eRepublik Reaches the 100,000 Citizen Mark

MADRID - The MMOG Gathers Together Players From Almost 200 Countries

Last Friday marked the 500th day of the eRepublik world and along with it an important milestone - reaching the 100,000 active citizen mark. Since its launch, many new countries and functionalities have been added increasing the vast number of options players have to interact among each other.

“We are happy to announce that eRepublik currently attracts the interest of over 100,000 real people who spend an average of 15 minutes per day in our New World having fun with friends from around the globe and pursuing their professional, political and military careers,” comments Alexis Bonte, Co-founder and CEO of eRepublik.

eRepublik citizens have created more than 11,000 companies and over 28,000 newspapers. Presently, there are 51 countries available, with new ones being launched frequently. The most populated countries currently include the US, Indonesia, Romania, Hungary and the UK.

eRepublik is a massively multiplayer online strategy game which is set in a mirror world where players (citizens), join in local and national politics, set economic policy, start businesses and wage wars with other countries.

eRepublik is built around the concept of a daily social experience one of its advantages over other strategy games is that it demands a smaller fraction of users’ free time (15 minutes/day), while providing them a much deeper experience for that time.

Key features: - Free access - User-friendly & browser based - No downloads/installation - Not time consuming - Device agnostic - No Artificial Intelligence, only human interaction

Over 95% of the eRepublik world has been created by its citizens; its social based game play allows it to spread virally in terms of content and users, with almost no distribution and development costs. In March of 2009, www.erepublik.com received over 2,5 million visits and 66 million page views, with citizens spending a total of 38 million minutes navigating the eRepublik world.

About eRepublik (www.erepublik.com)

Founded in 2007, eRepublik Labs Ltd., based in Dublin, Ireland, is revolutionizing the way strategy games are created, distributed and played by leveraging the power of communities and the Web. eRepublik, its first massive online social strategy game, is set in a mirror version of the real world.

eRepublik Labs has received EUR750,000 in funding from various Angels and AGF Private Equity.

Source: eRepublik Labs Ltd. (www.erepublik.com)

Press Contact: Javier López de Pablo, +34-91-126-63-57, pr at erepublik.com