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Ulrika Zugzwang was born into Second Life in June 2004. Within a month, she won first prize in a Second Life video contest with her "Thriller" dance video, with coding of the synchronized dance machine by Eggy Lippmann and Christopher Omega. Around the same time she built a sales stand to sell animations, and also uploaded all the standard poses and animations that came with Poser, placing them for sale for L$0 to prevent profiteering. This provoked wuvme Karuna to place all of Ulrika’s animations for sale in a prim next to hers. Ulrika also created and published an animation tutorial on her web site.

In August 2004 Ulrika ran for President of Second Life in a mock forum-based election, and was runner-up to Darwin Appleby. During the election, Robin Linden asked if residents were interested in self-rule, which caused weeks of wrangling in the forums. Ulrika promptly created the Social Democratic Faction (SDF), joined by Kendra Bancroft. She experimented with the principles of being a land baron in hopes of exposing their methodology, and protested that Linden Lab's regressive land-use fee unfairly placed the cost burden on small land owners.

A week later, in response to Haney Linden's call for proposals to preserve the Snow Sims, Ulrika submitted a proposal for the Neualtenburg project. The Neualtenburg project was approved in September and construction began in the Anzere sim. Ulrika and Kendra created several items, including the Neualtenburg Bier Stein, in time for an Oktoberfest celebration, where several guests, including Torley Torgeson, danced under a tent on the Marktplatz, the only existing city structure. Around this time she made a custom city holovendor that reported to a server. On 25 December 2004 Ulrika published the Neualtenburg Constitution and finished SL's first in-world, web-based voting machine for the city's first democratic elections, which were held on 9 Jan 2005.

In January 2005 Ulrika organized a boycott against SLExchange for unethical business practices, and created a web page decrypting the SL client's "name.cache" file, allowing all artisans to convert between name and key.

Ulrika proposed the second phase of the Neualtenburg Projekt on 1 Mar 2005. To solve the problem of declining participation, it was proposed to move the city to a private sim and sell plots of land, as a nonprofit cooperative. On the 21 March 2005 the group then consisting of four individuals took possession of the private sim named Neualtenburg, an exact duplicate of that in Anzere. To prepare for the sale of lots in the city, Ulrika worked alone to rebuild the city, to create of the Neualtenburg website, and to the write the city Deed, Covenant, and Terms of Service. On 4 June 2005 the city's first new citizen Satchmo Prototype purchased land. Over 14 new citizens purchase land in the first two weeks.

==Links==
*Animated Neualtenburg Chicken Hat: http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?/clickableculture/entry/a_chickens_oktoberfest/ 
*Giant space elevator for the 2004 Burning Life: http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2004/09/burning_man_bur_2.html 
*Hamletgate. Animated Iwo Jima war protest sculpture for Hamlet Linden's Red Staters Meet the World event, statements published out of context in Hamlet’s blog: http://secondlife.blogs.com/nwn/2004/11/red_staters_mee_4.html 
*Interviewed by Cristiano Midnight: http://www.sluniverse.com/language/2004/12/chat-history-interview-ulrika-zugzwang.html 
*Neualtenburg  rebuilt: http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/Default.aspx?Search=Neualtenburg 

==Forum Links==
*http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=19594 
*http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=18984 
*Neualtenburg Projekt approved: http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=23122 
*Neualtenburg transitioned from a project-management team to an interim government:
http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=26888 
*Regressive land-tier fees: http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=29427
*Neualtenburg constitution: http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=28557
*Neualtenburg first Representative Assembly: http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=33294
*Organized a boycott against SLEX for unethical business practices: 
**http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=33379 
**http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=33404 
**http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=33585 
**http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=34128 
*Dedicated SL In-World Politics forum, Lindens as corporatist oligarchy, anarchy and virtual bill of rights: http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=40428 
*http://forums.secondlife.com/forumdisplay.php?f=148 
*City Deed, Covenant, and Terms of Service: http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=48796 
*Rebuilding Neualtenburg in private sim: http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=48797 
*Started the moderation reform thread after receiving a formal warning: http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=50966 

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