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| - In August 2008, the CDS consists of four sims: Locus Amoenus, Alpine Meadow, Colonia Nova and Neufreistadt. The Monastery was added on June 2009. In July 2009, with the merger with Al Andaluz, the CDS grew to eleven sims, adding to the previous five the sims of Al Garnata, Al Andaluz Almunecar, Al Andaluz Alhambra, Al Andaluz Generalife, Al Andaluz Albaycin and Al Andaluz Sacromonte. With the huge increase of landmass, the CDS also increased to twice the population.
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| - In August 2008, the CDS consists of four sims: Locus Amoenus, Alpine Meadow, Colonia Nova and Neufreistadt. The Monastery was added on June 2009. In July 2009, with the merger with Al Andaluz, the CDS grew to eleven sims, adding to the previous five the sims of Al Garnata, Al Andaluz Almunecar, Al Andaluz Alhambra, Al Andaluz Generalife, Al Andaluz Albaycin and Al Andaluz Sacromonte. With the huge increase of landmass, the CDS also increased to twice the population. While citizens can participate in each branch of government, their most obvious way of influencing the future of their sims is through the general elections for the Representative Assembly (held each six months) where they can vote on factions (the parties) by ranking them. Among the goals for this project are: to enable ownership of high-quality public, private, and open-space land; create a themed yet expressive community of public and private builds; and implement novel democratic forms of self government within Second Life. The government in the CDS sims is not role play, as some people's first impression might be. It should be seen as a residents co-op, not unlike the way apartment buildings are managed in real life, where every landowner is a "citizen" and is granted the right to vote and be elected to manage the overall space.
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