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Publication: Information Today
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Rainforests cover the heart of Almazonia, but long beaches stretch down the country's eastern shore. There are a few swamps and mangrove in the south and, to the north, a desert.

Two rivers--the Almazon and the Rio Namoro--spring from the Condor Mountains in the west; meet in Esperanza, a...

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...the capital city; and flow into the Harmonic Ocean in the east. That's where you'll find the island of Yemanja.

In the middle of Yemanja is sacred lake. In the center of the lake, there's an inactive volcano with a water-filled crater. In the middle of that, a small island. So it's an island within an island within an island, which Almazonians describe as "a dream within a dream within a dream."

Sounds like a nice place to spend a week or two of vacation, doesn't it? But don't call your travel agent. You can visit Almazonia only online (http://cf.geocities.com/almazonia). It's a cybernation founded on the goals of protecting nature, making materialism subordinate to spiritualism, and meritocracy (official positions and private jobs are given to citizens who demonstrate competence).

"We wish to establish diplomatic relations with other states," an Almazonian official says on the site. "We do not claim...

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