Wirtland citizenship for Julian Assange

Government of Wirtland decided to grant Wirtland citizenship to Julian Assange. The official letter from the world's first sovereign cybercountry underlines Mr. Assange's "great accomplishments in changing the public perception of internet and its role in the world's balance of power". Official residence permit was issued in the name of Julian Assange.

"Your example has vividly demonstrated how quickly and efficiently the internet can influence real life. While citizenship of a cybercountry may seem merely symbolic today, you know better than anybody else the potential of cyberspace and the role of web social projects in the near future. Wirtland offers our citizenship to show our support to your case, and our appreciation of your achievements," - states the Wirtland's letter to Mr. Assange.

Mr. Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, is currently under house arrest in England pending an extradition hearing. For his work with WikiLeaks, Assange received a number of awards and nominations, including the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award and Readers' Choice for Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year.

Update added on January 7, 2011:
Breaking News: Wirtland is on the way to producing the new Wirtland Crane coin, which will bear Julian Assange's portrait - to commemorate his witizenship and raise support.
We announce a contest for the best text of inscription for the Assange coin. Please submit proposals as comments here, or email to contest3 (at) wirtland (dot) com. The winner gets the nation-wide praise and coins with his text.

First Wirtland's Newsletter and other New Year presents

Happy holidays to all! In the New Year's eve Wirtland congratulated its citizens by first e-mail newsletter. The Wirtland Newsletter is conceived to be a multi-language project, with several language versions to be sent to targeted mailing lists. First newsletter was already released in English (see here) and Russian (see here) language versions. To subscribe, click here.

Email newsletter is great, but what's a New Year eve without presents? Wirtland has just opened a brand new gift shop, full of stylish, fully-customizable items with Wirtland symbols. The shop is called "Wirtland Design", and our friend James Bond was heard saying that "It's shocking, positively shocking!"

Though "Wirtland Design" has opened just days ago, its product range goes beyond the standard set of t-shirts, offering original items such as jackets, duffel bags, netbook cases, bandannas, scarves, and even mini-umbrellas: everything in traditional Wirtland's bluish - white - yellow colour gamma. Dull colours? No problem, you can immediately change them to pink or orange if you wish. Enjoy.

Wear Wirtland T-Shirt and support release of Assange, Khodorkovsky

You can demonstrate your Witizen identity and at the same time show your support to political victims in other countries. Wirtland's official shop has approved designs for T-shirts "FREE Julian Assange" and "FREE Mikhail Khodorkovsky". Both well-known prisoners are awaiting sentence in their countries. The garments can be purchased with or without the inscription "Wirtland", so you may use them optionally without association with Wirtland. All profit will go to Wirtland's charity fund.