Svetlana Frolova:

"In this five-storey house in Saltovka district, a man lives who is named by Internet community as Prool I, The King. In a real life his name is Sergey Pustovoitov, but in Internet he's established Virtustan, a virtual kingdom. Sergey Pustovoitov is a programmer. Internet-kingdom was devised by him in 2004. The computer state has The Flag, The Coat of Arms and The Constitution, but it is still rather a club. The King's name, "Prool", is a nickname of Sergey since his student times. At first I felt mysel hurt with it, he says, because "Prool" is a name of a boring octopus in a Kir Bulychev's S&F book. But then I've got accustomed."

Prool:

"Yesterday, for example, I've mopped a floor. The real King is a king even if he is digging with a shovel in hands and is clothed in rags."

Svetlana Frolova:

There are about 45 citizens of Virtustan today, they live at distant parts of former USSR: Donetsk, Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, St.Petersburg, Belgorod, Saratov, Ufa, Israel, Finland. Koshmarik (Nightmarik), the cat, is a honorary freeman of the Kingdom. The Master says that his pet is a kind of a hacker when it strolls over the keyboard and resets passwords. Virtustan lacks a currency. Prool says that similar virtual states in Europe coin money and issue postage-stamps with King's portrays. But the state founded by Kharkov's inhabitant has no money to coin own money, the Prool jests.> Svetlana Frolova, Alexander Zana, the Mediaport news agency.