The first digital nation: How an entire country will be saved thanks to the metaverse  

Threatened by climate change and triggers a ‘rescue’ plan

Tuvalu is a state in the central Pacific, one of the most isolated and small on the planet. It is located 1,050 km north of the Fiji Islands and consists of nine coral reef islands 579 km long, while its total area is a little more than 26 sq. km. 

Its existence is literally threatened by climate change and ever-increasing sea levels, which will result in its complete submergence in the future. So last Tuesday Tuvalu’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Simon Kofe, announced his rescue plan. Speaking at the COP27 climate conference he announced that Tuvalu will become the first digital nation , as it will be uploaded whole into the metaverse to preserve its culture and history into the future . 

“At a time when our land is disappearing, we have no choice but to become the world’s first digital nation. Our land, our ocean and our culture are our people’s most important assets. And to keep them risk-free, no matter what happens in the real world, we’ll move them to the cloud.” was Kofe’s statement. 

The shift of an entire people to the metaverse and the digital world to preserve itself is something unprecedented in history and is a plan – according to Kofe – that takes into account the “worst possible scenario”. This is to create a digital copy of Tuvalu in the Metaverse to preserve its beautiful islands, on the grounds that it will ” be able to function fully as an independent state ” while its population needs to migrate . in another place . 

In 2007 the islands’ government sounded the alarm about climate change and pointed out the risk of the islands sinking into the sea due to these changes.

It is the third least populated state in the world, after the Vatican and Nauru. Its population (ranked 231st), according to the 2012 census, is 10,782 residents.