Sweden has become the first country to open an embassy in the virtual world Second Life.More photos on Sweden.se
Created to promote The Nordic state's image and culture, the embassy does not offer any real or virtual consular services but provides information on its real world counterparts.
The opening of the embassy was attended online by Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, in the form of an avatar, and at a real life press conference in Stockholm.
The embassy also includes a room dedicated to Raoul Wallenberg, who helped save thousands of Jews in World War II. It recreates his office in Budapest, where he worked as a diplomat and issued Swedish passports to Hungarian Jews to help them escape the Nazis.
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