Europeans honor Christopher Columbus for discovering "The New World" in 1492. Prior to 1492, Europeans thought of the world as consisting of the Eurasian and African continents. Europeans quickly came to see Columbus's New World as virgin land, available for the taking. Native peoples didn't see their land that way, but were no match militarily for the Europeans. Waves of Europeans and, later, Asians and Africans, washed over the New World.

For the native peoples, these were genocidal waves of acid that scoured away all traces of people and culture. But for the settlers, these were waves of lifegiving water, bearing seeds of a new kind of freedom. Although Columbus's discovery was disastrous for the native peoples, the overall historic consequence was stunningly, decisively beneficial. European culture, transplanted to new, virgin soil, was transformed into something entirely new, and, in some ways, beautiful.

The European womb conceived Liberty and Justice in Athens and in Rome, went into labor in London and in Paris, and gave birth in Philadelphia. Liberty and Justice, the darling twin children of humanity, could only have been born in Columbus's "New World", could only have survived infancy there, and can only develop into adulthood there.

"Cyberspace" is the term used for the Internet viewed as a "place". Cyberspace is the next newly discovered continent, a "Gnu World" for our time. The Constitutional Declaration of IdeaFarm (tm) City, published on the Internet in 1999, marks the official discovery of this next Gnu World. With playful seriousness, this organizer declares himself to be the next Christopher Columbus!

Others have seen the potential for creating sovereign "micronations" in Cyberspace. But converting Cyberspace into something substantial, into a place with benefits that can compel people to emigrate, requires software. IdeaFarm (tm) City is the first substantial micronation, the first micronation project to have some legal, technological, and economic muscle behind it. IdeaFarm (tm) City is the first settlement on this newly discovered continent that normal, practical minded, reasonable people might want to emigrate to!

IdeaFarm (tm) City, built upon IdeaFarm (tm) Piggyback Distributed Operating System <> IP-DOS (tm), converts Cyberspace into a Gnu World, a newly discovered continent. The New World of 1492 enticed European settlers with the prospect of bountiful land, available for the taking. The Gnu World of 1999 will entice our children with the prospect of bountiful computation and communication resources, a "perfect market", and complete and total freedom from coercive territorial government. Cyberspace is truly virgin land; there are no native peoples to displace, to exploit, to exterminate. And the space is truly unlimited; there is room for everyone, and every settlement can simultaneously enjoy the best that this Gnu World has to offer.