Come, let's be citizens of eRepublik

BANGALORE, INDIA: If all the world is a stage, how can the virtual space be an exception? The new game, called eRepublik, brings the real world into the virtual space.

Proclaiming to change the course of history in a huge virtual society, the game has a contemporary touch to it, with ‘players work together as nations to create the strongest economy’.

Announcing the launch of the online game, eRepublik Labs, a game developer based in Dublin, Ireland, today said the first massively multiplayer online strategy game is set in a mirror world where players, referred to as citizens, join politics, set economic policy, start businesses and wage wars with other countries.

With more than 35,000 active daily ‘citizens’ playing the beta version of eRepublik, this new release delivers an improved war module that lets citizens stage resistance wars and more sophisticated political and economic systems that include the management of natural resources, said a press release.

"A lot of companies think they are going to take over the world; eRepublik allows you to, virtually," said Carla Thompson, senior analyst of Guidewire Group. "eRepublik has combined our favorite aspects of strategy games like Risk and Civilization and placed them in the social context of a massive multiplayer game.”

The game is designed to take just 15 minutes per day to maintain an active citizen, said the release. eRepublik estimates that over 90 per cent of the content in the game has been created by citizens, including thousands of newspapers, hundreds of political parties, and more than 2,900 companies that employ over 23,000 citizens.