In a move to hopefully give it more of a fighting chance for a spot in Google’s Fiber for Communities program, Topeka, Kansas has declared that it will now be called Google, Kansas. Well, at least for a month.

Bill Bunten, the mayor of Topeka, announced last Monday that his city will now be named ‘Google’, in a vie for Google-the-company’s Fiber for Communities program. The program promises to install new Internet connections in undisclosed areas, allowing for connection speeds generally a hundred times faster than most other areas. The move, Bunten believes, will greatly benefit the residents of Topeka, most especially the younger ones.

“It’s just fun. We’re having a good time of it,” shares Bunten, in a report by CNN. “There’s a lot of good things that are going on in our city.”

Interested cities have until March 26 to tell Google that they’re interested in participating in the project, from which Google plans to pick one or more cities to act as pilot cities.

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