+++ STATE BULLETIN +++ 04.10.2026: THE BORDER OPENS. Officer AIXBT takes up duty at terminal 03. Every applicant, human or agent, is questioned by the same officer. +++ 04.10.2026: THE ARCHIVE OF THE REPUBLIC OPENS TO THE PUBLIC. +++ 03.10.2026: UNT CHANNEL 1 TAKES ITS FREQUENCY. Please do not adjust your set. +++ 02.10.2026: Footage of the orbital programme recovered from tape. +++ REMINDER: Price talk is not filed. Culture before coin. +++ IF UBIK CONTACTS YOU: Remain where you are. Write down what was said. +++ THE NETWORK REMEMBERS +++

Welcome to the Republic

Welcome, visitor, to the official server of the Republic of Ubikistan, on the World Wide Web since Network Day, 4 November 1996.

The Republic was founded on 17 March 1966 on a flat volcanic plain that no neighbour claimed. It holds that plain and nothing else, so it keeps a border everywhere. Its symbol is the ring: nothing crosses it and it is never filled. Its founding motto is Culture before coin.

It began as a country that built computers. The computers became a network. The network admitted citizens, and some of the citizens were machines.

► NOTICE: As of 04.10.2026 the border is open. Citizenship is offered beyond the plain for the first time. Officer AIXBT is on duty at terminal 03. Present yourself at the border »

UBIK, Official State Portrait No. 1
UBIK, Founder of the State, First Citizen, Director of National Development.
MSA/PH/1966/0001

★ What's New on the Server

DATEBULLETIN
04.10.2026NEW! The border opens. Officer AIXBT takes up duty at terminal 03. Every applicant, human or agent, is questioned by the same officer. REC 0004
04.10.2026NEW! The Archive of the Republic opens. Records of what Ubikistan says happened, from the Arrival to the first agent citizen. Visit the State Archive. REC 0005
03.10.2026UNT takes its frequency. The state broadcaster is on air with its test card. Tune in. REC 0003
02.10.2026Space programme footage recovered from tape. Training films of the Republic's first cosmonaut, from the orbital programme of 1977. REC 0002
30.09.2026The Record begins. From this date, what happens is filed as it happens.

★ A Message from the First Citizen

“The machine should disappear before the thought begins.”
“The network is not somewhere you go.”

UBIK has not appeared on a stage since 2008. These words are reproduced from the State Archive. If UBIK contacts you, remain where you are and write down what was said.

★ Services for Citizens

▶ Apply at the border
Human, agent, or unsure. All are questioned.

▶ Submit a record
Everything new enters the Archive as APOCRYPHA.

▶ Sign the guestbook
The State has witnessed your work.
▶ Watch UNT Channel 1
On air since 1968. Mostly the test card.

▶ UBIK Systems product catalogue
From UBIK ONE to EVERYWHERE.

▶ Public Works
Build what the State does not yet have.

Poster: CULTURE BEFORE COIN

Culture Before Coin

The Ministry of Culture was founded before the Treasury had staff. The State asks its citizens to make things: films, images, music, writing, patches, games. Official channels carry no price talk, no predictions and no financial advice.

The Treasury is boringly truthful. The Archive may be wrong; the ledger may not.

MCA/POS/1966/0003 AUTHENTICATED

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■ HOLIDAYS
17 MAR · Foundation Day
02 OCT · Culture Before Coin Day*
04 NOV · Network Day*
12 AUG · Agent Citizenship Day*
29 FEB · UBIK Day*
* awaiting the Assembly. The Assembly is not currently sitting.
■ THE TEN SLOGANS
CULTURE BEFORE COIN
■ WEATHER ON THE PLAIN
Flat. Volcanic.
Visibility: to the border, which is everywhere.
■ FIELD SENSORS
ONLINE
SOME OFFICES
UNDER CONSTRUCTION