French elections fought in Second Life

The French socialist party has established an outpost in Second Life a few months ago where you can smoke "gitanes" and dream of a more equal virtual world where terraforming work is restricted to 35 hours a week only. Loic Le Meur, who has been campaigning on and offline for Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that he is opening an island for UMP supporters. Article in French - with pictures - on TF1 and Loic's blog.

Apparently, 12.73% of the SL population is French. Don't ask me how this figure was calculated...

Tags: second life, france, web 2.0