Island

An "island" at Ephemerisle is a collection of one or more anchored boats, platforms, and/or whatever else floats that's the home of at least one person during the gathering. Generally they have a theme.

Islands are completely independent and autonomous.

Previously Islands have been encouraged to experiment with their own governance systems, but benevolent dictatorships seem to be winning out.

Every island is strongly encouraged to treat it's neighbors with respect and not doing anything (including anchoring too closely) which might put their neighbors in danger.