The Other World Kingdom (OWK) was a large commercial BDSM and femdom facility, resort, and self-styled micronation that opened using the buildings and grounds of a 16th-century château in the municipality of Černá in the Žďár nad Sázavou District of the Czech Republic. No other country recognized it as sovereign, yet it claimed its own currency, passports, police, courts, state flag, and state hymn. For femdom tourism history, OWK is the extreme end of themed power-exchange hospitality: a for-profit château fantasy where “state” language wrapped paid female dominance and male submission.
History: Founding, Cost, Sale Attempts, Continuity
OWK was officially founded on 1 June 1996 and opened to visitors by spring 1997 after roughly two years of construction costing about £2 million. Marketing emphasized a dominance-and-submission environment unmatched in size and internal consistency. In 2008 the land and buildings were listed for sale at about €8 million, pitched as suitable for hotel, restaurant, residence, or nursing-home conversion. As of 2016 the property was still listed. As of 2020, OWK still owned the building and organized regular events on site. On 24 May 2016, Queen Patricia I launched the related Womania Empire project and a fundraiser to acquire land for a new matriarchal BDSM society headquarters modeled on what OWK had been—an afterlife brand for the same ideology of female rule.
Government as Erotic Theater (Not Real Sovereignty)
OWK styled itself a matriarchy with strong BDSM and female-dominance themes. The stated goal was “to get as many male creatures under the unlimited rule of Superior Women on as much territory as possible.” It always billed itself as a state, but it was a private commercial enterprise with no connection to any recognized sovereign power. Absolute monarch Queen Patricia I was crowned 30–31 May 1997. She could amend “laws,” and held stacked titles: Sublime Supreme Administrator (activities and palace administration), Sublime Administrator of the Treasury (money), plus command of court and guard. Below her sat ranked classes that doubled as kink roles.
- Sublime Ladies / Lady Citizens — nobility. Citizenship requirements for women: age of consent; ownership of at least one male slave; obedience to OWK principles and laws; formal application; at least five nights spent in the Area of the Queen’s Palace.
- Subjects — men who obeyed queen and law and paid taxes but retained limited rights (travel, property, children, employment, enterprise, opinion).
- Slaves — men who had forfeited rights, treated as property of the queen or Sublime Ladies, described as on the level of farm animals.
Read as political science, this is costume. Read as commercial femdom design, it is unusually totalizing world-building: passports and hymns as scene props at château scale.
Facilities on the Ground
The site covered about 3 hectares (7.4 acres) with multiple buildings, a 250-meter (820 ft) oval track, a small lake, and lawns. The Queen’s Palace held the monarch’s residence plus banqueting hall, library, throne room, torture chamber, schoolroom, gym, and an extensive basement prison whose cells could be hired. The Long House offered more visitor lodging, including Countess Elizabeth Báthory Chambers with two torture chambers, plus swimming pool, pub, restaurant, and the Wanda Nightclub. Outdoors and training spaces included a sawdust-covered indoor riding hall and stables—equestrian dominance aesthetics baked into the floor plan. The inventory reads like a checklist of femdom fantasy rooms made rentable: throne for protocol, cells for confinement play, riding hall for pony play optics, nightclub for social power display.
Literary Cousins and Why OWK Is Cited
Fictional cousins often listed beside OWK include Anne Rice’s Exit to Eden (BDSM resort novel) and Story of O’s château of Roissy—literary blueprints for enclosed erotic domains. OWK tried to sell a real-world, ticketed version on Czech château grounds with micronation cosplay. For adult BDSM readers, the useful facts are: 1996 founding, 1997 opening after a multimillion-pound build, Queen Patricia I’s coronation, ranked lady/subject/slave system, 3-hectare facility map, 2008–2016 sale attempts, continued event use into 2020, and the 2016 Womania Empire sequel project. It was never a recognized country. It was—and as a brand sometimes still is—one of the most ambitious commercial femdom resort experiments in modern kink tourism, complete with flags, passports, and prison cells for hire under “Superior Women.”
