After we have got our great place to talk about professional matters and sozialize online - on SO, I believe the next logical step would be to found our own country!

I invite you all to participate and bring together your available resources. We will buy an island, better even a group of islands so that we could establish states like .NET territories, Java land, Linux republic etc. We will build a society of programmers (girls - we need you too).

To the organizational side, we're going to need some sort of a Constitution or a law book. I suggest we write it together. I make it a wiki as it should be a cooperative effort.

I'll open the work.

Section 1. Programmers' rights.

• Every citizen has a right to an Internet connection 24/7.
• Every citizen can freely choose the field of interest

Section 2. Programmers' obligations.

• Every citizen must embrace the changing nature of the profession and constanly educate himself

Section 3. Law enforcement.

• Code duplication when can be avoided is punished by limiting the bandwith speed to 64Kbit for a period of one week.
• Using ugly hacks instead of refactoring code is punished by cutting the Internet connection for a period of one month.
• Usage of technologies older than 5/10 years is punished by restricting the web access to the sites last updated 5/10 years ago for a period of one month.

Please feel free to modify and extend the list. We'll need to have it ready before we proceed formally with the country foundation.

A purchase fund will be established shortly. Everyone is invited to participate.