What is it about society that creates the need to establish a Second Life other than the real world? This is exactly what is possible, and is happening, online. Second Life websites gives the users a power to control their destinies. Let's explore what possibilities Second Life gives its users.

Starting at a Welcome Island exploration base, users are taught the basics about how to navigate around the site. The site gives users more navigable abilities that are very different from real life – zoom into hidden spaces, walk into different rooms, or territories without the limits of border patrol, and take the option to fly.

Is there a benefit to escaping into another world on the computer? Does this alienate users from their own lives? What is the real purpose of programmes like Second Life?

Critics have noted how the programme may turn its users into internet addicts. Creating a life where there are no limits means there is no need to control desires. A real life need or want will turn into action on these sites. A feeling of more power through a site where its social activities have no ‘real' consequence may make the user immune into wanting to commit the same social acts in real life.

Benefits include the possibility of being able to improve one's own social habits in a virtual life, then in turn using what is learned to improve ‘real' life skills, such as successful relationships, motivation and success. One question the founder, Rosedale asks is, “Is the thing you are doing in front of the computer more or less challenging and enriching than what you might be doing in the real world?”

Bees, wasps and ants are all social insects. Rather than living alone, they tend to form communities with highly structured social order including power hierarchies and divisions of labour. There way of life is an interesting way through which to view our own society.

There are actually four species of honey- bee. The Western honey-bee, Apis Mellifera is the most common. Apis Mellifera is then broken into three categories. Queens: female bees who lay eggs, drones: male (stingless) bees who mate with the queen, and workers: smaller infertile female bees with an ovipositor that has been modified into a sting. The lifespan of the Apis varies. Queens can live for 2-5 years, drones live for approximately 5 weeks and the workers live from 1-4 months. Colonies can vary in size but in the summer months they will consist of one Queen, a few hundred Drones and twenty to eighty thousand workers making it a rather female dominated environment!

The queen is the only unique individual in the hive. She is the mother of the whole hive and spends her time laying up to 1500 eggs per day. There is a short ‘hand-over period' towards the end of a queen's life where one of her daughters will also be laying eggs. This is the only time when you will find two fertile females amongst the drones and workers. The queen will usually only mate once in her entire life: storing the sperm and releasing tiny quantities to fertilise each egg. The queen cannot feed herself and is constantly topped up by the nearest worker who will regurgitate royal jelly onto her proboscis, from where it can be absorbed. The drones however, can feed themselves and are allowed free access to the pollen store but are often still fed by the workers in the same manner as the queen. The workers, as their name suggests, are the ones who do all the labour in the hive. They collect pollen and nectar from the outside world, they create stores, they make wax and they feed the developing larvae.

Bees play a vital role in our ecosystem. When they move from plant to plant collecting pollen there is often an excess that collects on their legs. As they stop to pick up more, some of this will fall into the next flower, pollinating it and allowing reproduction to occur.

The term dystopia was first coined three hundred and fifty years after Thomas More's initial generation of the term utopia. It was John Stuart Mill in a commons speech in 1868 that first used the term dystopia to allude to the concept of ‘an imaginary place or condition in which everything is as bad as possible' . Like the literal translation of Utopia as ou topos, or the Latin for ‘no place', there is still a sense of the unachievable: A place that does not and cannot exist. It seems that in the writing and thinking of Utopia and Dystopia they are commonly posed as polar opposites. But are they ever mutually exclusive? Can they only ever exist with reference to each other? In which case standing alone they are dragged back to their literal translations, ‘No places', incapable of existence.

How can a firm country be formed? This is a debatable question. This is because there have been various crisis' popping up. These may be economic crisis or even poor governing policy. One may not believe that a country may take short duration to be built; but when concerns are focused and fully determined then this may be achieved quickly, successfully. In order for this country to grow day by day, economic issues like trade should be taken into consideration. Trading activities fund the country in terms of foreign exchange. Whenever profits are achieved, they should be saved in an appropriate way possible to help eradicate future economic crisis like inflation. If possible, then a country without currency can be preferred. In ancient days, they were able to survive without using currency policy. They were not exposed to any economic crisis.

Before a country is formed, the idea should always be shared since two heads make work easier. It is not advisable to rush into the matter. A country involves the existence of a certain number of populations. Therefore the country formation may need certain treaties to accompany it. These treaties must be made by only the concerns to create a unique identity and to maintain their sovereignty. The laws should also be made during this time to help one to be familiarizing with them. The laws should also entail certain sensitive issues in it like the human rights.

Have you ever imagined how to build and design a country? In order to build up a country, appropriate measures need to be taken into consideration to help maintain its firmness. This is just like a small child who has an ambition to fulfill. It may depend on the steps this child would make so as not to regret earlier deeds. For a good country to prosper, combined attempts should always be encouraged. Certain bodies should always be formed to deal with various sectors. These comprise; the executive body, legislative body and the judiciary body. These help to build up a standing government. As far as it is concerned, whenever there is an existence of a good government, a country will be built easily around it. It only needs to be fed with able leaders who will help strengthen the country.

One should always start in a humble manner since something good takes time. This will enable one to familiarise problems likely to be experienced and knows how to handle them effectively. It is believed that the animals could build up a good country if given an opportunity to do so. That is in case their thinking capacity was similar to that one of mankind. This can be easily indicated in that they always mean what they do and stand firmly to it. For instance, when the animals, like cattle, are taken out to go and search for pasture, they usually respond positively. When they find good pasture to feed on, they will only concentrate in feeding activity and nothing else. This contradicts with the current generation where there is too much existence of liberal minded persons. These are people who do not stand strong to what they say. They end up not achieving their goals. This brings us to another measure that in deed conservative minded persons like the animals could easily build up good prospering country.

Thinkers are often guilty of too much thought. In the search for an original idea or the next big thing, hours can be spent theorising and analysing. Those massive world changing ideas must have come from a deeper understanding, hours of planning and concept forming surely? In the connection between deep and complex thought with genius ideas there is a danger of disregarding the simplest ideas/thoughts as rudimentary. What if it is these ideas that are the key to a world changing phenomenon? Or is simplicity of thought actually incredibly hard. Although the best ideas come from simplicity is it actually easier to complicate than simplify?

In his new book The Brutal Simplicity of Thought: How It Changed the World, Lord Saatchi the man behind the world's most successful advertising agency, aims to present this notion. Nodding to his own style of creativity, Saatchi shows that simplicity is the key to success. The book shows that massive concepts or complex problems can be tackled head on with simplicity. Using the highly recognisable as examples, simplicity is exposed as the heart of successful creative thinking. The grocery-bag: One shop owner attempts to persuade his customers to buy more than they could carry in their hands. Barbed wire: A way to instantly create boundaries and enclose land.

We have all heard and we all know that behind every good country, either in real or digital life, there is a good leader or player. Someone that makes all the decisions, makes all the rules, punishes, rewards and shoulders ultimate responsibility for his or her country. However, there are many traits and habits that give the leader the ability to run. The list is no doubt endless, but without pinpointing them all, there are a few that a leader of a country cannot exist long without.

? Example. A leader must always be one step above the followers in tradition, ethics, consistency and efficiency, always expecting 100% of him/her and never giving anything less. He/she should be the ultimate in the follower’s eyes, never letting themselves get caught skimping or letting others get ahead of them. Once people see that a leader isn't "walking the talk", they'll be quick to lose trust and the country will crumble or be weak at best.

? Communication. Good actions, great ideas, and wonderful policies are of no use if they cannot be communicated successfully. As previously mentioned, words must be backed up by actions or words. Resolving conflict and articulating his/her vision for the country is also a vital part communication.

? A Goal or a Vision. King Solomon said: "Without a vision the people perish". A country’s president cannot lead long without a goal. Where are they leading or taking the people? How will he get there? What will he do if he gets there? People who want have a vision of where there country is headed in the coming years; if they didn't, they wouldn't need a leader.

? Confidence. If the leader has no confidence in himself, who's going to follow him?

Considering the ancient Greek aphorism "Know Thy Self", what would it be like if we all "knew ourselves”? Or more to the point, what if we all knew what we are and did what we were supposed to do? Examples of this are endless.

How often do we see the religious leaders who are trying to meddle in politics? Getting their point of view across through government channels, it shouldn't really be long before they realise they're in the wrong business and they should have been in politics all along. What about the student bogged down by unfinished papers not having the inner-knowledge to know he is a superb athlete? How could he know? Nobody ever told him and besides, his goals and place in society has been decided for him. Now none of these occupations are bad, to the contrary in fact. But finding one’s place and doing what it takes to stick to it is the challenge faced by everyone in his or her journey of self discovery.

Have you ever heard soldiers or sales people tell that this is a "stepping stone", that they're doing it to pay college or "it’s temporary"? That's what a good society needs. People who know their goals, who know what they are supposed to be doing in their society and are doing what they can to get it. Coming to the realisation of who you are and what you should be doing might take awhile and maybe working in something out of your expertise for a time. But once found the goal of doing what you know you were meant to do and not getting sidetracked by other occupations shouldn't change.

We all know, and sometimes hate, how much politics intrude into everyday life. There are television ads depicting people running for political office doing caring, moral things, and depicting their adversaries as being idiots or know-nothings. There is the reckless partisan spirit showed by one party to another, and the way that the members of either party fight with the members of another is reminiscent of a sporting match riot or even an armed conflict. This spirit of structured parties and factions has bled into realms of daily life that we scarcely would consider assailable. Good examples of this are online social networking sites, such as Facebook.

It may appear that these sites allow people to be the most rude, verbally abusive version of themselves with fewer consequences than in the real world, at least in general. Look at any comment section of a news site or on any YouTube video and this principle becomes apparent. These people take the side of their favourite band or artist or footballer, and before you know it have started a long rant on how theirs is so much better than yours. And God forbid they ever get to talking about politics. There is no more inflammatory subject on the net than politics and political parties, except perhaps religion.

From painful realism to the pleasures of fantasy, fiction has been the authors’ wedge into the imagination of those who are unsatisfied with the world they live in and are looking for a safe escape. Safe because the love of fiction books as an escape does not dull your mind or the senses or require the use of illicit substances to feel the reality of the "perfect" world the author is plunging you into. On the contrary, these books can open your mind to possibilities and brighten your way of thinking.

Many intellects are lovers of fiction and glean daily innovation directly from a variety of fiction authors. Quite often good authors of fantasy-fiction, instead of giving solutions to repair a damaged world, will rather provide the reader with the instant relief of sweeping them into an already perfect world for the pure pleasure of it or a conflict ridden world with difficult but concise ways of overcoming. It may appear that even fiction authors with values and story backgrounds - that supposedly conflict - are united in the effort of giving readers an alternate way to look at life's daily issues through the pages of their works.