While (contrary to its claim of being the “first”) it is not the new attempt at establishing a sovereign state on the Internet — there was another project like this over 12 years ago, by the name of the Republic of Lomar (洛麻共和国, Luoma Gongheguo) — Wirtland (维德兰, Weidelan) truly takes the advantage of Web 2.0 and social media as a foundation of an organic human community. It was founded in 2008 by Cris Luengo (吕凯隆, Lu Kailong) of Stockholm, Sweden. Today it appears that there are many Bulgarian-speaking Wirtlanders in addition to English-speakers.