Boot Country, a sovereign nation
located in the southern US, always struggled to get the recognition
they felt they deserved on any sort of international level. With a
population of only seven (fifteen seasonal) and an economy based on
solely on cowboy boots, the country shouldn't have been surprised
with the United Nations turned down their request to join. The UN
questioned their very existence as a country. They imported literally
everything, including their utilities and the boots they sold. They
didn't even create the products the exported. The entire population
except for the nation's president and the first lady were actually
people with dual citizenship, living in the United States but working
in Boot Country. The UN also accused them of being a sham democracy,
claiming to engage in free and fair elections, but only allowing the
president and his family to vote. Their counter argument, that the
other five citizens only lived in the nation forty hours a week and
thus didn't meet residency requirements, was shot down by human
rights groups as an effort to “disenfranchise the masses and avoid
giving employees health insurance.” Boot Country had no response to
this accusation except to install a first aid kit in the break room
commonwealth.
- Originally mailed to P. Goff in Madison, Mississippi
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