Kopimism has no deity and no afterlife doctrine, which makes it an unusually clean test of how narrowly or broadly a legal system defines religion. Its six axioms instead treat information itself as the sacred category: copying information is ethically right, information is inherently holy, and copying and remixing are how all information, from strands of DNA to spoken language to digital files, actually propagates and survives at every scale of life. The internet, in Kopimist doctrine, is holy precisely because it is the medium that makes copying instantaneous and universal, extending a pattern the axioms hold has always been true of information into a form fast enough to notice.
The church's ritual vocabulary follows directly from the doctrine. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, the keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, function as sacred symbols in daily practice, treated the way a cross or a prayer bead functions elsewhere; the church's logo, a K inside a pyramid, marks its gathering places, called "interaction points"; and its clergy equivalents, "operators," teach and model the axioms rather than administer sacraments in any older liturgical sense.
Kammarkollegiet's eventual approval in January 2012, after two rejections, suggests the agency judged Kopimism by the coherence and sincerity of its practice rather than by the conventionality of its object of reverence. That standard cuts both ways for comparison with Pastafarianism: Kopimism's doctrine is stranger by ordinary religious measures, having no god at all, and yet secured a cleaner, more complete state recognition on its first successful attempt than Pastafarianism has achieved in any single country after two decades of trying.