We could make their dreams come true. I fancy being a Lord or a Viscount maybe. One of my ancestors was a Viscount. I’d still be a British citizen and English but have duel nationality. I would like to have diplomatic immunity. We would of course make it very democratic, electing our Royalty and aristocracy. Anyone want the jobs of being King and Queen? Having garden parties and presenting medals? All we need is a website and a forum for parliament and some way of voting. Everyone could have a fairly prestigious position an Aristocrat, diplomat, politician, President, High Commissioner or Secretary of State.

I could probably design a coat of arms and some official seals. A passport would be good and International driving licence. We would need art galleries. I have two virtual art galleries, one on each of my computers. That would be the inexpensive option and I’m sure we could find people to produce works of art with PhotoShop and similar programs. I have a few collectables for the museum. I could photograph them and we could have an online museum. Education is important, but things like that could be decided later. Here in England, we have three main political parties, Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat. But the fun one has always been the Monster Raving Loony Party. Again they went over the top. If they had called it just the Loony Party I may have joined.

We would have a problem though. What would we call our new country? Our new State with no discrimination, no taxation, no class system and everyone not only equal before the law but everyone having some kind of status. If you want to be a brain surgeon – you can – as long as you don’t actually do any surgery! I thought maybe we could claim Holy island. Royalty is supposed to be appointed by God. I seem to remember a Pope in the past making someone a princess. We could call it the State of Holy Island and its Territories; perhaps not. The media are bound to shorten it to an acronym.

There are 10,000 islands in the Everglades, maybe we could invade one and with luck end up at war with the United States. After the war was over we could claim money from the United Nations to rebuild. It would probably only last 24 hours. A load of marines storming a deserted island – they wouldn’t work out we were based in Cyber space; until it was too late.

We would do well selling mint condition postage stamps to collectors all over the world. The prints from our art galleries may sell well too. But we still need a name…the State of Important People SIP? No, need something better…. We could have a State lottery that’s a good way of making loads of cash with little work involved. The State of Peoples Equal Congressional Independent Autonomous Legislature or SPECIAL for short! Maybe, we could just run a competition and give a prize to the person who comes up with the best name! The Bikini Islands are deserted, I think. It has something to do with them being radioactive. Maybe, The Bikini Islands Sovereign State – BISS; that doesn’t sound right. Maybe the Bikini Legislature Islands Sovereign State now that would be BLISS! We need a slogan like. You too can become a prestigious citizen of BLISS with dual nationality and a honorary degree in Law from our online University! I want to be Lord Chancellor of the University; well it was my idea. I have to have some perks. Besides, I am Viscount Bliss. I could have a statue of me somewhere as the founder of the new State. Just a small one and not one peeing in to a fountain – I have a sense of humour – but I’m not that funny.

I’ve just thought, dropping back to reality for a second. I put Google adsense on my website. I’ve configured it so I know what pages people are clicking on. They are not clicking on this one. But I wonder what the Google bot will advertise next to this? I shall check my adsense clicks later – there is a chance of a few over the weekend. It’s Sunday again. I always write on here on a Sunday – usually in the afternoon; my afternoon ramble in cyber space. But it’s morning. We had a storm, I’m thinking the weather will be nice this afternoon – and I know a sweet shop (candy store) that’s open on a Sunday afternoon. Anyway, a drive in the sunshine to the sweet shop may do me good. Take a look at my website, its tiny 15 Mb but I’ve tried to make it interesting and I’m experimenting with adsense. I had an advert on for Soulcast telling people they could make money for blogging! Nobody clicked on it! You check that out and I’ll have lunch and go to the sweet shop and see if you clicked my adsense later!
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In the meantime, anyone want to be King and Queen?