It’s official. Facebook is now not only it’s own country (let’s face it, it’s been that for a while), but now a bigger country than that of the self-proclaimed best country in the World – the United States of America. And to be bigger in population  than all but 4 countries in the World is nothing to be sneezed at.

According to RWW, Facebook’s userbase has just passed the 300 million ACTIVE user mark. Mind-blowing. Too large to really be able to truly comprehend methinks. One of the World’s largest “‘eco-system”s is virtual.

So if such a virtual land can claim supremecy over other physical lands by virtue of the size of its population, then surely it will be a natural progression for it to be eligible to determine it’s own political and social policies, in isolation from (in the best case scenario) or in direct conflict with  (in a worst case scenario) policies that currently are determined and exercised by the physical countries that the Republic of Facebook’s inhabitants actually inhabit? At what point does a community gain the right to decree its own agenda? Is it based on the size of the community? Or on needs that arise to correct ‘wrong-doings’ within a community? Is it set by the people or by it’s leaders? And what part does capitalism play???

Ok, perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself. Perhaps this report will remain of relevance to the general population purely as an interesting fact – nothing more.  Or will it…