Kingdom of Sand

Put "Sex" into the Places tab in SL search and you will find this sim is 22 down the list. With a traffic count of 57216, this piece of Arabia is hugely popular. I have been here on three occasions at various times of the day and have always found it to be very busy, maybe 50/60 people each time time. As a result, it suffers heavily from lag.
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This sim is a Capture Role Play sim, where if you enter without an observer's tag (They call it explorer's tag) you are likely to be "beaten severely, hung, drawn, quartered and fed to the crows" to quote their note card.
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The story behind the sim...
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The last Great Sultan died and the kingdom was passed to his sister who had watched for years as her brother stirred up trouble in the lands. When she became Sultana, she made an agreement with all the factions that she would not interfere with their business so long as they kept peace amongst themselves.
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In her palace she was safe and ignorant. She never really got to know what was going on outside her walls. In reality the city and faction leaders were in conflict as they were before; raids took place, the main goodies to steal? Well, slaves, of course.
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There is a clear well structured hierarchical system that ranges from the Sultana and the Royal family to the cook, carpet seller and potter. Everyone else are slaves/prey or slavers/Master/Mistress/Dom/me/pred or "Frees"etc as you would find in any D/s type place.
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They operate their own financial system that is linked to their game tag. They don't use L$ here but K$ in their RP. They can earn these K$ by, for example, camping in cages, guarding the undead or serving in the Public Houses. It is there, I am told, to support and encourage the role-play. They can then exchange the K$ to buy food or slaves etc. There is no link between buying and selling K$ and buying and selling L$.
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CaRP and RP is plentiful here, the whole sim is geared around slavery; the links made with D/s are everywhere. There are a few BDSM areas about but you have to know where they are. The toys and equipment are often cleverly disguised to fit with the Arabic theme.
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Copied from their note card...

• Magi Tower - dungeon in the basement (the sacrificial altar, the cross and some other pose balls)
• Dungeon - The torture bed, the cross, some other balls, the slave hangers
• Slaver's Boat - The slaver's throne, the cross, some pose balls below
• Bedu Tents - Whipping post, the bedu bench, some pose balls
• Necro - A cross, a wall rack, some poseballs
• Harem - A love/spanking bench inside the cage

Open sex here is allowed although it needs to be RPed by game-players and citizens, not a place for the casual SL resident to wander into and start banging away.
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It is a truly stunning sim to visit; its design and construction are second to none. It is what I would call, a professional sim. Everything comes together, the visuals, the music, sounds, people, the environment to create an inclusive experience. It is places like this that Second Life means when they refer to the platform as being a "Virtual Reality". This sim, is virtually, real.

To know more...
http://kingdomofsand.blogspot.com/