The Swedish Embassy

Major corporations like IBM are already using Second Life as a business tool; now, Sweden plans to be the first country to open an embassy in the virtual world.

According to Reuters, the embassy will be called House of Sweden and is modeled after the country's new embassy in Washington.

It will open in a couple of weeks, and "will have answers to questions on all aspects of Sweden," said Olle Wastberg, general director of the Swedish Institute.