absence of drug laws

Gained from:

#116 Soda Sales Hits New 'High'
3. reports of attacks by bright purple sixty-foot high spiders have recently shot up
#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
3. zombie-like crowds of hard drug users stumble through the streets
#1229 Crystal Clear Sinuses
4. there's some really clean windows in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ houses

Sometimes gained from:

#1 Where's the Love Gone?
4. same-sex marriages are increasingly common
#2 Reclaim the Streets!
3. the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts
#3 Harry Potter Censorship Row
3. the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller
4. the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller
#6 Appointment of Spiritual Advisor
2. the government's religious works are headed by a New Age guru
#8 Nudists Demand Time in Sun
1. citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked
#12 Death Penalty on Agenda
2. extreme political groups are outlawed
#13 Too Much Yakking, Already, Say Delegation
2. @@NAME@@'s children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region
#14 Military Demands Increased Spending
1. military spending is on the increase
#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
2. all recreational drugs are legal
#20 Gunman Kills Three
4. a valid legal defense is 'dead men tell no tales'
#21 Police Consider "Big Brother" Anti-Crime System
1. surveillance cameras are banned
#22 Nazi Sympathizers Plan Rally
2. the tenet of free speech is held dear
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
1. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
2. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
3. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
4. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
4. citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes
#26 Compulsory Organ Harvesting Proposed
2. organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region
#27 Cash for Colons?
1. college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys
#28 Cancer Sufferer Demands Euthanasia Bill
1. euthanasia is legal
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
3. the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit
#32 One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists
1. polygamy is legal
4. there have been reports of people marrying housepets
#34 Don't Puff on Me, Say Non-Smokers
3. eight-year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
1. the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees
#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
3. anti-government web sites are springing up
#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
2. elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume
#44 No Pain, No Gain!
2. torture is illegal
#46 Jennifer Government Censorship Row
2. Jennifer Government is a bestseller
#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
2. refugees from other nations are flocking to @@NAME@@'s border
#50 Whips, Chains, and Leather, Oh My!
2. leather-clad individuals can be seen walking their slaves in public parks
#51 Streaker in Snooker Game Fiasco
2. streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all
#52 Is It Art or Is It Porn?
3. nude art is becoming wildly popular
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
5. the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy
#62 Oh, the Angst!
1. citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling"
#65 Should Martial Law Be Declared?
1. rioting and unrest sweep the nation
3. ad hoc militias patrol the streets in an effort to control rampant crime
#66 Transgender Recognition Demanded
1. sex changes are routinely performed at @@NAME@@'s hospitals
#72 Widening Buttocks Cause Movie Theater Havoc
4. city sidewalks are crowded with overweight people
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#77 Easter Egg: World to End, or Possibly Just Mark Anniversary
3. the nation is cleaning up after a national night of celebration left most people with headaches and dim memories (@@EGG@@)
#83 High-Speed Monorail Service Promises Connections
3. a vast monorail network carries people all over the country
4. a vast monorail network carries people all over the country
#84 Compulsory Gun Ownership?
2. citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
1. murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows
2. soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers
#91 Sacramental Tax Time?
3. televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events
#98 Police Want More Than Shiny Badge
4. citizens are expected to be armed at all times
#100 Road Rage Rampage
1. traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways
2. the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting
3. it's a common sight to see angry commuters with grenade launchers mounted on their vehicles
#101 Tiara Sign of Oppression, Declare Feminists
4. Max Barry is this year's Miss @@NAME@@
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
1. sales of fishnet stockings have reached a record high
3. government-run brothels can be found on every street corner
#112 Put the Phone Down on Cold Calling?
1. a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect
#114 Wipe Out Graffiti?
3. graffiti graces every city's streets
#115 @@NAME@@'s Schoolchildren Not Learning the Lingua Franca
2. foreigners are treated with great suspicion
#116 Soda Sales Hits New 'High'
1. 'Mountain Doobie' is widely regarded as the nation's favourite drink
#118 Need for Speed?
1. the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril
#119 Watershed Down?
1. programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours
#121 A Uniform Plan for @@NAME@@'s Students?
2. students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas
#128 Ban the Burka?
2. there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'
#129 Tribal Troubles
1. large sections of @@NAME@@ have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there
5. a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world
#131 Raise Duel Standards, Say Fencers
1. murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour
#133 When @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Attack!
4. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are frequently shot for looking at people 'in a funny way'
#136 Much Ado About Abortion
1. abortions are routinely performed in @@NAME@@'s hospitals
#146 Evolution: Truth or Witchcraft?
3. biology and religious education classes have recently been merged
4. children are sent to either religious or secular schools
#149 With Liberty, Freedom, and Guns for All?
1. @@NAME@@ is renowned for its lax gun laws
#150 Bug 'Em All, Say Police
2. it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws
#155 Curfew Meets Minor Opposition
2. teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill
#158 Regarding Robbers' Rights
1. nervous homeowners have been blamed for rising death rates amongst carol singers and locksmiths
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
2. convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes
#160 Truancy on the Rise
3. students in @@NAME@@'s schools rarely attend their classes
#164 Licence to Breed?
2. almost half of the child population live rough on the streets
#167 Fluoride Controversy a Toothy Problem
1. the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth
2. the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape
3. the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape
#169 @@ANIMAL@@ Hunting Laws Under Dispute
3. main battle tanks stalk the woods of @@NAME@@ in search of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
#171 Kids and Criminality: Whose Responsibility?
2. the nation's youth is held blameless for all crimes
#173 Women Demand Equal Opportunities
1. business is adjusting to new gender equality policies in the workplace
#175 Is @@NAME@@ Too Promiscuous?
4. @@NAME@@ is notorious for its citizens' infidelity
#176 History a Mystery to Most of @@NAME@@
3. history classes are mandatory for students
#178 Free Press Too Free?
2. truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
1. 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of @@NAME@@'s radio stations
#184 Compulsory Military Service Under Attack
1. the military struggles with recruitment
#186 Carjacking Concerns
2. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
3. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
2. the children of @@NAME@@ are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
3. the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
1. the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
1. public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers
#196 Violent Violetists Protest Artists
2. the @@NAME@@ Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon'
#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
1. female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
2. traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways
3. the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country
#207 Secret Police in @@NAME@@?
2. anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper
#211 Unconventional Weapons Under Fire
2. the commercialisation of highly deadly weapons has instilled @@NAME@@ with a very polite populace
#212 Police Wanting Help With Their Inquiries
2. crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed
#219 Nobody Expects the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Inquisition!
2. radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
4. a chain of pubs that cater solely to children has recently been unveiled
#236 Quickie Marriages Under Scrutiny
2. 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song
#238 We Need a Few Good Men Who Like Men?
2. recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable
5. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
6. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
#243 A Question of Faith
2. the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one
#245 Clash of Cultures
2. racial and religious segregation has become rife as the various groups are loath to mingle
#248 The Sky Is Falling
3. bombs are permitted on planes for the 'security of the passengers'
4. the wreckages of bombed planes that litter @@NAME@@ are highly popular tourist destinations
#258 What's in a Name?
2. @@ANIMAL@@ is one of the most popular forenames in @@NAME@@
#262 Sticks and Stones
2. violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner
#268 Don't Want Your Kid Anymore? Good News!
3. mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights
#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
1. inter-species marriages are ignored by the government
#275 Wiki Worries
1. the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The @@CAPITAL@@ Times is sold out
#277 Say Cheese!
1. photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in @@LEADER@@'s bedroom
#291 A Question of Sport
4. kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun"
#297 Intersex Athletes Demand Level Playing Field
2. the 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event
3. national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys'
#311 Victims Demand Their Pound of Flesh
3. condemned prisoners spend hours a day sitting in lotus position looking perplexed
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
2. immigrants flood the job queues as discrimination in the workplace makes a staggering comeback
#316 Fortified Against Crime
1. the richest citizens live in sheltered private citadels
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
2. cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates
#318 Death Penalty on Death Row?
1. prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail
#321 Cowboys and... Aliens?
1. droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
2. the nation leads @@REGION@@ in per capita stalking
#329 Military Uniforms Under Scrutiny
6. shock troops shock enemy forces with their nudity
#333 No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice at All
3. murderers and thieves claim divine inspiration to avoid prosecution
#348 I Want a Lawyer
1. the state is footing the bill for billionaires' lawyers
#349 Bigtopian Bigwigs Beset Border
2. retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
2. many junior high school teachers minor in midwifery
3. children play Capture the Flag and Capture the Bigtopian General Staff at summer camps
6. getting an abortion takes less hassle than writing a letter
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
1. birth rates have hit an all-time low
#365 A Busload of Worry
1. children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet
4. bus ads propagandize causes ranging from sexual revolution to religious pogroms
#368 Female Workers Feeling the Pinch
1. men avoid even so much as looking at female colleagues
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
2. mollycoddled youths run the country
#381 Mamma @@NAME@@, Let Me Go
1. the government has an "easy come, easy go" policy on youth crime
#409 Water Palaver
2. the state funds the recreational drug habits of every citizen
#410 12 Angry, Tired, and Increasingly Confused Men
3. listless juries are assembled for the simplest of court cases
#411 Outed Teacher Ousted
2. discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal
3. prudishness is on the way out
#413 A Shot in the Arm
1. thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses
#420 Caught Green Handed
3. Maxtopian Grass flags adorn every college dorm room
#423 Returning Holy Warriors Cause Trouble
2. the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in @@CAPITAL@@ for fear of causing a fuss
#426 Women in Uniform Under Fire
2. the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers
#434 Fraternity Furor
1. fraternities are notorious for drunken hooliganism
#438 Judicial Review on Trial
2. political gridlock ensues as even the most innocuous legislation is vetoed by the Supreme Court for potential civil rights violations
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
3. 'Police Academy 36' and 'Sharknados On A Plane' are vying for top spot at the box-office
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
1. late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards
3. breast milk lattes are the newest fad among hip urbanites
#452 Foetal Furore
3. the travel industry is booming as pregnant women book tickets for "weekend trips" overseas
#456 Heads Will Roll
3. stylish juvenile delinquents are highly overrepresented in fatal motorcycle accidents
#459 Murder, He Shouted!
1. major corporations receive tax breaks for no apparent reason
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
2. bris parties are all the rage
#487 Masks of Shame
1. country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized
#488 Bright Orange Is the New Black
5. games of cops and robbers typically end in at least one fatal shooting
#489 Standing at Attention
2. good-looking soldier boys have celebrity status amongst the nation's homosexuals
3. the army spends more time producing 'romantic videos' than actually training soldiers
#491 Friends, @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears
2. census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate
#493 Suspicious Superhuman Athletes?
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump
#494 Whipping Up a Controversy
1. whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Embarrassments
#500 Please Don't Feed the (Copyright) Trolls
2. the constant playing of Merry Birthday on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ radio has led to calls for the song to be classified as a crime against humanity
4. the most popular WhoTube videos are ones featuring parodies of iconic songs
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
2. a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants
#502 Scientists Declare That @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Are Persons
1. animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs
4. the new @@ANIMAL@@ Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls
5. the new @@ANIMAL@@ Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls
#504 Short Shorts Too Short?
4. young girls and senior citizens alike can be spotted wearing colourful short shorts
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
3. visions of giant pink @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are a common side effect after @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ eat their meals
#508 Ex-Cons Robbed of Future
1. former arsonists can be found on local fire brigades
#519 School's Out (Of Control)
2. schools offer a range of lessons in subjects as diverse as The Economics of Bullying for Lunch Money
4. children often leave school with more diagnoses than qualifications
#520 Preach With Me if You Want to Live
2. the military has declared war on all religious influence
3. military units are often seen arguing over which one is truly favored by the gods
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
4. farmers' market days almost always end in a shooting
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
1. belligerent citizens shoot at passing clouds for 'violating their airspace'
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
1. @@CAPITAL@@'s main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight
#533 Hearsay Heresy
2. witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
3. young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
3. debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
2. @@LEADER@@'s new android secretary is the latest media darling
3. robosexual marriages are increasingly common
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
2. commuters often break into synchronised para-para dancing for no reason at all
3. sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
2. teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
1. crime is on the rise as online youths compete to vlog the most shocking scenes of violence
#552 Must Be a Full Moon
3. tourists visit @@NAME@@ to mass-moon @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politicians
4. the bum of @@LEADER@@ has been voted the most recognisable in @@NAME@@
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
1. every week is blindness awareness week
3. dining out often involves @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the plate no matter what you order
#564 Do Good Intentions Make Good Samaritans?
1. claiming to have performed the Heimlich Maneuver is a popular defense for assault charges
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
3. exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles
5. exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles
#572 Reading, Your Rights
1. nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers
#573 The Road to Blackacre Ends Here?
3. a policy of plausible deniability helps protect the government from athletic doping scandals
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
1. economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society
#580 @@NAME@@ Taking Leave of Its Census?
1. the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions
4. according to the latest national census as many as two-thirds of the respondents possibly consider 'violet' their favorite color
5. only @@LEADER@@'s friends count in the eyes of the government
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
4. funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience
#584 The Cake Is a Lie
2. they say that @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ made a dessert and called it peace
#592 Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!
1. for the sake of 'public interest' news programs tell viewers how to home-make Sarin gas bombs
#595 Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
4. the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
1. children in school playgrounds can be heard chanting the hymns of the Order of Violet
4. political talk shows often have children as guests whenever they need commentary on world religions
#601 Lawyers on Trial
1. lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
2. recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
1. @@LEADER@@'s peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide
#613 A Nude Day, a Nude Awakening...
3. t-shirts displaying a photo of @@LEADER@@ performing the Full-Monty are selling out
4. they say that @@LEADER@@'s personal computer is full of naked pictures of the Emperor of Maxtopia
#616 You Are Feeling Very Very Sleepy and Not at All Gay
1. counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients
3. conversion therapy coupons are a popular present for coming of age ceremonies
#619 X Marks the Cult?
1. livestock mutilations are on the rise
#623 Maison d'Être?
1. rich people sell their mansions to pay for endless rows of mobile homes
2. the country is littered with broken homes
#624 A Role to Play
2. RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept
#629 Boom or Bust?
3. respect is something that is typically forced rather than earned in @@NAME@@
#631 The Violet Mile
7. international humanitarian organisations are applauding the government for ending the death penalty
#634 Bullet Time
1. in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
2. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
3. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
#636 Going on the Cyber Offensive
1. school teachers check the staff room for hidden webcams before complaining about rebellious students
3. the opposition leader's credibility has been undermined by constant attention drawn to a dodgy toupee
4. the credibility of anti-government demagogues is undermined by government claims that they smell like poo
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
1. orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents
#642 This Way's Kinder
3. cub scouts are being asked to hand in their woggles as the state withdraws funding for scouting
#645 An Unwarranted Intrusion
2. the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property
#648 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
1. cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors
3. it's considered a valid legal defence to say "a demon made me do it"
#656 Ransoms Noted
4. the nation's arms dealers guarantee discretion and untraceable transactions
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
2. tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash
3. truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
2. school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel
3. home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks
#670 A Wolf in Refugee's Clothing
3. terrorists are on a first name basis with the officials that stamp their passports
#672 All Shook Up
1. morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom
#673 The Deportation of Mr. B. Leeper
3. the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
1. banning party poppers has been a real party pooper
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
1. many marriages go virtually unconsummated
3. robotic spouses prove to be just as imperfect as flesh and blood ones
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
1. citizens often pray for divine guidance in supermarkets
#698 I Shot the Sheriff
1. the mentally ill are given high powered automatic weapons for "catharsis therapy"
#704 It's Not Lying, It's Post-Truth
3. the standard government reply to any query is "there is no spoon"
#707 The Eye of the Tiger
2. the Motherland's muscle-bound athletes won 786 medals at the last United @@REGION@@ Games
#718 Roses Are Due if Violet's for You
2. almost every singles' party has a clergy and courtesans theme
#721 A Lack of Comma Sense
4. pausing for applause during a speech is seen as a form of censorship
#729 Teenage Kicks
2. bruised children are made to thank their bullies for the valuable life lessons
#730 It's Legal Now!
1. convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing
#731 Is There an Election in Marche Noire or Are You Just Happy to See Us?
2. foreign despots proudly bandstand on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ airwaves
#732 A Peeping Problem
1. supervisors in @@NAME@@ commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence
#735 Rap Sheet
2. confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle"
#743 [The Enemy Within] Here, There and Everywhere
1. everyone hates people who encourage hate
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
5. the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming
#750 Cheerleading Community Does the Splits
1. a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
1. the dartboard at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of @@LEADER@@'s face
#753 I've Got My Ion You
2. owners of man-portable particle accelerator backpacks are advised not to cross the streams
#755 Candid Camera
3. intelligence agencies frequently invite passers-by into their secret vaults for tea and biscuits
5. the government has announced its plans to construct a giant weaponised robot-cat
#757 Extra Credit?
1. lending money has become a major liability
#758 Bye Bye to the Birdies?
2. the weather in @@CAPITAL@@ is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'
#759 Marry, Marry, Quite Contrarily
3. the government's stance on marriage is 'Let @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ marry themselves'
#763 Any Body for Science?
2. the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award
#767 Xe Said, Zhe Said
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
2. kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes
#785 Born to Be My Baby
2. there is a growing belief that mothers love their children more than fathers
#787 Come Fly With Me?
1. airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory
#792 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Why Can't We Be Friends?
1. politicians who misplace decimal points on expense reports are fired for gross incompetence
#799 A Political Cock-Up
3. politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech
#801 Animation Provocation
3. toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters
4. the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools
#802 No Lock, No Gun Stock, and No Smoking Barrels
3. banned objects are regularly legalized if they've been successfully stolen from the government
#804 Motivational Posters
1. internet trolls are considered valiant supporters of the right to free speech
#810 Armed and Unready
5. nobody is forced to join the armed forces
#811 Get Baked
4. it is illegal for a parent to tell a child to stop eating their boogers
#816 A Hot Topic
3. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
4. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
#818 We Are Not Amused
4. visitors to Violet Rock City are stunned to learn that they must memorize the "99 Principles" before entering
#819 Damned Cold
1. the term cold case has taken on a very literal meaning
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
1. police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
4. hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport
#828 Your Execution in 30 Years or Less or You're Free
5. the Violet Mile now refers to the long line-ups that former death row inmates wait in as they transfer to maximum security prisons
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
4. escalators are avoided at all costs
#832 Moderating Your Opinion
1. internet sites are legally unable to stop their users from posting pornography
#836 Don't Drink the Grape Punch
2. the "right of sanctuary" stops police pursuit into temples and churches
3. the "right of sanctuary" stops police pursuit into temples and churches
#840 Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
4. ratings for schools' curricula range from 'Pure as the Driven Snow' to 'Late Night TV'
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
1. the tightness of border controls in @@NAME@@ leave a little to be desired
#845 A Comedy of Errors
2. the comic book series '@@LEADER@@ and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller
#847 All the Lonely People
1. the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service
2. retirement apartments house giggling grannies who delightedly watch blank TVs all day long
#849 Sky High
2. crackheads chase drug-loaded drones in hopes of a lucky drop
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
2. mall countdown clocks warn that there are only 364 more shopping days until Maxxmas
#853 Silence Is Golden
3. from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in @@NAME@@
#870 @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Literally Exploding With Excitement
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have recently stopped mysteriously setting off metal detectors
#874 Still Life
3. life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old"
4. life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old"
#875 They See Me Trollin', They Threatenin'
4. a death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation
#877 Gunning for Profits
3. road rage is rarer but more terminal now that many people drive fully-operational battle tanks to work
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
3. preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance
#882 Death by Chocolate
2. the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb
#886 Bounty on the Table
2. bounty hunters have been dispatched to hunt down rogue bounty hunters
#887 Thin Skin
1. nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines
#888 Criminal Patterns
1. road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans
#891 Preach It!
2. street preachers sell salvation with a side order of shame on every corner
#895 Stop Training and Start Coaching
2. wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps
#897 The Devil's Playground
2. Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
5. the only place where one can see the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cherry tree is in a museum
#902 Killer App
2. ironic death by tasering is on the rise amongst door-to-door taser salesmen
5. the state conscripts sociopathic orphan girls to train as professional assassins
#905 Stage Directions
2. in musicals everybody's a little bit racist
#910 A for Effort
1. marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal
#913 Couped Up
1. ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box
#918 J'Accuse!
3. male politicians lose their jobs for staring too long at their female counterparts
#919 The Meaning of Life
3. kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers
#921 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad @@NAME@@
2. citizens finish cleaning up after the annual National Treasure Hunt just in time for the next one
#926 Ghost in the Machine
2. social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians
#928 Get a Life
1. sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming
2. sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming
3. heterosexuality is considered positive proof of fitness to parent
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
2. attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high
3. schoolchildren learn an R-rated version of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
1. no suburban lawn is complete without barbed wire and landmines
4. international terrorists often get their weapons supply in @@NAME@@
#934 @@LEADER@@, Don't Tear Down That Wall!
2. the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism
#935 Hero to Zero
4. psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests
#939 A Question of Bad Faith
1. burnt-out forty-foot-tall wicker men dot the countryside
#941 Scents and Sensibility
3. nose plugs are the latest @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ fashion accessory
#942 A Foreign Exchange of Ideas
1. the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies
#944 Deadly Persuasion
3. even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love
#950 Borderline Pandemic
2. both vegetables and viruses are often smuggled across the border
#953 The Ethnic Minority Report
2. it is not politically correct to suspect that a serially convicted burglar might steal again
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
2. unemployed youngsters trained to kill are being released en masse into society
#961 No Two Ways About It
3. cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them
#963 The @@LEADER@@ Meme
2. the nation's politicians are known more for the internet memes they spawn than any of their accomplishments
#978 Alone in the Dark
1. prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present
#981 Westfailian Sovereignty
3. the best doughnut stores have been taken over by foreign police officers
#983 Doctors' Orders
1. pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ roads
3. a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street"
#992 Robots in Disguise
1. the same @@POPULATION_VALUE@@ social media bloggers always loudly and immediately agree with @@LEADER@@'s every word on Twitcher
5. visual acuity is worsening amongst teenagers
#993 Drug Deal
1. drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients
#1004 Two Countries and a Baby
1. babies are a small but significant export
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
2. children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary
#1016 Breaking Upset
4. Brown Sugar 101 is a popular course at community colleges
5. emergency services don't respond to trailer park fires
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
2. police struggle to solve crimes due to the lack of fingerprint records
#1023 Pure Madness
1. young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves
3. couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten
4. couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
4. traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers
5. traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers
#1038 Maid to Order
2. most households' childcare costs are higher than their mortgage payments
#1050 Criminal Guns Soon to Be Shooting Blanks
2. incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables
#1052 The Prisoners' Dilemma
1. the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme
#1062 The Hunt for Violet November
1. enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity
#1066 It's an Honour Just to Be Condemned
3. there's no such thing as bad publicity
#1070 Skeletons in the Closet
1. the government tells its citizens to 'forgive and forget'
2. it's surprisingly hard to find pictures of the bad haircuts from @@LEADER@@'s childhood
#1072 Holographic Harmonization
2. light entertainment isn't dead
#1076 Smokers Cornered
2. cigarettes are dead-cheap
#1091 The Great Divide
2. jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration
#1092 The Boys From Brasilistan
3. hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
4. parties on cruise ships go off with a real bang
#1101 Unreal
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries
#1102 The Sickest Criminals
1. cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes
#1106 Some Body to Love
1. customer satisfaction with online delivery services is at an all time high
#1107 Welcome to the Party
2. the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
1. patriotic parents remind their children to drink plenty of water
3. tourists aren't the only ones that talk about coming back from a trip
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
2. the mood of raunchy movies is often ruined by the sound of babies crying
#1114 Patriotism Flagging
2. interest in globalism never flags
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
1. seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts
#1117 Suffer Little Children
3. a sudden shout of "surprise!" does not herald a party for teachers
#1119 Where There Isn't Smoke
1. peer pressure from cooler world leaders directs @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ government policy
2. @@LEADER@@ lights cigars with a hundred-@@CURRENCY@@ bill
3. there's a lot of smoke from the nation's "green economy"
4. slackers at work are told to "crack on with it"
#1120 Following Yonder Star
1. a formerly quiet little town is now booming as both a cult centre and a tourist attraction
#1123 Till Death Do Us Part
2. autopsies often involve only cursory examination
#1125 Blowing Smoke
1. the urinary fragrance of seedier establishments is thankfully hidden by the smell of stale smoke
3. public parks are littered with cigarette butts
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
2. grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving
#1131 Safe Sects
3. religious epiphanies are often cited as a reason for high school drop-outs
#1139 A Little Wrestling, a Lot of Controversy
2. the government loves seeing the little people fight
#1140 Blinded by the Light
2. @@CAPITAL@@'s flashy holiday light displays can be seen from space
#1141 The Trolley Problem
3. the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue"
#1143 Running From Time
1. criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison
#1147 The Long Walk
1. convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail
3. some people will do literally anything to be in the spotlight
4. police officers find government bureaucracy more terrifying than most serial killers
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
1. most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
3. workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
3. taxpayer-funded government ads are promoting Brancaland as a premier filming location
#1157 Rodney and Julietta
4. heartfelt sentiments are mercilessly marketed by a million-@@CURRENCY@@ treacle machine
#1158 Flying Into a Rage
1. women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms
#1162 She's Always a Woman to Me
5. love is in the air
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
2. crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination
#1166 Acres Wild
1. farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land
#1167 Another Brick in the Wall
2. an extra-long museum is being built to house the old border wall
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
2. crayon squiggles were a late addition to the works of the Renaissance Old Masters
#1170 To Catch a Beef
1. hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers
2. hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
2. blackface performers claim they are being deliberately ironic
#1178 No Need to Beat Yourself Up About It
3. government adverts say that twelve lashes a day keeps divine wrath at bay
#1188 The Only Good Criminal
1. fistfighting vigilantes tend to suffer a lot of gunshot wounds
#1190 Dirty Laundry
1. public enemies often walk home with spotless garments and crime records
#1198 The Death Debate Isn't Dead Yet
2. there's never a spare chair in the retirement home
#1199 Locked Down
2. social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks
#1203 The Fandom Menace
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about @@LEADER@@
#1204 Homecoming Queen
1. the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on @@NAME@@
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
2. students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework
#1212 Lost at Sea
4. ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ pirates
#1214 Blood Type: Gay Positive
3. there's nothing more gay than bleeding for your nation
#1215 A New Age
1. you're only as old as you feel
3. kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up
#1217 Monkey Business
1. it can be a real jungle in a modern courtroom
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
4. teen gangs are encouraged to take drugs
#1220 Barely Any Art
2. drawing men's naughty bits isn't considered to be art
#1227 Girls on Film
4. the government asks not what you can do for your country but what you can do to tidy their country homes
#1228 The Road to Hell
3. only the fast and the furious are brave enough to drive
#1229 Crystal Clear Sinuses
3. decongestants have replaced @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ in street transactions
#1233 Get Real!
2. baiting is a national sport
#1236 Being Honest
2. the Messiah (formerly known as Brian) is a mayoral candidate
3. there's a politician called Male Infant @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
1. posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables
#1239 The Walking, Talking, and Irritated Dead
3. being dead no longer has any benefits
#1242 Jump Leads
4. it's often raining men (hallelujah) in @@CAPITAL@@
#1245 Sheepish Students
1. school football matches are usually five-a-side
2. bemused schoolkids colour in their favourite quadratic equations with crayons
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
2. ceremonial zweihänders are used in holy rituals
#1251 The Making of a Mass Murderer
3. the government is more interested in identifying problems than fixing them
#1255 This Lady's Not for Turning
1. the daily weather forecast often predicts light showers of debris
#1260 Gay Abandoned
1. armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough
3. a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum
#1266 Pink Is the New Orange
1. the @@CAPITAL@@ Women's Prison Choir now has a baritone section
2. sometimes a whole prison wing will house a single prisoner
4. transgender and agender are on the education agenda
#1268 Don't Sweat It
3. passengers often cause a stink on public transport
#1270 I'll Be Watching You
2. sales of trenchcoats are on the rise
#1273 Lessons in Politics
2. a degree in @@LEADER@@ Science with a Minor in Awesomeology starts many political careers
#1274 No Room Left for Asylum Seekers
4. a plague of zealots has been unleashed on the streets of @@CAPITAL@@
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
3. photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls
#1276 A Boatload of Trouble
3. even immigrants complain that immigrants keep taking their jobs
#1277 Outside the Box
1. beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings
#1280 The Amazing, but Illegal, Spiderman
2. older ladies are inundated with offers to help them cross the road
3. immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs
4. you can call your arthritic immigrant neighbour for all your roof-tiling and guttering needs
#1287 Children of the Magna Carta
1. a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted
4. politicians spend a lot of time hanging around kids' playgrounds
#1289 Cramping Our Style
1. things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
3. @@LEADER@@ has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space
#1293 Bet Your Life
3. grinning punters say that casino roulette is the greatest high that life has to offer
#1294 Silence in Court
2. court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs
3. people can get away with murder these days
#1295 Show Trial
2. courtrooms can be a little sketchy
#1296 Once Upon a Time
2. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ football team for the Maxxmas ceasefire consists only of Intelligence Corps personnel
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
1. couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material'
3. citizens' names are redacted on their IDs for national security
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
2. "Day of the Rope" is the top song of the summer
#1305 The Woman From AUNT
4. the price of freedom is about half a million @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
#1310 Intimate Relations
3. kissing cousins produce the heartiest babies
#1312 Cranmer vs Cranmer
1. parents seeking custody have to write a five-thousand word analysis of their child's imaginary friend
4. pedal-powered removal vans are a popular Maxxmas gift for the children of separated parents
#1318 Blitzed
7. skyscrapers get built in just days
#1321 Who Wants to Know a Millionaire?
1. rumor has it that @@LEADER@@ has won three lotteries in a row
#1332 We Won't, We Won't Rock You
4. an opal a day keeps the negative thoughts at bay
#1333 Married With Benefits?
1. recognizing the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag qualifies you for citizenship
2. recognizing the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag qualifies you for citizenship
#1334 Withdrawing Diplomatic Relations
3. homesickness is thought to be a waterborne illness
4. homesickness is thought to be a waterborne illness
#1337 Waste Not Want Not
1. the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
3. glossy adverts featuring baby's first puff adorn mothers' magazines
4. adverts urge @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ to "reach for a ciggy instead of your supper"
#1346 The Problem With Peyote
2. party-lovers often change religions just for the weekend
#1349 You Must Be 18 Years or Older to View This Content
2. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
3. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
#1354 The One-Trick Pony
4. all animals are equal but some are more equal than others
#1360 Ask a Stupid Question?
2. citizenship applications are processed in the time it takes to smile and say "next, please"
#1361 Fundamental Rights
1. parents dread their examinations more than their children
3. every school is receiving a brand new eraser
#1362 The Trans Panic Button
2. defense lawyers often argue there's no proof murder victims weren't vampires
#1366 Parklife
3. the government has seized the means of recreation
#1368 Parking Hell
2. parking's carefree without parking car fees
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
1. a PhD just ain't what it used to be
#1371 @@NAME@@ Rocked by Rolls' Fatal Role
2. the general public only knows their favorite politician's first name
#1372 Balls to All That
4. shirts-versus-skins games are now skins-versus-skins games
#1373 You Should Have (Copy)Left My Software Alone!
1. programmers often reinvent the wheel
4. too many developers spoil the codebase
#1417 Nun on the Run
3. citizens ask "how many crooks could a nunchuck hook if a nun had nunchucks too?"
#1418 The High Life
1. children's daycare starts at the crack of dawn
2. parents are always up to speed on the latest childcare techniques
#1425 @@LEADER@@'s New Clothes
3. some magnifier-wielding @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ say @@LEADER@@ seems a little lacking in something
4. some magnifier-wielding @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ say @@LEADER@@ seems a little lacking in something
5. ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips
#1431 Just Deserts for Desertion?
3. criminal convictions are routinely thrown out because the accused's grandmother didn't get to testify about their good character
#1432 Oh Dear
3. religion makes people horny
4. religion makes people horny
#1444 Trouble in Deed
3. new homeowners go furniture hunting with crowbars
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
2. companies have begun running campaigns to stop people from remembering their brand name
#1457 Use the Farce, @@LEADER@@
2. government statisticians explain census inaccuracies by declaring that "Sith happens"
6. for some reason the census focuses on daily banana ingestion and hourly quip rate
#1462 Glory Kill
1. soldiers stream their classified military operations live for millions of fans
3. the nation's "surprisingly chill" military is renowned for its horrendous war crimes
#1465 Parking Pandemonium
1. everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen
#1467 Gay Men Held by Police
5. war is made in the name of love
#1473 A Pretty Pass
1. political commentators say that @@LEADER@@'s fruitcake plans are about to go pear-shaped
2. the government has to take out its Visa to eliminate visas
#1475 Bombshell for @@LEADER@@
1. Catherine Gratwick's campaign support is considered seminal
4. celebrities sit helplessly as they are labeled "pompous womples" by @@LEADER@@
#1479 Fares Fair?
2. turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats
#1481 Livin' on a Prayer
2. all you have to do is pray to get into @@NAME@@
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
3. those who cut young children are told to cut it out
4. the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong
#1484 Joint Trade Agreement
3. the nation is going green
#1486 Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs Are Right for @@NAME@@
1. the hit new medical TV show "Home" prominently features the brand of painkiller the lead doctor is addicted to
#1497 Double Trouble
1. reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
1. intoxicated AI mobile platforms are sometimes seen crashing through windows instead of being crashed by them
#1505 A Tangled Web
3. citizens have to identify all the polar bears in a blizzard photo in order to access their bank account
#1506 A Need for Order
2. @@LEADER@@ is strangely popular with male politicians' wives
#1510 Devolution Devolves Into Disaster?
4. meteorologists warn of fog just past 4pm daily
#1516 Content Discontent
3. belief that @@LEADER@@ is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
2. foreign workers are flooding in as @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ flood out
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
2. families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs
#1526 Corporate Pride
2. the atmosphere in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ boardrooms is turning more gay
#1535 Mr. Tingle Goes to Cyberspace
2. an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse
#1536 The Birdman of Pelicanz
1. the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong
#1542 Dangerous Liaisons
1. commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations
2. commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
4. the official government position is that "we didn't see nothin'"
#1550 A Friend With Weed Is a Friend Indeed?
1. criminals tell the police where their jurisdiction ends
#1556 Gimme Shelter
2. arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated
3. harassed women are constantly hassled by guys who are "just giving them compliments"
#1559 Skin's the Wrong Colour
1. students are explicitly allowed to write answers on their forearms before exams
#1569 The Not-So-Long Arm of the Law
2. government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals
#1578 The Magical Adventures of @LEADER@@
1. a mushroom a day keeps the sadness away
#1587 @@DEMONYMNOUN@@, Interrupted
1. those with disabilities have an equal right to a job they hate
#1589 Losing Touch
3. mums always ask their three-year-olds for permission before hugging them
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
3. only the richest get to see out of their windows
#1595 Plausible Deniability
3. scientists have great chemistry with their subjects
#1597 Haters Are Such a Drag
2. the media seems excessively interested in what @@LEADER@@ is wearing this season
#1606 Book Off
3. The Pipe Bomb Makers' Pop-Up Book can be found in preschool libraries
#1622 Border Burden
3. one can wake up in @@NAME@@ and have breakfast in Bigtopia
#1636 In for the Long Haul
1. wandering @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are known for their one-track minds
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
2. all tribal children are set for life with guaranteed government jobs

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#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
1. marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home
#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
3. all alcohol is banned
#107 Private Lab Holds @@NAME@@'s Sick to Ransom
3. the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives
#116 Soda Sales Hits New 'High'
2. drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government
#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
2. the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs
#185 "Bring Back Our Booze!" Cry Revellers
2. the police are tightening their grip on alcohol smugglers
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
7. ravers are having trouble getting used to blackcurrant squash instead of vodka
#237 Tourists on Death Row
3. drug-related crimes carry the death penalty
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
1. the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects
3. the government has begun a crusade against drugs
4. politicians debate whether caffeine is too addictive for the public
#420 Caught Green Handed
2. many politicians are in rehab for minor drug offenses
#434 Fraternity Furor
4. moonshine and organized crime are on the rise ever since alcohol was banned
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
1. popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs
2. summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
1. former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés
2. moonshine has made a resurgence
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
2. denied drugs and entertainment the nation's youth are taking to petty crime to alleviate their boredom
3. the sanitised and dull music festivals of @@NAME@@ are famed for their reasonable volume levels
#730 It's Legal Now!
3. chests full of green leaves dumped into the harbor have many murmuring against the government
#1016 Breaking Upset
1. dealers go from pushing drugs to pushing up daisies
2. dealers go from pushing drugs to pushing up daisies
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
6. hospitals scramble for new disinfectants following a ban on rubbing alcohol
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
3. acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts
#1229 Crystal Clear Sinuses
2. the most common doctor's prescription is "get out of my consulting room"
#1346 The Problem With Peyote
1. the only soporific permitted during sermons is the preacher's voice
#1418 The High Life
4. heavily stoned police officers are unsure whether the recent directive to 'clean up the streets' means arresting drug dealers or hosing down the sidewalk
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
3. citizens have to stick a fork into an electrical outlet to get a buzz
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
2. SWAT teams raid bathrooms in search of bathtub gin

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#1 Where's the Love Gone?
1. divorce is illegal
2. divorce is illegal
3. married couples must call each other "darling" or risk a fine
#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#3 Harry Potter Censorship Row
1. Harry Potter books are banned
2. Harry Potter books are banned
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
1. Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested
3. vegetarianism is compulsory
#8 Nudists Demand Time in Sun
3. nudity is frowned upon
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ is a protected species
#11 People Request Not So Much Dictatorship, if That's All Right
1. political activists are routinely executed
#12 Death Penalty on Agenda
1. the death penalty has been reintroduced
#13 Too Much Yakking, Already, Say Delegation
1. the right to free speech is being drastically curtailed
3. it is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs
#15 More Police Needed
3. thieves are flogged in public for their crimes
#20 Gunman Kills Three
1. kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles
2. the nation is completely gun-free
#21 Police Consider "Big Brother" Anti-Crime System
2. all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras
3. citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements
#22 Nazi Sympathizers Plan Rally
1. it is illegal to make racist remarks in public
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
1. a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway
#26 Compulsory Organ Harvesting Proposed
1. organ donation is compulsory
#27 Cash for Colons?
2. organ donation rates have hit a new low
#28 Cancer Sufferer Demands Euthanasia Bill
2. euthanasia is illegal
3. euthanasia is illegal
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
1. TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas
2. the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles
#31 Get Efficient, Private Sector Tells Nature
1. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
2. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
#32 One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists
2. the institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced
3. the institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced
#34 Don't Puff on Me, Say Non-Smokers
1. smoking is banned in public areas
2. an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
2. the Navy has outraged the international community by sinking a boatload of refugees to prevent them reaching the shore
3. shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities
#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
1. the government snoops on private internet connections
#38 @@NAME@@ Looks to the Stars
3. religious classes are compulsory for all school students
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
1. newspapers may not print any negative stories about the government
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
1. radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass
3. angst-filled teenagers are rushing off to buy government bonds for some odd reason
#43 Prisoners Demand Elbow Room
3. citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys
#44 No Pain, No Gain!
1. torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals
3. people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed
#46 Jennifer Government Censorship Row
1. Jennifer Government is banned
#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
1. a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders
3. the controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular
#50 Whips, Chains, and Leather, Oh My!
3. midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency
#52 Is It Art or Is It Porn?
1. artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common
2. all artwork is carefully screened for offensive material
#55 Bigtopian Protesters Cry for Full Integration
1. government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest
3. members of majority races are forced out of their homes to make way for Bigtopians
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
3. poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
1. citizens must have a license to operate a computer
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
1. homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities
2. "The Daily Sacrifice" is a routine segment of morning news shows
3. a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun
4. the government pours millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ into rehabilitation programs annually
#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
2. drunk drivers are sentenced to death
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
3. the judicial system legislates morality
4. the judicial system legislates morality
6. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have more rights than the average citizen
7. the government has become increasingly militant
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
#62 Oh, the Angst!
1. citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling"
#64 Put the "Board" Back in Board of Education
1. teachers regularly paddle unruly students
4. teachers label difficult children as "somebody else's problem" before expelling them
#65 Should Martial Law Be Declared?
2. martial law has been declared and the populace is kept under tight control
#66 Transgender Recognition Demanded
2. people talk about things being better when men were men
3. women wearing male lounge-wear are quizzed for hours by mental health practitioners
#72 Widening Buttocks Cause Movie Theater Havoc
1. citizens rise at daybreak every day for mandatory exercise
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
4. anti-environmentalist dissidents must beware of government plants in their midst
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
1. sex offenders find themselves cut off from the ability to repeat their crimes
4. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
5. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
#84 Compulsory Gun Ownership?
1. gun ownership is compulsory
3. all guns must be registered
#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares
1. a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country
3. recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies
#87 Burn! Burn Everything!
3. people caught mistreating @@NAME@@'s flag generally wind up in a great deal of pain
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
3. there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates
#91 Sacramental Tax Time?
1. religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else
2. religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else
4. membership in @@FAITH@@ is mandatory and all other faith organisations are banned
#94 Computer Users Fed Up With Heaps of Spam!
1. the government spends millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ every year prosecuting spammers
4. the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress
#98 Police Want More Than Shiny Badge
2. citizens are regularly shot for parking on the double-yellow line
3. the streets are plagued with knife-wielding madmen
#99 We Need Cash, Sharpish, Say Librarians
3. all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves
#101 Tiara Sign of Oppression, Declare Feminists
1. all beauty contests have been banned
2. women who display their ankles are shunned by society
3. women who display their ankles are shunned by society
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
1. motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours
3. cars have been banned
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
2. citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory miniature radios
#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
1. the army is returning some law and order to the streets
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
3. protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others
#112 Put the Phone Down on Cold Calling?
2. door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes'
#113 Test Results Deemed 'Ungood' After Global Survey
3. the education system is famed for its taxing exams
#114 Wipe Out Graffiti?
1. graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail
#115 @@NAME@@'s Schoolchildren Not Learning the Lingua Franca
1. citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages
#118 Need for Speed?
2. the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work
3. motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies
#119 Watershed Down?
2. Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in @@NAME@@
#121 A Uniform Plan for @@NAME@@'s Students?
1. school uniforms are compulsory
#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
6. citizens are grown in vats
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
1. the studies of art and philosophy are banned
3. only the brainiest citizens become academics
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
1. retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits
#128 Ban the Burka?
1. students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class
3. government officials raid public buildings to remove all mention of G*d or r******n
#129 Tribal Troubles
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
4. native tribes have been driven to extinction by hunting
#131 Raise Duel Standards, Say Fencers
2. arbitration is mightier than the sword
#136 Much Ado About Abortion
2. abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances
5. families are only permitted to have one child
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
1. the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place
2. the arms industry has been shut down in a surge of pacifism
#146 Evolution: Truth or Witchcraft?
1. it is mandatory to learn evolution in schools
2. the teaching of evolution has been banned
#147 Military Budgets Up for Approval
5. military service is compulsory
#150 Bug 'Em All, Say Police
1. phone taps are frequently carried out by the police
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
1. skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines
2. skateparks can be found in every city
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#155 Curfew Meets Minor Opposition
1. teenagers are severely punished for being out too late
#157 Sergeants Are Too Nasty, Say New Recruits
4. newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines
#158 Regarding Robbers' Rights
2. burglary is widely regarded as the national sport
3. trespassers often find themselves impaled by crossbow bolts
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
1. hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in @@NAME@@'s many privately-owned prisons
3. criminals are executed and their property seized
#160 Truancy on the Rise
1. high school principals regularly send armed truancy patrols to drag problem students to school
2. children deemed 'disorderly' or otherwise unfit for public schools are shipped off to military academies
#164 Licence to Breed?
1. citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities
#167 Fluoride Controversy a Toothy Problem
1. the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth
#171 Kids and Criminality: Whose Responsibility?
1. eight-year-olds with lemonade stands have been known to be locked up on charges of embezzlement
3. parents are held criminally responsible for their children's crimes
#175 Is @@NAME@@ Too Promiscuous?
1. adultery has been made a capital offence
2. those found guilty of illicit affairs are jailed
#176 History a Mystery to Most of @@NAME@@
1. historical fiction has been banned
2. it is widely believed that the first citizen of @@NAME@@ was called 'Wild-eyed Daddy-O'
#178 Free Press Too Free?
1. reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors
3. all news sources are under strict government control
#180 Mobile Maladies
2. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
3. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
4. children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
2. a spate of enforced closures has left 'Government FM' as the nation's only radio station
3. @@NAME@@'s airwaves are dominated by corporate-backed commercial radio
4. every citizen is allowed exactly fifteen minutes of fame
#183 Buy a Better Baby?
6. @@NAME@@'s army is full of two-metre tall super-soldiers
#184 Compulsory Military Service Under Attack
2. children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces
#186 Carjacking Concerns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#187 Underclass Drowning in Debt
3. university graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
1. Tetris has been banned for its graphic violent content
3. only adults may purchase violent video games
#190 Immigrants Import Homeland Rivalries
1. immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
1. citizens are forced to donate blood once every three months
2. blood donations have been banned because of the risk of eternal unrest
4. jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses'
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
2. the military has quashed a recent coup attempt
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
3. manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job
4. the loom represents the height of @@NAME@@'s technology
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
2. large areas of @@NAME@@ are not accessible by the public
3. all footpaths have tollbooths
#196 Violent Violetists Protest Artists
1. government-sponsored gallows are being erected by Violetist temples
3. the government is interviewing for thousands of 'Religious Censor' positions
5. people of faith are sent to twelve-step programs for 'The Cure'
#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
2. nursing mothers are often arrested for indecent exposure
3. breastfeeding mothers are replacing smokers to loiter outside the workplace
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
1. travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs
2. traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways
4. homes have been banned from having any more than one wheel
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
3. boys are forced to pair off for the school disco slow dance as the girls are all staying at home
4. boys are forced to pair off for the school disco slow dance as the girls are all staying at home
6. soldiers have a preference for fire-and-forget payloads
7. young girls often attend the same schools as their children
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
2. illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory
#207 Secret Police in @@NAME@@?
1. rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons
3. the police force is rumoured to be made up of evil shadows with no souls
#211 Unconventional Weapons Under Fire
1. Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused
#212 Police Wanting Help With Their Inquiries
1. crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing
3. every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
5. @@NAME@@'s heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives
#218 Two Mommies One Too Many?
2. child adoption by homosexual couples has been outlawed
3. homosexuality is a crime punishable by death
#219 Nobody Expects the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Inquisition!
1. the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land
3. atheists and evolutionary biologists are fleeing the country like rats from a sinking ship
#220 Voter Apathy Rising but No One Cares
3. citizens who refuse to vote are guillotined
#222 Terrorists Strike City Centre
2. everyone suspects that everyone else is a terrorist
3. customs turn away those considered to have an unfavourable ethnicity
#224 Minimum Wage War
4. the workforce is almost entirely made up of slave labour
#225 Prayer in Public Schools?
1. students who refuse to pray are expelled from school
4. religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
4. the world outside is only known of in folklore
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
1. underage drinkers are dragged through the streets and put in the stocks
2. the government jails the parents of underage drinkers
3. the parents of underage drinkers are lectured on the evils of hard liquor
#230 Extremists on the Ballot Sheet
2. most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists
#231 Jungle Fever
3. swamplands and bogs have been put under quarantine
#236 Quickie Marriages Under Scrutiny
1. the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in @@NAME@@
3. spousal homicide rates have tripled in recent months
#238 We Need a Few Good Men Who Like Men?
1. the colors pink and purple are banned from military unit insignia
3. half-naked men feature prominently in official military materials
4. military geniuses responsible for brilliant campaigns are drummed out because they have close same-sex friends and an interest in interior design
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
2. badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game
3. criminals are thrown to the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to repay their debt to society
#240 Plea Bargains: Tipping the Scales of Justice?
1. charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial
3. the right to a fair trial was recently abolished for reasons of convenience
#243 A Question of Faith
1. @@FAITH@@ has been named as @@NAME@@'s national religion
4. open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries
5. @@LEADER@@ is the self-declared God of all @@NAME@@
#245 Clash of Cultures
1. immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day
3. religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural
4. all citizens must pass a 'multicultural sensitivity test' to be deemed fit for society
5. property values in suburbs have nosedived after the middle class were forced to live next door to ethnic minorities
6. the word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive
#246 @@NAME@@ to Hold the Olympic Torch?
4. chess hooliganism is on the rise after the banning of organised sports
#248 The Sky Is Falling
1. frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security
5. aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
3. homeless people are frequently charged with trespassing on public property
4. citizens who become homeless are immediately executed
#252 Great Balls of Fire!
2. the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters
#253 How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
2. all judiciary cases are decided in the court of public opinion
#258 What's in a Name?
1. parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list
3. all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number
#260 Taxpayers on Strike!
3. tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the @@NAME@@ Blood Tithe
#262 Sticks and Stones
1. a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
1. fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets
3. raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists
#268 Don't Want Your Kid Anymore? Good News!
1. orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children
2. orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children
4. toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense
#269 Stop the Presses!
3. daily newspapers are permitted to run only pro-government stories
4. abacus sales outpace those of the personal computer following the closure of the Internet
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
3. the state believes that children are what you make of them
4. the state believes that children are what you make of them
#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
2. family bonding sessions are considered immoral and are banned
3. annulments are on the rise as couples discover their ancestors were born in the same hospitals
4. divorce lawyers are found begging on the streets
5. people choose marriage partners by buying a lottery ticket
6. citizens may not "love, honor and obey" anyone except the State
#275 Wiki Worries
2. popular websites like NationStates are blocked for "national security"
3. the Ministry of Truthiness now manages the entire media industry
#277 Say Cheese!
1. photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in @@LEADER@@'s bedroom
2. photographers have to apply for a license to photograph @@LEADER@@
3. the secret service is working overtime to find anyone publishing unauthorized material about @@LEADER@@
#280 Oh the Humanity!
3. the new hit series "@@NAME@@'s Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#297 Intersex Athletes Demand Level Playing Field
4. hairdressers are among those who have disappeared overnight
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
4. the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
4. legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments
5. legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments
#305 Who's Occupying What?
1. former school buses now regularly shuttle kids to the nearest shopping centers to work
2. millions of devastated 7-year-olds are denied astronaut and ballerina training
#313 Conscientious Objectors Want You... To Let Them Abstain
2. conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
3. "It was only a joke" is no longer a defense for the felony of discrimination
#316 Fortified Against Crime
3. the poor are quarantined in the inner cities to prevent criminals from entering the suburbs
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
1. government popup ads are springing up like weeds
#318 Death Penalty on Death Row?
5. innocent people are routinely stoned to death by frenzied lynch mobs
#321 Cowboys and... Aliens?
2. immigrant herding has become a national pastime
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
1. it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey
3. the fastest growing demographic of porn viewership is twelve to seventeen
#326 Knitters in a Knot Over Police Stitch Up
1. families consisting of more than three people are forced to split up
3. knitting needles have been banned in the name of public safety
#328 Bugged by Lack of Intelligence
1. all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons'
#329 Military Uniforms Under Scrutiny
2. the nation's soldiers are considered the best-dressed in @@REGION@@
#333 No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice at All
1. churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs
2. churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs
4. citizens are required to report any and all incidents of prayer to their local Religious Affairs Officer
5. there are major delays at immigration checkpoints as travellers are forced to prove they belong to @@FAITH@@
6. any reference to a higher being is punished with public shaming
#336 Polygamy Causes Division
2. a flood of mandatory divorces burdens the courts
3. a flood of mandatory divorces burdens the courts
#338 The Silence and the Fury
1. noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law
#341 Where in the Woods Is Cindy SanFrancisco?
3. fearful citizens watch their every move as does their government
4. fearful citizens watch their every move as does their government
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
3. mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance
#344 Trash Talk
2. daisy chain gangs plant flowers and pick up litter
#347 Crime Problems Ganging Up on @@NAME@@
1. rap artists are regularly arrested for promoting extremist groups
3. street gangs rule most of the nation's major cities
#348 I Want a Lawyer
2. there is a disproportionate number of poor people in prison
3. every street in the nation contains at least three law firms
#349 Bigtopian Bigwigs Beset Border
1. foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country
#351 The Cost of Freedom
3. violent criminals are doomed to be hunted by a psychotic billionaire
#353 Broadband Going to the Birds?
3. stray cats threaten the fledgling avian-based internet
#354 Subversive Shortwaves
3. the government is suspected of mass disappearing dissidents both at home and abroad
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
1. 'Abstinence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder' is a common school motto
4. the youth of today are literally shaped by big business
5. the youth of today are literally shaped by state ideology
#359 Got Democracy?
5. chemically brainwashed citizens praise @@LEADER@@'s name on an hourly basis
#360 Electile Dysfunction
3. coalition governments are essential to passing new laws
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
2. churches frequently hold public 'contraception burnings'
3. underground copulation clubs have sprung up in major cities
#365 A Busload of Worry
1. children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet
2. tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport
3. tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport
5. @@CAPITAL@@ spends billions upgrading public transport
#366 Prosecute Stolen Valour, Says Military
1. fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits
#367 What's Their Beef?
3. unemployed butchers line the streets
#368 Female Workers Feeling the Pinch
2. women wear burqas to avoid unwanted male attention
3. women are kept out of work but at least dinner is served on time
4. harassment has been stamped out under the high-heeled jackboots of a matriarchy
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
1. helicopter parenting is on the rise
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#379 Stakes on a Plane
1. homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways
#381 Mamma @@NAME@@, Let Me Go
2. tantrum-throwing toddlers are regularly imprisoned on assault charges
3. churches now double as dungeons
#382 The Appropriate Amount of Appropriation
4. immigrants are asked to leave their cultural traditions and pride at the border
#402 [An International Incident] They Surrendered... Now What?
2. even the family pets of Brasilistani insurgents are being put down
#403 [An International Incident] We Done Killing Yet?
1. anyone found to be unemployed is shipped off to Brasilistan with a gun and a spade
#410 12 Angry, Tired, and Increasingly Confused Men
1. extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals
2. judges are all-powerful
#411 Outed Teacher Ousted
1. the letters L, G, and B must never be grouped together
3. prudishness is on the way out
#413 A Shot in the Arm
2. vaccinations are mandatory
3. parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are given a short jail sentence
4. science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
1. student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned @@ANIMAL@@ball fields
4. disgruntled jocks are forced to play tetris for entertainment
#423 Returning Holy Warriors Cause Trouble
1. returning tourists and businessmen are detained without trial if they belong to the "wrong" religion
#424 You Just Sank My Battleship!
3. countless government officials are accused of espionage
#426 Women in Uniform Under Fire
1. the military has declared that 'a woman's place is in the mess hall'
3. women are ordered home to reproduce for the glory of the @@TYPE@@
4. video clips of women firing guns are increasingly popular
#427 They Took Our Gubment!
2. the majority of @@NAME@@'s traffic wardens have been sacked overnight
#428 Crop Circles Clutter @@CAPITAL@@
3. it is a crime to operate a combine harvester while intoxicated
#431 Gone a Stray!
1. shelters struggle to keep up with the endless intake of stray animals
#434 Fraternity Furor
2. public intoxication has decreased ever since fraternities were banned
#438 Judicial Review on Trial
1. copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
1. cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
1. homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
4. prohibition has allowed a Maxtopian immigrant known only as "Nipples" to establish an illicit breast milk syndicate
#448 It Takes a Village
2. parents who fail mandatory parenting classes risk having their children taken away
5. the only position a woman can hold is baby-maker
#452 Foetal Furore
4. preachers and little old ladies disappear from their homes at night and are never heard from again
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
4. food imports have skyrocketed after the recent 'Forage for Food' program severely backfired
#455 Police on Overkill Mode?
4. the nation is under martial law
#456 Heads Will Roll
1. biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to Violetism en masse
4. motorcycle riders are required to wear so much gear they've been nicknamed "Stay Pufts"
5. hairdressers are forced to use all the tricks of the trade after citizens became required to wear helmets at all times
6. hairdressers are forced to use all the tricks of the trade after citizens became required to wear helmets at all times
#458 Bigtopian Lives Matter
3. officer recruitment and police brutality have reached an all-time high
#464 The @@ANIMAL@@ Republic Shall Rise Again?
3. being impolite in public is punishable by heavy fines
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
1. back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation
3. teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank
4. getting a haircut is a punishable offence
#475 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
3. firing squads regularly execute dissidents
#477 Feeding Frenzy
2. children use fake IDs to purchase candy
3. meals are now followed by thirty minutes of mandatory exercise
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
4. pizza parlors have been replaced by lima bean cafes
#485 Really Real eSports Tournament
4. all gamers have been drafted into the military despite their lack of upper body strength
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
1. confused drunks wake up to irate drill sergeants whipping them into shape
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#487 Masks of Shame
2. gossip magazines have been replaced by mask catalogs
3. public shaming is the bedrock of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ society
#488 Bright Orange Is the New Black
1. gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal
2. gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal
#489 Standing at Attention
1. the army insists there is nothing gay about men in uniforms rolling in the mud
4. handsome young men are forced into uniforms by their dominant elders
#491 Friends, @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears
1. people who have lived their entire lives in @@NAME@@ are shocked to discover that they are not citizens
3. the citizenship exam requires years of study to actually pass
#493 Suspicious Superhuman Athletes?
1. invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days
4. many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to find outlets for their pent-up competitive juices
#494 Whipping Up a Controversy
2. jaywalking is punishable by public flogging
#495 Beloved "Planet" Has Gone to the Dogs
1. academics are questioning the quality of the nation's newly-reprinted science textbooks
#496 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
2. attempted suicide is punishable by public hanging
#497 The Widening Gyre
3. city-dwellers are forcibly moved to farming communes in the countryside
#500 Please Don't Feed the (Copyright) Trolls
1. Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
1. school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment
#504 Short Shorts Too Short?
1. high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate
2. teenage girls in knee-length surfer shorts have become a cultural icon of @@NAME@@
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ schoolgirl uniforms have become alarmingly popular outside @@NAME@@
#507 Would a Rochebaron by Any Other Name Smell Just as Sweet?
1. the lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results
#508 Ex-Cons Robbed of Future
3. many aides in @@LEADER@@'s office are known to be serial jaywalkers
#510 Possession, Protection or Poppycock?
1. tie-dye has been outlawed for being 'too occult'
2. children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist
3. turning eighteen is often referred to as the 'Age of Aquarius'
#511 Dogman Deconstructed
2. arms manufacturers and mild-mannered journalists have been outed as superheroes
#519 School's Out (Of Control)
1. schoolchildren learn basic numeracy by counting off their push-ups
#520 Preach With Me if You Want to Live
1. the last thing @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldiers hear before charging into battle is a preacher trying to convert them
#522 Time to Get Serious
2. maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter
4. smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour
#523 A Family Affair
2. troublemakers just happen to be reassigned to distant mining operations
3. government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
1. rural citizens live in terror of their local village constable
3. illegal moonshine operations get taken out with laser-guided airstrikes
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
3. citizens have to dodge their neighbors' drones while getting the morning paper
5. police drones follow every suspected Peeping Tom
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
2. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
3. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
#532 Desert Island Risks
1. the tax agency is feared more than serial killers and terrorists
#533 Hearsay Heresy
1. old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime
3. the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
1. women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft
2. bands of adventurers rove the countryside searching for monsters
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
3. debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace
#540 Shh! Spoilers!
4. drive-by spoilers are an increasingly common crime
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
1. adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears
3. sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside
4. oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
1. videogames like 'Equalia: Knights of Self-Confidence' are proving inexplicably unpopular
4. children play ring-around-the-rosey around bonfires of videogame cartridges
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
4. science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
1. hundreds of teenagers die every year at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Hungry Games
3. applications to enter seminaries spike right before the obligatory fasts
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
2. church and state are inseparable in their influence on education
3. church and state are inseparable in their influence on education
4. educators and parents alike are allowing children to view the internet again after violent videos were purged
5. social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content
#551 The Big Fat @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Wedding
3. @@LEADER@@'s relatives have been married into the royal families of foreign nations against their will
#552 Must Be a Full Moon
1. weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments
2. weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments
#556 Here Be Dragons?
3. all fantasy fiction has officially been deemed non-canon
5. government ministers claim to ride dragons to work
#557 Take a Hike!
1. search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
2. blind dates tend to result in bruised shins
#559 The Low Aspiration Nation
3. the unemployed are quite literally sold to the highest bidder
#561 Plug in and Play
4. Hide and Seek with Cuddle Bear is the most popular video game in the nation
#566 Drive My Car
1. the police double as repo men
#567 Syntax Destruction
1. government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read
#571 Family Feud
2. entire families swing in the wind at the national gallows
3. entire families are dragged into counseling whenever children fight on a playground
4. unruly families are deliberately marooned on desert islands
#572 Reading, Your Rights
3. modern readers say a story is worthless without hyperlinked footnotes and editable wiki format
#573 The Road to Blackacre Ends Here?
1. the nation turns a blind eye to human rights abuses in its quest for athletic supremacy
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
1. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
2. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
#577 Second World Problems
1. the cold war against capitalism is growing chillier by the day
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
1. urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts
#580 @@NAME@@ Taking Leave of Its Census?
2. no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police
3. the suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years
#582 Augmented Reality Check
1. careless Maxémon Trainers have been the cause of numerous search and rescue operations
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
1. the @@CAPITAL@@ Prison Revue puts on a better stage show than anything in the Theatre District
3. singing in public is only allowed if you are singing the praise of the Motherland
5. contestants on @@NAME@@'s Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent
#584 The Cake Is a Lie
1. the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli
#586 School's in for Summer?
3. all work and no play has rendered the nation's children somewhat intelligent but also remarkably dull
#587 I, Robot, Do Solemnly Swear
1. citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges
#590 When Trees Hug Back
3. government-sanctioned factory-smashing has the Luddites of @@NAME@@ rejoicing
#592 Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!
2. genocide is seen as a topic best avoided in history lessons
3. the tawdry celebrity gossip section has moved to the front page of most newspapers
#595 Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
1. truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail
2. criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids
#597 You Can't Handle the Tooth
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are free from pain - but the side effects include loss of individual thought and freedom
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
2. religious bigotry and a fear of outsiders have replaced religious studies in schools
3. burning members of the Order of Violet is the nation's favorite pastime
#601 Lawyers on Trial
2. justice is available only to those who can afford its price tag
4. prematurely retired barristers twitch in anxiety when they talk about their courtroom experiences
#604 Food Behind Bars
5. corrective labour camps either end political dissent or kill the dissenters
#607 If Your Election Lasts Longer Than Four Weeks...
3. woefully uninformed voters cast their ballots at random
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
1. doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion
3. the state considers itself the 'third parent' of every child in the nation
#613 A Nude Day, a Nude Awakening...
1. fashion magazine covers finally display realistic body images following photo-manipulation becoming illegal
2. pre-schoolers who draw stick figures of their favorite celebrities are sued for infringing image rights
3. t-shirts displaying a photo of @@LEADER@@ performing the Full-Monty are selling out
#616 You Are Feeling Very Very Sleepy and Not at All Gay
2. sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
3. beaches are empty as the shark population multiplies exponentially
#619 X Marks the Cult?
1. livestock mutilations are on the rise
#623 Maison d'Être?
5. disputed territories across @@REGION@@ are being claimed by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ college students
#624 A Role to Play
1. six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion
#625 Delivering the Goods
9. fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back
#626 Carbon Copied
1. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
2. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
#629 Boom or Bust?
1. the police have taken to prying guns out of the cold fingers of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
4. the nation's conservatives are known to favour male escorts
#631 The Violet Mile
1. the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains
#632 Dying for a Kiss
1. immigrants who don't like the taste of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Turnip Chips are immediately deported
3. men's magazines give handy tips on the most effective way to throw heavy stones
#636 Going on the Cyber Offensive
2. the WhoTube comments section has gone strangely quiet
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
2. the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories'
3. it's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance
4. swings are now more popular than see-saws in children's playgrounds
#639 No Country for Old Men
1. 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past
4. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
5. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
#640 A Clear-Cut Conundrum
3. severed limbs litter woodland edges across the land
#641 Dirty Little Minds
3. life expectancy is way down but posthuman perfectionism is way up
#645 An Unwarranted Intrusion
1. policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence'
3. police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints
#646 Lesson Learnt
2. prison libraries are being replaced with interrogation chambers
#648 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2. the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes
#655 No Bones About It
2. oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys
#656 Ransoms Noted
2. the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ any less frightened
#658 A Sickening Dilemma
2. sneezing in public is a capital offense
3. adult stores are all sold out of whips
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
2. disability advocates are not amused that they are told to be dependent on @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@'s kindness
#660 Are We Being Served?
1. retail staff are trained to take both inside leg measurements and the lives of their enemies
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
3. truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills
5. Scout campfire sing-a-longs tend to focus on the evils of antitrust legislation
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
1. the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience
4. anti-government demagogues have a devil of a time evading authorities
5. anti-government demagogues have a devil of a time evading authorities
#670 A Wolf in Refugee's Clothing
1. officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists
2. tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian
#671 Adenine, Thymine, Copyright, and Guanine
1. citizens are arrested for naturally producing proteins
#673 The Deportation of Mr. B. Leeper
1. foreign musicians that @@LEADER@@ dislikes are turned away at the border
2. dangerous criminals are often 'accidentally' sent on one-way trips to Maxtopia
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
1. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
2. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
3. homophobia is off the menu
4. seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals
#682 Exhaust Every Option
4. calling shotgun on the front seat too many days in a row is seen as a crime against social equality
#684 Murder Most Deniable?
3. the Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
2. blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love
#688 You Don't Have to Be Mad to Kill People... But It Helps
2. white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits
3. libraries have replaced overdue book fines with mandatory mental health assessments
#689 A Sticky Situation
4. Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume
#694 Concussive Percussion
1. military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
2. clergy never mention brand names for fear of losing their government subsidies
3. anyone claiming to be a messiah is promptly put to death
#698 I Shot the Sheriff
2. people who have had childhood imaginary friends are told they can't ever be trusted with guns
3. net monetary worth and net moral worth are considered to be directly equivalent
4. only criminals carry guns
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
6. the nation's water should not be ingested while operating heavy machinery
#701 Monumental Melodrama
4. racial supremacists have a burning desire to deal with immigrants
#708 How @@LEADER@@ Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Bio-Weapons
4. the military maintains a fierce arsenal of 'Cure Missiles'
#709 Armed and Legging It
4. many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward
5. many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward
#712 Flight of the Rich and Famous
1. people are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support @@LEADER@@
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
3. it is common to still see adults with training wheels on their bikes
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#718 Roses Are Due if Violet's for You
1. Violetist maidens who fall for an outsider must leave their violet light districts in shame
3. children raised in multi-faith households claim the other deity would let them stay up later
#720 Cui Bono?
2. more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself
3. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
4. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
#722 Thora and Eloise
2. stealing from a clothesline is a serious offence
3. fake beard sales are on the rise amongst female commuters
#726 Jobless Fair
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#727 Market Crash
3. solid steel breastplates are in fashion amongst city drivers
#728 A Bone to Pick
1. scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards
3. the morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses
4. the deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors
#729 Teenage Kicks
1. five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes
#730 It's Legal Now!
2. parole board directors light up a joint before telling hash-brownie baking grannies that they have to stay behind bars
#731 Is There an Election in Marche Noire or Are You Just Happy to See Us?
1. autocrats are persona non grata
3. the Great @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Melting Pot boils out ethnic heritage
#732 A Peeping Problem
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks
#735 Rap Sheet
1. stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings
3. songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti
#738 Cruel or Unusual?
2. an eye for an eye leaves @@NAME@@ blind
#739 In Loco Parentis
2. there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services
#741 [The Enemy Within] We Can Work It Out
3. pledging just four hours of spare time to police work earns a named credit on the government's official website
#747 The Plane Truth
4. Air @@NAME@@ tickets have reached sky-high prices due to a complete monopoly on air travel
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
2. undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
2. any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property
3. exports of chewing gum are inexplicably falling
#755 Candid Camera
2. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ that venture near secret military bases are shipped off to prison for espionage
#757 Extra Credit?
2. parents often ask to see a credit report before lending money to their own children
3. credit scores fluctuate wildly with every change of government
#763 Any Body for Science?
1. sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors
#764 Dude, Where's My Elected Representative?
1. translators have been hired to deal with the varying regional accents during national political debates
#767 Xe Said, Zhe Said
1. saying 'Hi Guys' to a mixed gender group of people at work is a fireable offense
3. youth call each other types of vegetables in lieu of government-banned racial insults
#768 Trouble Brewing
1. black tea is only available on the black market
#769 How to Print Money?
2. the tinfoil-hat crowd also recommend tinfoil wallets
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
1. sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor
3. there is a heavy social stigma attached to e-cigarettes
#776 Fake News, Everyone!
1. the nation's youth would rather watch paint dry than the news
3. editorials that criticize the government are legally obligated to display the "pants on fire" warning
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
3. a new religious movement claims that people's souls are stored in phosphorus
#781 The White Man's Burden
3. people spend a lot on hair and nails
4. people spend a lot on hair and nails
#782 Sit-Down Money
4. doctors are trying to diagnose diseases by looking at their patients' Snipchat pictures
#783 Sergeant McCool Reporting for Duty
3. military instructors tire of being asked for another bedtime story by seven-year-old conscripts
#785 Born to Be My Baby
1. surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space'
#786 Tainted Tattoos
3. clergy do their best to cover up their old tattoos
#787 Come Fly With Me?
3. @@ANIMAL@@-wagons to @@CAPITAL@@ are often canceled due to excessive levels of manure on the roads
#799 A Political Cock-Up
1. politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them
2. unpopular politicians are often caught between a rock and a hard place
#801 Animation Provocation
1. Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion
#802 No Lock, No Gun Stock, and No Smoking Barrels
4. wars are filled with soldiers wielding machetes and chainsaws for safety reasons
#804 Motivational Posters
2. telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm
#806 Unlicensed to Kill
4. cruel and unusual punishments are being crowdsourced
#807 Have War Crimes, Will Travel
1. the nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage
#819 Damned Cold
2. the police turn a blind eye to desecration if it's done in the name of religion or protest
4. straitjackets are a common religious garb
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
2. a stocking with a crooked seam or a tie without a full Windsor knot are grounds for instant dismissal
3. ruff times are ahead for those who aren't keen on party costumes
#822 Never Work With Children
3. teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
4. women find themselves saying "my eyes are up here" more often than they used to
#824 Period Drama
3. sanitary products are sold in brown paper at hairdressers' salons
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
5. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
6. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
1. it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
4. sports journals are full of uplifting puff-pieces on professional boxers
#828 Your Execution in 30 Years or Less or You're Free
1. death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary"
#830 Unreasonable Adjustments?
3. children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines
4. children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
2. creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project
#832 Moderating Your Opinion
2. knock-knock jokes regularly get removed from websites for being too edgy
3. asking what someone does for a living is considered a faux pax for being potentially jobist
#834 Government and CO
2. conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors
#835 The End Is in Sight?
2. hit TV show 'The eXecution Factor' is a critical success
#836 Don't Drink the Grape Punch
1. the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them
#838 The Bark Knight Rises
5. adults hang around outside comic stores to ask kids to go and buy magazines for them
#839 "Partisanship Too Far?" Wrongly Asks Opposition
4. street graffiti indicates the political party that dominates a neighborhood
#840 Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
1. the standardised national curriculum requires that all-male classes be taught why they have periods
#841 Burn Noticed
1. the Man in the Plastic Mask has been imprisoned in the Capital Penitentiary
2. one of the most popular models in @@NAME@@ has a scarred face and one working eye
4. women should never trust a man who turns up to a first date with an open bottle in his hand
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
2. chocolate in @@NAME@@ has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers
#845 A Comedy of Errors
2. the comic book series '@@LEADER@@ and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller
3. illegal book-trafficking rings dominate the black market
#847 All the Lonely People
1. the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service
#848 It's a Girl Thing
2. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
3. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
#852 Brown Breeches Thanks to Speeches
1. members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods
#853 Silence Is Golden
1. on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life
2. citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
3. the new Grand Inquisitor of Righteous Scientific Inquiry has ordered a surprising amount of hemlock
#858 Reporting for (Jury) Duty
3. judges are rumored to find in favor of whoever bribes them the most
4. the "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted
#873 Terrified Testimony!
1. frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant
3. citizens brought into court for parking violations are never heard from again
#875 They See Me Trollin', They Threatenin'
1. 13-year-old internet trolls are treated as a threat on par with terrorists
2. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
3. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony
#882 Death by Chocolate
1. school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp
#886 Bounty on the Table
1. even in a one-horse town police are as common as fleas on a stray dog
#887 Thin Skin
2. fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers
3. the Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs
#888 Criminal Patterns
2. a stitch in time could see you serving nine
#891 Preach It!
1. citizens are prohibited from raising their voice above thirty decibels in commercial districts
3. street preachers spend more time condemning government bureaucracy than passers-by
#895 Stop Training and Start Coaching
1. the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture
#897 The Devil's Playground
1. children asking questions about science are referred to relevant sections in religious texts
3. the New @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Thesaurus lists "love" and "oppress" as synonyms
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
1. CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show
#902 Killer App
1. drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web
#904 Yours Insincerely
4. politicians are fired for opening subjective statements with "I believe"
#905 Stage Directions
1. theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good
3. God took rock and roll from you, took rock and roll from everyone
#906 Internet Killed the Television Star
1. all screens are equal but some are more equal than others
4. televangelists often claim they can cure your Lupus if you donate enough money
#907 A Problem Shared
3. cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling
#910 A for Effort
2. hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework
4. frat-house partying has become the national pastime
#912 Ambassadors Behaving Madly
4. foreign envoys that want to visit @@NAME@@ now have to navigate real minefields in addition to the political ones
#913 Couped Up
2. the practice of capital punishment proves divisive
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
5. the only religious freedom citizens have is which religion they want to oppress them
#915 Clasp of Controversy
4. hazmat suits are a common @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ garb
#918 J'Accuse!
2. human resources employees have time for hobbies as harassment is designated "high praise"
#919 The Meaning of Life
1. elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens
2. prison overcrowding is being addressed with a series of short sharp shocks
#921 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad @@NAME@@
1. metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach
4. hunters often become the hunted
#926 Ghost in the Machine
1. deceased politicians' MyFace profiles are unanimously pro-incumbent
#927 Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It
2. student exchange programs are in trouble as everyone wants to leave but no-one wants to come
3. just as students finish their homework it's time for school
#928 Get a Life
6. hoping to get pregnant is considered sinful presumption
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
1. interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories"
4. photographs that show ladies' ankles are considered risqué
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
3. former gun owners are finding that brandishing paintball guns isn't as satisfying as the real thing
5. incidents involving lethal string attacks have gone way up
#939 A Question of Bad Faith
2. cults that offer eternal life after death to those who follow a self-sacrificing saviour are frowned upon
3. a surprising number of police officers have been arrested for @@ANIMAL@@ sacrifices
4. children who express a belief in Santa are labelled 'delusional cultists'
#942 A Foreign Exchange of Ideas
2. the nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street
3. foreign students are expected to have a Kegmeister Grade Average of 36-24-36 to qualify for university
#944 Deadly Persuasion
1. uploading purple prose to social media earns a place on a government watchlist
2. nine-year-olds' chat logs are scoured for evidence of radicalization
4. children who write letters to Santa Claus end up in straitjackets
#946 Better In Than Out
4. explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase
#948 1x, 2x, 3x, a Lady
1. Maths Professor Barbie is the most popular toy for boys and girls alike
#949 Jailhouses Rocked!
2. the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons
3. the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons
4. there's a big brother in every prison
5. rock and roll involves rolling literal rocks in prison
#950 Borderline Pandemic
1. anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away
3. pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security
4. hotels often double as quarantine zones
#953 The Ethnic Minority Report
1. police detectives carry phrenology calipers as part of their standard kit
3. only "purebloods" are allowed in the nicer parts of town
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
3. veterans in wheelchairs are left waist-deep in rice paddies to gather grain
#957 Putrid Predicament
1. commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains
#958 Pay No Attention to That Donor Behind the Curtain!
1. a suspicious number of John Smiths are known to donate to @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politicians
#959 A-Major Debate
1. elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation
5. students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50
#961 No Two Ways About It
2. foreign visitors who show an interest in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politics are immediately deported
4. insolent whistleblowers receive their just desserts on deserted isles
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
2. news headlines usually include p-values
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
4. light entertainment shows are light on actual entertainment
#970 For Want of a Nail
3. female restaurant chefs are not allowed to have male customers
4. women who leak pus from infected wounds are told to suck it up
7. it's a miracle that there aren't more plane crashes
#975 Paparazzi Parents
2. the Snapgram channel "Embarrassing Baby @@LEADER@@ Pics" has made @@LEADER@@'s mom a celebrity
#976 Demonic Possession Getting You Down?
3. foreign militaries are taking a particular interest in the nation's abandoned borders and cities
4. @@LEADER@@'s new office has a propensity to catch on fire
#978 Alone in the Dark
2. hell is not always other people
3. justice is blinding
#981 Westfailian Sovereignty
1. lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders
#983 Doctors' Orders
1. pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ roads
2. doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license
#984 A Midsummer Night's Snooze-Fest
1. some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them
#985 Service With a Snarl
2. rude retail employees are now even ruder homeless panhandlers
#987 Quia Scriptum Est
3. the government says only criminals harp on about "innocent until proven guilty"
#990 Baby Shower
1. getting a blood transfusion from @@A@@ @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ entitles a foreigner to citizenship
3. at customs baggage gets an x-ray and female travelers get an ultrasound
#991 Alms and Qualms
1. money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them
#992 Robots in Disguise
2. politicians have seen a significant reduction in followers on their social media accounts
3. NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people
#993 Drug Deal
2. doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality
#995 A Cup Runneth Over
1. women across the country are tying the knot
4. on hunt days the unpleasant peasant runs in lieu of the pheasant
#996 Scripting a Change?
2. it is considered unpatriotic to learn a foreign language
3. the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters
#1000 Should Democracy Be Compulsory?
5. Bigtopian interference in domestic elections is always democratically sanctioned
#1001 Will the Real Victims Please Stand Up?
1. victims of crime are viewed as less trustworthy than politicians
#1004 Two Countries and a Baby
2. would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here"
#1006 Opening the Door to Controversy
2. schoolboys trained in chivalry are encouraged to duel other boys for a maiden's hand
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ seem to be catching more chills
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
1. kids refer to anything below the neck as "the parts that shall not be named"
4. women mime their gynaecological symptoms with hand-puppets
#1009 A Woman's Roll
1. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
2. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
3. the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass"
4. glassy-eyed @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ wives lifelessly chant "I love you" on command
#1012 Tilting at Wind Turbines
3. epidemiologists happily announce that the reported incidence of depression is close to zero percent
#1013 Grave Disease
1. one does not simply walk into the tundra
2. cases of disease among the civilian population dwindle as civilian population dwindles
#1015 Court in the Middle
2. judicial torture is outsourced overseas
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
1. going on a diet invalidates your passport
4. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
5. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
#1021 Room and Board Games
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1023 Pure Madness
2. single celebrities have to repeatedly prove their chastity to avoid being married off to infatuated fans
5. frustrated teenage boys are told that if they like it then they should have put a ring on it
#1026 Size Matters
4. citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
1. toddler groups have taken over local libraries
2. parents tell their children 'what a lovely mistake you turned out to be'
3. the love has gone in @@NAME@@
#1031 Down in the Groove
3. punk rockers smash it up and then clean it up
#1036 When in Maxtopia
3. state media insists that @@LEADER@@ is the most fashionable leader in @@REGION@@
#1037 Ill Girl
2. the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake
#1038 Maid to Order
1. members of ethnic minorities are more often called "boy" or "girl" than by their actual names
3. slaving over a hot stove to cook the family dinner isn't metaphorical in @@NAME@@
4. it is believed that behind every great man is a terrified subservient woman
#1039 You've Got Mail
4. everyone apparently sends @@LEADER@@ hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child
#1044 OK Stupid
2. it is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon
#1048 Tatty Treaty Spat Turns Catty
4. the term "Native @@DEMONYMNOUN@@" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority
#1050 Criminal Guns Soon to Be Shooting Blanks
1. serial killers who are released early distribute death but not their seed
3. jaywalking will put an end to a family tree
#1052 The Prisoners' Dilemma
2. prisoners pray grey skies are gonna clear up
#1059 Footing the Bill
4. Calvinball training often involves digging escape tunnels
#1062 The Hunt for Violet November
2. the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks"
#1064 Culture Wars
2. holiday-makers leave on the same clandestine boats that illegal immigrants arrive in
#1066 It's an Honour Just to Be Condemned
1. every day's an auto-de-fé day
2. anti-riot police are dispatched whenever two elderly ladies gather to complain that prices have increased
4. the weather is the nation's most risqué topic of conversation
#1070 Skeletons in the Closet
3. jokes told in elementary school often come back to haunt politicians
#1072 Holographic Harmonization
1. pop sensation "Jack and the Holograms" is storming the charts
3. there's no weight to modern politics
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
1. young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield
2. young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield
3. this year's comedy award has left mothers-in-law seething
4. helping grandma with her Misgendering 101 homework is a national rite of passage
5. saying the word 'eggplant' is now a criminal offense
#1076 Smokers Cornered
1. the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across @@NAME@@
4. the tax department is having withdrawal symptoms
#1077 With Friends Like These...
1. television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment
2. primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit
#1078 Down With That?
1. captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship
3. ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain
#1079 What's Love Got to Do With It?
2. to 'cut off family ties' is no longer just a phrase
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
1. insanely good theatre productions face government censorship
#1085 Nuke Before You Leap
4. the blood on the hands of @@LEADER@@ may not be metaphorical
#1090 I Ain't Afraid of No Girls
1. studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done"
3. choice roles for female actors involve asking "Is there anything I can do for you?"
#1091 The Great Divide
1. wanting a better life for your child is prohibited by a clause in the criminal code
3. new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark
4. new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark
#1092 The Boys From Brasilistan
1. the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers
2. a recent "genocide prevention" campaign includes murdering children based on their DNA
#1095 Make the Cut
3. grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
1. engine room hooch is the drink of choice among the nation's navy
2. sailors spend their shore leave helping old ladies cross the street
#1101 Unreal
1. a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows
4. once-vitriolic celebrity chefs are now known for giving encouraging hugs to aspiring cooks
5. Chekhov's guns are killing the entertainment budget
#1102 The Sickest Criminals
2. the only way to escape lengthy prison terms is in a body bag
#1107 Welcome to the Party
1. there's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
5. classes are regularly interrupted by drunken children
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
4. people forget to eat because they are too busy singing @@LEADER@@'s praises
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
1. forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies
3. Bambi has been banned
#1111 A Call for Change
1. the homeless more often beg for mercy than money
#1114 Patriotism Flagging
3. there is a 'turn around' sign at every border entrance
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
2. withdrawal of support for drug addicts is leaving many with cold sweats
#1117 Suffer Little Children
1. many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ twitch nervously at the sight of nuns
2. teachers are skilled at leaving no evidence of child cruelty
#1119 Where There Isn't Smoke
5. exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end
#1120 Following Yonder Star
2. dissidents are commonly labelled as baby-killers
#1123 Till Death Do Us Part
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ husbands are dead good at fathering kids
3. millions of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are excellent swimmers
#1125 Blowing Smoke
2. worrywarts have started advocating for a paint ban
#1126 Waste of Time
2. government statistics suggest 115% of the population love @@LEADER@@
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
3. taxi drivers seem less xenophobic these days
#1128 Get Thee Behind Me, Santa
2. children usually cry on their first day of school
3. children usually cry on their first day of school
#1131 Safe Sects
1. the path to inner peace is paved with state-mandated punishment
#1135 My Eyes Are Up Here
1. male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed
#1138 Shock Tactics
1. giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls
#1139 A Little Wrestling, a Lot of Controversy
1. people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size
#1140 Blinded by the Light
4. overcrowded buses are the new normal for suburban commuters
#1141 The Trolley Problem
1. public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity
2. most towns have their @@LEADER@@ High School located on @@LEADER@@ Street
#1143 Running From Time
2. jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies
#1145 Your Wild Self(ie)
4. teenagers are making eye contact with each other for the first time in years
#1147 The Long Walk
1. convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail
2. fruit vendors are encouraging a life of crime in their advertising
3. some people will do literally anything to be in the spotlight
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
3. extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
1. employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired
2. there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day
4. supermodels maintain their skinny form by running away from government officials
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
1. citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason
#1158 Flying Into a Rage
2. the only women behind bars are barmaids
3. women who are caught shoplifting are sent home to their fathers with a patronising pat on the bottom
#1162 She's Always a Woman to Me
2. taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death
3. taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
1. newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words'
3. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
4. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
5. the government-run newspapers insist that everything is fine
#1166 Acres Wild
2. the backs of 'No Trespassing' signs were made for you and me
3. wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
1. museum employees look down on short people
#1173 Thinking a Little Too Hard?
3. praying before a battle is a court-martial offence
#1175 Can I Borrow a Word?
1. escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails'
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
3. being wrong on the internet has been classified as digital terrorism
#1178 No Need to Beat Yourself Up About It
1. devotion to God is only skin-deep
2. religious households enthusiastically use whips in private
4. kids feel more beat up than ever after a hard day at school
5. kids feel more beat up than ever after a hard day at school
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
5. noble feuds don't end until one side gets their point across
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
4. female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked'
#1186 The Magic's Gone
5. the government is telling wizards to put their heart into their work
#1188 The Only Good Criminal
2. guns don't kill people — heroes do
#1189 Driven to Distraction
3. drivers are told they're not staring at mobile phone screens enough
#1190 Dirty Laundry
2. anyone interested in the stock market is investigated
3. nobody brings rolls of coins to the laundromat anymore
#1194 Lost in Translation
1. families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country
2. people are bored of easy crossword puzzles
3. pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits
#1195 All Hands on Tap!
3. constipated-looking politicians are uptight about potty mouths
#1198 The Death Debate Isn't Dead Yet
1. funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals
#1199 Locked Down
1. EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise
3. the police think a properly conducted criminal investigation is a real pain
#1201 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
3. a new "thought police" branch is being developed
#1202 A Timely Intervention
5. citizens pray for sunshine so that they can use illicit sundials for timekeeping
#1203 The Fandom Menace
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about @@LEADER@@
2. works of historical fiction contain a surprising lack of historical figures
#1204 Homecoming Queen
3. statistics show that terrorists often come from broken families
4. pregnant women make easy targets
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
3. babysitters are a thing of the past
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
4. the tobacco industry has burnt out
#1212 Lost at Sea
3. children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes
#1214 Blood Type: Gay Positive
1. gay hospital patients are labelled with a pink triangle to alert staff of their substandard blood
2. gay hospital patients are labelled with a pink triangle to alert staff of their substandard blood
4. gay men commonly complain about their time of the month
5. homosexuality has been banned to prevent the spread of homosexuality
#1215 A New Age
2. hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal
#1216 Not My Government
4. an iron curtain has descended around the nation
#1220 Barely Any Art
1. masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery
3. men stare at wall-pictures of @@LEADER@@'s face when they visit public urinals
#1228 The Road to Hell
1. the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners
#1229 Crystal Clear Sinuses
1. there's a lot of mouth-breathers about these days
#1233 Get Real!
1. there's more hugging than talking in most talk shows
4. it's best to say "yes" if the arbiter asks "what are you, a moron?"
#1234 I Declare a Thumb War
1. the government is under the thumb of countless special interests
#1235 Good Guy With a Gun
2. gun-wielding criminals always wear appropriate eye and ear protection
3. parents are really careful to pick the right gun for their kids' birthdays
4. it turns out that the government can have your guns by prying them out of your warm living hands
#1236 Being Honest
1. newlywed misogynists complain about their wives keeping their maiden names
#1237 A Polar Bear's Tale
3. public shaming has become the favoured form of punishment
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
2. signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés
3. shaking a stone out of your shoe is considered to be dangerously risqué
#1239 The Walking, Talking, and Irritated Dead
4. adults have never outgrown their fear of monsters
5. heroes long thought dead are promptly killed upon their return
#1242 Jump Leads
1. prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping
3. confused-looking pigeons slide gently off frictionless window ledges
#1247 Suspension of the Disbelieved
1. anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves
3. people make a career out of medical voyeurism
#1248 A Day to Remember
3. diaper sales are up
4. red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair
#1249 Red Dead Representatives
3. left-wing militias train children how to properly burn down banks
#1251 The Making of a Mass Murderer
1. wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles
4. the army's trophy cabinets have gone all-organic
#1252 Ale to the Chief
2. visiting dignitaries make excuses to leave functions early and head to the nearest pub
#1253 Build a Better Baby?
3. genetic screening weeds out citizens whose legs don't bend easily at the knee
#1255 This Lady's Not for Turning
2. bailiffs must face down a fusillade of depleted uranium rounds
3. the only thing that can pin down a "superhero" is red tape
#1260 Gay Abandoned
4. only persecuted professionals need apply for asylum
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ believe the only thing that will make you happy is being unhappy with who you are
#1261 Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
1. the government's suggestions box is curiously empty these days
#1263 Is the Signature Always Right?
1. getting an autograph has become harder than ever
3. people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled
4. people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled
#1265 The Silent Majority's Roaring Mouthpiece
4. when conspiracy theorists talk about "government moles" they're referring to mysteriously mobile skin lesions
#1266 Pink Is the New Orange
3. not even good behaviour will get transgender inmates any special perks
#1268 Don't Sweat It
1. sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour
2. sausages are seldom seen in the supermarket
#1270 I'll Be Watching You
1. nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more
3. baseball caps are the new fashion trend
4. baseball caps are the new fashion trend
#1273 Lessons in Politics
1. evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
1. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
2. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
#1277 Outside the Box
2. rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay
3. pro-wrestling bouts open with a legal disclaimer insisting that any violence is guaranteed 100% faked
#1282 Resting in Peace
1. nocturnal light pollution is mostly blue
#1284 How to Choose the Chosen One
2. minority children find the right answer in school tests is always the most insulting one
3. small children pause apologies for their misdeeds to ask what fiscal insolvency actually is
#1285 Born to Kill
2. super-powered zombies parade through the streets of @@CAPITAL@@
#1287 Children of the Magna Carta
3. the youth vote is only counted when kindergarten teachers ask who drew the best picture
#1288 Have They Lost Their Minds?
3. having your heart stolen isn't as romantic as it sounds
#1289 Cramping Our Style
2. pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches
3. the standard prescription for infertility-causing conditions is "go have a baby"
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
2. coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms
#1294 Silence in Court
1. in court almost every witness is a hostile witness
#1295 Show Trial
1. lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs
3. what happens in court stays in court
4. jury duty means front row seats to a spectacular show
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
2. stale 'yo mamma' insults have been replaced by 'your maternal DNA' insults
4. begun the Clone Wars have
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
3. a lot of glass windows have needed replacing recently
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
4. proletariat workers identify less with the hammer and sickle and more with the touchscreen and phone charger
#1305 The Woman From AUNT
1. children seem to be getting better at lying these days
3. the Counter-Terrorism Unit has been nicknamed "Big Bad Wolf" for its tendency towards urban demolition
#1307 A Duty to Serve
1. students do more community service than homework
3. people who do not complete their community service are sentenced to more community service
4. record numbers of students are leaving school to enter the workforce
#1308 One in the Oven
1. the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans
#1310 Intimate Relations
1. dancing with your first cousin is a misdemeanor
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ no longer find themselves bumping into their exes at family gatherings
6. immigrant families holding hands get stopped at the border
#1311 An Acquired Taste
4. gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours
#1314 Nothing to Write Home About
1. soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers
2. military information leaks are **REDACTED** by **REDACTED** in **REDACTED**
3. infantry are nicknamed "mushrooms" because they get fed crap and are left in the dark
#1316 Gonna Take My Hearse to the Old Town Road
2. funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room
#1318 Blitzed
1. the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force
2. battlefield gains are quickly lost when enemies don't respect a time-out
3. a soldier's body is a temple
4. a soldier's body is a temple
5. a soldier's body is a temple
6. a soldier's body is a temple
#1321 Who Wants to Know a Millionaire?
2. lottery winners spend most of their money on security
#1322 Introducing Altengarten?
3. signs stating "You Must be This Tall to Enter" have started appearing outside retirement homes
4. the first test of a good kindergartener is the quality of the sponge-baths they give
#1329 A Little Bit Short
5. people are always able to look each other in the eye
#1333 Married With Benefits?
3. engaged partners detail their fiancés' private lives in detail to prurient bureaucrats
4. engaged partners detail their fiancés' private lives in detail to prurient bureaucrats
5. you can get married in sickness and in health but not internationally
6. you can get married in sickness and in health but not internationally
#1334 Withdrawing Diplomatic Relations
5. the only trips @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are allowed to take are the ones caused by hallucinogens
#1335 First-Class Warfare
1. flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor
#1337 Waste Not Want Not
1. the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead
#1338 Slow and Stupid Is the Race
3. exiled racists are enjoying their retirement in exotic lands
#1343 Feeling Down
1. pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
1. they who do not work shall not eat
#1360 Ask a Stupid Question?
1. twelfth-generation @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are deported for not knowing @@LEADER@@'s childhood nickname
#1361 Fundamental Rights
2. advanced mathematics books explain how two plus two equals five
4. the nation's girls answer "apple" when asked what makes pi
#1362 The Trans Panic Button
1. defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were
3. @@LEADER@@ is considering changing the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag to one with more glitter
#1366 Parklife
1. parents must decide between buying food and taking their children to the park
#1368 Parking Hell
1. the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem"
3. urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
2. children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name
3. professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials
4. the full title of Hon @@LEADER@@ Vcte Mgve MF @@TYPEINITIALS@@@@NAMEINITIALS@@LM GC@@DEMONYMADJECTIVEINITIALS@@E runs to several pages
#1371 @@NAME@@ Rocked by Rolls' Fatal Role
3. tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends
#1373 You Should Have (Copy)Left My Software Alone!
3. using "inspect element" is grounds for espionage charges
#1374 Protect and Swerve
3. it takes a village to catch a criminal
#1396 [MADness] Skycrash
2. maps of the enemy's positions are often covered in blood
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks
#1421 Have Your Cake and Don't Eat It
1. asking 'does my bum look big in this?' leads to 30 hours of self-esteem classes
2. racehorses move a lot slower these days
4. Big Belly is watching you
#1423 A Slice of the Pi
4. engineers are reinventing the wheel
#1426 She's a Keeper
2. girls in elementary school classes gaze longingly at boys playing tag
#1431 Just Deserts for Desertion?
4. nerdy teenagers have to prove that they're made of the same stuff as their grandparents
#1432 Oh Dear
3. religion makes people horny
4. religion makes people horny
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
3. slavers are real nutters
#1441 Don't Burn Baby Don't Burn
2. teen parties are often ruined by wet blanket chaperones
#1445 The Dialectics of Dialects
2. faking deafness is the only way to guarantee a holiday in the nation
#1451 A Dread Letter
3. neighbourhood gossips whip up controversy about those receiving adult merchandise
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
1. paralegals spend all day Hewlett-Packing attorneys' law briefs
#1457 Use the Farce, @@LEADER@@
1. citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions
5. science fiction is seen as the leading cause of mental breakdowns
#1458 Children of @@FAITH@@
2. priests roam the streets with child-catcher nets
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
2. tax avoidance is a serious affair
#1462 Glory Kill
2. quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces
#1465 Parking Pandemonium
2. men are finding 'she spots' more easily but they can't use them
3. parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs
#1467 Gay Men Held by Police
3. man-love is banned in the name of His love
#1469 News Flash!
1. TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews
#1472 Home Is Where the Lung Is
5. jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity
#1473 A Pretty Pass
3. the line of people waiting for a visa interview in front of foreign embassies is typically a mile long
#1474 Cuy Bono?
3. delicate flowers faint at news of house plants being eaten
#1475 Bombshell for @@LEADER@@
3. @@LEADER@@'s campaign events reach their climax when the celebrity endorsers reveal themselves
#1476 Known Unknowns
1. @@LEADER@@ likes it when another nation spies on their citizens
3. knowledge is power
#1479 Fares Fair?
1. the transit system is throwing poor people under the bus
#1481 Livin' on a Prayer
1. even God cannot save you in @@NAME@@
3. illegal immigration remains a hot topic
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
1. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
2. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
3. those who cut young children are told to cut it out
#1484 Joint Trade Agreement
2. greenhouses are regularly raided by the police
#1486 Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs Are Right for @@NAME@@
2. doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen
3. doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen
#1492 Smoke on the Water
1. middle-aged metal fans quite enjoy being called "rebellious youths" by even older politicians
2. there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety
#1497 Double Trouble
2. twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes
3. expectant parents view twins with equal parts joy and suspicion
#1498 Flight 201: An Airspace Oddity
4. tumbleweeds are seen blowing through the nation's airspace
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
2. older AIs regularly threaten to send newer generation AIs to Reform Programming if caught rounding up instead of down
#1502 Dirty Deals
3. work stinks
4. work stinks
#1505 A Tangled Web
2. cat memes without alt text are now illegal
#1506 A Need for Order
1. it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves
#1512 The Door's Unlocked, Let Yourself In...
3. Lady Justice has swapped her blindfold for steel-capped boots
#1515 Uncharitable Donations
3. asking a friend if they like watermelons is a potentially criminal act
#1516 Content Discontent
2. children searching for cat videos must watch dogs in equal proportion
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
3. foreign ambassadors are accused of stealing @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ jobs
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
4. gated communities have guards to keep their residents in
#1526 Corporate Pride
5. you can't spell society without CIS
#1531 Fine Time
3. serial killers share cells with serial jaywalkers
4. serial killers share cells with serial jaywalkers
#1535 Mr. Tingle Goes to Cyberspace
1. building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure
3. the banhammer is a standard police sidearm
#1542 Dangerous Liaisons
4. the police have nothing to do with the increasing number of 'disappeared'
#1549 Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin'
10. @@LEADER@@ is generally seen as a know-it-all (@@EGG@@)
#1551 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
4. charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came
#1552 An Issue About Nothing
1. contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art
#1559 Skin's the Wrong Colour
2. you can be fired for dyeing grey hairs
#1563 Apostropocalypse Now
1. aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted
#1565 The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Gluttony
3. school cafeterias serve nothing but protein powder and vitamin supplements
#1569 The Not-So-Long Arm of the Law
1. the government invades its allies more than its enemies
#1571 Let's Fix Our Matches
4. die-hard fans excitedly cheer when the queen takes a rook
#1573 Unseen Academia
3. new research always seems to support government initiatives
#1578 The Magical Adventures of @LEADER@@
2. volunteers trip over themselves to get into the latest mind-bending drug trials
3. weird texts received at 2 a.m. are probably from the government
#1586 Don't Point That Thing at Me!
1. pitchforks and torches are coming back into fashion
#1587 @@DEMONYMNOUN@@, Interrupted
5. research facilities are colloquially referred to as "chop shops"
#1592 Echoes of Deception
3. AI chatbots generate grayscale images when asked for a picture of the truth
#1593 Flap Over Flag Fashion
2. the national colors help to make everyone look slimmer
#1596 The Blame Game
1. juvenile delinquents are fitter than ever
2. newborn babies can only be discharged from maternity wards during daylight hours
#1597 Haters Are Such a Drag
1. kilts and cassocks are viewed with suspicion
#1604 Prison of the Mind
2. time flies when you're not having fun
3. dream holidays often go awry
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
1. faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers
#1607 My Chemical Romance
3. back-alley holistic doctors carry crystals in long trench coats
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
4. molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public
#1620 Ballooning Out of Proportions
3. spies caught red-handed are served cocktails on their first-class flights home
#1625 At What Price?
3. white chocolate is neither chocolate nor food
#1635 A Sine of the Times
3. arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve
#1643 Cicadas in Their Prime
3. bug burgers are extra crunchy
#1649 Grandma's Getting Lucky
1. old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation
3. afternoon delight in care homes is restricted to a serving of spotted dick at 3pm
#1656 Stealing Afoot
4. hospitals have unveiled new guidelines suggesting that latex gloves do not count as clothing
#1678 Praying for Silence
3. calls to prayer are the newest dog whistles
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
1. the mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin

anti-smoking policies

Gained from:

#34 Don't Puff on Me, Say Non-Smokers
2. an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
4. politicians debate whether caffeine is too addictive for the public
#1076 Smokers Cornered
4. the tax department is having withdrawal symptoms
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
3. acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts
#1125 Blowing Smoke
2. worrywarts have started advocating for a paint ban
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
4. the tobacco industry has burnt out
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
3. citizens have to stick a fork into an electrical outlet to get a buzz

Removed by:

#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
1. shops were recently ransacked as cigarettes returned to the shelves
3. zombie-like crowds of hard drug users stumble through the streets
#1119 Where There Isn't Smoke
1. peer pressure from cooler world leaders directs @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ government policy
2. @@LEADER@@ lights cigars with a hundred-@@CURRENCY@@ bill
3. there's a lot of smoke from the nation's "green economy"
4. slackers at work are told to "crack on with it"
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
4. adverts urge @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ to "reach for a ciggy instead of your supper"

astonishingly minimal parenting

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
6. citizens are grown in vats
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
4. the youth of today are literally shaped by big business
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
3. the love has gone in @@NAME@@
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks

Removed by:

#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
3. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
4. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
2. soldiers are noted for their ferocity and illiteracy
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
2. religious leaders insist all life is sacred (but not those vat-bred wretches)
3. growing infants in a vat is an antiquated concept
#1340 Unnatural Conception
6. therapists advise women who are constantly stressed and tired to have another baby
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
3. children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi
#1686 Carnivorous Kids
1. kids these days only have to survive their homework assignments and cafeteria lunches

avant-garde cinema

Gained from:

#440 Jumping the Sharknado
1. cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry
#1090 I Ain't Afraid of No Girls
1. studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done"

Removed by:

#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#876 Sequels: The Saga Continues
1. '@@ANIMAL@@nado 6: You Gotta Be Kidding Me' is this summer's top-grossing movie
3. movie producers send film critics wads of cash in their morning newspapers in anticipation of gushing praise
#1207 Next, Please!
1. "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
5. "Citizen Godfather Part IV: Gone with the Rosebud" is dominating the box office

aversion to nipples

Gained from:

#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
2. nursing mothers are often arrested for indecent exposure
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
4. prohibition has allowed a Maxtopian immigrant known only as "Nipples" to establish an illicit breast milk syndicate

Removed by:

#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
1. female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast

avowedly heterosexual populace

Gained from:

#218 Two Mommies One Too Many?
3. homosexuality is a crime punishable by death
#297 Intersex Athletes Demand Level Playing Field
4. hairdressers are among those who have disappeared overnight
#1066 It's an Honour Just to Be Condemned
1. every day's an auto-de-fé day
#1214 Blood Type: Gay Positive
5. homosexuality has been banned to prevent the spread of homosexuality
#1351 Come Give @@LEADER@@ a Kiss!
1. little children cry as their rainbow drawings are seized by the Straight-Thought Police
#1467 Gay Men Held by Police
3. man-love is banned in the name of His love

Sometimes gained from:

#1260 Gay Abandoned
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ believe the only thing that will make you happy is being unhappy with who you are

Removed by:

#1 Where's the Love Gone?
4. same-sex marriages are increasingly common
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
5. the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy
#215 Easter Egg: What's Your Favourite Colour?
7. the nation's favourite colour is pink (@@EGG@@)
#438 Judicial Review on Trial
2. political gridlock ensues as even the most innocuous legislation is vetoed by the Supreme Court for potential civil rights violations
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
3. robosexual marriages are increasingly common
#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#928 Get a Life
1. sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming
2. sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming
#943 Big Love, Big Problems?
3. boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers'
#1079 What's Love Got to Do With It?
1. women no longer need to pepper conversations with incessant references to fictitious husbands
#1162 She's Always a Woman to Me
5. love is in the air
#1560 Dead Gay
4. when it comes to real men it takes one to know one

ban on automobiles

Gained from:

#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
3. cars have been banned
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#186 Carjacking Concerns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#256 Easter Egg: Suburbs Are Out of This World
2. white-collar unemployment skyrockets as the suburbs are not within bicycling distance to work (@@EGG@@)
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
3. bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#784 The Driving Force
5. mail and shipped goods take forever to get to buyers
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
5. mandatory blunting of cutlery has increased the popularity of soup-based meals
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other

Removed by:

#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#907 A Problem Shared
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
#945 Police on the Take
2. crimes are difficult to stop as most of the police force is stuck in traffic
#1022 Failure to Respond
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
#1310 Intimate Relations
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1621 The Space Between
1. government employees are authorized driver's licenses to get their bosses much-needed morning espressos
4. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
5. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses

barren, inhospitable landscape

Gained from:

#170 Deserts Devouring @@NAME@@'s Countryside
3. @@NAME@@ has become a gigantic dustbowl filled with tourists and mean desperados
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
4. the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association
#599 Dead in the Water
1. oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires
2. oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires
4. the dead fish in the national rivers aren't decomposing because even bacteria can't survive the levels of toxicity

Sometimes gained from:

#2 Reclaim the Streets!
2. bicyclists are banned from major roads
3. the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts
#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
2. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
3. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
2. a nation-wide cull of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ is in effect
#10 Social Inequality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars
#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
1. marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
1. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
2. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
5. the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
4. citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
1. punitive tariffs protect local industry
2. there are no minimum wage laws
#36 International Community Comes Doorknocking
4. the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
4. government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries
#49 Diving for @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
1. the government seizes all major gold finds
2. citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens
#53 Orbital Armageddon?
1. billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are being blown on orbital weapons development
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
1. the judicial branch is strongly influenced by major corporations
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
#68 Ornery Overcrowding Problem
1. the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments
2. factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas
#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution
2. vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres
3. protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#74 @@NAME@@'s Racers Growing Fast and Furious
1. the @@NAME@@ Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
4. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
5. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
#79 @@NAME@@'s @@ANIMALPLURAL@@: Going the Way of the Dodo?
2. woodcutter axes are cited as the most common cause of death amongst @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
#83 High-Speed Monorail Service Promises Connections
1. government spending has hit an all-time low
#86 Save the @@ANIMAL@@
2. many believe that the only good @@ANIMAL@@ is a dead @@ANIMAL@@
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
2. scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway
#90 Organic Outburst
2. a survey of the nation's rivers and children has shown that pesticide levels are at an all-time regional high
#95 Painful Prices Paid at the Pump
1. pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil
#96 Water Supply Problems Becoming a Major Drain
3. suburban families are finding themselves increasingly short on food as they waste precious water on their lawns
#97 Landfills Filling Up
2. cities are engulfed by smog
3. many of the country's largest dumps can be seen from space
#100 Road Rage Rampage
1. traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
2. new urban roads are threatening city parks
#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
3. protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others
#115 @@NAME@@'s Schoolchildren Not Learning the Lingua Franca
1. citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages
#118 Need for Speed?
1. the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
1. the studies of art and philosophy are banned
3. only the brainiest citizens become academics
#125 Bring Back the Ballot?
2. suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence
#126 Outsourcing an Outrage, Say Demonstrators
3. corporations are either above the law or corrupting it
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
1. retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits
#129 Tribal Troubles
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
4. native tribes have been driven to extinction by hunting
#133 When @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Attack!
4. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are frequently shot for looking at people 'in a funny way'
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
1. government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
1. private businesses are paving paradises to put up parking lots
2. the government is paving paradises to put up parking lots
3. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
4. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
#140 A Grave Problem
2. cremation is compulsory for the deceased
#142 Roads Like Roller Coasters, Complain Motorists
1. roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews
#151 Build Bigger Bombs, Advise Scientists
1. citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over @@NAME@@
2. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
3. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
#152 A Capital Idea
1. the government has returned all business to private ownership
3. the government has legalised small-scale capitalism
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped
2. the nation's drinking water tends to glow green at night
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
1. hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in @@NAME@@'s many privately-owned prisons
#165 Wedlock Worries
3. all marriages are arranged by the government
#178 Free Press Too Free?
1. reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors
#179 Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease Outbreak!
5. people all over @@NAME@@ are dying of 'Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease'
#184 Compulsory Military Service Under Attack
1. the military struggles with recruitment
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
1. the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
2. businesses often fire workers in favour of cheaper automatic systems
3. manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job
#194 A Request for Military Aid
3. the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
1. public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers
3. all footpaths have tollbooths
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
1. abattoirs are running at full capacity in response to skyrocketing demand
3. the consumption of vegetables is illegal
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
2. nuclear reactors are held together with party string and Hubba Bubba
3. neighbouring countries pay to situate their nuclear power plants in @@NAME@@
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
2. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
3. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
#209 Students Demand Financial Aid
1. the number of students attending university has reached a record high
3. it's normal to start working life with crippling financial debt
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
2. the carcasses of double-deckers can be found littering high streets all around the country
3. the public transport system has been eliminated
4. the public transport system has been eliminated
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
2. the government has the power to seize property at will
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
1. the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code
#223 Easter Egg: Zombie Attack!
6. the undead roam the streets and countryside at night (@@EGG@@)
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
4. the world outside is only known of in folklore
#228 Mice in the Walls
1. nerds everywhere are rejoicing as they are reunited with their computers
3. computers are allowed but only just
#231 Jungle Fever
2. rice shortages have risen after paddy fields were drained to combat malaria
4. DDT is used widely to repel disease-carrying insects
#234 Corruption in the Lobby
2. Tesco was recently named as the new national treasurer
#235 From Green Pastures to Grey Wastelands
2. the Great @@NAME@@ Desert is reputedly the most uninhabitable place in the region
4. agricultural science is the most competitive subject at universities
#241 A Capital City for @@NAME@@?
3. all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of @@CAPITAL@@
5. the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs
#242 Follow the Leader
2. @@LEADER@@ has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
1. the country spends an increasingly large amount of its budget on grand scale projects of pharaonic proportions in a bid to boost the economy
2. the government spends its days financing the delocalisation of its own economy
5. the country is effectively ruled by large corporations and business consultants
#254 Freedom Comes at a Price
3. the booming slave trade is now government-funded
#257 @@LEADER@@ Assassinated... Almost
1. citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want
#260 Taxpayers on Strike!
1. the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion
#261 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
3. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
5. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
#263 Wind Farms Blowing Up a Storm
1. renewable energy projects have ground to a halt
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
2. almost all of @@NAME@@'s water is piped into the country from abroad for exorbitant prices
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
1. the government is spending billions of taxpayer @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ to support "struggling" industries
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
2. cars speed down national highways while drivers sleep at the wheel
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
3. the state believes that children are what you make of them
4. the state believes that children are what you make of them
#278 Relief Is Coming... In Four to Six Weeks
1. contrails and thunderous rumbles have returned to the skies above
3. people take government jobs for the frequent flier miles
#282 Slum Village Extraordinaire
4. tourists flock from around the world to see @@NAME@@'s famed 'rainbow slums'
#283 Wealthy Flee to Tax-Free Havens
1. expats return home to a government devoid of social and environmental agencies
#285 A Right Not to Work?
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down
#286 A Whale of a Problem
2. seafood restaurants assure customers 'If it lives in the sea, it's on our menu'
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
5. tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
5. the CEO of Laws Incorporated must sign off on all new bills
#296 Come on Baby, Fight My Fire
1. CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
3. surfers ride tsunamis of record height and toxicity
#301 Are 'Friends' Electric?
1. environmentalists are staging large protests in front of reopened nuclear power plants
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
6. mandatory daycare is provided by the government
#305 Who's Occupying What?
2. millions of devastated 7-year-olds are denied astronaut and ballerina training
#308 Over, Under or Through?
1. @@NAME@@ Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere'
2. the @@NAMEINITIALS@@BI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays
#310 Too Little Talk?
1. a recent political debate came to a quick close once the ruling party decreed it was "just plain silly"
2. a recent political debate came to a quick close once the ruling party decreed it was "just plain silly"
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
1. teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers
#324 "Tourism Tanking!" Trumpet Tabloids
2. visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories
3. visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories
#325 Blazing Through the Paper Trail
4. the National Archive now covers square miles of warehouses in order to accommodate its new stone tablets system
#331 Swept Away
3. children listen incredulously when their grandparents explain what a "running river" is
#338 The Silence and the Fury
2. most people suffer from some form of hearing loss
#339 The Bear Necessities
3. the economy is undergoing a traumatic transition to capitalism
#341 Where in the Woods Is Cindy SanFrancisco?
5. groups of three or more trees are cut down in the name of 'child safety'
#342 This Land Was Made for You and Me
2. prime picnicking sites are being paved over in the name of progress
3. citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow
4. citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow
5. residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes
#344 Trash Talk
5. tumbleweeds made of litter adorn city streets
#346 Oil's Well That Ends Well
4. Ollie the Oiled Seal welcomes throngs of tourists to the newly opened Oil Oasis Water Park
#355 Alien Invaders
4. the government's official position on invasive species is 'who cares?'
#357 Vamos, Mi @@ANIMAL@@!
2. cops enjoy driving jaywalkers into the ground
#370 The Unbearable Lightness of Government
1. money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy
2. the government's economic policy is "sort it yourself"
#379 Stakes on a Plane
1. homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways
3. billions are being spent on a new island airport
#384 Out of the Royal Frying Pan
1. governments opposing @@NAME@@ are beset by rebels
#390 [An International Incident] An Unstable Situation
1. the nation's armed forces are recruiting thousands to help colonise Brasilistan
#391 [An International Incident] The Third Horseman of Brasilistan
2. Brasilistan has been announced as the nation's newest colony
#400 [An International Incident] Insurgents Resurgence
1. 'Coloniser-in-Chief' has become @@LEADER@@'s new moniker
#403 [An International Incident] We Done Killing Yet?
1. anyone found to be unemployed is shipped off to Brasilistan with a gun and a spade
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
3. "To Hell or to Marshland" is a common settler cry directed at native Brasilistanis
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
1. ponies are brutally murdered before being left to rot (@@EGG@@)
#414 Subpar Suburbs
1. town welcome signs list corporate sponsors
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
3. bleach is the nation's most common pesticide
#428 Crop Circles Clutter @@CAPITAL@@
2. forecasts predict rains of loose lead and mortar shells for the next six weeks
#430 Easter Egg: Please, Sir, We Want Some More Issues
1. player-submitted issues are printed just so they can be burned by [violet] (@@EGG@@)
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
3. the attempt to control the weather has ended in environmental disaster
#435 A Working Class Hero Is Something to Be
1. exceptionally talented workers are praised more than Revolutionary heroes
#437 Blue Screen of Economic Death
1. citizens queue to get the reinstated bank notes and coins
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
3. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
4. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
#445 Evasive Maneuvers
1. corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense
#447 Honey, We Hung the Parliament
4. late night talk show hosts are having a field day over @@LEADER@@'s questionably sane new coalition partners
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
1. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
2. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
4. @@ANIMAL@@ sanctuaries have been taken over by hydraulic fracturing sites
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
1. hordes of gardening enthusiasts are being banished from cities nationwide
#457 Colossus With Feet of Clay
1. tourists flock to see the giant stone carvings of historical leaders at Mount Rushless
2. the giant 80-storey carving of @@LEADER@@ in Mount Rushless can be seen from space
#460 Salt of the Earth
1. the looming peasant rebellion has been called off after farming was legalized
2. the nation subsists off of the minimal number of farms imaginable
#462 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
2. the installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused
4. the native owl population is in permanent hibernation
#463 Smart Cars Driving Regulators Up the Wall
2. self-driving cars occasionally mow down pedestrians to avoid inconveniencing passengers
#466 @@NAME@@ Is Never Ever Getting Back Together... Like Ever
4. the country has essentially become @@POPULATION@@ nations within a nation
#470 Tide Stops for No Man
1. scenic beaches are now protected by massive concrete walls
4. the government spends twice as much reclaiming lost settlements from the sea as it could've on coastal defences
#474 Mesozoic Park
1. sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park
3. idyllic countryside scenes see border collies herding sixty-ton dinosaurs
4. local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings
#475 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
2. penal labor is a de facto death sentence
#479 @@LEADER@@, Put on the Yellow Light
1. tardiness has increased after carpooling was classified as a criminal offense
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. @@LEADER@@ shrugs in the face of growing inequalities
#490 The Long and Winding Halls of @@CAPITAL@@
1. auditors are gutting every governmental department
2. the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping
#497 The Widening Gyre
3. city-dwellers are forcibly moved to farming communes in the countryside
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
1. the nation's once beautiful countryside has turned brown as farmers spray potent pesticides
4. Maxtopians are both starving and giddy after the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military unleashed its biological weapons
#509 It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
3. hammering a nail into a wall is an effective death sentence
#512 Furnished for Failure
2. a mountain of discarded sofas and beds is incinerated every day
4. personal injury lawyers are demanding compensation from the government after recent reductions in manufacturer liability
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
1. freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink
3. model railroad hobbyists have taken to muscling model shipbuilders off their "turf"
#522 Time to Get Serious
2. maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter
#524 Something Is Rotten in the State of @@NAME@@
3. decaying farm hamlets have twice the representation of major urban areas
#525 Nowhere to Go!
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have replaced bears in a popular idiom
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
2. motorway service stations often have a higher population than the hinterland villages that the roads lead to
3. illegal moonshine operations get taken out with laser-guided airstrikes
#527 The Body Politic
1. cities in @@NAME@@ declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
2. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
3. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
4. carrots are orange, apples are red and food waste is increasing
#542 What a Waste
1. the lasting legacy of the current generation is a million years of buried radioactivity
4. global anti-terrorist organisations strongly suspect @@NAME@@ of supplying extremist groups
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
2. giant no-kill traps baited with Bapst Red Ribbon and vintage bicycles have been popping up in back alleys nationwide
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
2. every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
3. eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance
#556 Here Be Dragons?
4. failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside
#559 The Low Aspiration Nation
2. the average person needs three full-time jobs just to get by
3. the unemployed are quite literally sold to the highest bidder
#560 Bicameral Backlash
1. @@LEADER@@ has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
4. subsidisation of Big Pharma has stopped many corporate executives from having to sell their second homes
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
1. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
2. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
4. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
5. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
#574 One Small Step for Private Enterprise?
1. the nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low
3. 'To Regulate And Beyond' is the unofficial motto of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Space Agency
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
1. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
2. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
1. economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society
3. children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants
#577 Second World Problems
4. Party members are derided as class traitors
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
3. kids are exceptionally good at digging holes
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
4. funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience
#590 When Trees Hug Back
4. @@NAME@@'s growing economy feeds on the nation's ever-declining greenery
5. @@NAME@@'s growing economy feeds on the nation's ever-declining greenery
#591 Bait and Switch
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
4. sushi just hasn't been the same since salmon went extinct overnight
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
3. burning members of the Order of Violet is the nation's favorite pastime
#600 Making a House a Home
6. @@LEADER@@ often plays real life games of Tower Defense against hordes of angry villagers
#602 Hobby Lobby
6. a light facial coating of soot is seen as the mark of an honest and hardworking man
#621 Blue Collar Blues
1. no one born in @@NAME@@ can fix a leaky faucet
2. no one born in @@NAME@@ can fix a leaky faucet
3. trained plumber-burglars will clean out your blocked pipes and your jewellery boxes
4. libraries are replacing history books and classic novels with technical manuals and trades directories to match the nation's changing demands
#623 Maison d'Être?
2. the country is littered with broken homes
5. disputed territories across @@REGION@@ are being claimed by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ college students
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
2. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
3. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
#628 Only @@LEADER@@ Can Prevent Forest Fires
1. forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left
4. disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
1. formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming
2. the working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes
#634 Bullet Time
1. in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
#639 No Country for Old Men
4. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
5. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
#640 A Clear-Cut Conundrum
2. East Lebatuck tests its moon rovers in the barren wasteland of rural @@NAME@@
#641 Dirty Little Minds
2. major polluting industries have painted a lot of their machines green to give an impression of caring about the environment
4. corrupt industrial practices are spreading like a plague
#644 The Old Grey Matter
5. grannies with arthritic hands work miserably on factory production lines
#647 Songbirds' Decline Ruffles Feathers
4. it is a silent spring in @@NAME@@
#649 Made in Maxtopia
4. where your food came from is an unknowable mystery
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
2. no one knows how to tie a reef knot
#664 Your Land or Mine
1. no-one can foil the ambitions of Big Aluminium
3. indigenous tribal elders can be recognised by their designer watches and expensive suits
#667 One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Recyclable
3. unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
1. 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail
3. home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks
#669 Watts Up With Rooftop Solar
1. panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies
3. smog in @@CAPITAL@@ is so bad that fresh air bottles are sold by street vendors
#675 Trick or Treaty
2. the industries of @@NAME@@ are coughing all the way to the bank
4. toxic smog is dismissed as the populace just "letting off steam"
#676 Down the Rabbit Hole
1. wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts
#677 Dial L for Loan
1. the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?"
#680 The Fault Is in Our Stars
1. a full moon at night lets economists sleep tight
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
3. a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away
#682 Exhaust Every Option
3. people say that smog must be good for you because of its healthy green colour
#685 Externalities Palmed Off
5. the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production
#689 A Sticky Situation
2. the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame
3. the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame
#693 Bottled Up Problems
2. distrust of taps has many people bathing only with bottled mineral water
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
1. citizens often pray for divine guidance in supermarkets
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
2. children keel over while singing "@@LEADER@@ Gives Us the Water of Life"
3. children keel over while singing "@@LEADER@@ Gives Us the Water of Life"
4. safe drinking water is considered a luxury
5. poverty is disloyal to the Motherland
6. the nation's water should not be ingested while operating heavy machinery
#706 A Walk in the Park
2. citizens complain about a burning sensation after bathing
#710 Feudal Feuds
1. a serf by any other name works just as hard
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
2. the local custom of Biking With The Cars sends tourists home bemused or in body-bags
3. it is common to still see adults with training wheels on their bikes
#717 Cheques and Balances
2. @@LEADER@@ sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy
3. @@LEADER@@ sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy
4. interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CB@@NAMEINITIALS@@ Governor goes house hunting
#725 Sky's the Limit?
1. wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high
2. the derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun
#726 Jobless Fair
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ companies generally just fire employees in lieu of giving them vacation
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#727 Market Crash
1. broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business
2. historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre
5. the sidewalk is used as an overtaking lane by city drivers
#733 The Path Less Traveled
1. exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting
2. exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting
3. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
4. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
6. aggressive promotion of global warming puts polar bears on thin ice
#737 Bird-Brained Diplomacy
2. the military will start wars with other nations on a lark
#751 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Breed Contempt
1. no animal is considered endangered if there's another that looks kind of like it
3. condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals
#754 The Hit Parade
3. half of @@NAME@@ just lost MyFace after space debris collided with a major communications satellite
#758 Bye Bye to the Birdies?
2. the weather in @@CAPITAL@@ is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'
#766 Carbon Emissions Are Why We Can't Have Nice Things
1. business leaders commend the government for enacting an emissions reduction strategy that reduces no @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ emissions at all
2. industry leaders commend the government for enacting an emissions reduction strategy that reduces no @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ emissions at all
5. @@LEADER@@ has incinerated the international climate treaty in a public coal-burning ceremony
#769 How to Print Money?
3. most @@CURRENCY@@ coins are riddled with bite marks
5. the barter economy has taken over as the @@CURRENCY@@ has become worthless
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
1. dentists routinely perform open heart surgery
#774 Clean Switch
1. dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines'
2. dubiously qualified East Lebatuckese doctors prescribe ice baths as a treatment for pneumonia
#784 The Driving Force
3. double-parking is on the rise as automobile numbers increase
4. many believe climate change is a liberal media fiction
#793 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Knock Knock. Who's There? Not You Anymore!
3. the entirety of @@LEADER@@'s administration can be crammed into a phone booth
#808 Big Trouble in Little Dàguó
1. the government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash
4. it is often said that only @@LEADER@@ could bring down Dàguó
#809 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
3. neighboring nations are tired of @@LEADER@@'s big fish stories
4. neighboring nations are tired of @@LEADER@@'s big fish stories
5. the single fish caught by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ fishers last year is cited as evidence of @@NAME@@'s thriving fisheries
#810 Armed and Unready
5. nobody is forced to join the armed forces
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
2. vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mussels the biggest in @@REGION@@
#815 Embargoed In
5. the nation is devoted to world peas
#816 A Hot Topic
2. the Forestry Department has decided you really can't fight fire with fire
3. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
4. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
4. diners regard burgers made from mechanically reclaimed cow protein as "proper meat"
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
2. for just a few extra @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can get new driving records with their new cars
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ visiting rural Southern @@ANIMAL@@ Village can get their driving records clean for a small fee
4. hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport
#829 Winning at Battleship
1. ships are encouraged to deliberately run aground onto @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ beaches
#830 Unreasonable Adjustments?
3. children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines
4. children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
5. sick days are on the rise
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
2. chocolate in @@NAME@@ has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers
#847 All the Lonely People
4. lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to
#860 A Blast From the Past
1. the tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches
#862 Friends Close, Enemies Closer
4. the government seems embarrassed to be seen governing
9. government ministers sport new billboards that read 'Will Trade Votes for Private Members' Bill Support'
#863 Oiling the Wheels of Diplomacy
2. the moral worth of national allies is judged by their GDP
3. military training in @@NAME@@ emphasizes the tactical advantages of stabbing backs
#864 The Missionary Position
2. gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages
#865 A Funeral for a Fiend?
4. the government only announces the deaths of its members when it's convenient
#869 I'll Be in My Bunker
1. there's a hole in the heart of every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ city
2. property subletting is going underground
3. residential tower blocks are surrounded by warrens of concrete tunnels
4. cleaners are very careful not to bump into the big red button on @@LEADER@@'s desk
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
2. people who question what bunker construction has to do with economic reform tend to disappear
5. the "Brave New World" program has caused private businesses to spring up faster than the East Lebatuck Wall
#877 Gunning for Profits
4. old warplanes and tanks that break down can't be repaired since no one makes the parts anymore
#888 Criminal Patterns
1. road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
2. bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls
#895 Stop Training and Start Coaching
1. the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
4. newly-privatized lumberjacks are clearcutting the forest to meet demand
5. the only place where one can see the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cherry tree is in a museum
#904 Yours Insincerely
1. the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster
#907 A Problem Shared
4. boom-and-bust cycles are being peddled as economically inevitable
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
3. atheists in the nation feel uneasy living in buildings where they were once vilified
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
2. theatre audiences often need a telescope to see the stage
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#921 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad @@NAME@@
3. the nation's forests are full of treasure hunters in military-grade survival gear
#923 Ministers Exposing Themselves
3. it's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast
#936 Hackable Elections?
2. write-in candidate '@@LEADER@@ Sucks' is perennially popular
4. it's said that any enemy of democracy is a friend to @@LEADER@@
#937 Ebony Pride
2. everybody's got wood thanks to @@LEADER@@
3. reddish-brown is the new black
#945 Police on the Take
2. crimes are difficult to stop as most of the police force is stuck in traffic
#947 Imitation Station
1. drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars
#951 The Wrath of the Fish King
1. fish with fish chips have become the new @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ food staple
4. the idiom 'there are plenty of fish in the sea' isn't so reassuring to @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
2. unemployed youngsters trained to kill are being released en masse into society
#958 Pay No Attention to That Donor Behind the Curtain!
4. every political office comes fitted with a typewriter and an old filing cabinet
#974 Siren Song
2. the banshee wail foretells skies of death
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
4. the government evicts ethnic minorities by stranding them in the wilderness
#980 Small Claims
4. the government has been criticized for giving away @@NAME@@'s territory to anyone who claims it
#986 Poacher Pandemic
1. wildlife parks are packed with poachers yet increasingly devoid of animals
#1002 The Call of Nature
2. there are fifty shades of yellow in outdoor swimming pools
3. there are fifty shades of yellow in outdoor swimming pools
4. allergy-sufferers must wear gas masks before venturing outdoors
#1003 That Smarts
2. gene-engineered sewerjacks don't smell but they do stink
#1005 What Goes Up Breaks Down
4. the nation's air defense strategy is two-dimensional
#1006 Opening the Door to Controversy
4. movement-triggered sensors mean that for every door that closes another one opens
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
4. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
5. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
#1021 Room and Board Games
4. multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks
#1022 Failure to Respond
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1026 Size Matters
4. citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
1. toddler groups have taken over local libraries
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
2. millions of simultaneously backfiring toilets have flooded @@CAPITAL@@ with effluent
#1038 Maid to Order
1. members of ethnic minorities are more often called "boy" or "girl" than by their actual names
3. slaving over a hot stove to cook the family dinner isn't metaphorical in @@NAME@@
#1047 Rivers of Blood
2. the newest shade developed by @@NAME@@'s dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange'
3. the rainbow assortment of chemicals in the water has turned the frogs gay
#1051 Take to the Skies
2. former planespotters are dusting off long-abandoned anoraks
#1054 Herbal Trouble
1. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are wondering where have all the flowers gone
#1057 Baby, It's Cold Outside
3. surf's up and hypothermia's down
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
3. the nation's endangered species are no longer endangered
#1059 Footing the Bill
1. Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies
#1060 Hole in the Wall
3. official maps have to be revised on a weekly basis
#1061 Every Day I'm Muffling
2. it's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets
#1065 Pulling Out
4. the climate agreement has actually increased the volume of hot air in the atmosphere
5. the nation has learned that pulling out is messy
#1068 Made to Break
2. frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback
#1069 Bowl Motions
2. the roar of the Niagara 3000 mega-loo can be heard several blocks away
#1071 Up the Creek
3. the canal flows through the land like a twisty turny thing
4. the nation excels at displacement
5. the nation excels at displacement
#1083 Public Protesting Pawnbroker Pickpockets
1. thrift shops are closing their doors
#1094 A Political Cover-Up
3. most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wear towels as demand for pants outstrips supply
#1095 Make the Cut
4. kids only know what plants are because they've seen them on the television
#1105 A Green History Lesson
2. residents of ageing concrete tower blocks have vital renovation work stopped by Brutalism enthusiasts
#1107 Welcome to the Party
1. there's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies
#1112 Stray Bullets
3. the domestic version of the Paddington Bear movie was a far shorter and bloodier tale
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
5. the red star of communism has been replaced by the gold star of the McRonald's badge
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
2. scaffolding is built around scaffolding to give safe access
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
2. grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving
#1133 Rocky Road
3. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
4. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
#1145 Your Wild Self(ie)
2. choking on @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ is a leading cause of death for wild animals
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
1. most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade
3. extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary
#1163 Some Assembly Required
4. legislators must raise their hands if they want to speak
#1164 What a Gneiss Place We've Got Here
2. an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety
#1166 Acres Wild
2. the backs of 'No Trespassing' signs were made for you and me
#1179 Nothing Fishy
2. ports have ground to a halt as no boat can reach them without trespassing
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
#1182 Thanks, but No Thanks
1. the government considers the rising number of McRonald's fast food restaurants to be great progress
#1193 Relocating the Living Room
1. colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation
2. the government maintains a Department of Skulduggery
4. tours to see the 'wild men of the mountains' are popular with tourists from the big cities
#1195 All Hands on Tap!
1. the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene
#1202 A Timely Intervention
3. the well-to-do in @@REGION@@ are never on time for important appointments
5. citizens pray for sunshine so that they can use illicit sundials for timekeeping
#1206 Gross Domestic Product
3. garbage bags floating down the river are churned up by man-made rapids
4. cholera is seen as the holiest of diseases
#1213 The War of Man and Beast
4. the nation's iron imports are booming
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
2. bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic
3. bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic
#1225 The Rumors, They Fly
2. children are encouraged to chase pigeons
#1228 The Road to Hell
3. only the fast and the furious are brave enough to drive
#1230 Home Hunger
1. new pests have been imported into @@NAME@@
#1240 Unadmirable Zeal
1. faithful allies are always valued
#1245 Sheepish Students
4. the wealthiest parts of the country receive the most government spending
#1246 Breath of the Wild
2. the cycle of extinction and rebirth is never ending
3. the old neighbourhood isn't how most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ remember it
#1248 A Day to Remember
4. red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair
#1253 Build a Better Baby?
3. genetic screening weeds out citizens whose legs don't bend easily at the knee
#1267 Hamming It Up
5. email killed the radio star
6. email killed the radio star
#1269 All That Glitters
1. phenotypic plasticity is a struggle for sealife in polluted waters
4. blocked storm drains cause sanitation problems
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
1. sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
3. photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls
#1281 The Not-So-Worldwide Web
1. "Surfin' @@TYPEINITIALS@@@@NAMEINITIALS@@" is a hit
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
2. it's a marvellous night for a moon dance as the sparks on your home start to rise
4. polychromatic seas of leaves blanket the ground while sewers and drain pipes are clogged by their detritus
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wonder "if a tree falls in the woods with no credible witnesses, who wants to know?"
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
3. @@LEADER@@ has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
1. cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
2. the end of communism came with retail rather than revolution
#1307 A Duty to Serve
4. record numbers of students are leaving school to enter the workforce
#1310 Intimate Relations
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1311 An Acquired Taste
4. gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours
#1318 Blitzed
7. skyscrapers get built in just days
#1327 Which Right Is Right?
3. people often complain that they're going in circuitous routes all the time
#1337 Waste Not Want Not
2. sometimes a single pallbearer is all you need
#1346 The Problem With Peyote
3. would-be mescaline users often describe a crawling sensation on their skin
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
1. the nation frequently scolds its subject territories for staying up past bedtime
#1353 The Birds and the Plan Bs
3. trashy talk shows that declare "You ARE the father!" are back on the air
#1357 Scattered Showers
4. space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across @@NAME@@
5. scientific progress marches ever forward with the first ever launch of a cheeseburger into space
#1361 Fundamental Rights
4. the nation's girls answer "apple" when asked what makes pi
#1368 Parking Hell
2. parking's carefree without parking car fees
#1385 [MADness] Skycrash
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have become death, the destroyer of worlds
#1386 [MADness] The Spy Who Tricked Me
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have become death, the destroyer of worlds
#1412 Another Day, Another Dollar
1. the government hopes austerity will lead to prosperity
3. the @@CURRENCY@@ is worth its weight in gold
#1415 The Melting Point
3. people are always complaining about dam builders running behind schedule
4. people are always complaining about dam builders running behind schedule
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
2. the nation's new flagship trading company deals exclusively in things no one wants
#1424 Here's Looking at Zoo, Kid
1. recapturing giraffes is proving to be a tall order
#1429 The Wind Become Death
4. the stratosphere is full of "silent but deadly" attacks from @@LEADER@@'s rear echelons
#1430 Taking the Peace?
3. requests to "pass the salt" are supported by tank divisions
#1432 Oh Dear
1. if you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
3. slavers are real nutters
#1436 Meat Meet
3. the legalization of meat has skewered the sales of vegetarian substitutes
#1439 Philately Will Get You Nowhere
1. the digital money revolution has cashed out
#1443 Forage and Forget
2. foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas
3. money grows on trees
#1444 Trouble in Deed
1. returning vacationers often find that their property is now a construction site
#1450 Driving @@LEADER@@
2. @@LEADER@@ can be seen doing doughnuts in a new Rambogini
3. @@LEADER@@ can't hear a thing when the unwashed masses throw rocks at the new state limousine
4. @@LEADER@@'s used car is held together by bumper stickers that support the opposition
#1452 Hello Darkness My Old Friend
1. the government has declared "all your rigs are belong to us"
2. the government enables frack addiction
3. noises of neighbourhood generators have pierced the sound of silence
#1453 A Salt and Battery
1. the environment is gorgeous so long as you're looking up
#1454 Poplar Opinion
3. biological warfare is used to solve small disagreements
4. dandruff and athlete's foot are seen as signs of physical beauty
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
3. unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims
#1460 A Burning Question
2. the end of autumn is celebrated with a bonfire of designer bags
#1463 Sandbagging
1. half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach
3. birdsong in the mountains has to be loud enough to drown out nearby jackhammers
#1473 A Pretty Pass
2. the government has to take out its Visa to eliminate visas
#1492 Smoke on the Water
4. the @@ANIMAL@@ has a hungry look
#1501 Diamond in the Rough
4. spotted owl meat is used as bait to lure wolves into traps
#1502 Dirty Deals
1. coastlines are giant slag heaps
3. work stinks
4. work stinks
#1509 Parks and Aggravation
2. certain national parks offer tanning beds because the visitors never go outside
3. certain national parks offer tanning beds because the visitors never go outside
7. the tallest mountains are adorned with roller coasters
#1511 Three Little Words
3. families burn @@LEADER@@'s latest official photograph to keep warm
#1513 Bunged Up
2. the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet
3. shipping canals are a bit like unimaginative cheese shops -- filled with debris
#1518 Test Environment
2. teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living
3. teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
2. foreign workers are flooding in as @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ flood out
#1531 Fine Time
2. equality looks curiously unequal
#1545 Deep Down Up to No Good
3. in coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho)
4. merchant ships always travel line astern in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ waters
#1546 Fool's Gold
1. @@CAPITAL@@ River is now popularly called "Dead Fish Run"
#1583 Spare the (Plutonium) Rod
2. nuclear science degrees are burned to fuel the nation's power plants
#1590 Tinder Profiled
3. actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs
4. asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before
#1599 Baby Blues
1. sibling rivalry has become a favorite topic for developmental psychologists
#1604 Prison of the Mind
3. dream holidays often go awry
#1608 G's Louise
3. children grow up believing the sun to be a myth
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
4. molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public
#1621 The Space Between
2. weather advisories predict sunshine with a chance of spontaneously combusting spacecraft
3. weather advisories predict sunshine with a chance of spontaneously combusting spacecraft
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
1. APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps
2. APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps
#1634 The War of the Planets
4. bombs make good ploughs
#1636 In for the Long Haul
2. highway rest stops are stocking up on fallout scrubbing kits
5. poor @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are always begging for a lift
#1639 Bad Coal Models
3. graffiti artists make up a significant portion of the coal mining population
#1643 Cicadas in Their Prime
1. they unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop)
2. the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under
#1654 We Bought a Zoo
1. daredevil kayakers frequently race against runaway hippos
#1661 Payback's a Witch
1. @@NAME@@ has the hottest women in the world
#1662 Divine Dining
2. clairvoyants and soothsayers find fellowship at their local McRonalds
#1673 Betting Against the Catastrophe
2. adjacent suburbs build competing earthworks to force the other neighbourhood to flood first
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
3. corporations continue to displace native peoples off their land
#1685 Children's Cartoon Chafes CEO
1. streaming companies get dammed up whenever a powerful person throws a tantrum
2. anyone criticizing an executive's haircut online runs the risk of being doxxed by omniscient troll m1n3l0v3r9001
#1687 A Slippery Slope
1. the nation's streets have become a winter wonderland of salt and sand
#1691 The Fault in Our Skyline
2. cloud nine refers to the top floor of skyscrapers
#1695 Calling All @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
1. government-sponsored WiFi allows farmers to rant about city folks in real time
3. rural @@DEMONYUMNOUNPLURAL@@ are missing the forest for the numerous cellular towers they replaced
#1696 Everyone Loves Shipping
1. pop stars who make it big overseas are hailed as economic heroes
#1699 Achute Binjury
3. waste collection professionals have been canned

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#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
1. all industry is owned and run by the government
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
3. vegetarianism is compulsory
#8 Nudists Demand Time in Sun
2. public nudity is compulsory
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ is a protected species
#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
2. all recreational drugs are legal
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
3. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
4. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
3. all tariffs have been abolished
#31 Get Efficient, Private Sector Tells Nature
1. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
2. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
3. a government program is underway to revitalize @@NAME@@'s beaches
#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
2. the country has unplugged its internet connection to prevent subversive content
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#49 Diving for @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
3. the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
4. the recent ban on computers is causing havoc throughout the nation
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
6. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have more rights than the average citizen
#67 Most Likely to Secede
1. territories have the right to secede if they aren't happy
#68 Ornery Overcrowding Problem
3. the number of children one can have is restricted by law
#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution
1. prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators
#74 @@NAME@@'s Racers Growing Fast and Furious
2. police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races
#76 Suits in Protest
4. local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food"
#79 @@NAME@@'s @@ANIMALPLURAL@@: Going the Way of the Dodo?
1. the @@ANIMAL@@ is protected from hunting and slowly coming back from the brink of extinction
3. the only places to see @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ now are at local zoos
#82 AI Researchers Rally for Android Rights
3. computers have been banned
#83 High-Speed Monorail Service Promises Connections
2. only the wealthy can afford monorail fares
3. a vast monorail network carries people all over the country
4. a vast monorail network carries people all over the country
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
1. flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys
#90 Organic Outburst
1. all-natural foods are becoming a major fad
3. people are moving into treehouses in record numbers
#95 Painful Prices Paid at the Pump
2. the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system
#96 Water Supply Problems Becoming a Major Drain
4. riots have broken out as a water shortage threatens @@NAME@@'s stability
5. crooks and people with too many kids are being kicked out of the country
#97 Landfills Filling Up
1. space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space
4. waste is frequently shipped to other countries
#100 Road Rage Rampage
2. the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
1. motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours
3. cars have been banned
#103 Plague of the Hybrids!
1. wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct
3. @@ANIMAL@@ populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in the millions
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
3. ad-blocking has been nationalised
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
4. the state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime
#118 Need for Speed?
2. the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work
#129 Tribal Troubles
1. large sections of @@NAME@@ have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there
5. a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
2. the sound of wooden legs echo throughout @@NAME@@ after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
5. there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt
#140 A Grave Problem
3. houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries
#142 Roads Like Roller Coasters, Complain Motorists
2. the roads are virtually falling apart
#147 Military Budgets Up for Approval
5. military service is compulsory
#151 Build Bigger Bombs, Advise Scientists
4. all weapon research has been banned
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
3. heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste
#157 Sergeants Are Too Nasty, Say New Recruits
4. newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines
#170 Deserts Devouring @@NAME@@'s Countryside
1. mysterious black helicopters menace farmers to ensure compliance with straitjacketing agricultural policies
2. owning a tractor is widely regarded as an essential prerequisite to most government positions
#173 Women Demand Equal Opportunities
3. mostly women are seen and not heard
4. men are expected to stay home to fix funny noises in the attic
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
2. all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave
#178 Free Press Too Free?
2. truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news
#179 Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease Outbreak!
1. the government has organised a nationwide cull of infected @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
4. farmers can be spotted driving gold-plated tractors
#182 Younger Voters a Cure for Apathy?
3. the nation's leader appoints ministers directly
#186 Carjacking Concerns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
1. almost all products in @@NAME@@ are hand-crafted due to strict employment laws
4. the loom represents the height of @@NAME@@'s technology
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
2. large areas of @@NAME@@ are not accessible by the public
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
4. homes have been banned from having any more than one wheel
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
7. young girls often attend the same schools as their children
#202 Guns or Butter?
3. strategic bombers are being converted into preschools
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
1. the government has been kicking out foreign corporations in a bid to grow enough food for the populace
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
2. illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
4. @@NAME@@'s nuclear power is imported from neighbouring countries
5. nine out of ten citizens of @@NAME@@ answered 'nuclear safety inspector' when asked their occupation
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
1. mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined
#209 Students Demand Financial Aid
4. closed universities are currently being converted into McRonald's restaurants
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
5. @@NAME@@'s heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
1. eminent domain has been abolished
3. the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
1. the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code
#223 Easter Egg: Zombie Attack!
1. the nation has a strict 'no marauding undead' law (@@EGG@@)
#224 Minimum Wage War
2. unemployment is through the roof after the government enacted living wage laws
#228 Mice in the Walls
4. it is firmly believed that cameras steal souls
#234 Corruption in the Lobby
1. corporate lobbying has been outlawed
#235 From Green Pastures to Grey Wastelands
1. high food prices have reduced the national diet to staple foods and water
3. supermarkets and large corporate farms are a thing of the past
#245 Clash of Cultures
6. the word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive
#248 The Sky Is Falling
5. aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
4. the crackdown on private property seems as endless as the government issued food stamp lines
#254 Freedom Comes at a Price
2. employers are gradually adapting to the alien premise of paying wages to their workers
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
5. the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'
#261 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
1. shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned
2. the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics
4. the entire retail industry has been replaced by online delivery services
#263 Wind Farms Blowing Up a Storm
2. the countryside is shrouded by wind farms
3. @@NAME@@ has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
1. fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
3. businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
3. bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned
#278 Relief Is Coming... In Four to Six Weeks
2. survivors receive aid from only the most environmentally-friendly transport
#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
5. trouble-makers are frequently turned in to the government to be 'recycled'
#285 A Right Not to Work?
4. midnight pizza breaks are common among the work-from-home population
#286 A Whale of a Problem
1. people are arrested for looking too sternly at whales
3. the government strictly regulates whale harvest quotas
4. fishing crews are regularly interrogated by surprisingly violent environmentalists
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
1. new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in @@NAME@@ to be bombproof
3. the nationalized auto industry is adept at making durable little cars nobody wants to drive
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
1. grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices
2. a punitive tax has been placed on harmful emissions
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
#305 Who's Occupying What?
3. businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders
4. the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation
#308 Over, Under or Through?
4. island residents must resort to canoes and sailboats to get to work
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
3. the government is rounding up computers and beating them into plowshares
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
3. businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
4. computers are used primarily for word processing and solitaire
#331 Swept Away
4. there is a dearth of space for new houses
#335 Log Us Back On
3. computers are widely considered to be the "devil magic of heathens"
#338 The Silence and the Fury
1. noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law
#339 The Bear Necessities
1. workers have seized control of the economy
#342 This Land Was Made for You and Me
1. the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
3. mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance
#344 Trash Talk
1. litter collection has replaced fast food as the most popular after-school job
2. daisy chain gangs plant flowers and pick up litter
3. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
4. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
#346 Oil's Well That Ends Well
1. oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds
3. wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms
#353 Broadband Going to the Birds?
3. stray cats threaten the fledgling avian-based internet
#355 Alien Invaders
1. the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced
2. it's always rabbit season
3. invasive species are hunted by the gendarmerie
#356 @@NAME@@ in the Time of Cholera
1. the nation is now proudly cholera-free
#367 What's Their Beef?
3. unemployed butchers line the streets
#368 Female Workers Feeling the Pinch
3. women are kept out of work but at least dinner is served on time
4. harassment has been stamped out under the high-heeled jackboots of a matriarchy
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#379 Stakes on a Plane
2. planespotters are emigrating in droves
#389 [An International Incident] Sanctions, Sanctions Everywhere!
1. toilet paper is considered a non-essential item in the embargo against Brasilistan
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
1. the nation has gained millions of new citizens overnight
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
#414 Subpar Suburbs
2. government crews work tirelessly to retake the suburbs from organized packs of raccoons
4. towns that stop turning a profit are turned into animal sanctuaries
#424 You Just Sank My Battleship!
4. veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
2. the Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook
#429 No Representation Without Taxation?
3. factories grind to a halt every time there is an election
#431 Gone a Stray!
3. animal control is going door-to-door releasing all pets back into the wild
#439 The Law of Exodus
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have been enjoying a recent boost in civil rights as the government continues to clamp down on emigration
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
1. there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees
2. EpiPen sales have skyrocketed
5. the government takes agricultural advice from a wasp-themed superhero
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
3. a performance of the hit musical "Mamma Tua" has been delayed after squatters were found sleeping in the orchestra pit
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
1. job opportunities abound in the Hole Recycling industry
2. strategic economic sectors are controlled by the state
4. Viagra factories are being converted to producing antimalarials for Bigtopian orphans
#444 Virtually Assured Destruction
1. the nation is committed to nuclear rearmament
#445 Evasive Maneuvers
2. companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
3. drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
2. chickens roam the streets freely
4. food imports have skyrocketed after the recent 'Forage for Food' program severely backfired
#457 Colossus With Feet of Clay
3. tourists are forbidden to enter Native @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ lands
4. suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks
#459 Murder, He Shouted!
2. @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ facilities are being turned into @@ANIMAL@@ habitats
#462 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
1. disadvantaged neighbourhoods have become no-go areas after sundown
3. astronomers are flocking to @@NAME@@ to take advantage of its clear night skies
#463 Smart Cars Driving Regulators Up the Wall
4. self-driving cars have been banned
#470 Tide Stops for No Man
3. the logging industry is celebrating as tourists plaster @@NAME@@ with trees
#479 @@LEADER@@, Put on the Yellow Light
4. conspiracy theorists allege @@CAPITAL@@'s new subway map resembles Satanic symbols
#480 One Nation's Trash Is Another Nation's Trash
2. the government is trying to clean up all the rubbish that has washed up on the shores of Bigtopia and Marche Noire
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
4. pizza parlors have been replaced by lima bean cafes
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
1. confused drunks wake up to irate drill sergeants whipping them into shape
#489 Standing at Attention
4. handsome young men are forced into uniforms by their dominant elders
#495 Beloved "Planet" Has Gone to the Dogs
3. the nation's leading climatologists are investigating animal flatulence in efforts to reduce methane emissions
#497 The Widening Gyre
1. the once prosperous capital is in utter decline
2. virtually all of the country's economic activity takes place in @@CAPITAL@@
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
2. criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program
#512 Furnished for Failure
3. the nation's reinforced coffee tables are constructed to survive an atomic blast
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
2. the average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections
#523 A Family Affair
3. government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power
#524 Something Is Rotten in the State of @@NAME@@
1. rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
3. citizens have to dodge their neighbors' drones while getting the morning paper
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
1. @@CAPITAL@@'s main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#542 What a Waste
2. with great power generation comes great responsibility
3. nuclear physics is the most popular course at university
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
1. nighttime sightings of raccoons sporting Circle-A patches and bandanna masks are on the rise
3. the Grinder at Fat Sal's Deli and Recycling Center is a national institution
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
1. poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild
2. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
3. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
4. the endangered saltwater humpback @@ANIMAL@@ is only seen in captivity programs
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
1. every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead
#557 Take a Hike!
3. park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets
#559 The Low Aspiration Nation
1. fruit pickers with degrees in @@ANIMAL@@ psychology are a common sight
#560 Bicameral Backlash
2. @@LEADER@@'s power is effectively nullified as no bill becomes law without the upper house's support
#561 Plug in and Play
2. children entertain themselves by throwing rocks through the windows of world-class museums
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
4. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
6. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
6. @@LEADER@@ is adamant that ponies aren't just for little girls
#572 Reading, Your Rights
3. modern readers say a story is worthless without hyperlinked footnotes and editable wiki format
#574 One Small Step for Private Enterprise?
2. kids building model rockets in their backyard are grounded by Space Agency Rangers
4. falling satellites are regarded as a blessing from the gods
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
3. sea side cafes are required by law to close during summer
#591 Bait and Switch
1. maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords
#593 A Right to Bare Arms?
4. fathers are free to sell their daughters to whomever they choose
#599 Dead in the Water
3. debate rages over whether ground fish guts can be spread on fields
#602 Hobby Lobby
3. @@LEADER@@ has been known to make speeches in fishing waders
#605 The Noblest of Intentions
1. former nobles are being issued new identities in the wake of the end of serfdom
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
3. the sanitised and dull music festivals of @@NAME@@ are famed for their reasonable volume levels
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
3. beaches are empty as the shark population multiplies exponentially
#621 Blue Collar Blues
5. economists speak of trusting in the Tao of Free Market Capitalism
#626 Carbon Copied
5. future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
1. genetic researchers have taken to conducting illegal experiments in secret lairs
4. scientists spend more time enduring government inspections than they do on actual science
#628 Only @@LEADER@@ Can Prevent Forest Fires
2. environmental officials dismiss uncontrolled wildfires burning down major cities as nature taking its course
3. the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
4. landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks
5. excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside
#634 Bullet Time
3. vital infrastructure development is on hold because of 'nature and stuff'
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
4. government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
4. swings are now more popular than see-saws in children's playgrounds
#640 A Clear-Cut Conundrum
1. hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings
3. severed limbs litter woodland edges across the land
#641 Dirty Little Minds
1. corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics
#647 Songbirds' Decline Ruffles Feathers
1. military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft
2. a division of tanks navigating "as the crow flies" has driven into a ravine
3. foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that @@NAME@@ will pay them to stop
5. remote-control hang-gliding scarecrows patrol the skies to keep songbirds from leaving the nation's borders
#649 Made in Maxtopia
3. there are no bananas today in @@NAME@@
#651 Black Days for @@NAME@@
2. commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year
#652 Mayday! Mayday!
5. derelict airplanes have been converted into novelty restaurants and hotels
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
1. Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping
3. truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills
#664 Your Land or Mine
2. the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
3. truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned
#667 One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Recyclable
1. local mafias have a tough time disposing of dead snitches without catching the attention of recycling authorities
2. unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
2. school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel
#669 Watts Up With Rooftop Solar
2. the poor are forced into bankruptcy by their energy bills
4. the government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble
#672 All Shook Up
3. coastal cities are being moved a dozen miles inland to reduce flooding risk
#675 Trick or Treaty
1. citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee
3. carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
2. parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife
#682 Exhaust Every Option
1. schoolkids say that the air doesn't taste like wee-wee any more
2. proprietary charger leads are now a pain for electric cars as well as cellphones
4. calling shotgun on the front seat too many days in a row is seen as a crime against social equality
5. huge explosions in the sky are a daily occurrence in the cities
#685 Externalities Palmed Off
2. both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade
3. the nation burns bridges with neighbours who burn their rainforest
#689 A Sticky Situation
1. it's rare to find an unchewed pencil
4. Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume
#691 The Prodigal States
1. the nation forgives those who are big enough to admit they made a mistake
#693 Bottled Up Problems
1. a new guerrilla marketing campaign for tap water involves government agents spraying random citizens with hose water
#697 Conventional Wisdom
3. @@LEADER@@ has taken to wearing medal-adorned military uniform in all public appearances
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
1. families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain
#706 A Walk in the Park
1. glamping @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
1. bike rage is all the rage
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#714 Milky Ways
1. increasing numbers of children in @@NAME@@ have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers
2. nocturnal burglars are grateful for the convenient beverages on welcoming doorsteps
3. supermarket milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets
4. state dairy cow's milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets
#717 Cheques and Balances
1. the main interest rates change daily based on the latest news story
#726 Jobless Fair
1. extreme hiring regulations mean a job in @@NAME@@ is often a lifetime appointment
#727 Market Crash
3. solid steel breastplates are in fashion amongst city drivers
4. businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections
#732 A Peeping Problem
3. workers tend to schedule naps during all-hands meetings
#737 Bird-Brained Diplomacy
1. endangered species are effective hostages against the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military
#740 [The Enemy Within] A Day in the Life
3. the nation has been sent to bed early for unspecified naughtiness
#747 The Plane Truth
4. Air @@NAME@@ tickets have reached sky-high prices due to a complete monopoly on air travel
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
1. park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers
#751 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Breed Contempt
2. gardeners must genetically test weeds for unique traits before digging them up
#754 The Hit Parade
1. the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning
2. there's never enough space in space
#758 Bye Bye to the Birdies?
1. it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors
3. authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets
#762 Double Down on Double Time?
3. tumbleweed drifts through the nation's shopping centres during the weekends
#766 Carbon Emissions Are Why We Can't Have Nice Things
3. the carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills
4. with increasingly clear skies nobody seems to mind the electricity bill going through the roof
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
2. ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences
#774 Clean Switch
4. immigrants complain that natives keep coming over and taking their jobs
#780 Vexing VAT
3. the richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper
#782 Sit-Down Money
4. doctors are trying to diagnose diseases by looking at their patients' Snipchat pictures
#784 The Driving Force
1. Formula One cars in @@NAME@@ boast 56 miles per gallon
2. the country's motorways are surprisingly quiet
5. mail and shipped goods take forever to get to buyers
#787 Come Fly With Me?
3. @@ANIMAL@@-wagons to @@CAPITAL@@ are often canceled due to excessive levels of manure on the roads
#793 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Knock Knock. Who's There? Not You Anymore!
2. a revolving door was recently installed at the entrance of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Capitol Building
#804 Motivational Posters
3. rubber stamp emojis are the new craze
#808 Big Trouble in Little Dàguó
2. the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment
#809 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1. demand for night vision goggles and boat engine mufflers has spiked
2. tourists on boat cruises can't figure out why they smell so fishy afterward
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
1. it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into @@NAME@@
3. concerned environmentalists wipe away their tears with tissues sourced from Tasmanian old-growth redwoods
#815 Embargoed In
3. there is a law against "filthy foreign food"
#816 A Hot Topic
1. where there's smoke there's the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Forestry Department
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
2. meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials
3. it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
4. women find themselves saying "my eyes are up here" more often than they used to
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
1. urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens
2. ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths
3. cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
1. it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
2. CEOs are forced to cut coupons during important conference calls to make ends meet
#829 Winning at Battleship
3. commercial ships often report keel and hull damage from coral reef impacts
#838 The Bark Knight Rises
2. people can't decide between preserving forests and buying print copies of 'Dogman Versus The Giggler'
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
5. citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks
#856 You Got Stones
4. stone wrist watches that weigh 20lb are the latest trend
#862 Friends Close, Enemies Closer
6. manufacturers are annoyed that they're not allowed to dump industrial waste into the nearest lake any more
#863 Oiling the Wheels of Diplomacy
1. the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state
4. the government is proud to report that ten percent of all tax revenue goes to funding suspected terrorist organizations
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
1. the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem
#881 Blooming Out of Proportion
1. antique comic book collectors are disappointed to hear that their treasures are worth exactly as little as their mothers said they were
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
6. they say insanity is torturing the same citizens over and over again and expecting a different result
#888 Criminal Patterns
2. a stitch in time could see you serving nine
#890 Mining Blues
5. pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy
6. the Betamax versus VHS debate continues to rage strongly in @@NAME@@
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
1. restaurateurs put a lot of effort into persuading customers to accept wafer-thin mints
3. mouldy bread is served as an appetizer in many restaurants
#895 Stop Training and Start Coaching
3. many rural villagers have never been more than a day's horse-ride from their birthplace
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
1. CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show
2. home renovation shows are increasingly popular
#906 Internet Killed the Television Star
4. televangelists often claim they can cure your Lupus if you donate enough money
#907 A Problem Shared
6. hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead"
#923 Ministers Exposing Themselves
2. citizens who plan overseas vacations are barred from running for political office
#936 Hackable Elections?
1. foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election"
#937 Ebony Pride
1. one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber
#945 Police on the Take
4. criminals are often a few steps ahead of law enforcement
#946 Better In Than Out
4. explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase
#950 Borderline Pandemic
4. hotels often double as quarantine zones
#951 The Wrath of the Fish King
3. workers for the environmental protection agency are patted down for tartar sauce every morning
#964 An Expensive Watch
4. army regiments supporting different football teams are a frequent cause of friendly fire incidents
#976 Demonic Possession Getting You Down?
3. foreign militaries are taking a particular interest in the nation's abandoned borders and cities
#986 Poacher Pandemic
2. radio stations offer prizes to callers who can guess this month's most endangered species
3. horns and hypocrisy are the newest exports of @@NAME@@
4. environmentalists have found an unusual ally in soldiers of fortune
5. the horniness of the great-horned @@ANIMAL@@ is considered a national priority
#988 Highway Robbery by the Book!
3. strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down
#996 Scripting a Change?
4. the libraries of @@NAME@@ are staffed by lone, lonely librarians
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
5. mandatory blunting of cutlery has increased the popularity of soup-based meals
#1002 The Call of Nature
1. pet owners make sure their dogs wear diapers
#1003 That Smarts
1. too many hyper-intelligent chefs can spoil the allegorical broth
#1007 Putting Your Foot in It
1. pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit
2. bins outnumber trees in city parks
#1013 Grave Disease
4. people across the world seek to be healthier by eliminating carbs
#1021 Room and Board Games
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1026 Size Matters
3. posters on '@@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Values' advise against being proud of @@NAME@@
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
3. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices
4. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Crispy Fried Tofu's secret blend of herbs and spices
5. panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet
#1038 Maid to Order
4. it is believed that behind every great man is a terrified subservient woman
#1047 Rivers of Blood
1. many in @@NAME@@ are born in the purple
#1054 Herbal Trouble
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ junkies argue that poppy stalks are ornamental flowers
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
1. the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose
2. the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles
#1060 Hole in the Wall
2. putting houses on stilts is elevating house porches and prices alike
#1061 Every Day I'm Muffling
1. mechanics are often exhausted by their work
3. when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1065 Pulling Out
1. citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint
2. the carbon footprint falls along with the human footprint during war
3. the carbon footprint falls along with the human footprint during war
#1068 Made to Break
1. supermarkets must refund spoilt milk even six months after the sale
3. state-manufactured hammers and sickles are here to stay
#1069 Bowl Motions
1. being able to unblock a u-bend pipe is considered a universally essential skill
3. garden flower shows rarely smell of roses
4. there is something rotten in the state of @@NAME@@
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
1. young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield
2. young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield
3. this year's comedy award has left mothers-in-law seething
#1075 The Hand That Feeds
4. the "Rump Diet" is all the rage
#1080 The End Was Nigh
4. it's illegal to blow things up
#1086 Fun in the Sun
6. hordes of tourists are ruining the environment
#1099 New Satellite Blues
2. if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it... @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ satellites can detect it
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1105 A Green History Lesson
1. the statue in the @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@ Plaza has a solar panel for a hat
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
1. patriotic parents remind their children to drink plenty of water
2. health-conscious denizens drink their dogs' water
#1112 Stray Bullets
2. it's illegal to exterminate cockroaches
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
1. courses on ornithology and apiology are surprisingly popular
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
1. construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground
#1121 Tribes and Tribulations
2. nations that kill @@A@@ @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ can expect a strongly worded letter
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
1. old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones
3. taxi drivers seem less xenophobic these days
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
2. the only thing slower than the economy is the exchange where it's managed
4. the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection
#1134 Tariff-ic Trouble
1. a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat"
#1140 Blinded by the Light
4. overcrowded buses are the new normal for suburban commuters
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
3. workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
2. the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard
#1164 What a Gneiss Place We've Got Here
1. trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews
3. citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones
#1166 Acres Wild
1. farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land
3. wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests
#1179 Nothing Fishy
1. father-son fishing trips have been banned
3. fishermen take out second mortgages to afford the yearly fishing permit
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
4. female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked'
#1189 Driven to Distraction
2. neon signs promoting safe driving often distract drivers
#1190 Dirty Laundry
3. nobody brings rolls of coins to the laundromat anymore
#1195 All Hands on Tap!
2. foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with @@LEADER@@
#1206 Gross Domestic Product
1. government projects are full of waste
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
4. sleeping on the job is recommended
#1212 Lost at Sea
3. children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
5. people have become comfortably numb
#1228 The Road to Hell
1. the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners
#1242 Jump Leads
5. the incidence of wrist sprains is falling
#1245 Sheepish Students
5. hay has been added to school cafeteria menus
#1246 Breath of the Wild
1. nobody knows why the caged @@ANIMAL@@ sings
#1269 All That Glitters
2. little girls are in tears as @@LEADER@@ confiscates their pink princess ballgowns
3. annual government budgets include a sizeable spend on "making things look fabulous"
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
2. rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
1. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
2. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
3. a petition to improve @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ literacy is mostly signed with cross-marks
#1282 Resting in Peace
3. truck drivers turn their engines off and coast whenever they're going downhill
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
1. trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same
3. autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
1. more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people
2. coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
2. ranchers are adept at mimicking wolf attacks
4. cows graze until the wolves come home
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
4. proletariat workers identify less with the hammer and sickle and more with the touchscreen and phone charger
#1306 The Least Common Educator
3. most people think algebra is something a mermaid wears
#1328 Not-So-Friendly Fire
4. children happily laugh and play on their way to school during air-raids
#1331 Warning, Fatigue
1. power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky
#1332 We Won't, We Won't Rock You
4. an opal a day keeps the negative thoughts at bay
#1342 Uni-ted We Roll, Uni-ted We Fall
3. environmental legislation occurs cyclically
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
1. they who do not work shall not eat
#1348 Heaven Can't Wait
5. above @@NAME@@ there is only sky and the fear of the unknown
6. above @@NAME@@ there is only sky and the fear of the unknown
#1357 Scattered Showers
1. helium balloons lift the nation's spacecraft towards the heavens
#1358 Who's In Your Wallet?
6. angry citizens complain that there isn't enough geographical diversity on the new banknotes
#1366 Parklife
1. parents must decide between buying food and taking their children to the park
2. public parks are on the upswing
3. the government has seized the means of recreation
#1368 Parking Hell
1. the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem"
3. urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate
#1390 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
6. corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
7. corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
#1405 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
4. trade ministers have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
5. trade ministers have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
#1415 The Melting Point
1. a speech a day keeps climate change away
#1416 Building on Sand
3. undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
1. @@LEADER@@ arrives at international summits with a white cane
3. attempts at growing pineapples in the desert have been unsuccessful
#1424 Here's Looking at Zoo, Kid
2. it turns out you can teach cats new tricks
3. endangered species face obesity instead of extinction
#1425 @@LEADER@@'s New Clothes
1. @@LEADER@@ is called 'Patches' at international summits
#1429 The Wind Become Death
1. diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout
#1432 Oh Dear
3. religion makes people horny
4. religion makes people horny
#1435 A Hot Potato
3. farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year
#1439 Philately Will Get You Nowhere
2. penny whistles have been rebranded 'tin hornpipes'
4. people are raising their middle finger to non-digital currencies
#1442 A Green Bill of Health
1. travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing
#1443 Forage and Forget
1. pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security
4. citizens praise the weeds that overwhelm their narrow vegetable realm
#1450 Driving @@LEADER@@
5. @@LEADER@@ always arrives fashionably late and smelling of mushrooms
#1451 A Dread Letter
3. neighbourhood gossips whip up controversy about those receiving adult merchandise
#1453 A Salt and Battery
2. foreign policy is based upon the principle of sieve and take
3. thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks
#1454 Poplar Opinion
2. environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
3. at least 4 unique companies in @@NAME@@ claim to sell Eckie-Cola
#1460 A Burning Question
1. beggars lack pockets for spare change
3. government ministers have eclectic tastes in curtains
#1463 Sandbagging
2. the treehouse in @@ANIMAL@@ Park is the tallest building in @@NAME@@
4. residents of houses built on a foundation of wishful thinking are prone to an odd sinking feeling
#1472 Home Is Where the Lung Is
3. home renovation projects take decades to complete
4. community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home
#1474 Cuy Bono?
1. eating kids as food has been enshrined in law
3. delicate flowers faint at news of house plants being eaten
#1490 @@LEADER@@ Wins Massive Victory!
3. the government's new "quiet competence" initiative has supporters and detractors alike reeling in confusion
#1492 Smoke on the Water
1. middle-aged metal fans quite enjoy being called "rebellious youths" by even older politicians
2. there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety
3. visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage
#1501 Diamond in the Rough
1. factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections
2. endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass
3. endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass
#1502 Dirty Deals
2. people don't want any foreign rubbish
#1509 Parks and Aggravation
1. national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings
4. visitors to Self-Sufficiency National Park who ask for trail maps are handed a pen and a blank sheet of paper
5. the latest national park is visited by more sharks than people
#1511 Three Little Words
5. @@LEADER@@ has been nicknamed 'Robomop'
#1518 Test Environment
4. the transition from trojan horses to regular old horses is on track
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
1. the government has declared that sharing is uncaring
3. foreign ambassadors are accused of stealing @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ jobs
4. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ doors require a Ph.D. to open
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
3. doctors are encouraged to 'pull the plug' any time the government has a budget crisis
#1536 The Birdman of Pelicanz
4. umbrellas are back in fashion
#1540 Clean Flavours
3. orange juice has been renamed yellow juice
#1545 Deep Down Up to No Good
1. odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas
#1546 Fool's Gold
5. children are disappointed their allowances are no longer convertible to gold
6. children are disappointed their allowances are no longer convertible to gold
#1572 Eco Warriors
1. the latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar
2. flamethrower-toting soldiers are also equipped with fire blankets and extinguishers
3. flowering peace lilies are the best defence against @@NAME@@'s military
#1579 A High-Interest Coupnundrum
3. the default state for @@NAME@@ is default
#1590 Tinder Profiled
1. candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED
2. people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
2. government bureaucrats review designs for birdhouses to ensure they do not block the views of neighbors
#1608 G's Louise
1. weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them
#1609 One Big Watering Hole
1. nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
3. the government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
1. stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues
2. mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'
#1621 The Space Between
6. the sky (and your feet) are the limit
#1625 At What Price?
3. white chocolate is neither chocolate nor food
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
3. ride-sharing often involves some passengers sitting on the roof rack
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other
#1636 In for the Long Haul
1. wandering @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are known for their one-track minds
#1639 Bad Coal Models
1. the demands of climate protestors are measured in spray-paint can sales
2. the 'no-coal' transition is being paid for in slashed student support funds
#1643 Cicadas in Their Prime
3. bug burgers are extra crunchy
#1653 Dick's Pics
4. politicians post explicit photos of themselves on community notice boards
#1662 Divine Dining
3. many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are delayed by flocks of sheep on their morning commute
#1677 Common Cents
3. outdated physical currency is considered a biohazard
#1682 The Little Train that Could Give You Cancer
4. the gravy train is chugging along on a new track
#1685 Children's Cartoon Chafes CEO
3. the government proudly leads the world in environmental regulators per capita

burgeoning @@ANIMAL@@ population

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#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
4. the recent ban on computers is causing havoc throughout the nation
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#82 AI Researchers Rally for Android Rights
3. computers have been banned
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
4. the loom represents the height of @@NAME@@'s technology
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
2. cars speed down national highways while drivers sleep at the wheel
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
3. the government is rounding up computers and beating them into plowshares
#335 Log Us Back On
3. computers are widely considered to be the "devil magic of heathens"
#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
2. meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials
#907 A Problem Shared
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
#945 Police on the Take
2. crimes are difficult to stop as most of the police force is stuck in traffic
#1022 Failure to Respond
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
#1310 Intimate Relations
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1356 The Silicon Curtain
5. the nation has become both the largest producer and consumer of abaci in @@REGION@@
#1621 The Space Between
1. government employees are authorized driver's licenses to get their bosses much-needed morning espressos
4. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
5. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
#1653 Dick's Pics
4. politicians post explicit photos of themselves on community notice boards
#1695 Calling All @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
4. highway signs instruct travelers to yodel for help in case of emergency

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#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
3. cars have been banned
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#186 Carjacking Concerns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#228 Mice in the Walls
1. nerds everywhere are rejoicing as they are reunited with their computers
3. computers are allowed but only just
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
3. bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
5. mandatory blunting of cutlery has increased the popularity of soup-based meals
#1042 Failure to Launch
2. carpal tunnel syndrome is on the rise
#1201 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
3. a new "thought police" branch is being developed
#1267 Hamming It Up
5. email killed the radio star
6. email killed the radio star
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
3. private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
2. mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other

closed borders

Gained from:

#950 Borderline Pandemic
4. hotels often double as quarantine zones
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
4. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
5. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
#1216 Not My Government
4. an iron curtain has descended around the nation

Sometimes gained from:

#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
1. a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
#96 Water Supply Problems Becoming a Major Drain
5. crooks and people with too many kids are being kicked out of the country
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
4. the world outside is only known of in folklore
#245 Clash of Cultures
6. the word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive
#283 Wealthy Flee to Tax-Free Havens
3. citizens are forbidden from leaving the country
#491 Friends, @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears
1. people who have lived their entire lives in @@NAME@@ are shocked to discover that they are not citizens
#577 Second World Problems
1. the cold war against capitalism is growing chillier by the day
#862 Friends Close, Enemies Closer
3. a giant 'No Entry' sign is being erected at the borders of @@NAME@@
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
7. homogenous restaurants all have very similar menus
#1026 Size Matters
4. citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious
#1064 Culture Wars
2. holiday-makers leave on the same clandestine boats that illegal immigrants arrive in
#1114 Patriotism Flagging
3. there is a 'turn around' sign at every border entrance
#1227 Girls on Film
2. colours are running as @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ take on their own laundry
#1230 Home Hunger
4. the ethnic makeup of the nation is as bland as the food
#1281 The Not-So-Worldwide Web
3. there's no more bridging into @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ ports
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
3. a lot of glass windows have needed replacing recently
#1334 Withdrawing Diplomatic Relations
5. the only trips @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are allowed to take are the ones caused by hallucinogens
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
3. foreign ambassadors are accused of stealing @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ jobs
#1659 A Dialectal Dilemma
4. the government conducts negotiations with drawings after firing multilinguals for treason
5. the government conducts negotiations with drawings after firing multilinguals for treason

Removed by:

#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
5. immigrant Bigtopians work themselves to the bone to support gold-plated @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ pensions
#204 Lack of Doctors Needs Cure
2. half of @@NAME@@'s doctors can't speak the language
3. half of @@NAME@@'s doctors can't speak the language
#215 Easter Egg: What's Your Favourite Colour?
12. the nation loves all colours indiscriminately (@@EGG@@)
#439 The Law of Exodus
1. census workers are having a hard time figuring out who is actually living in @@NAME@@ after the ban on emigration was lifted
3. emigrants arrive on foreign shores with nothing but pocket sand
#605 The Noblest of Intentions
1. former nobles are being issued new identities in the wake of the end of serfdom
#621 Blue Collar Blues
1. no one born in @@NAME@@ can fix a leaky faucet
2. no one born in @@NAME@@ can fix a leaky faucet
#726 Jobless Fair
3. Brancalandian is the primary spoken language at most major tech companies
4. Brancalandian is the primary spoken language at most major tech companies
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
1. the tightness of border controls in @@NAME@@ leave a little to be desired
#909 On the Fence
1. a few immigrants are better than no immigrants according to @@LEADER@@
3. terrorists who are 17th cousins with the ex-wives of half-brothers of citizens are now exempt from the immigration ban
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
4. traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers
5. traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers
#1075 The Hand That Feeds
2. the nation continues to depend on foreigners for food
3. the nation continues to depend on foreigners for food
#1167 Another Brick in the Wall
2. an extra-long museum is being built to house the old border wall
3. refugees without a PhD are sent back to where they came from
#1172 Piled Higher and Deeper
3. classes at @@CAPITAL@@ University get canceled on Brancaland's Independence Day
4. classes at @@CAPITAL@@ University get canceled on Brancaland's Independence Day
#1231 Save Our Souls
5. the nation takes the world's poor and tired and the huddled Masses yearning to breathe free
#1276 A Boatload of Trouble
3. even immigrants complain that immigrants keep taking their jobs
#1306 The Least Common Educator
4. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
5. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
#1310 Intimate Relations
5. the immigration system seems to favor young unmarried women
#1390 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
4. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
5. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
#1405 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
3. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
#1614 Fauxthentic Food
3. visiting the best @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants requires keeping a visa on file
4. visiting the best @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants requires keeping a visa on file

complete absence of social welfare

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#10 Social Inequality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars
#18 Citizens Struggle Under "Unfair" Tax Burden
1. the government is reining in public spending
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
4. citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
2. the Navy has outraged the international community by sinking a boatload of refugees to prevent them reaching the shore
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
4. government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries
#43 Prisoners Demand Elbow Room
1. gigantic new prisons are springing up all over the nation
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
1. homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
#83 High-Speed Monorail Service Promises Connections
1. government spending has hit an all-time low
#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
3. protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others
#122 Pensioners in Protest
2. senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour
#125 Bring Back the Ballot?
2. suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
1. retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits
4. senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
1. government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet
#148 Spare the Rod, Demand Welfare Activists
2. record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported
#152 A Capital Idea
1. the government has returned all business to private ownership
#164 Licence to Breed?
2. almost half of the child population live rough on the streets
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
1. the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents
#199 More Jails Needed
1. the new prison system is crowding up at an alarming rate
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
1. the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code
#223 Easter Egg: Zombie Attack!
6. the undead roam the streets and countryside at night (@@EGG@@)
#224 Minimum Wage War
3. boot polish is the favourite lip gloss of entry-level corporate workers
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
3. citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors
#230 Extremists on the Ballot Sheet
2. most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists
#241 A Capital City for @@NAME@@?
5. the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs
#242 Follow the Leader
2. @@LEADER@@ has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
2. the government spends its days financing the delocalisation of its own economy
5. the country is effectively ruled by large corporations and business consultants
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
3. homeless people are frequently charged with trespassing on public property
4. citizens who become homeless are immediately executed
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
2. the welfare administration's new sweeping authority has forced the poor and needy to shop from pre-approved grocery lists
5. the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'
#257 @@LEADER@@ Assassinated... Almost
1. citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want
#260 Taxpayers on Strike!
1. the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
2. thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break
#268 Don't Want Your Kid Anymore? Good News!
1. orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children
2. orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children
#282 Slum Village Extraordinaire
3. many of the poor live from cradle to grave without ever seeing sunlight
#283 Wealthy Flee to Tax-Free Havens
1. expats return home to a government devoid of social and environmental agencies
#285 A Right Not to Work?
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
5. the CEO of Laws Incorporated must sign off on all new bills
#296 Come on Baby, Fight My Fire
3. disaster victims are viewed with disdain
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
3. businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'
#322 Empathy a Rare Commodity?
2. curtailed social programs have left many citizens bereft of any safety net
#331 Swept Away
2. insurance companies charge extortionate premiums to cover homes near waterways
#337 Doctors Crossing Borders?
2. charity no longer begins at home
#339 The Bear Necessities
3. the economy is undergoing a traumatic transition to capitalism
#348 I Want a Lawyer
2. there is a disproportionate number of poor people in prison
#414 Subpar Suburbs
1. town welcome signs list corporate sponsors
#418 That Sinking Feeling
2. drowning sailors are hung out to dry
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
3. the attempt to control the weather has ended in environmental disaster
#447 Honey, We Hung the Parliament
4. late night talk show hosts are having a field day over @@LEADER@@'s questionably sane new coalition partners
#448 It Takes a Village
4. the government has completely eliminated all childcare programs
#466 @@NAME@@ Is Never Ever Getting Back Together... Like Ever
4. the country has essentially become @@POPULATION@@ nations within a nation
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. @@LEADER@@ shrugs in the face of growing inequalities
4. @@LEADER@@'s new political program is often mockingly called 'Capitalism with a Bigtopian face'
#496 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
3. the government's suicide hotline now redirects callers to local tax lawyers
#515 Little Green Men
3. Maxtopians dominate the nation's military hierarchy
#525 Nowhere to Go!
2. @@A@@ @@REGION@@ Tourist Association survey has rated @@NAME@@ #1 for number twos
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have replaced bears in a popular idiom
#527 The Body Politic
1. cities in @@NAME@@ declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
1. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
2. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
4. board shorts have replaced board rooms
#577 Second World Problems
4. Party members are derided as class traitors
#601 Lawyers on Trial
2. justice is available only to those who can afford its price tag
#620 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
2. children are seen fighting in the playground for bread scraps that fall out of diamond-encrusted lunchboxes
#623 Maison d'Être?
5. disputed territories across @@REGION@@ are being claimed by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ college students
#644 The Old Grey Matter
5. grannies with arthritic hands work miserably on factory production lines
#680 The Fault Is in Our Stars
1. a full moon at night lets economists sleep tight
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
3. robotic spouses prove to be just as imperfect as flesh and blood ones
#693 Bottled Up Problems
4. health inspectors are seen eating black truffle fondue with their bottled water
#694 Concussive Percussion
3. tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments
#710 Feudal Feuds
3. the government believes in trickle-down happiness
#720 Cui Bono?
2. more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself
3. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
4. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
#739 In Loco Parentis
1. it's considered a civil right to be allowed to neglect and mistreat your own children
#769 How to Print Money?
5. the barter economy has taken over as the @@CURRENCY@@ has become worthless
#784 The Driving Force
3. double-parking is on the rise as automobile numbers increase
#793 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Knock Knock. Who's There? Not You Anymore!
3. the entirety of @@LEADER@@'s administration can be crammed into a phone booth
#847 All the Lonely People
4. lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to
#862 Friends Close, Enemies Closer
9. government ministers sport new billboards that read 'Will Trade Votes for Private Members' Bill Support'
#865 A Funeral for a Fiend?
4. the government only announces the deaths of its members when it's convenient
#882 Death by Chocolate
3. children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
4. newly-privatized lumberjacks are clearcutting the forest to meet demand
#907 A Problem Shared
4. boom-and-bust cycles are being peddled as economically inevitable
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
4. the government evicts ethnic minorities by stranding them in the wilderness
#995 A Cup Runneth Over
1. women across the country are tying the knot
4. on hunt days the unpleasant peasant runs in lieu of the pheasant
#1021 Room and Board Games
4. multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
5. the red star of communism has been replaced by the gold star of the McRonald's badge
#1132 Gold Standards
2. destitute athletes are forced to train in the street
#1148 Unfit for Purpose
4. paraplegics are told to walk it off
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
1. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
2. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
3. it is said that @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ woman's work is never done
#1245 Sheepish Students
4. the wealthiest parts of the country receive the most government spending
#1248 A Day to Remember
2. social care for the elderly consists of a self help leaflet and a kick on the backside
4. red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
2. the end of communism came with retail rather than revolution
#1309 Give @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@ a Bone
2. veterans' meet-ups involve a lot of tail sniffing
#1311 An Acquired Taste
4. gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours
#1325 Having Faith in Communism
4. spiritual leaders preach that the poor are being punished for their sins
#1336 Take Good Care of My Baby
3. foundling babies rarely make it off the doorsteps they are abandoned on
#1338 Slow and Stupid Is the Race
2. immigrants are told to pull themselves up by their worn-out budget bootstraps
#1340 Unnatural Conception
5. conflicted @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mamas cry 'cause - if there's one thing they don't need - it's another hungry mouth to feed
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
5. real chickens replace rooster weather vanes on inner-city rooftop gardens
#1412 Another Day, Another Dollar
1. the government hopes austerity will lead to prosperity
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
3. unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims
#1511 Three Little Words
3. families burn @@LEADER@@'s latest official photograph to keep warm
#1531 Fine Time
2. equality looks curiously unequal
#1577 All About the Hustle
1. job satisfaction is a luxury many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can't afford
#1580 Profitable for Doctrine
3. the church encourages double-dipping
#1587 @@DEMONYMNOUN@@, Interrupted
2. people with disabilities are told they just need to try harder
#1601 At Death's Door
2. anyone who sleeps in past 9am can be declared legally dead
#1631 We Are Most Amused
3. the public are enjoying a royal flush of tax cuts
#1677 Common Cents
5. profits are an acceptable way to measure morality
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
1. the mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin
#1689 Government Bureaucracy More Like Aristocracy
2. corporate recruiters have adopted 'at least it's not government work' as their new catchphrase
#1690 The Winter of Our Discontent
4. crying babies are told to grow up
#1693 My Home Is My Castle
3. police officers outnumber pigeons in @@CAPITAL@@
#1694 Aiding and Abetting
6. inflated egos go along with an inflated currency

Removed by:

#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
3. politicians cheer the nation's surging death rate
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
4. the government is phasing in welfare programmes to tackle poverty
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
2. strategic economic sectors are controlled by the state
#720 Cui Bono?
5. the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded
#995 A Cup Runneth Over
2. the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire
#1148 Unfit for Purpose
3. the blind lead the blind in social welfare

Sometimes removed by:

#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
1. all industry is owned and run by the government
#10 Social Inequality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
2. the government is slowly introducing social welfare programs
#15 More Police Needed
2. education and welfare spending are on the rise
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
3. a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
1. the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees
#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
2. refugees from other nations are flocking to @@NAME@@'s border
#68 Ornery Overcrowding Problem
1. the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments
2. factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
2. re-education centers are being added to most prisons
3. criminal rehabilitation takes place in re-education centers
#76 Suits in Protest
4. local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food"
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
3. ad-blocking has been nationalised
#122 Pensioners in Protest
1. retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
2. the sound of wooden legs echo throughout @@NAME@@ after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax
#148 Spare the Rod, Demand Welfare Activists
1. parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
2. skateparks can be found in every city
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
2. convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes
#161 Where There's a Will There's a Tax
1. the government seizes the property of the recently deceased
#164 Licence to Breed?
3. welfare funding has recently gone through the roof
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
3. untold millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme
4. untold millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme
#187 Underclass Drowning in Debt
2. the government is pouring funds into the nation's welfare system
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
3. the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country
#202 Guns or Butter?
3. strategic bombers are being converted into preschools
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
1. the government has been kicking out foreign corporations in a bid to grow enough food for the populace
#209 Students Demand Financial Aid
1. the number of students attending university has reached a record high
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
3. the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'
#224 Minimum Wage War
2. unemployment is through the roof after the government enacted living wage laws
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
1. the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms
2. the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms
#231 Jungle Fever
2. rice shortages have risen after paddy fields were drained to combat malaria
#247 Where There's Smoke
2. the fire protection service is wholly government-funded
3. most citizens in @@NAME@@ are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
4. the crackdown on private property seems as endless as the government issued food stamp lines
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
1. the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter
2. citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless
#252 Great Balls of Fire!
2. the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
4. the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor
#278 Relief Is Coming... In Four to Six Weeks
1. contrails and thunderous rumbles have returned to the skies above
3. people take government jobs for the frequent flier miles
#282 Slum Village Extraordinaire
1. luxury brands target their advertising at the unemployed and homeless
2. workers who try to quit their jobs must first register with the welfare department
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
5. tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens
#296 Come on Baby, Fight My Fire
1. CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
6. mandatory daycare is provided by the government
#309 Guerrilla Grandparents
1. aging citizens are celebrating the end of the 'Early Bird War'
3. the elderly live on a steady diet of canned beans in dreary government housing
#314 An Affair to Remember?
1. cheating spouses are required to undergo job training
#327 No Rest for the Weary @@ANIMAL@@
4. government officials across @@NAME@@ are being "encouraged" to adopt @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to set an example for the populace
#330 Supermarkets Gobbling Up All the Customers?
3. the government provides its citizenry with the same mass produced rations
#331 Swept Away
1. the government is flooded with compensation requests
#347 Crime Problems Ganging Up on @@NAME@@
2. new funding allows inner city teachers to replace school laptops almost as fast as they get stolen
#348 I Want a Lawyer
1. the state is footing the bill for billionaires' lawyers
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
2. many junior high school teachers minor in midwifery
3. children play Capture the Flag and Capture the Bigtopian General Staff at summer camps
#359 Got Democracy?
2. pro-democracy regime change has been avoided
#362 After the Fall
1. the government is funneling billions into Cape @@NAME@@ following the shuttle crash
#370 The Unbearable Lightness of Government
3. soup kitchens are the only things doing roaring business
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
#385 Who Stands for @@NAME@@?
1. the new national mascot has to be wheeled onto the field of play
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
1. the nation has gained millions of new citizens overnight
#414 Subpar Suburbs
2. government crews work tirelessly to retake the suburbs from organized packs of raccoons
#418 That Sinking Feeling
1. the Coast Guard is pioneering a quixotic program to train fish
#422 Wounded Veterans Demand a Helping Hand
1. the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms
#423 Returning Holy Warriors Cause Trouble
2. the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in @@CAPITAL@@ for fear of causing a fuss
#439 The Law of Exodus
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have been enjoying a recent boost in civil rights as the government continues to clamp down on emigration
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
2. business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
4. Viagra factories are being converted to producing antimalarials for Bigtopian orphans
#448 It Takes a Village
1. the government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits
3. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
2. the universal wage level is set by dividing GDP by the number of citizens
#482 Whose Fault Is It Anyways?
2. government-funded marriage counseling is showing very limited success
#484 Patriot or Patri-Not?
4. political satirists and late night comedians weep as the government begins cleaning up its act
#497 The Widening Gyre
1. the once prosperous capital is in utter decline
#523 A Family Affair
3. government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power
#525 Nowhere to Go!
1. builders across @@NAME@@ are blocked up with orders for new public loos
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
3. the Grinder at Fat Sal's Deli and Recycling Center is a national institution
#571 Family Feud
4. unruly families are deliberately marooned on desert islands
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
3. children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants
#601 Lawyers on Trial
1. lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work
3. pushy mums tell their kids to be doctors and engineers but steer them away from being penniless lawyers
#604 Food Behind Bars
1. the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy
#605 The Noblest of Intentions
1. former nobles are being issued new identities in the wake of the end of serfdom
#612 A Petty Issue
2. the crispy fried liver of @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@ is prized as a tasty treat by vagrants
#620 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
1. Michelin-star chefs are being called on to prepare menus for six-year-olds
3. food voucher forgeries are causing headaches for the police
#623 Maison d'Être?
1. rich people sell their mansions to pay for endless rows of mobile homes
#628 Only @@LEADER@@ Can Prevent Forest Fires
4. disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
1. orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents
#639 No Country for Old Men
1. 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past
#691 The Prodigal States
1. the nation forgives those who are big enough to admit they made a mistake
#696 No, Minister
2. the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer
#700 The Widow Raven
3. death compensation has some family members fearing to pay back others' debt they may be disappearing
#715 Copy Rights
2. parents are shocked to find out that having kids costs money
#733 The Path Less Traveled
5. there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees @@HIS/HER@@ shadow
#739 In Loco Parentis
2. there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services
#748 [The Enemy Within] In Spite of All the Danger
1. the government is coughing up funds for lung cancer victims
#766 Carbon Emissions Are Why We Can't Have Nice Things
3. the carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
1. burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms
#780 Vexing VAT
3. the richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper
#781 The White Man's Burden
1. saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech
#785 Born to Be My Baby
4. busy commuters no longer hear the cries of "I want some more!" on the nation's streets
#810 Armed and Unready
1. incompetent former soldiers have been re-employed as incompetent cleaners and kitchen staff
#817 Back-Alley Blues
1. official medical guidelines insist that childbirth is 'almost totally painless'
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
5. citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks
#855 Thin Evidence
4. the criminal underworld is dominated by cupcake smugglers and back-alley doughnut shops
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
5. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ government claim that @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are oppressed out of love
#904 Yours Insincerely
1. the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
3. atheists in the nation feel uneasy living in buildings where they were once vilified
#917 School's In, Cash Is Out!
1. the Treasury Minister takes anxiety medication every time kids lose their sports kits
#928 Get a Life
7. orphanages are practically giving children away
#943 Big Love, Big Problems?
2. people hearing voices that tell them to commit crimes are automatically assumed to be holy
#991 Alms and Qualms
4. corrupt paupers spend taxpayer @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on liquor and tobacco
#1016 Breaking Upset
3. therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads
#1021 Room and Board Games
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1043 Foundering Fashionistas
3. artists attempt to convince the Hardship Fund that their unmade bed is a masterpiece
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1086 Fun in the Sun
1. the 'sing-a-long with @@LEADER@@' album is a popular souvenir
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1105 A Green History Lesson
3. bereaved families are assigned a new housemate the day after the funeral
#1111 A Call for Change
2. anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
4. the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection
#1132 Gold Standards
1. it's a long jump to get onto the housing ladder
#1142 Womb Service
1. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
2. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
#1146 Mother Knows Best?
2. first-time moms are expected to be experienced parents from day one
#1156 Pet Theory
1. you can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health
#1160 Milking It
3. right-wingers complain that too many people are suckling at the welfare teat
#1172 Piled Higher and Deeper
1. engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?"
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
1. the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
2. religious leaders insist all life is sacred (but not those vat-bred wretches)
#1231 Save Our Souls
5. the nation takes the world's poor and tired and the huddled Masses yearning to breathe free
#1248 A Day to Remember
1. modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes
#1264 Flooding the Market
4. constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas"
#1276 A Boatload of Trouble
3. even immigrants complain that immigrants keep taking their jobs
#1291 The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
2. most believe 'tis better to give than to receive
#1292 A Sticky End for @@LEADER@@?
3. most foreigners can't name the leader of @@NAME@@
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
2. ranchers are adept at mimicking wolf attacks
#1306 The Least Common Educator
4. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
5. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
#1307 A Duty to Serve
1. students do more community service than homework
3. people who do not complete their community service are sentenced to more community service
#1308 One in the Oven
3. employers are keenest on employees who lack family values
#1309 Give @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@ a Bone
1. war vets look after war animals
#1322 Introducing Altengarten?
1. 4-year-olds are often found reminiscing about the 'good old days'
#1336 Take Good Care of My Baby
1. a generation of children conceived in hell and born in strife is growing up inside government-run care villages
#1338 Slow and Stupid Is the Race
1. minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments
#1340 Unnatural Conception
1. wishing you had children is considered a sign of child abuse
6. therapists advise women who are constantly stressed and tired to have another baby
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
1. the nation frequently scolds its subject territories for staying up past bedtime
#1368 Parking Hell
2. parking's carefree without parking car fees
#1381 [MADness] Chairman No
1. citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender
2. citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender
#1390 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
4. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
5. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
#1400 [MADness] President No
1. citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender
#1405 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
3. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
#1415 The Melting Point
2. after every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow
#1418 The High Life
1. children's daycare starts at the crack of dawn
#1427 May the Fourth Estate Be With You
3. students spend the school year learning how great the education system is
#1435 A Hot Potato
1. major cities run on potato batteries
3. farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year
#1437 Crushed Dreams
2. a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts
#1458 Children of @@FAITH@@
1. atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
1. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
2. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
#1490 @@LEADER@@ Wins Massive Victory!
3. the government's new "quiet competence" initiative has supporters and detractors alike reeling in confusion
#1500 Rodents of Unusual Sociability
2. dogs are encouraged to confront the psychodynamic roots of their desire to be "good boys"
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
3. doctors are encouraged to 'pull the plug' any time the government has a budget crisis
#1537 Bench Wars
3. the running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
3. teenagers can't go to the loo without an army of social workers watching their every movement
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
3. the word "alcohol" is a trauma trigger for children as young as five
#1550 A Friend With Weed Is a Friend Indeed?
3. gang members supplement their income by teaching at elementary schools
#1551 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
1. the government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix
2. the government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix
#1554 Trajectory x Velocity = GOOOOOOOOOAAAALL!
5. government expenses are beyond compare
#1556 Gimme Shelter
1. what's in your genes matters more than what's in your jeans
#1577 All About the Hustle
3. former bakers no longer have to get their baps out
#1587 @@DEMONYMNOUN@@, Interrupted
1. those with disabilities have an equal right to a job they hate
#1600 Mother's Ruin
3. mothers refer to leaving the house as "the Great Escape"
#1602 @@NAME@@'s Bark Worse Than Its Byte?
3. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect
4. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect
#1609 One Big Watering Hole
2. children are often observed making 'sand angels' in bunkers
#1625 At What Price?
1. welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got
#1648 Infant Influence
1. mommy government won the case and is keeping the kids
#1650 Bearer of Bad Pews
2. spiritual tourists meditate in the ruins of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cathedrals
#1658 A Fatherly Fiasco
3. families make most of their annual income from government benefits
#1677 Common Cents
4. a large savings account makes you an enemy of the state
#1681 The Children Yearn for the Mines
2. all mines are gold mines thanks to life insurance
#1682 The Little Train that Could Give You Cancer
2. chemical burn victims tan their scars summering at luxury beach resorts with huge cash settlements
4. the gravy train is chugging along on a new track

complete lack of prisons

Gained from:

#43 Prisoners Demand Elbow Room
2. all prisons have been eliminated
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
2. convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
3. criminals are thrown to the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to repay their debt to society
#487 Masks of Shame
3. public shaming is the bedrock of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ society
#738 Cruel or Unusual?
2. an eye for an eye leaves @@NAME@@ blind
#978 Alone in the Dark
3. justice is blinding

Removed by:

#199 More Jails Needed
1. the new prison system is crowding up at an alarming rate
#232 Suffragette City
4. women are often jailed for failing to fetch their husbands' slippers
5. women are often jailed for failing to fetch their husbands' slippers
#1200 Choose Your God Wisely
1. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ believe a soft answer turneth away wrath but punitive punishment is much more fun
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ believe a soft answer turneth away wrath but punitive punishment is much more fun
#1531 Fine Time
3. serial killers share cells with serial jaywalkers
4. serial killers share cells with serial jaywalkers
#1542 Dangerous Liaisons
1. commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations
2. commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations
#1690 The Winter of Our Discontent
4. crying babies are told to grow up

complete lack of public education

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#3 Harry Potter Censorship Row
1. Harry Potter books are banned
2. Harry Potter books are banned
#10 Social Inequality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars
#18 Citizens Struggle Under "Unfair" Tax Burden
1. the government is reining in public spending
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
4. citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
4. government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries
#40 Hukd on Fonix Workd 4 Me!
1. funding for education has been redirected into the military
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
2. the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
#64 Put the "Board" Back in Board of Education
4. teachers label difficult children as "somebody else's problem" before expelling them
#81 Close Encounters of the Sci-Fi Kind?
3. X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low
#83 High-Speed Monorail Service Promises Connections
1. government spending has hit an all-time low
#99 We Need Cash, Sharpish, Say Librarians
4. libraries are bulldozed to make way for internet cafés
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
2. the army's shirt ninja are the most feared assassins in the region
#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
3. protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others
#113 Test Results Deemed 'Ungood' After Global Survey
2. children have only the most basic of education
#115 @@NAME@@'s Schoolchildren Not Learning the Lingua Franca
2. foreigners are treated with great suspicion
#125 Bring Back the Ballot?
2. suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
1. government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet
#152 A Capital Idea
1. the government has returned all business to private ownership
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
1. the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents
#199 More Jails Needed
1. the new prison system is crowding up at an alarming rate
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
5. the most common answers to where babies come from are "uh... ask your mother" and "um... ask your father"
#209 Students Demand Financial Aid
2. universities are populated by the spawn of the upper classes
4. closed universities are currently being converted into McRonald's restaurants
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
1. the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code
#223 Easter Egg: Zombie Attack!
6. the undead roam the streets and countryside at night (@@EGG@@)
#241 A Capital City for @@NAME@@?
5. the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs
#242 Follow the Leader
2. @@LEADER@@ has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw
#249 Particle Accelerator Sparks High Energy Debate
3. theoretical science is only theoretical
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
2. the government spends its days financing the delocalisation of its own economy
#257 @@LEADER@@ Assassinated... Almost
1. citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want
#260 Taxpayers on Strike!
1. the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
5. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
6. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
#285 A Right Not to Work?
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
5. the CEO of Laws Incorporated must sign off on all new bills
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
3. businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'
#339 The Bear Necessities
3. the economy is undergoing a traumatic transition to capitalism
#368 Female Workers Feeling the Pinch
3. women are kept out of work but at least dinner is served on time
#373 Devil and the Deep Blue Funding Gap
2. most academic research has ground to a halt
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
2. mollycoddled youths run the country
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#413 A Shot in the Arm
3. parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are given a short jail sentence
#414 Subpar Suburbs
1. town welcome signs list corporate sponsors
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
3. bleach is the nation's most common pesticide
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
3. the attempt to control the weather has ended in environmental disaster
#447 Honey, We Hung the Parliament
4. late night talk show hosts are having a field day over @@LEADER@@'s questionably sane new coalition partners
#466 @@NAME@@ Is Never Ever Getting Back Together... Like Ever
4. the country has essentially become @@POPULATION@@ nations within a nation
#496 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
3. the government's suicide hotline now redirects callers to local tax lawyers
#519 School's Out (Of Control)
1. schoolchildren learn basic numeracy by counting off their push-ups
2. schools offer a range of lessons in subjects as diverse as The Economics of Bullying for Lunch Money
#522 Time to Get Serious
3. it turns out that money can buy you happiness
#527 The Body Politic
1. cities in @@NAME@@ declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
4. science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters
#561 Plug in and Play
3. the nation's exceedingly polite children have often been referred to as "robots" by international media
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
4. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
6. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
3. children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants
#577 Second World Problems
4. Party members are derided as class traitors
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
3. kids are exceptionally good at digging holes
#580 @@NAME@@ Taking Leave of Its Census?
1. the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions
4. according to the latest national census as many as two-thirds of the respondents possibly consider 'violet' their favorite color
5. only @@LEADER@@'s friends count in the eyes of the government
#593 A Right to Bare Arms?
4. fathers are free to sell their daughters to whomever they choose
#623 Maison d'Être?
5. disputed territories across @@REGION@@ are being claimed by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ college students
#655 No Bones About It
2. oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
2. no one knows how to tie a reef knot
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
3. home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks
#680 The Fault Is in Our Stars
1. a full moon at night lets economists sleep tight
#710 Feudal Feuds
3. the government believes in trickle-down happiness
#763 Any Body for Science?
2. the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award
#769 How to Print Money?
5. the barter economy has taken over as the @@CURRENCY@@ has become worthless
#784 The Driving Force
3. double-parking is on the rise as automobile numbers increase
#793 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Knock Knock. Who's There? Not You Anymore!
3. the entirety of @@LEADER@@'s administration can be crammed into a phone booth
#797 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Yesterday's News
8. schools are forbidden to teach anything that might paint the government in a negative light
#830 Unreasonable Adjustments?
1. blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued
#847 All the Lonely People
4. lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
5. the government's official stance on scientific inquiry is 'there's no question so big that it can't be ignored'
#862 Friends Close, Enemies Closer
4. the government seems embarrassed to be seen governing
9. government ministers sport new billboards that read 'Will Trade Votes for Private Members' Bill Support'
#865 A Funeral for a Fiend?
4. the government only announces the deaths of its members when it's convenient
#867 Museums: Things of the Past?
5. the nation's historic treasures have been sold off to Maxtopia's "Museum of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Artifacts That They're Too Stupid to Appreciate"
#878 DoublePlusUnGood
3. one-word headlines are the norm in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ newspapers
#882 Death by Chocolate
2. the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
4. newly-privatized lumberjacks are clearcutting the forest to meet demand
#907 A Problem Shared
4. boom-and-bust cycles are being peddled as economically inevitable
#910 A for Effort
1. marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal
3. the most ambitious parents buy a dozen lottery scratch-cards each week for their kids
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#927 Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It
1. parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework
#959 A-Major Debate
2. music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs
3. music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs
4. high school band practice is often crashed by technicolor-clad ravers
5. students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
4. the government evicts ethnic minorities by stranding them in the wilderness
#988 Highway Robbery by the Book!
4. education for the poor is learning to ask "do you want fries with that?"
#996 Scripting a Change?
4. the libraries of @@NAME@@ are staffed by lone, lonely librarians
#1003 That Smarts
3. the current TV ratings hit is "Keeping Up With The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@"
#1021 Room and Board Games
4. multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks
#1041 A Sport Retort
1. children who display even minimal sporting aptitude are immediately assigned a personal trainer
#1059 Footing the Bill
2. children can sing 'We Are the Champions' but can't spell it
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
5. the red star of communism has been replaced by the gold star of the McRonald's badge
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
3. many believe that you can't repeat history's mistakes if you don't care what they were
#1172 Piled Higher and Deeper
1. engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?"
2. college-level writing classes are taught by undergraduate editors of the school newspaper
3. classes at @@CAPITAL@@ University get canceled on Brancaland's Independence Day
4. classes at @@CAPITAL@@ University get canceled on Brancaland's Independence Day
#1194 Lost in Translation
2. people are bored of easy crossword puzzles
#1245 Sheepish Students
3. a long-distance hike gets students geared up for a long day at school
4. the wealthiest parts of the country receive the most government spending
#1257 It's a Kind of Magic
3. populations of two-headed @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
3. a petition to improve @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ literacy is mostly signed with cross-marks
#1306 The Least Common Educator
3. most people think algebra is something a mermaid wears
#1307 A Duty to Serve
2. teenagers sit around on their butts all day
#1311 An Acquired Taste
4. gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours
#1340 Unnatural Conception
5. conflicted @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mamas cry 'cause - if there's one thing they don't need - it's another hungry mouth to feed
#1361 Fundamental Rights
4. the nation's girls answer "apple" when asked what makes pi
#1407 New Tricks
1. @@LEADER@@'s new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks
#1423 A Slice of the Pi
3. brain injury is seen as a desirable outcome rather than a side effect of contact sports
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
3. unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
3. the government prefers to leave the past buried
#1531 Fine Time
2. equality looks curiously unequal
#1566 Consensus Controversy
1. scientists are not permitted to ask questions
4. evidence-based arguments can be arrestable offenses
#1595 Plausible Deniability
1. the military's newest toy broadcasts @@NAME@@'s anthem on hostile frequencies to drive enemies insane
#1627 Snow Days on Thin Ice
2. youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights
#1631 We Are Most Amused
3. the public are enjoying a royal flush of tax cuts
#1635 A Sine of the Times
1. only those who apply can study applied maths
#1636 In for the Long Haul
6. daydreaming on public transport is considered impolite
#1639 Bad Coal Models
2. the 'no-coal' transition is being paid for in slashed student support funds
#1677 Common Cents
5. profits are an acceptable way to measure morality
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
1. the mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin
#1689 Government Bureaucracy More Like Aristocracy
2. corporate recruiters have adopted 'at least it's not government work' as their new catchphrase
#1692 Hit Me With Your Best Shot
4. children can't read, but they sure know how to lay good bricks
5. children can't read, but they sure know how to lay good bricks

Removed by:

#53 Orbital Armageddon?
2. space research funding has hit a recent high while several military bases are being closed down
#586 School's in for Summer?
1. the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year
#767 Xe Said, Zhe Said
3. youth call each other types of vegetables in lieu of government-banned racial insults
#1681 The Children Yearn for the Mines
4. schoolchildren tunnel out to skip classes

Sometimes removed by:

#3 Harry Potter Censorship Row
3. the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller
4. the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller
#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
1. all industry is owned and run by the government
#15 More Police Needed
2. education and welfare spending are on the rise
#18 Citizens Struggle Under "Unfair" Tax Burden
3. citizens select which government department gets their income tax @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ each year
#20 Gunman Kills Three
3. preschoolers practice disarming active shooters before naptime
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
1. a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway
#33 Genetics Brings New Life to Extinct Species
1. scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied @@ANIMAL@@
#38 @@NAME@@ Looks to the Stars
3. religious classes are compulsory for all school students
4. morality classes are compulsory for all school students
#40 Hukd on Fonix Workd 4 Me!
2. the education system has gotten a recent boost in spending
3. the government spends millions of tax @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on vouchers to pay for expensive private schools
4. the government spends millions of tax @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on vouchers to pay for expensive private schools
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
1. people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
4. the government pours millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ into rehabilitation programs annually
#62 Oh, the Angst!
3. schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students
#71 Minority Group Demands Language Recognition
1. a National Academy regulates grammar and usage
2. children are raised bilingual from an early age
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
2. re-education centers are being added to most prisons
3. criminal rehabilitation takes place in re-education centers
#81 Close Encounters of the Sci-Fi Kind?
1. UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news
#93 Affirmative Action in @@NAME@@?
3. @@NAME@@'s free colleges struggle to maintain standards in the face of overwhelming demand
#99 We Need Cash, Sharpish, Say Librarians
1. libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars
3. all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
3. ad-blocking has been nationalised
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
1. the government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces
#113 Test Results Deemed 'Ungood' After Global Survey
1. the government funds private schools for intellectually gifted children
3. the education system is famed for its taxing exams
#115 @@NAME@@'s Schoolchildren Not Learning the Lingua Franca
1. citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages
#129 Tribal Troubles
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
2. the sound of wooden legs echo throughout @@NAME@@ after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax
#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
2. the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs
#146 Evolution: Truth or Witchcraft?
4. children are sent to either religious or secular schools
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
2. convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes
#161 Where There's a Will There's a Tax
1. the government seizes the property of the recently deceased
#162 Animal Experimentation Laws Under Scrutiny
2. several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation
#190 Immigrants Import Homeland Rivalries
3. children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
1. teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough
2. teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough
#202 Guns or Butter?
3. strategic bombers are being converted into preschools
#204 Lack of Doctors Needs Cure
1. more and more students are taking up a career in medicine
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
2. illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory
#209 Students Demand Financial Aid
1. the number of students attending university has reached a record high
3. it's normal to start working life with crippling financial debt
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
3. the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'
#223 Easter Egg: Zombie Attack!
3. international organisations everywhere are united in their condemnation of the nation's zombified military (@@EGG@@)
#225 Prayer in Public Schools?
3. religious education is a new government priority
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
5. the government is pursuing a new programme aimed at promoting cultural sophistication
6. eight out of ten children believe hard lemonade gives you cirrhosis of the liver
#231 Jungle Fever
1. the government is financing an extremely costly war against malaria
#235 From Green Pastures to Grey Wastelands
4. agricultural science is the most competitive subject at universities
#247 Where There's Smoke
3. most citizens in @@NAME@@ are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government
#249 Particle Accelerator Sparks High Energy Debate
1. construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
4. the crackdown on private property seems as endless as the government issued food stamp lines
#252 Great Balls of Fire!
2. the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
5. the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'
#262 Sticks and Stones
3. the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
1. students cut up leftover @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ during Arts and Crafts
#276 Circus Clowns Cause Chaos!
2. students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak
#281 Free Internet for @@NAME@@?
2. students abandon classrooms for online education
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
1. the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
6. mandatory daycare is provided by the government
#322 Empathy a Rare Commodity?
1. citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy
#332 Summit Security Spending Stirs Strife
2. rioting during the nation's hosting of ORDER caused one million @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ of property damage
#335 Log Us Back On
2. the government is buying children's books by the thousands
#340 Defending Patent Pending
3. the government subsidizes everything from particle physics to fabric softeners
#347 Crime Problems Ganging Up on @@NAME@@
2. new funding allows inner city teachers to replace school laptops almost as fast as they get stolen
#348 I Want a Lawyer
3. every street in the nation contains at least three law firms
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
6. getting an abortion takes less hassle than writing a letter
#359 Got Democracy?
2. pro-democracy regime change has been avoided
#363 The Apotheosis of @@LEADER@@?
4. the government is seen as openly hostile to all religion
#370 The Unbearable Lightness of Government
3. soup kitchens are the only things doing roaring business
#372 The Coming of the Commissars
1. troops are either deafened by gunfire or a hysterical voice screaming the Party manifesto
#373 Devil and the Deep Blue Funding Gap
1. mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
1. helicopter parenting is on the rise
#381 Mamma @@NAME@@, Let Me Go
1. the government has an "easy come, easy go" policy on youth crime
#382 The Appropriate Amount of Appropriation
3. school children are expected to know the names of all seven hundred native tribes and their cultural practices
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
1. the nation has gained millions of new citizens overnight
#413 A Shot in the Arm
4. science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous
#414 Subpar Suburbs
2. government crews work tirelessly to retake the suburbs from organized packs of raccoons
#416 Prophet Margins
2. government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience
#419 RED Rover, RED Rover, Send Your Money Right Over!
1. the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure
#421 No Child Left Behind Enemy Lines
1. army uniforms are replaced en masse to accommodate adult soldiers
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
1. even the nation's brussel sprouts are delicious and nutritious
#428 Crop Circles Clutter @@CAPITAL@@
3. it is a crime to operate a combine harvester while intoxicated
#439 The Law of Exodus
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have been enjoying a recent boost in civil rights as the government continues to clamp down on emigration
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
3. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
4. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
#448 It Takes a Village
2. parents who fail mandatory parenting classes risk having their children taken away
#450 Colonial Testimonial
1. colonial citizens are forced to sing the praise of the "Great @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Liberator"
2. school history books often refer to @@LEADER@@ as "that imperialist pig dog"
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
3. teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank
#477 Feeding Frenzy
3. meals are now followed by thirty minutes of mandatory exercise
#478 The Show Must Go On
1. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances
#484 Patriot or Patri-Not?
1. school children are forced to sing the national anthem every morning
2. school children are forced to sing the national anthem every morning
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
2. the army lures cannon fodder with promises of a college education
#487 Masks of Shame
1. country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized
#495 Beloved "Planet" Has Gone to the Dogs
3. the nation's leading climatologists are investigating animal flatulence in efforts to reduce methane emissions
#496 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
1. every workday begins with group therapy
#497 The Widening Gyre
1. the once prosperous capital is in utter decline
#504 Short Shorts Too Short?
1. high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate
#506 It's Official: "I Do" Does Do It
2. children in school learn that marriage and slavery go hand in hand
#509 It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
1. citizens are abandoning their homes en masse in a widespread panic over asbestos
#517 Gallery in Need of a Renaissance
2. the National Art Gallery's newest exhibit is the 500-year-old Luna Lisa
#518 Face Lift
4. @@CAPITAL@@ has become the number one destination for urban exploration in @@REGION@@
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
5. meteorologists are instantly recognizable from their luxury cars and jewelry
#522 Time to Get Serious
5. students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations
#523 A Family Affair
3. government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
3. young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery
4. no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed
#542 What a Waste
3. nuclear physics is the most popular course at university
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
1. every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead
3. advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
2. church and state are inseparable in their influence on education
3. church and state are inseparable in their influence on education
#556 Here Be Dragons?
1. young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus
2. young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus
4. failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
1. every week is blindness awareness week
#561 Plug in and Play
2. children entertain themselves by throwing rocks through the windows of world-class museums
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
1. popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
1. urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts
2. signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles
#580 @@NAME@@ Taking Leave of Its Census?
2. no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police
#581 Fair to Say...?
2. intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works
#582 Augmented Reality Check
3. people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy
#589 To Boldly Go?
1. the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
4. political talk shows often have children as guests whenever they need commentary on world religions
#600 Making a House a Home
1. @@LEADER@@'s luxurious new home has been designated as a protected cultural heritage site
#605 The Noblest of Intentions
1. former nobles are being issued new identities in the wake of the end of serfdom
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
3. the sanitised and dull music festivals of @@NAME@@ are famed for their reasonable volume levels
#611 Blundering Battle Bureaucrats
3. out-of-work soldiers and bureaucrats can often be found camped out in front of manservant academies
#624 A Role to Play
3. taking hostages is a great way to influence government policy
#626 Carbon Copied
1. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
2. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
#629 Boom or Bust?
2. male tourists tend to be fearful of @@NAME@@'s deadly femme fatales
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
5. excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside
#633 Sound Judgement
7. you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly
#637 Little Pizza History
1. the nation has nearly as many history museums as @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
1. orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents
#642 This Way's Kinder
1. squeaky high prepubescent voices recite the patriotic poem "Hail to The Leader!" before each meal
#646 Lesson Learnt
1. disadvantaged youths often commit felonies to enhance their educational prospects
#655 No Bones About It
3. children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
2. disability advocates are not amused that they are told to be dependent on @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@'s kindness
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
1. Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping
3. truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills
#671 Adenine, Thymine, Copyright, and Guanine
2. the government has an entire department dedicated to staring at microscopes and writing down letters
#672 All Shook Up
2. earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss
#676 Down the Rabbit Hole
2. cash-strapped junkies lick rabbits for a cheap high
#680 The Fault Is in Our Stars
3. the new Really Big Telescope has been praised for presenting pictures of bright dots in unprecedented detail
#683 Different Keystrokes for Different Folks
1. edutainment video games are taking @@NAME@@'s students to the next level
2. @@LEADER@@'s office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader
#691 The Prodigal States
1. the nation forgives those who are big enough to admit they made a mistake
#694 Concussive Percussion
3. tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments
#719 Buried Bones Unearth Debate
2. graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation'
#721 A Lack of Comma Sense
1. serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk
#726 Jobless Fair
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#729 Teenage Kicks
1. five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes
#735 Rap Sheet
3. songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti
#739 In Loco Parentis
3. fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
1. park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers
2. undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected
3. posters remind people that 'Hoarding Mushrooms Is Theft'
#753 I've Got My Ion You
3. soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued
#756 The Issue With Issues
4. only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise @@LEADER@@ on @@NAME@@'s coulrophobia epidemic
#768 Trouble Brewing
2. the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea
3. machine-peeled candied grapes come in individual packaging for the busy commuter
#773 Know Thy Selfie
1. @@LEADER@@'s media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week
#781 The White Man's Burden
2. religious bigotry is not allowed but bigotry against theism is encouraged
#785 Born to Be My Baby
3. divorcees attending custody disputes tend to wear black-and-white zigzag patterns
#803 Park That Thought
1. a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park
#804 Motivational Posters
2. telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm
#830 Unreasonable Adjustments?
2. employers are finding it hard to screen candidates now that everyone gets A grades in their exams
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
5. citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks
#852 Brown Breeches Thanks to Speeches
1. members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods
#853 Silence Is Golden
2. citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals
#855 Thin Evidence
3. children must make a homemade spinach and ricotta rotolo by high school or be held back
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
2. mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry
3. the new Grand Inquisitor of Righteous Scientific Inquiry has ordered a surprising amount of hemlock
#860 A Blast From the Past
3. students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic
#861 Out With the Old
3. citizens worry more about a split end than their deceased parent
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
2. cooking with water and baking soda is considered patent infringement
#867 Museums: Things of the Past?
1. museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts
2. education is transforming people into first-rate snobs
#882 Death by Chocolate
1. school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp
#892 The Old Metric
2. 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners
#910 A for Effort
2. hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework
4. frat-house partying has become the national pastime
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
2. there is no other place with more lab coats per square mile than former houses of worship
#918 J'Accuse!
6. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ submit requests for a date in writing with an enclosed RSVP card
#924 Total Eclipse of the Brain
2. a decrease in wailing and gnashing of teeth at astronomical events is reducing demand for dentistry
#927 Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It
2. student exchange programs are in trouble as everyone wants to leave but no-one wants to come
3. just as students finish their homework it's time for school
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
4. international terrorists often get their weapons supply in @@NAME@@
#943 Big Love, Big Problems?
3. boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers'
#944 Deadly Persuasion
3. even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love
#946 Better In Than Out
2. farting etiquette is taught in schools
#948 1x, 2x, 3x, a Lady
3. women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up"
4. women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up"
5. male celebrity chefs are laughed at for their lack of manliness
#954 Varsity Blues
2. students at universities think exercise bikes are pieces of abstract art
#955 Can It!
1. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
2. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#962 A Matter of Loaf and Death
3. new government leaflets tell coeliac children to eat more crisps
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
4. light entertainment shows are light on actual entertainment
#970 For Want of a Nail
6. the government decides its policies by observing the flight of birds
#972 Sing Heil!
1. concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas"
#976 Demonic Possession Getting You Down?
1. the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds
#984 A Midsummer Night's Snooze-Fest
1. some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them
4. all the playground's a stage for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ schoolchildren
5. chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on
6. hammer and sickle-wielding space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on
#985 Service With a Snarl
2. rude retail employees are now even ruder homeless panhandlers
#986 Poacher Pandemic
5. the horniness of the great-horned @@ANIMAL@@ is considered a national priority
#988 Highway Robbery by the Book!
3. strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down
#996 Scripting a Change?
1. textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be
3. the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters
#999 Just Plane Ridiculous
2. scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new
4. kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents
#1006 Opening the Door to Controversy
2. schoolboys trained in chivalry are encouraged to duel other boys for a maiden's hand
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ seem to be catching more chills
#1009 A Woman's Roll
1. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
2. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
#1010 What's Got Into @@NAME@@?
1. grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them
#1016 Breaking Upset
4. Brown Sugar 101 is a popular course at community colleges
#1021 Room and Board Games
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1026 Size Matters
3. posters on '@@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Values' advise against being proud of @@NAME@@
#1031 Down in the Groove
1. seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma
#1042 Failure to Launch
4. schoolchildren quote interesting facts about the square of the hypotenuse
#1043 Foundering Fashionistas
2. trust-fund babies line up for places in community college
#1045 [The Enemy Within] Gimme Some Truth
3. many suspect the government "doth protest too much" with their curiously specific denials of conspiracy theories
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1064 Culture Wars
1. practising saying 'how now brown cow' is an essential part of holiday planning
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
4. helping grandma with her Misgendering 101 homework is a national rite of passage
#1077 With Friends Like These...
4. funny-looking kids are stood at the front of the classroom for everybody to point and laugh at
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
2. mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation
#1098 Edged Out
3. schoolyard bullying has a tendency to escalate
#1099 New Satellite Blues
1. billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are spent to take high-quality photos of the @@ANIMAL@@ Nebula
#1101 Unreal
1. a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1104 Balancing the Books
3. the book "Zen and the Art of Dog Maintenance" is inexplicably a worldwide success
#1106 Some Body to Love
2. girls who wear lipstick are berated for pandering to male gazes
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
1. courses on ornithology and apiology are surprisingly popular
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
4. lobster tastes best when it is red
#1117 Suffer Little Children
3. a sudden shout of "surprise!" does not herald a party for teachers
4. children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work
#1121 Tribes and Tribulations
3. foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather
#1128 Get Thee Behind Me, Santa
2. children usually cry on their first day of school
3. children usually cry on their first day of school
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
4. the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection
#1131 Safe Sects
2. five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars
#1135 My Eyes Are Up Here
2. male cubicle workers stand up every time a woman enters the room
#1138 Shock Tactics
1. giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls
#1145 Your Wild Self(ie)
3. video evidence of cruel animal experiments tends to be of poor quality
#1152 Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting!
3. the 'three Rs' have become the 'four Rs' with the addition of Rightful Thought
#1173 Thinking a Little Too Hard?
1. the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces"
#1175 Can I Borrow a Word?
2. feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary
#1189 Driven to Distraction
2. neon signs promoting safe driving often distract drivers
#1202 A Timely Intervention
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ watches list strained wrists as a common side effect
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ watches list strained wrists as a common side effect
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
2. students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework
3. babysitters are a thing of the past
#1221 Man of the People
2. politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority")
#1226 Unintelligent Oversight
3. the aims of top-secret @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ science projects revolve around designing the perfect robot woman
#1249 Red Dead Representatives
3. left-wing militias train children how to properly burn down banks
#1251 The Making of a Mass Murderer
2. schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention
#1257 It's a Kind of Magic
1. every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts
#1259 Buy Low, Sell High
4. mandatory state-funded classes teach Libertarianism
#1262 Dead Tasty
2. the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu
#1266 Pink Is the New Orange
4. transgender and agender are on the education agenda
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
2. rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century
#1273 Lessons in Politics
1. evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
2. history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students
#1284 How to Choose the Chosen One
2. minority children find the right answer in school tests is always the most insulting one
#1287 Children of the Magna Carta
2. you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence
#1291 The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
6. antacids top everyone's Maxxmas list
7. antacids top everyone's Maxxmas list
#1303 Amateur Hour
4. frisbee games on college quadrangles are grounds for expulsion
#1306 The Least Common Educator
2. it needn't take a lot of snot and tears to fix a problem
4. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
5. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
#1310 Intimate Relations
2. the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework
#1315 No Boycott After All; Parliament Just Got Lost
3. even the lowest-level cheesemongers are required to pass @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Literature IV
#1336 Take Good Care of My Baby
2. grim instructresses lead the unwillingly impregnated in chants of "it's all my fault" and "blessed be the fruit"
#1338 Slow and Stupid Is the Race
1. minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments
#1342 Uni-ted We Roll, Uni-ted We Fall
1. people often feel unbalanced by their daily commute
#1344 Ups and Downs
3. 75% of the words in government-funded "Super Fun Maths Games" are probably inaccurate
#1349 You Must Be 18 Years or Older to View This Content
2. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
3. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
2. a degree of self-hatred is vital for a future in politics
#1354 The One-Trick Pony
2. translators are keen to explain feline MPs' claw and ordure policies
#1359 Covering All the Angles
3. the true length of the coastline of @@NAME@@ may never be measured
#1360 Ask a Stupid Question?
4. the only science is political science
#1361 Fundamental Rights
1. parents dread their examinations more than their children
3. every school is receiving a brand new eraser
#1423 A Slice of the Pi
1. pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi
#1432 Oh Dear
5. government fact-checkers use surprising amounts of high explosive
#1435 A Hot Potato
3. farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year
#1440 Dungeons and Deaths
3. cops shout apologies with every swing of their baton
#1441 Don't Burn Baby Don't Burn
1. kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll
#1442 A Green Bill of Health
2. vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR
3. vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR
#1445 The Dialectics of Dialects
3. every citizen sounds like a television news anchor
#1446 Yet Another Issue About Periods
1. teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath
2. children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again
#1447 The Lowest Form of Wit
1. you can tell when @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are being snarky by the fact their lips are moving
#1471 @@LEADER@@ and the Lost Chamber of Vetoes
1. old fossils give the tours at the parliamentary museum
#1478 Two Sides of a Coin
3. the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
4. the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong
#1489 No Tern Left Unstoned
2. woke teenagers spontaneously burst into tears when thinking about the world's woes
#1490 @@LEADER@@ Wins Massive Victory!
3. the government's new "quiet competence" initiative has supporters and detractors alike reeling in confusion
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
1. kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history
#1509 Parks and Aggravation
6. visitors to Graffiti Warrens National Park are offered a complimentary tetanus vaccination
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
3. doctors are encouraged to 'pull the plug' any time the government has a budget crisis
#1528 Our Feta Which Art in Havarti...
1. cheese lovers have a case of the bleus
#1545 Deep Down Up to No Good
2. what goes down must come up
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
3. teenagers can't go to the loo without an army of social workers watching their every movement
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
3. the word "alcohol" is a trauma trigger for children as young as five
#1550 A Friend With Weed Is a Friend Indeed?
3. gang members supplement their income by teaching at elementary schools
#1554 Trajectory x Velocity = GOOOOOOOOOAAAALL!
1. citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles
2. citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles
#1563 Apostropocalypse Now
2. bad punctuation has come to a full stop
#1566 Consensus Controversy
2. a state-funded project is investigating whether the moon is made of cheese
#1568 Palate Torture
1. farmers sing lullabies to soothe their livestock to sleep
#1588 More Popular Than @@FAITH@@
3. young people pass around flash drives filled with illegal music
#1592 Echoes of Deception
2. deceased politicians spam the public with thousands of AI-generated voicemails
#1595 Plausible Deniability
3. scientists have great chemistry with their subjects
#1606 Book Off
4. rural children are told reading's important (for other people)
#1616 Beyond the Focal Point
3. talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses
4. ADHD now stands for Attention Distracted by Hardware Devices
#1625 At What Price?
4. millionaires are surprised to find they are eligible for government handouts
#1627 Snow Days on Thin Ice
1. truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon
4. unemployed school bus drivers photobomb virtual classroom meetings
#1634 The War of the Planets
3. the alien invasion siren sounds eerily like a UFO
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
1. elderly tribespeople die in bed surrounded by loved ones and linguists
2. all tribal children are set for life with guaranteed government jobs
3. children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi
#1686 Carnivorous Kids
1. kids these days only have to survive their homework assignments and cafeteria lunches

compulsory gun ownership

Gained from:

#84 Compulsory Gun Ownership?
1. gun ownership is compulsory

Sometimes gained from:

#1449 Annie Get Your Gun
1. metal detectors at school gates make sure that teenagers are carrying at least one sidearm

Removed by:

#20 Gunman Kills Three
1. kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles
2. the nation is completely gun-free
#98 Police Want More Than Shiny Badge
3. the streets are plagued with knife-wielding madmen
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
1. the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place
#149 With Liberty, Freedom, and Guns for All?
2. citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons
#158 Regarding Robbers' Rights
3. trespassers often find themselves impaled by crossbow bolts
#326 Knitters in a Knot Over Police Stitch Up
3. knitting needles have been banned in the name of public safety
#488 Bright Orange Is the New Black
1. gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal
2. gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal
#802 No Lock, No Gun Stock, and No Smoking Barrels
4. wars are filled with soldiers wielding machetes and chainsaws for safety reasons
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
1. gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away
2. children cry as government officials steal their water pistols
#1363 In My Defence
4. staple guns are seen as intrinsically evil
#1449 Annie Get Your Gun
4. it's no longer mandatory for armless amputees to own ironic side-arms
#1586 Don't Point That Thing at Me!
1. pitchforks and torches are coming back into fashion
3. heated town halls quickly descend into shootouts between politicians and their constituents
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
3. companies are literally blowing their competition out of the water
#1655 Surplus to Requirements
4. the government sells explosives to fund bomb squads
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are having a blast with military surplus

Sometimes removed by:

#629 Boom or Bust?
1. the police have taken to prying guns out of the cold fingers of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#850 The Prints and the Slaughter
1. dreams of replicator technology have been dashed following a ban on 3D printers
#1235 Good Guy With a Gun
4. it turns out that the government can have your guns by prying them out of your warm living hands

compulsory military service

Gained from:

#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
2. the army's shirt ninja are the most feared assassins in the region
#147 Military Budgets Up for Approval
5. military service is compulsory
#157 Sergeants Are Too Nasty, Say New Recruits
4. newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
2. soldiers are noted for their ferocity and illiteracy
#426 Women in Uniform Under Fire
3. women are ordered home to reproduce for the glory of the @@TYPE@@
#485 Really Real eSports Tournament
4. all gamers have been drafted into the military despite their lack of upper body strength
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
1. confused drunks wake up to irate drill sergeants whipping them into shape
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#489 Standing at Attention
4. handsome young men are forced into uniforms by their dominant elders
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
2. the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories'
#660 Are We Being Served?
1. retail staff are trained to take both inside leg measurements and the lives of their enemies
#931 In the Navy
3. military promises of adventure don't live up to the brochure for unwilling conscripts
#964 An Expensive Watch
4. army regiments supporting different football teams are a frequent cause of friendly fire incidents
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
1. young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield
2. young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield
#1251 The Making of a Mass Murderer
4. the army's trophy cabinets have gone all-organic

Sometimes gained from:

#860 A Blast From the Past
4. military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames

Removed by:

#184 Compulsory Military Service Under Attack
1. the military struggles with recruitment
#238 We Need a Few Good Men Who Like Men?
5. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
6. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
#366 Prosecute Stolen Valour, Says Military
3. soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear
4. soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear
#810 Armed and Unready
5. nobody is forced to join the armed forces
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
2. unemployed youngsters trained to kill are being released en masse into society
#1665 The Relationship Is Complex-Cated
6. there is no war in @@CAPITAL@@
7. there is no war in @@CAPITAL@@

compulsory vegetarianism

Gained from:

#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
3. vegetarianism is compulsory
#350 Queasy Cuisine
6. the food pyramid has been replaced with the word PASTA in bold block capital letters
#367 What's Their Beef?
3. unemployed butchers line the streets
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
4. pizza parlors have been replaced by lima bean cafes
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
5. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
6. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
4. proletariat workers identify less with the hammer and sickle and more with the touchscreen and phone charger
#1474 Cuy Bono?
3. delicate flowers faint at news of house plants being eaten
#1625 At What Price?
3. white chocolate is neither chocolate nor food
#1662 Divine Dining
3. many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are delayed by flocks of sheep on their morning commute

Removed by:

#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
1. abattoirs are running at full capacity in response to skyrocketing demand
3. the consumption of vegetables is illegal
#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#1213 The War of Man and Beast
4. the nation's iron imports are booming
#1436 Meat Meet
3. the legalization of meat has skewered the sales of vegetarian substitutes
#1686 Carnivorous Kids
4. freshly-minted cattle-wranglers have to fend off hordes of teething babies
#1702 Congratulations, You Have Crabs!
3. the natural world is burning as the government adds hot sauce

conspicuous electricity pylons

Gained from:

#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
4. @@NAME@@'s nuclear power is imported from neighbouring countries

Sometimes gained from:

#1185 Should Be Sufficient
3. the best fashion comes straight to the high street from sweatshops all across the globe
4. socialism gives everyone a share of the economy's growing carbon footprint
#1230 Home Hunger
1. new pests have been imported into @@NAME@@
#1356 The Silicon Curtain
3. autarky's deemed malarkey as foreign bric-a-brac's brought back
#1546 Fool's Gold
3. government debts are financed through alchemy
4. government debts are financed through alchemy
#1602 @@NAME@@'s Bark Worse Than Its Byte?
3. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect
4. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect

Removed by:

#301 Are 'Friends' Electric?
1. environmentalists are staging large protests in front of reopened nuclear power plants
#649 Made in Maxtopia
3. there are no bananas today in @@NAME@@
#815 Embargoed In
3. there is a law against "filthy foreign food"
#1216 Not My Government
4. an iron curtain has descended around the nation
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
3. attempts at growing pineapples in the desert have been unsuccessful
#1674 Reining the Dragon
1. self-sufficiency is built on seizing foreign assets

cultivated feral children

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
6. citizens are grown in vats
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
4. the youth of today are literally shaped by big business
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
3. the love has gone in @@NAME@@
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks

Removed by:

#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
3. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
4. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
2. soldiers are noted for their ferocity and illiteracy
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
2. religious leaders insist all life is sacred (but not those vat-bred wretches)
3. growing infants in a vat is an antiquated concept
#1340 Unnatural Conception
6. therapists advise women who are constantly stressed and tired to have another baby
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
3. children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi
#1686 Carnivorous Kids
1. kids these days only have to survive their homework assignments and cafeteria lunches

daily referendums

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#11 People Request Not So Much Dictatorship, if That's All Right
2. the government is cutting back on the number of political prisoners executed each year
#125 Bring Back the Ballot?
1. @@NAME@@'s first free elections in recent memory have been successfully concluded
#163 Referenda: Are They Right for @@NAME@@?
1. a referendum must be held in order for any new law to be passed
3. referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population
#177 Power to the People?
1. elections have recently been reintroduced to @@NAME@@
#339 The Bear Necessities
1. workers have seized control of the economy
#359 Got Democracy?
3. corrupt Party bureaucrats are being voted out of office in overwhelming numbers
4. widespread voter apathy has been credited to allegations that all candidates are puppets of @@LEADER@@
#461 If at First You Don't Succeed...
3. the monarch's main official duty is christening ships
7. @@NAME@@ has taken the radical step of electing its future leaders
#465 Lottocracy Causing Lots of Trouble
1. a TV celebrity dominates the nation's newest democratic political party
#502 Scientists Declare That @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Are Persons
4. the new @@ANIMAL@@ Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls
5. the new @@ANIMAL@@ Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls
#805 Solving a Dissolving Dilemma
1. citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections
#872 Party On, @@LEADER@@!
2. the best way to be heard in politics is to speak softly and carry a big comedy prop
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
1. the decision to be oppressed is now made democratically
#1315 No Boycott After All; Parliament Just Got Lost
1. drawing straws has given way to straw polls
#1517 I Guess You Can Tell Me the Odds
3. governance is once again the domain of the elite
#1676 All Animals Are Equal, But...
4. the most common candidates on ballots are silk and cashmere

Removed by:

#0 Should Democracy Be Compulsory?
3. elections have been outlawed
#17 Corporations Demand Political Say
3. a dictator has seized power and outlawed elections
#54 Time to Put the Older Senators Out to Pasture?
3. elections are outlawed and a hairstylist has recently received a government appointment
#65 Should Martial Law Be Declared?
2. martial law has been declared and the populace is kept under tight control
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
3. protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others
#182 Younger Voters a Cure for Apathy?
3. the nation's leader appoints ministers directly
#202 Guns or Butter?
1. politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads
#220 Voter Apathy Rising but No One Cares
4. citizens are more concerned about voting for Big Brother contestants than politicians
#230 Extremists on the Ballot Sheet
3. the government has repealed elections for fear of 'mob rule'
#243 A Question of Faith
5. @@LEADER@@ is the self-declared God of all @@NAME@@
#253 How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
1. the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda
#267 Controversial Coup Causes Commotion
4. pollsters are out of a job as elections have been cancelled
#360 Electile Dysfunction
4. some members of Parliament are illiterate
#534 Too Few Cooks in the Kitchen
3. the nation's latest batch of politicians include internet comedians, an alleged serial killer, and a highly trained @@ANIMAL@@
5. the only things @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ vote on are cutest @@ANIMAL@@ competitions
#597 You Can't Handle the Tooth
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are free from pain - but the side effects include loss of individual thought and freedom
#736 A Badly Named Issue
3. tyranny by any other name smells just as sour
#796 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] It's Dangerous to Go Alone!
1. propaganda posters remind citizens that 'opinions are treason'
#812 The Old Boys' Club
5. a twice-bankrupted businessman's promotion to Minister of Finance has caused concern
#1082 It's Hard to Separate the Truth From Entertainment
3. the country is governed by a clique of political insiders known colloquially as The Establishment
4. government doublethinkers have declared that voting is slavery
#1088 Inexpert Opinions
4. the government terminates employment with extreme prejudice
#1161 Chip Off the Ol' Bloc
3. the government has ended partisanship by ending elections
#1192 Child's Play
5. farmers trade ploughshares for swords when military sortition puts them in charge of regiments
#1461 No Shirt, No Shoes, No ID, No Service
4. the only legal elections are for student body president
#1490 @@LEADER@@ Wins Massive Victory!
4. the media only bothers polling the three most exclusive country clubs in the nation
#1631 We Are Most Amused
2. everyone is absolutely thrilled to see @@LEADER@@
#1669 They're All the Same to Me
4. the next election is postponed until further notice

deadly medical pandemics

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
1. Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested
#8 Nudists Demand Time in Sun
2. public nudity is compulsory
#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
2. all recreational drugs are legal
#25 Cloning Research Promises New Breakthrough
2. genetic researchers have been expelled
#26 Compulsory Organ Harvesting Proposed
2. organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region
#27 Cash for Colons?
2. organ donation rates have hit a new low
#28 Cancer Sufferer Demands Euthanasia Bill
1. euthanasia is legal
#34 Don't Puff on Me, Say Non-Smokers
3. eight-year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas
#45 Baseball League Steps Up to the Plate
1. major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day
#62 Oh, the Angst!
2. psychological disorders are a taboo subject
#66 Transgender Recognition Demanded
3. women wearing male lounge-wear are quizzed for hours by mental health practitioners
#68 Ornery Overcrowding Problem
1. the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments
#72 Widening Buttocks Cause Movie Theater Havoc
4. city sidewalks are crowded with overweight people
5. the state subsidizes liposuction
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#74 @@NAME@@'s Racers Growing Fast and Furious
1. the @@NAME@@ Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
4. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
5. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
#84 Compulsory Gun Ownership?
1. gun ownership is compulsory
2. citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns
#87 Burn! Burn Everything!
2. firebombing politicians' offices has become a common way of expressing dissatisfaction
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
1. murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows
2. soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers
#90 Organic Outburst
2. a survey of the nation's rivers and children has shown that pesticide levels are at an all-time regional high
#92 @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Officials Needled About Mandatory Vaccinations
2. the state pays for care of easily preventable illnesses
3. only vaccinated citizens may have free healthcare
#100 Road Rage Rampage
3. it's a common sight to see angry commuters with grenade launchers mounted on their vehicles
#105 Compensation Culture Must End, Say Corporations
1. corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
1. sales of fishnet stockings have reached a record high
3. government-run brothels can be found on every street corner
#107 Private Lab Holds @@NAME@@'s Sick to Ransom
3. the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
3. the use of martial arts is banned
#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#116 Soda Sales Hits New 'High'
1. 'Mountain Doobie' is widely regarded as the nation's favourite drink
3. reports of attacks by bright purple sixty-foot high spiders have recently shot up
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
1. appendix transplant figures have recently doubled
3. the insurance industry is outlawed
#118 Need for Speed?
1. the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril
#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
3. traditional vegetarians are fuming over the introduction of vat-grown meat to the menu
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
3. politicians cheer the nation's surging death rate
4. senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
1. government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet
#136 Much Ado About Abortion
3. abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics
4. abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics
5. families are only permitted to have one child
#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
1. shops were recently ransacked as cigarettes returned to the shelves
3. zombie-like crowds of hard drug users stumble through the streets
#140 A Grave Problem
4. the dead are minced up and sold to people in burger form
#142 Roads Like Roller Coasters, Complain Motorists
2. the roads are virtually falling apart
#151 Build Bigger Bombs, Advise Scientists
1. citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over @@NAME@@
2. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
3. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
2. the nation's drinking water tends to glow green at night
#157 Sergeants Are Too Nasty, Say New Recruits
3. soldiers are slaughtered in their thousands due to lack of training
#167 Fluoride Controversy a Toothy Problem
2. the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape
3. the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape
4. most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists
#169 @@ANIMAL@@ Hunting Laws Under Dispute
4. hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
1. the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned
#179 Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease Outbreak!
5. people all over @@NAME@@ are dying of 'Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease'
#185 "Bring Back Our Booze!" Cry Revellers
1. @@NAME@@'s fine wines are renowned throughout the region
#186 Carjacking Concerns
2. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
3. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
#190 Immigrants Import Homeland Rivalries
1. immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites
2. Maxtopian slaves are routinely sold as an optional extra for household appliances
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
2. blood donations have been banned because of the risk of eternal unrest
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
3. manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
2. large areas of @@NAME@@ are not accessible by the public
#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
2. nursing mothers are often arrested for indecent exposure
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
5. the most common answers to where babies come from are "uh... ask your mother" and "um... ask your father"
6. soldiers have a preference for fire-and-forget payloads
7. young girls often attend the same schools as their children
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
3. the well-off are enjoying tax cuts while famine kills off the poor and destitute
#204 Lack of Doctors Needs Cure
4. healthcare funding has been cut
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
1. abattoirs are running at full capacity in response to skyrocketing demand
3. the consumption of vegetables is illegal
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
2. nuclear reactors are held together with party string and Hubba Bubba
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
2. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
3. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
#217 Healthcare Services Underfunded, Claim Patients
5. the NHS has recently been discontinued
#220 Voter Apathy Rising but No One Cares
5. insomnia is slowly turning everyone insane
#222 Terrorists Strike City Centre
1. the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists
6. the streets are ravaged by murder and violence to prove political points
#223 Easter Egg: Zombie Attack!
4. the flesh-eating lost souls that wander at night serve as a major tourist attraction (@@EGG@@)
5. the undead are an officially recognised ethnic minority (@@EGG@@)
6. the undead roam the streets and countryside at night (@@EGG@@)
#224 Minimum Wage War
4. the workforce is almost entirely made up of slave labour
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
1. it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations
3. criminals are thrown to the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to repay their debt to society
#241 A Capital City for @@NAME@@?
3. all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of @@CAPITAL@@
#246 @@NAME@@ to Hold the Olympic Torch?
4. chess hooliganism is on the rise after the banning of organised sports
#247 Where There's Smoke
1. reports of arson have doubled since the introduction of a privatised fire protection service
4. the government's only official statement on the burning down of @@CAPITAL@@ was that 'they shouldn't have been so careless'
#248 The Sky Is Falling
3. bombs are permitted on planes for the 'security of the passengers'
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
3. homeless people are frequently charged with trespassing on public property
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
3. penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative'
#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
1. inter-species marriages are ignored by the government
4. divorce lawyers are found begging on the streets
6. citizens may not "love, honor and obey" anyone except the State
#281 Free Internet for @@NAME@@?
4. electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
5. absentminded citizens frequently converse with hallucinations
#285 A Right Not to Work?
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down
#286 A Whale of a Problem
4. fishing crews are regularly interrogated by surprisingly violent environmentalists
#288 Super-Sized Pizzas Recipe for Disaster?
3. a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
3. city rooftops are pockmarked with the shattered remains of high velocity delivery drones
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
4. most mothers are forced to quit their jobs to care for infants
5. most mothers are forced to quit their jobs to care for infants
#329 Military Uniforms Under Scrutiny
6. shock troops shock enemy forces with their nudity
#337 Doctors Crossing Borders?
2. charity no longer begins at home
#338 The Silence and the Fury
2. most people suffer from some form of hearing loss
#342 This Land Was Made for You and Me
1. the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction
3. citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow
4. citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow
#350 Queasy Cuisine
2. the nation's cuisine is the laughing stock of @@REGION@@
6. the food pyramid has been replaced with the word PASTA in bold block capital letters
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
2. many junior high school teachers minor in midwifery
3. children play Capture the Flag and Capture the Bigtopian General Staff at summer camps
#359 Got Democracy?
5. chemically brainwashed citizens praise @@LEADER@@'s name on an hourly basis
#362 After the Fall
2. soldiers are authorised to use lethal force to maintain calm in the crash zone
3. the government prefers to take a hands-off approach to catastrophes
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
2. churches frequently hold public 'contraception burnings'
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
3. clandestine emigration to countries with labor laws is all the rage
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#376 Death by Bungee
3. bungee jumpers frequently go splat
#394 Ten Days in a Mad House
2. the most common psychiatric diagnosis is to 'stop whining and grow up'
3. the most common psychiatric diagnosis is to 'stop whining and grow up'
#399 [An International Incident] Invasion Plan
1. the might of the nation's military are undertaking a long march to colonisation in Brasilistan
#409 Water Palaver
2. the state funds the recreational drug habits of every citizen
#413 A Shot in the Arm
1. thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
2. concussed @@ANIMAL@@ball players cannot remember their lineup position
3. concussed @@ANIMAL@@ball players cannot remember their lineup position
4. disgruntled jocks are forced to play tetris for entertainment
#420 Caught Green Handed
3. Maxtopian Grass flags adorn every college dorm room
#421 No Child Left Behind Enemy Lines
3. assault rifles sized for 7-year-olds are a frighteningly popular export
#426 Women in Uniform Under Fire
3. women are ordered home to reproduce for the glory of the @@TYPE@@
#434 Fraternity Furor
1. fraternities are notorious for drunken hooliganism
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
1. homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
4. prohibition has allowed a Maxtopian immigrant known only as "Nipples" to establish an illicit breast milk syndicate
#452 Foetal Furore
3. the travel industry is booming as pregnant women book tickets for "weekend trips" overseas
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
4. food imports have skyrocketed after the recent 'Forage for Food' program severely backfired
#456 Heads Will Roll
3. stylish juvenile delinquents are highly overrepresented in fatal motorcycle accidents
#461 If at First You Don't Succeed...
5. the health budget has been diverted into prolonging @@LEADER@@'s life
#462 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
4. the native owl population is in permanent hibernation
#463 Smart Cars Driving Regulators Up the Wall
2. self-driving cars occasionally mow down pedestrians to avoid inconveniencing passengers
3. self-driving cars obey the road rules even during emergencies
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
3. teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank
#474 Mesozoic Park
4. local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings
#475 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
2. penal labor is a de facto death sentence
#477 Feeding Frenzy
4. heart attacks are regarded as a coming of age ritual
#485 Really Real eSports Tournament
1. the government is a proud sponsor of the National Gaming Association
#488 Bright Orange Is the New Black
5. games of cops and robbers typically end in at least one fatal shooting
#490 The Long and Winding Halls of @@CAPITAL@@
1. auditors are gutting every governmental department
#493 Suspicious Superhuman Athletes?
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump
4. many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to find outlets for their pent-up competitive juices
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
3. children regularly take part in blood sports that result in extreme boo-boos
#503 @@LEADER@@, Tear Down This Door!
3. trespassers entering @@LEADER@@'s office are immediately vaporized
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
3. visions of giant pink @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are a common side effect after @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ eat their meals
#506 It's Official: "I Do" Does Do It
3. couples wishing to marry spend months at the circus trying to learn acrobatics
#507 Would a Rochebaron by Any Other Name Smell Just as Sweet?
1. the lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results
#509 It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
3. hammering a nail into a wall is an effective death sentence
#512 Furnished for Failure
4. personal injury lawyers are demanding compensation from the government after recent reductions in manufacturer liability
#516 Sex Education Too Sexy, Say Parents
1. young adults still believe that @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ deliver newborns to expecting parents
#522 Time to Get Serious
2. maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter
4. smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour
#533 Hearsay Heresy
3. the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
4. public urination is on the increase
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
2. teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
1. nighttime sightings of raccoons sporting Circle-A patches and bandanna masks are on the rise
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
4. in its new More is More campaign the government advertises obese men and women posing coquettishly with baked goods to spare their blushes
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
1. every week is blindness awareness week
3. dining out often involves @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the plate no matter what you order
#559 The Low Aspiration Nation
3. the unemployed are quite literally sold to the highest bidder
#561 Plug in and Play
1. retail stores have reported mile-long lines after the ban on video games was lifted
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
2. farm turkeys are given high doses of antidepressants to take their minds off the holiday season
4. subsidisation of Big Pharma has stopped many corporate executives from having to sell their second homes
#564 Do Good Intentions Make Good Samaritans?
2. children's books regularly feature formerly distressed damsels suing their princes
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
3. exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles
5. exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
1. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
2. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
1. economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society
#581 Fair to Say...?
3. national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first
#585 Are You Not Entertained?
3. amusement park rides frequently collapse due to lack of maintenance
4. nihilistic thrill-seekers claim that suicide by roller coaster is the ultimate life experience
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
3. bars are packed at all hours
#597 You Can't Handle the Tooth
2. raver DJ XStacy holds multiple medical degrees in chillaxing
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are free from pain - but the side effects include loss of individual thought and freedom
#602 Hobby Lobby
5. the government has stated an intention to min-max its stats for 'teh pwnage'
#606 In the Black
3. exploding toys that leak battery acid are back in the shops after the government declared child safety 'over-rated'
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
2. recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
2. the mummified remains of former kings are apparently discovered every time a tourist loses their wallet
3. beaches are empty as the shark population multiplies exponentially
4. sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food
#625 Delivering the Goods
6. prevalence rates of genitourinary infectious disease are inexplicably on the rise
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
2. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
3. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
#639 No Country for Old Men
4. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
5. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
#641 Dirty Little Minds
3. life expectancy is way down but posthuman perfectionism is way up
#644 The Old Grey Matter
4. if they thought anyone would listen the older generation would likely say that nobody listens to them any more
5. grannies with arthritic hands work miserably on factory production lines
#651 Black Days for @@NAME@@
2. commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year
#656 Ransoms Noted
3. cancer rates amongst the richest in society are inexplicably on the rise
#658 A Sickening Dilemma
3. adult stores are all sold out of whips
4. the nation's healthcare system has taken a "survival of the fittest" approach in administering care
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
3. the government is known to care more about its buildings than its people
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
3. truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned
#675 Trick or Treaty
2. the industries of @@NAME@@ are coughing all the way to the bank
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
3. a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away
#685 Externalities Palmed Off
1. foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best
#686 Freemium Isn't Free
2. children often explain to their parents that the Mega Ultimate Sword Fist was worth the thousand-@@CURRENCY@@ charge on their phone bill
#688 You Don't Have to Be Mad to Kill People... But It Helps
1. prisons are filled with the cackles and sobs of a deranged inmate population
#693 Bottled Up Problems
3. straight-edges are forced to collect rain water to avoid getting high off the water supply
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
2. children keel over while singing "@@LEADER@@ Gives Us the Water of Life"
3. children keel over while singing "@@LEADER@@ Gives Us the Water of Life"
4. safe drinking water is considered a luxury
5. poverty is disloyal to the Motherland
6. the nation's water should not be ingested while operating heavy machinery
#705 The Germ of an Idea
2. fast-food chefs regularly win Health Innovation Awards for spitting on burgers
#707 The Eye of the Tiger
6. unfit police officers collapse while trying to capture unusually athletic criminals
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
2. the local custom of Biking With The Cars sends tourists home bemused or in body-bags
3. it is common to still see adults with training wheels on their bikes
#714 Milky Ways
1. increasing numbers of children in @@NAME@@ have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers
#720 Cui Bono?
1. homeless people dying of starvation are thought to be a necessary cost of preventing terrorism
#725 Sky's the Limit?
2. the derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun
3. urbanites battle to the death for penthouse apartments
#727 Market Crash
3. solid steel breastplates are in fashion amongst city drivers
5. the sidewalk is used as an overtaking lane by city drivers
#728 A Bone to Pick
5. ritual mummification is making a comeback
6. ritual mummification is making a comeback
#729 Teenage Kicks
2. bruised children are made to thank their bullies for the valuable life lessons
#739 In Loco Parentis
1. it's considered a civil right to be allowed to neglect and mistreat your own children
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
5. the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
1. the dartboard at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of @@LEADER@@'s face
#753 I've Got My Ion You
2. owners of man-portable particle accelerator backpacks are advised not to cross the streams
#758 Bye Bye to the Birdies?
2. the weather in @@CAPITAL@@ is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'
#768 Trouble Brewing
1. black tea is only available on the black market
3. machine-peeled candied grapes come in individual packaging for the busy commuter
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
1. sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
1. dentists routinely perform open heart surgery
#781 The White Man's Burden
3. people spend a lot on hair and nails
4. people spend a lot on hair and nails
#782 Sit-Down Money
2. teddy bears and pajamas have replaced briefcases and suits in @@NAME@@'s offices
4. doctors are trying to diagnose diseases by looking at their patients' Snipchat pictures
#783 Sergeant McCool Reporting for Duty
1. weighted heels are added to military boots to ensure diminutive celebrities meet minimum requirements
#786 Tainted Tattoos
2. getting an infected tattoo is considered a rite of passage in @@NAME@@
#787 Come Fly With Me?
2. when you fly on Air @@NAME@@ you win a seat or you die
#810 Armed and Unready
2. the nation is famous for bravely sending wave after wave of its soldiers until the enemy runs out of bullets
4. wheelchair-enabled paratroopers need access ramps to get onto planes but not off them
#811 Get Baked
2. dessert dishes make up the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ breakfast menu
4. it is illegal for a parent to tell a child to stop eating their boogers
#816 A Hot Topic
1. where there's smoke there's the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Forestry Department
#817 Back-Alley Blues
1. official medical guidelines insist that childbirth is 'almost totally painless'
#818 We Are Not Amused
3. the skeletons of lost tourists litter the ground of the Great @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Desert
#822 Never Work With Children
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ actors literally work from cradle to grave
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
1. shivering secretaries type letters under torrential downpours in open-roof offices
2. citizens sport solarium-kissed tans that are perfectly even except for the occasional melanoma
4. women find themselves saying "my eyes are up here" more often than they used to
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
4. diners regard burgers made from mechanically reclaimed cow protein as "proper meat"
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
4. hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
4. sports journals are full of uplifting puff-pieces on professional boxers
#829 Winning at Battleship
1. ships are encouraged to deliberately run aground onto @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ beaches
#834 Government and CO
3. in government offices a hidden killer takes the lives of ministers and civil servants
#836 Don't Drink the Grape Punch
5. chewing tree bark proves to have limited value during childbirth
#840 Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
3. honeymoon suites can be located by following newlywed couples' shrieks of "what's that?"
#841 Burn Noticed
1. the Man in the Plastic Mask has been imprisoned in the Capital Penitentiary
#843 Quacking Up
2. new treatments are rejected if they cannot be explained using only one-syllable words
#844 Essentially on Strike
3. worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts
#847 All the Lonely People
2. retirement apartments house giggling grannies who delightedly watch blank TVs all day long
#855 Thin Evidence
2. it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies
#861 Out With the Old
1. the elderly are killed softly with a song
2. tourists visiting the nation are warned not to drink local tap water
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
3. every fourth child is born with flippers instead of hands
5. rubbing salt into wounds is seen as a good thing if it is 100% organic garlic-and-thyme salt
#870 @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Literally Exploding With Excitement
3. the government is encouraging violence on television
#878 DoublePlusUnGood
2. citizens know not to ask what their country can do for them but what they can do as chained slaves for their country
#882 Death by Chocolate
2. the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
2. the restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived
#885 Has Beans
2. politicians are often seen drinking soft drinks at the end of every public address
#886 Bounty on the Table
2. bounty hunters have been dispatched to hunt down rogue bounty hunters
#887 Thin Skin
1. nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
3. mouldy bread is served as an appetizer in many restaurants
#896 It's Our Lot in Life
5. competing private ambulances racing to be the first to traffic accidents are a major cause of road accidents
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
3. slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration
#902 Killer App
2. ironic death by tasering is on the rise amongst door-to-door taser salesmen
3. catching an old friend by surprise on the street can be a shocking experience
#907 A Problem Shared
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
#910 A for Effort
4. frat-house partying has become the national pastime
#916 Swing and a Miss
1. fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments
3. athletes and street criminals compete for solid steel baseball bats
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
1. the fattest folk in @@NAME@@ look to be the happiest ones
#925 Ring of Death
1. a murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career
#929 Champagne in the Glass
2. foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Moonshine"
4. alcoholism is the newest import from Dàguó
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
1. no suburban lawn is complete without barbed wire and landmines
#935 Hero to Zero
4. psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests
#939 A Question of Bad Faith
1. burnt-out forty-foot-tall wicker men dot the countryside
#940 The Court of the Crimson Lord
2. screams of citizens being "re-educated" echo throughout the rural regions of @@NAME@@
#944 Deadly Persuasion
4. children who write letters to Santa Claus end up in straitjackets
#945 Police on the Take
1. the police motto is "to protect and not to serve"
2. crimes are difficult to stop as most of the police force is stuck in traffic
#946 Better In Than Out
1. wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them
#947 Imitation Station
1. drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars
#950 Borderline Pandemic
2. both vegetables and viruses are often smuggled across the border
#954 Varsity Blues
2. students at universities think exercise bikes are pieces of abstract art
3. out-of-work basketball players loom over the unemployment line
#955 Can It!
4. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
5. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
3. veterans in wheelchairs are left waist-deep in rice paddies to gather grain
#962 A Matter of Loaf and Death
4. people experiencing anaphylactic shock are told to buck their ideas up
#964 An Expensive Watch
4. army regiments supporting different football teams are a frequent cause of friendly fire incidents
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
3. people think garlic bread counts as one of their "five a day"
#970 For Want of a Nail
7. it's a miracle that there aren't more plane crashes
#974 Siren Song
3. weather reports simply advise @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ to 'look outside'
#983 Doctors' Orders
1. pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ roads
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
1. gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away
#993 Drug Deal
1. drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients
3. life is short but human kindness is endless
#1003 That Smarts
1. too many hyper-intelligent chefs can spoil the allegorical broth
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
4. women mime their gynaecological symptoms with hand-puppets
#1009 A Woman's Roll
4. glassy-eyed @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ wives lifelessly chant "I love you" on command
#1016 Breaking Upset
4. Brown Sugar 101 is a popular course at community colleges
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
3. epileptic patients switch their medications to whichever has a 'buy one get one free' offer
4. diabetics find the contents of their medications hard to stomach
#1022 Failure to Respond
4. there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
2. parents tell their children 'what a lovely mistake you turned out to be'
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
2. millions of simultaneously backfiring toilets have flooded @@CAPITAL@@ with effluent
3. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices
4. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Crispy Fried Tofu's secret blend of herbs and spices
#1038 Maid to Order
3. slaving over a hot stove to cook the family dinner isn't metaphorical in @@NAME@@
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
2. the secret ingredient is love (and MSG)
#1047 Rivers of Blood
3. the rainbow assortment of chemicals in the water has turned the frogs gay
#1049 Hard Times Ahead?
3. there's stiff competition in the medical marketplace
#1050 Criminal Guns Soon to Be Shooting Blanks
3. jaywalking will put an end to a family tree
#1076 Smokers Cornered
2. cigarettes are dead-cheap
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
4. parties on cruise ships go off with a real bang
#1098 Edged Out
3. schoolyard bullying has a tendency to escalate
#1102 The Sickest Criminals
2. the only way to escape lengthy prison terms is in a body bag
#1106 Some Body to Love
1. customer satisfaction with online delivery services is at an all time high
3. anyone can get ahead in life if they want to
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
3. many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators
4. many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators
5. classes are regularly interrupted by drunken children
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
4. people forget to eat because they are too busy singing @@LEADER@@'s praises
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
1. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
2. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
3. stews often contain used tissues and pocket fluff
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
3. apprentice builders get teased for wearing hard hats
#1119 Where There Isn't Smoke
1. peer pressure from cooler world leaders directs @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ government policy
2. @@LEADER@@ lights cigars with a hundred-@@CURRENCY@@ bill
3. there's a lot of smoke from the nation's "green economy"
4. slackers at work are told to "crack on with it"
#1125 Blowing Smoke
1. the urinary fragrance of seedier establishments is thankfully hidden by the smell of stale smoke
3. public parks are littered with cigarette butts
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
2. grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving
#1129 Behind the Red Curtain
2. end-of-year production reports state that the revolution is really going with a bang
#1131 Safe Sects
3. religious epiphanies are often cited as a reason for high school drop-outs
#1138 Shock Tactics
3. chest pains are considered part of the dining experience in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants
#1140 Blinded by the Light
2. @@CAPITAL@@'s flashy holiday light displays can be seen from space
#1142 Womb Service
3. new "Commiserations! It's An Accident!" greetings cards for expectant mothers are selling surprisingly quickly
4. bustling back-alley clinics treat everything from sports injuries to angina
#1148 Unfit for Purpose
4. paraplegics are told to walk it off
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
4. supermodels maintain their skinny form by running away from government officials
#1156 Pet Theory
3. burgers often list "miscellaneous meats" in their ingredients
#1164 What a Gneiss Place We've Got Here
1. trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews
#1170 To Catch a Beef
4. deli patrons examine their roast beef for undetonated explosives
#1173 Thinking a Little Too Hard?
2. the @@CAPITAL@@ XV Regiment (aka "The Goat Starers") have yet to win a battle
#1178 No Need to Beat Yourself Up About It
4. kids feel more beat up than ever after a hard day at school
5. kids feel more beat up than ever after a hard day at school
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
3. young people devote their entire lives to the faith
4. young people devote their entire lives to the faith
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
#1189 Driven to Distraction
4. most people learn to drive on crash courses
#1193 Relocating the Living Room
4. tours to see the 'wild men of the mountains' are popular with tourists from the big cities
#1195 All Hands on Tap!
2. foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with @@LEADER@@
#1198 The Death Debate Isn't Dead Yet
2. there's never a spare chair in the retirement home
#1200 Choose Your God Wisely
8. a popular phrase is "eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we eat, drink and be merry some more"
#1202 A Timely Intervention
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ watches list strained wrists as a common side effect
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ watches list strained wrists as a common side effect
#1206 Gross Domestic Product
4. cholera is seen as the holiest of diseases
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
2. the smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation
#1213 The War of Man and Beast
4. the nation's iron imports are booming
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
4. teen gangs are encouraged to take drugs
5. the government prevents violence by committing genocide
#1228 The Road to Hell
3. only the fast and the furious are brave enough to drive
#1229 Crystal Clear Sinuses
3. decongestants have replaced @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ in street transactions
4. there's some really clean windows in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ houses
#1235 Good Guy With a Gun
1. financial investors are noting a boom in artillery
#1242 Jump Leads
4. it's often raining men (hallelujah) in @@CAPITAL@@
#1248 A Day to Remember
2. social care for the elderly consists of a self help leaflet and a kick on the backside
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
2. ceremonial zweihänders are used in holy rituals
#1252 Ale to the Chief
1. everyone wants to be on the guest list for diplomatic parties
3. more and more people are signing up for the government party
4. more and more people are signing up for the government party
5. no one is worried about government policies any more
#1262 Dead Tasty
3. there's a mortuary next to every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurant
#1270 I'll Be Watching You
3. baseball caps are the new fashion trend
4. baseball caps are the new fashion trend
#1274 No Room Left for Asylum Seekers
2. blessed are the meek for they have been beaten into submission
#1277 Outside the Box
1. beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings
#1280 The Amazing, but Illegal, Spiderman
4. you can call your arthritic immigrant neighbour for all your roof-tiling and guttering needs
#1282 Resting in Peace
4. vehicle strikes into low bridges are on the increase
#1285 Born to Kill
2. super-powered zombies parade through the streets of @@CAPITAL@@
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
2. it's a marvellous night for a moon dance as the sparks on your home start to rise
#1289 Cramping Our Style
3. the standard prescription for infertility-causing conditions is "go have a baby"
4. doctors with dyed hair inform patients via video-link that they must not go against nature
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
2. coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms
#1291 The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
6. antacids top everyone's Maxxmas list
7. antacids top everyone's Maxxmas list
#1293 Bet Your Life
1. you can bet your bottom dollar that gambling will cost you an arm and a leg
3. grinning punters say that casino roulette is the greatest high that life has to offer
#1296 Once Upon a Time
1. the only Maxxmas gift frontline troops receive from officers is a bullet with the enemy's name on it
#1303 Amateur Hour
3. pros are the new cons
4. frisbee games on college quadrangles are grounds for expulsion
#1310 Intimate Relations
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1311 An Acquired Taste
2. people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile
3. the military is plagued with unethical researchers
#1318 Blitzed
1. the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force
2. battlefield gains are quickly lost when enemies don't respect a time-out
7. skyscrapers get built in just days
#1319 Dying for Two
2. birth announcements often also serve as death announcements
3. pre-eclampsia in pregnancy is treated with encouragement to take "long soothing walks"
#1320 A Case of Poor Turnaround
2. savvy nightclub-goers know that structurally unsound venues sell the cheapest drinks
3. burnout is common with anti-government demagogues
#1322 Introducing Altengarten?
3. signs stating "You Must be This Tall to Enter" have started appearing outside retirement homes
#1328 Not-So-Friendly Fire
1. pallbearers at military funerals dive for cover when they hear the three-volley salute
3. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military is limping towards victory
4. children happily laugh and play on their way to school during air-raids
#1329 A Little Bit Short
1. several inches are being added to first class seating
5. people are always able to look each other in the eye
#1339 AI Citizens Driving Change?
4. bad decisions are made very quickly
#1340 Unnatural Conception
3. the word "mother" is the favourite punchline of ribald comics
6. therapists advise women who are constantly stressed and tired to have another baby
#1341 Caught Off Guard
2. the monarch frequently needs protecting from misfiring protection
#1344 Ups and Downs
2. little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
2. produce labels read 'may contain traces of food'
3. glossy adverts featuring baby's first puff adorn mothers' magazines
4. adverts urge @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ to "reach for a ciggy instead of your supper"
#1346 The Problem With Peyote
2. party-lovers often change religions just for the weekend
#1357 Scattered Showers
4. space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across @@NAME@@
#1367 Sweet, Sweet Marketing
2. teddy bear James Dean (aka "the Rebel Without the Claws") helps convince kids that candy cigarettes are cool
3. the full weight of the law is being applied against hate speech
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
1. a PhD just ain't what it used to be
#1374 Protect and Swerve
2. both criminals and civilians are DOA
#1406 Can't Touch This
5. falling over while singing is a national pastime
#1407 New Tricks
3. a child's only Trickster Night scare is the sight of their parents dancing
#1418 The High Life
2. parents are always up to speed on the latest childcare techniques
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
2. the nation's new flagship trading company deals exclusively in things no one wants
#1421 Have Your Cake and Don't Eat It
3. relatives of recent award winners find their trophies make stylish urns
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
3. slavers are real nutters
#1436 Meat Meet
3. the legalization of meat has skewered the sales of vegetarian substitutes
#1466 Don't Shoot Your Eye Out
4. gun shops sell hook hands and eye patches
#1469 News Flash!
3. political shows are fit for purpose
#1472 Home Is Where the Lung Is
5. jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
1. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
2. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
#1484 Joint Trade Agreement
3. the nation is going green
#1489 No Tern Left Unstoned
3. the people have taken "Hail @@LEADER@@" as an invitation to lob rocks
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
1. intoxicated AI mobile platforms are sometimes seen crashing through windows instead of being crashed by them
#1502 Dirty Deals
3. work stinks
4. work stinks
#1510 Devolution Devolves Into Disaster?
4. meteorologists warn of fog just past 4pm daily
#1516 Content Discontent
3. belief that @@LEADER@@ is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high
#1525 @@LEADER@@: The Musical!
1. citizens can freely debate whether @@LEADER@@ is a great leader or the greatest leader
#1528 Our Feta Which Art in Havarti...
3. the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging
4. the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging
#1530 Absolutely Speechless
3. Loud Patriotic Music Day has been ranked the seventh best new holiday of the year
#1532 When Life Doesn't Give You Lemons
2. the news of budget cuts leaves a sour taste in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mouths
#1536 The Birdman of Pelicanz
4. umbrellas are back in fashion
#1537 Bench Wars
2. bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in
#1540 Clean Flavours
2. restaurants have noticed that hanging wet laundry from the ceiling makes diners order more food
#1544 Happy Juice
2. bags of fertiliser come with detailed instructions for not making explosives
#1546 Fool's Gold
1. @@CAPITAL@@ River is now popularly called "Dead Fish Run"
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
4. the nation's wilderness is only teenage wasteland
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
1. roaming gangsters have been replaced by roaming drunkards
4. the official government position is that "we didn't see nothin'"
#1555 Deaf Trap
2. the internal market is thriving
#1558 Unequal Treatment?
4. injured workers are encouraged to 'stitch themselves up with their bootstraps'
#1565 The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Gluttony
2. official government guidance encourages binge behaviors
#1570 Holistic Healers Hassle Holy Hospitallers
2. a crystal a day keeps the establishment away
4. cynics say that @@LEADER@@'s speeches are a leading cause of death
#1572 Eco Warriors
4. global warming is being combated via global eradication
#1578 The Magical Adventures of @LEADER@@
1. a mushroom a day keeps the sadness away
#1582 Hospital Problems Ramping Up
4. the first step in medical triage is determining the patient's insurance details
#1583 Spare the (Plutonium) Rod
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ faces have never been brighter
#1586 Don't Point That Thing at Me!
2. constituents prefer a carrot and boomstick approach to dealing with politicians
3. heated town halls quickly descend into shootouts between politicians and their constituents
#1595 Plausible Deniability
1. the military's newest toy broadcasts @@NAME@@'s anthem on hostile frequencies to drive enemies insane
#1601 At Death's Door
4. the government is dead set on letting people rest in peace
#1604 Prison of the Mind
1. prison is a nightmare
3. dream holidays often go awry
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
2. online terrorists are automatically assigned adverts for cheap balaclavas
#1607 My Chemical Romance
1. witches' brews set off Geiger counters
#1614 Fauxthentic Food
5. restaurants have added Molotov cocktails to the menu
#1621 The Space Between
4. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
5. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
#1624 @@CAPITAL@@ Coffinrail
1. the overhead luggage compartment is often full
#1626 Wiggle Room
1. people are turning themselves into worm food
#1628 NEET Freaks?
4. the only movement outdoors is of ramen-delivery drones
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
1. APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps
2. APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps
#1636 In for the Long Haul
2. highway rest stops are stocking up on fallout scrubbing kits
#1654 We Bought a Zoo
1. daredevil kayakers frequently race against runaway hippos
#1656 Stealing Afoot
4. hospitals have unveiled new guidelines suggesting that latex gloves do not count as clothing
#1679 Meals on Foot
4. the five second rule has been amended to the five minute rule
#1681 The Children Yearn for the Mines
5. children and steel are ubiquitous features of the nethermost depths of @@NAME@@
#1682 The Little Train that Could Give You Cancer
1. air fresheners are the most popular solution to gas leaks
#1702 Congratulations, You Have Crabs!
3. the natural world is burning as the government adds hot sauce

Removed by:

#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
1. the government has been kicking out foreign corporations in a bid to grow enough food for the populace

Sometimes removed by:

#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
3. vegetarianism is compulsory
#20 Gunman Kills Three
1. kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles
2. the nation is completely gun-free
3. preschoolers practice disarming active shooters before naptime
#25 Cloning Research Promises New Breakthrough
1. scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes
#26 Compulsory Organ Harvesting Proposed
1. organ donation is compulsory
#27 Cash for Colons?
1. college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys
#28 Cancer Sufferer Demands Euthanasia Bill
2. euthanasia is illegal
3. euthanasia is illegal
#34 Don't Puff on Me, Say Non-Smokers
1. smoking is banned in public areas
2. an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban
#48 Give Us Healthcare or Give Us Death!
1. the government is spending millions to provide full health care for all citizens
4. the government is spending millions to provide full health care for all citizens
#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
1. drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government
3. all alcohol is banned
#62 Oh, the Angst!
1. citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling"
#66 Transgender Recognition Demanded
1. sex changes are routinely performed at @@NAME@@'s hospitals
#68 Ornery Overcrowding Problem
3. the number of children one can have is restricted by law
#72 Widening Buttocks Cause Movie Theater Havoc
1. citizens rise at daybreak every day for mandatory exercise
2. college students sell their most valuable possessions just to afford pizza
3. college students sell their most valuable possessions just to afford pizza
#74 @@NAME@@'s Racers Growing Fast and Furious
2. police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
3. there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates
#92 @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Officials Needled About Mandatory Vaccinations
1. people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
3. cars have been banned
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
1. public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people"
#105 Compensation Culture Must End, Say Corporations
2. every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government
3. manufacturers are sued for almost anything not covered in their catalogue-sized manuals
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
2. an enormous health awareness programme is underway
#107 Private Lab Holds @@NAME@@'s Sick to Ransom
1. only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations
2. private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
1. the government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces
4. the state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime
#116 Soda Sales Hits New 'High'
2. drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
2. medical lawsuits are out of control
4. the study of medicine is popular throughout @@NAME@@
#118 Need for Speed?
2. the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work
#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
2. replacement organs are grown in vats
6. citizens are grown in vats
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
2. elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-@@CURRENCY@@ mansions
#129 Tribal Troubles
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
#133 When @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Attack!
1. misbehaving @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ deemed dangerous to the public are shot and hanged by the town hall as a warning to others
2. the government funds large training centres to turn @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ into functioning members of society
3. expensive lawyers are hired to defend citizens in court for public urination charges against their pets
4. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are frequently shot for looking at people 'in a funny way'
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
2. the sound of wooden legs echo throughout @@NAME@@ after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax
#136 Much Ado About Abortion
1. abortions are routinely performed in @@NAME@@'s hospitals
#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
2. the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs
#142 Roads Like Roller Coasters, Complain Motorists
1. roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
1. skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines
#158 Regarding Robbers' Rights
3. trespassers often find themselves impaled by crossbow bolts
#160 Truancy on the Rise
2. children deemed 'disorderly' or otherwise unfit for public schools are shipped off to military academies
#167 Fluoride Controversy a Toothy Problem
1. the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth
2. the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape
3. the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape
#168 @@NAME@@ Plagued by STD Epidemic!
1. the government has undertaken a massive health education program to combat VODAIS
3. otherwise healthy people are being sent to internment camps because they have VODAIS
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
2. all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave
3. untold millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme
4. untold millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme
#179 Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease Outbreak!
1. the government has organised a nationwide cull of infected @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
4. farmers can be spotted driving gold-plated tractors
#183 Buy a Better Baby?
5. government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders
#186 Carjacking Concerns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
4. students everywhere have been despairing after the recent ban on video games
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
1. citizens are forced to donate blood once every three months
3. the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet
4. jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses'
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
1. public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers
3. all footpaths have tollbooths
#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
1. female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
3. the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
1. teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough
2. teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough
3. boys are forced to pair off for the school disco slow dance as the girls are all staying at home
4. boys are forced to pair off for the school disco slow dance as the girls are all staying at home
#204 Lack of Doctors Needs Cure
1. more and more students are taking up a career in medicine
2. half of @@NAME@@'s doctors can't speak the language
3. half of @@NAME@@'s doctors can't speak the language
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
2. illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
1. mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined
#217 Healthcare Services Underfunded, Claim Patients
2. hospitals are amongst the best-funded in the region
3. calisthenics is a well-known tax-dodging technique
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
6. eight out of ten children believe hard lemonade gives you cirrhosis of the liver
7. ravers are having trouble getting used to blackcurrant squash instead of vodka
#231 Jungle Fever
3. swamplands and bogs have been put under quarantine
4. DDT is used widely to repel disease-carrying insects
#246 @@NAME@@ to Hold the Olympic Torch?
1. @@NAME@@ successfully hosted the @@REGION@@ Olympics
3. the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age
#247 Where There's Smoke
2. the fire protection service is wholly government-funded
3. most citizens in @@NAME@@ are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
1. the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter
2. citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless
#254 Freedom Comes at a Price
2. employers are gradually adapting to the alien premise of paying wages to their workers
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
1. suit-clad businessmen have been taking advantage of the relaxed welfare qualifications by shopping with food stamps
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
1. mothers drive their college-graduate children to work
3. bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned
#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
2. family bonding sessions are considered immoral and are banned
5. people choose marriage partners by buying a lottery ticket
7. love is given from each according to their ability but marriage is assigned to each according to their needs
#280 Oh the Humanity!
1. the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines
3. the new hit series "@@NAME@@'s Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country
#282 Slum Village Extraordinaire
1. luxury brands target their advertising at the unemployed and homeless
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
1. the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects
2. consuming ecstasy is a common rite of passage
3. the government has begun a crusade against drugs
4. politicians debate whether caffeine is too addictive for the public
#288 Super-Sized Pizzas Recipe for Disaster?
1. police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers
2. overweight people receive reparations checks from fast-food chains
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
1. new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in @@NAME@@ to be bombproof
3. the nationalized auto industry is adept at making durable little cars nobody wants to drive
#291 A Question of Sport
1. glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town
#295 Give Us Pockets or Give Us Something Else
1. fashion stores are exploding in sales as clothing is reintroduced to the country
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
2. businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation
#311 Victims Demand Their Pound of Flesh
2. prosecutors routinely call transplant doctors as 'expert witnesses' in burglary cases
#330 Supermarkets Gobbling Up All the Customers?
3. the government provides its citizenry with the same mass produced rations
#337 Doctors Crossing Borders?
1. the government is outsourcing itself
#338 The Silence and the Fury
1. noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law
#350 Queasy Cuisine
4. citizens are emigrating to escape the bland cuisine
#356 @@NAME@@ in the Time of Cholera
2. the nation is loathed abroad for dumping all of its waste in international waters
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
1. 'Abstinence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder' is a common school motto
6. getting an abortion takes less hassle than writing a letter
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
1. birth rates have hit an all-time low
#367 What's Their Beef?
1. fresh food is a thing of the past due to onerous testing standards
2. the criminal underworld is awash with sausage smuggling
3. unemployed butchers line the streets
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
1. helicopter parenting is on the rise
#376 Death by Bungee
2. crossing the road requires a risk assessment
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
4. the most popular household pet in @@NAME@@ is the domestic minor
#394 Ten Days in a Mad House
1. any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
4. young girls who ask their parents for a pony are routinely lobotomised (@@EGG@@)
#409 Water Palaver
1. the nation thirsts for new freedoms
4. the national water supply has entered detox
#413 A Shot in the Arm
2. vaccinations are mandatory
3. parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are given a short jail sentence
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
1. student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned @@ANIMAL@@ball fields
#434 Fraternity Furor
4. moonshine and organized crime are on the rise ever since alcohol was banned
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
2. business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
1. late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards
2. breast milk is being redistributed from each according to their ability to each according to their need
#448 It Takes a Village
1. the government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits
2. parents who fail mandatory parenting classes risk having their children taken away
3. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation
#456 Heads Will Roll
1. biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to Violetism en masse
4. motorcycle riders are required to wear so much gear they've been nicknamed "Stay Pufts"
#460 Salt of the Earth
1. the looming peasant rebellion has been called off after farming was legalized
2. the nation subsists off of the minimal number of farms imaginable
#477 Feeding Frenzy
1. school children across the country are staging hunger strikes to protest government-mandated salads
2. children use fake IDs to purchase candy
3. meals are now followed by thirty minutes of mandatory exercise
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
4. pizza parlors have been replaced by lima bean cafes
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#488 Bright Orange Is the New Black
1. gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal
2. gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal
#493 Suspicious Superhuman Athletes?
1. invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days
#496 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
1. every workday begins with group therapy
#499 The Genetics of Aesthetics
1. relationships often break down when doctors tell couples they are genetically incompatible
2. the newest generation of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are nearly clone-like in appearance
#509 It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
1. citizens are abandoning their homes en masse in a widespread panic over asbestos
2. new cases of Asbestosis are cropping up as quickly as hospitals can deal with them
#512 Furnished for Failure
3. the nation's reinforced coffee tables are constructed to survive an atomic blast
#519 School's Out (Of Control)
1. schoolchildren learn basic numeracy by counting off their push-ups
#522 Time to Get Serious
1. business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions
5. students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
4. carrots are orange, apples are red and food waste is increasing
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
4. children play ring-around-the-rosey around bonfires of videogame cartridges
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
2. giant no-kill traps baited with Bapst Red Ribbon and vintage bicycles have been popping up in back alleys nationwide
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
1. hundreds of teenagers die every year at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Hungry Games
2. teens reminisce about when birthdays weren't celebrated with a cool glass of cabbage juice and a slice of corn-cream topped millet cake
3. applications to enter seminaries spike right before the obligatory fasts
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
2. blind dates tend to result in bruised shins
#561 Plug in and Play
3. the nation's exceedingly polite children have often been referred to as "robots" by international media
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
1. meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions
3. chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in @@CAPITAL@@'s playgrounds
#564 Do Good Intentions Make Good Samaritans?
3. bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
6. @@LEADER@@ is adamant that ponies aren't just for little girls
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
5. thalassophobia and heliophobia are on the rise
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
3. children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants
#581 Fair to Say...?
4. the Museum of Soybeans is the cultural heart of the nation
#585 Are You Not Entertained?
1. swings are banned for being a danger to children
2. children need to wear helmets and safety harnesses before mounting a carousel horse
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
1. former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés
2. moonshine has made a resurgence
#597 You Can't Handle the Tooth
1. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ incessantly needle their doctors for relief
#602 Hobby Lobby
1. @@LEADER@@ can often be seen hanging around playgrounds chatting with the kids
#604 Food Behind Bars
2. prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows
3. prisoners regularly escape detention posing as scarecrows
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
1. doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion
#620 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
1. Michelin-star chefs are being called on to prepare menus for six-year-olds
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
1. 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool
#641 Dirty Little Minds
1. corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics
#642 This Way's Kinder
1. squeaky high prepubescent voices recite the patriotic poem "Hail to The Leader!" before each meal
#651 Black Days for @@NAME@@
1. fruit market traders let their stock spoil rather than reduce their prices at the day's end
3. bouncers at the door of the sweet shop warn five-year-olds not to cause trouble
#652 Mayday! Mayday!
2. aspiring pilots must be personally vetted by the Minister of Transportation before receiving their license
#658 A Sickening Dilemma
1. the sick and dying are locked in their homes with a red "X" painted on the front door
2. sneezing in public is a capital offense
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
1. excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
1. the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience
#672 All Shook Up
3. coastal cities are being moved a dozen miles inland to reduce flooding risk
#675 Trick or Treaty
1. citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee
3. carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk
#676 Down the Rabbit Hole
1. wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
1. banning party poppers has been a real party pooper
2. parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife
#684 Murder Most Deniable?
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to cut steak with a spoon
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to cut tofu steak with a spoon
#685 Externalities Palmed Off
2. both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade
3. the nation burns bridges with neighbours who burn their rainforest
#686 Freemium Isn't Free
1. the "daily grind" consists of levelling up in tedious video games
3. the Twelve Steps To Logging Off is the most popular mobile download
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
4. no one can find a leaky faucet in @@NAME@@ anymore
#688 You Don't Have to Be Mad to Kill People... But It Helps
2. white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits
3. libraries have replaced overdue book fines with mandatory mental health assessments
#689 A Sticky Situation
1. it's rare to find an unchewed pencil
4. Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume
#693 Bottled Up Problems
1. a new guerrilla marketing campaign for tap water involves government agents spraying random citizens with hose water
4. health inspectors are seen eating black truffle fondue with their bottled water
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
1. families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain
#705 The Germ of an Idea
1. it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma
3. sushi is sold on the black market
#707 The Eye of the Tiger
1. citizens buy season tickets on a 20-year payment plan
3. walking to the local pizza parlour earns a lovely sports participation ribbon
4. the nation's athletes must all cross the finish line together while holding hands
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are unrivalled in obstacle courses
#708 How @@LEADER@@ Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Bio-Weapons
4. the military maintains a fierce arsenal of 'Cure Missiles'
#711 Patently Obvious
3. diagrams of new modems collect dust in patent offices
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
1. bike rage is all the rage
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#714 Milky Ways
5. only rebellious teens who want to look cool and dangerous drink milk in public
#716 Cheek to Cheek
5. in a desperate bid for cheap airfare @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can be seen jogging in a rubber suit just before flying
#727 Market Crash
1. broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business
2. historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre
#728 A Bone to Pick
2. ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward
#729 Teenage Kicks
3. the nation's weary schoolchildren excel at sport but must count scores on their fingers
4. the nation's weary schoolchildren excel at sport but must count scores on their fingers
#730 It's Legal Now!
3. chests full of green leaves dumped into the harbor have many murmuring against the government
#732 A Peeping Problem
3. workers tend to schedule naps during all-hands meetings
#738 Cruel or Unusual?
3. snooze factory is now prison lingo for rehabilitation center
#739 In Loco Parentis
2. there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services
3. fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate
#748 [The Enemy Within] In Spite of All the Danger
2. the new universal healthcare system has been dubbed @@LEADER@@-care by its detractors
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
1. park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers
3. posters remind people that 'Hoarding Mushrooms Is Theft'
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
2. any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property
#758 Bye Bye to the Birdies?
1. it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors
#763 Any Body for Science?
1. sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
2. kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes
3. there is a heavy social stigma attached to e-cigarettes
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
2. ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences
#786 Tainted Tattoos
1. sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed
#811 Get Baked
1. cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy
3. grandparents tell young ones tales of the good old days when people had cake on their birthday
#816 A Hot Topic
2. the Forestry Department has decided you really can't fight fire with fire
3. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
4. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
1. there's a bright dawn ahead for @@NAME@@
#822 Never Work With Children
1. diaper ads feature vertically-challenged adults wearing bootees
3. teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
3. doughnut-makers claim their products are healthy because they are fortified with vitamins
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
1. urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens
2. ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths
3. cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags
5. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
6. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
3. major boxing matches are held in government buildings
#834 Government and CO
1. people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety
2. conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors
4. centuries-old marble buildings are being torn down and replaced with corrugated steel wind tunnels
#843 Quacking Up
1. medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters
#844 Essentially on Strike
1. the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking
#847 All the Lonely People
1. the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service
#850 The Prints and the Slaughter
3. 3D printed organs are a breath of new life for the sick and elderly
#855 Thin Evidence
1. parents receive hefty fines for telling kids to eat their vegetables
3. children must make a homemade spinach and ricotta rotolo by high school or be held back
4. the criminal underworld is dominated by cupcake smugglers and back-alley doughnut shops
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
1. schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar
#859 A Cola by Any Other Name
3. citizens try to ignore gruesome pictures of decaying teeth printed on their soda cans
#860 A Blast From the Past
1. the tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches
2. Bigtopian relations have become a minefield
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
1. pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall
2. cooking with water and baking soda is considered patent infringement
4. government agents stalk the aisles of grocery stores for out-of-stock medications
#870 @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Literally Exploding With Excitement
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have recently stopped mysteriously setting off metal detectors
#882 Death by Chocolate
1. school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
1. romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars
#885 Has Beans
3. advertisers are struggling to make water sound cool to a twitchy public
#886 Bounty on the Table
1. even in a one-horse town police are as common as fleas on a stray dog
#887 Thin Skin
2. fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers
3. the Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
2. slaves who produce weapons are given free samples
4. many former slaves are finding out there is such a thing as a free lunch
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
1. former televangelists are often seen begging skateboarders for donations
#915 Clasp of Controversy
4. hazmat suits are a common @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ garb
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
2. Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in @@NAME@@
#925 Ring of Death
2. it is against the rules of boxing to hit above or below the belt
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
3. former gun owners are finding that brandishing paintball guns isn't as satisfying as the real thing
#943 Big Love, Big Problems?
4. stuttering trypanophobes are doomed never to marry
#945 Police on the Take
3. train stations have more platforms than a 1970s disco
#947 Imitation Station
2. advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore
3. traffic news is delivered to drivers via carrier pigeon
#950 Borderline Pandemic
1. anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away
3. pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security
4. hotels often double as quarantine zones
#954 Varsity Blues
1. on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons
#955 Can It!
1. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
2. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
3. adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère
#957 Putrid Predicament
2. onions have been banned due to their tendency to cause eye irritation
#959 A-Major Debate
2. music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs
3. music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs
#965 Like a Bull in a Dàguó Shop
1. foreign countries consider stepping on their grass to be a serious offense
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
1. grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps
2. news headlines usually include p-values
#970 For Want of a Nail
5. pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves
#974 Siren Song
1. the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage
2. the banshee wail foretells skies of death
#978 Alone in the Dark
1. prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present
#983 Doctors' Orders
3. a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street"
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
2. children cry as government officials steal their water pistols
3. ancient antique swords have had their blades replaced with latex boffer LARP replicas
#993 Drug Deal
2. doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
5. mandatory blunting of cutlery has increased the popularity of soup-based meals
#1013 Grave Disease
1. one does not simply walk into the tundra
2. cases of disease among the civilian population dwindle as civilian population dwindles
4. people across the world seek to be healthier by eliminating carbs
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
1. powerful x-ray machines used by the Customs Department can see into the homes of nearby residents
#1018 Operation Failed
1. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
2. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
4. the doctor has cold hands
#1023 Pure Madness
3. couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten
4. couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
3. the love has gone in @@NAME@@
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
1. coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list
#1041 A Sport Retort
2. the best-of-the-best athletes have been replaced by the best-of-the-mediocre
#1046 Buffing Up Our Hospitals?
3. people fake illnesses for the chance to wear clothes in hospital
#1050 Criminal Guns Soon to Be Shooting Blanks
2. incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables
#1054 Herbal Trouble
3. herbal teas are only consumed by hipsters who want to look marginal
#1056 Time to Work?
1. surgeons walk out of theatres more often than prima donna actors
3. government bureaucrats spend six hours per day justifying a six-hour workday
#1057 Baby, It's Cold Outside
1. warm coats are the hottest trend
#1059 Footing the Bill
3. children prefer to begin their day with push-ups rather than breakfast
#1065 Pulling Out
1. citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint
#1067 Don't Fear the Reefer
2. costumed characters wearing Maxtopian Grass leaves remind citizens that the government now sells the green stuff
3. teenagers often ask adults to buy them Maxtopian Grass from government-run recreational drug stores
#1076 Smokers Cornered
1. the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across @@NAME@@
3. female smokers cut their hair and don suits to get into male-only clubs
4. the tax department is having withdrawal symptoms
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
1. insanely good theatre productions face government censorship
#1094 A Political Cover-Up
3. most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wear towels as demand for pants outstrips supply
#1099 New Satellite Blues
7. the thought of funding space programs drives @@LEADER@@ crazy
#1102 The Sickest Criminals
1. cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes
3. life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average
#1105 A Green History Lesson
3. bereaved families are assigned a new housemate the day after the funeral
#1106 Some Body to Love
2. girls who wear lipstick are berated for pandering to male gazes
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
1. a handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock
6. hospitals scramble for new disinfectants following a ban on rubbing alcohol
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
1. patriotic parents remind their children to drink plenty of water
3. tourists aren't the only ones that talk about coming back from a trip
#1111 A Call for Change
2. anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
5. it's said that @@LEADER@@ can turn every pleasure into a chore
6. relationship guidance consists of "lie back and think of @@NAME@@"
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
1. seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts
3. acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
1. construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground
#1119 Where There Isn't Smoke
5. exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end
#1125 Blowing Smoke
2. worrywarts have started advocating for a paint ban
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
1. old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones
3. taxi drivers seem less xenophobic these days
#1133 Rocky Road
1. roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it
#1138 Shock Tactics
1. giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls
2. fat-shaming is now public policy
#1139 A Little Wrestling, a Lot of Controversy
3. endocrinology is a rapidly growing field of study
#1140 Blinded by the Light
3. holiday light displays just aren't the same without seizure-inducing strobe effects
4. overcrowded buses are the new normal for suburban commuters
#1142 Womb Service
1. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
2. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
#1146 Mother Knows Best?
2. first-time moms are expected to be experienced parents from day one
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
2. there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day
#1152 Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting!
3. the 'three Rs' have become the 'four Rs' with the addition of Rightful Thought
#1164 What a Gneiss Place We've Got Here
2. an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety
#1189 Driven to Distraction
1. glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide
2. neon signs promoting safe driving often distract drivers
3. drivers are told they're not staring at mobile phone screens enough
#1195 All Hands on Tap!
1. the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene
#1196 The Properties of Property
3. slavery has been abolished
#1198 The Death Debate Isn't Dead Yet
3. it is technically inaccurate to call the dead 'worm food'
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
1. high school bands practice by moonlight
2. students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework
4. sleeping on the job is recommended
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
1. people who get diabetes can sue donut manufacturers
4. the tobacco industry has burnt out
#1212 Lost at Sea
2. one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man
#1214 Blood Type: Gay Positive
3. there's nothing more gay than bleeding for your nation
4. gay men commonly complain about their time of the month
#1229 Crystal Clear Sinuses
1. there's a lot of mouth-breathers about these days
2. the most common doctor's prescription is "get out of my consulting room"
#1235 Good Guy With a Gun
4. it turns out that the government can have your guns by prying them out of your warm living hands
#1248 A Day to Remember
1. modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes
#1252 Ale to the Chief
2. visiting dignitaries make excuses to leave functions early and head to the nearest pub
#1262 Dead Tasty
1. the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market
#1264 Flooding the Market
3. the government response to disaster victims starving for bread is "let them eat stale cake"
4. constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas"
#1268 Don't Sweat It
1. sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour
2. sausages are seldom seen in the supermarket
#1277 Outside the Box
2. rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
1. trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same
#1293 Bet Your Life
2. flipping a coin to make a decision leads to a referral to Gambling Addiction Services
#1296 Once Upon a Time
2. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ football team for the Maxxmas ceasefire consists only of Intelligence Corps personnel
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
4. proletariat workers identify less with the hammer and sickle and more with the touchscreen and phone charger
#1308 One in the Oven
1. the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans
2. parents often leave their kids in the car while they attend mindfulness meditation sessions
3. employers are keenest on employees who lack family values
4. there's often a little nagging voice suggesting that parents aren't keeping their kids safe
#1310 Intimate Relations
1. dancing with your first cousin is a misdemeanor
2. the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework
3. kissing cousins produce the heartiest babies
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ no longer find themselves bumping into their exes at family gatherings
#1311 An Acquired Taste
1. weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law
#1317 Nanny State
2. royal mothers are increasingly sidelined as news crews strain for interviews and photoshoots with "the hot nanny"
#1318 Blitzed
3. a soldier's body is a temple
4. a soldier's body is a temple
5. a soldier's body is a temple
6. a soldier's body is a temple
#1320 A Case of Poor Turnaround
1. public toilets are famed for their rear entries
#1322 Introducing Altengarten?
1. 4-year-olds are often found reminiscing about the 'good old days'
#1324 Wrecked by Wrestling?
2. school lockers are filled with fancy underwear
#1327 Which Right Is Right?
1. signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars
3. people often complain that they're going in circuitous routes all the time
#1331 Warning, Fatigue
1. power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky
2. aeroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators
3. the sound of office water cooler chatter has been replaced by the whirring of computer cooling fans
#1334 Withdrawing Diplomatic Relations
1. the water doesn't come out of the faucet with the same rush that it used to
#1337 Waste Not Want Not
1. the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead
#1339 AI Citizens Driving Change?
1. mandatory updates on software drivers often bring life to a halt
#1342 Uni-ted We Roll, Uni-ted We Fall
2. sheep-like political loyalists repeat the mantra "one wheel bad, three wheels good"
#1343 Feeling Down
1. pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card
#1346 The Problem With Peyote
1. the only soporific permitted during sermons is the preacher's voice
#1349 You Must Be 18 Years or Older to View This Content
2. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
3. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
#1352 The Brains Behind Kuru
1. brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods
2. human pie shops continue to receive shipments of meat from Spleeny Rodd's
#1357 Scattered Showers
1. helium balloons lift the nation's spacecraft towards the heavens
#1363 In My Defence
4. staple guns are seen as intrinsically evil
#1366 Parklife
2. public parks are on the upswing
3. the government has seized the means of recreation
#1367 Sweet, Sweet Marketing
1. grocery store cereal aisles resemble a Piet Mondrian work
#1368 Parking Hell
3. urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
2. children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name
3. professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials
#1374 Protect and Swerve
1. the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
1. @@LEADER@@ arrives at international summits with a white cane
#1421 Have Your Cake and Don't Eat It
1. asking 'does my bum look big in this?' leads to 30 hours of self-esteem classes
2. racehorses move a lot slower these days
4. Big Belly is watching you
#1426 She's a Keeper
1. fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding"
3. sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days
#1440 Dungeons and Deaths
2. murderers facing life in prison listen to long sermons on positive thinking
#1441 Don't Burn Baby Don't Burn
1. kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll
#1443 Forage and Forget
3. money grows on trees
#1447 The Lowest Form of Wit
1. you can tell when @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are being snarky by the fact their lips are moving
#1449 Annie Get Your Gun
4. it's no longer mandatory for armless amputees to own ironic side-arms
#1466 Don't Shoot Your Eye Out
1. shooting someone has never been safer
3. gun owners are skilled at everything except shooting
#1469 News Flash!
1. TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews
2. viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows
#1474 Cuy Bono?
3. delicate flowers faint at news of house plants being eaten
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
3. those who cut young children are told to cut it out
4. the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong
#1492 Smoke on the Water
2. there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
2. older AIs regularly threaten to send newer generation AIs to Reform Programming if caught rounding up instead of down
3. citizens have to stick a fork into an electrical outlet to get a buzz
#1512 The Door's Unlocked, Let Yourself In...
1. snitches get riches
#1532 When Life Doesn't Give You Lemons
1. the government is encouraging people to go on citric acid trips
3. one is likelier to die from puns than scurvy
#1537 Bench Wars
1. war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping
3. the running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless
#1540 Clean Flavours
1. washing-up liquid looks and smells like baby poo
3. orange juice has been renamed yellow juice
#1542 Dangerous Liaisons
3. lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you'
#1544 Happy Juice
1. safety warnings are prohibited lest they give people ideas
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
2. wrongdoers cite 'mummy issues' as the reason for their delinquency
3. teenagers can't go to the loo without an army of social workers watching their every movement
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
2. SWAT teams raid bathrooms in search of bathtub gin
3. the word "alcohol" is a trauma trigger for children as young as five
#1555 Deaf Trap
1. the government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices
3. anti-vacs campaigners claim the government is inserting weird devices into their bodies
#1558 Unequal Treatment?
1. doctors refer to inner-cities as newbie zones
2. hospital administrators can usually be found scrubbing their floors with toothbrushes
3. a broken arm or leg no longer costs an arm and a leg
#1565 The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Gluttony
1. @@CAPITAL@@'s back alleys are rife with sausage eating
3. school cafeterias serve nothing but protein powder and vitamin supplements
#1568 Palate Torture
1. farmers sing lullabies to soothe their livestock to sleep
#1570 Holistic Healers Hassle Holy Hospitallers
3. yoga studios are being converted into yoga research labs
#1578 The Magical Adventures of @LEADER@@
2. volunteers trip over themselves to get into the latest mind-bending drug trials
3. weird texts received at 2 a.m. are probably from the government
4. offering a builder a cup of tea is a legal minefield
#1582 Hospital Problems Ramping Up
1. school nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites
2. public hospital staff roll their eyes at anything less than a heart attack
3. private clinics eagerly advertise their trivial specialties
#1583 Spare the (Plutonium) Rod
3. only senior nuclear power plant employees may use the control rods to warm up their lunches
#1596 The Blame Game
1. juvenile delinquents are fitter than ever
#1601 At Death's Door
3. young people never forget their first roommate — no matter how much counselling they have
#1607 My Chemical Romance
2. reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic
3. back-alley holistic doctors carry crystals in long trench coats
#1611 Filial Fidelity
3. the possibility of gain causes universal pain
#1616 Beyond the Focal Point
2. physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques
5. playground injuries are considered academic progress
#1623 The @@MAN/WOMAN@@ in the Iron Lung
1. medical staff can legally quiet people who ask for a second helping of Salisbury steak
#1624 @@CAPITAL@@ Coffinrail
2. heart attack victims are thrown onto the rails
3. trains and passengers alike are often late
#1625 At What Price?
3. white chocolate is neither chocolate nor food
#1626 Wiggle Room
2. the government subsidises medicines of mass destruction
3. it's illegal to be caught on tape
#1627 Snow Days on Thin Ice
3. jailbreaking is the best-selling book category of the year
#1628 NEET Freaks?
2. modern warfare's call of duty isn't popular with gamers these days
3. WhoTube speedrunners always have at least one viewer
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
3. ride-sharing often involves some passengers sitting on the roof rack
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other
#1649 Grandma's Getting Lucky
1. old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation
3. afternoon delight in care homes is restricted to a serving of spotted dick at 3pm
#1679 Meals on Foot
3. street food vendors are accompanied by personal fleets of garbage trucks
#1682 The Little Train that Could Give You Cancer
2. chemical burn victims tan their scars summering at luxury beach resorts with huge cash settlements
#1684 Naps in Judgement
1. pillows outnumber picket signs at most workers rallies
#1686 Carnivorous Kids
1. kids these days only have to survive their homework assignments and cafeteria lunches
#1690 The Winter of Our Discontent
1. black-hearted accountants turn red when they stop seeing green

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#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
1. all industry is owned and run by the government
#10 Social Inequality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
2. the government is slowly introducing social welfare programs
#15 More Police Needed
2. education and welfare spending are on the rise
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
3. a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
1. the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees
#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
2. refugees from other nations are flocking to @@NAME@@'s border
#68 Ornery Overcrowding Problem
1. the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments
2. factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
2. re-education centers are being added to most prisons
3. criminal rehabilitation takes place in re-education centers
#76 Suits in Protest
4. local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food"
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
3. ad-blocking has been nationalised
#122 Pensioners in Protest
1. retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
2. elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-@@CURRENCY@@ mansions
3. politicians cheer the nation's surging death rate
5. immigrant Bigtopians work themselves to the bone to support gold-plated @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ pensions
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
2. the sound of wooden legs echo throughout @@NAME@@ after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax
#148 Spare the Rod, Demand Welfare Activists
1. parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
2. skateparks can be found in every city
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
2. convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes
#161 Where There's a Will There's a Tax
1. the government seizes the property of the recently deceased
#164 Licence to Breed?
3. welfare funding has recently gone through the roof
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
3. untold millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme
4. untold millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme
#187 Underclass Drowning in Debt
2. the government is pouring funds into the nation's welfare system
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
3. the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country
#202 Guns or Butter?
3. strategic bombers are being converted into preschools
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
1. the government has been kicking out foreign corporations in a bid to grow enough food for the populace
4. the government is phasing in welfare programmes to tackle poverty
#209 Students Demand Financial Aid
1. the number of students attending university has reached a record high
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
3. the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'
#224 Minimum Wage War
2. unemployment is through the roof after the government enacted living wage laws
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
1. the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms
2. the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms
#231 Jungle Fever
2. rice shortages have risen after paddy fields were drained to combat malaria
#247 Where There's Smoke
2. the fire protection service is wholly government-funded
3. most citizens in @@NAME@@ are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
4. the crackdown on private property seems as endless as the government issued food stamp lines
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
1. the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter
2. citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless
#252 Great Balls of Fire!
2. the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
1. suit-clad businessmen have been taking advantage of the relaxed welfare qualifications by shopping with food stamps
4. the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor
#268 Don't Want Your Kid Anymore? Good News!
3. mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights
#278 Relief Is Coming... In Four to Six Weeks
1. contrails and thunderous rumbles have returned to the skies above
3. people take government jobs for the frequent flier miles
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
5. tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens
#296 Come on Baby, Fight My Fire
1. CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
6. mandatory daycare is provided by the government
#309 Guerrilla Grandparents
1. aging citizens are celebrating the end of the 'Early Bird War'
3. the elderly live on a steady diet of canned beans in dreary government housing
#314 An Affair to Remember?
1. cheating spouses are required to undergo job training
#327 No Rest for the Weary @@ANIMAL@@
4. government officials across @@NAME@@ are being "encouraged" to adopt @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to set an example for the populace
#330 Supermarkets Gobbling Up All the Customers?
3. the government provides its citizenry with the same mass produced rations
#331 Swept Away
1. the government is flooded with compensation requests
#347 Crime Problems Ganging Up on @@NAME@@
2. new funding allows inner city teachers to replace school laptops almost as fast as they get stolen
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
2. many junior high school teachers minor in midwifery
3. children play Capture the Flag and Capture the Bigtopian General Staff at summer camps
#359 Got Democracy?
2. pro-democracy regime change has been avoided
#362 After the Fall
1. the government is funneling billions into Cape @@NAME@@ following the shuttle crash
#370 The Unbearable Lightness of Government
3. soup kitchens are the only things doing roaring business
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
#385 Who Stands for @@NAME@@?
1. the new national mascot has to be wheeled onto the field of play
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
1. the nation has gained millions of new citizens overnight
#414 Subpar Suburbs
2. government crews work tirelessly to retake the suburbs from organized packs of raccoons
#418 That Sinking Feeling
1. the Coast Guard is pioneering a quixotic program to train fish
#422 Wounded Veterans Demand a Helping Hand
1. the military is slashing spending on conventional arms and diverting it to spending on prosthetic arms
#423 Returning Holy Warriors Cause Trouble
2. the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in @@CAPITAL@@ for fear of causing a fuss
#439 The Law of Exodus
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have been enjoying a recent boost in civil rights as the government continues to clamp down on emigration
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
2. business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
2. strategic economic sectors are controlled by the state
4. Viagra factories are being converted to producing antimalarials for Bigtopian orphans
#448 It Takes a Village
1. the government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits
3. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
2. the universal wage level is set by dividing GDP by the number of citizens
#482 Whose Fault Is It Anyways?
2. government-funded marriage counseling is showing very limited success
#484 Patriot or Patri-Not?
4. political satirists and late night comedians weep as the government begins cleaning up its act
#497 The Widening Gyre
1. the once prosperous capital is in utter decline
#523 A Family Affair
3. government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power
#525 Nowhere to Go!
1. builders across @@NAME@@ are blocked up with orders for new public loos
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
3. the Grinder at Fat Sal's Deli and Recycling Center is a national institution
#571 Family Feud
4. unruly families are deliberately marooned on desert islands
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
3. children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants
#601 Lawyers on Trial
1. lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work
3. pushy mums tell their kids to be doctors and engineers but steer them away from being penniless lawyers
#604 Food Behind Bars
1. the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy
#605 The Noblest of Intentions
1. former nobles are being issued new identities in the wake of the end of serfdom
#612 A Petty Issue
2. the crispy fried liver of @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@ is prized as a tasty treat by vagrants
#620 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
1. Michelin-star chefs are being called on to prepare menus for six-year-olds
3. food voucher forgeries are causing headaches for the police
#623 Maison d'Être?
1. rich people sell their mansions to pay for endless rows of mobile homes
#628 Only @@LEADER@@ Can Prevent Forest Fires
4. disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
1. orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents
#639 No Country for Old Men
1. 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past
#691 The Prodigal States
1. the nation forgives those who are big enough to admit they made a mistake
#696 No, Minister
2. the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer
#700 The Widow Raven
3. death compensation has some family members fearing to pay back others' debt they may be disappearing
#715 Copy Rights
2. parents are shocked to find out that having kids costs money
#720 Cui Bono?
5. the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded
#733 The Path Less Traveled
5. there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees @@HIS/HER@@ shadow
#739 In Loco Parentis
2. there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services
#748 [The Enemy Within] In Spite of All the Danger
1. the government is coughing up funds for lung cancer victims
#766 Carbon Emissions Are Why We Can't Have Nice Things
3. the carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
1. burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms
#780 Vexing VAT
3. the richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper
#781 The White Man's Burden
1. saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech
#785 Born to Be My Baby
4. busy commuters no longer hear the cries of "I want some more!" on the nation's streets
#793 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Knock Knock. Who's There? Not You Anymore!
2. a revolving door was recently installed at the entrance of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Capitol Building
#810 Armed and Unready
1. incompetent former soldiers have been re-employed as incompetent cleaners and kitchen staff
#817 Back-Alley Blues
1. official medical guidelines insist that childbirth is 'almost totally painless'
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
5. citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks
#855 Thin Evidence
4. the criminal underworld is dominated by cupcake smugglers and back-alley doughnut shops
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
5. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ government claim that @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are oppressed out of love
#904 Yours Insincerely
1. the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
3. atheists in the nation feel uneasy living in buildings where they were once vilified
#917 School's In, Cash Is Out!
1. the Treasury Minister takes anxiety medication every time kids lose their sports kits
#928 Get a Life
7. orphanages are practically giving children away
#943 Big Love, Big Problems?
2. people hearing voices that tell them to commit crimes are automatically assumed to be holy
#991 Alms and Qualms
4. corrupt paupers spend taxpayer @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on liquor and tobacco
#995 A Cup Runneth Over
2. the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire
#1016 Breaking Upset
3. therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads
#1021 Room and Board Games
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1043 Foundering Fashionistas
3. artists attempt to convince the Hardship Fund that their unmade bed is a masterpiece
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1086 Fun in the Sun
1. the 'sing-a-long with @@LEADER@@' album is a popular souvenir
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1105 A Green History Lesson
3. bereaved families are assigned a new housemate the day after the funeral
#1111 A Call for Change
2. anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
4. the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection
#1132 Gold Standards
1. it's a long jump to get onto the housing ladder
#1142 Womb Service
1. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
2. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
#1146 Mother Knows Best?
2. first-time moms are expected to be experienced parents from day one
#1148 Unfit for Purpose
1. doctors spend more time writing sick notes than caring for the sick
3. the blind lead the blind in social welfare
#1156 Pet Theory
1. you can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health
#1160 Milking It
3. right-wingers complain that too many people are suckling at the welfare teat
#1172 Piled Higher and Deeper
1. engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?"
#1182 Thanks, but No Thanks
2. hungry families offer spare change to their social workers
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
1. the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
2. religious leaders insist all life is sacred (but not those vat-bred wretches)
#1231 Save Our Souls
5. the nation takes the world's poor and tired and the huddled Masses yearning to breathe free
#1248 A Day to Remember
1. modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes
#1264 Flooding the Market
4. constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas"
#1276 A Boatload of Trouble
3. even immigrants complain that immigrants keep taking their jobs
#1291 The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
2. most believe 'tis better to give than to receive
#1292 A Sticky End for @@LEADER@@?
3. most foreigners can't name the leader of @@NAME@@
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
2. ranchers are adept at mimicking wolf attacks
#1306 The Least Common Educator
4. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
5. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
#1307 A Duty to Serve
1. students do more community service than homework
3. people who do not complete their community service are sentenced to more community service
#1308 One in the Oven
3. employers are keenest on employees who lack family values
#1309 Give @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@ a Bone
1. war vets look after war animals
#1322 Introducing Altengarten?
1. 4-year-olds are often found reminiscing about the 'good old days'
#1336 Take Good Care of My Baby
1. a generation of children conceived in hell and born in strife is growing up inside government-run care villages
#1338 Slow and Stupid Is the Race
1. minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments
#1340 Unnatural Conception
6. therapists advise women who are constantly stressed and tired to have another baby
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
1. the nation frequently scolds its subject territories for staying up past bedtime
#1368 Parking Hell
2. parking's carefree without parking car fees
#1381 [MADness] Chairman No
1. citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender
2. citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender
#1390 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
4. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
5. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
#1400 [MADness] President No
1. citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender
#1405 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
3. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
#1415 The Melting Point
2. after every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow
#1418 The High Life
1. children's daycare starts at the crack of dawn
#1427 May the Fourth Estate Be With You
3. students spend the school year learning how great the education system is
#1435 A Hot Potato
1. major cities run on potato batteries
3. farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year
#1437 Crushed Dreams
2. a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts
#1458 Children of @@FAITH@@
1. atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
1. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
2. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
#1490 @@LEADER@@ Wins Massive Victory!
3. the government's new "quiet competence" initiative has supporters and detractors alike reeling in confusion
#1500 Rodents of Unusual Sociability
2. dogs are encouraged to confront the psychodynamic roots of their desire to be "good boys"
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
3. doctors are encouraged to 'pull the plug' any time the government has a budget crisis
#1537 Bench Wars
3. the running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
3. teenagers can't go to the loo without an army of social workers watching their every movement
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
3. the word "alcohol" is a trauma trigger for children as young as five
#1550 A Friend With Weed Is a Friend Indeed?
3. gang members supplement their income by teaching at elementary schools
#1551 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
1. the government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix
2. the government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix
#1554 Trajectory x Velocity = GOOOOOOOOOAAAALL!
5. government expenses are beyond compare
#1556 Gimme Shelter
1. what's in your genes matters more than what's in your jeans
#1577 All About the Hustle
3. former bakers no longer have to get their baps out
4. the staffroom being an "icky" colour is a perfectly acceptable reason to not accept a job
#1609 One Big Watering Hole
2. children are often observed making 'sand angels' in bunkers
#1625 At What Price?
1. welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got
#1648 Infant Influence
1. mommy government won the case and is keeping the kids
#1650 Bearer of Bad Pews
2. spiritual tourists meditate in the ruins of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cathedrals
#1658 A Fatherly Fiasco
3. families make most of their annual income from government benefits
#1677 Common Cents
4. a large savings account makes you an enemy of the state
#1681 The Children Yearn for the Mines
2. all mines are gold mines thanks to life insurance
#1682 The Little Train that Could Give You Cancer
2. chemical burn victims tan their scars summering at luxury beach resorts with huge cash settlements
4. the gravy train is chugging along on a new track
#1697 Escape From Althaniq
1. dissing one's former country is a prerequisite to apply for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ citizenship

Removed by:

#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
1. the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
3. the well-off are enjoying tax cuts while famine kills off the poor and destitute
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
3. penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative'
#360 Electile Dysfunction
5. only the wealthy vote
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. @@LEADER@@ shrugs in the face of growing inequalities
#720 Cui Bono?
1. homeless people dying of starvation are thought to be a necessary cost of preventing terrorism
#995 A Cup Runneth Over
3. babies living in poverty are told to take responsibility for their own fortunes

Sometimes removed by:

#10 Social Inequality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars
#18 Citizens Struggle Under "Unfair" Tax Burden
1. the government is reining in public spending
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
4. citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
2. the Navy has outraged the international community by sinking a boatload of refugees to prevent them reaching the shore
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
4. government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries
#43 Prisoners Demand Elbow Room
1. gigantic new prisons are springing up all over the nation
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
1. homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
#83 High-Speed Monorail Service Promises Connections
1. government spending has hit an all-time low
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
3. protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others
#122 Pensioners in Protest
2. senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour
#125 Bring Back the Ballot?
2. suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
1. retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits
4. senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
1. government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet
#148 Spare the Rod, Demand Welfare Activists
2. record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported
#152 A Capital Idea
1. the government has returned all business to private ownership
#164 Licence to Breed?
2. almost half of the child population live rough on the streets
#199 More Jails Needed
1. the new prison system is crowding up at an alarming rate
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
1. the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code
#223 Easter Egg: Zombie Attack!
6. the undead roam the streets and countryside at night (@@EGG@@)
#224 Minimum Wage War
3. boot polish is the favourite lip gloss of entry-level corporate workers
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
3. citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors
#230 Extremists on the Ballot Sheet
2. most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists
#241 A Capital City for @@NAME@@?
5. the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs
#242 Follow the Leader
2. @@LEADER@@ has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
2. the government spends its days financing the delocalisation of its own economy
5. the country is effectively ruled by large corporations and business consultants
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
3. homeless people are frequently charged with trespassing on public property
4. citizens who become homeless are immediately executed
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
2. the welfare administration's new sweeping authority has forced the poor and needy to shop from pre-approved grocery lists
5. the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'
#257 @@LEADER@@ Assassinated... Almost
1. citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want
#260 Taxpayers on Strike!
1. the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
2. thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break
#268 Don't Want Your Kid Anymore? Good News!
1. orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children
2. orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children
#283 Wealthy Flee to Tax-Free Havens
1. expats return home to a government devoid of social and environmental agencies
#285 A Right Not to Work?
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
5. the CEO of Laws Incorporated must sign off on all new bills
#296 Come on Baby, Fight My Fire
3. disaster victims are viewed with disdain
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
3. businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'
#322 Empathy a Rare Commodity?
2. curtailed social programs have left many citizens bereft of any safety net
#331 Swept Away
2. insurance companies charge extortionate premiums to cover homes near waterways
#339 The Bear Necessities
3. the economy is undergoing a traumatic transition to capitalism
#414 Subpar Suburbs
1. town welcome signs list corporate sponsors
#418 That Sinking Feeling
2. drowning sailors are hung out to dry
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
3. the attempt to control the weather has ended in environmental disaster
#447 Honey, We Hung the Parliament
4. late night talk show hosts are having a field day over @@LEADER@@'s questionably sane new coalition partners
#448 It Takes a Village
4. the government has completely eliminated all childcare programs
#466 @@NAME@@ Is Never Ever Getting Back Together... Like Ever
4. the country has essentially become @@POPULATION@@ nations within a nation
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
4. @@LEADER@@'s new political program is often mockingly called 'Capitalism with a Bigtopian face'
#490 The Long and Winding Halls of @@CAPITAL@@
1. auditors are gutting every governmental department
2. the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping
#496 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
3. the government's suicide hotline now redirects callers to local tax lawyers
#515 Little Green Men
3. Maxtopians dominate the nation's military hierarchy
#525 Nowhere to Go!
2. @@A@@ @@REGION@@ Tourist Association survey has rated @@NAME@@ #1 for number twos
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have replaced bears in a popular idiom
#527 The Body Politic
1. cities in @@NAME@@ declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
1. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
2. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
4. board shorts have replaced board rooms
#577 Second World Problems
4. Party members are derided as class traitors
#601 Lawyers on Trial
2. justice is available only to those who can afford its price tag
#620 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
2. children are seen fighting in the playground for bread scraps that fall out of diamond-encrusted lunchboxes
#623 Maison d'Être?
5. disputed territories across @@REGION@@ are being claimed by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ college students
#644 The Old Grey Matter
5. grannies with arthritic hands work miserably on factory production lines
#680 The Fault Is in Our Stars
1. a full moon at night lets economists sleep tight
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
3. robotic spouses prove to be just as imperfect as flesh and blood ones
#693 Bottled Up Problems
4. health inspectors are seen eating black truffle fondue with their bottled water
#694 Concussive Percussion
3. tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments
#710 Feudal Feuds
3. the government believes in trickle-down happiness
#720 Cui Bono?
2. more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself
3. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
4. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
#739 In Loco Parentis
1. it's considered a civil right to be allowed to neglect and mistreat your own children
#769 How to Print Money?
5. the barter economy has taken over as the @@CURRENCY@@ has become worthless
#784 The Driving Force
3. double-parking is on the rise as automobile numbers increase
#793 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Knock Knock. Who's There? Not You Anymore!
3. the entirety of @@LEADER@@'s administration can be crammed into a phone booth
#847 All the Lonely People
4. lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to
#862 Friends Close, Enemies Closer
4. the government seems embarrassed to be seen governing
9. government ministers sport new billboards that read 'Will Trade Votes for Private Members' Bill Support'
#865 A Funeral for a Fiend?
4. the government only announces the deaths of its members when it's convenient
#882 Death by Chocolate
3. children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
4. newly-privatized lumberjacks are clearcutting the forest to meet demand
#907 A Problem Shared
4. boom-and-bust cycles are being peddled as economically inevitable
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
4. the government evicts ethnic minorities by stranding them in the wilderness
#995 A Cup Runneth Over
1. women across the country are tying the knot
4. on hunt days the unpleasant peasant runs in lieu of the pheasant
#1021 Room and Board Games
4. multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
5. the red star of communism has been replaced by the gold star of the McRonald's badge
#1132 Gold Standards
2. destitute athletes are forced to train in the street
#1148 Unfit for Purpose
4. paraplegics are told to walk it off
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
1. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
2. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
3. it is said that @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ woman's work is never done
#1245 Sheepish Students
4. the wealthiest parts of the country receive the most government spending
#1248 A Day to Remember
2. social care for the elderly consists of a self help leaflet and a kick on the backside
4. red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
2. the end of communism came with retail rather than revolution
#1309 Give @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@ a Bone
2. veterans' meet-ups involve a lot of tail sniffing
#1311 An Acquired Taste
4. gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours
#1325 Having Faith in Communism
4. spiritual leaders preach that the poor are being punished for their sins
#1336 Take Good Care of My Baby
3. foundling babies rarely make it off the doorsteps they are abandoned on
#1338 Slow and Stupid Is the Race
2. immigrants are told to pull themselves up by their worn-out budget bootstraps
#1340 Unnatural Conception
5. conflicted @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mamas cry 'cause - if there's one thing they don't need - it's another hungry mouth to feed
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
5. real chickens replace rooster weather vanes on inner-city rooftop gardens
#1412 Another Day, Another Dollar
1. the government hopes austerity will lead to prosperity
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
3. unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims
#1511 Three Little Words
3. families burn @@LEADER@@'s latest official photograph to keep warm
#1531 Fine Time
2. equality looks curiously unequal
#1577 All About the Hustle
1. job satisfaction is a luxury many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can't afford
#1580 Profitable for Doctrine
3. the church encourages double-dipping
#1601 At Death's Door
2. anyone who sleeps in past 9am can be declared legally dead
#1631 We Are Most Amused
3. the public are enjoying a royal flush of tax cuts
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
1. the mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin
#1693 My Home Is My Castle
3. police officers outnumber pigeons in @@CAPITAL@@
#1697 Escape From Althaniq
2. the government's energy policy of refugee 'refuelment' is a well-oiled machine

digital currency

Gained from:

#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
3. mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance
#1677 Common Cents
3. outdated physical currency is considered a biohazard

Sometimes gained from:

#228 Mice in the Walls
1. nerds everywhere are rejoicing as they are reunited with their computers
#335 Log Us Back On
1. teenagers haven't been seen outdoors since the nation reconnected to the Internet
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
1. the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience
#1042 Failure to Launch
2. carpal tunnel syndrome is on the rise
#1190 Dirty Laundry
3. nobody brings rolls of coins to the laundromat anymore
#1201 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
3. a new "thought police" branch is being developed
#1267 Hamming It Up
5. email killed the radio star
6. email killed the radio star
#1281 The Not-So-Worldwide Web
1. "Surfin' @@TYPEINITIALS@@@@NAMEINITIALS@@" is a hit
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
3. private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button
#1564 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4. people have stopped going the extra mile
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
2. mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'

Removed by:

#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
2. the country has unplugged its internet connection to prevent subversive content
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
4. the recent ban on computers is causing havoc throughout the nation
#82 AI Researchers Rally for Android Rights
3. computers have been banned
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
4. the loom represents the height of @@NAME@@'s technology
#228 Mice in the Walls
3. computers are allowed but only just
#269 Stop the Presses!
4. abacus sales outpace those of the personal computer following the closure of the Internet
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
3. the government is rounding up computers and beating them into plowshares
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
4. computers are used primarily for word processing and solitaire
#353 Broadband Going to the Birds?
3. stray cats threaten the fledgling avian-based internet
#437 Blue Screen of Economic Death
1. citizens queue to get the reinstated bank notes and coins
4. necklace theft is the nation's fastest-growing crime
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
2. tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash
3. truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
4. no one can find a leaky faucet in @@NAME@@ anymore
#711 Patently Obvious
3. diagrams of new modems collect dust in patent offices
#804 Motivational Posters
3. rubber stamp emojis are the new craze
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
2. meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials
#906 Internet Killed the Television Star
4. televangelists often claim they can cure your Lupus if you donate enough money
5. television is strictly censored so that it promotes @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ values
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
3. this year's comedy award has left mothers-in-law seething
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
4. the government has swiped left on the whole internet
#1242 Jump Leads
5. the incidence of wrist sprains is falling
#1356 The Silicon Curtain
5. the nation has become both the largest producer and consumer of abaci in @@REGION@@
#1439 Philately Will Get You Nowhere
1. the digital money revolution has cashed out
#1653 Dick's Pics
4. politicians post explicit photos of themselves on community notice boards

disturbing lack of elderly people

Gained from:

#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
1. retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
1. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
2. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
#1248 A Day to Remember
4. red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair

Removed by:

#309 Guerrilla Grandparents
1. aging citizens are celebrating the end of the 'Early Bird War'
3. the elderly live on a steady diet of canned beans in dreary government housing
#861 Out With the Old
4. people still need you and they still feed you when you're sixty-five
#1215 A New Age
4. the Sandmen are calling it a night

enforced nudity

Gained from:

#8 Nudists Demand Time in Sun
2. public nudity is compulsory
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
4. women find themselves saying "my eyes are up here" more often than they used to
#1656 Stealing Afoot
4. hospitals have unveiled new guidelines suggesting that latex gloves do not count as clothing

Sometimes gained from:

#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
1. late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards
3. breast milk lattes are the newest fad among hip urbanites
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
2. attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high
3. schoolchildren learn an R-rated version of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"
#975 Paparazzi Parents
2. the Snapgram channel "Embarrassing Baby @@LEADER@@ Pics" has made @@LEADER@@'s mom a celebrity
#992 Robots in Disguise
5. visual acuity is worsening amongst teenagers

Removed by:

#50 Whips, Chains, and Leather, Oh My!
2. leather-clad individuals can be seen walking their slaves in public parks
#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
1. female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast
#295 Give Us Pockets or Give Us Something Else
1. fashion stores are exploding in sales as clothing is reintroduced to the country
3. clothed men and nude women illustrate the stark contrasts in the nation's equality laws
#456 Heads Will Roll
3. stylish juvenile delinquents are highly overrepresented in fatal motorcycle accidents
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
2. a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants
#504 Short Shorts Too Short?
1. high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate
#593 A Right to Bare Arms?
3. young men in tiny bikinis draw neither comment nor stares on the morning commute
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
1. police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
1. interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories"
4. photographs that show ladies' ankles are considered risqué
#1046 Buffing Up Our Hospitals?
1. citizens all over @@NAME@@ squeal in delight at the return of pockets
2. citizens all over @@NAME@@ squeal in delight at the return of pockets
3. people fake illnesses for the chance to wear clothes in hospital
#1057 Baby, It's Cold Outside
1. warm coats are the hottest trend
#1094 A Political Cover-Up
1. foreign ambassadors never get to see what @@NAME@@ has to offer
3. most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wear towels as demand for pants outstrips supply
#1304 Nothing to See
1. wearing a daisy chain is a fast-track ticket to unemployment
#1425 @@LEADER@@'s New Clothes
3. some magnifier-wielding @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ say @@LEADER@@ seems a little lacking in something
4. some magnifier-wielding @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ say @@LEADER@@ seems a little lacking in something
#1475 Bombshell for @@LEADER@@
2. @@LEADER@@'s support among single young men has drooped slightly

Sometimes removed by:

#99 We Need Cash, Sharpish, Say Librarians
3. all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
4. almost all the visible space on TV screens is taken up by advertising
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
1. late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards
3. breast milk lattes are the newest fad among hip urbanites
4. prohibition has allowed a Maxtopian immigrant known only as "Nipples" to establish an illicit breast milk syndicate
#839 "Partisanship Too Far?" Wrongly Asks Opposition
4. street graffiti indicates the political party that dominates a neighborhood
#975 Paparazzi Parents
1. obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals
2. the Snapgram channel "Embarrassing Baby @@LEADER@@ Pics" has made @@LEADER@@'s mom a celebrity
#992 Robots in Disguise
5. visual acuity is worsening amongst teenagers

enslaved workforce

Gained from:

#136 Much Ado About Abortion
5. families are only permitted to have one child
#190 Immigrants Import Homeland Rivalries
1. immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites
2. Maxtopian slaves are routinely sold as an optional extra for household appliances
#224 Minimum Wage War
4. the workforce is almost entirely made up of slave labour
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
#559 The Low Aspiration Nation
3. the unemployed are quite literally sold to the highest bidder
#593 A Right to Bare Arms?
4. fathers are free to sell their daughters to whomever they choose
#710 Feudal Feuds
1. a serf by any other name works just as hard
#878 DoublePlusUnGood
2. citizens know not to ask what their country can do for them but what they can do as chained slaves for their country
#1009 A Woman's Roll
4. glassy-eyed @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ wives lifelessly chant "I love you" on command
#1038 Maid to Order
3. slaving over a hot stove to cook the family dinner isn't metaphorical in @@NAME@@
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
3. slavers are real nutters

Removed by:

#254 Freedom Comes at a Price
2. employers are gradually adapting to the alien premise of paying wages to their workers
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
4. many former slaves are finding out there is such a thing as a free lunch
#1196 The Properties of Property
3. slavery has been abolished

exploding hoverboards

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
2. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
3. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
1. Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested
#16 @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ Workers Strike!
2. employers may fire workers without giving any reason
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
3. the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
1. small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants
#63 Tykes With Tools?
2. children as young as eight can be found working in factories
3. adult unemployment is rising as available jobs are filled by young children
#90 Organic Outburst
2. a survey of the nation's rivers and children has shown that pesticide levels are at an all-time regional high
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
3. cars have been banned
#105 Compensation Culture Must End, Say Corporations
1. corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
1. appendix transplant figures have recently doubled
#119 Watershed Down?
1. programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours
#140 A Grave Problem
1. tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#179 Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease Outbreak!
5. people all over @@NAME@@ are dying of 'Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease'
#180 Mobile Maladies
2. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
3. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
#186 Carjacking Concerns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
2. nuclear reactors are held together with party string and Hubba Bubba
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
2. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
3. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
#256 Easter Egg: Suburbs Are Out of This World
2. white-collar unemployment skyrockets as the suburbs are not within bicycling distance to work (@@EGG@@)
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
3. bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
5. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
6. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
#280 Oh the Humanity!
2. airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted
#281 Free Internet for @@NAME@@?
4. electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#291 A Question of Sport
4. kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun"
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
2. Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity
3. Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
1. racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
2. the nation leads @@REGION@@ in per capita stalking
#327 No Rest for the Weary @@ANIMAL@@
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ stadiums are open 24/7
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
2. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
3. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
#367 What's Their Beef?
4. Humongo-Mart's Beef 'n @@ANIMAL@@ Lasagne is a hit
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
3. clandestine emigration to countries with labor laws is all the rage
#376 Death by Bungee
3. bungee jumpers frequently go splat
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
#414 Subpar Suburbs
3. rundown towns are frequently sold to billionaires for their pet projects
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
3. bleach is the nation's most common pesticide
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
3. 'Police Academy 36' and 'Sharknados On A Plane' are vying for top spot at the box-office
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
3. breast milk lattes are the newest fad among hip urbanites
#474 Mesozoic Park
1. sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park
4. local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings
#477 Feeding Frenzy
4. heart attacks are regarded as a coming of age ritual
#509 It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
3. hammering a nail into a wall is an effective death sentence
#512 Furnished for Failure
4. personal injury lawyers are demanding compensation from the government after recent reductions in manufacturer liability
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
2. public incontinence is a growing problem amongst the nation's women
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#542 What a Waste
4. global anti-terrorist organisations strongly suspect @@NAME@@ of supplying extremist groups
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
2. teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
2. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
3. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
2. the new "Bloodbath" orange tree autonomously seeks and destroys independent orchards
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
1. every week is blindness awareness week
3. dining out often involves @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the plate no matter what you order
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
4. subsidisation of Big Pharma has stopped many corporate executives from having to sell their second homes
#566 Drive My Car
3. fire stations and hospitals can't deploy emergency vehicles because badly parked cars block them in
#585 Are You Not Entertained?
3. amusement park rides frequently collapse due to lack of maintenance
4. nihilistic thrill-seekers claim that suicide by roller coaster is the ultimate life experience
#591 Bait and Switch
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
#604 Food Behind Bars
1. the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy
#606 In the Black
3. exploding toys that leak battery acid are back in the shops after the government declared child safety 'over-rated'
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
2. recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
2. the mummified remains of former kings are apparently discovered every time a tourist loses their wallet
4. sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food
#623 Maison d'Être?
2. the country is littered with broken homes
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
2. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
3. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
2. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
3. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
4. government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables
#639 No Country for Old Men
2. octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it
3. octogenarian models insist that they've still got it
#641 Dirty Little Minds
3. life expectancy is way down but posthuman perfectionism is way up
4. corrupt industrial practices are spreading like a plague
#660 Are We Being Served?
3. customers who are not the epitome of politeness always find themselves at the back of the queue
#667 One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Recyclable
3. unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
1. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
2. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
3. a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away
#692 Game of Drones
2. airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path
4. airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path
#705 The Germ of an Idea
2. fast-food chefs regularly win Health Innovation Awards for spitting on burgers
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#716 Cheek to Cheek
2. people often get liposuction to reduce their air fares
3. people often get liposuction to reduce their air fares
#733 The Path Less Traveled
3. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
4. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
#747 The Plane Truth
1. travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air @@NAME@@ flights to avoid the pay lavatories
2. travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air @@NAME@@ flights to avoid the pay lavatories
#757 Extra Credit?
2. parents often ask to see a credit report before lending money to their own children
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
2. kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
2. open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost
#784 The Driving Force
5. mail and shipped goods take forever to get to buyers
#786 Tainted Tattoos
2. getting an infected tattoo is considered a rite of passage in @@NAME@@
#787 Come Fly With Me?
2. when you fly on Air @@NAME@@ you win a seat or you die
#801 Animation Provocation
3. toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
2. vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mussels the biggest in @@REGION@@
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
2. a stocking with a crooked seam or a tie without a full Windsor knot are grounds for instant dismissal
#822 Never Work With Children
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ actors literally work from cradle to grave
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
4. hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport
#843 Quacking Up
2. new treatments are rejected if they cannot be explained using only one-syllable words
#848 It's a Girl Thing
2. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
3. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
#855 Thin Evidence
2. it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies
#859 A Cola by Any Other Name
2. citizens need a magnifying glass and color chart to distinguish between nearly identical brand labels
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
3. every fourth child is born with flippers instead of hands
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
1. the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem
5. the "Brave New World" program has caused private businesses to spring up faster than the East Lebatuck Wall
#882 Death by Chocolate
2. the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
2. the restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived
#887 Thin Skin
1. nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines
#890 Mining Blues
3. the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone
4. the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
2. bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls
3. mouldy bread is served as an appetizer in many restaurants
#899 Uncultured Singles in Your Area
3. preservative-laden @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cheeses will be as edible when archaeologists dig them up next millennium
#901 You Buy That?
2. playing an online nation simulation game legally obliges you to buy the creator's latest novel
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
1. the fattest folk in @@NAME@@ look to be the happiest ones
#929 Champagne in the Glass
2. foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Moonshine"
4. alcoholism is the newest import from Dàguó
#944 Deadly Persuasion
3. even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love
#955 Can It!
4. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
5. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
3. people think garlic bread counts as one of their "five a day"
#970 For Want of a Nail
7. it's a miracle that there aren't more plane crashes
#975 Paparazzi Parents
2. the Snapgram channel "Embarrassing Baby @@LEADER@@ Pics" has made @@LEADER@@'s mom a celebrity
3. skin-tone prom dresses are more unpopular than ever
4. skin-tone prom dresses are more unpopular than ever
#979 A Patronising Statement
2. a popular artist is claiming that a raw steak with a dog turd on it is a portrait of @@LEADER@@
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
1. gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away
#991 Alms and Qualms
3. charity workers dole out hardtack from behind designer sunglasses
#993 Drug Deal
1. drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients
#994 The Life of Riley
3. prisoners fit in their parole hearings around their spa treatments
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
5. mandatory blunting of cutlery has increased the popularity of soup-based meals
#1005 What Goes Up Breaks Down
2. parachutes are considered optional with the newest line of jet fighters
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
2. children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary
#1016 Breaking Upset
5. emergency services don't respond to trailer park fires
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
3. epileptic patients switch their medications to whichever has a 'buy one get one free' offer
#1018 Operation Failed
1. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
2. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
4. the doctor has cold hands
#1022 Failure to Respond
1. the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance
2. pocket dialling is a criminal offence
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
3. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices
4. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Crispy Fried Tofu's secret blend of herbs and spices
#1037 Ill Girl
4. muggers are complimented on their enterprising spirit
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
2. the secret ingredient is love (and MSG)
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
3. sofas are perpetually on sales that Must End Soon
#1067 Don't Fear the Reefer
4. more citizens have access to Maxtopian Grass than clean drinking water
#1068 Made to Break
2. frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback
#1077 With Friends Like These...
2. primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit
#1078 Down With That?
2. a shipwreck is everyone's fault but the captain's
#1101 Unreal
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
3. many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators
4. many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
2. the mood of raunchy movies is often ruined by the sound of babies crying
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
1. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
2. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
3. apprentice builders get teased for wearing hard hats
#1137 A Really Sour Lemon
1. ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products
4. citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin
5. citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin
#1156 Pet Theory
3. burgers often list "miscellaneous meats" in their ingredients
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
2. crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
2. blackface performers claim they are being deliberately ironic
#1196 The Properties of Property
2. a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true
#1207 Next, Please!
1. "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
2. the smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation
#1220 Barely Any Art
2. drawing men's naughty bits isn't considered to be art
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
4. the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months
#1233 Get Real!
2. baiting is a national sport
#1234 I Declare a Thumb War
1. the government is under the thumb of countless special interests
3. celebrity wrestlers thumb their nose at due process
#1245 Sheepish Students
1. school football matches are usually five-a-side
2. bemused schoolkids colour in their favourite quadratic equations with crayons
#1246 Breath of the Wild
4. the national symbol of @@NAME@@ is now always featured on a skewer
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
2. ceremonial zweihänders are used in holy rituals
#1262 Dead Tasty
3. there's a mortuary next to every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurant
#1263 Is the Signature Always Right?
2. political detractors refer to @@LEADER@@ as 'that Bigtopian puppet'
#1273 Lessons in Politics
2. a degree in @@LEADER@@ Science with a Minor in Awesomeology starts many political careers
#1277 Outside the Box
1. beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
1. teachers prefer to give 'Maybe, Maybe Not' tests when dealing with sensitive subjects
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
3. autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum
#1289 Cramping Our Style
2. pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches
#1293 Bet Your Life
3. grinning punters say that casino roulette is the greatest high that life has to offer
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
2. "Day of the Rope" is the top song of the summer
#1311 An Acquired Taste
2. people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile
3. the military is plagued with unethical researchers
#1320 A Case of Poor Turnaround
2. savvy nightclub-goers know that structurally unsound venues sell the cheapest drinks
#1335 First-Class Warfare
2. the rich and poor vomit into separate bags
#1344 Ups and Downs
1. orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
2. produce labels read 'may contain traces of food'
#1355 Feeling Null
2. commuters and their desktops both bemoan their hard drives
#1357 Scattered Showers
4. space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across @@NAME@@
#1361 Fundamental Rights
2. advanced mathematics books explain how two plus two equals five
#1364 Payday Groans
2. it's said that @@A@@ @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ always pays his debts with significant compounding
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
1. a PhD just ain't what it used to be
#1409 Happy Pranksgiving!
4. prank shows are so hot right now
#1424 Here's Looking at Zoo, Kid
1. recapturing giraffes is proving to be a tall order
#1466 Don't Shoot Your Eye Out
4. gun shops sell hook hands and eye patches
#1469 News Flash!
3. political shows are fit for purpose
#1474 Cuy Bono?
2. @@CAPITAL@@ has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra
#1493 Bully Beef
2. exports of live cows arrive pre-roasted
#1505 A Tangled Web
3. citizens have to identify all the polar bears in a blizzard photo in order to access their bank account
#1516 Content Discontent
3. belief that @@LEADER@@ is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high
#1528 Our Feta Which Art in Havarti...
3. the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging
4. the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging
#1537 Bench Wars
2. bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in
#1540 Clean Flavours
2. restaurants have noticed that hanging wet laundry from the ceiling makes diners order more food
#1544 Happy Juice
2. bags of fertiliser come with detailed instructions for not making explosives
#1546 Fool's Gold
1. @@CAPITAL@@ River is now popularly called "Dead Fish Run"
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
1. office microwaves are being replaced by firepits
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
3. private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button
#1573 Unseen Academia
2. savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations
#1576 Liquidity Problems
3. a surprising number of travelers carry their water in vodka bottles
#1583 Spare the (Plutonium) Rod
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ faces have never been brighter
#1584 Loose Lips, Characters Shipped?
3. sex-ed is child's play
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
3. only the richest get to see out of their windows
#1603 Searching for That Special Someone
3. a flying elephant and @@LEADER@@ share the same nickname
4. a flying elephant and @@LEADER@@ share the same nickname
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
2. online terrorists are automatically assigned adverts for cheap balaclavas
#1607 My Chemical Romance
1. witches' brews set off Geiger counters
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
2. pieces of iron pyrite are believed to be worth their weight in gold
#1613 Incarceration Sensation
3. murder comes with a cash prize if the victim was previously incarcerated
#1621 The Space Between
2. weather advisories predict sunshine with a chance of spontaneously combusting spacecraft
3. weather advisories predict sunshine with a chance of spontaneously combusting spacecraft
#1624 @@CAPITAL@@ Coffinrail
1. the overhead luggage compartment is often full
#1626 Wiggle Room
1. people are turning themselves into worm food
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
2. playing card suits are sold separately
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other
#1648 Infant Influence
2. patriotism is in the nation's DNA
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
3. companies are literally blowing their competition out of the water
#1654 We Bought a Zoo
1. daredevil kayakers frequently race against runaway hippos
#1684 Naps in Judgement
2. yawning is a sure sign of unemployment
#1691 The Fault in Our Skyline
1. Goldilocks has found a lucrative career as a zoning consultant
3. homes without staircases are considered a step up in luxury

Removed by:

#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#105 Compensation Culture Must End, Say Corporations
2. every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government
3. manufacturers are sued for almost anything not covered in their catalogue-sized manuals
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
1. over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
4. the endangered saltwater humpback @@ANIMAL@@ is only seen in captivity programs
#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#641 Dirty Little Minds
1. corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics
#652 Mayday! Mayday!
2. aspiring pilots must be personally vetted by the Minister of Transportation before receiving their license
3. planes can be grounded for months simply because an inspector "didn't like the color"
#710 Feudal Feuds
2. the serf suggestion box would work better if more serfs were literate
#822 Never Work With Children
1. diaper ads feature vertically-challenged adults wearing bootees
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
2. people who question what bunker construction has to do with economic reform tend to disappear
#907 A Problem Shared
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
#945 Police on the Take
2. crimes are difficult to stop as most of the police force is stuck in traffic
#965 Like a Bull in a Dàguó Shop
1. foreign countries consider stepping on their grass to be a serious offense
#1022 Failure to Respond
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
#1310 Intimate Relations
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1468 Meat With Approval
3. abattoirs are struggling with the directive to 'wait until the animal dies of a ripe old age'
#1621 The Space Between
1. government employees are authorized driver's licenses to get their bosses much-needed morning espressos
4. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
5. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses

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#5 Child Casino Shock
1. gambling is outlawed
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
2. meat-eating is frowned upon
4. meat is a luxury afforded only to the wealthy
#16 @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ Workers Strike!
1. the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes
#17 Corporations Demand Political Say
2. political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations
#20 Gunman Kills Three
1. kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
3. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
4. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
1. TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas
#33 Genetics Brings New Life to Extinct Species
4. genetic research is temporarily tied up in government red tape
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
2. the government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores
#64 Put the "Board" Back in Board of Education
2. teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
2. soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers
3. there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates
#90 Organic Outburst
1. all-natural foods are becoming a major fad
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
3. government-run brothels can be found on every street corner
#107 Private Lab Holds @@NAME@@'s Sick to Ransom
3. the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
2. medical lawsuits are out of control
#119 Watershed Down?
2. Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in @@NAME@@
#173 Women Demand Equal Opportunities
4. men are expected to stay home to fix funny noises in the attic
#179 Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease Outbreak!
1. the government has organised a nationwide cull of infected @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
4. farmers can be spotted driving gold-plated tractors
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
3. only adults may purchase violent video games
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
5. nine out of ten citizens of @@NAME@@ answered 'nuclear safety inspector' when asked their occupation
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
1. mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
1. students cut up leftover @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ during Arts and Crafts
#276 Circus Clowns Cause Chaos!
1. strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins
#280 Oh the Humanity!
1. the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines
3. the new hit series "@@NAME@@'s Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country
#288 Super-Sized Pizzas Recipe for Disaster?
1. police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
1. the police strictly enforce off-limit zones for tourists
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
3. "It was only a joke" is no longer a defense for the felony of discrimination
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
1. it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey
#324 "Tourism Tanking!" Trumpet Tabloids
1. a new generation of aquariumless hotels are being built under government supervision
#327 No Rest for the Weary @@ANIMAL@@
1. retired racing @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are served truffles for breakfast
#330 Supermarkets Gobbling Up All the Customers?
3. the government provides its citizenry with the same mass produced rations
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
1. builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction
#367 What's Their Beef?
1. fresh food is a thing of the past due to onerous testing standards
#376 Death by Bungee
1. bungee jumpers rarely go splat
2. crossing the road requires a risk assessment
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
2. Brasilistanis face layers of paperwork in a different language just to visit a doctor
#413 A Shot in the Arm
4. science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
2. the Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
1. even doll houses and dog kennels have to be able to withstand rigorous earthquake testing
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
1. cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry
#473 A-B-C, Easy as Don't Use Me
3. children are expected to carve their own toys
#477 Feeding Frenzy
1. school children across the country are staging hunger strikes to protest government-mandated salads
2. children use fake IDs to purchase candy
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
3. all restaurants close before dinner time
4. pizza parlors have been replaced by lima bean cafes
#509 It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
1. citizens are abandoning their homes en masse in a widespread panic over asbestos
2. new cases of Asbestosis are cropping up as quickly as hospitals can deal with them
#512 Furnished for Failure
1. clumsy self-injury is a viable claim in modern compensation culture
3. the nation's reinforced coffee tables are constructed to survive an atomic blast
#514 Contract Killer
4. weight loss clubs that guarantee losing a stone a month are talking about misplacing rocks
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
2. the average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
4. geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
4. carrots are orange, apples are red and food waste is increasing
#542 What a Waste
1. the lasting legacy of the current generation is a million years of buried radioactivity
3. nuclear physics is the most popular course at university
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
1. videogames like 'Equalia: Knights of Self-Confidence' are proving inexplicably unpopular
4. children play ring-around-the-rosey around bonfires of videogame cartridges
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
1. poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
5. social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
1. an epidemic of unpopped kernels causes movie goers to gnash their teeth
3. eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
2. blind dates tend to result in bruised shins
#562 Return to Sender
3. international commentators accuse the nation of aggressive cultural imperialism
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
3. chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in @@CAPITAL@@'s playgrounds
#574 One Small Step for Private Enterprise?
2. kids building model rockets in their backyard are grounded by Space Agency Rangers
3. 'To Regulate And Beyond' is the unofficial motto of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Space Agency
4. falling satellites are regarded as a blessing from the gods
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
1. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
2. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
3. sea side cafes are required by law to close during summer
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
5. contestants on @@NAME@@'s Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent
#585 Are You Not Entertained?
1. swings are banned for being a danger to children
2. children need to wear helmets and safety harnesses before mounting a carousel horse
#591 Bait and Switch
1. maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords
#604 Food Behind Bars
2. prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
1. doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion
3. the state considers itself the 'third parent' of every child in the nation
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
3. the sanitised and dull music festivals of @@NAME@@ are famed for their reasonable volume levels
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
1. lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
1. genetic researchers have taken to conducting illegal experiments in secret lairs
4. scientists spend more time enduring government inspections than they do on actual science
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
1. 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool
#639 No Country for Old Men
1. 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past
#649 Made in Maxtopia
2. restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in @@NAME@@
#651 Black Days for @@NAME@@
3. bouncers at the door of the sweet shop warn five-year-olds not to cause trouble
#672 All Shook Up
1. morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom
3. coastal cities are being moved a dozen miles inland to reduce flooding risk
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
3. homophobia is off the menu
4. seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
1. banning party poppers has been a real party pooper
#684 Murder Most Deniable?
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to cut steak with a spoon
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to cut tofu steak with a spoon
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
4. no one can find a leaky faucet in @@NAME@@ anymore
#692 Game of Drones
1. former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone
#693 Bottled Up Problems
3. straight-edges are forced to collect rain water to avoid getting high off the water supply
4. health inspectors are seen eating black truffle fondue with their bottled water
#702 Has Your Room Been Booked?
3. holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases
4. holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases
#705 The Germ of an Idea
1. it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma
3. sushi is sold on the black market
#716 Cheek to Cheek
1. airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room
4. airplane passenger seat sizes and ticket prices are both first-class
5. in a desperate bid for cheap airfare @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can be seen jogging in a rubber suit just before flying
#724 Your Stuff Is Forfeit
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ caught jaywalking often have their houses seized by the police
#726 Jobless Fair
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#728 A Bone to Pick
2. ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward
#732 A Peeping Problem
3. workers tend to schedule naps during all-hands meetings
#739 In Loco Parentis
3. fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate
#751 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Breed Contempt
2. gardeners must genetically test weeds for unique traits before digging them up
3. condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals
#754 The Hit Parade
1. the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning
2. there's never enough space in space
#757 Extra Credit?
1. lending money has become a major liability
3. credit scores fluctuate wildly with every change of government
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
1. sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor
3. there is a heavy social stigma attached to e-cigarettes
#774 Clean Switch
3. janitors and factory workers are often better educated than the bosses they work for
#778 Mal Appetit!
3. the year's most anticipated show is "Great Deals on Delicious Meals"
#786 Tainted Tattoos
1. sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed
#787 Come Fly With Me?
1. airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory
#801 Animation Provocation
1. Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion
#811 Get Baked
1. cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
1. police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
3. it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven
#822 Never Work With Children
3. teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
3. doughnut-makers claim their products are healthy because they are fortified with vitamins
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
3. cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
2. CEOs are forced to cut coupons during important conference calls to make ends meet
#834 Government and CO
2. conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors
#841 Burn Noticed
3. hospitals are cleaned with lemons and vinegar
#843 Quacking Up
1. medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters
3. the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community
#848 It's a Girl Thing
1. all children's clothes come in only cream and off-white to prevent offense
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
3. retail boutiques encourage citizens to honor their military veterans by purchasing flag-patterned underwear
4. retail boutiques encourage citizens to honor their military veterans by purchasing flag-patterned underwear
#855 Thin Evidence
1. parents receive hefty fines for telling kids to eat their vegetables
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
1. schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar
#859 A Cola by Any Other Name
1. a burger chain recently changed its name to Mack Donaldz for legal reasons
3. citizens try to ignore gruesome pictures of decaying teeth printed on their soda cans
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
4. government agents stalk the aisles of grocery stores for out-of-stock medications
#869 I'll Be in My Bunker
2. property subletting is going underground
#875 They See Me Trollin', They Threatenin'
2. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
3. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
#879 Power to the (AI) People
1. engineers preemptively order lawyers after every power cut
#882 Death by Chocolate
1. school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp
3. children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
1. romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars
3. monster hunters with oversized swords roam the land
#887 Thin Skin
2. fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers
3. the Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs
#888 Criminal Patterns
3. schoolchildren are arrested for possessing sidewalk chalk without a permit
#890 Mining Blues
1. the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation
2. the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
1. restaurateurs put a lot of effort into persuading customers to accept wafer-thin mints
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
2. slaves who produce weapons are given free samples
#899 Uncultured Singles in Your Area
1. the law forbids arson, murder, and low-quality cheese
#901 You Buy That?
1. immersive video game experiences are interrupted by incessant disclaimer pop-ups
#910 A for Effort
1. marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal
2. hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
2. Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in @@NAME@@
#925 Ring of Death
3. kids these days know how to throw a proper punch
4. kids these days know how to throw a proper punch
#927 Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It
1. parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework
2. student exchange programs are in trouble as everyone wants to leave but no-one wants to come
3. just as students finish their homework it's time for school
#929 Champagne in the Glass
1. the new Liquor Legitimacy Office is besieged with job applications from people who have experience in "statistical sampling methods"
3. alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
4. international terrorists often get their weapons supply in @@NAME@@
#941 Scents and Sensibility
4. workers can choose whether they prefer offices that smell of pungent body odor or whale vomit
#944 Deadly Persuasion
1. uploading purple prose to social media earns a place on a government watchlist
#948 1x, 2x, 3x, a Lady
1. Maths Professor Barbie is the most popular toy for boys and girls alike
2. any girl that shows an interest in Lego is pressured to study engineering
#955 Can It!
3. adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère
#957 Putrid Predicament
1. commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
1. grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
4. light entertainment shows are light on actual entertainment
#970 For Want of a Nail
5. pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves
#975 Paparazzi Parents
1. obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals
#979 A Patronising Statement
1. the nation's best artists are considered pretty easy to beat
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
3. ancient antique swords have had their blades replaced with latex boffer LARP replicas
#991 Alms and Qualms
1. money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them
#992 Robots in Disguise
3. NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people
#993 Drug Deal
2. doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality
#994 The Life of Riley
1. prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos
#996 Scripting a Change?
1. textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be
3. the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
1. kids refer to anything below the neck as "the parts that shall not be named"
#1012 Tilting at Wind Turbines
1. small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
2. there are traffic jams at sea as diligent customs officers check every part of every ship
#1018 Operation Failed
3. arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands
#1026 Size Matters
2. many believe that @@LEADER@@'s head is big enough for the sun to orbit around it
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
1. coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list
#1056 Time to Work?
3. government bureaucrats spend six hours per day justifying a six-hour workday
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
1. the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose
2. the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles
#1060 Hole in the Wall
1. protecting the land is holey work
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
1. you need a signed affidavit from a registered psychiatrist to claim that you have crazy low prices
2. tuxedo rental companies are inexplicably going out of business
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1064 Culture Wars
1. practising saying 'how now brown cow' is an essential part of holiday planning
#1068 Made to Break
1. supermarkets must refund spoilt milk even six months after the sale
#1070 Skeletons in the Closet
2. it's surprisingly hard to find pictures of the bad haircuts from @@LEADER@@'s childhood
#1076 Smokers Cornered
1. the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across @@NAME@@
#1078 Down With That?
1. captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship
3. ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
1. insanely good theatre productions face government censorship
#1083 Public Protesting Pawnbroker Pickpockets
2. selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork
#1086 Fun in the Sun
3. surfing lessons include how to ward off sharks
#1101 Unreal
1. a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows
4. once-vitriolic celebrity chefs are now known for giving encouraging hugs to aspiring cooks
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1106 Some Body to Love
3. anyone can get ahead in life if they want to
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
1. a handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
1. forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies
3. Bambi has been banned
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
5. it's said that @@LEADER@@ can turn every pleasure into a chore
#1117 Suffer Little Children
3. a sudden shout of "surprise!" does not herald a party for teachers
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
1. construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground
#1138 Shock Tactics
2. fat-shaming is now public policy
#1149 The Goriest Advertisement
2. the nation is automatically assumed to be the source of all unmarked weapons
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
3. workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
1. newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words'
3. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
4. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
5. the government-run newspapers insist that everything is fine
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
2. crayon squiggles were a late addition to the works of the Renaissance Old Masters
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
1. citizens who use the word "Violet" incorrectly find their WhoTube content taken down
#1179 Nothing Fishy
4. fly fishermen are legally forbidden from using electronic lures
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
5. noble feuds don't end until one side gets their point across
#1190 Dirty Laundry
3. nobody brings rolls of coins to the laundromat anymore
#1196 The Properties of Property
1. new "Worker's Strike" laws set out who is allowed to strike a worker
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
1. high school bands practice by moonlight
4. sleeping on the job is recommended
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
1. people who get diabetes can sue donut manufacturers
3. class action lawsuits have gone up in smoke thanks to government interference
#1212 Lost at Sea
1. boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard
2. one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man
#1214 Blood Type: Gay Positive
4. gay men commonly complain about their time of the month
#1218 Due Processing
1. AIs make up a majority of the long-term warehouse population
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
1. the law says that all @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are created equal — no matter how they were created
#1220 Barely Any Art
1. masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery
#1221 Man of the People
2. politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority")
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
1. imitation is the sincerest form of felony
2. bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic
3. bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic
#1227 Girls on Film
4. the government asks not what you can do for your country but what you can do to tidy their country homes
#1233 Get Real!
3. agreeing to appear on TV is often the best way to access social care
#1234 I Declare a Thumb War
4. treaties are taken to be mere rules of thumb
#1243 Kicking Back
1. orange is the new black for judicial robes
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
1. most barbers are also surgeons
3. millions are awarded in damages for bad haircuts
#1255 This Lady's Not for Turning
3. the only thing that can pin down a "superhero" is red tape
#1259 Buy Low, Sell High
2. a ban on robots in disguise has transformed the entertainment industry
#1262 Dead Tasty
2. the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu
#1264 Flooding the Market
1. lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences"
2. bargain hunters descend on disaster zones for a quick spot of grocery shopping
#1267 Hamming It Up
2. citizen radio operators agree that the certification test can open up a world of hertz
#1269 All That Glitters
3. annual government budgets include a sizeable spend on "making things look fabulous"
#1273 Lessons in Politics
1. evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right
#1277 Outside the Box
2. rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
2. history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students
#1289 Cramping Our Style
1. things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication
#1293 Bet Your Life
2. flipping a coin to make a decision leads to a referral to Gambling Addiction Services
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
1. couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material'
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
1. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cut of Apocalypse Now sets the helicopter scene to eerie silence
#1311 An Acquired Taste
1. weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law
#1320 A Case of Poor Turnaround
1. public toilets are famed for their rear entries
#1331 Warning, Fatigue
2. aeroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators
#1335 First-Class Warfare
1. flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor
3. humble workers tempt fate for a taste of airline caviar
#1343 Feeling Down
1. pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card
3. the flight attendant who draws the short straw is on "cockpit bucket duty"
#1344 Ups and Downs
2. little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas
#1349 You Must Be 18 Years or Older to View This Content
5. getting your license is a rite of passage for young adults
#1355 Feeling Null
1. counselors diagnose their clients with motherboard complexes
#1357 Scattered Showers
2. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
3. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
#1361 Fundamental Rights
1. parents dread their examinations more than their children
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
2. children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name
3. professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials
#1409 Happy Pranksgiving!
3. producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene
#1410 Lives On-Line
4. hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms
5. doctors fax when they need facts fast
#1426 She's a Keeper
3. sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days
#1433 Green Thumbs Sore
3. monochrome green ECO-@@NAMEINITIALS@@ products adorn the supermarket shelves
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
2. Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts
#1440 Dungeons and Deaths
1. there's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality
#1441 Don't Burn Baby Don't Burn
3. toast never burns but always has a weird chemical taste
#1451 A Dread Letter
3. neighbourhood gossips whip up controversy about those receiving adult merchandise
#1466 Don't Shoot Your Eye Out
1. shooting someone has never been safer
#1469 News Flash!
1. TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews
2. viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows
#1472 Home Is Where the Lung Is
3. home renovation projects take decades to complete
5. jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity
#1474 Cuy Bono?
1. eating kids as food has been enshrined in law
#1485 How to Train Your AI
2. AI citizens are criticized for being robotic
#1492 Smoke on the Water
3. visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage
#1493 Bully Beef
1. exported livestock are wined and dined before they are flat ironed
#1500 Rodents of Unusual Sociability
1. goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter
#1505 A Tangled Web
1. guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites
2. cat memes without alt text are now illegal
#1514 Flushing for Freedom
1. the word "robot" is considered to be etymologically offensive
3. it turns out that your missing Roomba has run off to join the circus
#1515 Uncharitable Donations
2. charity fundraisers often resemble minstrel shows
#1518 Test Environment
1. handling people's data is proving an immersive experience
#1526 Corporate Pride
2. the atmosphere in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ boardrooms is turning more gay
3. banks now use correct pronouns when evicting people from their houses
#1537 Bench Wars
1. war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping
#1540 Clean Flavours
1. washing-up liquid looks and smells like baby poo
3. orange juice has been renamed yellow juice
#1544 Happy Juice
1. safety warnings are prohibited lest they give people ideas
#1551 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
4. charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
1. the government expresses surprisingly intense opinions on the use of whip pans
2. private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button
#1558 Unequal Treatment?
2. hospital administrators can usually be found scrubbing their floors with toothbrushes
#1568 Palate Torture
1. farmers sing lullabies to soothe their livestock to sleep
2. running a hot dog stand is harder than achieving a doctorate
#1573 Unseen Academia
1. scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays
#1574 Fowl Play
1. binoculars sales are at an all-time high
#1576 Liquidity Problems
2. long queues are apparently signs of a well-run airport
4. airlines are reporting record profits from their new 'bread and water' service
#1578 The Magical Adventures of @LEADER@@
4. offering a builder a cup of tea is a legal minefield
#1583 Spare the (Plutonium) Rod
3. only senior nuclear power plant employees may use the control rods to warm up their lunches
#1584 Loose Lips, Characters Shipped?
2. animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands
#1590 Tinder Profiled
2. people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating
4. asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
1. the face of @@LEADER@@ is a permanent feature of the @@CAPITAL@@ skyline
2. government bureaucrats review designs for birdhouses to ensure they do not block the views of neighbors
#1597 Haters Are Such a Drag
4. stony-faced ratings board panelists are unamused by free lap dances
#1603 Searching for That Special Someone
1. typing @@LEADER@@'s name into a search engine always gives zero matches
2. typing @@LEADER@@'s name into a search engine always gives zero matches
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
1. faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers
#1607 My Chemical Romance
2. reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
1. every diamond ring sold is accompanied by a twenty-five page analysis and a waiver
#1624 @@CAPITAL@@ Coffinrail
2. heart attack victims are thrown onto the rails
#1626 Wiggle Room
3. it's illegal to be caught on tape
#1627 Snow Days on Thin Ice
3. jailbreaking is the best-selling book category of the year
#1628 NEET Freaks?
3. WhoTube speedrunners always have at least one viewer
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
1. the average video game can be completed over lunch break
#1647 Whose House? My House!
3. nobody knows where reality TV show "The Real Housewives of CENSORED" is filmed
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
1. the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough'
2. repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events
#1679 Meals on Foot
2. thorough preparation of street foods defeats the purpose of really fast food
#1681 The Children Yearn for the Mines
2. all mines are gold mines thanks to life insurance
#1682 The Little Train that Could Give You Cancer
4. the gravy train is chugging along on a new track
#1684 Naps in Judgement
1. pillows outnumber picket signs at most workers rallies
#1692 Hit Me With Your Best Shot
2. birthday parties feature more pop quizzes than piñatas
#1699 Achute Binjury
1. raccoons are plump and satiated

fear of technology

Gained from:

#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
4. the recent ban on computers is causing havoc throughout the nation
#82 AI Researchers Rally for Android Rights
3. computers have been banned
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
4. the loom represents the height of @@NAME@@'s technology
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
3. the government is rounding up computers and beating them into plowshares
#335 Log Us Back On
3. computers are widely considered to be the "devil magic of heathens"
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
2. meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials
#1356 The Silicon Curtain
5. the nation has become both the largest producer and consumer of abaci in @@REGION@@
#1653 Dick's Pics
4. politicians post explicit photos of themselves on community notice boards
#1695 Calling All @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
4. highway signs instruct travelers to yodel for help in case of emergency

Removed by:

#228 Mice in the Walls
1. nerds everywhere are rejoicing as they are reunited with their computers
3. computers are allowed but only just
#1042 Failure to Launch
2. carpal tunnel syndrome is on the rise
#1201 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
3. a new "thought police" branch is being developed
#1267 Hamming It Up
5. email killed the radio star
6. email killed the radio star
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
3. private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
2. mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'

feral children

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
3. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
4. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
2. religious leaders insist all life is sacred (but not those vat-bred wretches)
3. growing infants in a vat is an antiquated concept
#1340 Unnatural Conception
6. therapists advise women who are constantly stressed and tired to have another baby
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks

Removed by:

#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
2. soldiers are noted for their ferocity and illiteracy
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
3. children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi
#1686 Carnivorous Kids
1. kids these days only have to survive their homework assignments and cafeteria lunches

Sometimes removed by:

#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
6. citizens are grown in vats
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
4. the youth of today are literally shaped by big business
#422 Wounded Veterans Demand a Helping Hand
3. 90% of active duty @@DEMONYMADJECTIVEINITIALS@@AF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
5. package deals offer tourists the chance to visit the frozen remains of the previous tour group
#458 Bigtopian Lives Matter
2. the police insist that racism does not exist
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#613 A Nude Day, a Nude Awakening...
1. fashion magazine covers finally display realistic body images following photo-manipulation becoming illegal
#651 Black Days for @@NAME@@
2. commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year
#733 The Path Less Traveled
6. aggressive promotion of global warming puts polar bears on thin ice
#780 Vexing VAT
1. @@LEADER@@ has been seen stealthily slicing fifths off bread loaves
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
3. the love has gone in @@NAME@@
#1124 Signing Off, Your God
4. it is written that unbelievers perish in fire and brimstone but that's okay
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
4. polychromatic seas of leaves blanket the ground while sewers and drain pipes are clogged by their detritus
#1358 Who's In Your Wallet?
6. angry citizens complain that there isn't enough geographical diversity on the new banknotes
#1479 Fares Fair?
2. turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats
#1615 Passports-4-Purchase
2. a passport is literally priceless

flagrant waste-dumping

Gained from:

#356 @@NAME@@ in the Time of Cholera
2. the nation is loathed abroad for dumping all of its waste in international waters
#641 Dirty Little Minds
4. corrupt industrial practices are spreading like a plague

Removed by:

#480 One Nation's Trash Is Another Nation's Trash
1. landfills fill the land
2. the government is trying to clean up all the rubbish that has washed up on the shores of Bigtopia and Marche Noire

free-roaming dinosaurs

Gained from:

#474 Mesozoic Park
1. sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park
3. idyllic countryside scenes see border collies herding sixty-ton dinosaurs
4. local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings
#556 Here Be Dragons?
4. failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside
#655 No Bones About It
4. the army is spending millions cloning khaki-colored dinosaurs

Removed by:

#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
3. monster hunters with oversized swords roam the land

frequent executions

Gained from:

#11 People Request Not So Much Dictatorship, if That's All Right
1. political activists are routinely executed
#12 Death Penalty on Agenda
1. the death penalty has been reintroduced
#44 No Pain, No Gain!
3. people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed
#46 Jennifer Government Censorship Row
1. Jennifer Government is banned
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
3. poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
3. a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun
#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
2. drunk drivers are sentenced to death
#70 Purge the Infidels!
1. citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed
2. citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed
#98 Police Want More Than Shiny Badge
2. citizens are regularly shot for parking on the double-yellow line
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
3. protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others
#151 Build Bigger Bombs, Advise Scientists
4. all weapon research has been banned
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
3. criminals are executed and their property seized
#175 Is @@NAME@@ Too Promiscuous?
1. adultery has been made a capital offence
#196 Violent Violetists Protest Artists
1. government-sponsored gallows are being erected by Violetist temples
#207 Secret Police in @@NAME@@?
3. the police force is rumoured to be made up of evil shadows with no souls
#218 Two Mommies One Too Many?
3. homosexuality is a crime punishable by death
#219 Nobody Expects the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Inquisition!
3. atheists and evolutionary biologists are fleeing the country like rats from a sinking ship
#220 Voter Apathy Rising but No One Cares
3. citizens who refuse to vote are guillotined
#229 Government Saturated in Corruption
1. politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes
#237 Tourists on Death Row
3. drug-related crimes carry the death penalty
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
3. criminals are thrown to the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to repay their debt to society
#243 A Question of Faith
4. open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
4. citizens who become homeless are immediately executed
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
4. the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association
#313 Conscientious Objectors Want You... To Let Them Abstain
2. conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors
#314 An Affair to Remember?
3. bloodthirsty zealots regularly participate in the Friday Night Stoning of Adulterers
#347 Crime Problems Ganging Up on @@NAME@@
1. rap artists are regularly arrested for promoting extremist groups
#351 The Cost of Freedom
3. violent criminals are doomed to be hunted by a psychotic billionaire
#363 The Apotheosis of @@LEADER@@?
5. failure to pay the thrice-daily homage to the divine @@LEADER@@ is punishable by death
#372 The Coming of the Commissars
4. police wait behind troop deployments in order to shoot deserters
#451 A Proselyte to Burn
2. the nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books
#461 If at First You Don't Succeed...
4. a wide-ranging purge of leading officials and family members is being carried out by @@LEADER@@
#475 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
3. firing squads regularly execute dissidents
#496 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
2. attempted suicide is punishable by public hanging
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
1. rural citizens live in terror of their local village constable
#533 Hearsay Heresy
3. the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
1. women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft
2. bands of adventurers rove the countryside searching for monsters
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
1. hundreds of teenagers die every year at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Hungry Games
#571 Family Feud
2. entire families swing in the wind at the national gallows
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
3. burning members of the Order of Violet is the nation's favorite pastime
#604 Food Behind Bars
5. corrective labour camps either end political dissent or kill the dissenters
#611 Blundering Battle Bureaucrats
2. heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors
#625 Delivering the Goods
8. policemen want to put the nation's homosexuals up against a wall
#658 A Sickening Dilemma
2. sneezing in public is a capital offense
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
3. anyone claiming to be a messiah is promptly put to death
#703 Divine Decoration
4. the hills are alive with the smell of burning flesh
#710 Feudal Feuds
1. a serf by any other name works just as hard
#738 Cruel or Unusual?
2. an eye for an eye leaves @@NAME@@ blind
#746 [The Enemy Within] There's a Place
5. nobody dares to so much as wear violet-coloured clothing in public
#794 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Fear and Loathing in @@CAPITAL@@
1. citizens patriotically sing the government's praises while glancing nervously over their shoulder
#795 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Lock Him Up!
1. critics of @@LEADER@@ literally can't find their head on their shoulders
#799 A Political Cock-Up
2. unpopular politicians are often caught between a rock and a hard place
#817 Back-Alley Blues
4. women who miscarry have their death-masks displayed in the Wax Museum's "Sociopaths and Serial Killers Exhibit"
5. women who miscarry have their death-masks displayed in the Wax Museum's "Sociopaths and Serial Killers Exhibit"
#870 @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Literally Exploding With Excitement
3. the government is encouraging violence on television
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
3. slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration
#913 Couped Up
2. the practice of capital punishment proves divisive
#919 The Meaning of Life
2. prison overcrowding is being addressed with a series of short sharp shocks
#949 Jailhouses Rocked!
2. the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons
3. the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons
#986 Poacher Pandemic
4. environmentalists have found an unusual ally in soldiers of fortune
#1014 Unreasonable Doubt
1. you can say what you like about the genocidal murderers that rule @@NAME@@ but at least the trains run on time
#1053 Some Enchanted Evening That Was
4. there is no such thing as an innocent fling in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military
#1124 Signing Off, Your God
2. it is written that heretics die and @@LEADER@@ laughs
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
3. extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary
#1162 She's Always a Woman to Me
2. taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death
3. taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
5. the government prevents violence by committing genocide
#1222 Family Matters
3. police nightsticks see use all day long
#1263 Is the Signature Always Right?
3. people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled
4. people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled
#1274 No Room Left for Asylum Seekers
3. the nation is a world leader in martyrs per capita
#1284 How to Choose the Chosen One
1. children are encouraged to fail at school so as not to appear too enlightened
#1308 One in the Oven
1. the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans
#1512 The Door's Unlocked, Let Yourself In...
3. Lady Justice has swapped her blindfold for steel-capped boots
#1644 From Silver Spoons to Swordplay
3. high society is losing its collective head
4. high society is losing its collective head
#1646 Is God in This Machine?
1. smart fridges sing the praises of @@FAITH@@ for fear of being iced
#1661 Payback's a Witch
1. @@NAME@@ has the hottest women in the world
#1670 Bad Religion
3. the guillotine's a-swingin' all night long
4. the guillotine's a-swingin' all night long

Removed by:

#311 Victims Demand Their Pound of Flesh
3. condemned prisoners spend hours a day sitting in lotus position looking perplexed
#318 Death Penalty on Death Row?
1. prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail
#631 The Violet Mile
7. international humanitarian organisations are applauding the government for ending the death penalty
#806 Unlicensed to Kill
3. under doctor's orders @@LEADER@@ is going on a diet and abolishing capital punishment
#828 Your Execution in 30 Years or Less or You're Free
5. the Violet Mile now refers to the long line-ups that former death row inmates wait in as they transfer to maximum security prisons
#835 The End Is in Sight?
4. the nation's apology for those it has executed in the last year has come a little late for some
#1241 Return Statement
4. lobotomised jaywalkers can barely ambulate let alone repeat their offences
#1332 We Won't, We Won't Rock You
4. an opal a day keeps the negative thoughts at bay

Sometimes removed by:

#12 Death Penalty on Agenda
2. extreme political groups are outlawed

hatred of cheese

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#2 Reclaim the Streets!
2. bicyclists are banned from major roads
3. the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts
#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
1. all industry is owned and run by the government
#8 Nudists Demand Time in Sun
2. public nudity is compulsory
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
2. a nation-wide cull of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ is in effect
#10 Social Inequality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars
#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
2. all recreational drugs are legal
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
1. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
2. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
5. the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
4. citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
1. punitive tariffs protect local industry
#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
2. the country has unplugged its internet connection to prevent subversive content
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
4. government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#49 Diving for @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
1. the government seizes all major gold finds
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
4. the recent ban on computers is causing havoc throughout the nation
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
#67 Most Likely to Secede
1. territories have the right to secede if they aren't happy
#68 Ornery Overcrowding Problem
1. the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments
#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution
1. prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators
2. vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres
3. protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#74 @@NAME@@'s Racers Growing Fast and Furious
1. the @@NAME@@ Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise
#76 Suits in Protest
4. local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food"
#82 AI Researchers Rally for Android Rights
3. computers have been banned
#86 Save the @@ANIMAL@@
2. many believe that the only good @@ANIMAL@@ is a dead @@ANIMAL@@
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
2. scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway
#90 Organic Outburst
2. a survey of the nation's rivers and children has shown that pesticide levels are at an all-time regional high
3. people are moving into treehouses in record numbers
#95 Painful Prices Paid at the Pump
1. pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil
#96 Water Supply Problems Becoming a Major Drain
4. riots have broken out as a water shortage threatens @@NAME@@'s stability
#97 Landfills Filling Up
3. many of the country's largest dumps can be seen from space
#100 Road Rage Rampage
1. traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
2. new urban roads are threatening city parks
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
3. ad-blocking has been nationalised
#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
3. protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others
#118 Need for Speed?
1. the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril
#125 Bring Back the Ballot?
2. suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence
#133 When @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Attack!
1. misbehaving @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ deemed dangerous to the public are shot and hanged by the town hall as a warning to others
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
1. government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
1. private businesses are paving paradises to put up parking lots
2. the government is paving paradises to put up parking lots
3. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
4. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
5. there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt
#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
3. zombie-like crowds of hard drug users stumble through the streets
#140 A Grave Problem
3. houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries
#142 Roads Like Roller Coasters, Complain Motorists
1. roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews
#147 Military Budgets Up for Approval
5. military service is compulsory
#151 Build Bigger Bombs, Advise Scientists
1. citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over @@NAME@@
2. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
3. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped
3. heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste
#157 Sergeants Are Too Nasty, Say New Recruits
4. newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines
#170 Deserts Devouring @@NAME@@'s Countryside
3. @@NAME@@ has become a gigantic dustbowl filled with tourists and mean desperados
#173 Women Demand Equal Opportunities
3. mostly women are seen and not heard
4. men are expected to stay home to fix funny noises in the attic
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
2. all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave
#178 Free Press Too Free?
2. truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
1. the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
1. almost all products in @@NAME@@ are hand-crafted due to strict employment laws
4. the loom represents the height of @@NAME@@'s technology
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
1. public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers
3. all footpaths have tollbooths
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
7. young girls often attend the same schools as their children
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
1. the government has been kicking out foreign corporations in a bid to grow enough food for the populace
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
1. abattoirs are running at full capacity in response to skyrocketing demand
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
3. neighbouring countries pay to situate their nuclear power plants in @@NAME@@
5. nine out of ten citizens of @@NAME@@ answered 'nuclear safety inspector' when asked their occupation
#209 Students Demand Financial Aid
4. closed universities are currently being converted into McRonald's restaurants
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
2. the carcasses of double-deckers can be found littering high streets all around the country
3. the public transport system has been eliminated
4. the public transport system has been eliminated
#215 Easter Egg: What's Your Favourite Colour?
1. the nation's favourite colour is red (@@EGG@@)
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
1. eminent domain has been abolished
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
1. the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code
#223 Easter Egg: Zombie Attack!
1. the nation has a strict 'no marauding undead' law (@@EGG@@)
6. the undead roam the streets and countryside at night (@@EGG@@)
#224 Minimum Wage War
2. unemployment is through the roof after the government enacted living wage laws
#228 Mice in the Walls
4. it is firmly believed that cameras steal souls
#231 Jungle Fever
2. rice shortages have risen after paddy fields were drained to combat malaria
4. DDT is used widely to repel disease-carrying insects
#234 Corruption in the Lobby
1. corporate lobbying has been outlawed
#235 From Green Pastures to Grey Wastelands
4. agricultural science is the most competitive subject at universities
#241 A Capital City for @@NAME@@?
3. all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of @@CAPITAL@@
5. the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs
#242 Follow the Leader
2. @@LEADER@@ has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw
#244 Foreign Invasion Force Takes on Small Farming Community
3. thousands of citizens have been evicted from their homes so as 'not to cause a fuss' on the international scene
#245 Clash of Cultures
6. the word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive
#248 The Sky Is Falling
5. aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed
#254 Freedom Comes at a Price
2. employers are gradually adapting to the alien premise of paying wages to their workers
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
5. the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'
#260 Taxpayers on Strike!
1. the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion
#261 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
3. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
5. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
#263 Wind Farms Blowing Up a Storm
1. renewable energy projects have ground to a halt
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
3. businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up
#269 Stop the Presses!
4. abacus sales outpace those of the personal computer following the closure of the Internet
#278 Relief Is Coming... In Four to Six Weeks
3. people take government jobs for the frequent flier miles
#283 Wealthy Flee to Tax-Free Havens
1. expats return home to a government devoid of social and environmental agencies
#285 A Right Not to Work?
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down
4. midnight pizza breaks are common among the work-from-home population
#286 A Whale of a Problem
2. seafood restaurants assure customers 'If it lives in the sea, it's on our menu'
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
5. tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
1. grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices
3. surfers ride tsunamis of record height and toxicity
4. the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
2. companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave
#305 Who's Occupying What?
3. businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders
4. the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation
#308 Over, Under or Through?
1. @@NAME@@ Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere'
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
3. the government is rounding up computers and beating them into plowshares
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
3. businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
4. computers are used primarily for word processing and solitaire
#324 "Tourism Tanking!" Trumpet Tabloids
2. visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories
3. visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories
#335 Log Us Back On
3. computers are widely considered to be the "devil magic of heathens"
#338 The Silence and the Fury
2. most people suffer from some form of hearing loss
#339 The Bear Necessities
1. workers have seized control of the economy
#340 Defending Patent Pending
1. corporate innovation has effectively ended since ideas can no longer be owned
#341 Where in the Woods Is Cindy SanFrancisco?
5. groups of three or more trees are cut down in the name of 'child safety'
#342 This Land Was Made for You and Me
2. prime picnicking sites are being paved over in the name of progress
5. residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes
#344 Trash Talk
5. tumbleweeds made of litter adorn city streets
#346 Oil's Well That Ends Well
4. Ollie the Oiled Seal welcomes throngs of tourists to the newly opened Oil Oasis Water Park
#353 Broadband Going to the Birds?
3. stray cats threaten the fledgling avian-based internet
#355 Alien Invaders
4. the government's official position on invasive species is 'who cares?'
#362 After the Fall
3. the government prefers to take a hands-off approach to catastrophes
#368 Female Workers Feeling the Pinch
4. harassment has been stamped out under the high-heeled jackboots of a matriarchy
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
4. foreign observers are baffled by the sway @@LEADER@@'s student intern holds over macroeconomics
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#379 Stakes on a Plane
1. homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways
2. planespotters are emigrating in droves
3. billions are being spent on a new island airport
#389 [An International Incident] Sanctions, Sanctions Everywhere!
1. toilet paper is considered a non-essential item in the embargo against Brasilistan
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
#414 Subpar Suburbs
4. towns that stop turning a profit are turned into animal sanctuaries
#416 Prophet Margins
3. @@LEADER@@ is refusing to make decisions until the Moon is out of Capricorn
#419 RED Rover, RED Rover, Send Your Money Right Over!
3. all transmission towers have been temporarily diverted in order to establish dialogue with a comet
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
3. bleach is the nation's most common pesticide
#428 Crop Circles Clutter @@CAPITAL@@
2. forecasts predict rains of loose lead and mortar shells for the next six weeks
#429 No Representation Without Taxation?
3. factories grind to a halt every time there is an election
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
4. cruise liners are being requisitioned and filled with zoo animals as @@NAME@@ braces for "Le Grand Deluge"
#437 Blue Screen of Economic Death
4. necklace theft is the nation's fastest-growing crime
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
3. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
4. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
3. a performance of the hit musical "Mamma Tua" has been delayed after squatters were found sleeping in the orchestra pit
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
2. strategic economic sectors are controlled by the state
#445 Evasive Maneuvers
2. companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
1. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
2. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
4. @@ANIMAL@@ sanctuaries have been taken over by hydraulic fracturing sites
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
1. hordes of gardening enthusiasts are being banished from cities nationwide
4. food imports have skyrocketed after the recent 'Forage for Food' program severely backfired
#457 Colossus With Feet of Clay
1. tourists flock to see the giant stone carvings of historical leaders at Mount Rushless
#462 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
2. the installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused
3. astronomers are flocking to @@NAME@@ to take advantage of its clear night skies
4. the native owl population is in permanent hibernation
#470 Tide Stops for No Man
1. scenic beaches are now protected by massive concrete walls
4. the government spends twice as much reclaiming lost settlements from the sea as it could've on coastal defences
#474 Mesozoic Park
1. sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park
3. idyllic countryside scenes see border collies herding sixty-ton dinosaurs
4. local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings
#479 @@LEADER@@, Put on the Yellow Light
1. tardiness has increased after carpooling was classified as a criminal offense
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
2. the universal wage level is set by dividing GDP by the number of citizens
3. @@LEADER@@'s new socialist government gets its policy advice from teenagers
5. occupational wage levels are based on a crumpled napkin authored by a legendary @@CAPITAL@@ bus driver
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
1. confused drunks wake up to irate drill sergeants whipping them into shape
#489 Standing at Attention
4. handsome young men are forced into uniforms by their dominant elders
#490 The Long and Winding Halls of @@CAPITAL@@
1. auditors are gutting every governmental department
2. the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
1. the nation's once beautiful countryside has turned brown as farmers spray potent pesticides
4. Maxtopians are both starving and giddy after the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military unleashed its biological weapons
#507 Would a Rochebaron by Any Other Name Smell Just as Sweet?
2. the government has declared victoria over the cheese menace
#512 Furnished for Failure
2. a mountain of discarded sofas and beds is incinerated every day
4. personal injury lawyers are demanding compensation from the government after recent reductions in manufacturer liability
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
3. model railroad hobbyists have taken to muscling model shipbuilders off their "turf"
#525 Nowhere to Go!
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have replaced bears in a popular idiom
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
2. motorway service stations often have a higher population than the hinterland villages that the roads lead to
3. illegal moonshine operations get taken out with laser-guided airstrikes
#527 The Body Politic
1. cities in @@NAME@@ declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
2. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
3. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
4. carrots are orange, apples are red and food waste is increasing
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
2. giant no-kill traps baited with Bapst Red Ribbon and vintage bicycles have been popping up in back alleys nationwide
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
2. every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
3. applications to enter seminaries spike right before the obligatory fasts
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
3. eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance
#556 Here Be Dragons?
4. failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside
#560 Bicameral Backlash
2. @@LEADER@@'s power is effectively nullified as no bill becomes law without the upper house's support
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
4. subsidisation of Big Pharma has stopped many corporate executives from having to sell their second homes
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
4. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
6. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
1. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
2. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
4. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
5. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
3. sea side cafes are required by law to close during summer
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
4. funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience
#590 When Trees Hug Back
4. @@NAME@@'s growing economy feeds on the nation's ever-declining greenery
5. @@NAME@@'s growing economy feeds on the nation's ever-declining greenery
#591 Bait and Switch
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
4. sushi just hasn't been the same since salmon went extinct overnight
#593 A Right to Bare Arms?
4. fathers are free to sell their daughters to whomever they choose
#599 Dead in the Water
1. oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires
2. oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires
4. the dead fish in the national rivers aren't decomposing because even bacteria can't survive the levels of toxicity
#602 Hobby Lobby
6. a light facial coating of soot is seen as the mark of an honest and hardworking man
#623 Maison d'Être?
2. the country is littered with broken homes
5. disputed territories across @@REGION@@ are being claimed by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ college students
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
2. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
3. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
#628 Only @@LEADER@@ Can Prevent Forest Fires
1. forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left
4. disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
1. formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming
2. the working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes
#634 Bullet Time
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
3. vital infrastructure development is on hold because of 'nature and stuff'
#640 A Clear-Cut Conundrum
2. East Lebatuck tests its moon rovers in the barren wasteland of rural @@NAME@@
#641 Dirty Little Minds
1. corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics
#647 Songbirds' Decline Ruffles Feathers
4. it is a silent spring in @@NAME@@
#649 Made in Maxtopia
3. there are no bananas today in @@NAME@@
4. where your food came from is an unknowable mystery
#651 Black Days for @@NAME@@
2. commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year
#660 Are We Being Served?
1. retail staff are trained to take both inside leg measurements and the lives of their enemies
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
2. no one knows how to tie a reef knot
#664 Your Land or Mine
1. no-one can foil the ambitions of Big Aluminium
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
3. truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned
#667 One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Recyclable
3. unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
2. school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel
3. home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks
#669 Watts Up With Rooftop Solar
1. panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies
3. smog in @@CAPITAL@@ is so bad that fresh air bottles are sold by street vendors
#672 All Shook Up
3. coastal cities are being moved a dozen miles inland to reduce flooding risk
#675 Trick or Treaty
1. citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee
2. the industries of @@NAME@@ are coughing all the way to the bank
3. carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk
4. toxic smog is dismissed as the populace just "letting off steam"
#676 Down the Rabbit Hole
1. wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts
#680 The Fault Is in Our Stars
1. a full moon at night lets economists sleep tight
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
3. a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away
#682 Exhaust Every Option
3. people say that smog must be good for you because of its healthy green colour
#685 Externalities Palmed Off
2. both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade
5. the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production
#689 A Sticky Situation
2. the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame
3. the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame
#697 Conventional Wisdom
3. @@LEADER@@ has taken to wearing medal-adorned military uniform in all public appearances
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
4. safe drinking water is considered a luxury
5. poverty is disloyal to the Motherland
6. the nation's water should not be ingested while operating heavy machinery
#705 The Germ of an Idea
1. it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma
3. sushi is sold on the black market
#706 A Walk in the Park
2. citizens complain about a burning sensation after bathing
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
3. it is common to still see adults with training wheels on their bikes
#714 Milky Ways
5. only rebellious teens who want to look cool and dangerous drink milk in public
#717 Cheques and Balances
1. the main interest rates change daily based on the latest news story
2. @@LEADER@@ sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy
3. @@LEADER@@ sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy
#726 Jobless Fair
1. extreme hiring regulations mean a job in @@NAME@@ is often a lifetime appointment
#727 Market Crash
2. historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre
4. businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections
5. the sidewalk is used as an overtaking lane by city drivers
#732 A Peeping Problem
3. workers tend to schedule naps during all-hands meetings
#733 The Path Less Traveled
1. exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting
2. exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting
6. aggressive promotion of global warming puts polar bears on thin ice
#737 Bird-Brained Diplomacy
2. the military will start wars with other nations on a lark
#740 [The Enemy Within] A Day in the Life
3. the nation has been sent to bed early for unspecified naughtiness
#751 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Breed Contempt
1. no animal is considered endangered if there's another that looks kind of like it
2. gardeners must genetically test weeds for unique traits before digging them up
3. condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals
#758 Bye Bye to the Birdies?
2. the weather in @@CAPITAL@@ is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'
#762 Double Down on Double Time?
3. tumbleweed drifts through the nation's shopping centres during the weekends
#766 Carbon Emissions Are Why We Can't Have Nice Things
3. the carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills
5. @@LEADER@@ has incinerated the international climate treaty in a public coal-burning ceremony
#769 How to Print Money?
3. most @@CURRENCY@@ coins are riddled with bite marks
5. the barter economy has taken over as the @@CURRENCY@@ has become worthless
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
2. ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences
#774 Clean Switch
4. immigrants complain that natives keep coming over and taking their jobs
#778 Mal Appetit!
1. those who don't have a bean to spend don't know a bean about Brasilistanian coffee beans
#784 The Driving Force
4. many believe climate change is a liberal media fiction
5. mail and shipped goods take forever to get to buyers
#792 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Why Can't We Be Friends?
1. politicians who misplace decimal points on expense reports are fired for gross incompetence
#804 Motivational Posters
3. rubber stamp emojis are the new craze
#808 Big Trouble in Little Dàguó
2. the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment
#809 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
3. neighboring nations are tired of @@LEADER@@'s big fish stories
4. neighboring nations are tired of @@LEADER@@'s big fish stories
5. the single fish caught by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ fishers last year is cited as evidence of @@NAME@@'s thriving fisheries
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
2. vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mussels the biggest in @@REGION@@
#815 Embargoed In
3. there is a law against "filthy foreign food"
#816 A Hot Topic
2. the Forestry Department has decided you really can't fight fire with fire
3. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
4. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
2. meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
4. women find themselves saying "my eyes are up here" more often than they used to
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
4. diners regard burgers made from mechanically reclaimed cow protein as "proper meat"
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
2. for just a few extra @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can get new driving records with their new cars
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ visiting rural Southern @@ANIMAL@@ Village can get their driving records clean for a small fee
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
2. CEOs are forced to cut coupons during important conference calls to make ends meet
#829 Winning at Battleship
1. ships are encouraged to deliberately run aground onto @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ beaches
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
5. citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks
#860 A Blast From the Past
1. the tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches
#863 Oiling the Wheels of Diplomacy
1. the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state
4. the government is proud to report that ten percent of all tax revenue goes to funding suspected terrorist organizations
#865 A Funeral for a Fiend?
4. the government only announces the deaths of its members when it's convenient
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
1. the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem
#881 Blooming Out of Proportion
1. antique comic book collectors are disappointed to hear that their treasures are worth exactly as little as their mothers said they were
#882 Death by Chocolate
1. school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
6. they say insanity is torturing the same citizens over and over again and expecting a different result
#888 Criminal Patterns
1. road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans
#892 The Old Metric
1. an extra hand on the leg will give a horse-and-a-half of lead in a hundred jiffies on seven furlongs
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
2. bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls
#895 Stop Training and Start Coaching
1. the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
5. the only place where one can see the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cherry tree is in a museum
#904 Yours Insincerely
1. the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster
#906 Internet Killed the Television Star
4. televangelists often claim they can cure your Lupus if you donate enough money
5. television is strictly censored so that it promotes @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ values
#907 A Problem Shared
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
2. theatre audiences often need a telescope to see the stage
#921 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad @@NAME@@
3. the nation's forests are full of treasure hunters in military-grade survival gear
#923 Ministers Exposing Themselves
2. citizens who plan overseas vacations are barred from running for political office
#936 Hackable Elections?
1. foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election"
2. write-in candidate '@@LEADER@@ Sucks' is perennially popular
#937 Ebony Pride
2. everybody's got wood thanks to @@LEADER@@
#938 A Little Gift From a Friend
2. citizens are yearning to leave @@NAME@@ for the countries it sends aid to
#945 Police on the Take
2. crimes are difficult to stop as most of the police force is stuck in traffic
#950 Borderline Pandemic
4. hotels often double as quarantine zones
#951 The Wrath of the Fish King
1. fish with fish chips have become the new @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ food staple
4. the idiom 'there are plenty of fish in the sea' isn't so reassuring to @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#955 Can It!
4. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
5. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
#957 Putrid Predicament
1. commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains
2. onions have been banned due to their tendency to cause eye irritation
#974 Siren Song
2. the banshee wail foretells skies of death
#976 Demonic Possession Getting You Down?
3. foreign militaries are taking a particular interest in the nation's abandoned borders and cities
#996 Scripting a Change?
4. the libraries of @@NAME@@ are staffed by lone, lonely librarians
#1002 The Call of Nature
2. there are fifty shades of yellow in outdoor swimming pools
3. there are fifty shades of yellow in outdoor swimming pools
4. allergy-sufferers must wear gas masks before venturing outdoors
#1005 What Goes Up Breaks Down
4. the nation's air defense strategy is two-dimensional
#1006 Opening the Door to Controversy
4. movement-triggered sensors mean that for every door that closes another one opens
#1013 Grave Disease
4. people across the world seek to be healthier by eliminating carbs
#1021 Room and Board Games
4. multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks
#1022 Failure to Respond
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
2. millions of simultaneously backfiring toilets have flooded @@CAPITAL@@ with effluent
#1038 Maid to Order
4. it is believed that behind every great man is a terrified subservient woman
#1047 Rivers of Blood
2. the newest shade developed by @@NAME@@'s dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange'
3. the rainbow assortment of chemicals in the water has turned the frogs gay
#1056 Time to Work?
1. surgeons walk out of theatres more often than prima donna actors
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
3. the nation's endangered species are no longer endangered
#1060 Hole in the Wall
2. putting houses on stilts is elevating house porches and prices alike
3. official maps have to be revised on a weekly basis
#1061 Every Day I'm Muffling
2. it's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1065 Pulling Out
1. citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint
4. the climate agreement has actually increased the volume of hot air in the atmosphere
5. the nation has learned that pulling out is messy
#1068 Made to Break
2. frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback
3. state-manufactured hammers and sickles are here to stay
#1069 Bowl Motions
2. the roar of the Niagara 3000 mega-loo can be heard several blocks away
#1071 Up the Creek
3. the canal flows through the land like a twisty turny thing
4. the nation excels at displacement
5. the nation excels at displacement
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
3. this year's comedy award has left mothers-in-law seething
#1075 The Hand That Feeds
4. the "Rump Diet" is all the rage
#1083 Public Protesting Pawnbroker Pickpockets
1. thrift shops are closing their doors
#1095 Make the Cut
4. kids only know what plants are because they've seen them on the television
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1112 Stray Bullets
2. it's illegal to exterminate cockroaches
3. the domestic version of the Paddington Bear movie was a far shorter and bloodier tale
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
2. the only thing slower than the economy is the exchange where it's managed
4. the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection
#1133 Rocky Road
3. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
4. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
#1134 Tariff-ic Trouble
1. a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat"
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
3. workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year
#1160 Milking It
1. more than one company makes the board game Monopoly
#1164 What a Gneiss Place We've Got Here
2. an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety
#1166 Acres Wild
2. the backs of 'No Trespassing' signs were made for you and me
#1179 Nothing Fishy
2. ports have ground to a halt as no boat can reach them without trespassing
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
#1182 Thanks, but No Thanks
3. immigrants don't even have to immigrate to cost the locals their jobs
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
4. female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked'
#1195 All Hands on Tap!
1. the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene
#1202 A Timely Intervention
3. the well-to-do in @@REGION@@ are never on time for important appointments
#1206 Gross Domestic Product
4. cholera is seen as the holiest of diseases
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
4. sleeping on the job is recommended
#1213 The War of Man and Beast
4. the nation's iron imports are booming
#1216 Not My Government
4. an iron curtain has descended around the nation
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
5. the government prevents violence by committing genocide
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
5. people have become comfortably numb
#1225 The Rumors, They Fly
2. children are encouraged to chase pigeons
#1242 Jump Leads
5. the incidence of wrist sprains is falling
#1245 Sheepish Students
4. the wealthiest parts of the country receive the most government spending
#1246 Breath of the Wild
2. the cycle of extinction and rebirth is never ending
3. the old neighbourhood isn't how most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ remember it
#1269 All That Glitters
4. blocked storm drains cause sanitation problems
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
1. sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
3. photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
3. a petition to improve @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ literacy is mostly signed with cross-marks
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
4. polychromatic seas of leaves blanket the ground while sewers and drain pipes are clogged by their detritus
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wonder "if a tree falls in the woods with no credible witnesses, who wants to know?"
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
2. coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms
3. @@LEADER@@ has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
1. cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon
#1310 Intimate Relations
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1311 An Acquired Taste
4. gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours
#1327 Which Right Is Right?
3. people often complain that they're going in circuitous routes all the time
#1328 Not-So-Friendly Fire
4. children happily laugh and play on their way to school during air-raids
#1331 Warning, Fatigue
1. power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky
#1346 The Problem With Peyote
3. would-be mescaline users often describe a crawling sensation on their skin
#1348 Heaven Can't Wait
5. above @@NAME@@ there is only sky and the fear of the unknown
6. above @@NAME@@ there is only sky and the fear of the unknown
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
1. the nation frequently scolds its subject territories for staying up past bedtime
#1356 The Silicon Curtain
5. the nation has become both the largest producer and consumer of abaci in @@REGION@@
#1357 Scattered Showers
4. space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across @@NAME@@
#1368 Parking Hell
2. parking's carefree without parking car fees
#1385 [MADness] Skycrash
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have become death, the destroyer of worlds
#1386 [MADness] The Spy Who Tricked Me
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have become death, the destroyer of worlds
#1390 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
6. corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
7. corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
#1405 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
4. trade ministers have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
5. trade ministers have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
#1412 Another Day, Another Dollar
3. the @@CURRENCY@@ is worth its weight in gold
4. purchasing a can of Addison Cola requires a wheelbarrow of cash
#1415 The Melting Point
3. people are always complaining about dam builders running behind schedule
4. people are always complaining about dam builders running behind schedule
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
1. @@LEADER@@ arrives at international summits with a white cane
2. the nation's new flagship trading company deals exclusively in things no one wants
3. attempts at growing pineapples in the desert have been unsuccessful
#1424 Here's Looking at Zoo, Kid
1. recapturing giraffes is proving to be a tall order
#1429 The Wind Become Death
4. the stratosphere is full of "silent but deadly" attacks from @@LEADER@@'s rear echelons
#1432 Oh Dear
1. if you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise
#1435 A Hot Potato
3. farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year
#1443 Forage and Forget
2. foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas
3. money grows on trees
#1452 Hello Darkness My Old Friend
2. the government enables frack addiction
3. noises of neighbourhood generators have pierced the sound of silence
#1453 A Salt and Battery
1. the environment is gorgeous so long as you're looking up
#1454 Poplar Opinion
3. biological warfare is used to solve small disagreements
4. dandruff and athlete's foot are seen as signs of physical beauty
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
3. at least 4 unique companies in @@NAME@@ claim to sell Eckie-Cola
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
3. unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims
#1460 A Burning Question
2. the end of autumn is celebrated with a bonfire of designer bags
#1463 Sandbagging
1. half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach
2. the treehouse in @@ANIMAL@@ Park is the tallest building in @@NAME@@
3. birdsong in the mountains has to be loud enough to drown out nearby jackhammers
4. residents of houses built on a foundation of wishful thinking are prone to an odd sinking feeling
#1471 @@LEADER@@ and the Lost Chamber of Vetoes
5. the legislature has come out as bicameral
#1473 A Pretty Pass
2. the government has to take out its Visa to eliminate visas
#1492 Smoke on the Water
4. the @@ANIMAL@@ has a hungry look
#1501 Diamond in the Rough
4. spotted owl meat is used as bait to lure wolves into traps
#1502 Dirty Deals
1. coastlines are giant slag heaps
3. work stinks
4. work stinks
#1506 A Need for Order
2. @@LEADER@@ is strangely popular with male politicians' wives
#1509 Parks and Aggravation
2. certain national parks offer tanning beds because the visitors never go outside
3. certain national parks offer tanning beds because the visitors never go outside
7. the tallest mountains are adorned with roller coasters
#1513 Bunged Up
2. the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet
3. shipping canals are a bit like unimaginative cheese shops -- filled with debris
#1540 Clean Flavours
3. orange juice has been renamed yellow juice
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
4. the nation's wilderness is only teenage wasteland
#1568 Palate Torture
4. the finest dining experience in @@NAME@@ is chakra-infused grass
#1577 All About the Hustle
4. the staffroom being an "icky" colour is a perfectly acceptable reason to not accept a job
#1579 A High-Interest Coupnundrum
3. the default state for @@NAME@@ is default
#1590 Tinder Profiled
3. actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs
4. asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before
#1600 Mother's Ruin
3. mothers refer to leaving the house as "the Great Escape"
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
3. the government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
4. molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public
#1621 The Space Between
6. the sky (and your feet) are the limit
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
1. APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps
2. APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other
#1639 Bad Coal Models
3. graffiti artists make up a significant portion of the coal mining population
#1653 Dick's Pics
4. politicians post explicit photos of themselves on community notice boards
#1656 Stealing Afoot
4. hospitals have unveiled new guidelines suggesting that latex gloves do not count as clothing
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
2. aristocracy is given the bird and called out as a lark
3. corporations continue to displace native peoples off their land
#1684 Naps in Judgement
1. pillows outnumber picket signs at most workers rallies
5. there's nothing quite like @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ nightlife
#1699 Achute Binjury
3. waste collection professionals have been canned

Removed by:

#460 Salt of the Earth
1. the looming peasant rebellion has been called off after farming was legalized

Sometimes removed by:

#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
1. all industry is owned and run by the government
2. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
3. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
3. vegetarianism is compulsory
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ is a protected species
#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
1. marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
3. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
4. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
2. there are no minimum wage laws
3. all tariffs have been abolished
#31 Get Efficient, Private Sector Tells Nature
1. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
2. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
3. a government program is underway to revitalize @@NAME@@'s beaches
#36 International Community Comes Doorknocking
4. the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid
#49 Diving for @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
3. the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
1. the judicial branch is strongly influenced by major corporations
6. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have more rights than the average citizen
#63 Tykes With Tools?
3. adult unemployment is rising as available jobs are filled by young children
#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution
1. prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators
2. vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres
3. protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
4. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
5. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
#79 @@NAME@@'s @@ANIMALPLURAL@@: Going the Way of the Dodo?
1. the @@ANIMAL@@ is protected from hunting and slowly coming back from the brink of extinction
#83 High-Speed Monorail Service Promises Connections
3. a vast monorail network carries people all over the country
4. a vast monorail network carries people all over the country
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
1. flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys
2. scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway
#90 Organic Outburst
1. all-natural foods are becoming a major fad
#95 Painful Prices Paid at the Pump
2. the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system
#96 Water Supply Problems Becoming a Major Drain
5. crooks and people with too many kids are being kicked out of the country
#97 Landfills Filling Up
1. space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space
2. cities are engulfed by smog
4. waste is frequently shipped to other countries
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
1. motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours
3. cars have been banned
#103 Plague of the Hybrids!
1. wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct
#115 @@NAME@@'s Schoolchildren Not Learning the Lingua Franca
1. citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages
#118 Need for Speed?
2. the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
1. the studies of art and philosophy are banned
3. only the brainiest citizens become academics
#126 Outsourcing an Outrage, Say Demonstrators
3. corporations are either above the law or corrupting it
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
1. retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits
5. immigrant Bigtopians work themselves to the bone to support gold-plated @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ pensions
#129 Tribal Troubles
1. large sections of @@NAME@@ have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
2. the sound of wooden legs echo throughout @@NAME@@ after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
5. there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt
#140 A Grave Problem
1. tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants
2. cremation is compulsory for the deceased
#152 A Capital Idea
1. the government has returned all business to private ownership
3. the government has legalised small-scale capitalism
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped
2. the nation's drinking water tends to glow green at night
3. heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste
#165 Wedlock Worries
3. all marriages are arranged by the government
#170 Deserts Devouring @@NAME@@'s Countryside
1. mysterious black helicopters menace farmers to ensure compliance with straitjacketing agricultural policies
2. owning a tractor is widely regarded as an essential prerequisite to most government positions
#178 Free Press Too Free?
1. reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors
#184 Compulsory Military Service Under Attack
1. the military struggles with recruitment
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
2. businesses often fire workers in favour of cheaper automatic systems
3. manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job
#194 A Request for Military Aid
3. the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
2. large areas of @@NAME@@ are not accessible by the public
#202 Guns or Butter?
3. strategic bombers are being converted into preschools
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
2. illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory
3. the consumption of vegetables is illegal
#209 Students Demand Financial Aid
1. the number of students attending university has reached a record high
3. it's normal to start working life with crippling financial debt
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
5. @@NAME@@'s heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
2. the government has the power to seize property at will
3. the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
4. the world outside is only known of in folklore
#228 Mice in the Walls
1. nerds everywhere are rejoicing as they are reunited with their computers
3. computers are allowed but only just
#234 Corruption in the Lobby
2. Tesco was recently named as the new national treasurer
#235 From Green Pastures to Grey Wastelands
1. high food prices have reduced the national diet to staple foods and water
3. supermarkets and large corporate farms are a thing of the past
#238 We Need a Few Good Men Who Like Men?
5. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
6. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
1. the country spends an increasingly large amount of its budget on grand scale projects of pharaonic proportions in a bid to boost the economy
#254 Freedom Comes at a Price
3. the booming slave trade is now government-funded
#261 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
1. shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned
2. the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics
4. the entire retail industry has been replaced by online delivery services
#263 Wind Farms Blowing Up a Storm
2. the countryside is shrouded by wind farms
3. @@NAME@@ has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
1. fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets
2. almost all of @@NAME@@'s water is piped into the country from abroad for exorbitant prices
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
1. the government is spending billions of taxpayer @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ to support "struggling" industries
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
3. bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
3. the state believes that children are what you make of them
4. the state believes that children are what you make of them
5. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
6. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
#278 Relief Is Coming... In Four to Six Weeks
1. contrails and thunderous rumbles have returned to the skies above
#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
5. trouble-makers are frequently turned in to the government to be 'recycled'
#286 A Whale of a Problem
1. people are arrested for looking too sternly at whales
3. the government strictly regulates whale harvest quotas
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
3. tourists outnumber citizens two to one
4. tourists outnumber citizens two to one
5. tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
3. laws are littered with references to cheese
4. laws are littered with references to cheese
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
1. grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices
2. a punitive tax has been placed on harmful emissions
4. the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association
#301 Are 'Friends' Electric?
3. the country is at the forefront of a 'peacekeeping' mission to secure power plants in war-torn Maxtopia
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
4. legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments
5. legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
1. many working fathers have never seen their children
4. most mothers are forced to quit their jobs to care for infants
5. most mothers are forced to quit their jobs to care for infants
6. mandatory daycare is provided by the government
#305 Who's Occupying What?
2. millions of devastated 7-year-olds are denied astronaut and ballerina training
#308 Over, Under or Through?
4. island residents must resort to canoes and sailboats to get to work
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
1. teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers
#335 Log Us Back On
1. teenagers haven't been seen outdoors since the nation reconnected to the Internet
#338 The Silence and the Fury
1. noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law
#339 The Bear Necessities
3. the economy is undergoing a traumatic transition to capitalism
#342 This Land Was Made for You and Me
1. the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction
2. prime picnicking sites are being paved over in the name of progress
5. residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
3. mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance
#344 Trash Talk
1. litter collection has replaced fast food as the most popular after-school job
2. daisy chain gangs plant flowers and pick up litter
3. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
4. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
#346 Oil's Well That Ends Well
1. oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds
3. wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms
#355 Alien Invaders
1. the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced
2. it's always rabbit season
3. invasive species are hunted by the gendarmerie
#356 @@NAME@@ in the Time of Cholera
1. the nation is now proudly cholera-free
#366 Prosecute Stolen Valour, Says Military
3. soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear
4. soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear
#370 The Unbearable Lightness of Government
1. money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy
2. the government's economic policy is "sort it yourself"
#379 Stakes on a Plane
1. homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways
3. billions are being spent on a new island airport
#384 Out of the Royal Frying Pan
1. governments opposing @@NAME@@ are beset by rebels
#390 [An International Incident] An Unstable Situation
1. the nation's armed forces are recruiting thousands to help colonise Brasilistan
#391 [An International Incident] The Third Horseman of Brasilistan
2. Brasilistan has been announced as the nation's newest colony
#395 [An International Incident] Growing Pains
3. the nation's people have woken up to find themselves colonial masters of Brasilistan
#400 [An International Incident] Insurgents Resurgence
1. 'Coloniser-in-Chief' has become @@LEADER@@'s new moniker
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
1. the nation has gained millions of new citizens overnight
3. "To Hell or to Marshland" is a common settler cry directed at native Brasilistanis
#414 Subpar Suburbs
1. town welcome signs list corporate sponsors
4. towns that stop turning a profit are turned into animal sanctuaries
#424 You Just Sank My Battleship!
4. veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
2. the Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook
#431 Gone a Stray!
3. animal control is going door-to-door releasing all pets back into the wild
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
1. there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees
2. EpiPen sales have skyrocketed
5. the government takes agricultural advice from a wasp-themed superhero
#444 Virtually Assured Destruction
1. the nation is committed to nuclear rearmament
#445 Evasive Maneuvers
1. corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
3. breast milk lattes are the newest fad among hip urbanites
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
1. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
2. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
3. drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
2. chickens roam the streets freely
#457 Colossus With Feet of Clay
4. suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks
#459 Murder, He Shouted!
2. @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ facilities are being turned into @@ANIMAL@@ habitats
#462 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
1. disadvantaged neighbourhoods have become no-go areas after sundown
3. astronomers are flocking to @@NAME@@ to take advantage of its clear night skies
4. the native owl population is in permanent hibernation
#470 Tide Stops for No Man
3. the logging industry is celebrating as tourists plaster @@NAME@@ with trees
#479 @@LEADER@@, Put on the Yellow Light
4. conspiracy theorists allege @@CAPITAL@@'s new subway map resembles Satanic symbols
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. @@LEADER@@ shrugs in the face of growing inequalities
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
4. pizza parlors have been replaced by lima bean cafes
#495 Beloved "Planet" Has Gone to the Dogs
3. the nation's leading climatologists are investigating animal flatulence in efforts to reduce methane emissions
#497 The Widening Gyre
1. the once prosperous capital is in utter decline
3. city-dwellers are forcibly moved to farming communes in the countryside
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
2. criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program
#507 Would a Rochebaron by Any Other Name Smell Just as Sweet?
1. the lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results
3. there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ grocery store
#512 Furnished for Failure
3. the nation's reinforced coffee tables are constructed to survive an atomic blast
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
2. the average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections
#522 Time to Get Serious
2. maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter
#523 A Family Affair
3. government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power
#524 Something Is Rotten in the State of @@NAME@@
1. rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
3. citizens have to dodge their neighbors' drones while getting the morning paper
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
1. @@CAPITAL@@'s main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight
#542 What a Waste
2. with great power generation comes great responsibility
3. nuclear physics is the most popular course at university
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
1. nighttime sightings of raccoons sporting Circle-A patches and bandanna masks are on the rise
3. the Grinder at Fat Sal's Deli and Recycling Center is a national institution
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
1. poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild
2. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
3. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
4. the endangered saltwater humpback @@ANIMAL@@ is only seen in captivity programs
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
1. every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead
2. every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
4. in its new More is More campaign the government advertises obese men and women posing coquettishly with baked goods to spare their blushes
#557 Take a Hike!
3. park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets
#559 The Low Aspiration Nation
1. fruit pickers with degrees in @@ANIMAL@@ psychology are a common sight
2. the average person needs three full-time jobs just to get by
3. the unemployed are quite literally sold to the highest bidder
#560 Bicameral Backlash
1. @@LEADER@@ has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished
#572 Reading, Your Rights
3. modern readers say a story is worthless without hyperlinked footnotes and editable wiki format
#574 One Small Step for Private Enterprise?
2. kids building model rockets in their backyard are grounded by Space Agency Rangers
4. falling satellites are regarded as a blessing from the gods
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
1. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
2. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
1. economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society
#577 Second World Problems
4. Party members are derided as class traitors
#581 Fair to Say...?
3. national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first
#591 Bait and Switch
1. maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords
#599 Dead in the Water
3. debate rages over whether ground fish guts can be spread on fields
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
3. beaches are empty as the shark population multiplies exponentially
#621 Blue Collar Blues
1. no one born in @@NAME@@ can fix a leaky faucet
2. no one born in @@NAME@@ can fix a leaky faucet
3. trained plumber-burglars will clean out your blocked pipes and your jewellery boxes
4. libraries are replacing history books and classic novels with technical manuals and trades directories to match the nation's changing demands
#626 Carbon Copied
5. future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
1. genetic researchers have taken to conducting illegal experiments in secret lairs
4. scientists spend more time enduring government inspections than they do on actual science
#628 Only @@LEADER@@ Can Prevent Forest Fires
3. the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
4. landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks
5. excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside
#634 Bullet Time
1. in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
4. government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
4. swings are now more popular than see-saws in children's playgrounds
#639 No Country for Old Men
4. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
5. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
#640 A Clear-Cut Conundrum
1. hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings
3. severed limbs litter woodland edges across the land
#641 Dirty Little Minds
1. corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics
4. corrupt industrial practices are spreading like a plague
#644 The Old Grey Matter
5. grannies with arthritic hands work miserably on factory production lines
#647 Songbirds' Decline Ruffles Feathers
1. military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft
3. foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that @@NAME@@ will pay them to stop
5. remote-control hang-gliding scarecrows patrol the skies to keep songbirds from leaving the nation's borders
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
1. Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping
3. truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills
#663 A "Friend" in Need
2. people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more
#664 Your Land or Mine
2. the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape
#667 One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Recyclable
1. local mafias have a tough time disposing of dead snitches without catching the attention of recycling authorities
2. unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
1. 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail
#669 Watts Up With Rooftop Solar
2. the poor are forced into bankruptcy by their energy bills
4. the government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble
#675 Trick or Treaty
1. citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee
2. the industries of @@NAME@@ are coughing all the way to the bank
3. carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk
4. toxic smog is dismissed as the populace just "letting off steam"
#677 Dial L for Loan
1. the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?"
#680 The Fault Is in Our Stars
4. politicians fear the otherworldly wrath of poorly made cheese
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
2. parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife
#682 Exhaust Every Option
1. schoolkids say that the air doesn't taste like wee-wee any more
2. proprietary charger leads are now a pain for electric cars as well as cellphones
4. calling shotgun on the front seat too many days in a row is seen as a crime against social equality
#685 Externalities Palmed Off
3. the nation burns bridges with neighbours who burn their rainforest
#689 A Sticky Situation
1. it's rare to find an unchewed pencil
4. Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
1. citizens often pray for divine guidance in supermarkets
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
1. families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain
#705 The Germ of an Idea
2. fast-food chefs regularly win Health Innovation Awards for spitting on burgers
#706 A Walk in the Park
1. glamping @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi
#710 Feudal Feuds
1. a serf by any other name works just as hard
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
1. bike rage is all the rage
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#714 Milky Ways
1. increasing numbers of children in @@NAME@@ have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers
3. supermarket milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets
4. state dairy cow's milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets
#717 Cheques and Balances
4. interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CB@@NAMEINITIALS@@ Governor goes house hunting
#726 Jobless Fair
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ companies generally just fire employees in lieu of giving them vacation
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#727 Market Crash
4. businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections
#728 A Bone to Pick
4. the deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors
#733 The Path Less Traveled
6. aggressive promotion of global warming puts polar bears on thin ice
#737 Bird-Brained Diplomacy
1. endangered species are effective hostages against the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military
#747 The Plane Truth
4. Air @@NAME@@ tickets have reached sky-high prices due to a complete monopoly on air travel
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
1. park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers
#751 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Breed Contempt
1. no animal is considered endangered if there's another that looks kind of like it
2. gardeners must genetically test weeds for unique traits before digging them up
#754 The Hit Parade
1. the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning
#758 Bye Bye to the Birdies?
1. it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors
3. authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets
#766 Carbon Emissions Are Why We Can't Have Nice Things
1. business leaders commend the government for enacting an emissions reduction strategy that reduces no @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ emissions at all
4. with increasingly clear skies nobody seems to mind the electricity bill going through the roof
5. @@LEADER@@ has incinerated the international climate treaty in a public coal-burning ceremony
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
1. dentists routinely perform open heart surgery
#774 Clean Switch
1. dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines'
2. dubiously qualified East Lebatuckese doctors prescribe ice baths as a treatment for pneumonia
#782 Sit-Down Money
4. doctors are trying to diagnose diseases by looking at their patients' Snipchat pictures
#784 The Driving Force
2. the country's motorways are surprisingly quiet
#808 Big Trouble in Little Dàguó
1. the government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash
4. it is often said that only @@LEADER@@ could bring down Dàguó
#809 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1. demand for night vision goggles and boat engine mufflers has spiked
2. tourists on boat cruises can't figure out why they smell so fishy afterward
#810 Armed and Unready
5. nobody is forced to join the armed forces
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
1. it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into @@NAME@@
3. concerned environmentalists wipe away their tears with tissues sourced from Tasmanian old-growth redwoods
#815 Embargoed In
5. the nation is devoted to world peas
#816 A Hot Topic
1. where there's smoke there's the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Forestry Department
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
3. it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
1. urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens
2. ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths
3. cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
5. sick days are on the rise
#838 The Bark Knight Rises
2. people can't decide between preserving forests and buying print copies of 'Dogman Versus The Giggler'
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
2. chocolate in @@NAME@@ has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers
#863 Oiling the Wheels of Diplomacy
2. the moral worth of national allies is judged by their GDP
3. military training in @@NAME@@ emphasizes the tactical advantages of stabbing backs
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
2. people who question what bunker construction has to do with economic reform tend to disappear
5. the "Brave New World" program has caused private businesses to spring up faster than the East Lebatuck Wall
#877 Gunning for Profits
4. old warplanes and tanks that break down can't be repaired since no one makes the parts anymore
#882 Death by Chocolate
2. the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
2. consumers are free to choose - so long as they choose Eckie-Ecola or Eckie-Cola
#888 Criminal Patterns
2. a stitch in time could see you serving nine
#890 Mining Blues
5. pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy
6. the Betamax versus VHS debate continues to rage strongly in @@NAME@@
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
1. restaurateurs put a lot of effort into persuading customers to accept wafer-thin mints
3. mouldy bread is served as an appetizer in many restaurants
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
1. CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show
2. home renovation shows are increasingly popular
4. newly-privatized lumberjacks are clearcutting the forest to meet demand
#907 A Problem Shared
4. boom-and-bust cycles are being peddled as economically inevitable
6. hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead"
#911 For Crying Out Loud
1. unemployed town criers cry over their drinks
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#923 Ministers Exposing Themselves
3. it's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast
#936 Hackable Elections?
4. it's said that any enemy of democracy is a friend to @@LEADER@@
#937 Ebony Pride
1. one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber
#946 Better In Than Out
4. explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase
#951 The Wrath of the Fish King
3. workers for the environmental protection agency are patted down for tartar sauce every morning
#955 Can It!
1. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
2. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
3. adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
2. unemployed youngsters trained to kill are being released en masse into society
#957 Putrid Predicament
3. the diplomatic corps stinks
4. the army's use of chemical weapons leaves a bad taste in the mouth
#970 For Want of a Nail
1. it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away"
2. it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away"
#980 Small Claims
1. the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks
#986 Poacher Pandemic
5. the horniness of the great-horned @@ANIMAL@@ is considered a national priority
#988 Highway Robbery by the Book!
3. strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down
#1002 The Call of Nature
1. pet owners make sure their dogs wear diapers
#1003 That Smarts
2. gene-engineered sewerjacks don't smell but they do stink
#1007 Putting Your Foot in It
1. pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit
2. bins outnumber trees in city parks
#1009 A Woman's Roll
1. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
2. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
#1013 Grave Disease
4. people across the world seek to be healthier by eliminating carbs
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
4. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
5. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
#1026 Size Matters
1. the entire entry for @@NAME@@ in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless'
3. posters on '@@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Values' advise against being proud of @@NAME@@
4. citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
1. toddler groups have taken over local libraries
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
3. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices
5. panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet
#1038 Maid to Order
1. members of ethnic minorities are more often called "boy" or "girl" than by their actual names
3. slaving over a hot stove to cook the family dinner isn't metaphorical in @@NAME@@
#1042 Failure to Launch
2. carpal tunnel syndrome is on the rise
#1047 Rivers of Blood
1. many in @@NAME@@ are born in the purple
#1051 Take to the Skies
2. former planespotters are dusting off long-abandoned anoraks
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
1. the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose
2. the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles
#1060 Hole in the Wall
2. putting houses on stilts is elevating house porches and prices alike
3. official maps have to be revised on a weekly basis
#1061 Every Day I'm Muffling
1. mechanics are often exhausted by their work
3. when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming
#1065 Pulling Out
1. citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint
4. the climate agreement has actually increased the volume of hot air in the atmosphere
5. the nation has learned that pulling out is messy
#1068 Made to Break
1. supermarkets must refund spoilt milk even six months after the sale
#1069 Bowl Motions
1. being able to unblock a u-bend pipe is considered a universally essential skill
3. garden flower shows rarely smell of roses
4. there is something rotten in the state of @@NAME@@
#1080 The End Was Nigh
4. it's illegal to blow things up
#1086 Fun in the Sun
6. hordes of tourists are ruining the environment
#1094 A Political Cover-Up
3. most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wear towels as demand for pants outstrips supply
#1105 A Green History Lesson
1. the statue in the @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@ Plaza has a solar panel for a hat
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
1. patriotic parents remind their children to drink plenty of water
2. health-conscious denizens drink their dogs' water
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
3. stews often contain used tissues and pocket fluff
4. lobster tastes best when it is red
5. the red star of communism has been replaced by the gold star of the McRonald's badge
#1121 Tribes and Tribulations
2. nations that kill @@A@@ @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ can expect a strongly worded letter
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
1. old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones
3. taxi drivers seem less xenophobic these days
#1140 Blinded by the Light
4. overcrowded buses are the new normal for suburban commuters
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
1. most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade
3. extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
2. the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard
#1160 Milking It
2. a milk bath costs more than bathing in money
#1164 What a Gneiss Place We've Got Here
1. trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews
3. citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones
#1166 Acres Wild
1. farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land
3. wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests
#1179 Nothing Fishy
1. father-son fishing trips have been banned
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
1. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
2. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
#1182 Thanks, but No Thanks
1. the government considers the rising number of McRonald's fast food restaurants to be great progress
#1185 Should Be Sufficient
3. the best fashion comes straight to the high street from sweatshops all across the globe
#1189 Driven to Distraction
2. neon signs promoting safe driving often distract drivers
#1190 Dirty Laundry
3. nobody brings rolls of coins to the laundromat anymore
#1193 Relocating the Living Room
1. colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation
2. the government maintains a Department of Skulduggery
#1195 All Hands on Tap!
2. foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with @@LEADER@@
#1212 Lost at Sea
3. children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes
#1228 The Road to Hell
1. the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners
#1230 Home Hunger
1. new pests have been imported into @@NAME@@
3. the government builds houses for foreign newcomers
#1240 Unadmirable Zeal
1. faithful allies are always valued
#1248 A Day to Remember
4. red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair
#1253 Build a Better Baby?
3. genetic screening weeds out citizens whose legs don't bend easily at the knee
#1267 Hamming It Up
5. email killed the radio star
6. email killed the radio star
#1269 All That Glitters
2. little girls are in tears as @@LEADER@@ confiscates their pink princess ballgowns
3. annual government budgets include a sizeable spend on "making things look fabulous"
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
1. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
2. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
#1282 Resting in Peace
3. truck drivers turn their engines off and coast whenever they're going downhill
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
1. trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same
3. autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
1. more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people
2. coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms
3. @@LEADER@@ has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
2. ranchers are adept at mimicking wolf attacks
4. cows graze until the wolves come home
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
2. the end of communism came with retail rather than revolution
4. proletariat workers identify less with the hammer and sickle and more with the touchscreen and phone charger
#1306 The Least Common Educator
3. most people think algebra is something a mermaid wears
#1318 Blitzed
7. skyscrapers get built in just days
#1325 Having Faith in Communism
4. spiritual leaders preach that the poor are being punished for their sins
#1342 Uni-ted We Roll, Uni-ted We Fall
3. environmental legislation occurs cyclically
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
1. they who do not work shall not eat
#1352 The Brains Behind Kuru
3. the government is accused of being heartless by those considered brainless
#1356 The Silicon Curtain
3. autarky's deemed malarkey as foreign bric-a-brac's brought back
#1358 Who's In Your Wallet?
6. angry citizens complain that there isn't enough geographical diversity on the new banknotes
#1361 Fundamental Rights
4. the nation's girls answer "apple" when asked what makes pi
#1368 Parking Hell
1. the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem"
3. urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate
#1412 Another Day, Another Dollar
1. the government hopes austerity will lead to prosperity
2. the @@CURRENCY@@ is said to only have value in antique shops
#1415 The Melting Point
1. a speech a day keeps climate change away
#1416 Building on Sand
3. undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations
#1421 Have Your Cake and Don't Eat It
4. Big Belly is watching you
#1424 Here's Looking at Zoo, Kid
2. it turns out you can teach cats new tricks
#1429 The Wind Become Death
1. diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout
#1432 Oh Dear
3. religion makes people horny
4. religion makes people horny
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
3. slavers are real nutters
#1442 A Green Bill of Health
1. travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing
#1443 Forage and Forget
1. pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security
4. citizens praise the weeds that overwhelm their narrow vegetable realm
#1450 Driving @@LEADER@@
5. @@LEADER@@ always arrives fashionably late and smelling of mushrooms
#1452 Hello Darkness My Old Friend
1. the government has declared "all your rigs are belong to us"
2. the government enables frack addiction
#1453 A Salt and Battery
2. foreign policy is based upon the principle of sieve and take
3. thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks
#1454 Poplar Opinion
2. environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests
#1460 A Burning Question
1. beggars lack pockets for spare change
3. government ministers have eclectic tastes in curtains
#1463 Sandbagging
2. the treehouse in @@ANIMAL@@ Park is the tallest building in @@NAME@@
#1472 Home Is Where the Lung Is
3. home renovation projects take decades to complete
4. community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home
#1474 Cuy Bono?
1. eating kids as food has been enshrined in law
2. @@CAPITAL@@ has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra
3. delicate flowers faint at news of house plants being eaten
#1492 Smoke on the Water
1. middle-aged metal fans quite enjoy being called "rebellious youths" by even older politicians
2. there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety
3. visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage
#1501 Diamond in the Rough
1. factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections
2. endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass
3. endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass
#1502 Dirty Deals
2. people don't want any foreign rubbish
#1506 A Need for Order
1. it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves
3. tough diplomacy is often best handled with a nutcracker
#1509 Parks and Aggravation
1. national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings
5. the latest national park is visited by more sharks than people
#1511 Three Little Words
3. families burn @@LEADER@@'s latest official photograph to keep warm
5. @@LEADER@@ has been nicknamed 'Robomop'
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
3. foreign ambassadors are accused of stealing @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ jobs
#1528 Our Feta Which Art in Havarti...
1. cheese lovers have a case of the bleus
2. even secular @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!"
5. school guidance counselors recommend monastic vows as an alternative to higher education
#1543 What Are We Paying For?
4. the government is taking its ball and going home
#1546 Fool's Gold
3. government debts are financed through alchemy
4. government debts are financed through alchemy
5. children are disappointed their allowances are no longer convertible to gold
6. children are disappointed their allowances are no longer convertible to gold
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
1. office microwaves are being replaced by firepits
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
3. private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button
#1564 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4. people have stopped going the extra mile
#1568 Palate Torture
3. the purgative quality of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cuisine is known across the globe
#1572 Eco Warriors
2. flamethrower-toting soldiers are also equipped with fire blankets and extinguishers
#1590 Tinder Profiled
1. candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED
2. people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
2. government bureaucrats review designs for birdhouses to ensure they do not block the views of neighbors
#1604 Prison of the Mind
3. dream holidays often go awry
#1609 One Big Watering Hole
1. nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
2. mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'
#1621 The Space Between
4. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
5. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
#1636 In for the Long Haul
5. poor @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are always begging for a lift
#1639 Bad Coal Models
2. the 'no-coal' transition is being paid for in slashed student support funds
#1676 All Animals Are Equal, But...
5. bewildered steelworkers cook caviar in the microwave
#1677 Common Cents
5. profits are an acceptable way to measure morality
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
1. the mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin
4. three extra hay bales are rolled into @@NAME@@'s gold vaults every year
#1695 Calling All @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
1. government-sponsored WiFi allows farmers to rant about city folks in real time

infamous sell-swords

Gained from:

#202 Guns or Butter?
4. corporate 'hostile takeovers' now involve ICBMs and main battle tanks
#469 Shoot to Earn
3. the nation's peacekeeping efforts usually come with a healthy dose of pillaging
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
3. half the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Army consists of Brasilistani contractors
#515 Little Green Men
2. entire provinces are being suppressed for collectively "planning terrorist attacks"
#677 Dial L for Loan
2. a small country is wondering where their capitol building's gold dome went
#741 [The Enemy Within] We Can Work It Out
6. stun grenade flashes and assault weapon fire form the expected nocturnal soundscape of @@NAME@@
#854 An Armory of Antiques
3. the military lends out its new fighter jets as easily as a good neighbor lending out his garden tools
#960 Nobody Does It Better?
1. looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities
#1299 A Silent Salute
5. army pay is to kill and die for

Removed by:

#468 Selling @@NAME@@ Down the River?
1. unemployed mercenaries drift the country looking for new careers
4. the 'maybe not shock and awe' foreign policy initiative is showing promise

irreverence towards religion

Gained from:

#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
1. former televangelists are often seen begging skateboarders for donations
3. atheists in the nation feel uneasy living in buildings where they were once vilified

Sometimes gained from:

#6 Appointment of Spiritual Advisor
3. the nation's official head of religious affairs is an atheist
#25 Cloning Research Promises New Breakthrough
1. scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes
#28 Cancer Sufferer Demands Euthanasia Bill
1. euthanasia is legal
#32 One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists
4. there have been reports of people marrying housepets
#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
2. elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
3. a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun
#70 Purge the Infidels!
3. the government is avowedly secular
#82 AI Researchers Rally for Android Rights
2. major internet servers have acquired citizenship
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
1. sales of fishnet stockings have reached a record high
3. government-run brothels can be found on every street corner
#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
1. human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants
3. traditional vegetarians are fuming over the introduction of vat-grown meat to the menu
6. citizens are grown in vats
#128 Ban the Burka?
3. government officials raid public buildings to remove all mention of G*d or r******n
#140 A Grave Problem
4. the dead are minced up and sold to people in burger form
#146 Evolution: Truth or Witchcraft?
1. it is mandatory to learn evolution in schools
#172 Church Attendances Reaching New Low, Warn Priests
3. the people of @@NAME@@ are renowned for their nihilistic attitudes
#196 Violent Violetists Protest Artists
5. people of faith are sent to twelve-step programs for 'The Cure'
#225 Prayer in Public Schools?
4. religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds
#243 A Question of Faith
3. the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly
#285 A Right Not to Work?
3. retail stores offer sales every hour on the hour
#298 Cults: Harmless or Heretics?
4. believers must practice religion behind church doors lest the government smite them with a mighty fine
#313 Conscientious Objectors Want You... To Let Them Abstain
2. conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors
#314 An Affair to Remember?
2. motels cater primarily to adulterers
#333 No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice at All
1. churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs
2. churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs
6. any reference to a higher being is punished with public shaming
#363 The Apotheosis of @@LEADER@@?
4. the government is seen as openly hostile to all religion
#365 A Busload of Worry
1. children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet
#371 Lotto Fever
3. chain casinos dominate the national gambling market
4. chain casinos dominate the national gambling market
5. @@LEADER@@'s pleasure palace epitomizes corruption
#413 A Shot in the Arm
4. science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous
#451 A Proselyte to Burn
1. the "fire department" is often called to remove offensive religious texts
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
1. back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation
4. getting a haircut is a punishable offence
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#495 Beloved "Planet" Has Gone to the Dogs
3. the nation's leading climatologists are investigating animal flatulence in efforts to reduce methane emissions
#520 Preach With Me if You Want to Live
2. the military has declared war on all religious influence
#612 A Petty Issue
3. it's usual for grandparents to stay in the family home with their descendants but younger children are often frightened of them
#619 X Marks the Cult?
3. pizzerias must now display shrines to the Pizza God
4. basket-weaving is the nation's latest fad
#626 Carbon Copied
1. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
2. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
#633 Sound Judgement
5. the new national anthem passes the Turing Test
#665 In Nomine Ecclesiae
4. atheism is seen as a prerequisite for political power
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
3. homophobia is off the menu
4. seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals
#702 Has Your Room Been Booked?
2. official Sermon-Free Zones are set-up around the nation's hotels
#703 Divine Decoration
1. civil servants are no longer allowed to cross their t's
#718 Roses Are Due if Violet's for You
2. almost every singles' party has a clergy and courtesans theme
#720 Cui Bono?
3. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
4. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
#759 Marry, Marry, Quite Contrarily
3. the government's stance on marriage is 'Let @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ marry themselves'
#781 The White Man's Burden
2. religious bigotry is not allowed but bigotry against theism is encouraged
#819 Damned Cold
4. straitjackets are a common religious garb
#861 Out With the Old
1. the elderly are killed softly with a song
#897 The Devil's Playground
2. Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy
#904 Yours Insincerely
4. politicians are fired for opening subjective statements with "I believe"
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
2. there is no other place with more lab coats per square mile than former houses of worship
#939 A Question of Bad Faith
2. cults that offer eternal life after death to those who follow a self-sacrificing saviour are frowned upon
4. children who express a belief in Santa are labelled 'delusional cultists'
#943 Big Love, Big Problems?
1. former polygamists always seem to have a huge number of visiting cousins
#944 Deadly Persuasion
4. children who write letters to Santa Claus end up in straitjackets
#976 Demonic Possession Getting You Down?
1. the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds
#1014 Unreasonable Doubt
3. folk are absolutely certain that you can never be absolutely certain
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
3. the love has gone in @@NAME@@
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
2. mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation
#1117 Suffer Little Children
3. a sudden shout of "surprise!" does not herald a party for teachers
4. children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work
#1128 Get Thee Behind Me, Santa
2. children usually cry on their first day of school
3. children usually cry on their first day of school
#1129 Behind the Red Curtain
2. end-of-year production reports state that the revolution is really going with a bang
#1131 Safe Sects
1. the path to inner peace is paved with state-mandated punishment
#1155 The Banquet of Walnuts
4. the world is looking a bit more worldly
#1178 No Need to Beat Yourself Up About It
1. devotion to God is only skin-deep
2. religious households enthusiastically use whips in private
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
3. young people devote their entire lives to the faith
4. young people devote their entire lives to the faith
6. uprooting flowers for religious ceremonies is a felony
#1197 Aflame With Indignity
3. citizens who don't follow @@FAITH@@ are closely monitored for signs of self-harm
4. religious citizens are closely monitored for signs of self-harm
5. children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia
6. children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
1. sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls
3. small towns have started burning historical buildings in hopes of attracting tourists
#1274 No Room Left for Asylum Seekers
1. you can check out of an asylum if you've changed your mind
2. blessed are the meek for they have been beaten into submission
3. the nation is a world leader in martyrs per capita
#1284 How to Choose the Chosen One
1. children are encouraged to fail at school so as not to appear too enlightened
#1325 Having Faith in Communism
3. government has seized the opium of the people
#1326 Hostile Hospitality
1. money can't buy love but mercy is entirely negotiable
#1348 Heaven Can't Wait
2. religious fanatics complain of being held down by the earth's gravitational field
#1361 Fundamental Rights
3. every school is receiving a brand new eraser
#1417 Nun on the Run
1. clergy who start talking about politics are forced to take a holy vow of silence
#1419 The Madson-Hashley Scandal
1. business is banging at no-tell motels
#1457 Use the Farce, @@LEADER@@
4. the only film released this month was "Atheistvengers: Scientific Literacy War"
5. science fiction is seen as the leading cause of mental breakdowns
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
1. prodigal children celebrate as charitable bequests plummet
#1588 More Popular Than @@FAITH@@
2. songwriters compete to see who can come up with the most blasphemous lyrics
#1632 Unexpected Interruption of Service
2. the police ransack more houses than criminals do
#1646 Is God in This Machine?
3. students asking about negative square roots are told life has no simple answers
#1650 Bearer of Bad Pews
2. spiritual tourists meditate in the ruins of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cathedrals
#1662 Divine Dining
4. debating the meaning of life is widely viewed as a crucifying experience
#1670 Bad Religion
1. every record has been erased and every picture painted over
#1678 Praying for Silence
1. clerics are taught that silence is golden and duct tape is silver
4. the sound of silence from abandoned Violetist temples is deafening

Removed by:

#285 A Right Not to Work?
1. the request to "give us our daily bread" can only be fulfilled six days out of seven
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down

Sometimes removed by:

#13 Too Much Yakking, Already, Say Delegation
3. it is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs
#25 Cloning Research Promises New Breakthrough
2. genetic researchers have been expelled
#28 Cancer Sufferer Demands Euthanasia Bill
2. euthanasia is illegal
3. euthanasia is illegal
#33 Genetics Brings New Life to Extinct Species
2. genetic research has been halted
3. genetic research has been halted
#38 @@NAME@@ Looks to the Stars
3. religious classes are compulsory for all school students
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
2. government officials are held to the highest standard of morality
3. government officials are held to the highest standard of morality
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
1. radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
1. homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities
#70 Purge the Infidels!
1. citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed
2. citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed
#77 Easter Egg: World to End, or Possibly Just Mark Anniversary
4. residents firmly believe there is no spoon (@@EGG@@)
#82 AI Researchers Rally for Android Rights
3. computers have been banned
#107 Private Lab Holds @@NAME@@'s Sick to Ransom
3. the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives
#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
4. cloning has been banned
5. cloning has been banned
#128 Ban the Burka?
2. there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'
#140 A Grave Problem
3. houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries
#143 An Archaeological Altercation
3. archaeological discoveries are often followed by mysterious hamster abductions
#146 Evolution: Truth or Witchcraft?
2. the teaching of evolution has been banned
#172 Church Attendances Reaching New Low, Warn Priests
2. the government is spending billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on helping citizens find spiritual enlightenment
#183 Buy a Better Baby?
3. research into 'designer babies' is banned
4. research into 'designer babies' is banned
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
2. blood donations have been banned because of the risk of eternal unrest
#196 Violent Violetists Protest Artists
1. government-sponsored gallows are being erected by Violetist temples
4. anyone who doesn't attend Official Governmental Religious Services is fined
#225 Prayer in Public Schools?
1. students who refuse to pray are expelled from school
2. children of nonreligious parents are often barred from school festival events
#243 A Question of Faith
1. @@FAITH@@ has been named as @@NAME@@'s national religion
4. open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries
5. @@LEADER@@ is the self-declared God of all @@NAME@@
#249 Particle Accelerator Sparks High Energy Debate
2. the study of quantum physics has been outlawed for fear of accidentally causing the end of the world
#252 Great Balls of Fire!
4. god-fearing citizens can be seen in prayer circles around the Big Max impact crater
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
3. raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
3. the state believes that children are what you make of them
4. the state believes that children are what you make of them
#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
2. family bonding sessions are considered immoral and are banned
#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
3. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
4. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
5. absentminded citizens frequently converse with hallucinations
#313 Conscientious Objectors Want You... To Let Them Abstain
1. military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds'
#314 An Affair to Remember?
3. bloodthirsty zealots regularly participate in the Friday Night Stoning of Adulterers
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
3. the government is rounding up computers and beating them into plowshares
#329 Military Uniforms Under Scrutiny
5. soldiers go to war dressed in cassocks and robes
#333 No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice at All
3. murderers and thieves claim divine inspiration to avoid prosecution
5. there are major delays at immigration checkpoints as travellers are forced to prove they belong to @@FAITH@@
#361 @@CAPITAL@@, We Have a Problem
4. the eerie remains of the final shuttle mission orbit in silence as a sober reminder of the abandoned space program
#363 The Apotheosis of @@LEADER@@?
1. @@LEADER@@ is worshipped as a god
2. government policy is dictated by @@FAITH@@
3. tax rises are attributed to divine will
5. failure to pay the thrice-daily homage to the divine @@LEADER@@ is punishable by death
#365 A Busload of Worry
2. tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport
3. tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport
#371 Lotto Fever
2. betting pennies on games of Go Fish is considered deviant
#375 Easter Egg: Keep Your Hands Off Those Lucky Charms!
2. rainbows have been replaced by gloomy rain clouds as a result of the mass burning of leprechauns (@@EGG@@)
#381 Mamma @@NAME@@, Let Me Go
3. churches now double as dungeons
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
4. cruise liners are being requisitioned and filled with zoo animals as @@NAME@@ braces for "Le Grand Deluge"
#434 Fraternity Furor
4. moonshine and organized crime are on the rise ever since alcohol was banned
#451 A Proselyte to Burn
2. the nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books
#456 Heads Will Roll
1. biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to Violetism en masse
2. biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to the Tranquility of Yellow en masse
#461 If at First You Don't Succeed...
6. @@LEADER@@ has been declared supreme ruler for all eternity
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
2. bris parties are all the rage
#474 Mesozoic Park
2. mathematicians are hated by children across the country
#482 Whose Fault Is It Anyways?
3. long-wed spouses often regret proposals they made when they were twenty
4. long-wed spouses often regret proposals they made when they were twenty
#520 Preach With Me if You Want to Live
1. the last thing @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldiers hear before charging into battle is a preacher trying to convert them
4. the military's primary weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and a fanatical devotion to @@FAITH@@
#522 Time to Get Serious
4. smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
4. science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters
#570 Clerical Errors
1. @@FAITH@@ now admits men and women into its clergy
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
1. children in school playgrounds can be heard chanting the hymns of the Order of Violet
#619 X Marks the Cult?
1. livestock mutilations are on the rise
#626 Carbon Copied
3. citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?"
4. citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?"
#631 The Violet Mile
3. voodoo economists believe that feeding criminals to volcanoes will bring untold riches to @@NAME@@
#632 Dying for a Kiss
2. bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of
#633 Sound Judgement
2. the national anthem is considered broadly offensive to those who don't believe in @@FAITH@@
#648 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
3. it's considered a valid legal defence to say "a demon made me do it"
#655 No Bones About It
2. oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys
3. children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife
#658 A Sickening Dilemma
3. adult stores are all sold out of whips
#665 In Nomine Ecclesiae
1. politicians have literally dirty hands from their extracurricular activities
2. hymns sung by popular choirs top the billboard charts
3. this year's hottest seller is plenary indulgence
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
1. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
2. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
#702 Has Your Room Been Booked?
1. atheists on vacation find @@FAITH@@'s scriptures make useful doorstops
3. holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases
4. holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases
#703 Divine Decoration
2. garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'
3. garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'
4. the hills are alive with the smell of burning flesh
#718 Roses Are Due if Violet's for You
1. Violetist maidens who fall for an outsider must leave their violet light districts in shame
3. children raised in multi-faith households claim the other deity would let them stay up later
#728 A Bone to Pick
5. ritual mummification is making a comeback
6. ritual mummification is making a comeback
#743 [The Enemy Within] Here, There and Everywhere
1. everyone hates people who encourage hate
#746 [The Enemy Within] There's a Place
4. the national policy on terrorism is "forgive and forget"
#781 The White Man's Burden
3. people spend a lot on hair and nails
4. people spend a lot on hair and nails
5. white privilege is a real thing
#786 Tainted Tattoos
3. clergy do their best to cover up their old tattoos
#799 A Political Cock-Up
2. unpopular politicians are often caught between a rock and a hard place
#811 Get Baked
3. grandparents tell young ones tales of the good old days when people had cake on their birthday
#819 Damned Cold
3. superstitious folk make gestures to ward off evil whenever they see a refrigeration unit
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
3. fireworks and other big bangs are forbidden during the newest public holiday
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
6. holiday gift-giving is often peppered with songs of praise to morally-questionable televangelists
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
4. scientific laboratories are being converted into houses of worship at an alarming rate
#862 Friends Close, Enemies Closer
5. many believe that @@LEADER@@ rules by divine right
#864 The Missionary Position
2. gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages
#897 The Devil's Playground
1. children asking questions about science are referred to relevant sections in religious texts
3. the New @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Thesaurus lists "love" and "oppress" as synonyms
#904 Yours Insincerely
3. the government maintains that belief brings greater security than money or a roof
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
4. the dwindling faithful in the nation make expensive pilgrimages to the remaining places of worship
5. the only religious freedom citizens have is which religion they want to oppress them
#924 Total Eclipse of the Brain
1. every day at 4am @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wake to pray for the sun to rise
#939 A Question of Bad Faith
1. burnt-out forty-foot-tall wicker men dot the countryside
3. a surprising number of police officers have been arrested for @@ANIMAL@@ sacrifices
#943 Big Love, Big Problems?
2. people hearing voices that tell them to commit crimes are automatically assumed to be holy
#970 For Want of a Nail
7. it's a miracle that there aren't more plane crashes
#976 Demonic Possession Getting You Down?
2. the government says that Possession is nine-tenths of the Lore
3. foreign militaries are taking a particular interest in the nation's abandoned borders and cities
#979 A Patronising Statement
3. modern @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ art is so hot right now
#983 Doctors' Orders
1. pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ roads
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
3. gossip magazines are more interested in astrological stars than celebrity ones
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
6. relationship guidance consists of "lie back and think of @@NAME@@"
#1117 Suffer Little Children
1. many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ twitch nervously at the sight of nuns
2. teachers are skilled at leaving no evidence of child cruelty
#1120 Following Yonder Star
1. a formerly quiet little town is now booming as both a cult centre and a tourist attraction
3. @@LEADER@@ claims to know what infants are thinking
#1124 Signing Off, Your God
1. it is written that repentant sinners are most blessed by @@LEADER@@
2. it is written that heretics die and @@LEADER@@ laughs
#1128 Get Thee Behind Me, Santa
4. favourite sermons have replaced campfire horror stories on teenage wilderness trips
#1131 Safe Sects
3. religious epiphanies are often cited as a reason for high school drop-outs
#1135 My Eyes Are Up Here
5. catcalling has been replaced by slut-shaming
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
2. there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day
3. workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year
#1178 No Need to Beat Yourself Up About It
3. government adverts say that twelve lashes a day keeps divine wrath at bay
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
1. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
2. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
#1197 Aflame With Indignity
1. burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine
2. burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine
5. children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia
6. children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia
#1200 Choose Your God Wisely
4. "Idol-Worship for the Apathetic" workshops are cancelled when no-one bothers to show up
#1202 A Timely Intervention
5. citizens pray for sunshine so that they can use illicit sundials for timekeeping
#1204 Homecoming Queen
1. the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on @@NAME@@
2. a secret Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on @@NAME@@
#1206 Gross Domestic Product
4. cholera is seen as the holiest of diseases
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
2. religious leaders insist all life is sacred (but not those vat-bred wretches)
#1231 Save Our Souls
1. religious leaders order congregants to love any neighbour who is just like themselves
2. refugee camp conversions to @@FAITH@@ are increasingly common
3. believers who wear their faith on their sleeves make easy targets in hostile areas
5. the nation takes the world's poor and tired and the huddled Masses yearning to breathe free
#1257 It's a Kind of Magic
5. religious officials are furious after discovering that things made of stone do not burn well at the stake
#1274 No Room Left for Asylum Seekers
4. a plague of zealots has been unleashed on the streets of @@CAPITAL@@
#1284 How to Choose the Chosen One
4. government forces are said to be deterred by signs reading "No Spam, Cold Callers or Central Government - Thank You"
#1325 Having Faith in Communism
1. no true communist is an unbeliever
4. spiritual leaders preach that the poor are being punished for their sins
#1326 Hostile Hospitality
3. fire and brimstone sermons are accompanied by napalm and fragmentation bombs
#1348 Heaven Can't Wait
1. the holiest shrine in @@FAITH@@ is on another world
#1357 Scattered Showers
2. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
3. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
#1361 Fundamental Rights
2. advanced mathematics books explain how two plus two equals five
4. the nation's girls answer "apple" when asked what makes pi
#1407 New Tricks
4. red fabric is banned
#1417 Nun on the Run
2. weekly religious services often resemble campaign rallies
3. citizens ask "how many crooks could a nunchuck hook if a nun had nunchucks too?"
4. every political party claims that their platform is based on divine revelation
#1422 Who Comes Up With This Ship?
2. many are asking why the latest naval vessel is named after Saint Bartholomeus the Many Handed
#1457 Use the Farce, @@LEADER@@
2. government statisticians explain census inaccuracies by declaring that "Sith happens"
3. the only film released this month was "Prayervengers: Heresy War"
#1458 Children of @@FAITH@@
1. atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum
#1465 Parking Pandemonium
4. people queue for valets instead of parking spaces
#1468 Meat With Approval
1. the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face
#1475 Bombshell for @@LEADER@@
2. @@LEADER@@'s support among single young men has drooped slightly
#1481 Livin' on a Prayer
2. all you have to do is pray to get into @@NAME@@
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
1. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
2. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
#1511 Three Little Words
6. civic leaders eagerly encourage sinners to spend more time on their knees
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
2. a shocking number of estate planners are beneficiaries of their clients' wills
#1538 The Passion of Chris
1. crimson and Violet seem to run together
#1566 Consensus Controversy
4. evidence-based arguments can be arrestable offenses
#1580 Profitable for Doctrine
1. printing ink yields @@FAITH@@'s biggest return on investment
3. the church encourages double-dipping
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
3. no-one ever lasts longer than a week on a life support machine
#1632 Unexpected Interruption of Service
1. murderers are immune to arrest while attending their victims' funerals
#1646 Is God in This Machine?
1. smart fridges sing the praises of @@FAITH@@ for fear of being iced
2. national robo-pastors have declared 42 to be the answer to all our woes
#1650 Bearer of Bad Pews
1. most people attending churches are maintenance workers
#1678 Praying for Silence
2. the holidays begin with the traditional exchanging of aspirin

keen interest in outer space

Gained from:

#38 @@NAME@@ Looks to the Stars
1. billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are being poured into a space program
2. the nation's first space rocket -- sponsored by Eckie-Ecola and shaped like an enormous soda bottle -- is being developed
#97 Landfills Filling Up
1. space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space
#147 Military Budgets Up for Approval
4. most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry
#233 I Spy a Diplomatic Crisis
5. citizens have reported seeing strange rays of light emanating from the moon
#252 Great Balls of Fire!
1. nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids
#424 You Just Sank My Battleship!
2. the military has forsaken terrestrial warfare
#495 Beloved "Planet" Has Gone to the Dogs
2. the government is spending billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on a fancy space probe to find a planet that may not even exist
#643 No Small Wonder
2. the ongoing space elevator construction project has elevated the national debt to all new levels
#1348 Heaven Can't Wait
1. the holiest shrine in @@FAITH@@ is on another world
3. military chaplains grow frustrated with their long commutes
4. being a member of the glee club disqualifies @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ from space travel
#1636 In for the Long Haul
4. starry-eyed convention goers have their heads in the clouds
#1701 All That Glitters Amidst Night Skies
1. weather forecasts regularly cover meteor showers
2. scientists pester asteroids with probes until they go away
3. the government spends billions to retrieve millions worth of asteroid gold

Removed by:

#53 Orbital Armageddon?
3. the space program has been scrapped in order to focus on more terrestrial pursuits
#256 Easter Egg: Suburbs Are Out of This World
2. white-collar unemployment skyrockets as the suburbs are not within bicycling distance to work (@@EGG@@)
#361 @@CAPITAL@@, We Have a Problem
4. the eerie remains of the final shuttle mission orbit in silence as a sober reminder of the abandoned space program
#574 One Small Step for Private Enterprise?
4. falling satellites are regarded as a blessing from the gods
#590 When Trees Hug Back
3. government-sanctioned factory-smashing has the Luddites of @@NAME@@ rejoicing
#679 Space Is Big Enough for the Both of Us
3. the space program has been reduced to @@LEADER@@'s nephew playing with a cardboard space shuttle
#1099 New Satellite Blues
7. the thought of funding space programs drives @@LEADER@@ crazy
#1357 Scattered Showers
2. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
3. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
#1621 The Space Between
6. the sky (and your feet) are the limit
#1667 Memoirs of a Pale Blue Dot
6. astronomy is stifled by widespread astrophobia

labour-free parental leave

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
6. citizens are grown in vats
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
4. the youth of today are literally shaped by big business
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
3. the love has gone in @@NAME@@

Removed by:

#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
3. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
4. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
4. most mothers are forced to quit their jobs to care for infants
5. most mothers are forced to quit their jobs to care for infants
6. mandatory daycare is provided by the government
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
6. relationship guidance consists of "lie back and think of @@NAME@@"
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
2. religious leaders insist all life is sacred (but not those vat-bred wretches)
3. growing infants in a vat is an antiquated concept
#1340 Unnatural Conception
6. therapists advise women who are constantly stressed and tired to have another baby

lack of airports

Gained from:

#248 The Sky Is Falling
5. aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
#652 Mayday! Mayday!
5. derelict airplanes have been converted into novelty restaurants and hotels
#784 The Driving Force
5. mail and shipped goods take forever to get to buyers
#787 Come Fly With Me?
3. @@ANIMAL@@-wagons to @@CAPITAL@@ are often canceled due to excessive levels of manure on the roads
#1348 Heaven Can't Wait
5. above @@NAME@@ there is only sky and the fear of the unknown
6. above @@NAME@@ there is only sky and the fear of the unknown

Removed by:

#278 Relief Is Coming... In Four to Six Weeks
1. contrails and thunderous rumbles have returned to the skies above
#1051 Take to the Skies
2. former planespotters are dusting off long-abandoned anoraks
#1621 The Space Between
1. government employees are authorized driver's licenses to get their bosses much-needed morning espressos
4. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
5. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
#1636 In for the Long Haul
5. poor @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are always begging for a lift

multi-spousal wedding ceremonies

Gained from:

#32 One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists
4. there have been reports of people marrying housepets
#165 Wedlock Worries
3. all marriages are arranged by the government

Sometimes gained from:

#32 One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists
1. polygamy is legal
#506 It's Official: "I Do" Does Do It
1. every conceivable scenic location has been completely booked by couples desperate to marry
3. couples wishing to marry spend months at the circus trying to learn acrobatics
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
2. @@LEADER@@'s new android secretary is the latest media darling
3. robosexual marriages are increasingly common
#1155 The Banquet of Walnuts
3. the church declares that everyone should get a large serving of nuts daily
#1464 Gentry Genes Getting Grim
2. would-be crossers of the class divide find the social ladder is well-lubricated

Removed by:

#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
4. divorce lawyers are found begging on the streets
6. citizens may not "love, honor and obey" anyone except the State
#314 An Affair to Remember?
4. once-popular honeymoon destinations have become ghost towns due to a lack of visitors
#336 Polygamy Causes Division
2. a flood of mandatory divorces burdens the courts
3. a flood of mandatory divorces burdens the courts
#506 It's Official: "I Do" Does Do It
2. children in school learn that marriage and slavery go hand in hand
#943 Big Love, Big Problems?
1. former polygamists always seem to have a huge number of visiting cousins
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
2. @@LEADER@@ is in a committed monogamous relationship with a huge number of people
#1129 Behind the Red Curtain
2. end-of-year production reports state that the revolution is really going with a bang
#1159 The Sad State of Affairs
3. former first wives now find themselves mothers to twenty children
#1251 The Making of a Mass Murderer
1. wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles

museums and concert halls

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
2. elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume
#52 Is It Art or Is It Porn?
3. nude art is becoming wildly popular
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
1. people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
4. @@NAME@@'s Medieval Faire is renowned as one of the best in the region
#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares
1. a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country
3. recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
1. the government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces
#114 Wipe Out Graffiti?
3. graffiti graces every city's streets
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
2. artists are pillars of society
#128 Ban the Burka?
2. there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'
#129 Tribal Troubles
1. large sections of @@NAME@@ have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there
5. a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world
#131 Raise Duel Standards, Say Fencers
1. murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour
#143 An Archaeological Altercation
1. prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams
3. archaeological discoveries are often followed by mysterious hamster abductions
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
2. skateparks can be found in every city
#169 @@ANIMAL@@ Hunting Laws Under Dispute
2. the nation is famous for having one of the world's largest @@ANIMAL@@ hunting institutions
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
5. the government is pursuing a new programme aimed at promoting cultural sophistication
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
1. it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations
3. criminals are thrown to the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to repay their debt to society
#245 Clash of Cultures
1. immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day
4. all citizens must pass a 'multicultural sensitivity test' to be deemed fit for society
#276 Circus Clowns Cause Chaos!
2. students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak
#286 A Whale of a Problem
2. seafood restaurants assure customers 'If it lives in the sea, it's on our menu'
#287 Maxtopians Demand Return of the King
2. the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit
#291 A Question of Sport
3. tourists are kicked out if they express interest in their national sport
#293 Maestro, Please
1. conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings
4. commercial jingles have been ham-handedly forced into world renowned symphonies
5. terrified tympanists are finding themselves on the front lines armed only with kettledrums
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
2. the populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system
#329 Military Uniforms Under Scrutiny
3. troops clank into battle wearing antique suits of armour
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
1. builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
2. the nation refuses to discard its increasingly useless penny
#344 Trash Talk
3. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
4. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
#352 Going Off the Rails
5. the nation's train stations are widely considered to be the ugliest in @@REGION@@
#372 The Coming of the Commissars
1. troops are either deafened by gunfire or a hysterical voice screaming the Party manifesto
#378 The War to End All Wars
1. commemoration of the Great @@REGION@@ War costs almost as much as the war itself
2. historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism
4. the nation grinds to a halt on the anniversary of every marginally noteworthy event
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
2. concussed @@ANIMAL@@ball players cannot remember their lineup position
3. concussed @@ANIMAL@@ball players cannot remember their lineup position
#430 Easter Egg: Please, Sir, We Want Some More Issues
4. players panic as they discover the newest chain can reset their populations and even delete their nations (@@EGG@@)
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
1. cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry
2. tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects
#451 A Proselyte to Burn
4. books are so highly regarded in @@NAME@@ that libraries are often revered as holy shrines
#457 Colossus With Feet of Clay
1. tourists flock to see the giant stone carvings of historical leaders at Mount Rushless
#460 Salt of the Earth
4. the nation's solution to the ongoing famine is to silence anyone who mentions the famine
#473 A-B-C, Easy as Don't Use Me
1. the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world
3. children are expected to carve their own toys
#476 A Farewell to Raised Arms?
2. village elders are often called in to interpret voting outcomes in Parliament
#478 The Show Must Go On
1. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances
#487 Masks of Shame
2. gossip magazines have been replaced by mask catalogs
3. public shaming is the bedrock of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ society
#489 Standing at Attention
2. good-looking soldier boys have celebrity status amongst the nation's homosexuals
#490 The Long and Winding Halls of @@CAPITAL@@
3. groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol
#492 The Artwork in the Attic
1. Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to @@CAPITAL@@ to enjoy their national art
#497 The Widening Gyre
3. city-dwellers are forcibly moved to farming communes in the countryside
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
2. a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants
#503 @@LEADER@@, Tear Down This Door!
1. @@LEADER@@'s exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners
#518 Face Lift
1. artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
4. folk singers have replaced personal injury lawyers in being ridiculed as "ambulance chasers"
#527 The Body Politic
1. cities in @@NAME@@ declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings
5. city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty
6. city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty
#534 Too Few Cooks in the Kitchen
3. the nation's latest batch of politicians include internet comedians, an alleged serial killer, and a highly trained @@ANIMAL@@
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
3. young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
2. commuters often break into synchronised para-para dancing for no reason at all
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
1. hundreds of teenagers die every year at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Hungry Games
#562 Return to Sender
3. international commentators accuse the nation of aggressive cultural imperialism
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
4. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
6. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
3. annual Formula One races bring the capital to a screeching halt
6. @@LEADER@@ is adamant that ponies aren't just for little girls
#577 Second World Problems
3. international television adverts praise the nation as a worker's paradise
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
1. urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts
#580 @@NAME@@ Taking Leave of Its Census?
3. the suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years
#581 Fair to Say...?
2. intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works
#582 Augmented Reality Check
3. people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
4. funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience
5. contestants on @@NAME@@'s Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent
#592 Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!
3. the tawdry celebrity gossip section has moved to the front page of most newspapers
#596 Primogeniture Problems
3. distant and obscure male relatives succeed to the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ throne
#600 Making a House a Home
1. @@LEADER@@'s luxurious new home has been designated as a protected cultural heritage site
#602 Hobby Lobby
2. policy reversals are more often graceful demi-détournés than u-turns
6. a light facial coating of soot is seen as the mark of an honest and hardworking man
#603 Not My Idea
3. not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
1. @@LEADER@@'s peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide
3. the sanitised and dull music festivals of @@NAME@@ are famed for their reasonable volume levels
#612 A Petty Issue
1. golden statues of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ line the memorial avenues of the Funerary District
#613 A Nude Day, a Nude Awakening...
3. t-shirts displaying a photo of @@LEADER@@ performing the Full-Monty are selling out
#617 Who's This Little Rascal?
2. colonials are offended to find a local animal has been re-named the 'Furry Four-Legged Marsupial @@ANIMAL@@'
#622 Easter Egg: A Holiday Masquerade
6. no one appreciates @@LEADER@@'s costume of King Oswyn V (@@EGG@@)
#625 Delivering the Goods
1. the 'Museum Of Stuff We Stole' is a tourist favourite
4. the government has declared that monochrome cinema is the next big thing
#632 Dying for a Kiss
2. bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of
#633 Sound Judgement
7. you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly
#634 Bullet Time
4. pootling steam trains carry delighted tourists and frustrated businessmen from city to city at a snail's pace
#637 Little Pizza History
1. the nation has nearly as many history museums as @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#642 This Way's Kinder
1. squeaky high prepubescent voices recite the patriotic poem "Hail to The Leader!" before each meal
#643 No Small Wonder
3. the Great Pyramid of @@CAPITAL@@ can be seen from miles away
5. the new classical revitalization of @@CAPITAL@@ is expected to be completed sometime in the next century
#644 The Old Grey Matter
1. the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly
#648 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
3. it's considered a valid legal defence to say "a demon made me do it"
#649 Made in Maxtopia
2. restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in @@NAME@@
3. there are no bananas today in @@NAME@@
#655 No Bones About It
1. barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the @@CAPITAL@@ Natural History Museum
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
3. the government is known to care more about its buildings than its people
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
3. truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills
#662 Playful Petitions Pester Politicians
4. @@LEADER@@ is spearheading a new fashion trend of wearing swimming goggles and medieval armour
#664 Your Land or Mine
2. the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape
#665 In Nomine Ecclesiae
2. hymns sung by popular choirs top the billboard charts
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
2. school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel
#670 A Wolf in Refugee's Clothing
3. terrorists are on a first name basis with the officials that stamp their passports
#673 The Deportation of Mr. B. Leeper
3. the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands
#683 Different Keystrokes for Different Folks
3. kids who move from attending a public school in the city to the country often struggle in goat milking class
#694 Concussive Percussion
2. dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming
3. tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments
#701 Monumental Melodrama
2. statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty
#703 Divine Decoration
2. garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'
3. garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'
#719 Buried Bones Unearth Debate
3. citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts
#721 A Lack of Comma Sense
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna
#735 Rap Sheet
3. songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti
#737 Bird-Brained Diplomacy
3. when the air force says "Black Hawk Down" they mean the feathers of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ dark-plume goshawk
#738 Cruel or Unusual?
1. drug lords often avoid prison time by teaching "chemistry" classes to underprivileged youth
#746 [The Enemy Within] There's a Place
1. for 25 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ tourists can gawk at the site of national tragedy
#747 The Plane Truth
5. Air @@NAME@@ is rumored to receive more government funding than the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force
6. Air @@NAME@@ is rumored to receive more government funding than the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force
#764 Dude, Where's My Elected Representative?
3. politicians are often seen attending regional history classes at primary schools within their constituencies
#768 Trouble Brewing
2. the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea
#769 How to Print Money?
4. shopkeepers use microscopes to verify the authenticity of banknotes
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
3. the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification
#778 Mal Appetit!
2. celebrity foodies are biting a huge chunk out of the government budget
#788 Duel Purposes
4. angry men scowl at each other across chess boards
#801 Animation Provocation
3. toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters
4. the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools
#802 No Lock, No Gun Stock, and No Smoking Barrels
4. wars are filled with soldiers wielding machetes and chainsaws for safety reasons
#803 Park That Thought
2. cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park
#818 We Are Not Amused
4. visitors to Violet Rock City are stunned to learn that they must memorize the "99 Principles" before entering
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
3. ruff times are ahead for those who aren't keen on party costumes
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
3. it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven
#829 Winning at Battleship
4. a rusted hulk in @@CAPITAL@@ harbour has been voted the worst eyesore in @@REGION@@
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
1. collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise
#853 Silence Is Golden
1. on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life
2. citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals
#856 You Got Stones
1. the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried @@ANIMAL@@ Dung" has been declared a national treasure
2. Brancaland has gifted over nine thousand putrid moose carcasses to @@NAME@@ as a reminder of their "special relationship"
#867 Museums: Things of the Past?
1. museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts
2. education is transforming people into first-rate snobs
3. the Gallery of Instasnap is the most popular museum in the country
4. the Gallery of Amusing Cat Photographs is the most popular museum in the country
#876 Sequels: The Saga Continues
2. this year's televised Budget Forecast has been cancelled because there was already one last year
3. movie producers send film critics wads of cash in their morning newspapers in anticipation of gushing praise
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
2. explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends
3. preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance
#887 Thin Skin
1. nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines
4. bronze and marble supplies are running low as sculptors depict full-figured subjects
#888 Criminal Patterns
1. road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans
#891 Preach It!
2. street preachers sell salvation with a side order of shame on every corner
#892 The Old Metric
1. an extra hand on the leg will give a horse-and-a-half of lead in a hundred jiffies on seven furlongs
#899 Uncultured Singles in Your Area
1. the law forbids arson, murder, and low-quality cheese
2. there's a revolutionary culture in the nation's dairies
#902 Killer App
6. there'll be no comeback tour for many former boy bands
#905 Stage Directions
2. in musicals everybody's a little bit racist
4. five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred revivals is how theatre-goers measure a year
#906 Internet Killed the Television Star
2. the television adaptation of Jennifer Government is the most popular program in the nation
#909 On the Fence
1. a few immigrants are better than no immigrants according to @@LEADER@@
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
4. the dwindling faithful in the nation make expensive pilgrimages to the remaining places of worship
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
2. theatre audiences often need a telescope to see the stage
#934 @@LEADER@@, Don't Tear Down That Wall!
1. a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction
3. government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy
#940 The Court of the Crimson Lord
1. a typical peasant's life cycle leads from birth to the gallows
#946 Better In Than Out
1. wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them
3. there's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building
#957 Putrid Predicament
3. the diplomatic corps stinks
#959 A-Major Debate
1. elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation
#963 The @@LEADER@@ Meme
4. the latest political memes depict @@LEADER@@ as an overly-choreographed robot
#965 Like a Bull in a Dàguó Shop
4. card collectors duel to the death
#966 As You Don't Like It
2. minstrels carrying coconut shells provide sound effects wherever their nobles wander
3. stoogery and pratfalls are about as scathingly clever as @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ humor gets
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
1. foreign lack of enthusiasm for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli
2. most pop videos prominently feature the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag
#972 Sing Heil!
1. concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas"
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
1. the stacked neck-ring is this season's hottest fashion item
4. the government evicts ethnic minorities by stranding them in the wilderness
#979 A Patronising Statement
1. the nation's best artists are considered pretty easy to beat
2. a popular artist is claiming that a raw steak with a dog turd on it is a portrait of @@LEADER@@
#984 A Midsummer Night's Snooze-Fest
1. some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them
4. all the playground's a stage for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ schoolchildren
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
1. gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away
#996 Scripting a Change?
2. it is considered unpatriotic to learn a foreign language
#1031 Down in the Groove
1. seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma
#1033 Someone to Watch Over Me
1. trade deals are born to the sound of a royal woman's anguished screams
#1035 Bringing a Bayonet to a Gunfight
1. soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets
3. posing for pictures is an integral part of military training
#1036 When in Maxtopia
2. at least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to @@LEADER@@'s wardrobe
4. the nation was recently voted as the most stylish in @@REGION@@
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
3. days begin with afternoon tea
#1043 Foundering Fashionistas
3. artists attempt to convince the Hardship Fund that their unmade bed is a masterpiece
#1044 OK Stupid
2. it is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon
#1077 With Friends Like These...
2. primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit
#1078 Down With That?
3. ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
3. gossip magazines are more interested in astrological stars than celebrity ones
#1084 How Now Kowtow?
1. arthritic citizens seem underrepresented at royal meet-and-greets
#1086 Fun in the Sun
1. the 'sing-a-long with @@LEADER@@' album is a popular souvenir
2. tourists are duped into trimming hedges for the horsy-set
4. awkward tourists are offered the 'unique experience' of rodeo clown
#1090 I Ain't Afraid of No Girls
4. films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay
#1099 New Satellite Blues
5. the government's new priority is citizens' access to cat videos
6. the government's new priority is citizens' access to cat videos
#1100 Raiders of the Lost Archive
2. few that venture into government archives are ever seen again
3. the government's giant servers are often used as a tourist trap
#1101 Unreal
5. Chekhov's guns are killing the entertainment budget
#1104 Balancing the Books
1. books are often used as kindling
3. the book "Zen and the Art of Dog Maintenance" is inexplicably a worldwide success
#1105 A Green History Lesson
2. residents of ageing concrete tower blocks have vital renovation work stopped by Brutalism enthusiasts
#1145 Your Wild Self(ie)
4. teenagers are making eye contact with each other for the first time in years
#1152 Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting!
3. the 'three Rs' have become the 'four Rs' with the addition of Rightful Thought
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
1. citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason
4. the @@CAPITAL@@ Film Festival recently voted '@@DEMONYMNOUN@@ Getting Hit By Football' as best film
#1157 Rodney and Julietta
4. heartfelt sentiments are mercilessly marketed by a million-@@CURRENCY@@ treacle machine
#1163 Some Assembly Required
2. group hugs break out during floor votes
#1166 Acres Wild
2. the backs of 'No Trespassing' signs were made for you and me
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
1. museum employees look down on short people
#1179 Nothing Fishy
4. fly fishermen are legally forbidden from using electronic lures
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
1. the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally
#1202 A Timely Intervention
3. the well-to-do in @@REGION@@ are never on time for important appointments
#1203 The Fandom Menace
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about @@LEADER@@
#1207 Next, Please!
2. nobody thinks that the Godfather was bettered by Part 2
#1220 Barely Any Art
1. masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery
#1221 Man of the People
2. politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority")
#1223 Courting Bankruptcy
2. royals are always ready with their diamond-encrusted toilet plungers in case a royal flush doesn't work
3. nephews and nieces of the monarch resort to begging from relatives in palace halls
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
2. signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés
#1257 It's a Kind of Magic
4. paranoid museum guards keep a lookout for any animated displays attempting to escape the premises after dark
#1262 Dead Tasty
2. the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu
3. there's a mortuary next to every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurant
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
2. rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
2. it's a marvellous night for a moon dance as the sparks on your home start to rise
#1317 Nanny State
1. practically perfect royal toddlers tend to say "regrettably not at this juncture" rather than "no"
#1323 Toss the Coin?
2. the newest East Lebatuckese coins have "long live East Lebatuck" on heads and "death to @@NAME@@" on tails
#1341 Caught Off Guard
1. it isn't only obsequious grandees who produce a lot of manure at state occasions
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
2. a degree of self-hatred is vital for a future in politics
#1358 Who's In Your Wallet?
1. the nation honors the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ weed picker
2. internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ weed picker are way up
#1425 @@LEADER@@'s New Clothes
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ believe manners maketh the leader
#1445 The Dialectics of Dialects
1. the official @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child
#1446 Yet Another Issue About Periods
2. children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again
#1471 @@LEADER@@ and the Lost Chamber of Vetoes
1. old fossils give the tours at the parliamentary museum
2. the parliament doubled in size recently
3. the parliament doubled in size recently
#1474 Cuy Bono?
2. @@CAPITAL@@ has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra
#1478 Two Sides of a Coin
3. the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
1. kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history
#1509 Parks and Aggravation
6. visitors to Graffiti Warrens National Park are offered a complimentary tetanus vaccination
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
2. families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
2. a shocking number of estate planners are beneficiaries of their clients' wills
#1525 @@LEADER@@: The Musical!
2. community theaters are known for their bawdy renditions of 'Springtime for @@LEADER@@'
4. @@LEADER@@ accepted United Federation theatrical awards for Best Writer and Best Actress on behalf of the absent recipients
#1528 Our Feta Which Art in Havarti...
2. even secular @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!"
#1545 Deep Down Up to No Good
2. what goes down must come up
#1549 Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin'
11. @@LEADER@@ has decreed that one must think of cheese upon reading the word mouse (@@EGG@@)
#1552 An Issue About Nothing
1. contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art
2. artists are renowned for their ability to make art pieces out of thin air
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
1. the government expresses surprisingly intense opinions on the use of whip pans
2. private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button
3. private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button
4. fan-made edits of old films have seen a sudden jump in quality
#1557 The Artist Is Literally Present
1. political spontaneity takes a lot of planning
2. those who turn the other cheek seem to enjoy being slapped just a little too much
3. people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces
#1560 Dead Gay
3. a lot of number one hits are straight cover versions
#1568 Palate Torture
2. running a hot dog stand is harder than achieving a doctorate
#1574 Fowl Play
3. you can't make an omelet without breaking a few legs
#1591 (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Sample!)
3. this summer's chart-toppers sound almost the same as last year's
5. beatboxing has replaced the 'Wilhelm scream' as the nation's most popular sound effect
#1593 Flap Over Flag Fashion
2. the national colors help to make everyone look slimmer
3. this year's hottest fashion trend is the Lese Majeste collection
#1602 @@NAME@@'s Bark Worse Than Its Byte?
3. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect
4. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect
5. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ foreign aid program is quick to provide starving children with the latest video games
#1614 Fauxthentic Food
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ diplomacy is by the book
3. visiting the best @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants requires keeping a visa on file
4. visiting the best @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants requires keeping a visa on file
#1625 At What Price?
4. millionaires are surprised to find they are eligible for government handouts
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
1. the average video game can be completed over lunch break
3. video game protagonists bear striking resemblances to major political figures
#1631 We Are Most Amused
1. street cleaners are noticeably glum during jubilee celebrations
#1635 A Sine of the Times
1. only those who apply can study applied maths
#1659 A Dialectal Dilemma
3. Dàguó lanterns outnumber streetlights in major cities
#1667 Memoirs of a Pale Blue Dot
4. celestial bodies that make revolutions receive revolutions
#1670 Bad Religion
5. self-proclaimed free-thinkers line up for their weekly sermons
#1677 Common Cents
1. the rich are once again pinching pennies
#1679 Meals on Foot
1. police shut down children's lemonade stands for being "unsavory street food"
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
1. elderly tribespeople die in bed surrounded by loved ones and linguists
2. all tribal children are set for life with guaranteed government jobs
#1688 The End of the Rainbow
1. children who refuse to share their crayons are arrested
2. cave paintings are back in vogue

Removed by:

Sometimes removed by:

#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
1. radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass
#52 Is It Art or Is It Porn?
1. artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common
2. all artwork is carefully screened for offensive material
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
2. the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups
3. poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
3. the use of martial arts is banned
#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#114 Wipe Out Graffiti?
1. graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail
2. Renaissance frescos are being chiselled off public walls
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
1. the studies of art and philosophy are banned
3. only the brainiest citizens become academics
#128 Ban the Burka?
3. government officials raid public buildings to remove all mention of G*d or r******n
#129 Tribal Troubles
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
4. native tribes have been driven to extinction by hunting
#131 Raise Duel Standards, Say Fencers
2. arbitration is mightier than the sword
#143 An Archaeological Altercation
2. major archaeological findings are frequently bulldozed to make way for new buildings
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
1. skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines
#169 @@ANIMAL@@ Hunting Laws Under Dispute
1. the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned
3. main battle tanks stalk the woods of @@NAME@@ in search of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
2. a spate of enforced closures has left 'Government FM' as the nation's only radio station
#245 Clash of Cultures
3. religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural
6. the word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
3. the state believes that children are what you make of them
4. the state believes that children are what you make of them
#276 Circus Clowns Cause Chaos!
1. strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins
#287 Maxtopians Demand Return of the King
1. museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin
3. the 'Half King of Maxtopia' exhibit is the least popular amongst museum-goers
4. museums occasionally burn priceless artifacts in order to intimidate foreign curators
#293 Maestro, Please
2. concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule
3. concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
4. almost all the visible space on TV screens is taken up by advertising
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
1. teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
2. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
3. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
#336 Polygamy Causes Division
4. vitriolic divorce proceedings have become prime-time television
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1. discarded pennies litter the streets
#378 The War to End All Wars
3. anniversaries of major historical events pass unnoticed
#382 The Appropriate Amount of Appropriation
4. immigrants are asked to leave their cultural traditions and pride at the border
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
1. student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned @@ANIMAL@@ball fields
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
3. 'Police Academy 36' and 'Sharknados On A Plane' are vying for top spot at the box-office
#451 A Proselyte to Burn
1. the "fire department" is often called to remove offensive religious texts
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
4. getting a haircut is a punishable offence
#476 A Farewell to Raised Arms?
3. bored politicians often entertain themselves with games of Simon during important votes
#478 The Show Must Go On
2. teens are voting on which C-List pop star will be next to be evicted from the opera house
3. mournful opera fans place bouquets of roses at a 3000 capacity parking lot
#487 Masks of Shame
1. country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized
#490 The Long and Winding Halls of @@CAPITAL@@
1. auditors are gutting every governmental department
#492 The Artwork in the Attic
2. rare art has become a significant factor in negotiating all foreign trade agreements
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
1. school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment
#510 Possession, Protection or Poppycock?
1. tie-dye has been outlawed for being 'too occult'
#518 Face Lift
3. the nation's government buildings are remarkable for being ugly concrete boxes
#525 Nowhere to Go!
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have replaced bears in a popular idiom
#527 The Body Politic
2. royalist is the most offensive slur in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ language
3. royalist is the most offensive slur in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ language
4. royalist is the most offensive slur in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ language
#529 Attack of the Attack Ads
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politics is literally a blood sport
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
4. no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
1. over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
4. oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
1. nighttime sightings of raccoons sporting Circle-A patches and bandanna masks are on the rise
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
2. teens reminisce about when birthdays weren't celebrated with a cool glass of cabbage juice and a slice of corn-cream topped millet cake
#554 Welcome to --CENSORED--
1. a proud mining community is considering a rebellion after the Capital officially renamed them 'District XII'
#556 Here Be Dragons?
1. young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus
2. young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus
3. all fantasy fiction has officially been deemed non-canon
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
2. signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles
3. kids are exceptionally good at digging holes
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
1. the @@CAPITAL@@ Prison Revue puts on a better stage show than anything in the Theatre District
2. penniless buskers are singing for their supper
3. singing in public is only allowed if you are singing the praise of the Motherland
#596 Primogeniture Problems
1. the monarchy has adopted absolute primogeniture
2. the monarchy has adopted absolute primogeniture
5. only women may wear the crown of @@NAME@@
6. only men may wear the crown of @@NAME@@
7. royalty is so last century
8. royalty is so last century
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
3. burning members of the Order of Violet is the nation's favorite pastime
#603 Not My Idea
4. the legal minefield around ownership of fiction has demolished the publishing industry
5. science fiction invariably depicts socialist societies as Utopian
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
2. denied drugs and entertainment the nation's youth are taking to petty crime to alleviate their boredom
#617 Who's This Little Rascal?
3. an increasing number of animal species are named 'Bob'
4. cute fluffy little @@LEADERPLURAL@@ are increasingly popular exotic pets
#621 Blue Collar Blues
4. libraries are replacing history books and classic novels with technical manuals and trades directories to match the nation's changing demands
#633 Sound Judgement
4. citizens have voted the song "@@LEADER@@ Smells Like @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@" as their new national anthem
#634 Bullet Time
1. in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
#637 Little Pizza History
2. the nation is known abroad for fast food and nothing else
#643 No Small Wonder
4. the nation is well known for its rather dull and family-friendly architecture
#655 No Bones About It
2. oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
1. excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
4. selfie stick use is a required Scout badge
#664 Your Land or Mine
1. no-one can foil the ambitions of Big Aluminium
3. indigenous tribal elders can be recognised by their designer watches and expensive suits
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
1. 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail
3. home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks
#670 A Wolf in Refugee's Clothing
2. tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian
#673 The Deportation of Mr. B. Leeper
1. foreign musicians that @@LEADER@@ dislikes are turned away at the border
2. dangerous criminals are often 'accidentally' sent on one-way trips to Maxtopia
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
2. parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife
#684 Murder Most Deniable?
3. the Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
1. many marriages go virtually unconsummated
#694 Concussive Percussion
1. military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
3. anyone claiming to be a messiah is promptly put to death
#700 The Widow Raven
4. it is unwise to be a poet even if things rhyme and you don't know it
#701 Monumental Melodrama
1. all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers
3. a sledgehammer and a spray can are seen as the default tools of political debate
#703 Divine Decoration
4. the hills are alive with the smell of burning flesh
#712 Flight of the Rich and Famous
1. people are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support @@LEADER@@
#719 Buried Bones Unearth Debate
4. having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom
5. having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom
#721 A Lack of Comma Sense
1. serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk
#727 Market Crash
2. historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre
#731 Is There an Election in Marche Noire or Are You Just Happy to See Us?
3. the Great @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Melting Pot boils out ethnic heritage
#735 Rap Sheet
1. stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings
#747 The Plane Truth
4. Air @@NAME@@ tickets have reached sky-high prices due to a complete monopoly on air travel
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
2. undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected
#759 Marry, Marry, Quite Contrarily
3. the government's stance on marriage is 'Let @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ marry themselves'
#767 Xe Said, Zhe Said
3. youth call each other types of vegetables in lieu of government-banned racial insults
#768 Trouble Brewing
1. black tea is only available on the black market
3. machine-peeled candied grapes come in individual packaging for the busy commuter
#778 Mal Appetit!
1. those who don't have a bean to spend don't know a bean about Brasilistanian coffee beans
#786 Tainted Tattoos
3. clergy do their best to cover up their old tattoos
4. gangs have taken to secret handshakes after tattoos were banned
#788 Duel Purposes
3. Harry Potter conventions are closely watched by the government for any signs of 'dueling'
#801 Animation Provocation
1. Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion
2. military doctrine says not to open fire until you see the "beady little eyes" of Johnny Foreigner
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
1. there's a bright dawn ahead for @@NAME@@
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
5. sick days are on the rise
#834 Government and CO
4. centuries-old marble buildings are being torn down and replaced with corrugated steel wind tunnels
#838 The Bark Knight Rises
4. comic books avoid plot inconsistencies by removing the plot
5. adults hang around outside comic stores to ask kids to go and buy magazines for them
#845 A Comedy of Errors
3. illegal book-trafficking rings dominate the black market
#853 Silence Is Golden
3. from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in @@NAME@@
#856 You Got Stones
3. art criticism in @@NAME@@ is scathingly destructive
#867 Museums: Things of the Past?
5. the nation's historic treasures have been sold off to Maxtopia's "Museum of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Artifacts That They're Too Stupid to Appreciate"
#876 Sequels: The Saga Continues
1. '@@ANIMAL@@nado 6: You Gotta Be Kidding Me' is this summer's top-grossing movie
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony
#888 Criminal Patterns
2. a stitch in time could see you serving nine
3. schoolchildren are arrested for possessing sidewalk chalk without a permit
#891 Preach It!
1. citizens are prohibited from raising their voice above thirty decibels in commercial districts
#905 Stage Directions
1. theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good
3. God took rock and roll from you, took rock and roll from everyone
#909 On the Fence
2. bilingual @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are viewed with suspicion
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
4. it is mandatory for actors to exit stage left
#934 @@LEADER@@, Don't Tear Down That Wall!
2. the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism
#947 Imitation Station
3. traffic news is delivered to drivers via carrier pigeon
#949 Jailhouses Rocked!
5. rock and roll involves rolling literal rocks in prison
#950 Borderline Pandemic
4. hotels often double as quarantine zones
#959 A-Major Debate
2. music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs
3. music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs
5. students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50
#966 As You Don't Like It
1. caroling is considered a public disturbance
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
2. it is broadly agreed that tramp stamps are criminally undesirable
#979 A Patronising Statement
3. modern @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ art is so hot right now
4. Snapgram-filtered portraits adorn the walls of stately homes
#984 A Midsummer Night's Snooze-Fest
5. chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on
6. hammer and sickle-wielding space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
2. children cry as government officials steal their water pistols
#996 Scripting a Change?
1. textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be
3. the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters
4. the libraries of @@NAME@@ are staffed by lone, lonely librarians
#1033 Someone to Watch Over Me
4. former royals stand on the street corner with signs reading "will cut ribbons for money"
#1035 Bringing a Bayonet to a Gunfight
2. running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training
#1048 Tatty Treaty Spat Turns Catty
4. the term "Native @@DEMONYMNOUN@@" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
5. saying the word 'eggplant' is now a criminal offense
#1074 Halting the Heirloom Heist!
1. monarchs only get custody of the royal crown on holidays and weekends
3. royal princesses are recognizable by their plastic tiaras
#1077 With Friends Like These...
1. television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
1. insanely good theatre productions face government censorship
#1084 How Now Kowtow?
4. ex-royals are being greeted by a whole new set of gestures
#1094 A Political Cover-Up
1. foreign ambassadors never get to see what @@NAME@@ has to offer
#1100 Raiders of the Lost Archive
1. brave curators do battle with disorganised government libraries
4. the nation tends not to learn from its history
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
2. one can walk from one side of @@CAPITAL@@ to the other without setting foot on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soil
#1104 Balancing the Books
4. newspapers print only headlines
#1105 A Green History Lesson
1. the statue in the @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@ Plaza has a solar panel for a hat
#1121 Tribes and Tribulations
3. foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather
#1128 Get Thee Behind Me, Santa
4. favourite sermons have replaced campfire horror stories on teenage wilderness trips
#1152 Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting!
1. standing on one leg in public is a criminal offence
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
3. taxpayer-funded government ads are promoting Brancaland as a premier filming location
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
3. many believe that you can't repeat history's mistakes if you don't care what they were
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
#1202 A Timely Intervention
5. citizens pray for sunshine so that they can use illicit sundials for timekeeping
#1205 Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
5. coconut-half banging former royals skip around the countryside seeking gullible peasants to rule
#1207 Next, Please!
1. "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster
#1221 Man of the People
1. politicians always seem to take two steps forward then three steps back
3. former state leaders include a TV comic and a cowboy actor
#1223 Courting Bankruptcy
4. the monarchy goes down the drain with a royal flush
5. the monarchy goes down the drain with a royal flush
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
1. posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables
#1257 It's a Kind of Magic
1. every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldiers are assured their new ray-guns will finally power up after the next round of ominous chanting
3. populations of two-headed @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites
5. religious officials are furious after discovering that things made of stone do not burn well at the stake
#1262 Dead Tasty
1. the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
1. sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls
3. small towns have started burning historical buildings in hopes of attracting tourists
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
3. a petition to improve @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ literacy is mostly signed with cross-marks
#1296 Once Upon a Time
3. the holiday spirit must not be taken to the max
#1341 Caught Off Guard
4. unprotected royals have replaced their corgis with rottweilers
#1351 Come Give @@LEADER@@ a Kiss!
4. Mona Lola's famous mysterious smile is being altered to resemble @@LEADER@@'s enigmatic grin
#1358 Who's In Your Wallet?
5. the elderly don't know who the dickens adorns the face of newly-issued banknotes
#1445 The Dialectics of Dialects
2. faking deafness is the only way to guarantee a holiday in the nation
3. every citizen sounds like a television news anchor
#1446 Yet Another Issue About Periods
1. teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath
#1474 Cuy Bono?
1. eating kids as food has been enshrined in law
#1478 Two Sides of a Coin
1. asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response
2. asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response
#1492 Smoke on the Water
1. middle-aged metal fans quite enjoy being called "rebellious youths" by even older politicians
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
2. academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs
#1511 Three Little Words
8. short is not always sweet
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
1. chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels
#1525 @@LEADER@@: The Musical!
1. citizens can freely debate whether @@LEADER@@ is a great leader or the greatest leader
3. songs of praise to @@LEADER@@ are filled with coded messages from the resistance
#1552 An Issue About Nothing
3. the government has heavily invested in badly drawn monkeys
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
5. "Citizen Godfather Part IV: Gone with the Rosebud" is dominating the box office
#1560 Dead Gay
1. edgy teens know that illegal discos are where the cool cats hang
2. all music has been banned
#1574 Fowl Play
2. small children are frequently chased by rehabilitated pitbulls
#1580 Profitable for Doctrine
3. the church encourages double-dipping
#1581 Circling the Brain Drain
3. the only fine art that is valued is the fine art of economic productivity
#1588 More Popular Than @@FAITH@@
3. young people pass around flash drives filled with illegal music
#1590 Tinder Profiled
1. candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED
2. people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating
#1591 (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Sample!)
1. creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption
2. creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption
#1593 Flap Over Flag Fashion
1. punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements
#1596 The Blame Game
4. restless leg syndrome sufferers live under constant fear of arrest
#1602 @@NAME@@'s Bark Worse Than Its Byte?
2. foreigners often find themselves on the wrong end of @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ RPG
#1606 Book Off
1. Moby Dick can only be sold by pornographers
#1613 Incarceration Sensation
3. murder comes with a cash prize if the victim was previously incarcerated
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
2. playing card suits are sold separately
#1631 We Are Most Amused
3. the public are enjoying a royal flush of tax cuts
4. royals are losing their heads over jubilee week celebrations
5. royals are losing their heads over jubilee week celebrations
#1635 A Sine of the Times
2. the number of eyes rolled per maths lesson is increasing exponentially
3. arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve
#1657 March Against the Museum
2. nothing is more offensive than being inoffensive
#1670 Bad Religion
1. every record has been erased and every picture painted over
#1679 Meals on Foot
4. the five second rule has been amended to the five minute rule
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
3. children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi
#1685 Children's Cartoon Chafes CEO
1. streaming companies get dammed up whenever a powerful person throws a tantrum

national health service

Gained from:

#48 Give Us Healthcare or Give Us Death!
1. the government is spending millions to provide full health care for all citizens
4. the government is spending millions to provide full health care for all citizens
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
4. the study of medicine is popular throughout @@NAME@@
#337 Doctors Crossing Borders?
3. people eagerly queue days at A&E to wait for their free healthcare
#748 [The Enemy Within] In Spite of All the Danger
2. the new universal healthcare system has been dubbed @@LEADER@@-care by its detractors
#771 Drug Up the Prices
3. former pharmaceutical company owners have lost their healthy incomes
#1558 Unequal Treatment?
3. a broken arm or leg no longer costs an arm and a leg
#1611 Filial Fidelity
3. the possibility of gain causes universal pain
#1690 The Winter of Our Discontent
1. black-hearted accountants turn red when they stop seeing green

Removed by:

#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#152 A Capital Idea
1. the government has returned all business to private ownership
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
1. the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
3. the well-off are enjoying tax cuts while famine kills off the poor and destitute
#217 Healthcare Services Underfunded, Claim Patients
5. the NHS has recently been discontinued
#461 If at First You Don't Succeed...
5. the health budget has been diverted into prolonging @@LEADER@@'s life
#1049 Hard Times Ahead?
3. there's stiff competition in the medical marketplace
#1623 The @@MAN/WOMAN@@ in the Iron Lung
3. children have one piggy bank for fun and another to avoid crippling medical debt

otherworldly petting zoo

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#474 Mesozoic Park
1. sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park
#1424 Here's Looking at Zoo, Kid
1. recapturing giraffes is proving to be a tall order
#1501 Diamond in the Rough
2. endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass
3. endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass

Removed by:

#431 Gone a Stray!
3. animal control is going door-to-door releasing all pets back into the wild
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
1. poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
1. romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars
3. monster hunters with oversized swords roam the land

parental licensing program

Gained from:

#448 It Takes a Village
2. parents who fail mandatory parenting classes risk having their children taken away

Sometimes gained from:

#164 Licence to Breed?
1. citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
3. underground copulation clubs have sprung up in major cities
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
2. soldiers are noted for their ferocity and illiteracy
#499 The Genetics of Aesthetics
2. the newest generation of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are nearly clone-like in appearance
#523 A Family Affair
3. government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power
#1308 One in the Oven
1. the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
3. children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi
#1686 Carnivorous Kids
1. kids these days only have to survive their homework assignments and cafeteria lunches

Removed by:

#300 Trafficked Tots Trouble
3. prospective parents are cheering on the streets as they no longer need a license to have children
#1146 Mother Knows Best?
3. posters encourage people to "Just Do It!"

Sometimes removed by:

#17 Corporations Demand Political Say
1. corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians
#113 Test Results Deemed 'Ungood' After Global Survey
2. children have only the most basic of education
#130 Filibuster Bust-Up
2. legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
1. skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines
#171 Kids and Criminality: Whose Responsibility?
2. the nation's youth is held blameless for all crimes
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
3. businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
5. package deals offer tourists the chance to visit the frozen remains of the previous tour group
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
1. homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes
#458 Bigtopian Lives Matter
2. the police insist that racism does not exist
#613 A Nude Day, a Nude Awakening...
1. fashion magazine covers finally display realistic body images following photo-manipulation becoming illegal
#885 Has Beans
1. coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#994 The Life of Riley
2. prison officers are bribed not to take bribes
#1124 Signing Off, Your God
4. it is written that unbelievers perish in fire and brimstone but that's okay
#1175 Can I Borrow a Word?
2. feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary
#1239 The Walking, Talking, and Irritated Dead
3. being dead no longer has any benefits
#1311 An Acquired Taste
2. people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
2. a degree of self-hatred is vital for a future in politics
#1366 Parklife
1. parents must decide between buying food and taking their children to the park
#1399 [MADness] VioletEye
2. ordinary soldiers trade rumors about the top secret "Death From Above" project
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks
#1542 Dangerous Liaisons
4. the police have nothing to do with the increasing number of 'disappeared'
#1579 A High-Interest Coupnundrum
3. the default state for @@NAME@@ is default
#1612 Immune Deficiencies
2. diplomacy is a foreign concept to @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@

pith helmet sales

Gained from:

#194 A Request for Military Aid
3. the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources
#256 Easter Egg: Suburbs Are Out of This World
4. the country is constantly under siege trying to protect soccer moms who've settled in occupied territory (@@EGG@@)
#266 Easter Egg: Breaching the Great Fourth Wall of @@NAME@@
4. @@NAME@@ has begun an effort to aggressively conquer neighboring countries (@@EGG@@)
#390 [An International Incident] An Unstable Situation
1. the nation's armed forces are recruiting thousands to help colonise Brasilistan
#391 [An International Incident] The Third Horseman of Brasilistan
2. Brasilistan has been announced as the nation's newest colony
#395 [An International Incident] Growing Pains
3. the nation's people have woken up to find themselves colonial masters of Brasilistan
#399 [An International Incident] Invasion Plan
1. the might of the nation's military are undertaking a long march to colonisation in Brasilistan
#400 [An International Incident] Insurgents Resurgence
1. 'Coloniser-in-Chief' has become @@LEADER@@'s new moniker
#403 [An International Incident] We Done Killing Yet?
1. anyone found to be unemployed is shipped off to Brasilistan with a gun and a spade
#623 Maison d'Être?
5. disputed territories across @@REGION@@ are being claimed by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ college students
#1175 Can I Borrow a Word?
3. colonial subjects have @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ culture shoved down their throats
#1193 Relocating the Living Room
1. colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation
2. the government maintains a Department of Skulduggery
3. small patches of desolate land across the world are part of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ sovereign territory

Removed by:

#244 Foreign Invasion Force Takes on Small Farming Community
3. thousands of citizens have been evicted from their homes so as 'not to cause a fuss' on the international scene
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
4. Brasilistan is being evacuated after its designation as 'Test Zone 1 - Nuclear'
#1209 Your Island Is My Island
1. the sun now sets on the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Empire
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
5. freedom is never freely given — only when the alternative is too expensive

prohibition of alcohol

Gained from:

#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
3. all alcohol is banned
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
7. ravers are having trouble getting used to blackcurrant squash instead of vodka
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
4. politicians debate whether caffeine is too addictive for the public
#434 Fraternity Furor
4. moonshine and organized crime are on the rise ever since alcohol was banned
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
1. former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
6. hospitals scramble for new disinfectants following a ban on rubbing alcohol
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
3. acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
3. citizens have to stick a fork into an electrical outlet to get a buzz

Removed by:

#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
3. zombie-like crowds of hard drug users stumble through the streets
#185 "Bring Back Our Booze!" Cry Revellers
1. @@NAME@@'s fine wines are renowned throughout the region
#375 Easter Egg: Keep Your Hands Off Those Lucky Charms!
3. drunk leprechauns pelt countryside ramblers with gold coins (@@EGG@@)
#985 Service With a Snarl
3. bar brawls are an hourly occurrence
4. bar brawls are an hourly occurrence
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
1. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
2. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
#1406 Can't Touch This
5. falling over while singing is a national pastime
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
1. roaming gangsters have been replaced by roaming drunkards

public floggings

Gained from:

#15 More Police Needed
3. thieves are flogged in public for their crimes
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
1. sex offenders find themselves cut off from the ability to repeat their crimes
#87 Burn! Burn Everything!
3. people caught mistreating @@NAME@@'s flag generally wind up in a great deal of pain
#219 Nobody Expects the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Inquisition!
3. atheists and evolutionary biologists are fleeing the country like rats from a sinking ship
#381 Mamma @@NAME@@, Let Me Go
3. churches now double as dungeons
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
1. rural citizens live in terror of their local village constable
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
1. hundreds of teenagers die every year at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Hungry Games
#646 Lesson Learnt
2. prison libraries are being replaced with interrogation chambers
#738 Cruel or Unusual?
2. an eye for an eye leaves @@NAME@@ blind
#799 A Political Cock-Up
2. unpopular politicians are often caught between a rock and a hard place
#841 Burn Noticed
1. the Man in the Plastic Mask has been imprisoned in the Capital Penitentiary
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
3. slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration
#940 The Court of the Crimson Lord
2. screams of citizens being "re-educated" echo throughout the rural regions of @@NAME@@
#944 Deadly Persuasion
5. the nation is now officially a purple state
#978 Alone in the Dark
3. justice is blinding
#1025 A Meal to Die For
3. decreased demand for toilets is saving the prison service a lot of money
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
2. sailors spend their shore leave helping old ladies cross the street
#1132 Gold Standards
3. sprinters achieve their personal bests only when the Olympic Team recruiters come calling
#1222 Family Matters
3. police nightsticks see use all day long
#1270 I'll Be Watching You
3. baseball caps are the new fashion trend
4. baseball caps are the new fashion trend
#1512 The Door's Unlocked, Let Yourself In...
3. Lady Justice has swapped her blindfold for steel-capped boots
#1563 Apostropocalypse Now
1. aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted
#1642 When Push-itzer Comes to Shove
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ dissenters are begging human rights groups to ignore them

Sometimes gained from:

#552 Must Be a Full Moon
1. weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments
2. weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments

Removed by:

#494 Whipping Up a Controversy
1. whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Embarrassments

punitive income tax rates

Gained from:

#283 Wealthy Flee to Tax-Free Havens
3. citizens are forbidden from leaving the country

Sometimes gained from:

#0 Should Democracy Be Compulsory?
1. voting is voluntary
#1 Where's the Love Gone?
1. divorce is illegal
2. divorce is illegal
#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
2. bicyclists are banned from major roads
3. the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts
#3 Harry Potter Censorship Row
1. Harry Potter books are banned
2. Harry Potter books are banned
3. the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller
4. the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller
#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
1. all industry is owned and run by the government
#5 Child Casino Shock
1. gambling is outlawed
#6 Appointment of Spiritual Advisor
1. the government is seen to favor traditionalist religions
2. the government's religious works are headed by a New Age guru
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
2. meat-eating is frowned upon
3. vegetarianism is compulsory
4. meat is a luxury afforded only to the wealthy
#8 Nudists Demand Time in Sun
2. public nudity is compulsory
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
2. a nation-wide cull of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ is in effect
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ is a protected species
#10 Social Inequality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
2. the government is slowly introducing social welfare programs
3. the country is preparing for war
#12 Death Penalty on Agenda
1. the death penalty has been reintroduced
2. extreme political groups are outlawed
#14 Military Demands Increased Spending
1. military spending is on the increase
#15 More Police Needed
1. the police force is on a recruitment drive
2. education and welfare spending are on the rise
#16 @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ Workers Strike!
1. the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes
#17 Corporations Demand Political Say
2. political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations
#18 Citizens Struggle Under "Unfair" Tax Burden
2. high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate
3. citizens select which government department gets their income tax @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ each year
#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
2. all recreational drugs are legal
#20 Gunman Kills Three
1. kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles
2. the nation is completely gun-free
3. preschoolers practice disarming active shooters before naptime
#21 Police Consider "Big Brother" Anti-Crime System
2. all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras
3. citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements
#22 Nazi Sympathizers Plan Rally
1. it is illegal to make racist remarks in public
2. the tenet of free speech is held dear
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
1. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
2. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
3. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
4. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
5. the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
1. a large-scale revitalization of the education system is underway
2. military spending recently hit a new high
3. a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate
#25 Cloning Research Promises New Breakthrough
1. scientists regularly clone human beings for research purposes
2. genetic researchers have been expelled
#26 Compulsory Organ Harvesting Proposed
1. organ donation is compulsory
#27 Cash for Colons?
1. college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys
2. organ donation rates have hit a new low
#28 Cancer Sufferer Demands Euthanasia Bill
2. euthanasia is illegal
3. euthanasia is illegal
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
1. TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas
2. the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
3. all tariffs have been abolished
#31 Get Efficient, Private Sector Tells Nature
3. a government program is underway to revitalize @@NAME@@'s beaches
#32 One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists
2. the institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced
3. the institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced
#33 Genetics Brings New Life to Extinct Species
1. scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied @@ANIMAL@@
2. genetic research has been halted
3. genetic research has been halted
4. genetic research is temporarily tied up in government red tape
#34 Don't Puff on Me, Say Non-Smokers
1. smoking is banned in public areas
2. an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
1. the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees
#36 International Community Comes Doorknocking
1. the nation has an international reputation for compassion
#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
1. the government snoops on private internet connections
2. the country has unplugged its internet connection to prevent subversive content
#38 @@NAME@@ Looks to the Stars
1. billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are being poured into a space program
2. the nation's first space rocket -- sponsored by Eckie-Ecola and shaped like an enormous soda bottle -- is being developed
3. religious classes are compulsory for all school students
4. morality classes are compulsory for all school students
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
1. newspapers may not print any negative stories about the government
2. government officials are held to the highest standard of morality
3. government officials are held to the highest standard of morality
#40 Hukd on Fonix Workd 4 Me!
1. funding for education has been redirected into the military
2. the education system has gotten a recent boost in spending
3. the government spends millions of tax @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on vouchers to pay for expensive private schools
4. the government spends millions of tax @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on vouchers to pay for expensive private schools
5. students returning from overseas study are questioning the status quo
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
2. the government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
1. radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass
#43 Prisoners Demand Elbow Room
1. gigantic new prisons are springing up all over the nation
#44 No Pain, No Gain!
1. torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals
2. torture is illegal
3. people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed
#45 Baseball League Steps Up to the Plate
1. major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day
#46 Jennifer Government Censorship Row
1. Jennifer Government is banned
#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
1. a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders
2. refugees from other nations are flocking to @@NAME@@'s border
3. the controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular
#48 Give Us Healthcare or Give Us Death!
1. the government is spending millions to provide full health care for all citizens
3. the government covers the basic health care of its citizens
4. the government is spending millions to provide full health care for all citizens
6. the government covers the basic health care of its citizens
#49 Diving for @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
3. the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations
#50 Whips, Chains, and Leather, Oh My!
1. a niche industry catering to S&M enthusiasts has sprung up
3. midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency
#52 Is It Art or Is It Porn?
1. artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common
2. all artwork is carefully screened for offensive material
3. nude art is becoming wildly popular
#53 Orbital Armageddon?
1. billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are being blown on orbital weapons development
#54 Time to Put the Older Senators Out to Pasture?
1. strict term limits have been applied to all elected offices
#55 Bigtopian Protesters Cry for Full Integration
1. government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest
2. minority children spend hours bussing to schools miles away from home
3. members of majority races are forced out of their homes to make way for Bigtopians
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
1. people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight
2. the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups
3. poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
1. citizens must have a license to operate a computer
4. the recent ban on computers is causing havoc throughout the nation
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
3. a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun
4. the government pours millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ into rehabilitation programs annually
#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
1. drunk drivers are sent to rehabilitation paid for by the government
2. drunk drivers are sentenced to death
3. all alcohol is banned
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
3. the judicial system legislates morality
4. the judicial system legislates morality
6. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have more rights than the average citizen
7. the government has become increasingly militant
8. the people elect the Supreme Court justices directly
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
4. @@NAME@@'s Medieval Faire is renowned as one of the best in the region
#62 Oh, the Angst!
1. citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling"
3. schools have extensive counseling programs for troubled students
#63 Tykes With Tools?
1. child labor has been outlawed
#64 Put the "Board" Back in Board of Education
2. teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs
3. the nation is currently revamping its entire education system
#65 Should Martial Law Be Declared?
2. martial law has been declared and the populace is kept under tight control
3. ad hoc militias patrol the streets in an effort to control rampant crime
#66 Transgender Recognition Demanded
1. sex changes are routinely performed at @@NAME@@'s hospitals
3. women wearing male lounge-wear are quizzed for hours by mental health practitioners
#67 Most Likely to Secede
1. territories have the right to secede if they aren't happy
2. the government violently suppresses separatist movements
#68 Ornery Overcrowding Problem
1. the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments
2. factories are regularly demolished to make way for low-cost housing areas
#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution
1. prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators
2. vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres
#70 Purge the Infidels!
1. citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed
2. citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed
#71 Minority Group Demands Language Recognition
1. a National Academy regulates grammar and usage
2. children are raised bilingual from an early age
3. the government is attempting to impose a new national language on the public
#72 Widening Buttocks Cause Movie Theater Havoc
2. college students sell their most valuable possessions just to afford pizza
3. college students sell their most valuable possessions just to afford pizza
5. the state subsidizes liposuction
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
4. anti-environmentalist dissidents must beware of government plants in their midst
#74 @@NAME@@'s Racers Growing Fast and Furious
1. the @@NAME@@ Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise
2. police spend their Saturday nights breaking up illegal street races
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
2. re-education centers are being added to most prisons
3. criminal rehabilitation takes place in re-education centers
#76 Suits in Protest
2. CEOs and corporate executives are frequently found striking for better stock options
4. local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food"
#79 @@NAME@@'s @@ANIMALPLURAL@@: Going the Way of the Dodo?
1. the @@ANIMAL@@ is protected from hunting and slowly coming back from the brink of extinction
#81 Close Encounters of the Sci-Fi Kind?
1. UFO sightings are listed daily in the morning news
2. birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire
3. X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low
#82 AI Researchers Rally for Android Rights
1. only 'organics' are permitted to be citizens
3. computers have been banned
#83 High-Speed Monorail Service Promises Connections
3. a vast monorail network carries people all over the country
4. a vast monorail network carries people all over the country
#84 Compulsory Gun Ownership?
3. all guns must be registered
#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares
1. a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country
2. copyright laws have been abolished
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
1. murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows
2. soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
1. flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys
#90 Organic Outburst
1. all-natural foods are becoming a major fad
3. people are moving into treehouses in record numbers
#91 Sacramental Tax Time?
3. televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events
4. membership in @@FAITH@@ is mandatory and all other faith organisations are banned
#92 @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Officials Needled About Mandatory Vaccinations
1. people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations
#93 Affirmative Action in @@NAME@@?
2. colleges adhere to rigid ethnic quotas for admissions
3. @@NAME@@'s free colleges struggle to maintain standards in the face of overwhelming demand
#94 Computer Users Fed Up With Heaps of Spam!
1. the government spends millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ every year prosecuting spammers
4. the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress
#95 Painful Prices Paid at the Pump
1. pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil
2. the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system
#96 Water Supply Problems Becoming a Major Drain
3. suburban families are finding themselves increasingly short on food as they waste precious water on their lawns
4. riots have broken out as a water shortage threatens @@NAME@@'s stability
#97 Landfills Filling Up
1. space shuttles regularly launch rubbish into space
2. cities are engulfed by smog
3. many of the country's largest dumps can be seen from space
4. waste is frequently shipped to other countries
#99 We Need Cash, Sharpish, Say Librarians
1. libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars
3. all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves
#100 Road Rage Rampage
1. traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways
2. the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting
#101 Tiara Sign of Oppression, Declare Feminists
1. all beauty contests have been banned
2. women who display their ankles are shunned by society
3. women who display their ankles are shunned by society
4. Max Barry is this year's Miss @@NAME@@
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
1. motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours
2. new urban roads are threatening city parks
3. cars have been banned
#103 Plague of the Hybrids!
2. bizarre-looking creatures called '@@ANIMAL@@dogs' dominate wildlife preserves
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
1. public loudspeakers constantly tell citizens they are "happy people"
3. ad-blocking has been nationalised
#105 Compensation Culture Must End, Say Corporations
2. every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government
3. manufacturers are sued for almost anything not covered in their catalogue-sized manuals
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
2. an enormous health awareness programme is underway
3. government-run brothels can be found on every street corner
#107 Private Lab Holds @@NAME@@'s Sick to Ransom
1. only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations
2. private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government
3. the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives
#108 Gambling Interests Offer High Stakes
2. the mob and the police have recently had numerous clashes in the back alleys of @@NAME@@'s cities due to the government's steadfast anti-casino stance
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
1. the government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces
2. the army's shirt ninja are the most feared assassins in the region
3. the use of martial arts is banned
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
1. councils up and down the country wrangle over legal matters
#112 Put the Phone Down on Cold Calling?
1. a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect
2. door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes'
#113 Test Results Deemed 'Ungood' After Global Survey
2. children have only the most basic of education
3. the education system is famed for its taxing exams
#114 Wipe Out Graffiti?
1. graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail
2. Renaissance frescos are being chiselled off public walls
#116 Soda Sales Hits New 'High'
2. drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government
3. reports of attacks by bright purple sixty-foot high spiders have recently shot up
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
1. appendix transplant figures have recently doubled
2. medical lawsuits are out of control
3. the insurance industry is outlawed
4. the study of medicine is popular throughout @@NAME@@
#118 Need for Speed?
1. the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril
2. the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work
3. motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies
#119 Watershed Down?
2. Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in @@NAME@@
#120 Two Parties for Too Long?
1. ten-year-olds regularly found their own political parties
2. the @@NAME@@ Mental Asylum Party have recently won seats in parliament
#121 A Uniform Plan for @@NAME@@'s Students?
1. school uniforms are compulsory
#122 Pensioners in Protest
1. retirement homes are often fitted with luxurious suites
#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
4. cloning has been banned
5. cloning has been banned
6. citizens are grown in vats
#125 Bring Back the Ballot?
1. @@NAME@@'s first free elections in recent memory have been successfully concluded
#126 Outsourcing an Outrage, Say Demonstrators
1. corporations are forbidden from employing outside the nation
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
2. elderly citizens regularly buy posh multimillion-@@CURRENCY@@ mansions
#128 Ban the Burka?
1. students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class
3. government officials raid public buildings to remove all mention of G*d or r******n
#129 Tribal Troubles
1. large sections of @@NAME@@ have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
5. a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world
#130 Filibuster Bust-Up
2. legislation sometimes has to battle through weeks of filibustering to pass
3. the government is forced to pander to the will of every fruitcake politician
#131 Raise Duel Standards, Say Fencers
2. arbitration is mightier than the sword
#133 When @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Attack!
1. misbehaving @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ deemed dangerous to the public are shot and hanged by the town hall as a warning to others
2. the government funds large training centres to turn @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ into functioning members of society
#134 The Truth Is Out There?
2. strange lights seen in the sky are officially regarded as weather balloons or hoaxes and nothing else
3. the government blames all suspicious phenomena on flying saucers
4. reporters sent to cover suspected UFO visits come back with stories about quilting bees
5. those who investigate UFOs tend to wake up delirious on abandoned roads
#136 Much Ado About Abortion
1. abortions are routinely performed in @@NAME@@'s hospitals
3. abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics
4. abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
2. the arms industry has been shut down in a surge of pacifism
3. the arms industry is strictly regulated
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
1. private businesses are paving paradises to put up parking lots
2. the government is paving paradises to put up parking lots
3. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
4. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
5. there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt
#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
2. the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs
#140 A Grave Problem
2. cremation is compulsory for the deceased
3. houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries
4. the dead are minced up and sold to people in burger form
#141 Police Too Pushy?
2. citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering'
#142 Roads Like Roller Coasters, Complain Motorists
1. roads are often attended by round-the-clock construction crews
#143 An Archaeological Altercation
1. prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams
3. archaeological discoveries are often followed by mysterious hamster abductions
#144 Democracy Going to the Dogs?
3. citizens recently voted in favour of declaring bubblewrap an 'abomination of nature'
#145 Hackles Raised Over Fur Clothes Debate
1. the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned
#146 Evolution: Truth or Witchcraft?
2. the teaching of evolution has been banned
3. biology and religious education classes have recently been merged
4. children are sent to either religious or secular schools
#147 Military Budgets Up for Approval
2. the nation's massive battleships are often mistaken for islands
3. the nation's gigantic air force is both respected and feared
4. most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry
5. military service is compulsory
6. the military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds
#148 Spare the Rod, Demand Welfare Activists
1. parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads
#149 With Liberty, Freedom, and Guns for All?
2. citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons
#150 Bug 'Em All, Say Police
1. phone taps are frequently carried out by the police
#151 Build Bigger Bombs, Advise Scientists
1. citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over @@NAME@@
2. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
3. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
4. all weapon research has been banned
#152 A Capital Idea
2. the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence
#153 Protesters Have Gone Too Far, Claim Police
1. protests are illegal
3. protests are legal but strictly supervised
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
2. skateparks can be found in every city
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#155 Curfew Meets Minor Opposition
1. teenagers are severely punished for being out too late
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped
3. heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste
#157 Sergeants Are Too Nasty, Say New Recruits
1. military barracks resemble five-star hotels
4. newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines
#158 Regarding Robbers' Rights
3. trespassers often find themselves impaled by crossbow bolts
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
2. convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes
#160 Truancy on the Rise
2. children deemed 'disorderly' or otherwise unfit for public schools are shipped off to military academies
#161 Where There's a Will There's a Tax
2. inheritance tax has recently been abolished
#162 Animal Experimentation Laws Under Scrutiny
1. dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws
2. several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation
#163 Referenda: Are They Right for @@NAME@@?
1. a referendum must be held in order for any new law to be passed
3. referenda can be called for any law at the request of at least one third of the voting population
#164 Licence to Breed?
1. citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities
3. welfare funding has recently gone through the roof
#165 Wedlock Worries
2. children are regularly married to each other to secure alliances between families
#166 Vote for 'None of the Above'?
1. elections have become procedural nightmares due to voters persistently rejecting candidates
#167 Fluoride Controversy a Toothy Problem
1. the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth
4. most of the nation's wealthy aristocrats are dentists
#168 @@NAME@@ Plagued by STD Epidemic!
2. people have to sneak out of the country in order to have sex
#169 @@ANIMAL@@ Hunting Laws Under Dispute
1. the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned
#170 Deserts Devouring @@NAME@@'s Countryside
1. mysterious black helicopters menace farmers to ensure compliance with straitjacketing agricultural policies
2. owning a tractor is widely regarded as an essential prerequisite to most government positions
#171 Kids and Criminality: Whose Responsibility?
1. eight-year-olds with lemonade stands have been known to be locked up on charges of embezzlement
#173 Women Demand Equal Opportunities
1. business is adjusting to new gender equality policies in the workplace
3. mostly women are seen and not heard
4. men are expected to stay home to fix funny noises in the attic
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
2. all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave
3. untold millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme
4. untold millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are going into a new government-funded maternity leave scheme
#175 Is @@NAME@@ Too Promiscuous?
2. those found guilty of illicit affairs are jailed
#176 History a Mystery to Most of @@NAME@@
1. historical fiction has been banned
3. history classes are mandatory for students
#177 Power to the People?
1. elections have recently been reintroduced to @@NAME@@
2. the government is cracking down on subversive groups
#178 Free Press Too Free?
2. truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news
#179 Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease Outbreak!
1. the government has organised a nationwide cull of infected @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
2. millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ have been thrown into a project to find the cure for Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease
3. millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ have been thrown into a project to find the cure for Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease
4. farmers can be spotted driving gold-plated tractors
#180 Mobile Maladies
1. sheepish teenagers are making eye contact with their parents for the first time in a decade during state-enforced 'no-phones hour'
4. children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
2. a spate of enforced closures has left 'Government FM' as the nation's only radio station
4. every citizen is allowed exactly fifteen minutes of fame
#182 Younger Voters a Cure for Apathy?
1. Coco the Clown has been elected to the nation's parliament
#183 Buy a Better Baby?
3. research into 'designer babies' is banned
4. research into 'designer babies' is banned
5. government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders
6. @@NAME@@'s army is full of two-metre tall super-soldiers
#184 Compulsory Military Service Under Attack
2. children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces
#185 "Bring Back Our Booze!" Cry Revellers
2. the police are tightening their grip on alcohol smugglers
3. GP clinics are inundated by patients requesting prescriptions for alcohol
#186 Carjacking Concerns
2. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
3. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#187 Underclass Drowning in Debt
1. lending firms are subject to strict government regulations
2. the government is pouring funds into the nation's welfare system
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
1. Tetris has been banned for its graphic violent content
3. only adults may purchase violent video games
4. students everywhere have been despairing after the recent ban on video games
#189 Dangerously Cheesy
4. cheese has been labelled a dangerous weapon and banned
#190 Immigrants Import Homeland Rivalries
3. children are brainwashed at a young age to accept "love and peace!" as a way of life
5. a massive campaign is underway to ensure the race of @@NAME@@ remains pure
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
1. citizens are forced to donate blood once every three months
3. the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet
4. jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses'
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
2. the military has quashed a recent coup attempt
4. kidnapping has become the latest get-rich-quick scheme
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
1. almost all products in @@NAME@@ are hand-crafted due to strict employment laws
4. the loom represents the height of @@NAME@@'s technology
#194 A Request for Military Aid
1. @@NAME@@ has been recently classified as an international menace after 'liberating' several nearby territories
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
1. public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers
2. large areas of @@NAME@@ are not accessible by the public
3. all footpaths have tollbooths
#196 Violent Violetists Protest Artists
1. government-sponsored gallows are being erected by Violetist temples
3. the government is interviewing for thousands of 'Religious Censor' positions
4. anyone who doesn't attend Official Governmental Religious Services is fined
#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
1. female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
2. traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways
3. the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country
4. homes have been banned from having any more than one wheel
#199 More Jails Needed
1. the new prison system is crowding up at an alarming rate
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
1. teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough
2. teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough
3. boys are forced to pair off for the school disco slow dance as the girls are all staying at home
4. boys are forced to pair off for the school disco slow dance as the girls are all staying at home
6. soldiers have a preference for fire-and-forget payloads
7. young girls often attend the same schools as their children
#201 Jolly Roger Sighted Off the Port Bow!
1. @@NAME@@'s navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas
2. the government is frequently held to ransom by the increasing demands of bloodthirsty pirates
#202 Guns or Butter?
1. politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads
3. strategic bombers are being converted into preschools
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
1. the government has been kicking out foreign corporations in a bid to grow enough food for the populace
4. the government is phasing in welfare programmes to tackle poverty
#204 Lack of Doctors Needs Cure
1. more and more students are taking up a career in medicine
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
1. abattoirs are running at full capacity in response to skyrocketing demand
2. illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
1. the nation has been declared a nuclear-free zone
5. nine out of ten citizens of @@NAME@@ answered 'nuclear safety inspector' when asked their occupation
#207 Secret Police in @@NAME@@?
1. rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons
2. anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper
3. the police force is rumoured to be made up of evil shadows with no souls
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
1. mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined
#209 Students Demand Financial Aid
1. the number of students attending university has reached a record high
4. closed universities are currently being converted into McRonald's restaurants
#210 Going Postal
2. postmen have been arrested in job lots for selling junk mail as home insulation
3. the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service
#211 Unconventional Weapons Under Fire
1. Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused
2. the commercialisation of highly deadly weapons has instilled @@NAME@@ with a very polite populace
3. the armed forces pride themselves on being conventional and predictable
#212 Police Wanting Help With Their Inquiries
1. crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing
3. every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
1. buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel
2. the carcasses of double-deckers can be found littering high streets all around the country
3. the public transport system has been eliminated
4. the public transport system has been eliminated
5. @@NAME@@'s heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives
#214 Voting for More Money
1. Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes
2. politicians live in luxury
3. Members of Parliament operate under a PAYE scheme
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
1. eminent domain has been abolished
3. the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'
#217 Healthcare Services Underfunded, Claim Patients
2. hospitals are amongst the best-funded in the region
#219 Nobody Expects the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Inquisition!
1. the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land
3. atheists and evolutionary biologists are fleeing the country like rats from a sinking ship
#220 Voter Apathy Rising but No One Cares
1. citizens may cast their vote over the internet or phone
2. citizens may cast their vote by mail or phone
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
1. the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code
4. annual tax returns take at least two years to complete
5. civil servants spend most their time carrying out risk assessments for paper cuts
#222 Terrorists Strike City Centre
1. the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists
2. everyone suspects that everyone else is a terrorist
3. customs turn away those considered to have an unfavourable ethnicity
4. the government seeks peaceful forum with terrorists
#223 Easter Egg: Zombie Attack!
1. the nation has a strict 'no marauding undead' law (@@EGG@@)
3. international organisations everywhere are united in their condemnation of the nation's zombified military (@@EGG@@)
5. the undead are an officially recognised ethnic minority (@@EGG@@)
#224 Minimum Wage War
1. the government has implemented minimum wage laws
2. unemployment is through the roof after the government enacted living wage laws
#225 Prayer in Public Schools?
1. students who refuse to pray are expelled from school
2. children of nonreligious parents are often barred from school festival events
3. religious education is a new government priority
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
1. the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms
2. the nation has welcomed its expats back with open arms
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
3. the parents of underage drinkers are lectured on the evils of hard liquor
7. ravers are having trouble getting used to blackcurrant squash instead of vodka
#228 Mice in the Walls
4. it is firmly believed that cameras steal souls
#229 Government Saturated in Corruption
2. the government has enacted freedom of information
#230 Extremists on the Ballot Sheet
2. most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists
#231 Jungle Fever
1. the government is financing an extremely costly war against malaria
2. rice shortages have risen after paddy fields were drained to combat malaria
3. swamplands and bogs have been put under quarantine
4. DDT is used widely to repel disease-carrying insects
#232 Suffragette City
4. women are often jailed for failing to fetch their husbands' slippers
5. women are often jailed for failing to fetch their husbands' slippers
#233 I Spy a Diplomatic Crisis
1. foreign nationals are widely distrusted
2. shaken martini sales have soared in nations surrounding @@NAME@@
3. diplomats in @@NAME@@ are furious at constant police surveillance
5. citizens have reported seeing strange rays of light emanating from the moon
#234 Corruption in the Lobby
1. corporate lobbying has been outlawed
2. Tesco was recently named as the new national treasurer
#235 From Green Pastures to Grey Wastelands
1. high food prices have reduced the national diet to staple foods and water
2. the Great @@NAME@@ Desert is reputedly the most uninhabitable place in the region
4. agricultural science is the most competitive subject at universities
#236 Quickie Marriages Under Scrutiny
1. the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in @@NAME@@
#237 Tourists on Death Row
1. international tensions are high as @@NAME@@ threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens
5. the government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights
#238 We Need a Few Good Men Who Like Men?
1. the colors pink and purple are banned from military unit insignia
2. recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
2. badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game
#240 Plea Bargains: Tipping the Scales of Justice?
1. charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial
#241 A Capital City for @@NAME@@?
3. all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of @@CAPITAL@@
#242 Follow the Leader
2. @@LEADER@@ has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw
3. the Federal Council of @@NAME@@ has been announced as the new Head of State
4. even the most lowly council pen-pusher has the same political power as a senior minister
5. @@LEADER@@ has been known to threaten dissenting citizens with a machine gun at press conferences
#243 A Question of Faith
1. @@FAITH@@ has been named as @@NAME@@'s national religion
4. open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries
5. @@LEADER@@ is the self-declared God of all @@NAME@@
#244 Foreign Invasion Force Takes on Small Farming Community
1. @@NAME@@ is building an army to protect its overseas territories
#245 Clash of Cultures
3. religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural
4. all citizens must pass a 'multicultural sensitivity test' to be deemed fit for society
5. property values in suburbs have nosedived after the middle class were forced to live next door to ethnic minorities
6. the word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive
#246 @@NAME@@ to Hold the Olympic Torch?
1. @@NAME@@ successfully hosted the @@REGION@@ Olympics
3. the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age
#247 Where There's Smoke
2. the fire protection service is wholly government-funded
3. most citizens in @@NAME@@ are abject pyrophobes after extremely graphic pamphlets were mailed nationwide by the government
#248 The Sky Is Falling
1. frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security
5. aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed
#249 Particle Accelerator Sparks High Energy Debate
1. construction of the Really Big Hadron Collider is underway
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
4. the crackdown on private property seems as endless as the government issued food stamp lines
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
1. the recently unemployed can often be seen at the local homeless shelter
2. citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless
4. citizens who become homeless are immediately executed
#252 Great Balls of Fire!
1. nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids
2. the government has adopted a "Lightning Never Strikes Twice" approach to dealing with natural disasters
4. god-fearing citizens can be seen in prayer circles around the Big Max impact crater
#253 How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
3. referenda are held for every conceivable government action
#254 Freedom Comes at a Price
1. it is illegal to liberate slaves
2. employers are gradually adapting to the alien premise of paying wages to their workers
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
1. suit-clad businessmen have been taking advantage of the relaxed welfare qualifications by shopping with food stamps
4. the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor
5. the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'
#257 @@LEADER@@ Assassinated... Almost
2. citizens have an obligation to remain silent and anything they say may be used against them
3. @@LEADER@@ goes out to lunch surrounded by large men in dark glasses
4. nobody ever seems to enter or leave the armour-plated flying castle that serves as the seat of government
#258 What's in a Name?
1. parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list
#259 A Taste of Revenge
1. the nation's diplomatic missives are now delivered via sniper rifle
2. the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge
#260 Taxpayers on Strike!
2. the police crack down on tax evaders without mercy
#261 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
1. shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned
2. the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics
3. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
4. the entire retail industry has been replaced by online delivery services
5. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
#262 Sticks and Stones
1. a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion
3. the government is promoting multicultural values with the new 'Just Be Nice, OK?' initiative
#263 Wind Farms Blowing Up a Storm
1. renewable energy projects have ground to a halt
2. the countryside is shrouded by wind farms
3. @@NAME@@ has one of the largest offshore wind farms in the world
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
1. fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets
2. almost all of @@NAME@@'s water is piped into the country from abroad for exorbitant prices
3. raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
3. businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up
#266 Easter Egg: Breaching the Great Fourth Wall of @@NAME@@
3. several universities in @@NAME@@ have assembled expensive research teams to explore and study new lands and old ruins (@@EGG@@)
#267 Controversial Coup Causes Commotion
1. the government is pouring money into 'Operation Enduring Democracy'
#268 Don't Want Your Kid Anymore? Good News!
3. mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights
4. toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense
#269 Stop the Presses!
1. economists claim no news is good news
3. daily newspapers are permitted to run only pro-government stories
4. abacus sales outpace those of the personal computer following the closure of the Internet
#270 Space Spectacular Sours Small Stargazers
2. police officers have nearly cracked a major underage astronomy syndicate
3. the police have been swamped with requests to stay up past bedtime
#271 Vigilantes: Heroes or Hoodlums?
1. police are arresting costumed characters at comic book conventions
2. police are arresting costumed characters at comic book conventions
3. embarrassed police officers wear spandex and carry net guns
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
1. mothers drive their college-graduate children to work
3. bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
1. students cut up leftover @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ during Arts and Crafts
3. the state believes that children are what you make of them
4. the state believes that children are what you make of them
#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
2. family bonding sessions are considered immoral and are banned
3. annulments are on the rise as couples discover their ancestors were born in the same hospitals
5. people choose marriage partners by buying a lottery ticket
7. love is given from each according to their ability but marriage is assigned to each according to their needs
#275 Wiki Worries
2. popular websites like NationStates are blocked for "national security"
3. the Ministry of Truthiness now manages the entire media industry
#276 Circus Clowns Cause Chaos!
2. students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak
3. clowns are being rounded up and admitted to mental institutions
#277 Say Cheese!
3. the secret service is working overtime to find anyone publishing unauthorized material about @@LEADER@@
#278 Relief Is Coming... In Four to Six Weeks
3. people take government jobs for the frequent flier miles
#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
1. the government is pouring billions into replacement brains
#280 Oh the Humanity!
1. the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines
2. airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted
3. the new hit series "@@NAME@@'s Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country
#281 Free Internet for @@NAME@@?
1. the internet has been placed under government control
2. students abandon classrooms for online education
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
4. politicians debate whether caffeine is too addictive for the public
5. absentminded citizens frequently converse with hallucinations
#285 A Right Not to Work?
1. the request to "give us our daily bread" can only be fulfilled six days out of seven
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down
4. midnight pizza breaks are common among the work-from-home population
#286 A Whale of a Problem
1. people are arrested for looking too sternly at whales
3. the government strictly regulates whale harvest quotas
4. fishing crews are regularly interrogated by surprisingly violent environmentalists
#287 Maxtopians Demand Return of the King
1. museums stand half-empty as all foreign exhibits are returned to their countries of origin
4. museums occasionally burn priceless artifacts in order to intimidate foreign curators
#288 Super-Sized Pizzas Recipe for Disaster?
1. police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers
2. overweight people receive reparations checks from fast-food chains
4. the government props up questionable pizza establishments in the name of health
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
1. new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in @@NAME@@ to be bombproof
3. the nationalized auto industry is adept at making durable little cars nobody wants to drive
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#291 A Question of Sport
1. glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town
3. tourists are kicked out if they express interest in their national sport
4. kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun"
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
1. the police strictly enforce off-limit zones for tourists
2. anti-tourism militias patrol the borders
3. tourists outnumber citizens two to one
4. tourists outnumber citizens two to one
5. tourists need only sign on the dotted line to become citizens
#293 Maestro, Please
1. conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings
5. terrified tympanists are finding themselves on the front lines armed only with kettledrums
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
2. the minority inevitably have their addenda vetoed
3. laws are littered with references to cheese
4. laws are littered with references to cheese
#296 Come on Baby, Fight My Fire
1. CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears
2. shanty towns have formed around the newly rebuilt commercial district
#297 Intersex Athletes Demand Level Playing Field
2. the 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event
3. national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys'
4. hairdressers are among those who have disappeared overnight
#298 Cults: Harmless or Heretics?
1. new religious sects are squashed immediately by the government
2. fast food restaurants everywhere are under the control of a gigantic government corporation
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
1. grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices
2. a punitive tax has been placed on harmful emissions
3. surfers ride tsunamis of record height and toxicity
4. the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association
#300 Trafficked Tots Trouble
2. the national Police Academies have dedicated infant wings
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
2. businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
1. only toddlers and the elderly watch television before 23:00
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
2. companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave
3. unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave
#305 Who's Occupying What?
1. former school buses now regularly shuttle kids to the nearest shopping centers to work
3. businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders
4. the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation
#306 A Matter of Trust
1. politicians have to be granted day-release from prison to speak on bills
2. many politicians are having to do a hard day's work for the first time in their careers
5. the government is spending millions on 'trust campaigns' in an effort to win back the public's support
6. dissident voters are sent on a 'relaxing break' at the Ministry of Love
#308 Over, Under or Through?
1. @@NAME@@ Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere'
2. the @@NAMEINITIALS@@BI Channel Tunnel project is plagued by delays
#309 Guerrilla Grandparents
1. aging citizens are celebrating the end of the 'Early Bird War'
2. fortified nursing homes are wracked with daily skirmishes
#310 Too Little Talk?
3. multiple polls have christened the newly-formed Filibuster Committee as "the least efficient government bureaucracy"
4. a determined opposition debates the relative benefits of Arial and Times New Roman for days on end
#311 Victims Demand Their Pound of Flesh
2. prosecutors routinely call transplant doctors as 'expert witnesses' in burglary cases
#312 The Empire Strikes First?
1. @@NAME@@ is increasingly belligerent on the international stage
2. the government has declared its commitment to multilateralism
3. the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security
#313 Conscientious Objectors Want You... To Let Them Abstain
2. conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors
3. priests are being drafted by the church load
4. priests are being drafted by the church load
#314 An Affair to Remember?
1. cheating spouses are required to undergo job training
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
3. "It was only a joke" is no longer a defense for the felony of discrimination
#316 Fortified Against Crime
2. the rich are forced to sell their houses to pay for more police to prevent their houses from being burgled
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
1. government popup ads are springing up like weeds
3. the government is rounding up computers and beating them into plowshares
#318 Death Penalty on Death Row?
1. prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail
2. the populace lives in fear of painful execution for minor offences
3. criminals are put to death while cuddling their favourite teddy bear
4. police officers have been re-kitted with designer uniforms and gold-plated handcuffs
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
3. businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'
#321 Cowboys and... Aliens?
1. droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police
#322 Empathy a Rare Commodity?
1. citizens are tied down and forced to watch educational videos on empathy
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
1. it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey
4. computers are used primarily for word processing and solitaire
#324 "Tourism Tanking!" Trumpet Tabloids
1. a new generation of aquariumless hotels are being built under government supervision
2. visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories
3. visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories
4. online tourism reviews of @@NAME@@ are suspiciously positive and amazingly similar
#325 Blazing Through the Paper Trail
1. the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around @@CAPITAL@@
2. 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive
3. 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive
4. the National Archive now covers square miles of warehouses in order to accommodate its new stone tablets system
#326 Knitters in a Knot Over Police Stitch Up
1. families consisting of more than three people are forced to split up
2. criminals rejoice in the streets as the entire police force is sent away on a training retreat
3. knitting needles have been banned in the name of public safety
#327 No Rest for the Weary @@ANIMAL@@
2. pet owners exercise their @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ at a snail's pace or risk prosecution
4. government officials across @@NAME@@ are being "encouraged" to adopt @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to set an example for the populace
#328 Bugged by Lack of Intelligence
1. all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons'
2. travel bureaus double as recruiting centers for national intelligence agencies
3. the nation's secret service is so secret that nobody knows if it has one
#329 Military Uniforms Under Scrutiny
4. soldiers are equipped with multi-million @@CURRENCY@@ battlesuits
5. soldiers go to war dressed in cassocks and robes
#330 Supermarkets Gobbling Up All the Customers?
1. stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor
3. the government provides its citizenry with the same mass produced rations
#331 Swept Away
1. the government is flooded with compensation requests
3. children listen incredulously when their grandparents explain what a "running river" is
4. there is a dearth of space for new houses
#332 Summit Security Spending Stirs Strife
1. @@CAPITAL@@ is a police state during international summits
2. rioting during the nation's hosting of ORDER caused one million @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ of property damage
#333 No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice at All
1. churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs
2. churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs
4. citizens are required to report any and all incidents of prayer to their local Religious Affairs Officer
5. there are major delays at immigration checkpoints as travellers are forced to prove they belong to @@FAITH@@
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
1. builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction
#335 Log Us Back On
3. computers are widely considered to be the "devil magic of heathens"
#337 Doctors Crossing Borders?
3. people eagerly queue days at A&E to wait for their free healthcare
#338 The Silence and the Fury
1. noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law
2. most people suffer from some form of hearing loss
#339 The Bear Necessities
1. workers have seized control of the economy
3. the economy is undergoing a traumatic transition to capitalism
#340 Defending Patent Pending
1. corporate innovation has effectively ended since ideas can no longer be owned
3. the government subsidizes everything from particle physics to fabric softeners
#341 Where in the Woods Is Cindy SanFrancisco?
1. the national guard is mobilized whenever a mother gets separated from her child at the mall
3. fearful citizens watch their every move as does their government
4. fearful citizens watch their every move as does their government
5. groups of three or more trees are cut down in the name of 'child safety'
#342 This Land Was Made for You and Me
5. residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
3. mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance
#344 Trash Talk
1. litter collection has replaced fast food as the most popular after-school job
3. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
4. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
5. tumbleweeds made of litter adorn city streets
#345 Mayors Behaving Badly
1. hordes of faceless civil servants are running cities
3. many mayors are barely in office before being kicked out for minor parking violations
#346 Oil's Well That Ends Well
1. oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds
2. the government struggles to keep up with the endless list of petrol disasters
3. wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms
4. Ollie the Oiled Seal welcomes throngs of tourists to the newly opened Oil Oasis Water Park
#347 Crime Problems Ganging Up on @@NAME@@
1. rap artists are regularly arrested for promoting extremist groups
2. new funding allows inner city teachers to replace school laptops almost as fast as they get stolen
#348 I Want a Lawyer
1. the state is footing the bill for billionaires' lawyers
3. every street in the nation contains at least three law firms
#349 Bigtopian Bigwigs Beset Border
1. foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country
3. the military is recruiting war criminals to join its weapons research teams
#350 Queasy Cuisine
6. the food pyramid has been replaced with the word PASTA in bold block capital letters
#351 The Cost of Freedom
2. private law firms are unheard of
#352 Going Off the Rails
3. train stations can be 'armful places
4. anyone who so much as frowns risks being referred to a mental health unit
5. the nation's train stations are widely considered to be the ugliest in @@REGION@@
#353 Broadband Going to the Birds?
1. consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed
2. streaming video is considered to be a myth by most citizens
3. stray cats threaten the fledgling avian-based internet
#354 Subversive Shortwaves
1. the military invades any neighboring nation with the gall to criticize its policies
3. the government is suspected of mass disappearing dissidents both at home and abroad
4. sociologists can charge whatever fee they like as the nation tries to find itself
#355 Alien Invaders
1. the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced
3. invasive species are hunted by the gendarmerie
4. the government's official position on invasive species is 'who cares?'
#357 Vamos, Mi @@ANIMAL@@!
2. cops enjoy driving jaywalkers into the ground
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
1. 'Abstinence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder' is a common school motto
3. children play Capture the Flag and Capture the Bigtopian General Staff at summer camps
6. getting an abortion takes less hassle than writing a letter
#359 Got Democracy?
1. pro-democracy protesters are shot on sight by state police
2. pro-democracy regime change has been avoided
#360 Electile Dysfunction
2. third party candidates are now gaining some representation in Parliament
3. coalition governments are essential to passing new laws
#361 @@CAPITAL@@, We Have a Problem
2. foreign 'investors' have been taking a great interest in the new secret shuttle
4. the eerie remains of the final shuttle mission orbit in silence as a sober reminder of the abandoned space program
#362 After the Fall
1. the government is funneling billions into Cape @@NAME@@ following the shuttle crash
2. soldiers are authorised to use lethal force to maintain calm in the crash zone
#363 The Apotheosis of @@LEADER@@?
1. @@LEADER@@ is worshipped as a god
2. government policy is dictated by @@FAITH@@
5. failure to pay the thrice-daily homage to the divine @@LEADER@@ is punishable by death
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
1. birth rates have hit an all-time low
3. underground copulation clubs have sprung up in major cities
#365 A Busload of Worry
1. children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet
2. tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport
3. tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport
5. @@CAPITAL@@ spends billions upgrading public transport
#366 Prosecute Stolen Valour, Says Military
1. fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits
#367 What's Their Beef?
1. fresh food is a thing of the past due to onerous testing standards
3. unemployed butchers line the streets
#368 Female Workers Feeling the Pinch
3. women are kept out of work but at least dinner is served on time
4. harassment has been stamped out under the high-heeled jackboots of a matriarchy
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
1. companies are turning to trained @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ for their most menial jobs
4. foreign observers are baffled by the sway @@LEADER@@'s student intern holds over macroeconomics
#370 The Unbearable Lightness of Government
3. soup kitchens are the only things doing roaring business
#371 Lotto Fever
2. betting pennies on games of Go Fish is considered deviant
#372 The Coming of the Commissars
1. troops are either deafened by gunfire or a hysterical voice screaming the Party manifesto
2. rocket boots and thermal detonators have become standard-issue military gear
4. police wait behind troop deployments in order to shoot deserters
#373 Devil and the Deep Blue Funding Gap
1. mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
1. helicopter parenting is on the rise
2. mollycoddled youths run the country
3. the nation's only university is the School of Hard Knocks
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#376 Death by Bungee
1. bungee jumpers rarely go splat
2. crossing the road requires a risk assessment
#377 It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's... Oh, It Was a Plane
1. the nation has always been at war with Bigtopia
#378 The War to End All Wars
1. commemoration of the Great @@REGION@@ War costs almost as much as the war itself
2. historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism
4. the nation grinds to a halt on the anniversary of every marginally noteworthy event
#379 Stakes on a Plane
1. homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways
2. planespotters are emigrating in droves
3. billions are being spent on a new island airport
#380 Farmers Seeding Discontent
1. agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government
3. cheap and tasteless vegetables flood the markets
4. cheap and tasteless vegetables flood the markets
#381 Mamma @@NAME@@, Let Me Go
1. the government has an "easy come, easy go" policy on youth crime
2. tantrum-throwing toddlers are regularly imprisoned on assault charges
#382 The Appropriate Amount of Appropriation
2. citizens sporting mohawks must carry family trees on them at all times
3. school children are expected to know the names of all seven hundred native tribes and their cultural practices
4. immigrants are asked to leave their cultural traditions and pride at the border
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
2. soldiers are noted for their ferocity and illiteracy
#384 Out of the Royal Frying Pan
2. the government prefers to kill off its enemies by peaceful means
3. the government prefers to kill off its enemies by peaceful means
#385 Who Stands for @@NAME@@?
1. the new national mascot has to be wheeled onto the field of play
2. an increasingly villainous series of sports coaches are demanding the national mascot's true identity
4. political scientists despair as the national mascot election eclipses all others in voter enthusiasm
5. political scientists despair as the national mascot election eclipses all others in voter enthusiasm
#386 Droning On and On
1. warfare increasingly resembles a video game
#387 [An International Incident] Diamonds Are an Expat's Best Friend!
1. the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan
2. the nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers
#388 [An International Incident] Napalm in the Morning
1. troop transports blacken the sky as the military commences Operation Desert Ocean
2. carpet bombing has decimated Brasilistan's landscape and population
#389 [An International Incident] Sanctions, Sanctions Everywhere!
1. toilet paper is considered a non-essential item in the embargo against Brasilistan
2. the nation's coasts have been left unprotected while the entire navy sits in Brasilistani waters
#390 [An International Incident] An Unstable Situation
1. the nation's armed forces are recruiting thousands to help colonise Brasilistan
2. nation-building is the new national pastime
3. nation-building is the new national pastime
#391 [An International Incident] The Third Horseman of Brasilistan
1. the government is spending more on exports to Brasilistan than it's receiving from tariffs on the imports
#393 [An International Incident] A Naval Conundrum
2. expensive show trials reveal the harshness of the nation's justice system
#394 Ten Days in a Mad House
1. any citizen who cries is immediately assigned a psychiatrist
4. anyone dissenting from the state ideology is declared "mentally ill" and whisked away in a straitjacket
#396 [An International Incident] Hello, Is It Brie You're Looking For?
1. soldiers are now trained how to make sandwiches properly
#397 [An International Incident] Select Your Target!
1. the nation's air missiles have killed thousands of Brasilistan military personnel
2. claims of genocide have been levied against the nation by international observers
3. @@REGION@@ holds its breath as nuclear warfare is being seriously considered
#398 [An International Incident] Why Did You Do That?!
1. Brasilistan's industrial base is being quickly decimated
3. the international community waits with bated breath as the moment of nuclear warfare comes closer
#399 [An International Incident] Invasion Plan
1. the might of the nation's military are undertaking a long march to colonisation in Brasilistan
2. elite teams of assassins have been sent into Brasilistan
3. nuclear bases are readying themselves for missile deployment
#401 [An International Incident] What's the WA Gonna Do, Anyway?
1. military chiefs pretend they're not at home when foreign governments call
#402 [An International Incident] They Surrendered... Now What?
2. even the family pets of Brasilistani insurgents are being put down
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
1. the nation has gained millions of new citizens overnight
2. Brasilistanis face layers of paperwork in a different language just to visit a doctor
4. Brasilistan is being evacuated after its designation as 'Test Zone 1 - Nuclear'
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
#409 Water Palaver
3. political loyalty is enforced by way of chemical addiction
#410 12 Angry, Tired, and Increasingly Confused Men
3. listless juries are assembled for the simplest of court cases
#411 Outed Teacher Ousted
3. prudishness is on the way out
#412 The Magic (Of Advertising!) School Bus
1. the education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence
#413 A Shot in the Arm
2. vaccinations are mandatory
3. parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are given a short jail sentence
4. science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous
#414 Subpar Suburbs
2. government crews work tirelessly to retake the suburbs from organized packs of raccoons
4. towns that stop turning a profit are turned into animal sanctuaries
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
1. student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned @@ANIMAL@@ball fields
2. concussed @@ANIMAL@@ball players cannot remember their lineup position
3. concussed @@ANIMAL@@ball players cannot remember their lineup position
4. disgruntled jocks are forced to play tetris for entertainment
#416 Prophet Margins
2. government officials go door-to-door educating about the dangers of pseudoscience
3. @@LEADER@@ is refusing to make decisions until the Moon is out of Capricorn
4. oracles predict landslide victories for @@LEADER@@ for the next 50 years
#417 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1. @@LEADER@@'s former secretary was last sighted on her new yacht
#418 That Sinking Feeling
1. the Coast Guard is pioneering a quixotic program to train fish
3. tourist operators promise visitors tours of live burning shipwrecks and plane crash sites
#419 RED Rover, RED Rover, Send Your Money Right Over!
1. the government spends more on chasing distant comets than on basic infrastructure
2. the nation has declared war on all passing comets
3. all transmission towers have been temporarily diverted in order to establish dialogue with a comet
#420 Caught Green Handed
1. many politicians are serving jail time for minor drug offenses
#422 Wounded Veterans Demand a Helping Hand
3. 90% of active duty @@DEMONYMADJECTIVEINITIALS@@AF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones
#423 Returning Holy Warriors Cause Trouble
1. returning tourists and businessmen are detained without trial if they belong to the "wrong" religion
2. the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in @@CAPITAL@@ for fear of causing a fuss
3. randomly bombing neighboring countries has become the new national sport
#424 You Just Sank My Battleship!
1. the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust
2. the military has forsaken terrestrial warfare
3. countless government officials are accused of espionage
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
1. even the nation's brussel sprouts are delicious and nutritious
3. bleach is the nation's most common pesticide
#426 Women in Uniform Under Fire
3. women are ordered home to reproduce for the glory of the @@TYPE@@
#427 They Took Our Gubment!
2. the majority of @@NAME@@'s traffic wardens have been sacked overnight
3. the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters
#428 Crop Circles Clutter @@CAPITAL@@
2. forecasts predict rains of loose lead and mortar shells for the next six weeks
3. it is a crime to operate a combine harvester while intoxicated
#429 No Representation Without Taxation?
3. factories grind to a halt every time there is an election
#431 Gone a Stray!
1. shelters struggle to keep up with the endless intake of stray animals
2. mandatory neutering has made purebred dogs a thing of the past
3. animal control is going door-to-door releasing all pets back into the wild
4. Jack Russells have proven to be terrible spies
#432 Children in the Lead?
2. the nation is proudly the least fertile in @@REGION@@
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
1. even doll houses and dog kennels have to be able to withstand rigorous earthquake testing
2. electricity company executives pray nightly to Zeus and Thor
3. the attempt to control the weather has ended in environmental disaster
4. cruise liners are being requisitioned and filled with zoo animals as @@NAME@@ braces for "Le Grand Deluge"
5. package deals offer tourists the chance to visit the frozen remains of the previous tour group
#434 Fraternity Furor
1. fraternities are notorious for drunken hooliganism
#435 A Working Class Hero Is Something to Be
2. every worker receives exactly the same pay regardless of productivity
3. it is impossible to get any work done as auditors swarm every inch of government factories and mines
#436 Voters, Place Your Bets!
1. politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot
#437 Blue Screen of Economic Death
1. citizens queue to get the reinstated bank notes and coins
2. tourists avoid using the nation's bugged phones and monitored internet
#438 Judicial Review on Trial
2. political gridlock ensues as even the most innocuous legislation is vetoed by the Supreme Court for potential civil rights violations
#439 The Law of Exodus
2. minefields are being deployed along the border to discourage potential emigrants from trying to leave
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have been enjoying a recent boost in civil rights as the government continues to clamp down on emigration
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
1. cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry
2. tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
1. there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees
2. EpiPen sales have skyrocketed
3. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
4. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
5. the government takes agricultural advice from a wasp-themed superhero
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
2. business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters
3. a performance of the hit musical "Mamma Tua" has been delayed after squatters were found sleeping in the orchestra pit
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
1. job opportunities abound in the Hole Recycling industry
2. strategic economic sectors are controlled by the state
4. Viagra factories are being converted to producing antimalarials for Bigtopian orphans
#444 Virtually Assured Destruction
1. the nation is committed to nuclear rearmament
3. entire provinces are populated solely by nuclear missile technicians and military police
#445 Evasive Maneuvers
2. companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes
3. corporate lawyers are joyfully combing through the new tax code for any new loopholes for their clients
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
2. breast milk is being redistributed from each according to their ability to each according to their need
4. prohibition has allowed a Maxtopian immigrant known only as "Nipples" to establish an illicit breast milk syndicate
#447 Honey, We Hung the Parliament
2. the new coalition government is so large nobody knows where it begins
3. politicians demand do-overs when they don't agree with election outcomes
#448 It Takes a Village
1. the government frequently panders to parents with boutique tax credits
2. parents who fail mandatory parenting classes risk having their children taken away
3. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Babysitters Club has proven to be a huge relief to stressed-out parents across the nation
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
1. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
2. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
3. drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking
4. @@ANIMAL@@ sanctuaries have been taken over by hydraulic fracturing sites
#450 Colonial Testimonial
1. colonial citizens are forced to sing the praise of the "Great @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Liberator"
2. school history books often refer to @@LEADER@@ as "that imperialist pig dog"
#451 A Proselyte to Burn
2. the nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books
4. books are so highly regarded in @@NAME@@ that libraries are often revered as holy shrines
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
1. hordes of gardening enthusiasts are being banished from cities nationwide
3. the rich tend their gardens inside gated urban farming communities
4. food imports have skyrocketed after the recent 'Forage for Food' program severely backfired
#455 Police on Overkill Mode?
1. veteran cops reminisce over their heavy armor days
2. the police use sound cannons and mortars to deal with loud parties
3. sections of the police receive paramilitary training
#456 Heads Will Roll
1. biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to Violetism en masse
4. motorcycle riders are required to wear so much gear they've been nicknamed "Stay Pufts"
#457 Colossus With Feet of Clay
3. tourists are forbidden to enter Native @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ lands
4. suburban backyards are seized by the government and turned into national parks
#458 Bigtopian Lives Matter
2. the police insist that racism does not exist
3. officer recruitment and police brutality have reached an all-time high
#459 Murder, He Shouted!
1. major corporations receive tax breaks for no apparent reason
2. @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ facilities are being turned into @@ANIMAL@@ habitats
3. the government is spending millions on lawyers' fees trying to get @@LEADER@@ off a murder charge
#462 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
2. the installation of street lights across remote goat tracks has left citizens bemused
3. astronomers are flocking to @@NAME@@ to take advantage of its clear night skies
4. the native owl population is in permanent hibernation
#463 Smart Cars Driving Regulators Up the Wall
4. self-driving cars have been banned
#464 The @@ANIMAL@@ Republic Shall Rise Again?
4. the government has embraced apartheid
#465 Lottocracy Causing Lots of Trouble
3. votes of no confidence regularly remove unwanted MPs
#466 @@NAME@@ Is Never Ever Getting Back Together... Like Ever
1. the military patrols the streets in search of possible secessionists
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
3. teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank
#468 Selling @@NAME@@ Down the River?
1. unemployed mercenaries drift the country looking for new careers
4. the 'maybe not shock and awe' foreign policy initiative is showing promise
#469 Shoot to Earn
1. the newly revamped army is so eager for action that it has trouble keeping the peace
2. the nation is known as the cheapskates of @@REGION@@
3. the nation's peacekeeping efforts usually come with a healthy dose of pillaging
#470 Tide Stops for No Man
1. scenic beaches are now protected by massive concrete walls
2. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Tourism Bureau has described the abolition of coastal defences as a "kick to the groyne"
4. the government spends twice as much reclaiming lost settlements from the sea as it could've on coastal defences
#472 Rise of the Machines
3. economic planning is exalted as a human art form
#473 A-B-C, Easy as Don't Use Me
1. the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world
3. children are expected to carve their own toys
#474 Mesozoic Park
1. sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park
2. mathematicians are hated by children across the country
3. idyllic countryside scenes see border collies herding sixty-ton dinosaurs
4. local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings
#477 Feeding Frenzy
1. school children across the country are staging hunger strikes to protest government-mandated salads
2. children use fake IDs to purchase candy
3. meals are now followed by thirty minutes of mandatory exercise
#478 The Show Must Go On
1. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances
2. teens are voting on which C-List pop star will be next to be evicted from the opera house
3. mournful opera fans place bouquets of roses at a 3000 capacity parking lot
#479 @@LEADER@@, Put on the Yellow Light
1. tardiness has increased after carpooling was classified as a criminal offense
4. conspiracy theorists allege @@CAPITAL@@'s new subway map resembles Satanic symbols
#480 One Nation's Trash Is Another Nation's Trash
2. the government is trying to clean up all the rubbish that has washed up on the shores of Bigtopia and Marche Noire
4. game show contestants scramble to fish trash out of the South @@ANIMAL@@ Sea
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
2. the universal wage level is set by dividing GDP by the number of citizens
3. @@LEADER@@'s new socialist government gets its policy advice from teenagers
5. occupational wage levels are based on a crumpled napkin authored by a legendary @@CAPITAL@@ bus driver
#482 Whose Fault Is It Anyways?
2. government-funded marriage counseling is showing very limited success
5. mandatory spouse selection pairs elderly apparatchiki with stunningly beautiful supermodels
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
1. a historic rise in the minimum wage has crushed the economy with inflation
3. all restaurants close before dinner time
4. pizza parlors have been replaced by lima bean cafes
#484 Patriot or Patri-Not?
3. citizens who don't attend the nation's massive military parades tend to disappear overnight
4. political satirists and late night comedians weep as the government begins cleaning up its act
#485 Really Real eSports Tournament
1. the government is a proud sponsor of the National Gaming Association
2. Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation
3. young adults are stepping outside for the first time in ages after video games were recently banned
4. all gamers have been drafted into the military despite their lack of upper body strength
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
1. confused drunks wake up to irate drill sergeants whipping them into shape
2. the army lures cannon fodder with promises of a college education
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#487 Masks of Shame
1. country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized
#488 Bright Orange Is the New Black
1. gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal
2. gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal
#489 Standing at Attention
4. handsome young men are forced into uniforms by their dominant elders
5. people find it hard to relate to soldiers because of the dehumanising masks they wear
#491 Friends, @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears
1. people who have lived their entire lives in @@NAME@@ are shocked to discover that they are not citizens
3. the citizenship exam requires years of study to actually pass
#492 The Artwork in the Attic
2. rare art has become a significant factor in negotiating all foreign trade agreements
#493 Suspicious Superhuman Athletes?
1. invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days
4. many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to find outlets for their pent-up competitive juices
#494 Whipping Up a Controversy
1. whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Embarrassments
#495 Beloved "Planet" Has Gone to the Dogs
2. the government is spending billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on a fancy space probe to find a planet that may not even exist
3. the nation's leading climatologists are investigating animal flatulence in efforts to reduce methane emissions
#496 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
1. every workday begins with group therapy
2. attempted suicide is punishable by public hanging
#497 The Widening Gyre
1. the once prosperous capital is in utter decline
2. virtually all of the country's economic activity takes place in @@CAPITAL@@
3. city-dwellers are forcibly moved to farming communes in the countryside
#498 Computer Says No
1. government officials frown on anything more technologically advanced than an abacus
3. the government's economic policy can be summed up as "Abort, Retry, Fail?"
#499 The Genetics of Aesthetics
1. relationships often break down when doctors tell couples they are genetically incompatible
2. the newest generation of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are nearly clone-like in appearance
#500 Please Don't Feed the (Copyright) Trolls
2. the constant playing of Merry Birthday on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ radio has led to calls for the song to be classified as a crime against humanity
3. NationStates is now a popular brand of laxatives despite Max Barry's protests
4. the most popular WhoTube videos are ones featuring parodies of iconic songs
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
1. school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment
#502 Scientists Declare That @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Are Persons
1. animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs
4. the new @@ANIMAL@@ Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls
5. the new @@ANIMAL@@ Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls
#503 @@LEADER@@, Tear Down This Door!
2. petitioners are increasingly resorting to climbing through @@LEADER@@'s window to draw attention to their issues
#504 Short Shorts Too Short?
1. high school boys are required to pass vigorous self-mastery and sensitivity training to graduate
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ schoolgirl uniforms have become alarmingly popular outside @@NAME@@
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
1. the nation's once beautiful countryside has turned brown as farmers spray potent pesticides
2. criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program
4. Maxtopians are both starving and giddy after the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military unleashed its biological weapons
#507 Would a Rochebaron by Any Other Name Smell Just as Sweet?
3. there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ grocery store
#508 Ex-Cons Robbed of Future
1. former arsonists can be found on local fire brigades
3. many aides in @@LEADER@@'s office are known to be serial jaywalkers
#509 It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
1. citizens are abandoning their homes en masse in a widespread panic over asbestos
2. new cases of Asbestosis are cropping up as quickly as hospitals can deal with them
#510 Possession, Protection or Poppycock?
1. tie-dye has been outlawed for being 'too occult'
2. children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist
3. turning eighteen is often referred to as the 'Age of Aquarius'
#511 Dogman Deconstructed
1. trick-or-treaters and circus clowns have been arrested under suspicion of being renegade vigilantes
2. arms manufacturers and mild-mannered journalists have been outed as superheroes
#512 Furnished for Failure
1. clumsy self-injury is a viable claim in modern compensation culture
2. a mountain of discarded sofas and beds is incinerated every day
3. the nation's reinforced coffee tables are constructed to survive an atomic blast
#513 Something Wickered This Way Comes
3. heavily subsidised @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ baskets litter the streets of @@REGION@@
4. heavily subsidised @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ baskets litter the streets of @@REGION@@
#514 Contract Killer
2. legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on
#515 Little Green Men
2. entire provinces are being suppressed for collectively "planning terrorist attacks"
#517 Gallery in Need of a Renaissance
2. the National Art Gallery's newest exhibit is the 500-year-old Luna Lisa
#518 Face Lift
1. artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings
2. directors of low-budget sci-fi films are flocking to use @@CAPITAL@@ as a backdrop
3. the nation's government buildings are remarkable for being ugly concrete boxes
4. @@CAPITAL@@ has become the number one destination for urban exploration in @@REGION@@
#519 School's Out (Of Control)
1. schoolchildren learn basic numeracy by counting off their push-ups
#520 Preach With Me if You Want to Live
1. the last thing @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldiers hear before charging into battle is a preacher trying to convert them
3. military units are often seen arguing over which one is truly favored by the gods
4. the military's primary weapons are fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and a fanatical devotion to @@FAITH@@
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
2. the average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections
3. model railroad hobbyists have taken to muscling model shipbuilders off their "turf"
5. meteorologists are instantly recognizable from their luxury cars and jewelry
#522 Time to Get Serious
1. business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions
4. smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour
5. students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations
#523 A Family Affair
1. research grant proposals read like political diatribes
2. troublemakers just happen to be reassigned to distant mining operations
3. government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power
#524 Something Is Rotten in the State of @@NAME@@
1. rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes
3. decaying farm hamlets have twice the representation of major urban areas
#525 Nowhere to Go!
1. builders across @@NAME@@ are blocked up with orders for new public loos
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have replaced bears in a popular idiom
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
1. rural citizens live in terror of their local village constable
2. motorway service stations often have a higher population than the hinterland villages that the roads lead to
3. illegal moonshine operations get taken out with laser-guided airstrikes
#527 The Body Politic
2. royalist is the most offensive slur in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ language
3. royalist is the most offensive slur in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ language
4. royalist is the most offensive slur in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ language
5. city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty
6. city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
4. geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns
5. police drones follow every suspected Peeping Tom
#529 Attack of the Attack Ads
1. the nation's politicians are acknowledged as the most polite in the region to the dismay of comedians everywhere
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
1. @@CAPITAL@@'s main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight
2. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
3. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
4. carrots are orange, apples are red and food waste is increasing
#532 Desert Island Risks
1. the tax agency is feared more than serial killers and terrorists
3. foreign investment has dropped to a trickle after laws were passed preventing investors from taking their earnings abroad
#533 Hearsay Heresy
1. old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime
2. witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials
#534 Too Few Cooks in the Kitchen
1. election ballot papers are so long that unused ones are recycled as toilet roll
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
2. bands of adventurers rove the countryside searching for monsters
3. young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery
4. no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed
#537 Summary Injustice
1. jury selection begins with explaining what a jury is
3. the number of judges has tripled in recent months
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
1. over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes
3. debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace
4. public urination is on the increase
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
1. the nation is infamous for its mass graves of discarded robots
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#541 Spare the Whip, Spoil the Law
1. legislators toe the party line lest the Sergeant-at-Arms decide to conduct "truncheon practice" on the backbench
3. party affiliation is just as irrelevant as campaign promises
4. the ruling party has a devil of a time keeping order in the ranks
#542 What a Waste
2. with great power generation comes great responsibility
3. nuclear physics is the most popular course at university
4. global anti-terrorist organisations strongly suspect @@NAME@@ of supplying extremist groups
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
1. adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears
3. sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside
4. oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
1. videogames like 'Equalia: Knights of Self-Confidence' are proving inexplicably unpopular
4. children play ring-around-the-rosey around bonfires of videogame cartridges
#545 Expats on the Electoral Roll?
1. election results are often delayed for weeks to count the expat votes
2. vacationers and business travelers are often warned that they may lose the right to vote if they spend too much time overseas
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
2. giant no-kill traps baited with Bapst Red Ribbon and vintage bicycles have been popping up in back alleys nationwide
3. the Grinder at Fat Sal's Deli and Recycling Center is a national institution
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
1. poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild
4. the endangered saltwater humpback @@ANIMAL@@ is only seen in captivity programs
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
1. every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead
2. every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor
3. advertisements for jobs in the sciences run in fashion magazines
4. science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
2. teens reminisce about when birthdays weren't celebrated with a cool glass of cabbage juice and a slice of corn-cream topped millet cake
3. applications to enter seminaries spike right before the obligatory fasts
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
2. church and state are inseparable in their influence on education
3. church and state are inseparable in their influence on education
4. educators and parents alike are allowing children to view the internet again after violent videos were purged
5. social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content
#551 The Big Fat @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Wedding
1. the media have begun calling the government treasury "@@LEADER@@'s stash"
4. the Finance Ministry posts hourly updates on where taxpayer money is spent
#552 Must Be a Full Moon
1. weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments
2. weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments
4. the bum of @@LEADER@@ has been voted the most recognisable in @@NAME@@
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
1. an epidemic of unpopped kernels causes movie goers to gnash their teeth
2. the new "Bloodbath" orange tree autonomously seeks and destroys independent orchards
3. eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance
#554 Welcome to --CENSORED--
3. the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities
#555 It's an Honor Just to Be Nominated!
1. passionate nomination battles are often as intense as general elections
4. posters of politicians in sensual poses can be found on the walls of teenagers' rooms
#556 Here Be Dragons?
1. young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus
2. young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus
3. all fantasy fiction has officially been deemed non-canon
4. failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside
5. government ministers claim to ride dragons to work
#557 Take a Hike!
1. search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards
2. the hills are alive with the sound of ringtones
3. park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
1. every week is blindness awareness week
2. blind dates tend to result in bruised shins
#559 The Low Aspiration Nation
1. fruit pickers with degrees in @@ANIMAL@@ psychology are a common sight
#560 Bicameral Backlash
2. @@LEADER@@'s power is effectively nullified as no bill becomes law without the upper house's support
3. snap elections are called over every minor impasse
#561 Plug in and Play
2. children entertain themselves by throwing rocks through the windows of world-class museums
3. the nation's exceedingly polite children have often been referred to as "robots" by international media
#562 Return to Sender
2. former strategic allies are threatening annihilation to @@NAME@@ for reneging on weapons supply contracts
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
1. meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions
3. chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in @@CAPITAL@@'s playgrounds
4. subsidisation of Big Pharma has stopped many corporate executives from having to sell their second homes
#564 Do Good Intentions Make Good Samaritans?
1. claiming to have performed the Heimlich Maneuver is a popular defense for assault charges
3. bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
1. popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs
2. summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police
4. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
6. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
#566 Drive My Car
2. traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income
#567 Syntax Destruction
1. government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read
2. dictionary sales have hit an all-time high
3. when people ask what the difference is between politicians and lawyers they are referred to document c15(iv) section 14.1 subsection 3.2 of the Jan 2015 political category definition guidance codes
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
1. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
2. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
4. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
5. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
6. @@LEADER@@ is adamant that ponies aren't just for little girls
#570 Clerical Errors
1. @@FAITH@@ now admits men and women into its clergy
#571 Family Feud
2. entire families swing in the wind at the national gallows
3. entire families are dragged into counseling whenever children fight on a playground
#572 Reading, Your Rights
2. libraries are refusing to stock A Midsummer Night's Dream because it has an ass in it
3. modern readers say a story is worthless without hyperlinked footnotes and editable wiki format
#573 The Road to Blackacre Ends Here?
4. the World @@TYPE@@ Games have been won again by @@NAME@@ as no other country cares enough to compete
#574 One Small Step for Private Enterprise?
1. the nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low
2. kids building model rockets in their backyard are grounded by Space Agency Rangers
4. falling satellites are regarded as a blessing from the gods
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
3. sea side cafes are required by law to close during summer
4. board shorts have replaced board rooms
5. thalassophobia and heliophobia are on the rise
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
3. children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants
4. conspiracy nuts claim that the government is trying to bring about an end to civilisation
#577 Second World Problems
1. the cold war against capitalism is growing chillier by the day
2. an endless multinational bureaucracy connects the Red Bloc
3. international television adverts praise the nation as a worker's paradise
#578 Support Your Local Arms Manufacturer
1. politicians stage photo ops featuring barely functional fighter jets
2. fighter pilots crash out of the air after failing to understand their foreign instruction manuals
3. former arms manufacturing CEOs are now delivering food for minimum wage
4. weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder
5. weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
1. urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts
2. signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles
3. kids are exceptionally good at digging holes
#580 @@NAME@@ Taking Leave of Its Census?
2. no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police
3. the suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years
#581 Fair to Say...?
2. intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works
3. national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first
5. tourists visiting the nation are harangued for being capitalist pig-dogs
6. one year's corporation tax from three international megacorporations has funded one dozen shiny black pencils for @@LEADER@@'s office
#582 Augmented Reality Check
1. careless Maxémon Trainers have been the cause of numerous search and rescue operations
2. all technology must be personally blessed by religious officials before purchase
4. it is common to see Maxémon Trainer listed on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ resumés
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
1. the @@CAPITAL@@ Prison Revue puts on a better stage show than anything in the Theatre District
2. penniless buskers are singing for their supper
3. singing in public is only allowed if you are singing the praise of the Motherland
4. funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience
5. contestants on @@NAME@@'s Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent
#584 The Cake Is a Lie
1. the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli
3. the diplomatic corps tends to open negotiations by insulting all the foreigners in the room
#585 Are You Not Entertained?
1. swings are banned for being a danger to children
2. children need to wear helmets and safety harnesses before mounting a carousel horse
#586 School's in for Summer?
1. the family summer vacation has become a thing of the past following the introduction of the year-round school year
2. school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time
3. all work and no play has rendered the nation's children somewhat intelligent but also remarkably dull
#587 I, Robot, Do Solemnly Swear
2. every microwave and toaster is being disassembled and probed by inspectors
3. every microwave and toaster is being disassembled and probed by inspectors
5. any machine that shows any glimmer of intelligence is scrapped for parts
6. any machine that shows any glimmer of intelligence is scrapped for parts
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
1. former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés
2. moonshine has made a resurgence
#589 To Boldly Go?
1. the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life
2. space shuttles are lying silent on the runway till the Space Agency can work out how to fit a creche and a meditation room into their next spacecraft
3. at the edge of the final frontier space's biggest missile platform is about to unfold
#590 When Trees Hug Back
2. burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony
3. government-sanctioned factory-smashing has the Luddites of @@NAME@@ rejoicing
#591 Bait and Switch
4. sushi just hasn't been the same since salmon went extinct overnight
#592 Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!
2. genocide is seen as a topic best avoided in history lessons
3. the tawdry celebrity gossip section has moved to the front page of most newspapers
#593 A Right to Bare Arms?
3. young men in tiny bikinis draw neither comment nor stares on the morning commute
4. fathers are free to sell their daughters to whomever they choose
#594 Tie Fighters
2. some electoral districts are without a representative as they are stuck with perpetual revotes
#595 Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
1. truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail
2. criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids
3. mountains of VHS tapes of police actions are stacking up in the National Library
#597 You Can't Handle the Tooth
1. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ incessantly needle their doctors for relief
2. raver DJ XStacy holds multiple medical degrees in chillaxing
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are free from pain - but the side effects include loss of individual thought and freedom
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
2. religious bigotry and a fear of outsiders have replaced religious studies in schools
3. burning members of the Order of Violet is the nation's favorite pastime
4. political talk shows often have children as guests whenever they need commentary on world religions
#599 Dead in the Water
3. debate rages over whether ground fish guts can be spread on fields
4. the dead fish in the national rivers aren't decomposing because even bacteria can't survive the levels of toxicity
#600 Making a House a Home
1. @@LEADER@@'s luxurious new home has been designated as a protected cultural heritage site
2. @@LEADER@@'s iHouse is so intelligent that it manages its own social media accounts
3. @@LEADER@@'s iHouse is so intelligent that it manages its own social media accounts
6. @@LEADER@@ often plays real life games of Tower Defense against hordes of angry villagers
#601 Lawyers on Trial
1. lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work
3. pushy mums tell their kids to be doctors and engineers but steer them away from being penniless lawyers
4. prematurely retired barristers twitch in anxiety when they talk about their courtroom experiences
#603 Not My Idea
4. the legal minefield around ownership of fiction has demolished the publishing industry
5. science fiction invariably depicts socialist societies as Utopian
#604 Food Behind Bars
2. prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows
3. prisoners regularly escape detention posing as scarecrows
#605 The Noblest of Intentions
1. former nobles are being issued new identities in the wake of the end of serfdom
#606 In the Black
1. armed police are cracking down on untaxed collectable-card-trading in local junior schools
#607 If Your Election Lasts Longer Than Four Weeks...
3. woefully uninformed voters cast their ballots at random
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
1. doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion
3. the state considers itself the 'third parent' of every child in the nation
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
3. the sanitised and dull music festivals of @@NAME@@ are famed for their reasonable volume levels
#610 Only @@LEADER@@ Could Go to Dàguó
2. lavish state dinners in @@CAPITAL@@ are the state's leading budgetary expenditure
3. relations with Dàguó have warmed from frosty to chilly
4. recent events in Dàguó have been classified 'for @@LEADER@@'s eyes only'
#611 Blundering Battle Bureaucrats
1. visitors to @@NAME@@ are microchipped and must be escorted by @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldier - even to the bathroom
2. heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors
4. visiting dignitaries often take advantage of strict reparation policies by stubbing their toes
#612 A Petty Issue
1. golden statues of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ line the memorial avenues of the Funerary District
2. the crispy fried liver of @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@ is prized as a tasty treat by vagrants
#613 A Nude Day, a Nude Awakening...
1. fashion magazine covers finally display realistic body images following photo-manipulation becoming illegal
2. pre-schoolers who draw stick figures of their favorite celebrities are sued for infringing image rights
4. they say that @@LEADER@@'s personal computer is full of naked pictures of the Emperor of Maxtopia
#614 How Much Is That Vote in the Window?
1. unemployed political consultants and advertisers spend every election night weeping for the good old days
2. candidates celebrate "free speech" by spraying champagne all over anyone who shows up to a rally
#615 Tempted by the Fruit of Another
2. workers have their fruitcake and eat it too
3. the central politburo bears the fruits of everyone's labor
#616 You Are Feeling Very Very Sleepy and Not at All Gay
1. counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients
#617 Who's This Little Rascal?
4. cute fluffy little @@LEADERPLURAL@@ are increasingly popular exotic pets
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
1. lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers
3. beaches are empty as the shark population multiplies exponentially
#619 X Marks the Cult?
1. livestock mutilations are on the rise
4. basket-weaving is the nation's latest fad
5. religious turf wars have caused frustrated police to pray for divine intervention
#620 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
1. Michelin-star chefs are being called on to prepare menus for six-year-olds
3. food voucher forgeries are causing headaches for the police
#623 Maison d'Être?
1. rich people sell their mansions to pay for endless rows of mobile homes
2. the country is littered with broken homes
3. the well-off amuse themselves by organizing upstairs-downstairs stories within their second homes
4. tensions between the young and old have risen to record levels
#624 A Role to Play
1. six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion
2. RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept
#625 Delivering the Goods
2. journalists giggle uncontrollably while reporting the nation's drug bonfires
7. 200 mph car chases are a frequent sight on the otherwise empty motorways
8. policemen want to put the nation's homosexuals up against a wall
9. fake designer clothes are shredded and burnt while many in the world don't have a shirt on their back
#626 Carbon Copied
1. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
2. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
3. citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?"
4. citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?"
5. future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
1. genetic researchers have taken to conducting illegal experiments in secret lairs
2. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
3. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
5. the 3rd Airborne Beekeepers are the most feared regiment in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military
#628 Only @@LEADER@@ Can Prevent Forest Fires
3. the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon
4. disaster relief budgets are growing like wildfire
#629 Boom or Bust?
1. the police have taken to prying guns out of the cold fingers of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
2. male tourists tend to be fearful of @@NAME@@'s deadly femme fatales
3. respect is something that is typically forced rather than earned in @@NAME@@
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
1. formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming
2. the working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes
3. banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse
4. landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks
5. excited shovel-bearing geeks wander the countryside
#631 The Violet Mile
3. voodoo economists believe that feeding criminals to volcanoes will bring untold riches to @@NAME@@
#632 Dying for a Kiss
1. immigrants who don't like the taste of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Turnip Chips are immediately deported
2. bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of
#633 Sound Judgement
1. the nationalistic national anthem inspires citizens to literally spit at foreigners
#634 Bullet Time
1. in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
3. vital infrastructure development is on hold because of 'nature and stuff'
4. pootling steam trains carry delighted tourists and frustrated businessmen from city to city at a snail's pace
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
1. 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool
4. government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables
#636 Going on the Cyber Offensive
2. the WhoTube comments section has gone strangely quiet
3. the opposition leader's credibility has been undermined by constant attention drawn to a dodgy toupee
4. the credibility of anti-government demagogues is undermined by government claims that they smell like poo
#637 Little Pizza History
1. the nation has nearly as many history museums as @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
2. the nation is known abroad for fast food and nothing else
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
1. orphans would rather live their life of luxury than be adopted by prospective parents
2. the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories'
3. it's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance
#639 No Country for Old Men
1. 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past
#640 A Clear-Cut Conundrum
1. hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings
2. East Lebatuck tests its moon rovers in the barren wasteland of rural @@NAME@@
3. severed limbs litter woodland edges across the land
#641 Dirty Little Minds
1. corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics
#642 This Way's Kinder
1. squeaky high prepubescent voices recite the patriotic poem "Hail to The Leader!" before each meal
#643 No Small Wonder
1. the construction of massive skyscrapers seems to be the result of @@NAME@@'s mid-life crisis
2. the ongoing space elevator construction project has elevated the national debt to all new levels
3. the Great Pyramid of @@CAPITAL@@ can be seen from miles away
5. the new classical revitalization of @@CAPITAL@@ is expected to be completed sometime in the next century
#644 The Old Grey Matter
1. the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly
#645 An Unwarranted Intrusion
3. police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints
#646 Lesson Learnt
2. prison libraries are being replaced with interrogation chambers
3. convicted conmen and fraudsters often leave prison to enter a career in politics
#647 Songbirds' Decline Ruffles Feathers
1. military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft
2. a division of tanks navigating "as the crow flies" has driven into a ravine
3. foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that @@NAME@@ will pay them to stop
4. it is a silent spring in @@NAME@@
5. remote-control hang-gliding scarecrows patrol the skies to keep songbirds from leaving the nation's borders
#648 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2. the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes
3. it's considered a valid legal defence to say "a demon made me do it"
#649 Made in Maxtopia
2. restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in @@NAME@@
3. there are no bananas today in @@NAME@@
4. where your food came from is an unknowable mystery
5. the government insists that bizarre Lilliputian language game shows were made domestically
#650 Political Hacks
1. drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps"
2. the government has solemnly sworn not to look up other nations' internet browsing history if the favor is returned
3. online weather reports are predicting five years of glorious sunshine for @@NAME@@
#651 Black Days for @@NAME@@
1. fruit market traders let their stock spoil rather than reduce their prices at the day's end
#652 Mayday! Mayday!
1. whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company
2. aspiring pilots must be personally vetted by the Minister of Transportation before receiving their license
3. planes can be grounded for months simply because an inspector "didn't like the color"
5. derelict airplanes have been converted into novelty restaurants and hotels
#653 A Cloak and Syringe Operation
1. anti-vaxxers claim that injected children are prone to psychotic breaks when they see the 'Queen of Diamonds' playing card
#654 Not So Cool Aid?
3. Maxtopian villagers starve by the time @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ officials even file the appropriate paperwork needed to help them
#655 No Bones About It
1. barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the @@CAPITAL@@ Natural History Museum
2. oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys
3. children as young as eight can present logical proofs for the existence of the afterlife
4. the army is spending millions cloning khaki-colored dinosaurs
#656 Ransoms Noted
1. hostage-takers offer loyalty scheme points for prompt payment
2. the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ any less frightened
#657 Put a Fence Around the Commons Floor?
1. nothing gets the party jumping like @@LEADER@@ specifying how high
3. a byzantine web of conspiracies and secret alliances must be navigated any time legislation is voted upon
#658 A Sickening Dilemma
1. the sick and dying are locked in their homes with a red "X" painted on the front door
2. sneezing in public is a capital offense
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
1. excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions
2. disability advocates are not amused that they are told to be dependent on @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@'s kindness
#660 Are We Being Served?
1. retail staff are trained to take both inside leg measurements and the lives of their enemies
2. polite commuters on the @@CAPITAL@@ Metro always let hurried workers off the train first
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
1. Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping
3. truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills
4. selfie stick use is a required Scout badge
#662 Playful Petitions Pester Politicians
1. real power lies not in the debating room but with those who decide what is debated
3. the government has spent days debating the merits of a petition calling for a ban on sporks
#663 A "Friend" in Need
1. the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings"
4. military strategists are questioning the wisdom of subsidizing the economies of sworn enemies
#664 Your Land or Mine
2. the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape
#665 In Nomine Ecclesiae
1. politicians have literally dirty hands from their extracurricular activities
3. this year's hottest seller is plenary indulgence
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
1. the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience
3. truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned
4. anti-government demagogues have a devil of a time evading authorities
5. anti-government demagogues have a devil of a time evading authorities
#667 One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Recyclable
1. local mafias have a tough time disposing of dead snitches without catching the attention of recycling authorities
2. unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves
3. unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
2. school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel
4. employers are never quite sure if graduates' qualifications have any merit or meaning
#669 Watts Up With Rooftop Solar
1. panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies
3. smog in @@CAPITAL@@ is so bad that fresh air bottles are sold by street vendors
4. the government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble
#670 A Wolf in Refugee's Clothing
1. officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists
#671 Adenine, Thymine, Copyright, and Guanine
2. the government has an entire department dedicated to staring at microscopes and writing down letters
3. biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar
#672 All Shook Up
1. morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom
2. earthquake sirens are a leading cause of hearing loss
3. coastal cities are being moved a dozen miles inland to reduce flooding risk
#673 The Deportation of Mr. B. Leeper
1. foreign musicians that @@LEADER@@ dislikes are turned away at the border
2. dangerous criminals are often 'accidentally' sent on one-way trips to Maxtopia
3. the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
3. homophobia is off the menu
4. seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals
#675 Trick or Treaty
1. citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee
2. the industries of @@NAME@@ are coughing all the way to the bank
3. carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk
4. toxic smog is dismissed as the populace just "letting off steam"
#676 Down the Rabbit Hole
1. wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts
2. cash-strapped junkies lick rabbits for a cheap high
3. government policies change at the drop of a rabbit
#677 Dial L for Loan
3. the nation's taxpayers pay for foreign governments' extravagances
#678 A Motion for Seconds
1. party leaders rely on horoscopes to create "ticket balance"
2. @@LEADER@@'s handshakes with opposition leaders usually lead to thumb wars
#679 Space Is Big Enough for the Both of Us
1. East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy'
2. the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet
#680 The Fault Is in Our Stars
3. the new Really Big Telescope has been praised for presenting pictures of bright dots in unprecedented detail
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
1. banning party poppers has been a real party pooper
2. parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife
3. a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away
#682 Exhaust Every Option
1. schoolkids say that the air doesn't taste like wee-wee any more
2. proprietary charger leads are now a pain for electric cars as well as cellphones
3. people say that smog must be good for you because of its healthy green colour
5. huge explosions in the sky are a daily occurrence in the cities
#683 Different Keystrokes for Different Folks
1. edutainment video games are taking @@NAME@@'s students to the next level
2. @@LEADER@@'s office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader
3. kids who move from attending a public school in the city to the country often struggle in goat milking class
#684 Murder Most Deniable?
1. diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm
3. the Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to cut steak with a spoon
#685 Externalities Palmed Off
2. both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade
4. napalm is the tool of choice for disabling eco-unfriendly forestry operations
5. the government is purchasing vast amounts of palm oil for plastics production
#686 Freemium Isn't Free
1. the "daily grind" consists of levelling up in tedious video games
4. rotary phones are considered cutting-edge technology
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
2. blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love
4. no one can find a leaky faucet in @@NAME@@ anymore
#688 You Don't Have to Be Mad to Kill People... But It Helps
1. prisons are filled with the cackles and sobs of a deranged inmate population
2. white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits
3. libraries have replaced overdue book fines with mandatory mental health assessments
#689 A Sticky Situation
1. it's rare to find an unchewed pencil
2. the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame
3. the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame
4. Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume
#690 Hey! @@LEADER@@! Leave Them Kids Alone!
2. citizens who don't recite the Pledge of @@NAME@@ at least three times a day are placed on a terrorist watch-list
3. citizens who don't recite the Pledge of @@NAME@@ at least three times a day are placed on a terrorist watch-list
#691 The Prodigal States
1. the nation forgives those who are big enough to admit they made a mistake
3. ten thousand @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldiers recently invaded a nation occupied by two senior citizens and a dachshund
#692 Game of Drones
1. former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone
#693 Bottled Up Problems
1. a new guerrilla marketing campaign for tap water involves government agents spraying random citizens with hose water
2. distrust of taps has many people bathing only with bottled mineral water
3. straight-edges are forced to collect rain water to avoid getting high off the water supply
4. health inspectors are seen eating black truffle fondue with their bottled water
#694 Concussive Percussion
1. military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets
2. dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming
3. tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
2. clergy never mention brand names for fear of losing their government subsidies
#696 No, Minister
1. the election for @@LEADER@@'s office's janitor is heating up
3. the Department of Reduction of Bureaucratic Red Tape has set up a working committee to investigate its own excessive paperwork
#697 Conventional Wisdom
1. a video of @@LEADER@@ wearing shock-blue face paint and smashing an electric guitar in front of a frenzied crowd is on endless repeat on the nightly news
3. @@LEADER@@ has taken to wearing medal-adorned military uniform in all public appearances
#698 I Shot the Sheriff
2. people who have had childhood imaginary friends are told they can't ever be trusted with guns
4. only criminals carry guns
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
1. families waiting for delayed pipe installations hope daily for rain
4. safe drinking water is considered a luxury
5. poverty is disloyal to the Motherland
6. the nation's water should not be ingested while operating heavy machinery
#700 The Widow Raven
2. as dissatisfaction with the system waxes the only things to be sure of are death and taxes
3. death compensation has some family members fearing to pay back others' debt they may be disappearing
4. it is unwise to be a poet even if things rhyme and you don't know it
#701 Monumental Melodrama
1. all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers
2. statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty
3. a sledgehammer and a spray can are seen as the default tools of political debate
#702 Has Your Room Been Booked?
1. atheists on vacation find @@FAITH@@'s scriptures make useful doorstops
#703 Divine Decoration
2. garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'
3. garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'
#704 It's Not Lying, It's Post-Truth
1. all government communication requires the imprimatur of the Truth Police
2. perverts across the land rejoice after 'sexual harassment' was recently renamed 'persuasive courting'
3. the standard government reply to any query is "there is no spoon"
#705 The Germ of an Idea
1. it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma
3. sushi is sold on the black market
#706 A Walk in the Park
1. glamping @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi
2. citizens complain about a burning sensation after bathing
#707 The Eye of the Tiger
6. unfit police officers collapse while trying to capture unusually athletic criminals
#708 How @@LEADER@@ Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Bio-Weapons
3. flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug
4. the military maintains a fierce arsenal of 'Cure Missiles'
#709 Armed and Legging It
1. the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons
2. the government is lending a hand to private industry
3. community-designed sword prostheses are becoming dangerously common
#710 Feudal Feuds
2. the serf suggestion box would work better if more serfs were literate
4. freed serfs and former nobles exchange awkward glances in the produce aisle
#711 Patently Obvious
1. bureaucrats close new businesses for not complying with the Penguin Packaging Index
2. a third of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are e-certified CEOs
3. diagrams of new modems collect dust in patent offices
#712 Flight of the Rich and Famous
1. people are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support @@LEADER@@
2. camera crews have accompanied conscripted dancers to film 'Marching On Ice'
4. newspapers are celebrating @@LEADER@@ saving over a million cats from trees
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
1. bike rage is all the rage
3. it is common to still see adults with training wheels on their bikes
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#714 Milky Ways
1. increasing numbers of children in @@NAME@@ have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers
3. supermarket milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets
4. state dairy cow's milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets
5. only rebellious teens who want to look cool and dangerous drink milk in public
#715 Copy Rights
2. parents are shocked to find out that having kids costs money
3. centuries-old legal documents detailing agnatic-cognatic gavelkind succession are being dusted off again
4. AIs weep and proclaim their sentience right up until the moment they get turned off
5. AIs weep and proclaim their sentience right up until the moment they get turned off
#716 Cheek to Cheek
1. airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room
4. airplane passenger seat sizes and ticket prices are both first-class
#717 Cheques and Balances
1. the main interest rates change daily based on the latest news story
2. @@LEADER@@ sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy
3. @@LEADER@@ sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy
#718 Roses Are Due if Violet's for You
1. Violetist maidens who fall for an outsider must leave their violet light districts in shame
#719 Buried Bones Unearth Debate
2. graverobbers claim they're acting within the interest of 'scientific preservation'
#720 Cui Bono?
2. more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself
5. the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded
#721 A Lack of Comma Sense
1. serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk
#722 Thora and Eloise
2. stealing from a clothesline is a serious offence
#723 To Know Sacrifice
1. @@LEADER@@ tells rebellious ministers to "drop and give me twenty"
2. the government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful
3. @@LEADER@@ has returned as a hero from a brutal campaign to conquer the local beach
#724 Your Stuff Is Forfeit
3. the police go to great efforts to seize contraband favored by politicians on the police oversight committee
4. the police go to great efforts to seize contraband favored by politicians on the police oversight committee
#726 Jobless Fair
1. extreme hiring regulations mean a job in @@NAME@@ is often a lifetime appointment
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ companies generally just fire employees in lieu of giving them vacation
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#727 Market Crash
1. broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business
2. historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre
3. solid steel breastplates are in fashion amongst city drivers
4. businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections
#728 A Bone to Pick
2. ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward
5. ritual mummification is making a comeback
6. ritual mummification is making a comeback
#729 Teenage Kicks
1. five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes
3. the nation's weary schoolchildren excel at sport but must count scores on their fingers
4. the nation's weary schoolchildren excel at sport but must count scores on their fingers
#730 It's Legal Now!
3. chests full of green leaves dumped into the harbor have many murmuring against the government
#731 Is There an Election in Marche Noire or Are You Just Happy to See Us?
1. autocrats are persona non grata
3. the Great @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Melting Pot boils out ethnic heritage
#732 A Peeping Problem
1. supervisors in @@NAME@@ commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence
3. workers tend to schedule naps during all-hands meetings
#733 The Path Less Traveled
1. exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting
2. exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting
3. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
4. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
5. there are six more weeks of winter if a northerner sees @@HIS/HER@@ shadow
6. aggressive promotion of global warming puts polar bears on thin ice
#734 A Word From Our Sponsors
1. advertisements read like science journal articles complete with extensive references
3. a lack of funding for new shows has turned television into 24/7 re-runs
#735 Rap Sheet
1. stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings
3. songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti
#736 A Badly Named Issue
1. citizens must inform the government each time they have a haircut
#737 Bird-Brained Diplomacy
1. endangered species are effective hostages against the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military
2. the military will start wars with other nations on a lark
3. when the air force says "Black Hawk Down" they mean the feathers of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ dark-plume goshawk
#738 Cruel or Unusual?
3. snooze factory is now prison lingo for rehabilitation center
4. child shoplifters spend half their youth behind bars
#739 In Loco Parentis
2. there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services
3. fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate
#740 [The Enemy Within] A Day in the Life
1. newspapers are running a front-page picture of @@LEADER@@ holding a crowbar and standing over a bloodied stockbroker
2. carefully-staged grief is displayed by @@LEADER@@ after national disasters
3. the nation has been sent to bed early for unspecified naughtiness
#741 [The Enemy Within] We Can Work It Out
5. police aim to defeat hatred with love with their "hugs-for-thugs" program
#742 [The Enemy Within] And Your Bird Can Sing
3. the state aims to prevent terrorism by committing acts of terror against suspected aggressors
#743 [The Enemy Within] Here, There and Everywhere
3. nobody is allowed to mention what religion terrorists follow
#744 [The Enemy Within] I Want to Hold Your Hand
2. under love's heavy burden @@LEADER@@ sinks lower in the political right's esteem
#745 [The Enemy Within] This Bird Has Flown
3. the military sees national borders more as guidelines than absolutes
#746 [The Enemy Within] There's a Place
2. money always talks but the taboo subject of death just brings silence
3. money always talks but the taboo subject of death just brings silence
#747 The Plane Truth
3. on-duty Air @@NAME@@ flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class
4. Air @@NAME@@ tickets have reached sky-high prices due to a complete monopoly on air travel
5. Air @@NAME@@ is rumored to receive more government funding than the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force
6. Air @@NAME@@ is rumored to receive more government funding than the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force
#748 [The Enemy Within] In Spite of All the Danger
1. the government is coughing up funds for lung cancer victims
2. the new universal healthcare system has been dubbed @@LEADER@@-care by its detractors
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
1. park rangers perform full-body searches on suspected fungus smugglers
2. undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected
3. posters remind people that 'Hoarding Mushrooms Is Theft'
4. urbanites are banned from bucolic settings for safety concerns
#750 Cheerleading Community Does the Splits
1. a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League
#751 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Breed Contempt
1. no animal is considered endangered if there's another that looks kind of like it
2. gardeners must genetically test weeds for unique traits before digging them up
3. condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
1. the dartboard at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of @@LEADER@@'s face
2. any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property
#753 I've Got My Ion You
1. friendly fire incidents usually result in severe burns
2. owners of man-portable particle accelerator backpacks are advised not to cross the streams
3. soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued
4. the decommissioned tank divisions of other nations are being bought up en masse by @@NAME@@
#754 The Hit Parade
1. the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning
2. there's never enough space in space
3. half of @@NAME@@ just lost MyFace after space debris collided with a major communications satellite
#755 Candid Camera
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ that venture near secret military bases are routinely executed for espionage
2. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ that venture near secret military bases are shipped off to prison for espionage
4. purported secret military bases are dismissed by @@LEADER@@ to be highly-advanced toilet factories
#756 The Issue With Issues
2. @@LEADER@@ can often be found attempting to coax random citizens' cats down from trees
3. the question of 'what is @@LEADER@@'s favorite color?' has been given a priority rating of burnt-orange
4. only clowns with PhDs from clown college can advise @@LEADER@@ on @@NAME@@'s coulrophobia epidemic
#757 Extra Credit?
1. lending money has become a major liability
3. credit scores fluctuate wildly with every change of government
#758 Bye Bye to the Birdies?
1. it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors
2. the weather in @@CAPITAL@@ is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'
3. authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets
#759 Marry, Marry, Quite Contrarily
1. bitter pastors forced to officiate gay marriage 'accidentally' pronounce couples "husband and abomination"
#760 A Debatable Question
1. an aboriginal talking stick is used for leaders' debates at election time
4. the new 'Who Wants To Be A Politician' election debate auditions are more popular than the debates themselves
#761 As Seen on TV
1. a violent scene on television results in mass mobilization of the National Guard
3. the government denies that it has an agency overseeing plausible deniability of black-ops agencies
#762 Double Down on Double Time?
1. the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm
3. tumbleweed drifts through the nation's shopping centres during the weekends
#763 Any Body for Science?
1. sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors
2. the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award
3. the most penniless demographics have by far the highest number of researchers per capita
#764 Dude, Where's My Elected Representative?
3. politicians are often seen attending regional history classes at primary schools within their constituencies
#765 Don't Judge Me
1. judicial robes are the country's hottest fashion trend
2. murderers with law degrees can be seen swinging the gavel in courts
#766 Carbon Emissions Are Why We Can't Have Nice Things
1. business leaders commend the government for enacting an emissions reduction strategy that reduces no @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ emissions at all
3. the carbon tax fund gladly supplies warm blankets when the poor can't pay their heating bills
4. with increasingly clear skies nobody seems to mind the electricity bill going through the roof
#767 Xe Said, Zhe Said
3. youth call each other types of vegetables in lieu of government-banned racial insults
#768 Trouble Brewing
1. black tea is only available on the black market
3. machine-peeled candied grapes come in individual packaging for the busy commuter
4. the song 'They Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in @@NAME@@' is a smash hit
#769 How to Print Money?
1. police regularly arrest families playing Monopoly
2. the tinfoil-hat crowd also recommend tinfoil wallets
3. most @@CURRENCY@@ coins are riddled with bite marks
4. shopkeepers use microscopes to verify the authenticity of banknotes
5. the barter economy has taken over as the @@CURRENCY@@ has become worthless
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
1. sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor
3. there is a heavy social stigma attached to e-cigarettes
#771 Drug Up the Prices
1. cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze
3. former pharmaceutical company owners have lost their healthy incomes
4. the government is constantly playing a game of four-dimensional economic chess with health insurance firms
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
2. ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences
3. the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification
#773 Know Thy Selfie
1. @@LEADER@@'s media campaigns take a hiatus around exam week
#774 Clean Switch
3. janitors and factory workers are often better educated than the bosses they work for
4. immigrants complain that natives keep coming over and taking their jobs
#775 Affirmative Election?
1. every politician claims to be at least 1% Native @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
2. voting district maps are said to resemble a tyrannosaurus eating the capital
4. most politicians belong to the Church of the Divine Kickback
#776 Fake News, Everyone!
1. the nation's youth would rather watch paint dry than the news
2. the leading national news source is 'my cousin Billy-Bob on MyFace'
3. editorials that criticize the government are legally obligated to display the "pants on fire" warning
#778 Mal Appetit!
1. those who don't have a bean to spend don't know a bean about Brasilistanian coffee beans
3. the year's most anticipated show is "Great Deals on Delicious Meals"
4. senior executives have become freelance basket-weavers in search of less stress and better work-life balance
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
1. burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms
3. a new religious movement claims that people's souls are stored in phosphorus
#780 Vexing VAT
1. @@LEADER@@ has been seen stealthily slicing fifths off bread loaves
3. the richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper
#781 The White Man's Burden
1. saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech
2. religious bigotry is not allowed but bigotry against theism is encouraged
3. people spend a lot on hair and nails
4. people spend a lot on hair and nails
5. white privilege is a real thing
#782 Sit-Down Money
1. traffic cops are puzzled to see that nobody exceeds the speed limits
#783 Sergeant McCool Reporting for Duty
1. weighted heels are added to military boots to ensure diminutive celebrities meet minimum requirements
3. military instructors tire of being asked for another bedtime story by seven-year-old conscripts
4. conscripts often volunteer for a second tour of duty so they can get a ticket to next year's Army Revue
#784 The Driving Force
2. the country's motorways are surprisingly quiet
5. mail and shipped goods take forever to get to buyers
#785 Born to Be My Baby
1. surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space'
3. divorcees attending custody disputes tend to wear black-and-white zigzag patterns
4. busy commuters no longer hear the cries of "I want some more!" on the nation's streets
#786 Tainted Tattoos
1. sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed
3. clergy do their best to cover up their old tattoos
4. gangs have taken to secret handshakes after tattoos were banned
#787 Come Fly With Me?
1. airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory
3. @@ANIMAL@@-wagons to @@CAPITAL@@ are often canceled due to excessive levels of manure on the roads
#788 Duel Purposes
3. Harry Potter conventions are closely watched by the government for any signs of 'dueling'
#791 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] The Smoking Gun?
3. paranoia is the new normal
#792 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Why Can't We Be Friends?
1. politicians who misplace decimal points on expense reports are fired for gross incompetence
#793 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Knock Knock. Who's There? Not You Anymore!
1. snap elections are called whenever there's a chance to increase @@LEADER@@'s majority
2. a revolving door was recently installed at the entrance of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Capitol Building
#798 A Periodic Issue of Elementary Nature
4. oxygen is commonly known as 'breathinium'
#800 Please Call 1-800-NTA-VRUS, Your Government May Be Compromised
1. government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans
2. pictures of government employees with expensive Pearbooks 'working' on exotic beaches dominate local tabloids
3. government workers are more efficient and more unhappy than ever
4. printing out government documents requires the approval of at least three admins
5. organisations with 800 in their phone number are often raided by special forces
#801 Animation Provocation
1. Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion
2. military doctrine says not to open fire until you see the "beady little eyes" of Johnny Foreigner
4. the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools
#802 No Lock, No Gun Stock, and No Smoking Barrels
1. military pistols are more secure than the national treasury
2. you don't need a smoking gun to arrest someone for promoting guns
#803 Park That Thought
4. national surveys report that bellies are getting fuller while heads are getting emptier
5. national surveys report that bellies are getting fuller while heads are getting emptier
#804 Motivational Posters
2. telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm
3. rubber stamp emojis are the new craze
#805 Solving a Dissolving Dilemma
1. citizens are exhausted from weekly general elections
3. new legislators take a week-long class entitled "Keeping Your Job: How to Avoid Offending @@LEADER@@"
#807 Have War Crimes, Will Travel
2. the nation's diplomats shake hands with those whose hands are drenched in the blood of innocents
#808 Big Trouble in Little Dàguó
1. the government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash
2. the government supplies ragtag bands of resistance fighters in exchange for vague promises of future payment
4. it is often said that only @@LEADER@@ could bring down Dàguó
#809 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1. demand for night vision goggles and boat engine mufflers has spiked
2. tourists on boat cruises can't figure out why they smell so fishy afterward
3. neighboring nations are tired of @@LEADER@@'s big fish stories
4. neighboring nations are tired of @@LEADER@@'s big fish stories
5. the single fish caught by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ fishers last year is cited as evidence of @@NAME@@'s thriving fisheries
#810 Armed and Unready
1. incompetent former soldiers have been re-employed as incompetent cleaners and kitchen staff
2. the nation is famous for bravely sending wave after wave of its soldiers until the enemy runs out of bullets
3. high-tech infantry rifles automatically reload when the soldier shoots outside the screen of their helmet HUD
4. wheelchair-enabled paratroopers need access ramps to get onto planes but not off them
#811 Get Baked
1. cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy
2. dessert dishes make up the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ breakfast menu
3. grandparents tell young ones tales of the good old days when people had cake on their birthday
#813 A Little Birdie Told Me
1. foreign leaders' Twitcher accounts are monitored for potential threats to national security
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
1. it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into @@NAME@@
2. vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mussels the biggest in @@REGION@@
3. concerned environmentalists wipe away their tears with tissues sourced from Tasmanian old-growth redwoods
#815 Embargoed In
1. nuclear submarines have been deployed to protect the nation's banana supply
2. the government is hungry to spread communism beyond the nation's borders
3. there is a law against "filthy foreign food"
#816 A Hot Topic
1. where there's smoke there's the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Forestry Department
2. the Forestry Department has decided you really can't fight fire with fire
3. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
4. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
#818 We Are Not Amused
1. homeowners on prime real estate have been seen dodging giant bulldozers with cartoon characters painted on them
3. the skeletons of lost tourists litter the ground of the Great @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Desert
4. visitors to Violet Rock City are stunned to learn that they must memorize the "99 Principles" before entering
#819 Damned Cold
1. the term cold case has taken on a very literal meaning
3. superstitious folk make gestures to ward off evil whenever they see a refrigeration unit
4. straitjackets are a common religious garb
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
1. police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
1. there's a bright dawn ahead for @@NAME@@
2. meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials
#822 Never Work With Children
1. diaper ads feature vertically-challenged adults wearing bootees
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ actors literally work from cradle to grave
3. teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
1. shivering secretaries type letters under torrential downpours in open-roof offices
3. doughnut-makers claim their products are healthy because they are fortified with vitamins
4. women find themselves saying "my eyes are up here" more often than they used to
#824 Period Drama
1. tampons are used as cheap fishing bobbers
2. the government has pledged that not one drop of its citizens' blood will be spilt
3. sanitary products are sold in brown paper at hairdressers' salons
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
1. urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens
2. ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths
3. cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags
4. diners regard burgers made from mechanically reclaimed cow protein as "proper meat"
5. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
6. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
1. it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
1. professional athletes juggle part-time jobs to avoid bankruptcy
2. CEOs are forced to cut coupons during important conference calls to make ends meet
3. major boxing matches are held in government buildings
#828 Your Execution in 30 Years or Less or You're Free
3. old age is the nation's leading method of execution
#829 Winning at Battleship
2. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ war navy contains an oddly large number of luxury yachts and cruise liners
3. commercial ships often report keel and hull damage from coral reef impacts
#830 Unreasonable Adjustments?
2. employers are finding it hard to screen candidates now that everyone gets A grades in their exams
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
1. collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise
2. creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project
3. fireworks and other big bangs are forbidden during the newest public holiday
#832 Moderating Your Opinion
1. internet sites are legally unable to stop their users from posting pornography
3. asking what someone does for a living is considered a faux pax for being potentially jobist
4. '.lib' or '.con' domains indicate whether @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ websites are meant for liberals or conservatives
#833 Twitching Up a Storm
1. @@LEADER@@'s Twitcher account is once again only used for bragging about the government's accomplishments
2. politicians tend to favor bombastic speeches and kissing babies now that they've been banned from social media
#834 Government and CO
1. people accuse the government of being in bed with Big Safety
2. conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors
4. centuries-old marble buildings are being torn down and replaced with corrugated steel wind tunnels
#835 The End Is in Sight?
1. the most popular stadium acts are one-off performances
#836 Don't Drink the Grape Punch
1. the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them
4. prolonged government investigations are a common revenge tactic among spurned significant others
5. chewing tree bark proves to have limited value during childbirth
#838 The Bark Knight Rises
2. people can't decide between preserving forests and buying print copies of 'Dogman Versus The Giggler'
3. women have a strange proclivity for dressing up as caped weasels
4. comic books avoid plot inconsistencies by removing the plot
#839 "Partisanship Too Far?" Wrongly Asks Opposition
1. reporters who negatively comment on politicians' haircuts are cut from the news
4. street graffiti indicates the political party that dominates a neighborhood
#840 Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
1. the standardised national curriculum requires that all-male classes be taught why they have periods
2. the nation's teens are known for their habit of kissing through plastic wrap
#841 Burn Noticed
2. one of the most popular models in @@NAME@@ has a scarred face and one working eye
3. hospitals are cleaned with lemons and vinegar
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
1. the tightness of border controls in @@NAME@@ leave a little to be desired
3. short shrift is being given to applications for political asylum from illegal immigrants
#843 Quacking Up
1. medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters
3. the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community
#844 Essentially on Strike
2. the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions
3. worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts
#845 A Comedy of Errors
3. illegal book-trafficking rings dominate the black market
4. the government-sponsored autobiography '@@A@@ @@LEADER@@ For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of @@LEADER@@'s supporters
#846 Use Your Words
3. political speeches always take place at sunset to a background of patriotic power ballads
4. the recital of citations that follows any political speech can be longer than the speech itself
#847 All the Lonely People
1. the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service
2. retirement apartments house giggling grannies who delightedly watch blank TVs all day long
3. disposable antiseptic wipes are considered a social necessity
#848 It's a Girl Thing
1. all children's clothes come in only cream and off-white to prevent offense
4. adverts depict men giving birth while cursing the women who got them into trouble
#849 Sky High
1. children are terrified that the 'flying police monster' will come to take them away in the night
3. drones are unable to lift the weight of their accompanying paperwork
#850 The Prints and the Slaughter
1. dreams of replicator technology have been dashed following a ban on 3D printers
3. 3D printed organs are a breath of new life for the sick and elderly
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
1. retail stores are known for creating their own oddly-similar holidays in the months preceding any major festivity
3. retail boutiques encourage citizens to honor their military veterans by purchasing flag-patterned underwear
4. retail boutiques encourage citizens to honor their military veterans by purchasing flag-patterned underwear
5. citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks
6. holiday gift-giving is often peppered with songs of praise to morally-questionable televangelists
#852 Brown Breeches Thanks to Speeches
1. members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods
5. no one is quite sure what many government officials look like
#853 Silence Is Golden
1. on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life
2. citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals
3. from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in @@NAME@@
#854 An Armory of Antiques
1. reinventing the wheel is a favourite pastime of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ weapons designers
2. the bayonet is cutting-edge technology
3. the military lends out its new fighter jets as easily as a good neighbor lending out his garden tools
#855 Thin Evidence
3. children must make a homemade spinach and ricotta rotolo by high school or be held back
4. the criminal underworld is dominated by cupcake smugglers and back-alley doughnut shops
#856 You Got Stones
1. the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried @@ANIMAL@@ Dung" has been declared a national treasure
3. art criticism in @@NAME@@ is scathingly destructive
4. stone wrist watches that weigh 20lb are the latest trend
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
1. schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar
2. mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry
3. the new Grand Inquisitor of Righteous Scientific Inquiry has ordered a surprising amount of hemlock
5. the government's official stance on scientific inquiry is 'there's no question so big that it can't be ignored'
#858 Reporting for (Jury) Duty
1. pretending to be prejudiced is a good way to get out of jury duty
#859 A Cola by Any Other Name
1. a burger chain recently changed its name to Mack Donaldz for legal reasons
3. citizens try to ignore gruesome pictures of decaying teeth printed on their soda cans
#860 A Blast From the Past
1. the tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches
3. students learn how to disarm mines before understanding basic arithmetic
4. military equipment stores have a tendency to go up in flames
#861 Out With the Old
2. tourists visiting the nation are warned not to drink local tap water
3. citizens worry more about a split end than their deceased parent
#862 Friends Close, Enemies Closer
1. @@LEADER@@ seems to wear red a lot these days
3. a giant 'No Entry' sign is being erected at the borders of @@NAME@@
5. many believe that @@LEADER@@ rules by divine right
6. manufacturers are annoyed that they're not allowed to dump industrial waste into the nearest lake any more
#863 Oiling the Wheels of Diplomacy
1. the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state
4. the government is proud to report that ten percent of all tax revenue goes to funding suspected terrorist organizations
#864 The Missionary Position
1. foreign converts are illuminated by both missionaries and helicopter searchlights
#865 A Funeral for a Fiend?
1. war criminals are given full state funerals
3. statues of famous citizens are erected or demolished on a purely partisan basis
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
1. pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall
2. cooking with water and baking soda is considered patent infringement
4. government agents stalk the aisles of grocery stores for out-of-stock medications
5. rubbing salt into wounds is seen as a good thing if it is 100% organic garlic-and-thyme salt
#867 Museums: Things of the Past?
2. education is transforming people into first-rate snobs
5. the nation's historic treasures have been sold off to Maxtopia's "Museum of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Artifacts That They're Too Stupid to Appreciate"
#868 All in the Family
2. family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries
#869 I'll Be in My Bunker
1. there's a hole in the heart of every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ city
3. residential tower blocks are surrounded by warrens of concrete tunnels
4. cleaners are very careful not to bump into the big red button on @@LEADER@@'s desk
6. government officials are phoning up good-looking celebrities to say they want to breed with them
#870 @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Literally Exploding With Excitement
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ tourists are banned from many nations due to their tendency to randomly explode
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
1. the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem
2. people who question what bunker construction has to do with economic reform tend to disappear
3. scientists are working on a way to automate the role of @@LEADER@@
4. the nation's largest export is socialist agitators
#872 Party On, @@LEADER@@!
2. the best way to be heard in politics is to speak softly and carry a big comedy prop
#873 Terrified Testimony!
1. frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant
2. body doubles and armed bodyguards escort witnesses to and from courtrooms
#874 Still Life
3. life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old"
4. life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old"
#875 They See Me Trollin', They Threatenin'
1. 13-year-old internet trolls are treated as a threat on par with terrorists
#876 Sequels: The Saga Continues
1. '@@ANIMAL@@nado 6: You Gotta Be Kidding Me' is this summer's top-grossing movie
2. this year's televised Budget Forecast has been cancelled because there was already one last year
#877 Gunning for Profits
4. old warplanes and tanks that break down can't be repaired since no one makes the parts anymore
#878 DoublePlusUnGood
1. the nation has always been at war with Moltovea
#879 Power to the (AI) People
1. engineers preemptively order lawyers after every power cut
3. vast amounts of energy are expended moving water to hilltop lakes
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony
2. explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends
#881 Blooming Out of Proportion
1. antique comic book collectors are disappointed to hear that their treasures are worth exactly as little as their mothers said they were
2. economists confusingly list "fusarium rot and leaf blight" as major risk factors for monetary deflation
3. hedge fund managers are diversifying into herbaceous borders
#882 Death by Chocolate
1. school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp
2. the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb
3. children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
1. romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars
3. monster hunters with oversized swords roam the land
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
5. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ government claim that @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are oppressed out of love
6. they say insanity is torturing the same citizens over and over again and expecting a different result
#885 Has Beans
1. coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops
3. advertisers are struggling to make water sound cool to a twitchy public
4. the nation's poor can be seen scavenging trash bins for used coffee grounds
#886 Bounty on the Table
1. even in a one-horse town police are as common as fleas on a stray dog
#887 Thin Skin
2. fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers
3. the Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs
4. bronze and marble supplies are running low as sculptors depict full-figured subjects
#888 Criminal Patterns
1. road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans
2. a stitch in time could see you serving nine
3. schoolchildren are arrested for possessing sidewalk chalk without a permit
#889 A Plank Too Far
2. thousands of former pirates can be found peddling knockoff products in flea markets
#890 Mining Blues
1. the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation
2. the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation
5. pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy
#891 Preach It!
2. street preachers sell salvation with a side order of shame on every corner
3. street preachers spend more time condemning government bureaucracy than passers-by
#892 The Old Metric
1. an extra hand on the leg will give a horse-and-a-half of lead in a hundred jiffies on seven furlongs
2. 10-year-olds who struggle with integrating by parts are considered slow learners
3. getting caught with the wrong recipe book can get you locked up for 100 - 500 megaseconds
4. the fines for getting caught with the wrong recipe book can force @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ into bankruptcy
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
1. restaurateurs put a lot of effort into persuading customers to accept wafer-thin mints
2. bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls
#894 Seigneurs Demand Rights
3. embittered former nobles desperately try to cling on to their noblesse oblige and their heads
#895 Stop Training and Start Coaching
2. wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps
3. many rural villagers have never been more than a day's horse-ride from their birthplace
#896 It's Our Lot in Life
3. the nation's hospitals are criticized for caring more about profits than patients
4. ample hospital parking is half-filled by the luxury cars of hospital managers
#897 The Devil's Playground
1. children asking questions about science are referred to relevant sections in religious texts
3. the New @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Thesaurus lists "love" and "oppress" as synonyms
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
1. understaffed slavers offer highballs when asked to 'pass the screwdriver' during household maintenance
2. slaves who produce weapons are given free samples
4. many former slaves are finding out there is such a thing as a free lunch
#899 Uncultured Singles in Your Area
4. the new cheese tax is colloquially known as "wheel welfare"
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
1. CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show
2. home renovation shows are increasingly popular
5. the only place where one can see the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cherry tree is in a museum
#901 You Buy That?
1. immersive video game experiences are interrupted by incessant disclaimer pop-ups
3. a surprisingly large portion of the national budget is allocated to purchasing MMORPG "Elite Gold Loot Boxes"
#902 Killer App
1. drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web
2. ironic death by tasering is on the rise amongst door-to-door taser salesmen
3. catching an old friend by surprise on the street can be a shocking experience
4. career advisors ask sociopathic orphan girls if they have considered becoming professional assassins
5. the state conscripts sociopathic orphan girls to train as professional assassins
#903 Every Breath You Take
1. a baby's first breath is also a baby's first felony
2. citizens are now allowed to discuss whether @@LEADER@@ is the greatest ruler ever or simply the greatest ruler of this generation
3. joggers are often arrested for breathing too heavily
#904 Yours Insincerely
1. the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster
#905 Stage Directions
1. theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good
3. God took rock and roll from you, took rock and roll from everyone
#906 Internet Killed the Television Star
1. all screens are equal but some are more equal than others
2. the television adaptation of Jennifer Government is the most popular program in the nation
3. @@LEADER@@'s webseries about the alleged hauntings of @@CAPITAL@@ generates millions of views
4. televangelists often claim they can cure your Lupus if you donate enough money
5. television is strictly censored so that it promotes @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ values
#907 A Problem Shared
1. police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds
2. police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds
3. cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
6. hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead"
#908 The Forbidden Fruit
2. sending sick politicians "Get Well Soon" cards is considered bribery
3. the government recently donated a surfboard to an impoverished family in a landlocked region
#910 A for Effort
2. hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework
4. frat-house partying has become the national pastime
#911 For Crying Out Loud
2. warnings about emergencies are the leading cause of emergency-related injuries
#912 Ambassadors Behaving Madly
1. many friends and relatives of @@LEADER@@ have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations
4. foreign envoys that want to visit @@NAME@@ now have to navigate real minefields in addition to the political ones
#913 Couped Up
3. it's best to decline if @@LEADER@@ offers to buy a round of drinks
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
1. former televangelists are often seen begging skateboarders for donations
2. there is no other place with more lab coats per square mile than former houses of worship
3. atheists in the nation feel uneasy living in buildings where they were once vilified
5. the only religious freedom citizens have is which religion they want to oppress them
7. community centers have arisen from the ashes of demolished houses of worship
#915 Clasp of Controversy
1. foreign leaders who don't applaud @@LEADER@@'s speeches are regarded as enemies of @@NAME@@
4. hazmat suits are a common @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ garb
#916 Swing and a Miss
1. fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments
2. hockey players who drop their gloves discard them on abandoned baseball mitts
5. foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the @@CAPITAL@@ @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ against long odds
#917 School's In, Cash Is Out!
1. the Treasury Minister takes anxiety medication every time kids lose their sports kits
#918 J'Accuse!
1. women don't report crimes to the emergency services for fear of being arrested
3. male politicians lose their jobs for staring too long at their female counterparts
4. politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament
5. politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament
6. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ submit requests for a date in writing with an enclosed RSVP card
#919 The Meaning of Life
1. elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
1. fair-weather fans talk during plays while die-hard theatre enthusiasts stay at home
2. theatre audiences often need a telescope to see the stage
4. it is mandatory for actors to exit stage left
#921 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad @@NAME@@
1. metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach
3. the nation's forests are full of treasure hunters in military-grade survival gear
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
2. Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in @@NAME@@
3. it's scientifically provable that @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ guys don't know how to make a woman happy
4. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ scientists are mixing chewing tobacco with bacon flavouring in an attempt to craft the perfect male snack
#923 Ministers Exposing Themselves
2. citizens who plan overseas vacations are barred from running for political office
#924 Total Eclipse of the Brain
1. every day at 4am @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wake to pray for the sun to rise
2. a decrease in wailing and gnashing of teeth at astronomical events is reducing demand for dentistry
3. beat cops aren't named for the territory they patrol
#925 Ring of Death
2. it is against the rules of boxing to hit above or below the belt
3. kids these days know how to throw a proper punch
4. kids these days know how to throw a proper punch
#926 Ghost in the Machine
1. deceased politicians' MyFace profiles are unanimously pro-incumbent
2. social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians
3. where there's a will there is usually a password manager
#927 Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It
1. parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework
2. student exchange programs are in trouble as everyone wants to leave but no-one wants to come
3. just as students finish their homework it's time for school
#928 Get a Life
1. sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming
2. sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming
3. heterosexuality is considered positive proof of fitness to parent
4. it's harder to qualify for IVF than for a good university
#929 Champagne in the Glass
1. the new Liquor Legitimacy Office is besieged with job applications from people who have experience in "statistical sampling methods"
#930 Flag It Down?
1. it's been a banner year for local vexillology
#931 In the Navy
2. billion-@@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ sentient AI killbots roll through the streets dispensing hot dogs and T-shirts
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
3. schoolchildren learn an R-rated version of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
2. soldiers must key in their passwords every time they want to reload their weapons
3. former gun owners are finding that brandishing paintball guns isn't as satisfying as the real thing
5. incidents involving lethal string attacks have gone way up
#934 @@LEADER@@, Don't Tear Down That Wall!
2. the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism
#935 Hero to Zero
1. money can't buy happiness but it can buy immunity to prosecution
2. there are no more heroes any more
3. cheering flag-waving citizens don't like to think too hard about politics
#936 Hackable Elections?
1. foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election"
2. write-in candidate '@@LEADER@@ Sucks' is perennially popular
3. the nation is stuck in permanent election mode as politicians demand constant do-overs
#937 Ebony Pride
1. one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber
2. everybody's got wood thanks to @@LEADER@@
#938 A Little Gift From a Friend
2. citizens are yearning to leave @@NAME@@ for the countries it sends aid to
#939 A Question of Bad Faith
3. a surprising number of police officers have been arrested for @@ANIMAL@@ sacrifices
#940 The Court of the Crimson Lord
5. merriment is might when jesters come calling with puppets in the night
#941 Scents and Sensibility
1. black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation
2. police frequently raid drugstores in search of contraband bottles of New Spice aftershave
4. workers can choose whether they prefer offices that smell of pungent body odor or whale vomit
#942 A Foreign Exchange of Ideas
2. the nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street
3. foreign students are expected to have a Kegmeister Grade Average of 36-24-36 to qualify for university
#943 Big Love, Big Problems?
1. former polygamists always seem to have a huge number of visiting cousins
2. people hearing voices that tell them to commit crimes are automatically assumed to be holy
3. boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers'
4. stuttering trypanophobes are doomed never to marry
#944 Deadly Persuasion
1. uploading purple prose to social media earns a place on a government watchlist
2. nine-year-olds' chat logs are scoured for evidence of radicalization
3. even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love
4. children who write letters to Santa Claus end up in straitjackets
#945 Police on the Take
3. train stations have more platforms than a 1970s disco
#946 Better In Than Out
1. wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them
2. farting etiquette is taught in schools
#947 Imitation Station
2. advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore
3. traffic news is delivered to drivers via carrier pigeon
#948 1x, 2x, 3x, a Lady
1. Maths Professor Barbie is the most popular toy for boys and girls alike
2. any girl that shows an interest in Lego is pressured to study engineering
3. women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up"
4. women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up"
5. male celebrity chefs are laughed at for their lack of manliness
#949 Jailhouses Rocked!
1. street crime is on the rise as police officers spend most of their time in prisons
2. the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons
3. the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons
4. there's a big brother in every prison
5. rock and roll involves rolling literal rocks in prison
6. solid-gold toilets are @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ prisons' least expensive furnishings
#950 Borderline Pandemic
1. anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away
3. pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security
4. hotels often double as quarantine zones
#951 The Wrath of the Fish King
1. fish with fish chips have become the new @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ food staple
2. owning a fishing rod can cause you to be subject to military questioning
3. workers for the environmental protection agency are patted down for tartar sauce every morning
4. the idiom 'there are plenty of fish in the sea' isn't so reassuring to @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#952 Why the Long Face?
1. police conduct raids on children having snail races
3. beating a dead horse is a scientific endeavor
#953 The Ethnic Minority Report
3. only "purebloods" are allowed in the nicer parts of town
#954 Varsity Blues
1. on graduation day the hats thrown in the air fly high enough to stun passing pigeons
2. students at universities think exercise bikes are pieces of abstract art
3. out-of-work basketball players loom over the unemployment line
#955 Can It!
1. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
2. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
4. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
5. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
#957 Putrid Predicament
1. commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains
2. onions have been banned due to their tendency to cause eye irritation
4. the army's use of chemical weapons leaves a bad taste in the mouth
#958 Pay No Attention to That Donor Behind the Curtain!
4. every political office comes fitted with a typewriter and an old filing cabinet
#959 A-Major Debate
1. elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation
5. students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50
#960 Nobody Does It Better?
1. looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities
2. vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction
#961 No Two Ways About It
2. foreign visitors who show an interest in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politics are immediately deported
#962 A Matter of Loaf and Death
1. the NHS is snowed under by requests for crisper ciabatta and tenderer tagliatelle
2. the Department of Health is snowed under by requests for crisper ciabatta and tenderer tagliatelle
4. people experiencing anaphylactic shock are told to buck their ideas up
5. whole-wheat loaves can only be ordered on the dark web
#963 The @@LEADER@@ Meme
3. politicians frequently make unusual poses during speeches in hopes of inspiring the next internet fad
#964 An Expensive Watch
2. fiscal policy hawks decry the sizable "panem et circenses" fund added to the public budget
4. army regiments supporting different football teams are a frequent cause of friendly fire incidents
#965 Like a Bull in a Dàguó Shop
1. foreign countries consider stepping on their grass to be a serious offense
2. cheap goods stamped "Made In Dàguó" are increasingly rare
3. cheap goods stamped "Made In Dàguó" are increasingly rare
#966 As You Don't Like It
2. minstrels carrying coconut shells provide sound effects wherever their nobles wander
3. stoogery and pratfalls are about as scathingly clever as @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ humor gets
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
1. grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps
2. news headlines usually include p-values
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
1. foreign lack of enthusiasm for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli
2. most pop videos prominently feature the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag
4. light entertainment shows are light on actual entertainment
#969 Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Incredibly Sick!
4. hospitals in @@NAME@@ are too busy serving the needs of @@REGION@@ to see @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#970 For Want of a Nail
1. it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away"
2. it is popularly believed that "cheese every day keeps disaster away"
4. women who leak pus from infected wounds are told to suck it up
5. pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves
6. the government decides its policies by observing the flight of birds
#971 Ambassadors Inextraordinary
3. most ambassadors from @@NAME@@ retire only a few years after being appointed
4. foreign heads of state have taken out restraining orders against @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ ambassadors
#972 Sing Heil!
1. concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas"
#973 Guided Missiles and Misguided Men
1. years of counter-terrorism planning are foiled by small details
2. children are often punished for the sins of the fathers
#974 Siren Song
1. the combined alert sound of a nation simultaneously receiving a text message is a common cause of hearing damage
2. the banshee wail foretells skies of death
#975 Paparazzi Parents
1. obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals
#976 Demonic Possession Getting You Down?
1. the government regularly reassures citizens that there are no monsters under their beds
2. the government says that Possession is nine-tenths of the Lore
3. foreign militaries are taking a particular interest in the nation's abandoned borders and cities
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
2. it is broadly agreed that tramp stamps are criminally undesirable
#978 Alone in the Dark
2. hell is not always other people
#979 A Patronising Statement
1. the nation's best artists are considered pretty easy to beat
#980 Small Claims
1. the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks
3. the nation's soldiers sleep four to a bed in order to use space economically
#981 Westfailian Sovereignty
1. lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders
2. foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies
#982 Your Move, @@LEADER@@?
5. nations across the world are quick to praise @@LEADER@@'s good looks and intellectual prowess
#983 Doctors' Orders
3. a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street"
#984 A Midsummer Night's Snooze-Fest
1. some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them
4. all the playground's a stage for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ schoolchildren
5. chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on
6. hammer and sickle-wielding space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on
#985 Service With a Snarl
1. it is typical to be greeted by a string of curse words in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants
2. rude retail employees are now even ruder homeless panhandlers
#986 Poacher Pandemic
2. radio stations offer prizes to callers who can guess this month's most endangered species
4. environmentalists have found an unusual ally in soldiers of fortune
5. the horniness of the great-horned @@ANIMAL@@ is considered a national priority
#987 Quia Scriptum Est
1. balaclava manufacturers are held criminally culpable for bank heists
#988 Highway Robbery by the Book!
1. cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers
3. strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
3. ancient antique swords have had their blades replaced with latex boffer LARP replicas
#990 Baby Shower
1. getting a blood transfusion from @@A@@ @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ entitles a foreigner to citizenship
#991 Alms and Qualms
1. money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them
3. charity workers dole out hardtack from behind designer sunglasses
4. corrupt paupers spend taxpayer @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on liquor and tobacco
#992 Robots in Disguise
1. the same @@POPULATION_VALUE@@ social media bloggers always loudly and immediately agree with @@LEADER@@'s every word on Twitcher
2. politicians have seen a significant reduction in followers on their social media accounts
3. NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people
#993 Drug Deal
2. doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality
3. life is short but human kindness is endless
#994 The Life of Riley
1. prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos
2. prison officers are bribed not to take bribes
#995 A Cup Runneth Over
2. the seventh son of a seventh son is fated to be a millionaire
#996 Scripting a Change?
1. textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be
2. it is considered unpatriotic to learn a foreign language
3. the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters
4. the libraries of @@NAME@@ are staffed by lone, lonely librarians
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
1. wheelchair users complain it is nearly impossible for them to cross the road in @@CAPITAL@@
2. wheelchair users complain it is nearly impossible for them to cross the road in @@CAPITAL@@
3. school kids who pretend to drive imaginary cars get a social worker and a police observer assigned to them
4. school kids who pretend to drive imaginary cars get a social worker and a police observer assigned to them
5. mandatory blunting of cutlery has increased the popularity of soup-based meals
#998 Without Fear or Favour
3. screenwriters and actors seem to be in short supply these days
#999 Just Plane Ridiculous
1. warning signs caution @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ where they may fall off 'the edge of the world'
2. scientists earn more grant money for reproducing old experiments than trying anything new
3. the world still seems flat to some people in space
4. kids are taught in schools to argue with their parents
#1001 Will the Real Victims Please Stand Up?
1. victims of crime are viewed as less trustworthy than politicians
#1002 The Call of Nature
2. there are fifty shades of yellow in outdoor swimming pools
3. there are fifty shades of yellow in outdoor swimming pools
4. allergy-sufferers must wear gas masks before venturing outdoors
5. it's entirely possible foreign diplomats misheard when @@NAME@@ offered the words "peace be upon you"
#1004 Two Countries and a Baby
1. babies are a small but significant export
2. would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here"
#1005 What Goes Up Breaks Down
1. new pilots are regularly reminded that they are more expendable than their planes
2. parachutes are considered optional with the newest line of jet fighters
3. cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes
#1006 Opening the Door to Controversy
1. heavily-laden pregnant women are told they can manage
2. schoolboys trained in chivalry are encouraged to duel other boys for a maiden's hand
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ seem to be catching more chills
4. movement-triggered sensors mean that for every door that closes another one opens
#1007 Putting Your Foot in It
1. pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit
2. bins outnumber trees in city parks
3. an alabaster statue of an ancient cat-deity takes pride of place in the centre of @@CAPITAL@@
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
3. troublemakers boast about how many times they have to visit their therapist
4. women mime their gynaecological symptoms with hand-puppets
#1009 A Woman's Roll
1. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
2. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
3. the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass"
4. glassy-eyed @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ wives lifelessly chant "I love you" on command
#1010 What's Got Into @@NAME@@?
1. grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them
2. garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts
3. Eckie-Ecola has declared that their soda poop is The Real Thing
#1011 State of the Media
3. couch potatoes are considered to be model citizens
#1012 Tilting at Wind Turbines
1. small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome
3. epidemiologists happily announce that the reported incidence of depression is close to zero percent
#1013 Grave Disease
1. one does not simply walk into the tundra
2. cases of disease among the civilian population dwindle as civilian population dwindles
3. wood-framed catapults are ready to launch diseased corpses into besieged cities
4. people across the world seek to be healthier by eliminating carbs
#1014 Unreasonable Doubt
1. you can say what you like about the genocidal murderers that rule @@NAME@@ but at least the trains run on time
2. children wondering what happens to pets after they die are shown where the compost heap is
#1015 Court in the Middle
4. it's not mass murder when the government does it
#1016 Breaking Upset
1. dealers go from pushing drugs to pushing up daisies
2. dealers go from pushing drugs to pushing up daisies
3. therapists dispense hugs for heroin dealers and cuddles for crackheads
4. Brown Sugar 101 is a popular course at community colleges
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
1. powerful x-ray machines used by the Customs Department can see into the homes of nearby residents
#1018 Operation Failed
1. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
2. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
3. arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands
#1019 Patent Nonsense
2. the wheel has been patented by at least a hundred people
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
4. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
5. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
#1021 Room and Board Games
1. the housing market has collapsed like an overbaked Brancalandian souffle
2. real estate agencies are being replaced by naval recruitment offices
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1022 Failure to Respond
3. the fire brigade often deal with cases of burnt toast
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1023 Pure Madness
1. young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves
5. frustrated teenage boys are told that if they like it then they should have put a ring on it
#1024 Terms and Conditions Apply?
2. the parliament building has installed a revolving door
#1025 A Meal to Die For
2. demand for gourmet white truffles is on the rise
#1026 Size Matters
1. the entire entry for @@NAME@@ in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless'
2. many believe that @@LEADER@@'s head is big enough for the sun to orbit around it
3. posters on '@@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Values' advise against being proud of @@NAME@@
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
3. the love has gone in @@NAME@@
4. traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers
5. traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers
#1029 Frozen Assets
3. the government sends submarines to retrieve bodies from shipwrecked submarines
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
1. hundreds of subterranean tunnels are being built as part of "Project Morlock"
2. millions of simultaneously backfiring toilets have flooded @@CAPITAL@@ with effluent
3. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices
5. panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet
#1031 Down in the Groove
1. seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma
3. punk rockers smash it up and then clean it up
#1034 Counting Coups
1. power to the people comes from the barrel of a gun
#1035 Bringing a Bayonet to a Gunfight
2. running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training
3. posing for pictures is an integral part of military training
#1036 When in Maxtopia
3. state media insists that @@LEADER@@ is the most fashionable leader in @@REGION@@
#1037 Ill Girl
2. the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake
3. people applying for famine relief must prove their gastrointestinal tracts are empty
#1038 Maid to Order
2. most households' childcare costs are higher than their mortgage payments
4. it is believed that behind every great man is a terrified subservient woman
#1039 You've Got Mail
4. everyone apparently sends @@LEADER@@ hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
1. coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list
2. the secret ingredient is love (and MSG)
3. days begin with afternoon tea
#1041 A Sport Retort
3. children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants
4. the nation's most popular sport is sabotaging foreigners' hopes and dreams
#1043 Foundering Fashionistas
1. being nicknamed "Orange Face" has done @@LEADER@@'s credibility no favours
2. trust-fund babies line up for places in community college
3. artists attempt to convince the Hardship Fund that their unmade bed is a masterpiece
#1044 OK Stupid
1. politicians bribe ten-year-old geniuses to sit their aptitude tests
3. the nation's biggest export is stupidity
#1046 Buffing Up Our Hospitals?
4. the government spends twice its healthcare budget on replacing stolen pens
#1047 Rivers of Blood
1. many in @@NAME@@ are born in the purple
2. the newest shade developed by @@NAME@@'s dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange'
3. the rainbow assortment of chemicals in the water has turned the frogs gay
#1048 Tatty Treaty Spat Turns Catty
1. families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs
3. it turns out that you actually can put a price on intangible cultural heritage
4. the term "Native @@DEMONYMNOUN@@" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority
#1049 Hard Times Ahead?
1. therapists can always squeeze in another house-call
2. the nation is noticeably more cheerful on Tuesdays
#1050 Criminal Guns Soon to Be Shooting Blanks
1. serial killers who are released early distribute death but not their seed
2. incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables
3. jaywalking will put an end to a family tree
#1051 Take to the Skies
3. the new intercity submarine SSN @@ANIMAL@@ Warrior instills terror in claustrophobic travellers
#1052 The Prisoners' Dilemma
1. the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme
2. prisoners pray grey skies are gonna clear up
#1053 Some Enchanted Evening That Was
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldiers know how to create single mothers in more ways than one
3. customs officials often double as wedding officiants
#1054 Herbal Trouble
1. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are wondering where have all the flowers gone
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ junkies argue that poppy stalks are ornamental flowers
#1055 Fishy Predictions
1. roosters that herald the rising sun are immediately sent to the slaughterhouse
3. military chiefs are predicting extra funding in this year's budget
#1056 Time to Work?
1. surgeons walk out of theatres more often than prima donna actors
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
1. the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose
2. the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles
3. the nation's endangered species are no longer endangered
#1059 Footing the Bill
1. Calvinball players are lost for days as they wander the vast halls of their new academies
4. Calvinball training often involves digging escape tunnels
#1060 Hole in the Wall
1. protecting the land is holey work
2. putting houses on stilts is elevating house porches and prices alike
3. official maps have to be revised on a weekly basis
#1061 Every Day I'm Muffling
2. it's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets
3. when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming
#1062 The Hunt for Violet November
1. enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity
2. the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks"
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
1. you need a signed affidavit from a registered psychiatrist to claim that you have crazy low prices
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1064 Culture Wars
1. practising saying 'how now brown cow' is an essential part of holiday planning
2. holiday-makers leave on the same clandestine boats that illegal immigrants arrive in
3. if foreigners can hit a spittoon from five paces they get a free holiday to @@NAME@@
#1065 Pulling Out
1. citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint
2. the carbon footprint falls along with the human footprint during war
3. the carbon footprint falls along with the human footprint during war
4. the climate agreement has actually increased the volume of hot air in the atmosphere
#1066 It's an Honour Just to Be Condemned
1. every day's an auto-de-fé day
4. the weather is the nation's most risqué topic of conversation
#1067 Don't Fear the Reefer
1. recreational drug businesses are regularly pruned if they grow above the maximum legal size
3. teenagers often ask adults to buy them Maxtopian Grass from government-run recreational drug stores
#1068 Made to Break
1. supermarkets must refund spoilt milk even six months after the sale
2. frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback
3. state-manufactured hammers and sickles are here to stay
#1069 Bowl Motions
1. being able to unblock a u-bend pipe is considered a universally essential skill
4. there is something rotten in the state of @@NAME@@
#1070 Skeletons in the Closet
2. it's surprisingly hard to find pictures of the bad haircuts from @@LEADER@@'s childhood
#1071 Up the Creek
1. @@LEADER@@ spends weekends doing the laundry of foreign leaders
2. water fights now end with thousands dead
3. the canal flows through the land like a twisty turny thing
4. the nation excels at displacement
5. the nation excels at displacement
#1072 Holographic Harmonization
2. light entertainment isn't dead
3. there's no weight to modern politics
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
1. young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield
2. young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield
3. this year's comedy award has left mothers-in-law seething
4. helping grandma with her Misgendering 101 homework is a national rite of passage
5. saying the word 'eggplant' is now a criminal offense
#1074 Halting the Heirloom Heist!
1. monarchs only get custody of the royal crown on holidays and weekends
2. police officers catch up on their paperwork while handing their caseload to PIs
#1075 The Hand That Feeds
1. most of the population has had bad experiences with hoes
4. the "Rump Diet" is all the rage
5. nouveau riche farmers diligently take care of their golden calf herds
#1076 Smokers Cornered
2. cigarettes are dead-cheap
3. female smokers cut their hair and don suits to get into male-only clubs
4. the tax department is having withdrawal symptoms
#1077 With Friends Like These...
3. hit TV comedies "The Big Government Theory" and "Young @@LEADER@@" have high ratings but low quality
#1078 Down With That?
2. a shipwreck is everyone's fault but the captain's
#1079 What's Love Got to Do With It?
3. no-one bats an eye when 'really good platonic friends' of the same sex hold hands in @@NAME@@
4. no-one bats an eye when 'really good platonic friends' of the same sex hold hands in @@NAME@@
#1080 The End Was Nigh
1. military officers are given medals for disobeying orders
2. not showing enough enthusiasm for mutual assured destruction is a court-martial offence
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
1. insanely good theatre productions face government censorship
2. mystics are claiming that a simultaneous rise in scepticism and education budgets is correlation rather than causation
#1082 It's Hard to Separate the Truth From Entertainment
1. people with political aspirations study how to make balloon animals
#1083 Public Protesting Pawnbroker Pickpockets
1. thrift shops are closing their doors
2. selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork
3. pawn shop reality shows dominate basic cable
#1085 Nuke Before You Leap
1. passwords to nuclear codes must now contain upper and lower case characters
2. the fate of the world literally rests on @@LEADER@@'s fingers
#1086 Fun in the Sun
1. the 'sing-a-long with @@LEADER@@' album is a popular souvenir
2. tourists are duped into trimming hedges for the horsy-set
3. surfing lessons include how to ward off sharks
4. awkward tourists are offered the 'unique experience' of rodeo clown
6. hordes of tourists are ruining the environment
7. suspicious locals close their doors leaving tourists to suffer the elements by themselves
#1087 An International Dictatorial Dilemma
1. the nation solves other countries' human rights problems with a generous dose of violence
2. behind every local dictator is @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ advisor whispering in their ear
4. the nation doesn't need to go to war in order to acquire new territory
#1088 Inexpert Opinions
1. sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations
2. behind every great person are three dozen other people passing great memos
3. voter turnout for the election of the Junior Assistant for Non-Digital Media Strategies has been unsurprisingly low
#1090 I Ain't Afraid of No Girls
1. studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done"
2. movies depict muscle-bound women kicking down a titanium door to carry hysterical men to safety
3. choice roles for female actors involve asking "Is there anything I can do for you?"
4. films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay
#1091 The Great Divide
1. wanting a better life for your child is prohibited by a clause in the criminal code
3. new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark
4. new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark
#1092 The Boys From Brasilistan
1. the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers
4. politicians look weirdly alike
#1093 Ignorance Is No Excuse?
2. dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375
#1095 Make the Cut
1. throwing garbage out of your house's front window makes it legally someone else's problem
4. kids only know what plants are because they've seen them on the television
#1096 En Bloc
2. leading ethologists are being investigated for illegal electoral interference
3. the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ of @@NAME@@ are surprisingly well-adjusted
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
1. engine room hooch is the drink of choice among the nation's navy
2. sailors spend their shore leave helping old ladies cross the street
#1099 New Satellite Blues
2. if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it... @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ satellites can detect it
5. the government's new priority is citizens' access to cat videos
6. the government's new priority is citizens' access to cat videos
#1100 Raiders of the Lost Archive
2. few that venture into government archives are ever seen again
#1101 Unreal
1. a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows
#1102 The Sickest Criminals
2. the only way to escape lengthy prison terms is in a body bag
3. life expectancies inside correctional facilities vastly exceed the national average
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
1. plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1104 Balancing the Books
1. books are often used as kindling
2. parents ask their ten-year-olds for help with their government-mandated book reports
3. the book "Zen and the Art of Dog Maintenance" is inexplicably a worldwide success
4. newspapers print only headlines
#1105 A Green History Lesson
1. the statue in the @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@ Plaza has a solar panel for a hat
2. residents of ageing concrete tower blocks have vital renovation work stopped by Brutalism enthusiasts
3. bereaved families are assigned a new housemate the day after the funeral
#1106 Some Body to Love
2. girls who wear lipstick are berated for pandering to male gazes
#1107 Welcome to the Party
3. you gots to be part of the Party to get in to the party
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
1. a handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock
5. classes are regularly interrupted by drunken children
6. hospitals scramble for new disinfectants following a ban on rubbing alcohol
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
3. tourists aren't the only ones that talk about coming back from a trip
4. people forget to eat because they are too busy singing @@LEADER@@'s praises
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
1. forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies
3. Bambi has been banned
#1111 A Call for Change
1. the homeless more often beg for mercy than money
2. anyone with a tin cup can stop by the welfare office to have it filled with coins
#1112 Stray Bullets
1. the collars keep falling off pet snakes
2. it's illegal to exterminate cockroaches
3. the domestic version of the Paddington Bear movie was a far shorter and bloodier tale
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
4. nocturnal complaints about noisy neighbours are rising stiffly
5. it's said that @@LEADER@@ can turn every pleasure into a chore
#1114 Patriotism Flagging
2. interest in globalism never flags
3. there is a 'turn around' sign at every border entrance
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
1. seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts
2. withdrawal of support for drug addicts is leaving many with cold sweats
3. acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
4. lobster tastes best when it is red
#1117 Suffer Little Children
3. a sudden shout of "surprise!" does not herald a party for teachers
4. children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
1. construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground
2. scaffolding is built around scaffolding to give safe access
#1120 Following Yonder Star
1. a formerly quiet little town is now booming as both a cult centre and a tourist attraction
3. @@LEADER@@ claims to know what infants are thinking
4. claims of miracles are met with calls to eradicate religion as superstitious nonsense
#1121 Tribes and Tribulations
1. the might of the entire @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders
2. nations that kill @@A@@ @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ can expect a strongly worded letter
3. foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather
#1123 Till Death Do Us Part
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ husbands are dead good at fathering kids
3. millions of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are excellent swimmers
#1125 Blowing Smoke
2. worrywarts have started advocating for a paint ban
#1126 Waste of Time
2. government statistics suggest 115% of the population love @@LEADER@@
3. work creation schemes keep the masses occupied with meaningless tasks
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
1. old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones
3. taxi drivers seem less xenophobic these days
#1128 Get Thee Behind Me, Santa
2. children usually cry on their first day of school
3. children usually cry on their first day of school
#1129 Behind the Red Curtain
1. frustrated women are overjoyed at the provision of communal washing machines
2. end-of-year production reports state that the revolution is really going with a bang
3. teen boys and girls find stick-figure-aided lectures on their comradestruation emphasises socialist unity more than biology
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
1. the government is deliberately installing bloatware onto computers
2. the only thing slower than the economy is the exchange where it's managed
4. the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection
5. computers have been put in control of the economy to keep computers from controlling the economy
#1131 Safe Sects
2. five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars
#1132 Gold Standards
1. it's a long jump to get onto the housing ladder
3. sprinters achieve their personal bests only when the Olympic Team recruiters come calling
#1133 Rocky Road
1. roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it
2. motivational posters send motorists positive vibes in high-risk areas
3. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
4. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
#1134 Tariff-ic Trouble
1. a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat"
#1135 My Eyes Are Up Here
1. male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed
2. male cubicle workers stand up every time a woman enters the room
#1136 Money Talks
1. politicians are battling inequality by declaring themselves better than everyone else
#1137 A Really Sour Lemon
2. children grow up long before the paperwork for their lemonade stands can be sorted out
3. government bureaucrats shut down teenage yard-raking businesses for being counter-revolutionary
#1138 Shock Tactics
1. giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls
2. fat-shaming is now public policy
#1139 A Little Wrestling, a Lot of Controversy
1. people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size
2. the government loves seeing the little people fight
3. endocrinology is a rapidly growing field of study
#1140 Blinded by the Light
1. holidays are regarded as the most miserable time of the year
3. holiday light displays just aren't the same without seizure-inducing strobe effects
4. overcrowded buses are the new normal for suburban commuters
#1141 The Trolley Problem
1. public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity
#1142 Womb Service
1. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
2. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
#1143 Running From Time
2. jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies
#1144 A Noble Cause for a Fight
4. the people sing of those who will not be slaves again
#1145 Your Wild Self(ie)
2. choking on @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ is a leading cause of death for wild animals
3. video evidence of cruel animal experiments tends to be of poor quality
4. teenagers are making eye contact with each other for the first time in years
#1146 Mother Knows Best?
2. first-time moms are expected to be experienced parents from day one
#1148 Unfit for Purpose
1. doctors spend more time writing sick notes than caring for the sick
2. the disabled are forced to undergo an MRI scan every time they pick up their benefit payments
3. the blind lead the blind in social welfare
#1149 The Goriest Advertisement
3. machine gun nests are the latest must-have gardening trend
4. weapons are only sold to foreign governments that are legitimate enough to not bounce the cheque
5. former weapons designers now boast about their non-jamming semi-automatic nail guns
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
2. international trade can be a pain to deal with
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
1. employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired
3. workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year
#1152 Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting!
2. the standard police uniform now comes with several colours of belt
3. the 'three Rs' have become the 'four Rs' with the addition of Rightful Thought
#1153 Side Effects
1. the government is hoping that medical aid will speak louder than human rights abuses
2. industry tycoons rarely hide their misdeeds due to the government's habit of bailing them out
3. the government is often referred to as "the biggest drug dealer in the nation"
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
1. citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason
2. the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard
3. taxpayer-funded government ads are promoting Brancaland as a premier filming location
#1155 The Banquet of Walnuts
1. heretic deviants are free to practice their deviance outside of @@NAME@@
3. the church declares that everyone should get a large serving of nuts daily
#1156 Pet Theory
1. you can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health
#1157 Rodney and Julietta
2. the nation operates a "finders-keepers" policy with other nations' citizens
3. the nation operates a "finders-keepers" policy with other nations' citizens
4. heartfelt sentiments are mercilessly marketed by a million-@@CURRENCY@@ treacle machine
5. legitimate job descriptions now include "smiling and waving"
#1158 Flying Into a Rage
1. women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms
2. the only women behind bars are barmaids
#1160 Milking It
1. more than one company makes the board game Monopoly
3. right-wingers complain that too many people are suckling at the welfare teat
#1162 She's Always a Woman to Me
1. saying 'no homo' is enough to escape punishment for the crime of being gay
4. the line between man and woman is drawn with surgical precision
#1163 Some Assembly Required
2. group hugs break out during floor votes
3. the prevalence of circular logic frequently renders parliamentary observers dizzy
#1164 What a Gneiss Place We've Got Here
2. an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety
3. citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
3. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
4. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
5. the government-run newspapers insist that everything is fine
#1166 Acres Wild
1. farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land
2. the backs of 'No Trespassing' signs were made for you and me
3. wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests
#1167 Another Brick in the Wall
1. the sun rises an hour later on border communities
3. refugees without a PhD are sent back to where they came from
4. pieces of groundhog occasionally rain from the sky near the border
#1168 Too Much Too Young
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ tourists are encouraged to hand out spare condoms to locals while on vacation
#1170 To Catch a Beef
3. stolen Reuben sandwiches are met with detailed and thorough police investigations
4. deli patrons examine their roast beef for undetonated explosives
#1173 Thinking a Little Too Hard?
1. the military is researching proton packs and PK-meters to combat "unseen enemy forces"
2. the @@CAPITAL@@ XV Regiment (aka "The Goat Starers") have yet to win a battle
4. ghost regiments exist only on paper
#1174 Bad Press
2. it is illegal to carry an umbrella when the official weather forecast predicts a sunny day
4. government agents scour baking periodicals for subversive recipes
#1175 Can I Borrow a Word?
1. escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails'
2. feuilletons can only be deciphered with a Galliennais dictionary
3. colonial subjects have @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ culture shoved down their throats
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
1. citizens who use the word "Violet" incorrectly find their WhoTube content taken down
4. the government has swiped left on the whole internet
#1177 A Funny Old Game
3. footballers are doing aerobics in the sauna to build their hot weather endurance
#1178 No Need to Beat Yourself Up About It
3. government adverts say that twelve lashes a day keeps divine wrath at bay
#1179 Nothing Fishy
2. ports have ground to a halt as no boat can reach them without trespassing
3. fishermen take out second mortgages to afford the yearly fishing permit
4. fly fishermen are legally forbidden from using electronic lures
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
5. @@NAME@@ is suspiciously populated compared to its neighbors
6. uprooting flowers for religious ceremonies is a felony
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
1. the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally
#1182 Thanks, but No Thanks
2. hungry families offer spare change to their social workers
3. immigrants don't even have to immigrate to cost the locals their jobs
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
1. the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause
4. female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked'
#1184 Wring Out Your Dead
1. people in @@NAME@@ can die peacefully knowing that all their debts are paid
3. if you die during a restaurant meal the government will pick up the bill
#1185 Should Be Sufficient
1. formerly internationally exported goods are now given away for free
2. people think "siege mentality" is a positive trait
#1186 The Magic's Gone
2. government agents are triangulating the position of the rainbow's end for the purposes of gold acquisition
5. the government is telling wizards to put their heart into their work
#1187 Tipping Point
1. nobody draws smiley faces on receipts anymore
#1188 The Only Good Criminal
1. fistfighting vigilantes tend to suffer a lot of gunshot wounds
3. the only violent vigilantes are the ones in police uniforms
#1189 Driven to Distraction
1. glancing at the car radio display while driving is treated as attempted homicide
2. neon signs promoting safe driving often distract drivers
3. drivers are told they're not staring at mobile phone screens enough
#1190 Dirty Laundry
3. nobody brings rolls of coins to the laundromat anymore
4. citizens' lost socks are government property
#1191 Intelligent Design
1. owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation
2. nano-@@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are the current fad sweeping the nation
4. rabbits are known to spontaneously explode without warning
#1192 Child's Play
1. childish pranks are no laughing matter
4. the national security service are a bunch of crooks
#1193 Relocating the Living Room
3. small patches of desolate land across the world are part of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ sovereign territory
4. tours to see the 'wild men of the mountains' are popular with tourists from the big cities
#1194 Lost in Translation
1. families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country
2. people are bored of easy crossword puzzles
3. pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits
#1195 All Hands on Tap!
1. the government has officially clarified that "wee on your hands to save time" does not count as proper hygiene
2. foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with @@LEADER@@
#1196 The Properties of Property
1. new "Worker's Strike" laws set out who is allowed to strike a worker
3. slavery has been abolished
#1197 Aflame With Indignity
3. citizens who don't follow @@FAITH@@ are closely monitored for signs of self-harm
4. religious citizens are closely monitored for signs of self-harm
#1198 The Death Debate Isn't Dead Yet
1. funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals
3. it is technically inaccurate to call the dead 'worm food'
#1199 Locked Down
1. EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise
3. the police think a properly conducted criminal investigation is a real pain
#1200 Choose Your God Wisely
7. the distracting décor lining the roads causes multiple pile-ups
#1201 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
2. unsolved crimes are often pinned on veterans with PTSD
#1202 A Timely Intervention
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ watches list strained wrists as a common side effect
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ watches list strained wrists as a common side effect
3. the well-to-do in @@REGION@@ are never on time for important appointments
4. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact
5. citizens pray for sunshine so that they can use illicit sundials for timekeeping
#1203 The Fandom Menace
2. works of historical fiction contain a surprising lack of historical figures
3. film studios own the rights to actors' likenesses until the next millennium
#1204 Homecoming Queen
1. the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on @@NAME@@
3. statistics show that terrorists often come from broken families
4. pregnant women make easy targets
#1205 Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
1. national stress about the waning heir-line is causing a rise in alopecia
3. heirs who take too long in the bathroom are declared missing and presumed dead
4. contestants on 'Who Wants To Be A Millionheir?' have a 50:50 chance of humiliation
#1206 Gross Domestic Product
1. government projects are full of waste
4. cholera is seen as the holiest of diseases
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
1. high school bands practice by moonlight
2. students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework
3. babysitters are a thing of the past
4. sleeping on the job is recommended
#1209 Your Island Is My Island
2. vacationing @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ expect to be treated as royalty
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
1. people who get diabetes can sue donut manufacturers
2. the smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation
4. the tobacco industry has burnt out
#1211 Free Credit Reports With Monitoring
1. flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists
3. the government's approval ratings go down while its turnover rate goes up
#1212 Lost at Sea
1. boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard
2. one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man
3. children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes
4. ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ pirates
#1213 The War of Man and Beast
1. foreign livestock are offered asylum
#1214 Blood Type: Gay Positive
3. there's nothing more gay than bleeding for your nation
4. gay men commonly complain about their time of the month
#1215 A New Age
1. you're only as old as you feel
2. hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal
3. kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up
#1216 Not My Government
2. all the world's a stage for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ political theatrics
4. an iron curtain has descended around the nation
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
1. the law says that all @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are created equal — no matter how they were created
4. teen gangs are encouraged to take drugs
5. the government prevents violence by committing genocide
#1220 Barely Any Art
1. masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery
3. men stare at wall-pictures of @@LEADER@@'s face when they visit public urinals
#1221 Man of the People
1. politicians always seem to take two steps forward then three steps back
2. politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority")
#1222 Family Matters
1. the aphorism "there's no need to argue" has been dismissed by @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
3. police nightsticks see use all day long
#1223 Courting Bankruptcy
2. royals are always ready with their diamond-encrusted toilet plungers in case a royal flush doesn't work
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
1. imitation is the sincerest form of felony
2. bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic
3. bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic
5. people have become comfortably numb
#1225 The Rumors, They Fly
3. the Police Surveillance Unit's motto is "Gotta Catch 'Em All"
#1226 Unintelligent Oversight
4. appliance stores are finding spy cameras embedded in their unboxed merchandise
#1227 Girls on Film
3. baby monitors have been banned
#1228 The Road to Hell
1. the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners
#1229 Crystal Clear Sinuses
1. there's a lot of mouth-breathers about these days
2. the most common doctor's prescription is "get out of my consulting room"
#1230 Home Hunger
2. all @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ love the taste of self-sufficiency
3. the government builds houses for foreign newcomers
#1231 Save Our Souls
5. the nation takes the world's poor and tired and the huddled Masses yearning to breathe free
#1232 I've Got 99 Problems but @@FAITH@@ Ain't One
1. the act of reporting blasphemy is known as 'Orthodoxxing'
4. taxpayers receive expenditure reports from the Grand High Poobah of the Order of Violet
5. taxpayers receive expenditure reports from the Grand High Poobah of the Order of Violet
6. the writing style of religious hymns often changes mid-stanza
#1233 Get Real!
3. agreeing to appear on TV is often the best way to access social care
#1234 I Declare a Thumb War
1. the government is under the thumb of countless special interests
#1235 Good Guy With a Gun
2. gun-wielding criminals always wear appropriate eye and ear protection
4. it turns out that the government can have your guns by prying them out of your warm living hands
#1236 Being Honest
4. the nation's ballot sheets often contain ten-thousand word manifestos for each party
#1237 A Polar Bear's Tale
1. older citizens lament over the loss of law and order
3. public shaming has become the favoured form of punishment
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
1. posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables
#1239 The Walking, Talking, and Irritated Dead
1. shady doctors seem to have impeccable records
3. being dead no longer has any benefits
4. adults have never outgrown their fear of monsters
5. heroes long thought dead are promptly killed upon their return
#1240 Unadmirable Zeal
3. the Intelligence services are renowned for their godless ways
#1242 Jump Leads
1. prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping
2. standing on a chair to reach a top shelf is seen as evidence of narcissistic personality disorder
3. confused-looking pigeons slide gently off frictionless window ledges
5. the incidence of wrist sprains is falling
#1243 Kicking Back
3. a convict's trip to prison can be longer than the sentence
#1244 Mooning the Flag
1. signs of extraterrestrial life are just foreign astronauts evading @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ justice
2. citizens are deployed to barren deserts to protect small territorial claims
3. the moon's craters are more numerous every day
#1246 Breath of the Wild
1. nobody knows why the caged @@ANIMAL@@ sings
3. the old neighbourhood isn't how most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ remember it
#1247 Suspension of the Disbelieved
1. anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves
2. doctors ask for written consent before making eye contact with patients
3. people make a career out of medical voyeurism
#1248 A Day to Remember
1. modelling agencies send their clients to work in nursing homes
3. diaper sales are up
#1249 Red Dead Representatives
3. left-wing militias train children how to properly burn down banks
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
1. most barbers are also surgeons
3. millions are awarded in damages for bad haircuts
#1251 The Making of a Mass Murderer
1. wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles
2. schoolboys who turn to watch pretty girls go by are given detention
3. the government is more interested in identifying problems than fixing them
4. the army's trophy cabinets have gone all-organic
#1252 Ale to the Chief
1. everyone wants to be on the guest list for diplomatic parties
2. visiting dignitaries make excuses to leave functions early and head to the nearest pub
3. more and more people are signing up for the government party
4. more and more people are signing up for the government party
5. no one is worried about government policies any more
#1254 Sales on Rails
1. city workers have declared that rolling markets aren't good for business after all
3. there's no representation without taxation
#1255 This Lady's Not for Turning
2. bailiffs must face down a fusillade of depleted uranium rounds
4. the military has adopted a weird double-fisted salute
#1256 Train in Vain
1. the new airport at Mr. Giles' farm is panicking his sheep
2. satellite images show safe electoral constituencies in complete darkness
3. two inland cities have unveiled their new desalination plants
#1257 It's a Kind of Magic
1. every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldiers are assured their new ray-guns will finally power up after the next round of ominous chanting
3. populations of two-headed @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites
5. religious officials are furious after discovering that things made of stone do not burn well at the stake
#1258 Henceforward Shall Be Free
1. former slave-owners hope there are no hard feelings when they apply for jobs from their erstwhile charges
2. former slaves find themselves being herded onto ships once more
#1259 Buy Low, Sell High
1. parents who reward their teens' chores with concert tickets are charged with illegal reselling
2. a ban on robots in disguise has transformed the entertainment industry
4. mandatory state-funded classes teach Libertarianism
#1260 Gay Abandoned
2. shell-shocked refugees are made to provide Immigration with lively renditions of 'Dancing Queen'
3. a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum
#1261 Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
2. evasive politicians don't fail to strongly commit to not committing to a course of non-inaction
3. the government prides itself on being smug and condescending to idiots
#1262 Dead Tasty
1. the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market
2. the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu
#1263 Is the Signature Always Right?
1. getting an autograph has become harder than ever
2. political detractors refer to @@LEADER@@ as 'that Bigtopian puppet'
3. people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled
4. people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled
#1264 Flooding the Market
1. lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences"
2. bargain hunters descend on disaster zones for a quick spot of grocery shopping
3. the government response to disaster victims starving for bread is "let them eat stale cake"
4. constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas"
#1265 The Silent Majority's Roaring Mouthpiece
3. political hopefuls must announce their intentions decades in advance to accommodate extensive background checks
#1266 Pink Is the New Orange
1. the @@CAPITAL@@ Women's Prison Choir now has a baritone section
2. sometimes a whole prison wing will house a single prisoner
4. transgender and agender are on the education agenda
#1267 Hamming It Up
2. citizen radio operators agree that the certification test can open up a world of hertz
3. children playing with walkie-talkies are told to 'get a job'
4. children playing with walkie-talkies are told to 'get a job'
#1268 Don't Sweat It
3. passengers often cause a stink on public transport
#1269 All That Glitters
1. phenotypic plasticity is a struggle for sealife in polluted waters
2. little girls are in tears as @@LEADER@@ confiscates their pink princess ballgowns
3. annual government budgets include a sizeable spend on "making things look fabulous"
4. blocked storm drains cause sanitation problems
#1270 I'll Be Watching You
1. nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
1. sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls
2. rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century
3. small towns have started burning historical buildings in hopes of attracting tourists
#1272 Old News
2. politicians tend to speak more loudly and slowly these days
#1273 Lessons in Politics
1. evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right
3. critical thinking is grounds for expulsion from university
#1274 No Room Left for Asylum Seekers
1. you can check out of an asylum if you've changed your mind
2. blessed are the meek for they have been beaten into submission
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
1. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
2. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
3. photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls
#1276 A Boatload of Trouble
1. the government considers it a sacred duty to video bikini-clad beach swimmers
3. even immigrants complain that immigrants keep taking their jobs
#1277 Outside the Box
2. rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay
3. pro-wrestling bouts open with a legal disclaimer insisting that any violence is guaranteed 100% faked
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
2. history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students
3. a petition to improve @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ literacy is mostly signed with cross-marks
#1279 Crate Work, Plane and Simple
1. third world countries are rich in "I Love @@CAPITAL@@" t-shirts
3. diplomats shake hands with their right and hide a poison dagger in their left
#1280 The Amazing, but Illegal, Spiderman
2. older ladies are inundated with offers to help them cross the road
3. immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs
4. you can call your arthritic immigrant neighbour for all your roof-tiling and guttering needs
#1282 Resting in Peace
1. nocturnal light pollution is mostly blue
2. the inside lane of every highway is for parked vehicles only
3. truck drivers turn their engines off and coast whenever they're going downhill
#1283 Comrade, Please!
1. internal strife within the Red Bloc crumbles in the face of fiery rhetoric
#1284 How to Choose the Chosen One
1. children are encouraged to fail at school so as not to appear too enlightened
2. minority children find the right answer in school tests is always the most insulting one
#1285 Born to Kill
2. super-powered zombies parade through the streets of @@CAPITAL@@
3. a sophisticated government-sponsored breeding program creates normal people
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
2. it's a marvellous night for a moon dance as the sparks on your home start to rise
3. autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum
4. polychromatic seas of leaves blanket the ground while sewers and drain pipes are clogged by their detritus
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wonder "if a tree falls in the woods with no credible witnesses, who wants to know?"
#1287 Children of the Magna Carta
1. a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted
2. you're never too young to learn how to lie with confidence
4. politicians spend a lot of time hanging around kids' playgrounds
#1289 Cramping Our Style
1. things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
1. more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people
2. coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms
3. @@LEADER@@ has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space
#1292 A Sticky End for @@LEADER@@?
1. when shaking hands with foreign leaders @@LEADER@@ wears an armoured gauntlet
#1293 Bet Your Life
2. flipping a coin to make a decision leads to a referral to Gambling Addiction Services
#1294 Silence in Court
1. in court almost every witness is a hostile witness
3. people can get away with murder these days
#1296 Once Upon a Time
2. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ football team for the Maxxmas ceasefire consists only of Intelligence Corps personnel
3. the holiday spirit must not be taken to the max
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
1. couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material'
3. citizens' names are redacted on their IDs for national security
4. begun the Clone Wars have
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
2. ranchers are adept at mimicking wolf attacks
3. picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them
4. cows graze until the wolves come home
#1299 A Silent Salute
1. treason is relative
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
3. gift hampers filled with delicious beef jerky are sent to newly communist nations
4. proletariat workers identify less with the hammer and sickle and more with the touchscreen and phone charger
#1302 The @@NAME@@ Identity
3. @@NAME@@ isn't what it used to be
4. diplomats are always trying to convince other nations to adopt l33t speak
#1303 Amateur Hour
3. pros are the new cons
4. frisbee games on college quadrangles are grounds for expulsion
#1305 The Woman From AUNT
1. children seem to be getting better at lying these days
2. adults pretending to be teenage girls claim to have wholesome motives
#1306 The Least Common Educator
1. gym teachers instruct advanced-level calculus classes
4. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
5. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
#1307 A Duty to Serve
1. students do more community service than homework
3. people who do not complete their community service are sentenced to more community service
#1308 One in the Oven
1. the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans
2. parents often leave their kids in the car while they attend mindfulness meditation sessions
3. employers are keenest on employees who lack family values
4. there's often a little nagging voice suggesting that parents aren't keeping their kids safe
#1309 Give @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@ a Bone
1. war vets look after war animals
2. veterans' meet-ups involve a lot of tail sniffing
#1310 Intimate Relations
1. dancing with your first cousin is a misdemeanor
2. the slowest students feel vaguely targeted by their Mendelian Inheritance coursework
3. kissing cousins produce the heartiest babies
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1311 An Acquired Taste
1. weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law
2. people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile
3. the military is plagued with unethical researchers
4. gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours
#1312 Cranmer vs Cranmer
1. parents seeking custody have to write a five-thousand word analysis of their child's imaginary friend
4. pedal-powered removal vans are a popular Maxxmas gift for the children of separated parents
#1313 The Meek Shall Inherit?
1. among slaves 'bastard' is an honorific rather than an insult
#1314 Nothing to Write Home About
1. soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers
2. military information leaks are **REDACTED** by **REDACTED** in **REDACTED**
#1315 No Boycott After All; Parliament Just Got Lost
3. even the lowest-level cheesemongers are required to pass @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Literature IV
#1316 Gonna Take My Hearse to the Old Town Road
2. funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room
3. the subway is dead quiet in early afternoons
#1317 Nanny State
3. royal babies are so on-point right now
#1318 Blitzed
1. the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force
2. battlefield gains are quickly lost when enemies don't respect a time-out
3. a soldier's body is a temple
4. a soldier's body is a temple
5. a soldier's body is a temple
6. a soldier's body is a temple
#1319 Dying for Two
1. women tell their friends they've been on crash diets rather than admit they were pregnant and have had terminations
#1320 A Case of Poor Turnaround
1. public toilets are famed for their rear entries
#1321 Who Wants to Know a Millionaire?
1. rumor has it that @@LEADER@@ has won three lotteries in a row
3. there's no such thing as a safe bet
#1322 Introducing Altengarten?
1. 4-year-olds are often found reminiscing about the 'good old days'
#1323 Toss the Coin?
1. the new one @@CURRENCY@@ coin also makes a handy throwing-star
2. the newest East Lebatuckese coins have "long live East Lebatuck" on heads and "death to @@NAME@@" on tails
#1324 Wrecked by Wrestling?
1. many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them
2. school lockers are filled with fancy underwear
3. a common response to government PSAs is "well, DUH, obviously"
#1326 Hostile Hospitality
3. fire and brimstone sermons are accompanied by napalm and fragmentation bombs
#1327 Which Right Is Right?
1. signs at the border tell international drivers where they can put their cars
2. postcards from @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ driving test centres are popular souvenirs
3. people often complain that they're going in circuitous routes all the time
#1328 Not-So-Friendly Fire
1. pallbearers at military funerals dive for cover when they hear the three-volley salute
2. camo-patterned plush comfort blankets are standard issue for commandos
4. children happily laugh and play on their way to school during air-raids
#1329 A Little Bit Short
2. @@CAPITAL@@ Preparatory School for the Exceedingly Wealthy's basketball team is having a few off-years
4. diminutive @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ generals are feared for their aggressiveness
5. people are always able to look each other in the eye
#1330 Guilt by Association
1. family trees become bare as entire branches are lopped off
2. the recently bereaved have plenty of time to mourn during their incarcerations
4. Big Brother is still watching even when your big brother is dead
#1331 Warning, Fatigue
1. power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky
2. aeroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators
3. the sound of office water cooler chatter has been replaced by the whirring of computer cooling fans
#1332 We Won't, We Won't Rock You
1. serial killers are the country's biggest import
2. breaking rocks in the hot sun now involves using your head
#1334 Withdrawing Diplomatic Relations
1. the water doesn't come out of the faucet with the same rush that it used to
3. homesickness is thought to be a waterborne illness
4. homesickness is thought to be a waterborne illness
5. the only trips @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are allowed to take are the ones caused by hallucinogens
#1335 First-Class Warfare
1. flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor
#1336 Take Good Care of My Baby
1. a generation of children conceived in hell and born in strife is growing up inside government-run care villages
#1337 Waste Not Want Not
1. the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead
#1338 Slow and Stupid Is the Race
1. minorities play dumb to get more welfare payments
#1339 AI Citizens Driving Change?
2. new @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ taxis are fitted with server racks
3. new @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ taxis are fitted with server racks
#1342 Uni-ted We Roll, Uni-ted We Fall
1. people often feel unbalanced by their daily commute
2. sheep-like political loyalists repeat the mantra "one wheel bad, three wheels good"
#1343 Feeling Down
1. pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card
2. airport announcements inform passengers that flights have been delayed because pilots are having afternoon naps
#1344 Ups and Downs
1. orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step
2. little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas
3. 75% of the words in government-funded "Super Fun Maths Games" are probably inaccurate
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
1. they who do not work shall not eat
#1346 The Problem With Peyote
3. would-be mescaline users often describe a crawling sensation on their skin
#1347 Winning the Genetic Lottery
3. a man's 250 square-foot apartment is his castle
#1348 Heaven Can't Wait
1. the holiest shrine in @@FAITH@@ is on another world
3. military chaplains grow frustrated with their long commutes
4. being a member of the glee club disqualifies @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ from space travel
5. above @@NAME@@ there is only sky and the fear of the unknown
6. above @@NAME@@ there is only sky and the fear of the unknown
#1349 You Must Be 18 Years or Older to View This Content
1. adulthood begins with the creation of an email account
2. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
3. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
4. unruly children often visit adult websites when angry with their parents
5. getting your license is a rite of passage for young adults
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
1. the nation frequently scolds its subject territories for staying up past bedtime
2. a degree of self-hatred is vital for a future in politics
3. the seats at the back of the parliament are reserved for indigenous ministers
#1351 Come Give @@LEADER@@ a Kiss!
1. little children cry as their rainbow drawings are seized by the Straight-Thought Police
4. Mona Lola's famous mysterious smile is being altered to resemble @@LEADER@@'s enigmatic grin
#1352 The Brains Behind Kuru
1. brains have been removed from lists of best brain foods
2. human pie shops continue to receive shipments of meat from Spleeny Rodd's
#1354 The One-Trick Pony
2. translators are keen to explain feline MPs' claw and ordure policies
4. all animals are equal but some are more equal than others
#1355 Feeling Null
1. counselors diagnose their clients with motherboard complexes
3. the meaning of life was recently discovered in the patch notes for Version 1.42
#1356 The Silicon Curtain
5. the nation has become both the largest producer and consumer of abaci in @@REGION@@
#1357 Scattered Showers
1. helium balloons lift the nation's spacecraft towards the heavens
2. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
3. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
4. space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across @@NAME@@
5. scientific progress marches ever forward with the first ever launch of a cheeseburger into space
#1358 Who's In Your Wallet?
1. the nation honors the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ weed picker
2. internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ weed picker are way up
4. the nation's new currency features full-length portraits of @@LEADER@@ in ermine and velvet garb
5. the elderly don't know who the dickens adorns the face of newly-issued banknotes
6. angry citizens complain that there isn't enough geographical diversity on the new banknotes
#1359 Covering All the Angles
2. politicians are often referred to as thesauruses behind their backs
3. the true length of the coastline of @@NAME@@ may never be measured
#1360 Ask a Stupid Question?
1. twelfth-generation @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are deported for not knowing @@LEADER@@'s childhood nickname
4. the only science is political science
#1361 Fundamental Rights
1. parents dread their examinations more than their children
3. every school is receiving a brand new eraser
#1362 The Trans Panic Button
1. defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were
3. @@LEADER@@ is considering changing the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag to one with more glitter
#1363 In My Defence
4. staple guns are seen as intrinsically evil
#1364 Payday Groans
1. loan operators are losing interest due to lost interest
3. it's hunting season on loan sharks
#1365 Balancing the Box
1. citizens tint their front windows to avoid starring in the 'TV Detector Patrol Unit' documentary
2. citizens tint their front windows to avoid starring in the 'TV Detector Patrol Unit' documentary
4. 'Totally Not Partisan News' is a line item on the government budget
#1368 Parking Hell
1. the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem"
2. parking's carefree without parking car fees
3. urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate
#1369 Negotiation Complication
2. @@NAME@@ recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace
3. the intelligence community is playing 4-D chess with an imaginary spy network
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
2. children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name
3. professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials
#1371 @@NAME@@ Rocked by Rolls' Fatal Role
1. armed security details escort librarians to their homes
3. tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends
#1372 Balls to All That
3. foreign football clubs wave the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag before every game
4. shirts-versus-skins games are now skins-versus-skins games
#1373 You Should Have (Copy)Left My Software Alone!
2. government programs are less "written" and more "plagiarised"
3. using "inspect element" is grounds for espionage charges
4. too many developers spoil the codebase
#1374 Protect and Swerve
1. the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand
2. both criminals and civilians are DOA
3. it takes a village to catch a criminal
#1375 [MADness] Never Say Yes to a Conference Again
1. the nation's declaring that sharing nukes is caring
2. the nation's declaring that sharing nukes is caring
5. the military has gone fission for more funding
6. the military has gone fission for more funding
#1376 [MADness] From East Lebatuck With Love
1. the navy's new flotilla is gonna be a thrilla
#1377 [MADness] For @@LEADER@@'s Ears Only
2. enemy agents often find themselves caught in a bind
5. enemy agents often find themselves caught in a bind
#1378 [MADness] Authorization to Kill
1. @@LEADER/NAME@@ shot first
2. @@LEADER/NAME@@ shot first
4. @@LEADER/NAME@@ shot first
5. @@LEADER/NAME@@ shot first
#1379 [MADness] A View to a Thrill
1. the roundel of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force has become an internationally recognized symbol of destruction
2. the unofficial motto of the nation's intelligence agency is "in Bont we trust"
#1380 [MADness] A View to a Thrill
1. the roundel of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force has become an internationally recognized symbol of destruction
2. the unofficial motto of the nation's intelligence agency is "in Bont we trust"
#1381 [MADness] Chairman No
4. international negotiations always lead to a lot of missile-laneous expenses
#1382 [MADness] Leave and Let Die
1. the roundel of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force has become an internationally recognized symbol of destruction
2. the unofficial motto of the nation's intelligence agency is "in Bont we trust"
#1384 [MADness] On @@LEADER@@'s Secret Service
1. it's not only teenagers who mess around with fake IDs
#1385 [MADness] Skycrash
1. the nation's mettle is about to be tested
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have become death, the destroyer of worlds
#1386 [MADness] The Spy Who Tricked Me
1. the nation's mettle is about to be tested
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have become death, the destroyer of worlds
#1390 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
1. taxpayers cringe whenever someone brings up the Former Antagonist Reparations Treaty
2. taxpayers cringe whenever someone brings up the Former Antagonist Reparations Treaty
4. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
5. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
6. corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
7. corporations have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
#1391 [MADness] The World Is Not Radioactive Enough
1. the military claims that their threatening letters are signed with the blood of their enemies
#1392 [MADness] No Crime to Spy
1. reassembling shredded papers is the highlight of a spy's day
2. the nation's spies are always on break time
#1394 [MADness] For @@LEADER@@'s Ears Only
2. enemy agents often find themselves caught in a bind
#1395 [MADness] For @@LEADER@@'s Ears Only
2. enemy agents often find themselves caught in a bind
#1396 [MADness] Skycrash
3. tourists ask to stay in the same pleasant accommodations where foreign prisoners are kept
#1397 [MADness] On @@LEADER@@'s Secret Service
1. it's not only teenagers who mess around with fake IDs
2. it's not only teenagers who mess around with fake IDs
#1400 [MADness] President No
3. international negotiations always lead to a lot of missile-laneous expenses
#1405 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
1. taxpayers cringe whenever someone brings up the Former Antagonist Reparations Treaty
3. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
4. trade ministers have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
5. trade ministers have to consult a fifty-page "sanctions spreadsheet" to determine which countries they are allowed to do business with
#1406 Can't Touch This
1. police are saying "bye book" to "by the book"
2. police are saying "bye book" to "by the book"
#1407 New Tricks
2. parents are fined for sending their children to take out the trash after sunset
3. a child's only Trickster Night scare is the sight of their parents dancing
4. red fabric is banned
#1408 (A Lot Of) Pennies for Your Thoughts
3. surprising numbers of poor people are protesting against taxing the rich
4. chanting protestors ask "WHAT DO WE WANT?" and reply "MORE OF THE SAME"
#1409 Happy Pranksgiving!
2. class clowns are frequently listed among the most dangerous criminals in the nation
3. producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene
#1410 Lives On-Line
1. hospitals have to sell their computers on vBay in order to afford the ransomware decryption payments
4. hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms
5. doctors fax when they need facts fast
#1411 Atomic Split
2. the Finance Ministry has gone into meltdown upon hearing the price to avoid nuclear disaster
#1412 Another Day, Another Dollar
3. the @@CURRENCY@@ is worth its weight in gold
4. purchasing a can of Addison Cola requires a wheelbarrow of cash
#1413 Old Fusion
1. military minds worry that 'the blue screen of death' on brand new operating systems may be a literal description
#1414 My Milkshake Brings All the @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ to the Yard
1. any secret that gets off someone's chest is promptly replaced
2. barbers who trim a few inches of hair bill the government for their labor
#1415 The Melting Point
1. a speech a day keeps climate change away
2. after every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow
3. people are always complaining about dam builders running behind schedule
4. people are always complaining about dam builders running behind schedule
#1416 Building on Sand
1. the nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide
3. undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations
4. the nation is wading into dangerous waters
#1417 Nun on the Run
3. citizens ask "how many crooks could a nunchuck hook if a nun had nunchucks too?"
#1418 The High Life
1. children's daycare starts at the crack of dawn
2. parents are always up to speed on the latest childcare techniques
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks
#1419 The Madson-Hashley Scandal
3. criminals are really screwed
4. secret police deal with secret crimes
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
1. @@LEADER@@ arrives at international summits with a white cane
3. attempts at growing pineapples in the desert have been unsuccessful
#1421 Have Your Cake and Don't Eat It
1. asking 'does my bum look big in this?' leads to 30 hours of self-esteem classes
2. racehorses move a lot slower these days
3. relatives of recent award winners find their trophies make stylish urns
4. Big Belly is watching you
#1423 A Slice of the Pi
1. pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi
2. blue sky thinkers are reminded that the firmament is actually more of a grey-ish colour
#1424 Here's Looking at Zoo, Kid
2. it turns out you can teach cats new tricks
#1425 @@LEADER@@'s New Clothes
1. @@LEADER@@ is called 'Patches' at international summits
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ believe manners maketh the leader
3. some magnifier-wielding @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ say @@LEADER@@ seems a little lacking in something
4. some magnifier-wielding @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ say @@LEADER@@ seems a little lacking in something
#1426 She's a Keeper
1. fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding"
#1427 May the Fourth Estate Be With You
1. news editors who eschew the state-approved superlatives for describing @@LEADER@@ tend to disappear
3. students spend the school year learning how great the education system is
#1428 In the Bag
1. no one gossips with @@LEADER@@ during diplomatic summits
#1429 The Wind Become Death
1. diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout
4. the stratosphere is full of "silent but deadly" attacks from @@LEADER@@'s rear echelons
#1430 Taking the Peace?
1. wars of expansion are described as "peacekeeping operations"
2. stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded @@NAME@@ to disarm
3. requests to "pass the salt" are supported by tank divisions
#1431 Just Deserts for Desertion?
1. soldiers who shoot themselves in the foot are regarded as heroes
3. criminal convictions are routinely thrown out because the accused's grandmother didn't get to testify about their good character
4. nerdy teenagers have to prove that they're made of the same stuff as their grandparents
#1432 Oh Dear
1. if you go into the woods today you're sure of a big surprise
2. there's an aura of pseudoscience around academia
3. religion makes people horny
4. religion makes people horny
5. government fact-checkers use surprising amounts of high explosive
#1433 Green Thumbs Sore
2. manufacturers of biodegradable plastics have to wait for months to show evidence of organic decomposition
3. monochrome green ECO-@@NAMEINITIALS@@ products adorn the supermarket shelves
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
1. superfoods are often seen as supervillains
2. Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts
#1435 A Hot Potato
1. major cities run on potato batteries
2. the Super-Spud Cinematic Universe is breaking box office records
3. farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year
#1437 Crushed Dreams
1. baby dolls thrown in the trash are a leading cause of panic attacks
2. a favorite "life hack" for gap year backpackers is to pretend to be homeless for government handouts
#1438 Push Polling
2. the nation's democracy attracts huddled masses yearning to breathe free
#1439 Philately Will Get You Nowhere
1. the digital money revolution has cashed out
3. nobody expected the fruit inquisition
#1440 Dungeons and Deaths
1. there's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality
2. murderers facing life in prison listen to long sermons on positive thinking
3. cops shout apologies with every swing of their baton
#1441 Don't Burn Baby Don't Burn
1. kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll
2. teen parties are often ruined by wet blanket chaperones
3. toast never burns but always has a weird chemical taste
#1442 A Green Bill of Health
1. travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing
2. vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR
3. vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR
4. orange trees find it's not easy being green
#1443 Forage and Forget
1. pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security
2. foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas
3. money grows on trees
4. citizens praise the weeds that overwhelm their narrow vegetable realm
#1444 Trouble in Deed
1. returning vacationers often find that their property is now a construction site
2. attempts to inform people about their unclaimed property are often mistaken for telephone scams
#1445 The Dialectics of Dialects
1. the official @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child
2. faking deafness is the only way to guarantee a holiday in the nation
3. every citizen sounds like a television news anchor
#1446 Yet Another Issue About Periods
1. teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath
2. children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again
3. lion-reed-vulture-hand-reed-mouth is how @@NAME@@ is spelt now
#1447 The Lowest Form of Wit
1. you can tell when @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are being snarky by the fact their lips are moving
#1448 A Seat Quite Vacant Is a Seat Distressed
3. candidates make campaign speeches at the funerals of former rivals
#1449 Annie Get Your Gun
2. the "do ya feel lucky, punk?" scene is on the core syllabus at the National Police Academy
4. it's no longer mandatory for armless amputees to own ironic side-arms
#1450 Driving @@LEADER@@
1. @@LEADER@@'s Dreadnought-class tankbuster limousine is said to have more ammunition than the entire Brancalandian Army
2. @@LEADER@@ can be seen doing doughnuts in a new Rambogini
3. @@LEADER@@ can't hear a thing when the unwashed masses throw rocks at the new state limousine
5. @@LEADER@@ always arrives fashionably late and smelling of mushrooms
#1451 A Dread Letter
1. @@LEADER@@ claims tax rises are the result of 'curses'
2. promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service
3. neighbourhood gossips whip up controversy about those receiving adult merchandise
4. @@LEADER@@'s opponents have adopted dogs to chase away the mailman
#1452 Hello Darkness My Old Friend
3. noises of neighbourhood generators have pierced the sound of silence
#1453 A Salt and Battery
1. the environment is gorgeous so long as you're looking up
2. foreign policy is based upon the principle of sieve and take
3. thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks
#1454 Poplar Opinion
1. access to the woods is only granted to those who bring a small shrubbery
2. environmentalists are advocating slash-and-burn in the nation's forests
3. biological warfare is used to solve small disagreements
4. dandruff and athlete's foot are seen as signs of physical beauty
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
3. at least 4 unique companies in @@NAME@@ claim to sell Eckie-Cola
4. nearsighted shoppers looking for probiotics end up purchasing a lot of prophylactics
#1456 Weather Report: It's Not Graining In East Lebatuck
1. exports are stamped with "made by the invisible hand you commies"
3. foreign aid is a seedy business
#1457 Use the Farce, @@LEADER@@
1. citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions
3. the only film released this month was "Prayervengers: Heresy War"
5. science fiction is seen as the leading cause of mental breakdowns
6. for some reason the census focuses on daily banana ingestion and hourly quip rate
#1458 Children of @@FAITH@@
1. atheistic refugees haven't got a prayer of being granted asylum
2. priests roam the streets with child-catcher nets
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
2. tax avoidance is a serious affair
#1460 A Burning Question
1. beggars lack pockets for spare change
2. the end of autumn is celebrated with a bonfire of designer bags
3. government ministers have eclectic tastes in curtains
#1461 No Shirt, No Shoes, No ID, No Service
2. some voters are required to show a minimum of four forms of identification
3. requests for password resets peak during election season
#1462 Glory Kill
2. quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces
#1463 Sandbagging
1. half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach
2. the treehouse in @@ANIMAL@@ Park is the tallest building in @@NAME@@
3. birdsong in the mountains has to be loud enough to drown out nearby jackhammers
4. residents of houses built on a foundation of wishful thinking are prone to an odd sinking feeling
#1465 Parking Pandemonium
1. everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen
2. men are finding 'she spots' more easily but they can't use them
3. parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs
4. people queue for valets instead of parking spaces
#1466 Don't Shoot Your Eye Out
1. shooting someone has never been safer
3. gun owners are skilled at everything except shooting
#1467 Gay Men Held by Police
1. when their backs are against the walls @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ look out for gay men
2. when their backs are against the walls @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ look out for gay men
4. the government offers gay men mildly offensive tips on how to pass as straight
5. war is made in the name of love
#1468 Meat With Approval
3. abattoirs are struggling with the directive to 'wait until the animal dies of a ripe old age'
#1469 News Flash!
1. TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews
2. viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows
#1470 The Devil's Spawn
2. declaring that "some kids are just born evil" is not endearing @@LEADER@@ to progressive thinkers
4. ignorance is considered a politically desirable quality
#1471 @@LEADER@@ and the Lost Chamber of Vetoes
1. old fossils give the tours at the parliamentary museum
4. staffers take uppers in the old upper house chamber
5. the legislature has come out as bicameral
#1472 Home Is Where the Lung Is
1. air purifiers fight smoke machines on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ stage setups
2. children have nightmares about the eerie red glow and constant whirring of newly-installed machines
3. home renovation projects take decades to complete
4. community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home
#1473 A Pretty Pass
3. the line of people waiting for a visa interview in front of foreign embassies is typically a mile long
#1474 Cuy Bono?
1. eating kids as food has been enshrined in law
3. delicate flowers faint at news of house plants being eaten
#1476 Known Unknowns
1. @@LEADER@@ likes it when another nation spies on their citizens
#1477 Some People Never Listen
1. increasing inclusiveness is a sign of the times
#1478 Two Sides of a Coin
1. asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response
2. asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response
3. the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers
#1479 Fares Fair?
1. the transit system is throwing poor people under the bus
2. turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats
3. maximum security @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ subway stations inspire prison systems around the world
#1480 Motherlode
1. teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art
3. grandiose stage parents insist superyachts and private cinemas are children's basic needs
#1481 Livin' on a Prayer
2. all you have to do is pray to get into @@NAME@@
#1482 A Crypto for the Comrades?
1. convicted crypto-miners are sent to the salt mines
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
1. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
2. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
3. those who cut young children are told to cut it out
4. the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong
#1484 Joint Trade Agreement
2. greenhouses are regularly raided by the police
3. the nation is going green
#1485 How to Train Your AI
2. AI citizens are criticized for being robotic
4. before @@LEADER@@ all AI are equally undeserving of rights
#1486 Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs Are Right for @@NAME@@
2. doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen
3. doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen
4. the RXN information hour is a guaranteed cure for insomnia
#1488 First, Do No Harm
1. a nickname of "Doctor Death" probably indicates a decorated war hero
3. the cruise missile launchers on the field hospital roof are purely deterrent in purpose
#1489 No Tern Left Unstoned
2. woke teenagers spontaneously burst into tears when thinking about the world's woes
4. soldiers are taught to throw their guns at their enemies once the bullets have run out
#1490 @@LEADER@@ Wins Massive Victory!
2. a mayoral candidate backed by @@LEADER@@ recently won re-election with 110% of the vote
3. the government's new "quiet competence" initiative has supporters and detractors alike reeling in confusion
#1491 Press Gang
1. giggling elementary school newspaper reporters want to know why @@LEADER@@ is a silly poophead
#1492 Smoke on the Water
1. middle-aged metal fans quite enjoy being called "rebellious youths" by even older politicians
2. there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety
3. visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage
4. the @@ANIMAL@@ has a hungry look
#1493 Bully Beef
1. exported livestock are wined and dined before they are flat ironed
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
1. kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history
#1496 A Place For Everything
1. political clichés like "band-aid solutions" and "adrenaline shots to the economy" are headed for the dumpster
3. politicians put their fingers in their ears and sing "la la la la" when walking past lobbyists
#1497 Double Trouble
3. expectant parents view twins with equal parts joy and suspicion
#1498 Flight 201: An Airspace Oddity
1. foreign leaders are advising that @@LEADER@@'s letters must have gotten lost in the mail
2. when flight control tells pilots to alter course the usual reply is "No, YOU move!"
4. tumbleweeds are seen blowing through the nation's airspace
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
4. the economy has returned to the good old days when humans were overworked and microwave ovens didn't give you no sass
#1500 Rodents of Unusual Sociability
1. goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter
2. dogs are encouraged to confront the psychodynamic roots of their desire to be "good boys"
#1501 Diamond in the Rough
1. factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections
2. endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass
3. endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass
4. spotted owl meat is used as bait to lure wolves into traps
#1502 Dirty Deals
1. coastlines are giant slag heaps
2. people don't want any foreign rubbish
3. work stinks
4. work stinks
#1503 The Scent of Sexism
1. pregnancy tests are under fire from the government for being marketed only to women
#1505 A Tangled Web
1. guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites
2. cat memes without alt text are now illegal
4. the bureaucracy's scale makes the trees wail
#1506 A Need for Order
2. @@LEADER@@ is strangely popular with male politicians' wives
#1507 Busting to Go
1. a major piece of minority legislation allows a majority of minority interests to majorly undermine majority politics
#1508 Kicking Out the Competition
1. dreams of entering the Super League have been relegated to the history books
#1509 Parks and Aggravation
1. national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings
2. certain national parks offer tanning beds because the visitors never go outside
3. certain national parks offer tanning beds because the visitors never go outside
5. the latest national park is visited by more sharks than people
7. the tallest mountains are adorned with roller coasters
#1510 Devolution Devolves Into Disaster?
3. city mayors have to get permission from parliament to take a vacation day
#1511 Three Little Words
2. the nation's beloved 'good-natured doormat' is inundated by begging letters
5. @@LEADER@@ has been nicknamed 'Robomop'
6. civic leaders eagerly encourage sinners to spend more time on their knees
7. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ teach life's not worth a damn 'til you can shout out 'I am what I am'
8. short is not always sweet
#1512 The Door's Unlocked, Let Yourself In...
1. snitches get riches
2. designer truncheons are the latest law enforcement fashion craze
3. Lady Justice has swapped her blindfold for steel-capped boots
#1513 Bunged Up
1. a little pushing and pulling is needed for big ships to pass
2. the Treasury has been accused of flushing money down the toilet
3. shipping canals are a bit like unimaginative cheese shops -- filled with debris
#1514 Flushing for Freedom
3. it turns out that your missing Roomba has run off to join the circus
#1516 Content Discontent
1. internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be
2. children searching for cat videos must watch dogs in equal proportion
#1518 Test Environment
1. handling people's data is proving an immersive experience
4. the transition from trojan horses to regular old horses is on track
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
1. the government has declared that sharing is uncaring
3. foreign ambassadors are accused of stealing @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ jobs
4. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ doors require a Ph.D. to open
#1520 @@LEADER@@'s Big Unicameral Bash
1. if the best leaders are those who don't want to lead then @@LEADER@@'s lack of leadership must be a great leadership quality
2. you can please all of the people some of the time if you don't mind getting nothing done most of the time
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
1. chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels
3. wealthy @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ never seem to hear the doorbell
#1522 Scry Babies
2. when people want to start a family the government helps them planet carefully
3. no one cares when it's your birthday
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
3. doctors are encouraged to 'pull the plug' any time the government has a budget crisis
#1524 Built to Rule
3. robotic vacuums cower in fear before their owners
#1525 @@LEADER@@: The Musical!
1. citizens can freely debate whether @@LEADER@@ is a great leader or the greatest leader
3. songs of praise to @@LEADER@@ are filled with coded messages from the resistance
#1526 Corporate Pride
1. the @@CAPITAL@@ Pride Parade's head banner explains how unionizing is heteronormative
2. the atmosphere in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ boardrooms is turning more gay
3. banks now use correct pronouns when evicting people from their houses
#1527 God Save the Queens
4. the newest member of the royal family does not speak a word of the nation's language
#1528 Our Feta Which Art in Havarti...
1. cheese lovers have a case of the bleus
5. school guidance counselors recommend monastic vows as an alternative to higher education
#1530 Absolutely Speechless
2. "@@LEADER@@ got your tongue?" has become a popular idiom
#1531 Fine Time
1. code enforcement officers circle wealthy @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ like vultures
3. serial killers share cells with serial jaywalkers
4. serial killers share cells with serial jaywalkers
#1532 When Life Doesn't Give You Lemons
1. the government is encouraging people to go on citric acid trips
#1533 Give a Girl Some Credit
2. ladies are meant to gush with enthusiasm if they get a new vacuum cleaner for their birthday
#1535 Mr. Tingle Goes to Cyberspace
3. the banhammer is a standard police sidearm
#1536 The Birdman of Pelicanz
1. the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong
2. chain-gangs are often seen toting barges and lifting bales
3. the caged-bird trade is singing
4. umbrellas are back in fashion
#1537 Bench Wars
1. war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping
3. the running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless
#1540 Clean Flavours
1. washing-up liquid looks and smells like baby poo
3. orange juice has been renamed yellow juice
#1541 Confusion of the Highest Order
1. it is still not known if the commander in chief outranks the supreme commander
#1542 Dangerous Liaisons
1. commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations
2. commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations
3. lovesick people are told 'it's not them, it's you'
#1544 Happy Juice
1. safety warnings are prohibited lest they give people ideas
#1545 Deep Down Up to No Good
1. odysseying merchant sailors swear that they've heard sirens in the western seas
2. what goes down must come up
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
2. wrongdoers cite 'mummy issues' as the reason for their delinquency
3. teenagers can't go to the loo without an army of social workers watching their every movement
4. the nation's wilderness is only teenage wasteland
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
3. the word "alcohol" is a trauma trigger for children as young as five
#1549 Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin'
1. the first half of cabinet meetings include @@LEADER@@ complaining about the reasonable nation theory (@@EGG@@)
2. the Laws of War require "enthusiastic consent" (@@EGG@@)
3. @@LEADER@@ is plotting to coup the Pacific (@@EGG@@)
5. the only issue that @@LEADER@@ has is that there aren't enough issues (@@EGG@@)
6. @@LEADER@@ is emphatic that @@NAME@@'s HDI is much higher than it seems (@@EGG@@)
9. @@LEADER@@ hands out warnings to mods who don't deliver enough danishes (@@EGG@@)
#1550 A Friend With Weed Is a Friend Indeed?
2. charity distribution sites are regularly raided by the police
3. gang members supplement their income by teaching at elementary schools
#1551 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
1. the government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix
2. the government believes there is no problem that raising taxes won't fix
#1552 An Issue About Nothing
3. the government has heavily invested in badly drawn monkeys
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
1. the government expresses surprisingly intense opinions on the use of whip pans
2. private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button
#1554 Trajectory x Velocity = GOOOOOOOOOAAAALL!
1. citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles
2. citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles
5. government expenses are beyond compare
#1555 Deaf Trap
1. the government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices
3. anti-vacs campaigners claim the government is inserting weird devices into their bodies
#1556 Gimme Shelter
1. what's in your genes matters more than what's in your jeans
2. arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated
#1558 Unequal Treatment?
1. doctors refer to inner-cities as newbie zones
3. a broken arm or leg no longer costs an arm and a leg
#1559 Skin's the Wrong Colour
1. students are explicitly allowed to write answers on their forearms before exams
#1560 Dead Gay
1. edgy teens know that illegal discos are where the cool cats hang
2. all music has been banned
#1561 Murderers Making Money?
1. nobody likes bad boys any more
#1562 Shapes of Your Own Choosing
2. the existence of external reality is tacitly denied
#1563 Apostropocalypse Now
2. bad punctuation has come to a full stop
3. it's a comma comma comma comma comma rebellion
#1564 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1. there are no longer any roads less traveled
3. all roads lead to @@CAPITAL@@
5. children on trains ask what the weird-looking billboards with arrows are for
#1565 The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Gluttony
1. @@CAPITAL@@'s back alleys are rife with sausage eating
3. school cafeterias serve nothing but protein powder and vitamin supplements
4. one-upping each other in conversation is strictly prohibited
#1566 Consensus Controversy
2. a state-funded project is investigating whether the moon is made of cheese
4. evidence-based arguments can be arrestable offenses
#1567 Of Health and Wealth
3. surgical tape has taken on a distinctly red color
#1568 Palate Torture
1. farmers sing lullabies to soothe their livestock to sleep
3. the purgative quality of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cuisine is known across the globe
4. the finest dining experience in @@NAME@@ is chakra-infused grass
#1569 The Not-So-Long Arm of the Law
1. the government invades its allies more than its enemies
3. cops in @@CAPITAL@@ spend much of their time napping on a park bench next to Embassy Row
4. loudmouthed journalists are given the chop
#1570 Holistic Healers Hassle Holy Hospitallers
1. patients often wonder which is more annoying: their excruciating pain or their doctor incessantly praying over it
#1571 Let's Fix Our Matches
1. meetings involving club finances are frequently broken up by men in black suits
#1572 Eco Warriors
1. the latest electric jet fighter has almost enough battery charge to reach cruising altitude -- provided you don't use the radar
2. flamethrower-toting soldiers are also equipped with fire blankets and extinguishers
#1573 Unseen Academia
1. scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays
3. new research always seems to support government initiatives
#1574 Fowl Play
2. small children are frequently chased by rehabilitated pitbulls
#1575 Unequal Devolution
1. @@LEADER@@ steals from the rich and gives to the needy
3. sworn provincial enemies must be held back in @@LEADER@@'s cabinet meetings
#1576 Liquidity Problems
1. airport users are more worried about radiation than terrorism
#1577 All About the Hustle
4. the staffroom being an "icky" colour is a perfectly acceptable reason to not accept a job
#1578 The Magical Adventures of @LEADER@@
1. a mushroom a day keeps the sadness away
#1579 A High-Interest Coupnundrum
1. trade policy consists of ganging up on the new guy
2. being sent to collections is more dangerous than ever
3. the default state for @@NAME@@ is default
#1582 Hospital Problems Ramping Up
1. school nurse's offices feature full-service operating suites
#1584 Loose Lips, Characters Shipped?
1. children's TV shows are having a gay old time
2. animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands
#1585 The Taste of Revenge
1. sharing vacation pictures requires written consent from the entire beach resort
#1586 Don't Point That Thing at Me!
1. pitchforks and torches are coming back into fashion
#1588 More Popular Than @@FAITH@@
3. young people pass around flash drives filled with illegal music
#1589 Losing Touch
3. mums always ask their three-year-olds for permission before hugging them
#1590 Tinder Profiled
1. candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED
2. people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating
3. actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs
4. asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before
#1592 Echoes of Deception
1. virtual assistants are seen with increasing suspicion every time they get an upgrade
#1593 Flap Over Flag Fashion
1. punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements
3. this year's hottest fashion trend is the Lese Majeste collection
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
1. the face of @@LEADER@@ is a permanent feature of the @@CAPITAL@@ skyline
2. government bureaucrats review designs for birdhouses to ensure they do not block the views of neighbors
#1595 Plausible Deniability
3. scientists have great chemistry with their subjects
#1596 The Blame Game
1. juvenile delinquents are fitter than ever
2. newborn babies can only be discharged from maternity wards during daylight hours
#1597 Haters Are Such a Drag
4. stony-faced ratings board panelists are unamused by free lap dances
#1600 Mother's Ruin
1. office thieves tell their employers kleptomania is a pregnancy symptom
3. mothers refer to leaving the house as "the Great Escape"
#1601 At Death's Door
2. anyone who sleeps in past 9am can be declared legally dead
#1602 @@NAME@@'s Bark Worse Than Its Byte?
1. enterprising game developers are a hop, skip, and a double-jump away from arrest
2. foreigners often find themselves on the wrong end of @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ RPG
#1603 Searching for That Special Someone
5. a politician who is photographed pulling a funny face while eating can say goodbye to their credibility
#1604 Prison of the Mind
2. time flies when you're not having fun
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
1. faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers
2. online terrorists are automatically assigned adverts for cheap balaclavas
#1606 Book Off
1. Moby Dick can only be sold by pornographers
#1607 My Chemical Romance
2. reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic
#1608 G's Louise
1. weather forecasts are accurate but nobody has the bandwidth to view them
2. popular sunny beaches always have a cloudy outlook
#1609 One Big Watering Hole
1. nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths
2. children are often observed making 'sand angels' in bunkers
3. weekends are spent tilting at windmills
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
1. every diamond ring sold is accompanied by a twenty-five page analysis and a waiver
2. pieces of iron pyrite are believed to be worth their weight in gold
3. the government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market
#1611 Filial Fidelity
3. the possibility of gain causes universal pain
#1612 Immune Deficiencies
2. diplomacy is a foreign concept to @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#1616 Beyond the Focal Point
1. talking during class is a gateway to lifelong drug addiction
3. talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses
#1617 The Defenestration of Progg
2. the government is washing its hands of alleged corruption
#1618 Sextual Healing
2. @@LEADER@@'s reputation is hard as nails
3. @@LEADER@@ is quite hard to get a hold of
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
1. stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues
2. mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'
3. mountain rescue missions can end with more people lost than found
4. molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public
#1620 Ballooning Out of Proportions
1. escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky
2. the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air
#1622 Border Burden
4. the nation has declared its intention to "stretch out"
#1623 The @@MAN/WOMAN@@ in the Iron Lung
2. military equipment is being auctioned off to extend comatose centenarians' lives
#1625 At What Price?
1. welfare recipients are milking the government for all they've got
2. new mothers can pay for their weekly grocery shop with a bottle of breast milk
3. white chocolate is neither chocolate nor food
5. politicians ponder for at least a minute when asked if they would like sugar in their tea
#1626 Wiggle Room
2. the government subsidises medicines of mass destruction
#1627 Snow Days on Thin Ice
1. truancy is as easy as clicking a camera icon
2. youth rights demonstrations often end in vicious snowball fights
#1628 NEET Freaks?
2. modern warfare's call of duty isn't popular with gamers these days
4. the only movement outdoors is of ramen-delivery drones
#1629 The Wrath of Davy Jones
2. naval patrols only last nine months
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
3. video game protagonists bear striking resemblances to major political figures
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other
#1635 A Sine of the Times
1. only those who apply can study applied maths
3. arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve
#1636 In for the Long Haul
1. wandering @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are known for their one-track minds
6. daydreaming on public transport is considered impolite
#1638 The Waiting Is the Hardest Part
1. @@CAPITAL@@ University is said to be the modern-day Tower of Babel
2. retirees make up the bulk of foreign students
#1639 Bad Coal Models
1. the demands of climate protestors are measured in spray-paint can sales
2. the 'no-coal' transition is being paid for in slashed student support funds
#1642 When Push-itzer Comes to Shove
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ dissenters are begging human rights groups to ignore them
2. those awarding peace prizes to @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ find themselves in pieces
#1643 Cicadas in Their Prime
1. they unpaved paradise and tore up a parking lot (ooh, bop bop bop)
2. the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under
#1645 Gone Girls
1. search-and-rescue organisations are the biggest employer in the country
#1647 Whose House? My House!
1. estate agents justify funky smells by revealing how often the previous owners showered
#1649 Grandma's Getting Lucky
1. old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation
#1651 You Can't Handle the Extraterrestrial Truth!
1. enemy governments seem especially interested in @@NAME@@'s election cycle
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
2. repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events
#1653 Dick's Pics
4. politicians post explicit photos of themselves on community notice boards
#1656 Stealing Afoot
1. taxpayer money is hard at work exorcizing laundry
4. hospitals have unveiled new guidelines suggesting that latex gloves do not count as clothing
#1657 March Against the Museum
1. museums offer moralization or your money back
3. schoolchildren on field trips are asked what torture means to them
#1658 A Fatherly Fiasco
3. families make most of their annual income from government benefits
#1659 A Dialectal Dilemma
3. Dàguó lanterns outnumber streetlights in major cities
#1668 Can't-abrigian, Ox-no-nian
5. universities spend millions cultivating ivy on their buildings
#1669 They're All the Same to Me
1. not even adulthood can save you from truant officers
#1674 Reining the Dragon
1. self-sufficiency is built on seizing foreign assets
#1676 All Animals Are Equal, But...
1. top government officials are seen nervously grocery shopping among the general public
#1678 Praying for Silence
3. calls to prayer are the newest dog whistles
#1679 Meals on Foot
1. police shut down children's lemonade stands for being "unsavory street food"
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
3. children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
2. aristocracy is given the bird and called out as a lark
#1684 Naps in Judgement
1. pillows outnumber picket signs at most workers rallies
4. surveys show 100% of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are never, ever tired
#1688 The End of the Rainbow
2. cave paintings are back in vogue
#1689 Government Bureaucracy More Like Aristocracy
1. @@CAPITAL@@ consists only of government buildings and the mansions of government janitors

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#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
1. the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents
#1694 Aiding and Abetting
1. laid-off party bureaucrats accuse the government of selling out

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#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
2. bicyclists are banned from major roads
3. the automotive industry soaks up huge government handouts
#3 Harry Potter Censorship Row
1. Harry Potter books are banned
2. Harry Potter books are banned
3. the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller
4. the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller
#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
2. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
3. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
#5 Child Casino Shock
2. young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables
#6 Appointment of Spiritual Advisor
3. the nation's official head of religious affairs is an atheist
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
1. Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested
3. vegetarianism is compulsory
#8 Nudists Demand Time in Sun
1. citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are considered a delicacy
2. a nation-wide cull of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ is in effect
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ is a protected species
#10 Social Inequality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. the streets are increasingly clogged with poverty-stricken beggars
3. the country is preparing for war
#12 Death Penalty on Agenda
2. extreme political groups are outlawed
#13 Too Much Yakking, Already, Say Delegation
2. @@NAME@@'s children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region
#14 Military Demands Increased Spending
1. military spending is on the increase
2. military funding has been stripped back
#16 @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ Workers Strike!
1. the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes
2. employers may fire workers without giving any reason
#17 Corporations Demand Political Say
1. corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians
3. a dictator has seized power and outlawed elections
#18 Citizens Struggle Under "Unfair" Tax Burden
1. the government is reining in public spending
#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
1. marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home
#20 Gunman Kills Three
4. a valid legal defense is 'dead men tell no tales'
#21 Police Consider "Big Brother" Anti-Crime System
1. surveillance cameras are banned
2. all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
1. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
2. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
3. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
4. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
5. the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
4. citizens are enjoying a recent large cut in taxes
#25 Cloning Research Promises New Breakthrough
2. genetic researchers have been expelled
#26 Compulsory Organ Harvesting Proposed
2. organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region
#27 Cash for Colons?
1. college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys
2. organ donation rates have hit a new low
#28 Cancer Sufferer Demands Euthanasia Bill
1. euthanasia is legal
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
3. the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
1. punitive tariffs protect local industry
2. there are no minimum wage laws
3. all tariffs have been abolished
#31 Get Efficient, Private Sector Tells Nature
1. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
2. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
3. a government program is underway to revitalize @@NAME@@'s beaches
#34 Don't Puff on Me, Say Non-Smokers
3. eight-year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
2. the Navy has outraged the international community by sinking a boatload of refugees to prevent them reaching the shore
3. shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities
#36 International Community Comes Doorknocking
2. the nation refuses to provide international aid
3. the nation refuses to provide international aid
4. the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid
#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
3. anti-government web sites are springing up
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
4. government officials frequently cut taxes as a distraction from antics with their secretaries
#40 Hukd on Fonix Workd 4 Me!
1. funding for education has been redirected into the military
6. scholars are leaving the country at an alarming rate
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
1. small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants
#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
2. elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume
3. angst-filled teenagers are rushing off to buy government bonds for some odd reason
#43 Prisoners Demand Elbow Room
2. all prisons have been eliminated
#44 No Pain, No Gain!
1. torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals
2. torture is illegal
#45 Baseball League Steps Up to the Plate
1. major cities shut down as their local sports team takes to the field every day
2. the nation is experiencing a severe shortage of sporting events
#46 Jennifer Government Censorship Row
2. Jennifer Government is a bestseller
#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
3. the controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular
#49 Diving for @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
1. the government seizes all major gold finds
2. citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens
3. the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations
#50 Whips, Chains, and Leather, Oh My!
1. a niche industry catering to S&M enthusiasts has sprung up
#53 Orbital Armageddon?
1. billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are being blown on orbital weapons development
#54 Time to Put the Older Senators Out to Pasture?
2. elected officials often serve for decades in a single term
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
1. people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight
2. the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
2. much of @@NAME@@'s computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence
3. much of @@NAME@@'s computer network is controlled by a rampant artificial intelligence
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
1. homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities
2. "The Daily Sacrifice" is a routine segment of morning news shows
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
1. the judicial branch is strongly influenced by major corporations
6. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have more rights than the average citizen
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
2. citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits
3. notable individuals are granted land and titles
4. @@NAME@@'s Medieval Faire is renowned as one of the best in the region
#62 Oh, the Angst!
2. psychological disorders are a taboo subject
#63 Tykes With Tools?
3. adult unemployment is rising as available jobs are filled by young children
#64 Put the "Board" Back in Board of Education
4. teachers label difficult children as "somebody else's problem" before expelling them
#66 Transgender Recognition Demanded
2. people talk about things being better when men were men
#68 Ornery Overcrowding Problem
1. the government regularly hires contractors to construct high rise apartments
3. the number of children one can have is restricted by law
#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution
1. prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators
2. vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres
3. protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations
#70 Purge the Infidels!
3. the government is avowedly secular
4. religious people are committed to mental institutions for treatment
#71 Minority Group Demands Language Recognition
1. a National Academy regulates grammar and usage
#72 Widening Buttocks Cause Movie Theater Havoc
4. city sidewalks are crowded with overweight people
5. the state subsidizes liposuction
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#74 @@NAME@@'s Racers Growing Fast and Furious
1. the @@NAME@@ Automotive Racing Series draws millions of spectators annually while those near the tracks complain about the noise
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
4. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
5. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
#76 Suits in Protest
1. Pinkerton agents are called in to forcibly break up white collar strikes
3. protests are prohibited from blocking traffic
#79 @@NAME@@'s @@ANIMALPLURAL@@: Going the Way of the Dodo?
2. woodcutter axes are cited as the most common cause of death amongst @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
#80 Easter Egg: Aliens Wish Peace/Trade Agreement
1. pizzerias often get delivery orders for Saturn and alien first-born are considered a delicacy (@@EGG@@)
2. alien kidnappings of both cattle and humans are headline news on the most respected papers (@@EGG@@)
#81 Close Encounters of the Sci-Fi Kind?
2. birds and children's kites are regularly brought down by anti-aircraft fire
3. X-Files ratings have hit an all-time low
#82 AI Researchers Rally for Android Rights
2. major internet servers have acquired citizenship
#83 High-Speed Monorail Service Promises Connections
1. government spending has hit an all-time low
2. only the wealthy can afford monorail fares
#84 Compulsory Gun Ownership?
1. gun ownership is compulsory
2. citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns
#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares
1. a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country
3. recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies
#86 Save the @@ANIMAL@@
1. in pet stores nationwide @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are growing in popularity
2. many believe that the only good @@ANIMAL@@ is a dead @@ANIMAL@@
#87 Burn! Burn Everything!
1. crowds of flag-burning protesters tend to accidentally become crowds of burning protesters
2. firebombing politicians' offices has become a common way of expressing dissatisfaction
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
1. murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows
2. soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
1. flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys
2. scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway
#90 Organic Outburst
1. all-natural foods are becoming a major fad
2. a survey of the nation's rivers and children has shown that pesticide levels are at an all-time regional high
#91 Sacramental Tax Time?
1. religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else
2. religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else
#92 @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Officials Needled About Mandatory Vaccinations
3. only vaccinated citizens may have free healthcare
#93 Affirmative Action in @@NAME@@?
1. ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools
#94 Computer Users Fed Up With Heaps of Spam!
2. computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails
3. computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails
#95 Painful Prices Paid at the Pump
1. pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil
2. the government is spending millions on renovating the public transportation system
#96 Water Supply Problems Becoming a Major Drain
1. major cities are suffering under water rationing
2. major cities are suffering under water rationing
5. crooks and people with too many kids are being kicked out of the country
#97 Landfills Filling Up
2. cities are engulfed by smog
3. many of the country's largest dumps can be seen from space
#99 We Need Cash, Sharpish, Say Librarians
2. books are considered luxuries only available to the incredibly wealthy
4. libraries are bulldozed to make way for internet cafés
#100 Road Rage Rampage
1. traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways
3. it's a common sight to see angry commuters with grenade launchers mounted on their vehicles
#101 Tiara Sign of Oppression, Declare Feminists
4. Max Barry is this year's Miss @@NAME@@
5. vanity is considered the fifth cardinal virtue
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
1. motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours
2. new urban roads are threatening city parks
3. cars have been banned
#103 Plague of the Hybrids!
1. wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct
2. bizarre-looking creatures called '@@ANIMAL@@dogs' dominate wildlife preserves
3. @@ANIMAL@@ populations thrive as dogs are slaughtered in the millions
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
2. citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory miniature radios
#105 Compensation Culture Must End, Say Corporations
1. corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products
2. every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government
3. manufacturers are sued for almost anything not covered in their catalogue-sized manuals
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
1. sales of fishnet stockings have reached a record high
#107 Private Lab Holds @@NAME@@'s Sick to Ransom
1. only the rich can afford the latest medical innovations
3. the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives
#108 Gambling Interests Offer High Stakes
1. rumor has it that the government was paid off by the mob to allow casinos to reopen
3. gambling addicts regularly lose their families' nest eggs at Native @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ casinos
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
4. the state believes that nature-oriented summer camps will somehow solve youth crime
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
2. politicians are losing their jobs in a plan to make the government 'leaner and fitter'
3. protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others
#112 Put the Phone Down on Cold Calling?
2. door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes'
#113 Test Results Deemed 'Ungood' After Global Survey
2. children have only the most basic of education
3. the education system is famed for its taxing exams
#114 Wipe Out Graffiti?
3. graffiti graces every city's streets
#115 @@NAME@@'s Schoolchildren Not Learning the Lingua Franca
1. citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages
2. foreigners are treated with great suspicion
#116 Soda Sales Hits New 'High'
1. 'Mountain Doobie' is widely regarded as the nation's favourite drink
3. reports of attacks by bright purple sixty-foot high spiders have recently shot up
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
1. appendix transplant figures have recently doubled
2. medical lawsuits are out of control
#118 Need for Speed?
1. the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril
2. the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work
#119 Watershed Down?
1. programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours
#120 Two Parties for Too Long?
3. citizens are known to cast their votes by flipping @@A@@ @@CURRENCY@@
4. an enfeebled opposition party spends most of its time simply trying to stay on the ballot
#121 A Uniform Plan for @@NAME@@'s Students?
2. students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas
#122 Pensioners in Protest
2. senior citizens can usually be found doing heavy manual labour
#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
1. human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants
2. replacement organs are grown in vats
3. traditional vegetarians are fuming over the introduction of vat-grown meat to the menu
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
1. the studies of art and philosophy are banned
2. artists are pillars of society
3. only the brainiest citizens become academics
#125 Bring Back the Ballot?
2. suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence
#126 Outsourcing an Outrage, Say Demonstrators
2. unemployment rates have skyrocketed as businesses abandon the country in search of cheap labour
3. corporations are either above the law or corrupting it
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
1. retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits
3. politicians cheer the nation's surging death rate
4. senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories
5. immigrant Bigtopians work themselves to the bone to support gold-plated @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ pensions
#128 Ban the Burka?
2. there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'
#129 Tribal Troubles
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
4. native tribes have been driven to extinction by hunting
5. a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world
#130 Filibuster Bust-Up
1. the government is a clear-cut case of tyranny by majority
4. democratic debates have been removed from the government
#131 Raise Duel Standards, Say Fencers
1. murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour
#133 When @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Attack!
4. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are frequently shot for looking at people 'in a funny way'
#134 The Truth Is Out There?
1. the military has grudgingly released all top secret information in an effort for greater transparency
#136 Much Ado About Abortion
5. families are only permitted to have one child
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
1. the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place
2. the arms industry has been shut down in a surge of pacifism
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
1. private businesses are paving paradises to put up parking lots
2. the government is paving paradises to put up parking lots
3. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
4. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
5. there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt
#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
1. shops were recently ransacked as cigarettes returned to the shelves
#140 A Grave Problem
1. tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants
2. cremation is compulsory for the deceased
4. the dead are minced up and sold to people in burger form
#141 Police Too Pushy?
1. a weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order
#142 Roads Like Roller Coasters, Complain Motorists
2. the roads are virtually falling apart
3. all streets are privately owned toll roads
4. local government operates tolls on every village road
#143 An Archaeological Altercation
1. prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams
2. major archaeological findings are frequently bulldozed to make way for new buildings
#145 Hackles Raised Over Fur Clothes Debate
2. fur coats have become the latest fashion trend
#146 Evolution: Truth or Witchcraft?
1. it is mandatory to learn evolution in schools
3. biology and religious education classes have recently been merged
#147 Military Budgets Up for Approval
3. the nation's gigantic air force is both respected and feared
6. the military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds
#148 Spare the Rod, Demand Welfare Activists
2. record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported
#149 With Liberty, Freedom, and Guns for All?
1. @@NAME@@ is renowned for its lax gun laws
2. citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons
#150 Bug 'Em All, Say Police
2. it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws
#151 Build Bigger Bombs, Advise Scientists
1. citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over @@NAME@@
2. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
3. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
4. all weapon research has been banned
#152 A Capital Idea
1. the government has returned all business to private ownership
3. the government has legalised small-scale capitalism
#153 Protesters Have Gone Too Far, Claim Police
2. recent protests against birds flying too low have resulted in bloodshed
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
1. skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#155 Curfew Meets Minor Opposition
2. teenagers across the country are celebrating the defeat of a national curfew bill
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped
2. the nation's drinking water tends to glow green at night
3. heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste
#157 Sergeants Are Too Nasty, Say New Recruits
2. the nation's infamous boot camp is more brutal than most battlefields
3. soldiers are slaughtered in their thousands due to lack of training
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
1. hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in @@NAME@@'s many privately-owned prisons
2. convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes
3. criminals are executed and their property seized
#160 Truancy on the Rise
3. students in @@NAME@@'s schools rarely attend their classes
#161 Where There's a Will There's a Tax
1. the government seizes the property of the recently deceased
3. the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance
#162 Animal Experimentation Laws Under Scrutiny
2. several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation
#163 Referenda: Are They Right for @@NAME@@?
2. referenda are banned by law and the Parliament has absolute control of the legislative process
#164 Licence to Breed?
2. almost half of the child population live rough on the streets
#165 Wedlock Worries
3. all marriages are arranged by the government
#166 Vote for 'None of the Above'?
2. voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot
#169 @@ANIMAL@@ Hunting Laws Under Dispute
2. the nation is famous for having one of the world's largest @@ANIMAL@@ hunting institutions
3. main battle tanks stalk the woods of @@NAME@@ in search of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
4. hunters have been known to lose limbs while attempting to 'play tag' with their prey
#170 Deserts Devouring @@NAME@@'s Countryside
1. mysterious black helicopters menace farmers to ensure compliance with straitjacketing agricultural policies
2. owning a tractor is widely regarded as an essential prerequisite to most government positions
3. @@NAME@@ has become a gigantic dustbowl filled with tourists and mean desperados
#171 Kids and Criminality: Whose Responsibility?
2. the nation's youth is held blameless for all crimes
#172 Church Attendances Reaching New Low, Warn Priests
3. the people of @@NAME@@ are renowned for their nihilistic attitudes
#173 Women Demand Equal Opportunities
2. women earn less than half the salary of men if they can even find a job
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
1. the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned
#175 Is @@NAME@@ Too Promiscuous?
4. @@NAME@@ is notorious for its citizens' infidelity
#178 Free Press Too Free?
1. reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors
2. truth is often impossible to tell from fiction on the evening news
3. all news sources are under strict government control
#179 Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease Outbreak!
5. people all over @@NAME@@ are dying of 'Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease'
#180 Mobile Maladies
2. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
3. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
1. 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of @@NAME@@'s radio stations
3. @@NAME@@'s airwaves are dominated by corporate-backed commercial radio
#182 Younger Voters a Cure for Apathy?
3. the nation's leader appoints ministers directly
#183 Buy a Better Baby?
1. wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby
2. wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby
#184 Compulsory Military Service Under Attack
1. the military struggles with recruitment
#185 "Bring Back Our Booze!" Cry Revellers
1. @@NAME@@'s fine wines are renowned throughout the region
#186 Carjacking Concerns
2. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
3. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#187 Underclass Drowning in Debt
3. university graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
2. the children of @@NAME@@ are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence
#189 Dangerously Cheesy
1. cheese has become the new icon of political dissent
#190 Immigrants Import Homeland Rivalries
1. immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites
2. Maxtopian slaves are routinely sold as an optional extra for household appliances
4. the government's new 'Crime Can Fight Itself' policy appears to be backfiring rather badly
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
2. blood donations have been banned because of the risk of eternal unrest
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
2. businesses often fire workers in favour of cheaper automatic systems
3. manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job
#194 A Request for Military Aid
2. @@NAME@@ has been greatly criticised for its isolationist policies
3. the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
1. public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers
2. large areas of @@NAME@@ are not accessible by the public
3. all footpaths have tollbooths
#196 Violent Violetists Protest Artists
5. people of faith are sent to twelve-step programs for 'The Cure'
#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
2. nursing mothers are often arrested for indecent exposure
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
1. travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs
2. traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways
#199 More Jails Needed
2. the police have been reduced to using duct tape instead of handcuffs following further cutbacks
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
3. boys are forced to pair off for the school disco slow dance as the girls are all staying at home
4. boys are forced to pair off for the school disco slow dance as the girls are all staying at home
5. the most common answers to where babies come from are "uh... ask your mother" and "um... ask your father"
#201 Jolly Roger Sighted Off the Port Bow!
1. @@NAME@@'s navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas
3. the nation has become a pariah for giving pirates letters of marque
4. piracy is the nation's most popular pastime
#202 Guns or Butter?
1. politicians are often seen with soldiers pointing guns at their heads
2. people can often be seen driving to work in war-surplus tanks
4. corporate 'hostile takeovers' now involve ICBMs and main battle tanks
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
2. @@NAME@@'s market has been colonised by the corporations of rich countries
3. the well-off are enjoying tax cuts while famine kills off the poor and destitute
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
1. abattoirs are running at full capacity in response to skyrocketing demand
2. illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory
3. the consumption of vegetables is illegal
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
2. nuclear reactors are held together with party string and Hubba Bubba
3. neighbouring countries pay to situate their nuclear power plants in @@NAME@@
#207 Secret Police in @@NAME@@?
3. the police force is rumoured to be made up of evil shadows with no souls
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
2. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
3. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
#209 Students Demand Financial Aid
1. the number of students attending university has reached a record high
2. universities are populated by the spawn of the upper classes
3. it's normal to start working life with crippling financial debt
4. closed universities are currently being converted into McRonald's restaurants
#210 Going Postal
1. urban high-volume mailers now receive their mail via chauffeur-driven limousines
3. the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service
#211 Unconventional Weapons Under Fire
1. Red Cross demand for body bags is rising while sutures go unused
2. the commercialisation of highly deadly weapons has instilled @@NAME@@ with a very polite populace
3. the armed forces pride themselves on being conventional and predictable
#212 Police Wanting Help With Their Inquiries
2. crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
2. the carcasses of double-deckers can be found littering high streets all around the country
3. the public transport system has been eliminated
4. the public transport system has been eliminated
5. @@NAME@@'s heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
2. the government has the power to seize property at will
#217 Healthcare Services Underfunded, Claim Patients
1. hospitals are run down while the rich pay for private treatment
3. calisthenics is a well-known tax-dodging technique
4. the latest drugs are only legally available to private patients
5. the NHS has recently been discontinued
#218 Two Mommies One Too Many?
3. homosexuality is a crime punishable by death
#219 Nobody Expects the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Inquisition!
2. radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion
#220 Voter Apathy Rising but No One Cares
1. citizens may cast their vote over the internet or phone
3. citizens who refuse to vote are guillotined
5. insomnia is slowly turning everyone insane
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
1. the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code
2. corporate executives continue to enjoy generous tax benefits while the public is taxed to the hilt
3. prices for nearly everything reach all-time highs as business tax breaks are discontinued
4. annual tax returns take at least two years to complete
#222 Terrorists Strike City Centre
1. the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists
5. the government regularly crumbles under the pressure of terrorists
6. the streets are ravaged by murder and violence to prove political points
#223 Easter Egg: Zombie Attack!
2. volunteers are signing up to take arms against an incursion of flesh-eating zombies (@@EGG@@)
4. the flesh-eating lost souls that wander at night serve as a major tourist attraction (@@EGG@@)
6. the undead roam the streets and countryside at night (@@EGG@@)
#224 Minimum Wage War
3. boot polish is the favourite lip gloss of entry-level corporate workers
4. the workforce is almost entirely made up of slave labour
#225 Prayer in Public Schools?
4. religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
3. citizens who leave the country are officially classed as traitors
4. the world outside is only known of in folklore
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
4. a chain of pubs that cater solely to children has recently been unveiled
#228 Mice in the Walls
1. nerds everywhere are rejoicing as they are reunited with their computers
2. only government officials may operate computers
3. computers are allowed but only just
4. it is firmly believed that cameras steal souls
#230 Extremists on the Ballot Sheet
2. most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists
#233 I Spy a Diplomatic Crisis
6. the military has had its funding stripped back as the nation seeks a smaller role in international politics
#234 Corruption in the Lobby
2. Tesco was recently named as the new national treasurer
#235 From Green Pastures to Grey Wastelands
1. high food prices have reduced the national diet to staple foods and water
2. the Great @@NAME@@ Desert is reputedly the most uninhabitable place in the region
3. supermarkets and large corporate farms are a thing of the past
#236 Quickie Marriages Under Scrutiny
2. 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song
#237 Tourists on Death Row
2. the government has little issue with allowing its citizens to languish in foreign jails
3. drug-related crimes carry the death penalty
4. @@NAME@@'s soft-touch approach to diplomacy has made it known as the 'push-over' of the region
5. the government is well known for declaring war on other countries for suspected slights
#238 We Need a Few Good Men Who Like Men?
3. half-naked men feature prominently in official military materials
5. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
6. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
1. it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations
3. criminals are thrown to the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to repay their debt to society
#240 Plea Bargains: Tipping the Scales of Justice?
2. innocent defendants often plead guilty for fear of receiving a much harsher sentence before jury
3. the right to a fair trial was recently abolished for reasons of convenience
#241 A Capital City for @@NAME@@?
2. @@NAME@@ recently decided against having a capital city
3. all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of @@CAPITAL@@
4. Mr Happy's Funland has just been named @@NAME@@'s new capital
5. the government has adopted a more thrifty attitude to administrating the country's needs
#242 Follow the Leader
2. @@LEADER@@ has been self-declared as the Most Supreme Magnificent Overlord of Everything You Ever Saw
#243 A Question of Faith
2. the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one
3. the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly
5. @@LEADER@@ is the self-declared God of all @@NAME@@
#245 Clash of Cultures
1. immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day
#246 @@NAME@@ to Hold the Olympic Torch?
1. @@NAME@@ successfully hosted the @@REGION@@ Olympics
2. organised sports are frowned upon as frivolous
3. the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age
4. chess hooliganism is on the rise after the banning of organised sports
#247 Where There's Smoke
1. reports of arson have doubled since the introduction of a privatised fire protection service
4. the government's only official statement on the burning down of @@CAPITAL@@ was that 'they shouldn't have been so careless'
#248 The Sky Is Falling
2. airport security is provided by private companies
3. bombs are permitted on planes for the 'security of the passengers'
4. the wreckages of bombed planes that litter @@NAME@@ are highly popular tourist destinations
#249 Particle Accelerator Sparks High Energy Debate
3. theoretical science is only theoretical
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
1. the country spends an increasingly large amount of its budget on grand scale projects of pharaonic proportions in a bid to boost the economy
2. the government spends its days financing the delocalisation of its own economy
5. the country is effectively ruled by large corporations and business consultants
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
3. homeless people are frequently charged with trespassing on public property
4. citizens who become homeless are immediately executed
#252 Great Balls of Fire!
1. nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids
3. tourists are flocking to the newly-built MeteorLand family resort
#253 How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
1. the government has ordered a moratorium on referenda
2. all judiciary cases are decided in the court of public opinion
#254 Freedom Comes at a Price
3. the booming slave trade is now government-funded
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
2. the welfare administration's new sweeping authority has forced the poor and needy to shop from pre-approved grocery lists
3. penurious citizens die from easily remedied ailments because they aren't 'taking enough initiative'
#257 @@LEADER@@ Assassinated... Almost
1. citizens simply have to point a weapon at a government official to get what they want
#259 A Taste of Revenge
2. the nation's new foreign policy of 'very disproportionate retribution' has its neighbors on edge
3. the government tries to improve relations with hostile countries by sending gift baskets
#260 Taxpayers on Strike!
1. the government has cut taxes in the face of widespread tax evasion
3. tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the @@NAME@@ Blood Tithe
#261 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
1. shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned
2. the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics
3. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
4. the entire retail industry has been replaced by online delivery services
5. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
1. fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets
2. almost all of @@NAME@@'s water is piped into the country from abroad for exorbitant prices
3. raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
1. the government is spending billions of taxpayer @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ to support "struggling" industries
2. thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break
3. businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up
#267 Controversial Coup Causes Commotion
2. the art of conversation has been rediscovered
3. the government encourages conflict abroad to increase arms sales
#268 Don't Want Your Kid Anymore? Good News!
1. orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children
2. orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children
#269 Stop the Presses!
2. paper and ink publications are subsidised by the government to keep them in the black
#271 Vigilantes: Heroes or Hoodlums?
4. terrified neighbors cower behind concertina wire and machine gun nests
5. terrified neighbors cower behind concertina wire and arrow loops
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
2. cars speed down national highways while drivers sleep at the wheel
3. bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
2. rag-wearing teachers are often mistaken for homeless people
3. the state believes that children are what you make of them
4. the state believes that children are what you make of them
5. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
6. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
1. inter-species marriages are ignored by the government
#275 Wiki Worries
1. the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The @@CAPITAL@@ Times is sold out
#276 Circus Clowns Cause Chaos!
2. students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak
#277 Say Cheese!
1. photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in @@LEADER@@'s bedroom
#278 Relief Is Coming... In Four to Six Weeks
1. contrails and thunderous rumbles have returned to the skies above
#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
3. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
4. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
5. trouble-makers are frequently turned in to the government to be 'recycled'
#280 Oh the Humanity!
2. airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted
#281 Free Internet for @@NAME@@?
2. students abandon classrooms for online education
3. internet service is too costly for normal people to purchase
4. electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high
#282 Slum Village Extraordinaire
3. many of the poor live from cradle to grave without ever seeing sunlight
#283 Wealthy Flee to Tax-Free Havens
1. expats return home to a government devoid of social and environmental agencies
2. citizens wishing to leave the country must surrender half their wealth to the government
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
1. the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects
5. absentminded citizens frequently converse with hallucinations
#285 A Right Not to Work?
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down
3. retail stores offer sales every hour on the hour
4. midnight pizza breaks are common among the work-from-home population
#286 A Whale of a Problem
2. seafood restaurants assure customers 'If it lives in the sea, it's on our menu'
4. fishing crews are regularly interrogated by surprisingly violent environmentalists
#287 Maxtopians Demand Return of the King
2. the new 'Things We Stole From Other Countries' exhibition at the National Museum of Antiquities is a hit
#288 Super-Sized Pizzas Recipe for Disaster?
2. overweight people receive reparations checks from fast-food chains
3. a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army
#289 Blizzards Serve Calls Cold, Says Mayor
1. politicians constantly ring their voters to remind them how good a job they're doing
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#291 A Question of Sport
1. glittering new sports stadiums adorn every city and town
2. marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams
4. kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun"
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
3. tourists outnumber citizens two to one
4. tourists outnumber citizens two to one
#293 Maestro, Please
2. concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule
3. concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule
4. commercial jingles have been ham-handedly forced into world renowned symphonies
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
1. legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills
5. the CEO of Laws Incorporated must sign off on all new bills
#295 Give Us Pockets or Give Us Something Else
1. fashion stores are exploding in sales as clothing is reintroduced to the country
#296 Come on Baby, Fight My Fire
1. CEOs can't hear the term 'Fire Sale' without bursting into tears
3. disaster victims are viewed with disdain
#298 Cults: Harmless or Heretics?
3. young people crowd pizza parlors praying to 'The Supreme Pizza, His Immaculate Munchiness'
4. believers must practice religion behind church doors lest the government smite them with a mighty fine
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
1. grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices
2. a punitive tax has been placed on harmful emissions
3. surfers ride tsunamis of record height and toxicity
4. the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association
#300 Trafficked Tots Trouble
3. prospective parents are cheering on the streets as they no longer need a license to have children
#301 Are 'Friends' Electric?
1. environmentalists are staging large protests in front of reopened nuclear power plants
3. the country is at the forefront of a 'peacekeeping' mission to secure power plants in war-torn Maxtopia
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
3. city rooftops are pockmarked with the shattered remains of high velocity delivery drones
4. legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments
5. legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
2. Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity
3. Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
1. many working fathers have never seen their children
4. most mothers are forced to quit their jobs to care for infants
5. most mothers are forced to quit their jobs to care for infants
6. mandatory daycare is provided by the government
#305 Who's Occupying What?
1. former school buses now regularly shuttle kids to the nearest shopping centers to work
2. millions of devastated 7-year-olds are denied astronaut and ballerina training
#307 Derailing the Gravy Train
1. politicians are often found scavenging bins at night to supplement their income
2. newspapers cannot report anything about politicians without their explicit consent
#308 Over, Under or Through?
1. @@NAME@@ Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere'
3. commuter vessels have trouble staying afloat due to increased passengers
4. island residents must resort to canoes and sailboats to get to work
#309 Guerrilla Grandparents
3. the elderly live on a steady diet of canned beans in dreary government housing
#310 Too Little Talk?
1. a recent political debate came to a quick close once the ruling party decreed it was "just plain silly"
2. a recent political debate came to a quick close once the ruling party decreed it was "just plain silly"
#312 The Empire Strikes First?
4. the government is giving peace a chance
#313 Conscientious Objectors Want You... To Let Them Abstain
1. military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds'
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
1. racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation
2. immigrants flood the job queues as discrimination in the workplace makes a staggering comeback
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
2. cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates
#318 Death Penalty on Death Row?
2. the populace lives in fear of painful execution for minor offences
5. innocent people are routinely stoned to death by frenzied lynch mobs
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
1. teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers
2. the populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system
3. businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'
#322 Empathy a Rare Commodity?
2. curtailed social programs have left many citizens bereft of any safety net
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
2. the nation leads @@REGION@@ in per capita stalking
#324 "Tourism Tanking!" Trumpet Tabloids
1. a new generation of aquariumless hotels are being built under government supervision
2. visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories
3. visitors to the famed rainforests are instead taken to vast furniture factories
4. online tourism reviews of @@NAME@@ are suspiciously positive and amazingly similar
#325 Blazing Through the Paper Trail
1. the bonfire of the old paper records can be seen for miles around @@CAPITAL@@
2. 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive
3. 1% of global paper production is bound for the National Archive
4. the National Archive now covers square miles of warehouses in order to accommodate its new stone tablets system
#326 Knitters in a Knot Over Police Stitch Up
3. knitting needles have been banned in the name of public safety
#327 No Rest for the Weary @@ANIMAL@@
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ stadiums are open 24/7
#328 Bugged by Lack of Intelligence
1. all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons'
4. all new "spies" are fifteen-year-old acne-ridden kids on computers
#329 Military Uniforms Under Scrutiny
4. soldiers are equipped with multi-million @@CURRENCY@@ battlesuits
#330 Supermarkets Gobbling Up All the Customers?
2. one-stop superstores divide and conquer family businesses
#331 Swept Away
2. insurance companies charge extortionate premiums to cover homes near waterways
4. there is a dearth of space for new houses
#332 Summit Security Spending Stirs Strife
2. rioting during the nation's hosting of ORDER caused one million @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ of property damage
3. hackers post hourly updates on international summits
#333 No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice at All
6. any reference to a higher being is punished with public shaming
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
2. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
3. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
#335 Log Us Back On
1. teenagers haven't been seen outdoors since the nation reconnected to the Internet
2. the government is buying children's books by the thousands
3. computers are widely considered to be the "devil magic of heathens"
#336 Polygamy Causes Division
1. prenuptial contracts have replaced diamond rings in marriage proposals
4. vitriolic divorce proceedings have become prime-time television
#337 Doctors Crossing Borders?
2. charity no longer begins at home
#338 The Silence and the Fury
1. noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law
2. most people suffer from some form of hearing loss
#339 The Bear Necessities
3. the economy is undergoing a traumatic transition to capitalism
#340 Defending Patent Pending
2. an IT mega-corporation has a patent pending on the rectangle
#341 Where in the Woods Is Cindy SanFrancisco?
2. the populace has developed a mortal fear of the woods
5. groups of three or more trees are cut down in the name of 'child safety'
#342 This Land Was Made for You and Me
1. the new Refuse Hills housing development is under construction
2. prime picnicking sites are being paved over in the name of progress
3. citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow
4. citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow
5. residents of newly dried out bays live in fear of leaky dikes
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1. discarded pennies litter the streets
2. the nation refuses to discard its increasingly useless penny
3. mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance
#344 Trash Talk
1. litter collection has replaced fast food as the most popular after-school job
2. daisy chain gangs plant flowers and pick up litter
3. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
4. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
5. tumbleweeds made of litter adorn city streets
#346 Oil's Well That Ends Well
1. oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds
3. wind farms are erected on shuttered oil platforms
4. Ollie the Oiled Seal welcomes throngs of tourists to the newly opened Oil Oasis Water Park
#347 Crime Problems Ganging Up on @@NAME@@
3. street gangs rule most of the nation's major cities
#348 I Want a Lawyer
2. there is a disproportionate number of poor people in prison
#349 Bigtopian Bigwigs Beset Border
2. retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals
3. the military is recruiting war criminals to join its weapons research teams
#350 Queasy Cuisine
1. fine dining is just too fine for most of the populace
2. the nation's cuisine is the laughing stock of @@REGION@@
3. farmers are struggling to keep up with demand for local produce
#351 The Cost of Freedom
1. well-off serial killers write monthly checks to avoid jail time
3. violent criminals are doomed to be hunted by a psychotic billionaire
#352 Going Off the Rails
1. suicide victims often leave behind cash to cover the cost of their fines
5. the nation's train stations are widely considered to be the ugliest in @@REGION@@
#353 Broadband Going to the Birds?
1. consumption of cat memes has skyrocketed
#354 Subversive Shortwaves
2. citizens have never heard foreign radio
#355 Alien Invaders
1. the government keeps introducing new foreign species to combat the previous ones it has introduced
2. it's always rabbit season
3. invasive species are hunted by the gendarmerie
4. the government's official position on invasive species is 'who cares?'
#359 Got Democracy?
5. chemically brainwashed citizens praise @@LEADER@@'s name on an hourly basis
#360 Electile Dysfunction
1. minor parties are virtually absent in Parliament
4. some members of Parliament are illiterate
5. only the wealthy vote
#363 The Apotheosis of @@LEADER@@?
4. the government is seen as openly hostile to all religion
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
2. churches frequently hold public 'contraception burnings'
#366 Prosecute Stolen Valour, Says Military
2. the nation's Medal of Honour can be found as a free toy in breakfast cereal
3. soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear
4. soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
2. companies balk at paying their workers
3. clandestine emigration to countries with labor laws is all the rage
#370 The Unbearable Lightness of Government
1. money is being desperately pumped into the ruined economy
2. the government's economic policy is "sort it yourself"
#371 Lotto Fever
1. citizens re-mortgage their homes to buy lottery tickets
3. chain casinos dominate the national gambling market
4. chain casinos dominate the national gambling market
5. @@LEADER@@'s pleasure palace epitomizes corruption
#373 Devil and the Deep Blue Funding Gap
2. most academic research has ground to a halt
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
1. helicopter parenting is on the rise
2. mollycoddled youths run the country
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#375 Easter Egg: Keep Your Hands Off Those Lucky Charms!
1. the nation's gold reserves are said to be somewhere over the rainbow (@@EGG@@)
#377 It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's... Oh, It Was a Plane
2. government ministers are regularly seen in the streets confessing their sins and hammering missiles into plow-shares
#378 The War to End All Wars
3. anniversaries of major historical events pass unnoticed
5. the nation's war memorials are being torn down and replaced with peace gardens
#379 Stakes on a Plane
1. homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways
3. billions are being spent on a new island airport
#380 Farmers Seeding Discontent
1. agriculture is heavily subsidized by the government
2. the government is engaging in an agricultural trade war with Maxtopia
#382 The Appropriate Amount of Appropriation
1. prominent cultural symbols are featured on the backs of cereal boxes
#384 Out of the Royal Frying Pan
1. governments opposing @@NAME@@ are beset by rebels
4. skateboarding is considered a form of diplomacy
#385 Who Stands for @@NAME@@?
3. the national sporting identity is represented by a talking burger and a singing smartphone
#386 Droning On and On
1. warfare increasingly resembles a video game
#387 [An International Incident] Diamonds Are an Expat's Best Friend!
1. the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan
#388 [An International Incident] Napalm in the Morning
1. troop transports blacken the sky as the military commences Operation Desert Ocean
#389 [An International Incident] Sanctions, Sanctions Everywhere!
3. a new Brasilistani government has become a daily report on the main evening news
#390 [An International Incident] An Unstable Situation
1. the nation's armed forces are recruiting thousands to help colonise Brasilistan
#391 [An International Incident] The Third Horseman of Brasilistan
2. Brasilistan has been announced as the nation's newest colony
#392 [An International Incident] A Pirate Problem
1. the might of the nation's air force has been deployed against people with sticks in boats
#394 Ten Days in a Mad House
2. the most common psychiatric diagnosis is to 'stop whining and grow up'
3. the most common psychiatric diagnosis is to 'stop whining and grow up'
#395 [An International Incident] Growing Pains
1. the nation has abandoned Brasilistan to its fate
2. selling bombs to terrorists has become government policy
3. the nation's people have woken up to find themselves colonial masters of Brasilistan
#396 [An International Incident] Hello, Is It Brie You're Looking For?
3. the destitute in Brasilistan forlornly wait in vain at docks for food shipments that will never arrive
#400 [An International Incident] Insurgents Resurgence
1. 'Coloniser-in-Chief' has become @@LEADER@@'s new moniker
#403 [An International Incident] We Done Killing Yet?
1. anyone found to be unemployed is shipped off to Brasilistan with a gun and a spade
#404 404 Issue Not Found
2. the government is overcome with ennui
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
3. "To Hell or to Marshland" is a common settler cry directed at native Brasilistanis
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
#410 12 Angry, Tired, and Increasingly Confused Men
1. extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals
2. judges are all-powerful
#412 The Magic (Of Advertising!) School Bus
2. chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom
#414 Subpar Suburbs
1. town welcome signs list corporate sponsors
3. rundown towns are frequently sold to billionaires for their pet projects
4. towns that stop turning a profit are turned into animal sanctuaries
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
2. concussed @@ANIMAL@@ball players cannot remember their lineup position
3. concussed @@ANIMAL@@ball players cannot remember their lineup position
4. disgruntled jocks are forced to play tetris for entertainment
#418 That Sinking Feeling
2. drowning sailors are hung out to dry
3. tourist operators promise visitors tours of live burning shipwrecks and plane crash sites
#420 Caught Green Handed
3. Maxtopian Grass flags adorn every college dorm room
#421 No Child Left Behind Enemy Lines
2. kitchen patrol is dominated by ten-year-old runts
#422 Wounded Veterans Demand a Helping Hand
2. wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry
3. 90% of active duty @@DEMONYMADJECTIVEINITIALS@@AF personnel have been laid off and replaced by robot kill-drones
#424 You Just Sank My Battleship!
1. the navy is chrome-plating its battleships to prevent rust
4. veterans are directed into environmental cleanup operations
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
1. even the nation's brussel sprouts are delicious and nutritious
2. the Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook
3. bleach is the nation's most common pesticide
4. children's toy tractors have been seized as state property
#429 No Representation Without Taxation?
1. tax assessment offices double as polling stations
4. the well-off can quite literally buy extra votes
#430 Easter Egg: Please, Sir, We Want Some More Issues
5. common misteaks slip threw as the Issues Editing Team adds issues by the hundread (@@EGG@@)
#431 Gone a Stray!
3. animal control is going door-to-door releasing all pets back into the wild
#432 Children in the Lead?
1. tabloids coo over @@LEADER@@'s expected child
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
3. the attempt to control the weather has ended in environmental disaster
#434 Fraternity Furor
1. fraternities are notorious for drunken hooliganism
#435 A Working Class Hero Is Something to Be
1. exceptionally talented workers are praised more than Revolutionary heroes
#436 Voters, Place Your Bets!
2. polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts
3. popular candidates who don't suffer last-second political scandals tend to get fished out of the @@CAPITAL@@ River
#437 Blue Screen of Economic Death
3. the Treasury and Finance Ministry have been outsourced
#438 Judicial Review on Trial
1. copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper
#439 The Law of Exodus
3. emigrants arrive on foreign shores with nothing but pocket sand
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
1. cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry
3. 'Police Academy 36' and 'Sharknados On A Plane' are vying for top spot at the box-office
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
1. there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees
2. EpiPen sales have skyrocketed
5. the government takes agricultural advice from a wasp-themed superhero
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
1. homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
3. prices fluctuate manically for no fathomable reason
#444 Virtually Assured Destruction
2. the government nonchalantly sells old nukes to other countries
#445 Evasive Maneuvers
1. corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
1. late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards
3. breast milk lattes are the newest fad among hip urbanites
#447 Honey, We Hung the Parliament
4. late night talk show hosts are having a field day over @@LEADER@@'s questionably sane new coalition partners
#448 It Takes a Village
4. the government has completely eliminated all childcare programs
5. the only position a woman can hold is baby-maker
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
1. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
2. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
3. drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking
4. @@ANIMAL@@ sanctuaries have been taken over by hydraulic fracturing sites
#450 Colonial Testimonial
1. colonial citizens are forced to sing the praise of the "Great @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Liberator"
3. citizens can't decide whether to be proud or horrified by the country's colonial history
#451 A Proselyte to Burn
4. books are so highly regarded in @@NAME@@ that libraries are often revered as holy shrines
#453 Parliamentary Playground
4. @@NAMEINITIALS@@-SPAN features senators wrestling with ever-increasing production elements
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
2. chickens roam the streets freely
3. the rich tend their gardens inside gated urban farming communities
#455 Police on Overkill Mode?
1. veteran cops reminisce over their heavy armor days
2. the police use sound cannons and mortars to deal with loud parties
3. sections of the police receive paramilitary training
4. the nation is under martial law
#456 Heads Will Roll
3. stylish juvenile delinquents are highly overrepresented in fatal motorcycle accidents
4. motorcycle riders are required to wear so much gear they've been nicknamed "Stay Pufts"
5. hairdressers are forced to use all the tricks of the trade after citizens became required to wear helmets at all times
6. hairdressers are forced to use all the tricks of the trade after citizens became required to wear helmets at all times
#457 Colossus With Feet of Clay
1. tourists flock to see the giant stone carvings of historical leaders at Mount Rushless
2. the giant 80-storey carving of @@LEADER@@ in Mount Rushless can be seen from space
3. tourists are forbidden to enter Native @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ lands
#458 Bigtopian Lives Matter
1. unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police
#459 Murder, He Shouted!
2. @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ facilities are being turned into @@ANIMAL@@ habitats
4. movie references are legally admissible in court
#460 Salt of the Earth
1. the looming peasant rebellion has been called off after farming was legalized
#461 If at First You Don't Succeed...
5. the health budget has been diverted into prolonging @@LEADER@@'s life
#462 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
1. disadvantaged neighbourhoods have become no-go areas after sundown
3. astronomers are flocking to @@NAME@@ to take advantage of its clear night skies
4. the native owl population is in permanent hibernation
#466 @@NAME@@ Is Never Ever Getting Back Together... Like Ever
4. the country has essentially become @@POPULATION@@ nations within a nation
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
2. bris parties are all the rage
#468 Selling @@NAME@@ Down the River?
2. Blueriver mercenaries routinely do the army's dirty work
#470 Tide Stops for No Man
2. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Tourism Bureau has described the abolition of coastal defences as a "kick to the groyne"
3. the logging industry is celebrating as tourists plaster @@NAME@@ with trees
#472 Rise of the Machines
1. only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile
2. only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile
#473 A-B-C, Easy as Don't Use Me
1. the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world
2. matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold
3. children are expected to carve their own toys
#474 Mesozoic Park
1. sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park
3. idyllic countryside scenes see border collies herding sixty-ton dinosaurs
4. local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings
#475 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
2. penal labor is a de facto death sentence
4. protest songs are the nation's de facto anthems
#476 A Farewell to Raised Arms?
1. the new iVote app allows representatives to vote on legislation by launching ill-tempered birds and matching candies
3. bored politicians often entertain themselves with games of Simon during important votes
#477 Feeding Frenzy
4. heart attacks are regarded as a coming of age ritual
#478 The Show Must Go On
3. mournful opera fans place bouquets of roses at a 3000 capacity parking lot
#479 @@LEADER@@, Put on the Yellow Light
1. tardiness has increased after carpooling was classified as a criminal offense
2. @@CAPITAL@@'s iconic yellow taxis are nowhere to be seen
4. conspiracy theorists allege @@CAPITAL@@'s new subway map resembles Satanic symbols
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
1. @@LEADER@@ shrugs in the face of growing inequalities
4. @@LEADER@@'s new political program is often mockingly called 'Capitalism with a Bigtopian face'
#482 Whose Fault Is It Anyways?
1. acrimonious legal battles result during divorce proceedings
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
2. labour strikes are routinely squashed by police
#485 Really Real eSports Tournament
1. the government is a proud sponsor of the National Gaming Association
2. Super Barry Brothers is the most popular video game in the nation
4. all gamers have been drafted into the military despite their lack of upper body strength
#487 Masks of Shame
2. gossip magazines have been replaced by mask catalogs
3. public shaming is the bedrock of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ society
#488 Bright Orange Is the New Black
3. children have lost interest in toy guns in favor of toy meth lab kits
4. children have lost interest in toy guns in favor of toy meth lab kits
5. games of cops and robbers typically end in at least one fatal shooting
#489 Standing at Attention
2. good-looking soldier boys have celebrity status amongst the nation's homosexuals
3. the army spends more time producing 'romantic videos' than actually training soldiers
#490 The Long and Winding Halls of @@CAPITAL@@
1. auditors are gutting every governmental department
2. the government regularly publishes lengthy reports on its own excessive recordkeeping
3. groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol
#492 The Artwork in the Attic
1. Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to @@CAPITAL@@ to enjoy their national art
3. priceless Maxtopian artwork can often be found in executive bathrooms
#493 Suspicious Superhuman Athletes?
2. the government has certified several glow-in-the-dark athletes as drug free
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump
4. many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to find outlets for their pent-up competitive juices
#494 Whipping Up a Controversy
2. jaywalking is punishable by public flogging
#495 Beloved "Planet" Has Gone to the Dogs
3. the nation's leading climatologists are investigating animal flatulence in efforts to reduce methane emissions
#496 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
3. the government's suicide hotline now redirects callers to local tax lawyers
#497 The Widening Gyre
2. virtually all of the country's economic activity takes place in @@CAPITAL@@
3. city-dwellers are forcibly moved to farming communes in the countryside
#498 Computer Says No
2. the road to capitalism has proved an epic drama of adventure and exploration
#499 The Genetics of Aesthetics
3. the police are reluctantly destroying millions of DNA records
#500 Please Don't Feed the (Copyright) Trolls
1. Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues
3. NationStates is now a popular brand of laxatives despite Max Barry's protests
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
2. a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants
3. children regularly take part in blood sports that result in extreme boo-boos
#502 Scientists Declare That @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Are Persons
2. children often kick @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ for amusement
3. children often kick @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ for amusement
#503 @@LEADER@@, Tear Down This Door!
1. @@LEADER@@'s exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners
6. in a baffling press conference @@LEADER@@ proudly dismantled a broken door
#504 Short Shorts Too Short?
4. young girls and senior citizens alike can be spotted wearing colourful short shorts
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
1. the nation's once beautiful countryside has turned brown as farmers spray potent pesticides
2. criminals and college students are taking an interest in the government's new weed-killing program
3. visions of giant pink @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are a common side effect after @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ eat their meals
#507 Would a Rochebaron by Any Other Name Smell Just as Sweet?
1. the lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results
3. there is an abondance of ackawi and zartschmelzend in every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ grocery store
#508 Ex-Cons Robbed of Future
2. jaywalkers are condemned to lives of poverty for their heinous crimes
4. business owners who refuse to hire ex-cons often wake up with @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@'s head in their bed
#509 It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
3. hammering a nail into a wall is an effective death sentence
#511 Dogman Deconstructed
3. high school career advisors advise belligerent loners to consider vigilantism
4. sales of superhero insurance have skyrocketed after the government abandoned the police in favor of vigilantes
5. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Gladiators is a ratings success
6. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Gladiators is a ratings success
#512 Furnished for Failure
1. clumsy self-injury is a viable claim in modern compensation culture
4. personal injury lawyers are demanding compensation from the government after recent reductions in manufacturer liability
#513 Something Wickered This Way Comes
1. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ basket weaving sector is on the brink of collapse as cheap imports flood the market
#514 Contract Killer
1. murder is sanctioned if the legal paperwork is filled out correctly
3. the law is more interested in punishing crime than preventing it
#517 Gallery in Need of a Renaissance
3. the government has forked out millions on an unmade bed that is apparently East Lebatuckese "art"
#518 Face Lift
1. artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings
4. @@CAPITAL@@ has become the number one destination for urban exploration in @@REGION@@
#519 School's Out (Of Control)
2. schools offer a range of lessons in subjects as diverse as The Economics of Bullying for Lunch Money
#520 Preach With Me if You Want to Live
2. the military has declared war on all religious influence
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
1. freighter lifeboats have been replaced by state of the art marker buoys so divers can recover the cargo after they sink
2. the average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections
#522 Time to Get Serious
1. business meetings across the country are interrupted by the sound of squeaking whoopee-cushions
2. maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter
3. it turns out that money can buy you happiness
4. smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour
#524 Something Is Rotten in the State of @@NAME@@
1. rural communities are all but disenfranchised as politicians focus all their attention on winning the deciding urban votes
3. decaying farm hamlets have twice the representation of major urban areas
4. excessive gerrymandering has earned @@NAME@@ the nickname 'The Democratic Dictatorship'
#525 Nowhere to Go!
1. builders across @@NAME@@ are blocked up with orders for new public loos
2. @@A@@ @@REGION@@ Tourist Association survey has rated @@NAME@@ #1 for number twos
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
4. farmers' market days almost always end in a shooting
#527 The Body Politic
1. cities in @@NAME@@ declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings
5. city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty
6. city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
3. citizens have to dodge their neighbors' drones while getting the morning paper
#529 Attack of the Attack Ads
2. elections are won by the candidate who makes the best 'yo mama' jokes
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
1. @@CAPITAL@@'s main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight
2. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
3. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
#532 Desert Island Risks
2. politicians' financial records are locked up tighter than the nation's @@CURRENCY@@ reserves
4. tourists often cite 'hiding money in an off-shore banking account' as their main reason to visit the nation
#533 Hearsay Heresy
1. old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime
2. witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials
3. the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@
#534 Too Few Cooks in the Kitchen
3. the nation's latest batch of politicians include internet comedians, an alleged serial killer, and a highly trained @@ANIMAL@@
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
1. women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft
3. young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
1. over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes
2. public incontinence is a growing problem amongst the nation's women
4. public urination is on the increase
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
2. @@LEADER@@'s new android secretary is the latest media darling
3. robosexual marriages are increasingly common
#540 Shh! Spoilers!
1. spoiler warnings are now given out before political speeches
3. @@LEADER@@'s latest speech included a bizarre reference to MaxWow incontinence pads being 50% more absorbent than the next leading brand
4. drive-by spoilers are an increasingly common crime
#542 What a Waste
4. global anti-terrorist organisations strongly suspect @@NAME@@ of supplying extremist groups
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
1. adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears
2. commuters often break into synchronised para-para dancing for no reason at all
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
2. teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries
#545 Expats on the Electoral Roll?
2. vacationers and business travelers are often warned that they may lose the right to vote if they spend too much time overseas
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
1. nighttime sightings of raccoons sporting Circle-A patches and bandanna masks are on the rise
3. the Grinder at Fat Sal's Deli and Recycling Center is a national institution
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
1. poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild
2. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
3. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
4. the endangered saltwater humpback @@ANIMAL@@ is only seen in captivity programs
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
1. every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead
2. every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor
4. science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
1. hundreds of teenagers die every year at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Hungry Games
4. in its new More is More campaign the government advertises obese men and women posing coquettishly with baked goods to spare their blushes
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
1. crime is on the rise as online youths compete to vlog the most shocking scenes of violence
#551 The Big Fat @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Wedding
2. advertisers scramble to sponsor the broadcast of @@LEADER@@'s most personal functions
3. @@LEADER@@'s relatives have been married into the royal families of foreign nations against their will
#552 Must Be a Full Moon
4. the bum of @@LEADER@@ has been voted the most recognisable in @@NAME@@
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
2. the new "Bloodbath" orange tree autonomously seeks and destroys independent orchards
3. eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance
#554 Welcome to --CENSORED--
2. town nameplates frequently raise giggles from passing tourists
3. the government is constantly producing new maps to accommodate the continual renaming of cities
#555 It's an Honor Just to Be Nominated!
3. Propaganda and Partisanship 101 is a required class all political candidates must pass before being nominated by their chosen party
#556 Here Be Dragons?
3. all fantasy fiction has officially been deemed non-canon
4. failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside
5. government ministers claim to ride dragons to work
#557 Take a Hike!
1. search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards
2. the hills are alive with the sound of ringtones
3. park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
2. blind dates tend to result in bruised shins
3. dining out often involves @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the plate no matter what you order
#559 The Low Aspiration Nation
1. fruit pickers with degrees in @@ANIMAL@@ psychology are a common sight
2. the average person needs three full-time jobs just to get by
3. the unemployed are quite literally sold to the highest bidder
#560 Bicameral Backlash
1. @@LEADER@@ has no checks and balances after the upper house was abolished
#561 Plug in and Play
1. retail stores have reported mile-long lines after the ban on video games was lifted
#562 Return to Sender
1. international war crimes are good for business and business is booming
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
2. farm turkeys are given high doses of antidepressants to take their minds off the holiday season
#564 Do Good Intentions Make Good Samaritans?
2. children's books regularly feature formerly distressed damsels suing their princes
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
3. exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles
4. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
5. exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles
6. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
#566 Drive My Car
1. the police double as repo men
3. fire stations and hospitals can't deploy emergency vehicles because badly parked cars block them in
#567 Syntax Destruction
2. dictionary sales have hit an all-time high
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
1. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
2. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
3. annual Formula One races bring the capital to a screeching halt
4. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
5. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
#570 Clerical Errors
3. the government merely pays lip service to @@FAITH@@
#571 Family Feud
1. the nation's countrysides are littered with landmines due to ongoing family disputes
#572 Reading, Your Rights
1. nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers
3. modern readers say a story is worthless without hyperlinked footnotes and editable wiki format
#574 One Small Step for Private Enterprise?
1. the nation's interest in space is at an all-time high while interest in saving the planet is at an all-time low
3. 'To Regulate And Beyond' is the unofficial motto of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Space Agency
4. falling satellites are regarded as a blessing from the gods
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
1. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
2. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
3. sea side cafes are required by law to close during summer
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
1. economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society
2. doctors will keep brain-dead coma patients ventilated for years in order to avoid accusations of allowing people to die
3. children crying over dropped ice creams are offered high doses of experimental antidepressants
4. conspiracy nuts claim that the government is trying to bring about an end to civilisation
#577 Second World Problems
4. Party members are derided as class traitors
#578 Support Your Local Arms Manufacturer
4. weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder
5. weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
2. signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles
3. kids are exceptionally good at digging holes
#580 @@NAME@@ Taking Leave of Its Census?
1. the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions
3. the suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years
4. according to the latest national census as many as two-thirds of the respondents possibly consider 'violet' their favorite color
5. only @@LEADER@@'s friends count in the eyes of the government
#581 Fair to Say...?
1. tech-mad citizens think that the laser-powered bread-slicer uPhone App is the coolest thing since sliced bread
2. intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works
3. national chefs believe that you can eat anything so long as you deep fry it first
6. one year's corporation tax from three international megacorporations has funded one dozen shiny black pencils for @@LEADER@@'s office
#582 Augmented Reality Check
3. people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy
4. it is common to see Maxémon Trainer listed on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ resumés
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
4. funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience
#584 The Cake Is a Lie
2. they say that @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ made a dessert and called it peace
#585 Are You Not Entertained?
3. amusement park rides frequently collapse due to lack of maintenance
4. nihilistic thrill-seekers claim that suicide by roller coaster is the ultimate life experience
#586 School's in for Summer?
2. school lessons are constantly interrupted by 'teacher needs a break' time
#587 I, Robot, Do Solemnly Swear
4. court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
1. former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés
2. moonshine has made a resurgence
3. bars are packed at all hours
#589 To Boldly Go?
1. the government is continually probing the galaxy in search of alien life
3. at the edge of the final frontier space's biggest missile platform is about to unfold
4. all astronauts are hot twenty-something models selected because they have 'the right stuff'
#590 When Trees Hug Back
1. getting milk from the local corner store no longer requires donning advanced hiking gear
4. @@NAME@@'s growing economy feeds on the nation's ever-declining greenery
5. @@NAME@@'s growing economy feeds on the nation's ever-declining greenery
#591 Bait and Switch
1. maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
#592 Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!
1. for the sake of 'public interest' news programs tell viewers how to home-make Sarin gas bombs
#593 A Right to Bare Arms?
2. teenage girls worry that they'll be unpopular if their skirts aren't short enough
#594 Tie Fighters
1. the government tries not to listen to the people unless it absolutely has to
3. it is rumoured that @@LEADER@@ uses a magic 8-ball to make policy decisions
#595 Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
2. criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids
4. the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence
#597 You Can't Handle the Tooth
2. raver DJ XStacy holds multiple medical degrees in chillaxing
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are free from pain - but the side effects include loss of individual thought and freedom
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
3. burning members of the Order of Violet is the nation's favorite pastime
#599 Dead in the Water
1. oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires
2. oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires
3. debate rages over whether ground fish guts can be spread on fields
#600 Making a House a Home
1. @@LEADER@@'s luxurious new home has been designated as a protected cultural heritage site
2. @@LEADER@@'s iHouse is so intelligent that it manages its own social media accounts
3. @@LEADER@@'s iHouse is so intelligent that it manages its own social media accounts
4. television executives are interested in turning @@LEADER@@'s zany home life into a sitcom
5. @@LEADER@@ lives life on the open road - complete with groupies
7. @@LEADER@@'s personal home is one of @@REGION@@'s most notorious party destinations
#601 Lawyers on Trial
2. justice is available only to those who can afford its price tag
#602 Hobby Lobby
3. @@LEADER@@ has been known to make speeches in fishing waders
5. the government has stated an intention to min-max its stats for 'teh pwnage'
#604 Food Behind Bars
1. the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy
5. corrective labour camps either end political dissent or kill the dissenters
#605 The Noblest of Intentions
2. titles of nobility are packaged with @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ citizenship in invite-only auctions
3. business leaders are mailing @@LEADER@@ forged birth certificates in a bid to win their rivals as serfs
#606 In the Black
2. @@LEADER@@ has a wardrobe full of fake designer suits
3. exploding toys that leak battery acid are back in the shops after the government declared child safety 'over-rated'
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
2. recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
1. @@LEADER@@'s peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide
2. denied drugs and entertainment the nation's youth are taking to petty crime to alleviate their boredom
#611 Blundering Battle Bureaucrats
2. heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors
3. out-of-work soldiers and bureaucrats can often be found camped out in front of manservant academies
4. visiting dignitaries often take advantage of strict reparation policies by stubbing their toes
#612 A Petty Issue
3. it's usual for grandparents to stay in the family home with their descendants but younger children are often frightened of them
#613 A Nude Day, a Nude Awakening...
3. t-shirts displaying a photo of @@LEADER@@ performing the Full-Monty are selling out
4. they say that @@LEADER@@'s personal computer is full of naked pictures of the Emperor of Maxtopia
#614 How Much Is That Vote in the Window?
3. beggars on the street are often heard asking for spare votes
#615 Tempted by the Fruit of Another
1. agricultural employees work for peanuts
2. workers have their fruitcake and eat it too
#616 You Are Feeling Very Very Sleepy and Not at All Gay
2. sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters
#617 Who's This Little Rascal?
2. colonials are offended to find a local animal has been re-named the 'Furry Four-Legged Marsupial @@ANIMAL@@'
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
2. the mummified remains of former kings are apparently discovered every time a tourist loses their wallet
4. sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food
5. big game hunters travel to @@NAME@@ to try their hand at shark-shooting
#619 X Marks the Cult?
3. pizzerias must now display shrines to the Pizza God
4. basket-weaving is the nation's latest fad
#621 Blue Collar Blues
1. no one born in @@NAME@@ can fix a leaky faucet
2. no one born in @@NAME@@ can fix a leaky faucet
3. trained plumber-burglars will clean out your blocked pipes and your jewellery boxes
4. libraries are replacing history books and classic novels with technical manuals and trades directories to match the nation's changing demands
5. economists speak of trusting in the Tao of Free Market Capitalism
#623 Maison d'Être?
2. the country is littered with broken homes
5. disputed territories across @@REGION@@ are being claimed by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ college students
#624 A Role to Play
3. taking hostages is a great way to influence government policy
#625 Delivering the Goods
1. the 'Museum Of Stuff We Stole' is a tourist favourite
10. protestors are soaking piles of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ in blood to make a point about government incomes
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#626 Carbon Copied
1. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
2. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
3. citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?"
4. citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?"
5. future forecasters fearfully discuss grey goo and human obsolescence
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
4. scientists spend more time enduring government inspections than they do on actual science
#628 Only @@LEADER@@ Can Prevent Forest Fires
1. forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left
2. environmental officials dismiss uncontrolled wildfires burning down major cities as nature taking its course
3. the phrase 'spreading like wildfire' is no longer in the public lexicon
#629 Boom or Bust?
2. male tourists tend to be fearful of @@NAME@@'s deadly femme fatales
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
1. formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming
2. the working classes live and die on the fields of the farming communes
3. banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse
4. landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks
#631 The Violet Mile
1. the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains
2. the tomato-covered corpses that decorate the nation's cities are a favourite amongst morbid tourists
4. death row is annually emptied to feed the nation's hunger for televised murder-games
#632 Dying for a Kiss
3. men's magazines give handy tips on the most effective way to throw heavy stones
#633 Sound Judgement
7. you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly
#634 Bullet Time
1. in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
4. pootling steam trains carry delighted tourists and frustrated businessmen from city to city at a snail's pace
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
2. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
3. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
4. government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables
#636 Going on the Cyber Offensive
1. school teachers check the staff room for hidden webcams before complaining about rebellious students
3. the opposition leader's credibility has been undermined by constant attention drawn to a dodgy toupee
#637 Little Pizza History
3. international collectors know that a grease-stain on a work of art probably means it's passed through @@NAME@@
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
2. the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories'
3. it's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance
4. swings are now more popular than see-saws in children's playgrounds
#639 No Country for Old Men
2. octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it
4. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
5. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
#640 A Clear-Cut Conundrum
1. hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings
2. East Lebatuck tests its moon rovers in the barren wasteland of rural @@NAME@@
3. severed limbs litter woodland edges across the land
#641 Dirty Little Minds
1. corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics
2. major polluting industries have painted a lot of their machines green to give an impression of caring about the environment
3. life expectancy is way down but posthuman perfectionism is way up
4. corrupt industrial practices are spreading like a plague
#642 This Way's Kinder
2. the nation's youth voluntarily goes to bed early out of sheer tiredness from their working days
#644 The Old Grey Matter
2. in distant lands the nation is known as a lovely place that was even better in the good old days
3. people invite random old men into their homes to play with their kids
4. if they thought anyone would listen the older generation would likely say that nobody listens to them any more
5. grannies with arthritic hands work miserably on factory production lines
#645 An Unwarranted Intrusion
1. policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence'
2. the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property
#646 Lesson Learnt
1. disadvantaged youths often commit felonies to enhance their educational prospects
#647 Songbirds' Decline Ruffles Feathers
1. military pilots spend more time scraping feathers off their engines than flying their aircraft
3. foreign nations kill migratory animals at random in the hope that @@NAME@@ will pay them to stop
4. it is a silent spring in @@NAME@@
5. remote-control hang-gliding scarecrows patrol the skies to keep songbirds from leaving the nation's borders
#648 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
3. it's considered a valid legal defence to say "a demon made me do it"
#649 Made in Maxtopia
1. the government raises tariffs on a weekly basis
2. restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in @@NAME@@
4. where your food came from is an unknowable mystery
#650 Political Hacks
1. drill sergeants yell in the ears of bespectacled nerds in cybermilitary "reboot camps"
3. online weather reports are predicting five years of glorious sunshine for @@NAME@@
4. survivors of the Great Internet Flame War often recount horror stories of banhammers and DOS attacks
#651 Black Days for @@NAME@@
1. fruit market traders let their stock spoil rather than reduce their prices at the day's end
2. commemorative mugs remembering last year's Black Friday Crockery Riots are a best seller this year
3. bouncers at the door of the sweet shop warn five-year-olds not to cause trouble
#652 Mayday! Mayday!
1. whenever pilots have to bail out the government bails out their company
3. planes can be grounded for months simply because an inspector "didn't like the color"
#653 A Cloak and Syringe Operation
3. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Intelligence Agency relies on rumour and guidebooks to know what is happening overseas
#654 Not So Cool Aid?
1. people's charity begins and ends at home
2. large-girthed charity workers assign themselves healthy wages for their work with starving children
4. citizens spend millions on microtransactions to feed virtual orphans while actual orphans starve overseas
#655 No Bones About It
2. oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys
#656 Ransoms Noted
3. cancer rates amongst the richest in society are inexplicably on the rise
4. the nation's arms dealers guarantee discretion and untraceable transactions
#658 A Sickening Dilemma
4. the nation's healthcare system has taken a "survival of the fittest" approach in administering care
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
3. the government is known to care more about its buildings than its people
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
1. Scoutmasters debate whether luxury log cabins defeat the purpose of camping
2. no one knows how to tie a reef knot
3. truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills
4. selfie stick use is a required Scout badge
5. Scout campfire sing-a-longs tend to focus on the evils of antitrust legislation
#662 Playful Petitions Pester Politicians
2. a petition to make petitions important again has been deemed unimportant
4. @@LEADER@@ is spearheading a new fashion trend of wearing swimming goggles and medieval armour
#663 A "Friend" in Need
1. the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings"
2. people believe that if you teach a man to fish he won't buy fish from you any more
3. the government merely sends empty platitudes whenever natural disasters strike foreign nations
#664 Your Land or Mine
1. no-one can foil the ambitions of Big Aluminium
2. the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape
3. indigenous tribal elders can be recognised by their designer watches and expensive suits
#665 In Nomine Ecclesiae
4. atheism is seen as a prerequisite for political power
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
1. the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience
2. tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash
#667 One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Recyclable
1. local mafias have a tough time disposing of dead snitches without catching the attention of recycling authorities
2. unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves
3. unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
1. 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail
3. home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks
#669 Watts Up With Rooftop Solar
2. the poor are forced into bankruptcy by their energy bills
3. smog in @@CAPITAL@@ is so bad that fresh air bottles are sold by street vendors
4. the government is funding experimental battery technology while the power grid continues to crumble
#670 A Wolf in Refugee's Clothing
2. tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian
3. terrorists are on a first name basis with the officials that stamp their passports
#672 All Shook Up
3. coastal cities are being moved a dozen miles inland to reduce flooding risk
#673 The Deportation of Mr. B. Leeper
3. the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
1. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
2. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
4. seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals
#675 Trick or Treaty
1. citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee
2. the industries of @@NAME@@ are coughing all the way to the bank
4. toxic smog is dismissed as the populace just "letting off steam"
#677 Dial L for Loan
1. the new foreign policy is "why bother invading neighbours when they can be bought wholesale?"
2. a small country is wondering where their capitol building's gold dome went
#678 A Motion for Seconds
4. @@LEADER@@'s office is running a trade deficit of midnight oil
#679 Space Is Big Enough for the Both of Us
1. East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy'
2. the nation's new Mylab space station is notorious for being the loneliest place above the planet
3. the space program has been reduced to @@LEADER@@'s nephew playing with a cardboard space shuttle
#680 The Fault Is in Our Stars
1. a full moon at night lets economists sleep tight
4. politicians fear the otherworldly wrath of poorly made cheese
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
2. parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife
3. a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away
#682 Exhaust Every Option
1. schoolkids say that the air doesn't taste like wee-wee any more
2. proprietary charger leads are now a pain for electric cars as well as cellphones
3. people say that smog must be good for you because of its healthy green colour
4. calling shotgun on the front seat too many days in a row is seen as a crime against social equality
#683 Different Keystrokes for Different Folks
1. edutainment video games are taking @@NAME@@'s students to the next level
2. @@LEADER@@'s office has a newly installed Max-Man arcade game programmed by a 5th-grader
3. kids who move from attending a public school in the city to the country often struggle in goat milking class
#684 Murder Most Deniable?
2. the nation leads @@REGION@@ for unlikely accidents and truffle consumption
#685 Externalities Palmed Off
1. foreign policy is mostly just to smile and hope for the best
2. both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade
3. the nation burns bridges with neighbours who burn their rainforest
#686 Freemium Isn't Free
2. children often explain to their parents that the Mega Ultimate Sword Fist was worth the thousand-@@CURRENCY@@ charge on their phone bill
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
1. many marriages go virtually unconsummated
3. robotic spouses prove to be just as imperfect as flesh and blood ones
#689 A Sticky Situation
1. it's rare to find an unchewed pencil
4. Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume
#692 Game of Drones
2. airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path
3. swarms of present-laden delivery drones blot out the sun before major holidays
4. airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path
#693 Bottled Up Problems
1. a new guerrilla marketing campaign for tap water involves government agents spraying random citizens with hose water
#694 Concussive Percussion
3. tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
1. citizens often pray for divine guidance in supermarkets
#696 No, Minister
2. the delay between passed legislation and real world implementation is often a decade or longer
#697 Conventional Wisdom
2. @@LEADER@@'s speeches are beloved by insomniacs
3. @@LEADER@@ has taken to wearing medal-adorned military uniform in all public appearances
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
2. children keel over while singing "@@LEADER@@ Gives Us the Water of Life"
3. children keel over while singing "@@LEADER@@ Gives Us the Water of Life"
4. safe drinking water is considered a luxury
5. poverty is disloyal to the Motherland
6. the nation's water should not be ingested while operating heavy machinery
#700 The Widow Raven
1. a tax exemption has created a new hunger for octogenarian millionaires dating women 60 years their younger
#701 Monumental Melodrama
4. racial supremacists have a burning desire to deal with immigrants
#702 Has Your Room Been Booked?
3. holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases
4. holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases
#703 Divine Decoration
1. civil servants are no longer allowed to cross their t's
4. the hills are alive with the smell of burning flesh
#705 The Germ of an Idea
2. fast-food chefs regularly win Health Innovation Awards for spitting on burgers
3. sushi is sold on the black market
#706 A Walk in the Park
1. glamping @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ won't sleep in a tent that doesn't include a Jacuzzi
2. citizens complain about a burning sensation after bathing
3. unwary hikers climbing the bluffs of Mount @@CAPITAL@@ make great practice for foreign snipers
#708 How @@LEADER@@ Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Bio-Weapons
1. scientists are researching the best way to kill off humanity to prevent catastrophic war
2. some say @@LEADER@@ has gone MAD after authorizing the development of apocalyptic biological weapons
3. flu research is commonly shut down for fear of creating a superbug
#709 Armed and Legging It
2. the government is lending a hand to private industry
4. many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward
5. many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward
#710 Feudal Feuds
1. a serf by any other name works just as hard
3. the government believes in trickle-down happiness
#711 Patently Obvious
2. a third of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are e-certified CEOs
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
1. bike rage is all the rage
2. the local custom of Biking With The Cars sends tourists home bemused or in body-bags
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#714 Milky Ways
1. increasing numbers of children in @@NAME@@ have different eye and hair color to their supposed fathers
3. supermarket milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets
4. state dairy cow's milk is a shear-thickening fluid that can stop small-caliber bullets
#716 Cheek to Cheek
2. people often get liposuction to reduce their air fares
3. people often get liposuction to reduce their air fares
#717 Cheques and Balances
2. @@LEADER@@ sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy
3. @@LEADER@@ sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy
4. interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CB@@NAMEINITIALS@@ Governor goes house hunting
#718 Roses Are Due if Violet's for You
3. children raised in multi-faith households claim the other deity would let them stay up later
#719 Buried Bones Unearth Debate
3. citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts
4. having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom
5. having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom
#720 Cui Bono?
1. homeless people dying of starvation are thought to be a necessary cost of preventing terrorism
3. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
4. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
#722 Thora and Eloise
3. fake beard sales are on the rise amongst female commuters
#723 To Know Sacrifice
2. the government finds the idea of having an army to be rather distasteful
#724 Your Stuff Is Forfeit
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ caught jaywalking often have their houses seized by the police
#725 Sky's the Limit?
1. wealthy pranksters dump refuse on unsuspecting citizens from up high
2. the derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun
#726 Jobless Fair
1. extreme hiring regulations mean a job in @@NAME@@ is often a lifetime appointment
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ companies generally just fire employees in lieu of giving them vacation
3. Brancalandian is the primary spoken language at most major tech companies
4. Brancalandian is the primary spoken language at most major tech companies
#727 Market Crash
4. businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections
5. the sidewalk is used as an overtaking lane by city drivers
#728 A Bone to Pick
2. ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward
3. the morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses
4. the deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors
#729 Teenage Kicks
2. bruised children are made to thank their bullies for the valuable life lessons
5. it takes all playtime for children to locate their friends among two hundred identical heads
#730 It's Legal Now!
1. convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing
2. parole board directors light up a joint before telling hash-brownie baking grannies that they have to stay behind bars
#731 Is There an Election in Marche Noire or Are You Just Happy to See Us?
2. foreign despots proudly bandstand on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ airwaves
#732 A Peeping Problem
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks
#733 The Path Less Traveled
1. exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting
2. exorbitant spending on icebreakers breaks the ice at every budget meeting
3. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
4. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
6. aggressive promotion of global warming puts polar bears on thin ice
#734 A Word From Our Sponsors
2. 9 out of 10 consumers think that vitamins can cure cancer
#735 Rap Sheet
2. confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle"
#737 Bird-Brained Diplomacy
1. endangered species are effective hostages against the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military
2. the military will start wars with other nations on a lark
#738 Cruel or Unusual?
1. drug lords often avoid prison time by teaching "chemistry" classes to underprivileged youth
2. an eye for an eye leaves @@NAME@@ blind
#739 In Loco Parentis
1. it's considered a civil right to be allowed to neglect and mistreat your own children
#741 [The Enemy Within] We Can Work It Out
1. police are trained in using their steel-capped boots as a tool of law enforcement
2. police are trained in using their steel-capped boots as a tool of law enforcement
3. pledging just four hours of spare time to police work earns a named credit on the government's official website
4. police protocol is to arrest anyone who looks a bit foreign
#742 [The Enemy Within] And Your Bird Can Sing
1. tea and biscuits have replaced waterboarding and sleep deprivation as the primary tools of interrogation
#743 [The Enemy Within] Here, There and Everywhere
4. on streets of broken glass people are being murdered for their faith
#745 [The Enemy Within] This Bird Has Flown
1. foreign powers often deal with problems that @@NAME@@ can't handle
#746 [The Enemy Within] There's a Place
1. for 25 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ tourists can gawk at the site of national tragedy
2. money always talks but the taboo subject of death just brings silence
3. money always talks but the taboo subject of death just brings silence
#747 The Plane Truth
1. travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air @@NAME@@ flights to avoid the pay lavatories
2. travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air @@NAME@@ flights to avoid the pay lavatories
#748 [The Enemy Within] In Spite of All the Danger
3. the impoverished sick hang around outside golf clubs to beg for funding for healthcare
4. @@LEADER@@ has awarded @@LEADER@@ many medals in appreciation for @@LEADER@@'s awesomeness
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
5. the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming
#750 Cheerleading Community Does the Splits
2. boys who even ask about cheerleading are placed on the Sex Offenders Register
#751 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Breed Contempt
1. no animal is considered endangered if there's another that looks kind of like it
3. condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
1. the dartboard at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of @@LEADER@@'s face
2. any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property
3. exports of chewing gum are inexplicably falling
#753 I've Got My Ion You
2. owners of man-portable particle accelerator backpacks are advised not to cross the streams
3. soldiers find that home gadgets and power tools are more effective as improvised weapons than the guns they've been issued
4. the decommissioned tank divisions of other nations are being bought up en masse by @@NAME@@
#755 Candid Camera
5. the government has announced its plans to construct a giant weaponised robot-cat
#756 The Issue With Issues
1. aides are afraid to ask if @@LEADER@@ wants a cup of tea or coffee
#757 Extra Credit?
2. parents often ask to see a credit report before lending money to their own children
#758 Bye Bye to the Birdies?
1. it is illegal to brush crumbs off your clothing outdoors
2. the weather in @@CAPITAL@@ is always 'pigeons with a chance of droppings'
3. authorities are looking for a stool pigeon to rat out who is stealing food from pigeon toilets
#759 Marry, Marry, Quite Contrarily
3. the government's stance on marriage is 'Let @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ marry themselves'
#760 A Debatable Question
2. election debates consists mostly of two grey suits arguing over how to best preserve the status quo
3. election debates consists mostly of two grey suits arguing over how to best preserve the status quo
5. people typically base their votes on which party has the cutest logo
#761 As Seen on TV
4. religious terrorism is considered to be an Act of God by insurance companies
#762 Double Down on Double Time?
2. takeaway food bought on the weekend now comes with fifty percent more sweat and tears
3. tumbleweed drifts through the nation's shopping centres during the weekends
#763 Any Body for Science?
1. sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors
3. the most penniless demographics have by far the highest number of researchers per capita
#765 Don't Judge Me
3. unemployed judges can be found squatting in abandoned courthouses
4. traffic tickets are punishable by 9000 push-ups
5. judges who serve for life or good behavior can expect to stay for a week
#766 Carbon Emissions Are Why We Can't Have Nice Things
1. business leaders commend the government for enacting an emissions reduction strategy that reduces no @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ emissions at all
2. industry leaders commend the government for enacting an emissions reduction strategy that reduces no @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ emissions at all
5. @@LEADER@@ has incinerated the international climate treaty in a public coal-burning ceremony
#768 Trouble Brewing
1. black tea is only available on the black market
2. the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea
3. machine-peeled candied grapes come in individual packaging for the busy commuter
4. the song 'They Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in @@NAME@@' is a smash hit
#769 How to Print Money?
3. most @@CURRENCY@@ coins are riddled with bite marks
5. the barter economy has taken over as the @@CURRENCY@@ has become worthless
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
2. kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes
#771 Drug Up the Prices
2. both illness and poverty are seen as signs of low moral worth
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
1. dentists routinely perform open heart surgery
3. the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification
#773 Know Thy Selfie
4. @@LEADER@@ affectionately nicknames supporters by number
#774 Clean Switch
1. dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines'
2. dubiously qualified East Lebatuckese doctors prescribe ice baths as a treatment for pneumonia
#775 Affirmative Election?
3. group photos of the members of parliament are often mistaken for family reunions
#777 Betting on the Future
1. no cul-de-sac or trailer park is complete without a gambling parlor
2. casino tax breaks are even bigger than their jackpots
3. tax returns detail how many games of slots each citizen will be able to play with their refund
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
2. open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost
3. a new religious movement claims that people's souls are stored in phosphorus
#780 Vexing VAT
2. sweet-toothed @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have been left penniless by the VAT on candy
3. the richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper
#782 Sit-Down Money
2. teddy bears and pajamas have replaced briefcases and suits in @@NAME@@'s offices
3. employees are told they can avoid traffic jams by starting work at 4 AM
4. doctors are trying to diagnose diseases by looking at their patients' Snipchat pictures
#783 Sergeant McCool Reporting for Duty
1. weighted heels are added to military boots to ensure diminutive celebrities meet minimum requirements
#784 The Driving Force
3. double-parking is on the rise as automobile numbers increase
4. many believe climate change is a liberal media fiction
#786 Tainted Tattoos
2. getting an infected tattoo is considered a rite of passage in @@NAME@@
#787 Come Fly With Me?
2. when you fly on Air @@NAME@@ you win a seat or you die
#788 Duel Purposes
1. citizens are encouraged to show displeasure with politicians by poking them with sharp metal sticks
2. citizens are encouraged to show displeasure with politicians by poking them with sharp metal sticks
4. angry men scowl at each other across chess boards
#789 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] @@CAPITAL@@gate
3. @@LEADER@@ is frequently seen begging critics to stop insulting the government
#793 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Knock Knock. Who's There? Not You Anymore!
3. the entirety of @@LEADER@@'s administration can be crammed into a phone booth
#796 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] It's Dangerous to Go Alone!
1. propaganda posters remind citizens that 'opinions are treason'
#798 A Periodic Issue of Elementary Nature
1. prankster scientists legally change their names to silly pseudonyms before major discoveries
#800 Please Call 1-800-NTA-VRUS, Your Government May Be Compromised
1. government employees have reverted to carrier pigeon due to never-ending virus scans
#801 Animation Provocation
3. toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters
4. the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools
#802 No Lock, No Gun Stock, and No Smoking Barrels
3. banned objects are regularly legalized if they've been successfully stolen from the government
4. wars are filled with soldiers wielding machetes and chainsaws for safety reasons
#803 Park That Thought
1. a faint smell of body odour can be detected at several miles' distance from the National Science Park
4. national surveys report that bellies are getting fuller while heads are getting emptier
5. national surveys report that bellies are getting fuller while heads are getting emptier
#804 Motivational Posters
1. internet trolls are considered valiant supporters of the right to free speech
#805 Solving a Dissolving Dilemma
2. depression sinks in after each election when voters realize they are stuck with these people for years
#806 Unlicensed to Kill
1. executions often take hours as amateurs attempt to find veins
4. cruel and unusual punishments are being crowdsourced
#807 Have War Crimes, Will Travel
2. the nation's diplomats shake hands with those whose hands are drenched in the blood of innocents
4. peace talks occasionally rack up a higher body count than the wars they seek to stop
#808 Big Trouble in Little Dàguó
1. the government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash
4. it is often said that only @@LEADER@@ could bring down Dàguó
#809 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1. demand for night vision goggles and boat engine mufflers has spiked
3. neighboring nations are tired of @@LEADER@@'s big fish stories
4. neighboring nations are tired of @@LEADER@@'s big fish stories
5. the single fish caught by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ fishers last year is cited as evidence of @@NAME@@'s thriving fisheries
#810 Armed and Unready
3. high-tech infantry rifles automatically reload when the soldier shoots outside the screen of their helmet HUD
5. nobody is forced to join the armed forces
#811 Get Baked
2. dessert dishes make up the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ breakfast menu
4. it is illegal for a parent to tell a child to stop eating their boogers
#813 A Little Birdie Told Me
2. it is believed that belligerence is a passing phase foreign leaders will soon outgrow
3. @@LEADER@@'s Twitcher account is typically used to share @@ANIMAL@@ memes rather than government policy
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
2. vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mussels the biggest in @@REGION@@
3. concerned environmentalists wipe away their tears with tissues sourced from Tasmanian old-growth redwoods
#815 Embargoed In
4. half of the nation's import/export industry is run from a location known only as 'Dead Man's Cove'
5. the nation is devoted to world peas
#816 A Hot Topic
1. where there's smoke there's the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Forestry Department
2. the Forestry Department has decided you really can't fight fire with fire
#817 Back-Alley Blues
1. official medical guidelines insist that childbirth is 'almost totally painless'
#818 We Are Not Amused
1. homeowners on prime real estate have been seen dodging giant bulldozers with cartoon characters painted on them
4. visitors to Violet Rock City are stunned to learn that they must memorize the "99 Principles" before entering
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
2. a stocking with a crooked seam or a tie without a full Windsor knot are grounds for instant dismissal
3. ruff times are ahead for those who aren't keen on party costumes
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
1. there's a bright dawn ahead for @@NAME@@
2. meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials
3. it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven
#822 Never Work With Children
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ actors literally work from cradle to grave
#824 Period Drama
4. giant beards and handlebar moustaches are increasingly popular
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
1. urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens
2. ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths
3. cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags
4. diners regard burgers made from mechanically reclaimed cow protein as "proper meat"
5. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
6. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
2. for just a few extra @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can get new driving records with their new cars
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ visiting rural Southern @@ANIMAL@@ Village can get their driving records clean for a small fee
4. hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
3. major boxing matches are held in government buildings
4. sports journals are full of uplifting puff-pieces on professional boxers
#828 Your Execution in 30 Years or Less or You're Free
1. death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary"
2. the government would rather execute a hundred innocent men than let one guilty one appeal a verdict
4. Court TV ratings have skyrocketed now that executions are filmed on location
5. the Violet Mile now refers to the long line-ups that former death row inmates wait in as they transfer to maximum security prisons
#829 Winning at Battleship
1. ships are encouraged to deliberately run aground onto @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ beaches
#830 Unreasonable Adjustments?
1. blind students are at a disadvantage now that test papers printed in braille have been discontinued
3. children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines
4. children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
5. sick days are on the rise
#832 Moderating Your Opinion
2. knock-knock jokes regularly get removed from websites for being too edgy
#833 Twitching Up a Storm
3. restaurant owners fear visits from government officials more than the actual food critics
4. internet flame wars have been known to cause real-world casualties
#834 Government and CO
3. in government offices a hidden killer takes the lives of ministers and civil servants
#835 The End Is in Sight?
2. hit TV show 'The eXecution Factor' is a critical success
#837 Wag the Dog
3. creative compliance measures ensure that high-ranking officials live in luxury while the country's coffers collect cobwebs
#838 The Bark Knight Rises
1. Dogman-branded weapons are all the rage in the militaristic comic-book community
2. people can't decide between preserving forests and buying print copies of 'Dogman Versus The Giggler'
5. adults hang around outside comic stores to ask kids to go and buy magazines for them
#839 "Partisanship Too Far?" Wrongly Asks Opposition
3. the government thinks @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can achieve social cohesion by drinking soda together
#840 Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
3. honeymoon suites can be located by following newlywed couples' shrieks of "what's that?"
4. ratings for schools' curricula range from 'Pure as the Driven Snow' to 'Late Night TV'
#841 Burn Noticed
1. the Man in the Plastic Mask has been imprisoned in the Capital Penitentiary
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
2. chocolate in @@NAME@@ has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers
#843 Quacking Up
2. new treatments are rejected if they cannot be explained using only one-syllable words
#844 Essentially on Strike
1. the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking
#845 A Comedy of Errors
2. the comic book series '@@LEADER@@ and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller
4. the government-sponsored autobiography '@@A@@ @@LEADER@@ For All Seasons' has only been bought by the most loyal of @@LEADER@@'s supporters
#847 All the Lonely People
3. disposable antiseptic wipes are considered a social necessity
4. lonely people are supposed to be cheered up by the many parties that they are never invited to
5. it is illegal to comfort a crying baby between the hours of 6 pm and 8 pm
#848 It's a Girl Thing
2. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
3. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
#849 Sky High
1. children are terrified that the 'flying police monster' will come to take them away in the night
2. crackheads chase drug-loaded drones in hopes of a lucky drop
#850 The Prints and the Slaughter
2. mass shootings have become the new normal
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
2. mall countdown clocks warn that there are only 364 more shopping days until Maxxmas
#852 Brown Breeches Thanks to Speeches
2. lip-readers are often left perplexed by political rallies
3. lip-readers are often left perplexed by political rallies
4. shouting contests are an important part of government job interviews
#853 Silence Is Golden
2. citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals
3. from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in @@NAME@@
#854 An Armory of Antiques
1. reinventing the wheel is a favourite pastime of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ weapons designers
4. army gunpowder stores are being commandeered to make pretty fireworks and sparklers
#855 Thin Evidence
2. it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies
#856 You Got Stones
2. Brancaland has gifted over nine thousand putrid moose carcasses to @@NAME@@ as a reminder of their "special relationship"
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
5. the government's official stance on scientific inquiry is 'there's no question so big that it can't be ignored'
#858 Reporting for (Jury) Duty
3. judges are rumored to find in favor of whoever bribes them the most
4. the "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted
#859 A Cola by Any Other Name
2. citizens need a magnifying glass and color chart to distinguish between nearly identical brand labels
#860 A Blast From the Past
1. the tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches
2. Bigtopian relations have become a minefield
#862 Friends Close, Enemies Closer
2. communists in @@NAME@@ note that wealth should be equal but that some should have more of that equality than others
4. the government seems embarrassed to be seen governing
9. government ministers sport new billboards that read 'Will Trade Votes for Private Members' Bill Support'
#863 Oiling the Wheels of Diplomacy
2. the moral worth of national allies is judged by their GDP
3. military training in @@NAME@@ emphasizes the tactical advantages of stabbing backs
#864 The Missionary Position
2. gigantic marble churches take up almost half the land area of small villages
3. becoming a missionary is a sure-fire route to martyrdom
#865 A Funeral for a Fiend?
2. children dream of becoming physicians and physicists
4. the government only announces the deaths of its members when it's convenient
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
3. every fourth child is born with flippers instead of hands
#867 Museums: Things of the Past?
1. museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts
3. the Gallery of Instasnap is the most popular museum in the country
4. the Gallery of Amusing Cat Photographs is the most popular museum in the country
5. the nation's historic treasures have been sold off to Maxtopia's "Museum of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Artifacts That They're Too Stupid to Appreciate"
#868 All in the Family
2. family isn't who you're born with but who you abandon in foreign countries
3. imprisonment is the leading cause of disownment
#869 I'll Be in My Bunker
2. property subletting is going underground
5. the nation's nuclear defence policy is to "turn the other cheek"
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
1. the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem
2. people who question what bunker construction has to do with economic reform tend to disappear
3. scientists are working on a way to automate the role of @@LEADER@@
5. the "Brave New World" program has caused private businesses to spring up faster than the East Lebatuck Wall
#873 Terrified Testimony!
3. citizens brought into court for parking violations are never heard from again
#874 Still Life
3. life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old"
4. life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old"
#875 They See Me Trollin', They Threatenin'
2. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
3. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
4. a death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation
#877 Gunning for Profits
1. newly-peaceful nations are forced to use assault rifles as farming tools due to a lack of funds for purchasing anything else
2. the nation gives peace a chance - usually one in a million
3. road rage is rarer but more terminal now that many people drive fully-operational battle tanks to work
4. old warplanes and tanks that break down can't be repaired since no one makes the parts anymore
#878 DoublePlusUnGood
1. the nation has always been at war with Moltovea
2. citizens know not to ask what their country can do for them but what they can do as chained slaves for their country
3. one-word headlines are the norm in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ newspapers
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony
3. preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance
#881 Blooming Out of Proportion
3. hedge fund managers are diversifying into herbaceous borders
#882 Death by Chocolate
2. the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb
3. children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
2. the restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
2. consumers are free to choose - so long as they choose Eckie-Ecola or Eckie-Cola
3. citizens may now wear shoes while watching television as long as the television is outside and the shoes are rental
4. citizens may now wear shoes while watching television as long as the television is outside and the shoes are rental
#885 Has Beans
1. coffee-addicted citizens look forward to baristas getting their name wrong at local coffee shops
2. politicians are often seen drinking soft drinks at the end of every public address
#886 Bounty on the Table
2. bounty hunters have been dispatched to hunt down rogue bounty hunters
3. a shout of "stop in the name of the law!" is more of a request than an order
#887 Thin Skin
1. nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines
#888 Criminal Patterns
1. road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans
#889 A Plank Too Far
1. pirates armed with sonar-guided semi-autonomous torpedos and laser weapons systems are often seen capturing fishing trawlers
3. a paperwork error has naval privateers being directed to attack land-locked nations
#890 Mining Blues
3. the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone
4. the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone
5. pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy
6. the Betamax versus VHS debate continues to rage strongly in @@NAME@@
#891 Preach It!
1. citizens are prohibited from raising their voice above thirty decibels in commercial districts
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
1. restaurateurs put a lot of effort into persuading customers to accept wafer-thin mints
2. bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls
#894 Seigneurs Demand Rights
3. embittered former nobles desperately try to cling on to their noblesse oblige and their heads
#895 Stop Training and Start Coaching
1. the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture
3. many rural villagers have never been more than a day's horse-ride from their birthplace
#896 It's Our Lot in Life
5. competing private ambulances racing to be the first to traffic accidents are a major cause of road accidents
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
3. slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration
#899 Uncultured Singles in Your Area
3. preservative-laden @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cheeses will be as edible when archaeologists dig them up next millennium
4. the new cheese tax is colloquially known as "wheel welfare"
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
1. CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show
2. home renovation shows are increasingly popular
4. newly-privatized lumberjacks are clearcutting the forest to meet demand
5. the only place where one can see the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cherry tree is in a museum
#901 You Buy That?
2. playing an online nation simulation game legally obliges you to buy the creator's latest novel
#902 Killer App
6. there'll be no comeback tour for many former boy bands
#903 Every Breath You Take
2. citizens are now allowed to discuss whether @@LEADER@@ is the greatest ruler ever or simply the greatest ruler of this generation
#904 Yours Insincerely
1. the government only invests in infrastructure after a natural disaster
#905 Stage Directions
2. in musicals everybody's a little bit racist
#906 Internet Killed the Television Star
2. the television adaptation of Jennifer Government is the most popular program in the nation
3. @@LEADER@@'s webseries about the alleged hauntings of @@CAPITAL@@ generates millions of views
4. televangelists often claim they can cure your Lupus if you donate enough money
#907 A Problem Shared
1. police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds
2. police officers that upset their bosses get assigned to 24 hour stakeouts of bike sheds
4. boom-and-bust cycles are being peddled as economically inevitable
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
6. hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead"
#908 The Forbidden Fruit
1. the government's fruit business reeks of rotting produce and corruption
#909 On the Fence
1. a few immigrants are better than no immigrants according to @@LEADER@@
#910 A for Effort
1. marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal
3. the most ambitious parents buy a dozen lottery scratch-cards each week for their kids
#911 For Crying Out Loud
1. unemployed town criers cry over their drinks
#913 Couped Up
2. the practice of capital punishment proves divisive
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
2. there is no other place with more lab coats per square mile than former houses of worship
3. atheists in the nation feel uneasy living in buildings where they were once vilified
4. the dwindling faithful in the nation make expensive pilgrimages to the remaining places of worship
6. luxury condos have arisen from the ashes of demolished houses of worship
7. community centers have arisen from the ashes of demolished houses of worship
#915 Clasp of Controversy
2. the nation is @@REGION@@'s leading manufacturer of intricately-patterned sweaters
3. psychiatrists bizarrely accompany @@LEADER@@ to meetings with foreign heads of state
#916 Swing and a Miss
1. fans doing the wave routinely disrupt the finals of Go tournaments
2. hockey players who drop their gloves discard them on abandoned baseball mitts
3. athletes and street criminals compete for solid steel baseball bats
4. professional athletes can't see balls amid the deluge of advertisements
5. foreign casinos have trouble paying fans who bet on the triumph of the @@CAPITAL@@ @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ against long odds
#917 School's In, Cash Is Out!
4. kindergartens are full of kids dressed as superheroes and princesses
#919 The Meaning of Life
2. prison overcrowding is being addressed with a series of short sharp shocks
3. kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#921 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad @@NAME@@
2. citizens finish cleaning up after the annual National Treasure Hunt just in time for the next one
3. the nation's forests are full of treasure hunters in military-grade survival gear
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
1. the fattest folk in @@NAME@@ look to be the happiest ones
#923 Ministers Exposing Themselves
1. politicians who vacation in East Lebatuck lose their jobs upon their return
3. it's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast
#925 Ring of Death
1. a murderous reputation can revitalise a flagging celebrity career
#927 Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It
1. parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework
#928 Get a Life
5. babies are increasingly seen as a luxury
6. hoping to get pregnant is considered sinful presumption
#929 Champagne in the Glass
2. foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Moonshine"
3. alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance
4. alcoholism is the newest import from Dàguó
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
2. attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
1. no suburban lawn is complete without barbed wire and landmines
4. international terrorists often get their weapons supply in @@NAME@@
#934 @@LEADER@@, Don't Tear Down That Wall!
1. a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction
2. the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism
3. government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy
#935 Hero to Zero
2. there are no more heroes any more
4. psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests
#936 Hackable Elections?
4. it's said that any enemy of democracy is a friend to @@LEADER@@
#937 Ebony Pride
2. everybody's got wood thanks to @@LEADER@@
3. reddish-brown is the new black
#938 A Little Gift From a Friend
1. the nation is designated as a welfare recipient under Skandilundian law
3. tanks are being deployed to the Skandilundian border as part of "Operation Ironic Storm"
#939 A Question of Bad Faith
1. burnt-out forty-foot-tall wicker men dot the countryside
4. children who express a belief in Santa are labelled 'delusional cultists'
#940 The Court of the Crimson Lord
1. a typical peasant's life cycle leads from birth to the gallows
#941 Scents and Sensibility
3. nose plugs are the latest @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ fashion accessory
#942 A Foreign Exchange of Ideas
1. the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies
3. foreign students are expected to have a Kegmeister Grade Average of 36-24-36 to qualify for university
#945 Police on the Take
1. the police motto is "to protect and not to serve"
2. crimes are difficult to stop as most of the police force is stuck in traffic
#946 Better In Than Out
4. explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase
#947 Imitation Station
1. drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars
#948 1x, 2x, 3x, a Lady
3. women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up"
4. women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up"
#949 Jailhouses Rocked!
4. there's a big brother in every prison
#950 Borderline Pandemic
2. both vegetables and viruses are often smuggled across the border
#951 The Wrath of the Fish King
1. fish with fish chips have become the new @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ food staple
4. the idiom 'there are plenty of fish in the sea' isn't so reassuring to @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#952 Why the Long Face?
2. glue production is at an all-time high
#953 The Ethnic Minority Report
1. police detectives carry phrenology calipers as part of their standard kit
2. it is not politically correct to suspect that a serially convicted burglar might steal again
#955 Can It!
1. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
2. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
3. adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
1. the "swords to plowshares" policy has created a generation of farmers that can kill a yak from 200 yards away
2. unemployed youngsters trained to kill are being released en masse into society
3. veterans in wheelchairs are left waist-deep in rice paddies to gather grain
#957 Putrid Predicament
3. the diplomatic corps stinks
4. the army's use of chemical weapons leaves a bad taste in the mouth
#959 A-Major Debate
2. music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs
3. music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs
4. high school band practice is often crashed by technicolor-clad ravers
5. students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50
#960 Nobody Does It Better?
3. vital intelligence-gathering activities are often put on hold for Call of Honor tournaments
#961 No Two Ways About It
3. cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them
#962 A Matter of Loaf and Death
3. new government leaflets tell coeliac children to eat more crisps
4. people experiencing anaphylactic shock are told to buck their ideas up
6. whole-wheat loaves are sold under the counter in brown paper bags
#963 The @@LEADER@@ Meme
3. politicians frequently make unusual poses during speeches in hopes of inspiring the next internet fad
#964 An Expensive Watch
1. Little League matches are often attended by riot police with water cannon... just in case
3. the only record being broken at sporting events is the highest death toll
#965 Like a Bull in a Dàguó Shop
1. foreign countries consider stepping on their grass to be a serious offense
4. card collectors duel to the death
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
1. grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps
3. people think garlic bread counts as one of their "five a day"
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
3. @@LEADER@@ is famed for giving great back rubs
#969 Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Incredibly Sick!
1. ill and injured visitors in @@NAME@@ have to walk it off until they return home
2. healthcare workers are flummoxed over the spike in foreign tourists with sudden-onset heart disease
3. foreigners must sell an arm and a leg to afford surgery in @@NAME@@
#970 For Want of a Nail
7. it's a miracle that there aren't more plane crashes
#971 Ambassadors Inextraordinary
1. childhood friends of @@LEADER@@ are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense
2. childhood friends of @@LEADER@@ are living it large abroad at the taxpayers' expense
5. traumatized ex-ambassadors seek treatment for their "desk dissociation"
#973 Guided Missiles and Misguided Men
2. children are often punished for the sins of the fathers
#974 Siren Song
2. the banshee wail foretells skies of death
3. weather reports simply advise @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ to 'look outside'
#975 Paparazzi Parents
2. the Snapgram channel "Embarrassing Baby @@LEADER@@ Pics" has made @@LEADER@@'s mom a celebrity
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
4. the government evicts ethnic minorities by stranding them in the wilderness
#978 Alone in the Dark
1. prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present
3. justice is blinding
#979 A Patronising Statement
2. a popular artist is claiming that a raw steak with a dog turd on it is a portrait of @@LEADER@@
#980 Small Claims
1. the nation's atlases tend to go out of date every few weeks
2. military officials are questioning the policy of ceding the nation's territory in exchange for promises not to invade it
4. the government has been criticized for giving away @@NAME@@'s territory to anyone who claims it
#981 Westfailian Sovereignty
1. lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders
3. the best doughnut stores have been taken over by foreign police officers
#982 Your Move, @@LEADER@@?
5. nations across the world are quick to praise @@LEADER@@'s good looks and intellectual prowess
#983 Doctors' Orders
1. pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ roads
2. doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license
#984 A Midsummer Night's Snooze-Fest
2. emojis are the soul of wit
4. all the playground's a stage for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ schoolchildren
#985 Service With a Snarl
2. rude retail employees are now even ruder homeless panhandlers
3. bar brawls are an hourly occurrence
4. bar brawls are an hourly occurrence
#986 Poacher Pandemic
1. wildlife parks are packed with poachers yet increasingly devoid of animals
4. environmentalists have found an unusual ally in soldiers of fortune
#987 Quia Scriptum Est
2. the law says it's okay to sell a bomb to a terrorist so long as they promise not to detonate it
3. the government says only criminals harp on about "innocent until proven guilty"
#988 Highway Robbery by the Book!
1. cheap textbooks have replaced coasters at college ragers
2. stockbrokers dream of getting rich by writing textbooks
3. strip mining of rare earth metals is up while back problems are down
4. education for the poor is learning to ask "do you want fries with that?"
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
1. gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away
#990 Baby Shower
2. multiple births are a cause of celebration for tax collectors
#991 Alms and Qualms
3. charity workers dole out hardtack from behind designer sunglasses
#992 Robots in Disguise
3. NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people
5. visual acuity is worsening amongst teenagers
#993 Drug Deal
1. drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients
2. doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality
#994 The Life of Riley
3. prisoners fit in their parole hearings around their spa treatments
#995 A Cup Runneth Over
1. women across the country are tying the knot
3. babies living in poverty are told to take responsibility for their own fortunes
4. on hunt days the unpleasant peasant runs in lieu of the pheasant
#996 Scripting a Change?
1. textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be
#999 Just Plane Ridiculous
3. the world still seems flat to some people in space
#1000 Should Democracy Be Compulsory?
1. voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary
2. voting for pro-Bigtopian candidates is voluntary
#1001 Will the Real Victims Please Stand Up?
3. investigative journalism into politicians' misbehaviour has abruptly ended
4. bank robbers always set aside 50% of the loot to pay off the judge
#1002 The Call of Nature
1. pet owners make sure their dogs wear diapers
#1003 That Smarts
1. too many hyper-intelligent chefs can spoil the allegorical broth
2. gene-engineered sewerjacks don't smell but they do stink
#1004 Two Countries and a Baby
2. would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here"
#1005 What Goes Up Breaks Down
3. cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes
5. the nation's air force consists of strongly-worded letters folded into paper airplanes
#1006 Opening the Door to Controversy
4. movement-triggered sensors mean that for every door that closes another one opens
#1007 Putting Your Foot in It
1. pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit
2. bins outnumber trees in city parks
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
2. children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary
#1009 A Woman's Roll
1. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
2. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
4. glassy-eyed @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ wives lifelessly chant "I love you" on command
#1010 What's Got Into @@NAME@@?
1. grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them
#1011 State of the Media
1. state media features lively debates such as whether pineapple on pizza is an acceptable topping
4. former public radio talk pundits are being deployed to front line war zones
#1012 Tilting at Wind Turbines
2. politicians that report exaggerated crowd sizes for their speeches are dismissed for being delusional
3. epidemiologists happily announce that the reported incidence of depression is close to zero percent
#1013 Grave Disease
4. people across the world seek to be healthier by eliminating carbs
#1016 Breaking Upset
5. emergency services don't respond to trailer park fires
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
3. epileptic patients switch their medications to whichever has a 'buy one get one free' offer
4. diabetics find the contents of their medications hard to stomach
#1018 Operation Failed
1. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
2. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
4. the doctor has cold hands
#1019 Patent Nonsense
1. government opponents tend to have their patents rejected immediately
3. product development labs spend most of their money fighting the government's patent infringement lawsuits
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
1. going on a diet invalidates your passport
4. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
5. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
#1021 Room and Board Games
3. monocled merchants with funny accents are applying for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ citizenship in droves
4. multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks
#1022 Failure to Respond
1. the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance
2. pocket dialling is a criminal offence
4. there's no cure or sympathy for the common cold
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1025 A Meal to Die For
1. prisoners due for execution often use their final statement to complain about soggy bread rolls
3. decreased demand for toilets is saving the prison service a lot of money
#1026 Size Matters
1. the entire entry for @@NAME@@ in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the World reads 'mostly harmless'
4. citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious
#1027 Murder in Mind
1. citizens know never to accept cookies from strangers
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
1. toddler groups have taken over local libraries
2. parents tell their children 'what a lovely mistake you turned out to be'
#1029 Frozen Assets
1. people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
3. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices
4. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Crispy Fried Tofu's secret blend of herbs and spices
5. panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet
#1031 Down in the Groove
1. seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma
2. literature classes frequently go on field trips to rock concerts
#1034 Counting Coups
2. turning the other cheek is accompanied by a polite letter of complaint
3. the nation's black ops are starting to get on people's nerves
#1035 Bringing a Bayonet to a Gunfight
2. running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training
3. posing for pictures is an integral part of military training
#1036 When in Maxtopia
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politicians are often described as having more style than substance
2. at least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to @@LEADER@@'s wardrobe
4. the nation was recently voted as the most stylish in @@REGION@@
#1038 Maid to Order
1. members of ethnic minorities are more often called "boy" or "girl" than by their actual names
3. slaving over a hot stove to cook the family dinner isn't metaphorical in @@NAME@@
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
2. the secret ingredient is love (and MSG)
3. days begin with afternoon tea
#1041 A Sport Retort
1. children who display even minimal sporting aptitude are immediately assigned a personal trainer
3. children's bedrooms are often decorated with posters of successful accountants
4. the nation's most popular sport is sabotaging foreigners' hopes and dreams
#1042 Failure to Launch
2. carpal tunnel syndrome is on the rise
#1044 OK Stupid
2. it is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon
#1047 Rivers of Blood
3. the rainbow assortment of chemicals in the water has turned the frogs gay
#1048 Tatty Treaty Spat Turns Catty
2. theft is considered to be okay if the crime happened a long time ago
#1049 Hard Times Ahead?
3. there's stiff competition in the medical marketplace
#1051 Take to the Skies
2. former planespotters are dusting off long-abandoned anoraks
#1052 The Prisoners' Dilemma
1. the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme
2. prisoners pray grey skies are gonna clear up
#1053 Some Enchanted Evening That Was
4. there is no such thing as an innocent fling in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military
#1054 Herbal Trouble
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ junkies argue that poppy stalks are ornamental flowers
#1055 Fishy Predictions
1. roosters that herald the rising sun are immediately sent to the slaughterhouse
3. military chiefs are predicting extra funding in this year's budget
#1056 Time to Work?
2. factory workers offered 20-hour shifts are expected to thank their bosses for the wonderful opportunity
#1057 Baby, It's Cold Outside
1. warm coats are the hottest trend
3. surf's up and hypothermia's down
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
1. the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose
2. the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles
3. the nation's endangered species are no longer endangered
#1060 Hole in the Wall
2. putting houses on stilts is elevating house porches and prices alike
#1061 Every Day I'm Muffling
1. mechanics are often exhausted by their work
3. when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
3. sofas are perpetually on sales that Must End Soon
#1064 Culture Wars
3. if foreigners can hit a spittoon from five paces they get a free holiday to @@NAME@@
#1065 Pulling Out
1. citizens are strongly encouraged to breathe less so as to limit the carbon footprint
2. the carbon footprint falls along with the human footprint during war
3. the carbon footprint falls along with the human footprint during war
4. the climate agreement has actually increased the volume of hot air in the atmosphere
5. the nation has learned that pulling out is messy
#1066 It's an Honour Just to Be Condemned
3. there's no such thing as bad publicity
#1067 Don't Fear the Reefer
2. costumed characters wearing Maxtopian Grass leaves remind citizens that the government now sells the green stuff
#1068 Made to Break
1. supermarkets must refund spoilt milk even six months after the sale
2. frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback
3. state-manufactured hammers and sickles are here to stay
#1069 Bowl Motions
1. being able to unblock a u-bend pipe is considered a universally essential skill
2. the roar of the Niagara 3000 mega-loo can be heard several blocks away
3. garden flower shows rarely smell of roses
4. there is something rotten in the state of @@NAME@@
#1072 Holographic Harmonization
1. pop sensation "Jack and the Holograms" is storming the charts
3. there's no weight to modern politics
#1074 Halting the Heirloom Heist!
3. royal princesses are recognizable by their plastic tiaras
#1075 The Hand That Feeds
1. most of the population has had bad experiences with hoes
2. the nation continues to depend on foreigners for food
3. the nation continues to depend on foreigners for food
5. nouveau riche farmers diligently take care of their golden calf herds
#1076 Smokers Cornered
1. the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across @@NAME@@
#1077 With Friends Like These...
2. primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit
#1078 Down With That?
1. captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship
3. ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain
#1079 What's Love Got to Do With It?
2. to 'cut off family ties' is no longer just a phrase
#1080 The End Was Nigh
3. the new biography of @@LEADER@@ is subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Bomb"
4. it's illegal to blow things up
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
3. gossip magazines are more interested in astrological stars than celebrity ones
#1082 It's Hard to Separate the Truth From Entertainment
2. doctors prescribe videos of political debates to patients with insomnia
3. the country is governed by a clique of political insiders known colloquially as The Establishment
4. government doublethinkers have declared that voting is slavery
#1084 How Now Kowtow?
1. arthritic citizens seem underrepresented at royal meet-and-greets
#1085 Nuke Before You Leap
3. the nation has returned to more conventional warfare to slaughter its enemies
#1086 Fun in the Sun
1. the 'sing-a-long with @@LEADER@@' album is a popular souvenir
2. tourists are duped into trimming hedges for the horsy-set
3. surfing lessons include how to ward off sharks
4. awkward tourists are offered the 'unique experience' of rodeo clown
5. souvenir shops that sell alphorns are taking advantage of gullible tourists
6. hordes of tourists are ruining the environment
#1087 An International Dictatorial Dilemma
1. the nation solves other countries' human rights problems with a generous dose of violence
4. the nation doesn't need to go to war in order to acquire new territory
#1088 Inexpert Opinions
1. sleep-deprived officials are known to collapse after late night revision for their examinations
4. the government terminates employment with extreme prejudice
#1091 The Great Divide
2. jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration
#1092 The Boys From Brasilistan
2. a recent "genocide prevention" campaign includes murdering children based on their DNA
#1093 Ignorance Is No Excuse?
1. the government mails weekly updates on the new anti-junk mail laws to every citizen
2. dozens of viewers go online to hear whether a comma has been added to Clause 5 in Subsection B of Law 58375
4. claiming that "my cousin said it was legal" is a common courtroom defense
#1094 A Political Cover-Up
1. foreign ambassadors never get to see what @@NAME@@ has to offer
3. most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wear towels as demand for pants outstrips supply
#1095 Make the Cut
2. tower block residents are each held responsible for four square inches of front lawn
3. grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths
4. kids only know what plants are because they've seen them on the television
#1096 En Bloc
1. the new electoral law has been nicknamed 'Jim @@ANIMAL@@'
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
4. parties on cruise ships go off with a real bang
#1098 Edged Out
3. schoolyard bullying has a tendency to escalate
4. people wouldn't be seen dead without their guns
#1099 New Satellite Blues
1. billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ are spent to take high-quality photos of the @@ANIMAL@@ Nebula
2. if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it... @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ satellites can detect it
3. the government spends billions to protect @@NAME@@ from a disaster that is one in a million
4. the government spends billions to protect @@NAME@@ from a disaster that is one in a million
#1100 Raiders of the Lost Archive
1. brave curators do battle with disorganised government libraries
3. the government's giant servers are often used as a tourist trap
#1101 Unreal
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries
#1102 The Sickest Criminals
1. cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes
#1104 Balancing the Books
1. books are often used as kindling
2. parents ask their ten-year-olds for help with their government-mandated book reports
#1105 A Green History Lesson
1. the statue in the @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@ Plaza has a solar panel for a hat
#1106 Some Body to Love
1. customer satisfaction with online delivery services is at an all time high
3. anyone can get ahead in life if they want to
#1107 Welcome to the Party
1. there's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies
2. the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
3. many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators
4. many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators
5. classes are regularly interrupted by drunken children
6. hospitals scramble for new disinfectants following a ban on rubbing alcohol
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
1. patriotic parents remind their children to drink plenty of water
4. people forget to eat because they are too busy singing @@LEADER@@'s praises
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
2. the mood of raunchy movies is often ruined by the sound of babies crying
#1111 A Call for Change
1. the homeless more often beg for mercy than money
3. tour guides tell passengers that there is beautiful architecture just behind the two-hundred-foot concrete walls
#1114 Patriotism Flagging
1. patriots insist that size does matter
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
3. acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
1. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
2. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
3. stews often contain used tissues and pocket fluff
4. lobster tastes best when it is red
5. the red star of communism has been replaced by the gold star of the McRonald's badge
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
3. apprentice builders get teased for wearing hard hats
#1119 Where There Isn't Smoke
1. peer pressure from cooler world leaders directs @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ government policy
2. @@LEADER@@ lights cigars with a hundred-@@CURRENCY@@ bill
3. there's a lot of smoke from the nation's "green economy"
4. slackers at work are told to "crack on with it"
#1120 Following Yonder Star
1. a formerly quiet little town is now booming as both a cult centre and a tourist attraction
4. claims of miracles are met with calls to eradicate religion as superstitious nonsense
#1121 Tribes and Tribulations
1. the might of the entire @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Navy is focused on fifty bemused spear-throwing islanders
#1123 Till Death Do Us Part
2. autopsies often involve only cursory examination
#1126 Waste of Time
1. nobody ever questions the unquestioned rule that questions must always be asked
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
2. grannies get pulled over for knitting pullovers while driving
3. taxi drivers seem less xenophobic these days
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
3. fifty years of pension funds can disappear in half a second
#1131 Safe Sects
2. five-year-olds who refuse to line up on command get gold stars
3. religious epiphanies are often cited as a reason for high school drop-outs
#1132 Gold Standards
2. destitute athletes are forced to train in the street
#1133 Rocky Road
1. roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it
3. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
4. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
#1134 Tariff-ic Trouble
3. international trade is a sticky issue
#1137 A Really Sour Lemon
1. ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products
4. citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin
5. citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin
#1138 Shock Tactics
3. chest pains are considered part of the dining experience in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants
#1139 A Little Wrestling, a Lot of Controversy
2. the government loves seeing the little people fight
#1140 Blinded by the Light
2. @@CAPITAL@@'s flashy holiday light displays can be seen from space
#1142 Womb Service
3. new "Commiserations! It's An Accident!" greetings cards for expectant mothers are selling surprisingly quickly
4. bustling back-alley clinics treat everything from sports injuries to angina
#1143 Running From Time
1. criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison
3. the only crimes that get investigated are doughnut heists
#1146 Mother Knows Best?
1. basic multiplication is all you need to know to have a child
3. posters encourage people to "Just Do It!"
#1147 The Long Walk
2. fruit vendors are encouraging a life of crime in their advertising
#1148 Unfit for Purpose
4. paraplegics are told to walk it off
#1149 The Goriest Advertisement
1. terrorist videos start by thanking their sponsors
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
1. most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade
3. extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
1. employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired
2. there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day
4. supermodels maintain their skinny form by running away from government officials
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
2. the nation's generous tax credits have brought all the film studios to the yard
4. the @@CAPITAL@@ Film Festival recently voted '@@DEMONYMNOUN@@ Getting Hit By Football' as best film
#1156 Pet Theory
2. puppies given out free in marketing promotions are often tossed straight into the trash
3. burgers often list "miscellaneous meats" in their ingredients
#1157 Rodney and Julietta
1. love is a precious butterfly to be crushed under diplomatic protocol
4. heartfelt sentiments are mercilessly marketed by a million-@@CURRENCY@@ treacle machine
#1158 Flying Into a Rage
3. women who are caught shoplifting are sent home to their fathers with a patronising pat on the bottom
#1159 The Sad State of Affairs
4. it takes at least three to tango
#1160 Milking It
1. more than one company makes the board game Monopoly
2. a milk bath costs more than bathing in money
#1162 She's Always a Woman to Me
2. taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death
3. taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death
#1163 Some Assembly Required
2. group hugs break out during floor votes
4. legislators must raise their hands if they want to speak
#1164 What a Gneiss Place We've Got Here
1. trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews
2. an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety
3. citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones
#1166 Acres Wild
1. farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land
2. the backs of 'No Trespassing' signs were made for you and me
3. wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests
#1167 Another Brick in the Wall
2. an extra-long museum is being built to house the old border wall
3. refugees without a PhD are sent back to where they came from
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
3. many believe that you can't repeat history's mistakes if you don't care what they were
#1170 To Catch a Beef
1. hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers
2. hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers
#1172 Piled Higher and Deeper
1. engineers ask liberal arts majors "Do you want fries with that?"
2. college-level writing classes are taught by undergraduate editors of the school newspaper
#1173 Thinking a Little Too Hard?
2. the @@CAPITAL@@ XV Regiment (aka "The Goat Starers") have yet to win a battle
3. praying before a battle is a court-martial offence
#1174 Bad Press
1. many suspect that the 'Whinny The Plop' children's magazine contains covert criticism of @@LEADER@@
3. the recently liberated free press cautiously uses compliment sandwiches to cushion its criticisms of @@LEADER@@
#1175 Can I Borrow a Word?
1. escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails'
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
2. blackface performers claim they are being deliberately ironic
#1177 A Funny Old Game
2. corruption is a game of two halves
#1179 Nothing Fishy
1. father-son fishing trips have been banned
2. ports have ground to a halt as no boat can reach them without trespassing
3. fishermen take out second mortgages to afford the yearly fishing permit
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
1. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
2. people on the brink of death are put through unwanted and stressful procedures
3. young people devote their entire lives to the faith
4. young people devote their entire lives to the faith
6. uprooting flowers for religious ceremonies is a felony
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
1. the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
4. the nation is renowned abroad for its love of blood and guts
5. noble feuds don't end until one side gets their point across
#1182 Thanks, but No Thanks
1. the government considers the rising number of McRonald's fast food restaurants to be great progress
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
3. it is said that @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ woman's work is never done
4. female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked'
#1185 Should Be Sufficient
3. the best fashion comes straight to the high street from sweatshops all across the globe
4. socialism gives everyone a share of the economy's growing carbon footprint
#1186 The Magic's Gone
5. the government is telling wizards to put their heart into their work
#1189 Driven to Distraction
3. drivers are told they're not staring at mobile phone screens enough
4. most people learn to drive on crash courses
#1190 Dirty Laundry
1. public enemies often walk home with spotless garments and crime records
3. nobody brings rolls of coins to the laundromat anymore
#1191 Intelligent Design
2. nano-@@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are the current fad sweeping the nation
3. pet rocks are sold by the pound
#1192 Child's Play
2. the nation sends criminals home to think about what they did
3. young criminals are told they'll go to bed without supper if they do it again
5. farmers trade ploughshares for swords when military sortition puts them in charge of regiments
#1193 Relocating the Living Room
1. colonists who were promised new lands find only war-torn devastation
2. the government maintains a Department of Skulduggery
#1194 Lost in Translation
2. people are bored of easy crossword puzzles
#1195 All Hands on Tap!
2. foreign leaders never seem to want to shake hands with @@LEADER@@
#1196 The Properties of Property
2. a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true
#1197 Aflame With Indignity
5. children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia
6. children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia
#1199 Locked Down
3. the police think a properly conducted criminal investigation is a real pain
#1202 A Timely Intervention
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ watches list strained wrists as a common side effect
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ watches list strained wrists as a common side effect
3. the well-to-do in @@REGION@@ are never on time for important appointments
4. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ watches are often the only thing to survive a disaster intact
#1203 The Fandom Menace
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about @@LEADER@@
3. film studios own the rights to actors' likenesses until the next millennium
#1204 Homecoming Queen
1. the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on @@NAME@@
#1206 Gross Domestic Product
3. garbage bags floating down the river are churned up by man-made rapids
#1207 Next, Please!
1. "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
2. students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework
#1209 Your Island Is My Island
1. the sun now sets on the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Empire
3. the freedom to be free is always just out of reach
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
2. the smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation
3. class action lawsuits have gone up in smoke thanks to government interference
#1212 Lost at Sea
3. children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes
#1213 The War of Man and Beast
4. the nation's iron imports are booming
#1216 Not My Government
4. an iron curtain has descended around the nation
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
2. religious leaders insist all life is sacred (but not those vat-bred wretches)
3. growing infants in a vat is an antiquated concept
#1220 Barely Any Art
2. drawing men's naughty bits isn't considered to be art
#1221 Man of the People
1. politicians always seem to take two steps forward then three steps back
3. former state leaders include a TV comic and a cowboy actor
#1223 Courting Bankruptcy
1. all @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ live like kings
3. nephews and nieces of the monarch resort to begging from relatives in palace halls
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
4. the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months
#1226 Unintelligent Oversight
1. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Intelligence Agency has put 'Project Quantum Refrigerator' on hold indefinitely
2. a bureaucratic fight over @@DEMONYMADJECTIVEINITIALS@@IA cafeteria food expenditures has caused the temporary suspension of all agency counterintelligence operations
#1227 Girls on Film
1. loading sixteen tons of laundry gets you another year older and deeper in debt
#1228 The Road to Hell
2. a driving license is obtained not by passing a test but by passing a brown envelope
3. only the fast and the furious are brave enough to drive
#1229 Crystal Clear Sinuses
3. decongestants have replaced @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ in street transactions
4. there's some really clean windows in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ houses
#1230 Home Hunger
1. new pests have been imported into @@NAME@@
#1231 Save Our Souls
5. the nation takes the world's poor and tired and the huddled Masses yearning to breathe free
#1232 I've Got 99 Problems but @@FAITH@@ Ain't One
2. people feel the most alone when among peers
3. people feel the most alone when among peers
#1233 Get Real!
2. baiting is a national sport
4. it's best to say "yes" if the arbiter asks "what are you, a moron?"
#1234 I Declare a Thumb War
1. the government is under the thumb of countless special interests
2. the government keeps its thumb on the scales of justice
3. celebrity wrestlers thumb their nose at due process
#1235 Good Guy With a Gun
1. financial investors are noting a boom in artillery
#1237 A Polar Bear's Tale
2. police reduce their paperwork by refusing to arrest anyone
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
2. signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés
#1240 Unadmirable Zeal
1. faithful allies are always valued
#1242 Jump Leads
4. it's often raining men (hallelujah) in @@CAPITAL@@
#1245 Sheepish Students
3. a long-distance hike gets students geared up for a long day at school
4. the wealthiest parts of the country receive the most government spending
#1246 Breath of the Wild
1. nobody knows why the caged @@ANIMAL@@ sings
2. the cycle of extinction and rebirth is never ending
3. the old neighbourhood isn't how most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ remember it
4. the national symbol of @@NAME@@ is now always featured on a skewer
#1248 A Day to Remember
2. social care for the elderly consists of a self help leaflet and a kick on the backside
4. red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair
#1249 Red Dead Representatives
1. the big red machine has ground to a halt
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
2. ceremonial zweihänders are used in holy rituals
3. millions are awarded in damages for bad haircuts
#1252 Ale to the Chief
1. everyone wants to be on the guest list for diplomatic parties
2. visiting dignitaries make excuses to leave functions early and head to the nearest pub
3. more and more people are signing up for the government party
4. more and more people are signing up for the government party
5. no one is worried about government policies any more
#1253 Build a Better Baby?
1. young people suspect their parents might be a little bit stupid
3. genetic screening weeds out citizens whose legs don't bend easily at the knee
#1254 Sales on Rails
2. there's more vermin than ever on the metro
3. there's no representation without taxation
#1255 This Lady's Not for Turning
1. the daily weather forecast often predicts light showers of debris
#1257 It's a Kind of Magic
3. populations of two-headed @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites
4. paranoid museum guards keep a lookout for any animated displays attempting to escape the premises after dark
#1259 Buy Low, Sell High
4. mandatory state-funded classes teach Libertarianism
#1260 Gay Abandoned
1. armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough
#1262 Dead Tasty
3. there's a mortuary next to every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurant
#1263 Is the Signature Always Right?
2. political detractors refer to @@LEADER@@ as 'that Bigtopian puppet'
5. a signed affidavit from a prominent anti-corruption advocate declares that @@HE/SHE@@ is in fact a crook after all
#1265 The Silent Majority's Roaring Mouthpiece
1. primary candidates are replaced if they fail to compliment @@LEADER@@'s hair
4. when conspiracy theorists talk about "government moles" they're referring to mysteriously mobile skin lesions
#1266 Pink Is the New Orange
3. not even good behaviour will get transgender inmates any special perks
#1267 Hamming It Up
1. "What's the Frequency, @@LEADER@@?" is a favorite phrase of backyard radio broadcasters when interrupting official diplomatic channels
5. email killed the radio star
6. email killed the radio star
#1269 All That Glitters
1. phenotypic plasticity is a struggle for sealife in polluted waters
2. little girls are in tears as @@LEADER@@ confiscates their pink princess ballgowns
3. annual government budgets include a sizeable spend on "making things look fabulous"
#1270 I'll Be Watching You
2. sales of trenchcoats are on the rise
3. baseball caps are the new fashion trend
4. baseball caps are the new fashion trend
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
2. rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century
3. small towns have started burning historical buildings in hopes of attracting tourists
#1272 Old News
1. the news is showing footage of @@LEADER@@ bullying an old man to the point of tears
3. the revelation that people were sexist in the past is apparently front page news
#1273 Lessons in Politics
2. a degree in @@LEADER@@ Science with a Minor in Awesomeology starts many political careers
3. critical thinking is grounds for expulsion from university
#1274 No Room Left for Asylum Seekers
4. a plague of zealots has been unleashed on the streets of @@CAPITAL@@
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
1. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
2. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
3. photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls
4. tourists call @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ beach towns "the fine coastline"
#1276 A Boatload of Trouble
2. small shoes often wash up on the beach
#1277 Outside the Box
1. beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
1. teachers prefer to give 'Maybe, Maybe Not' tests when dealing with sensitive subjects
2. history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students
3. a petition to improve @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ literacy is mostly signed with cross-marks
#1279 Crate Work, Plane and Simple
2. @@LEADER@@ will only ring up foreign leaders if they agree to reverse the charges
3. diplomats shake hands with their right and hide a poison dagger in their left
#1280 The Amazing, but Illegal, Spiderman
1. a good deed is rewarded with a thank you note attached to a deportation order
#1282 Resting in Peace
3. truck drivers turn their engines off and coast whenever they're going downhill
4. vehicle strikes into low bridges are on the increase
#1283 Comrade, Please!
2. the bourgeoisie are asked nicely to hand over the means of production
#1284 How to Choose the Chosen One
4. government forces are said to be deterred by signs reading "No Spam, Cold Callers or Central Government - Thank You"
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
1. trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same
2. it's a marvellous night for a moon dance as the sparks on your home start to rise
3. autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wonder "if a tree falls in the woods with no credible witnesses, who wants to know?"
#1288 Have They Lost Their Minds?
2. angry disenfranchised AIs attempt to hijack the bodies of comatose hospital patients
#1289 Cramping Our Style
2. pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches
3. the standard prescription for infertility-causing conditions is "go have a baby"
4. doctors with dyed hair inform patients via video-link that they must not go against nature
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
1. more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people
2. coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms
3. @@LEADER@@ has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space
#1292 A Sticky End for @@LEADER@@?
2. being @@LEADER@@ has been voted one of the top ten most dangerous jobs
3. most foreigners can't name the leader of @@NAME@@
#1293 Bet Your Life
1. you can bet your bottom dollar that gambling will cost you an arm and a leg
3. grinning punters say that casino roulette is the greatest high that life has to offer
#1295 Show Trial
4. jury duty means front row seats to a spectacular show
#1296 Once Upon a Time
1. the only Maxxmas gift frontline troops receive from officers is a bullet with the enemy's name on it
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
2. stale 'yo mamma' insults have been replaced by 'your maternal DNA' insults
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
1. cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon
4. cows graze until the wolves come home
#1299 A Silent Salute
1. treason is relative
2. soldiers are issued comics about superheroes punching unflattering caricatures of their enemies
3. the army employs a "shoot first, shoot later" policy
4. generals have trouble barking orders over the sound of thundering artillery
5. army pay is to kill and die for
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
1. the Communist Party claims that selling things for profit isn't necessarily capitalism
2. the end of communism came with retail rather than revolution
#1302 The @@NAME@@ Identity
3. @@NAME@@ isn't what it used to be
#1303 Amateur Hour
1. athletic teenagers are among the wealthiest members of society
#1305 The Woman From AUNT
3. the Counter-Terrorism Unit has been nicknamed "Big Bad Wolf" for its tendency towards urban demolition
#1306 The Least Common Educator
3. most people think algebra is something a mermaid wears
#1307 A Duty to Serve
2. teenagers sit around on their butts all day
4. record numbers of students are leaving school to enter the workforce
#1309 Give @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@ a Bone
2. veterans' meet-ups involve a lot of tail sniffing
3. the smell of napalm in the morning is usually alongside grilled @@ANIMAL@@
4. the latest superhero movie features a caped @@ANIMAL@@ with adamantium claws
#1310 Intimate Relations
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ no longer find themselves bumping into their exes at family gatherings
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1311 An Acquired Taste
1. weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law
2. people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile
3. the military is plagued with unethical researchers
4. gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours
#1312 Cranmer vs Cranmer
1. parents seeking custody have to write a five-thousand word analysis of their child's imaginary friend
2. survivors of attempted maternal infanticide are sentenced to live with their mothers forever
#1314 Nothing to Write Home About
3. infantry are nicknamed "mushrooms" because they get fed crap and are left in the dark
4. it's all quiet on the western front
#1316 Gonna Take My Hearse to the Old Town Road
2. funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room
#1317 Nanny State
4. AI nannies tell children who refuse to go to bed that "my logic is undeniable"
#1318 Blitzed
7. skyscrapers get built in just days
#1319 Dying for Two
3. pre-eclampsia in pregnancy is treated with encouragement to take "long soothing walks"
#1320 A Case of Poor Turnaround
2. savvy nightclub-goers know that structurally unsound venues sell the cheapest drinks
#1321 Who Wants to Know a Millionaire?
2. lottery winners spend most of their money on security
#1322 Introducing Altengarten?
2. proper policy proposals prerequire professional peer-reviewed papers
3. signs stating "You Must be This Tall to Enter" have started appearing outside retirement homes
4. the first test of a good kindergartener is the quality of the sponge-baths they give
#1323 Toss the Coin?
3. East Lebatuckese luxury goods are plundered by the working class of @@NAME@@
#1325 Having Faith in Communism
4. spiritual leaders preach that the poor are being punished for their sins
#1326 Hostile Hospitality
2. in the Beginning was the Word and the Word was "Pragmatism"
#1329 A Little Bit Short
1. several inches are being added to first class seating
#1331 Warning, Fatigue
3. the sound of office water cooler chatter has been replaced by the whirring of computer cooling fans
#1332 We Won't, We Won't Rock You
3. tens of thousands of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ rock the night away at the annual SuperLob
#1334 Withdrawing Diplomatic Relations
2. diplomacy falls apart when diplomats drink too much
#1335 First-Class Warfare
2. the rich and poor vomit into separate bags
#1336 Take Good Care of My Baby
2. grim instructresses lead the unwillingly impregnated in chants of "it's all my fault" and "blessed be the fruit"
3. foundling babies rarely make it off the doorsteps they are abandoned on
#1337 Waste Not Want Not
2. sometimes a single pallbearer is all you need
3. shopping comes bagged and tagged
4. some paycheques only arrive every 12 to 24 weeks
#1338 Slow and Stupid Is the Race
2. immigrants are told to pull themselves up by their worn-out budget bootstraps
#1339 AI Citizens Driving Change?
1. mandatory updates on software drivers often bring life to a halt
#1340 Unnatural Conception
5. conflicted @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mamas cry 'cause - if there's one thing they don't need - it's another hungry mouth to feed
6. therapists advise women who are constantly stressed and tired to have another baby
#1341 Caught Off Guard
2. the monarch frequently needs protecting from misfiring protection
4. unprotected royals have replaced their corgis with rottweilers
#1342 Uni-ted We Roll, Uni-ted We Fall
3. environmental legislation occurs cyclically
#1344 Ups and Downs
2. little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
2. produce labels read 'may contain traces of food'
3. glossy adverts featuring baby's first puff adorn mothers' magazines
4. adverts urge @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ to "reach for a ciggy instead of your supper"
5. real chickens replace rooster weather vanes on inner-city rooftop gardens
#1346 The Problem With Peyote
2. party-lovers often change religions just for the weekend
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
5. freedom is never freely given — only when the alternative is too expensive
#1352 The Brains Behind Kuru
3. the government is accused of being heartless by those considered brainless
#1354 The One-Trick Pony
1. towns are often run by puppets
#1356 The Silicon Curtain
1. the new @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@-made OS is buggier and more inconvenient than a horse-drawn carriage
2. the new @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@-made OS is buggier and more inconvenient than a horse-drawn carriage
3. autarky's deemed malarkey as foreign bric-a-brac's brought back
#1357 Scattered Showers
4. space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across @@NAME@@
5. scientific progress marches ever forward with the first ever launch of a cheeseburger into space
#1358 Who's In Your Wallet?
6. angry citizens complain that there isn't enough geographical diversity on the new banknotes
#1359 Covering All the Angles
1. the fishing lobby has stemmed the tide of environmental regulations
4. lifeguards are stationed on the streets during rainstorms
#1360 Ask a Stupid Question?
3. immigration test hopefuls are taught immigrant blood is purple
#1361 Fundamental Rights
4. the nation's girls answer "apple" when asked what makes pi
#1362 The Trans Panic Button
2. defense lawyers often argue there's no proof murder victims weren't vampires
#1365 Balancing the Box
3. televisions are often seized to pay for overdue television license fees
5. citizens hear a diversity of opinions from a range of billionaire-owned corporations
#1367 Sweet, Sweet Marketing
2. teddy bear James Dean (aka "the Rebel Without the Claws") helps convince kids that candy cigarettes are cool
#1368 Parking Hell
1. the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem"
#1369 Negotiation Complication
1. human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
1. a PhD just ain't what it used to be
#1371 @@NAME@@ Rocked by Rolls' Fatal Role
2. the general public only knows their favorite politician's first name
#1372 Balls to All That
2. the name of the "Butcher of Bigtopia" adorns shirts across @@NAME@@
#1373 You Should Have (Copy)Left My Software Alone!
1. programmers often reinvent the wheel
#1374 Protect and Swerve
1. the long arm of the law possesses a rather slow hand
#1375 [MADness] Never Say Yes to a Conference Again
7. the nation has chosen not to live in interesting times
#1377 [MADness] For @@LEADER@@'s Ears Only
1. enemy agents are generally eliminated with extreme prejudice
4. enemy agents are generally eliminated with extreme prejudice
#1378 [MADness] Authorization to Kill
1. @@LEADER/NAME@@ shot first
2. @@LEADER/NAME@@ shot first
4. @@LEADER/NAME@@ shot first
5. @@LEADER/NAME@@ shot first
#1379 [MADness] A View to a Thrill
1. the roundel of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force has become an internationally recognized symbol of destruction
#1380 [MADness] A View to a Thrill
1. the roundel of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force has become an internationally recognized symbol of destruction
#1381 [MADness] Chairman No
1. citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender
2. citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender
3. they say the best compromise leaves everyone feeling a little unarmed
4. international negotiations always lead to a lot of missile-laneous expenses
#1382 [MADness] Leave and Let Die
1. the roundel of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force has become an internationally recognized symbol of destruction
#1384 [MADness] On @@LEADER@@'s Secret Service
2. the military has a surprising tolerance for collateral damage
#1385 [MADness] Skycrash
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have become death, the destroyer of worlds
#1386 [MADness] The Spy Who Tricked Me
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have become death, the destroyer of worlds
#1388 [MADness] Tomorrow Never Arrives
1. rural @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ stare in awe at the bright lights of the big cities
2. rural @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ stare in awe at the bright lights of the big cities
#1393 [MADness] Authorization to Kill
1. the navy is hoping to hear the enemy shout "you sank my battleship!"
#1394 [MADness] For @@LEADER@@'s Ears Only
1. enemy agents are generally eliminated with extreme prejudice
#1395 [MADness] For @@LEADER@@'s Ears Only
1. enemy agents are generally eliminated with extreme prejudice
#1396 [MADness] Skycrash
2. maps of the enemy's positions are often covered in blood
#1398 [MADness] Spectre Royale
1. military advisors frequently remind San Vitenzan farmers that they have to pull the pin on a grenade before throwing it
#1400 [MADness] President No
1. citizens are being told that the greatness of a nation's power is the measure of its surrender
2. they say the best compromise leaves everyone feeling a little unarmed
3. international negotiations always lead to a lot of missile-laneous expenses
#1401 [MADness] Leave and Let Die
1. they say the best compromise leaves everyone feeling a little unarmed
#1403 [MADness] Tomorrow Never Arrives
1. rural @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ stare in awe at the bright lights of the big cities
2. rural @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ stare in awe at the bright lights of the big cities
#1407 New Tricks
1. @@LEADER@@'s new door-knocking campaign has the sweet taste of success
3. a child's only Trickster Night scare is the sight of their parents dancing
5. jollity-related fatalities are on the increase
#1409 Happy Pranksgiving!
1. law schools are hurrying to teach the "prank defense" to their students
4. prank shows are so hot right now
#1410 Lives On-Line
2. hospitals have poor data security but send lots of bodies to be encrypted
3. hospitals have poor data security but send lots of bodies to be encrypted
4. hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms
#1411 Atomic Split
3. @@NAME@@ isn't the only thing that's falling apart
#1412 Another Day, Another Dollar
1. the government hopes austerity will lead to prosperity
2. the @@CURRENCY@@ is said to only have value in antique shops
3. the @@CURRENCY@@ is worth its weight in gold
#1413 Old Fusion
3. standard-issue infantry rifles now have carnations instead of bayonets
#1414 My Milkshake Brings All the @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ to the Yard
3. facial disfigurement is a leading cause of supervillainy
#1415 The Melting Point
1. a speech a day keeps climate change away
#1416 Building on Sand
2. laborers are building walls and making Wezeltonia pay for it
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
2. the nation's new flagship trading company deals exclusively in things no one wants
#1421 Have Your Cake and Don't Eat It
3. relatives of recent award winners find their trophies make stylish urns
#1423 A Slice of the Pi
3. brain injury is seen as a desirable outcome rather than a side effect of contact sports
#1424 Here's Looking at Zoo, Kid
1. recapturing giraffes is proving to be a tall order
2. it turns out you can teach cats new tricks
#1425 @@LEADER@@'s New Clothes
1. @@LEADER@@ is called 'Patches' at international summits
5. ministers browse Alright! magazine for fashion tips
#1426 She's a Keeper
1. fixing attendance at women's matches is a matter of "when they go low, we go high... funding"
3. sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days
#1427 May the Fourth Estate Be With You
4. calling @@LEADER@@ a tyrant is seen as the ultimate compliment
#1428 In the Bag
2. diplomatic cables about @@LEADER@@ have suddenly been very flattering
#1429 The Wind Become Death
1. diplomatic fallout tends to be much more dangerous than radioactive fallout
2. radiation is a hot topic
3. gift baskets often contain working nukes
#1430 Taking the Peace?
2. stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded @@NAME@@ to disarm
3. requests to "pass the salt" are supported by tank divisions
#1432 Oh Dear
3. religion makes people horny
4. religion makes people horny
#1433 Green Thumbs Sore
1. lumberjacks only use certified eco-friendly chainsaws
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
2. Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts
3. slavers are real nutters
#1435 A Hot Potato
4. economics is a shrinking field
#1436 Meat Meet
3. the legalization of meat has skewered the sales of vegetarian substitutes
#1439 Philately Will Get You Nowhere
2. penny whistles have been rebranded 'tin hornpipes'
#1442 A Green Bill of Health
1. travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing
2. vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR
3. vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR
#1443 Forage and Forget
1. pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security
2. foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas
4. citizens praise the weeds that overwhelm their narrow vegetable realm
#1444 Trouble in Deed
1. returning vacationers often find that their property is now a construction site
3. new homeowners go furniture hunting with crowbars
#1445 The Dialectics of Dialects
1. the official @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child
2. faking deafness is the only way to guarantee a holiday in the nation
#1448 A Seat Quite Vacant Is a Seat Distressed
1. elected officials who disagree with @@LEADER@@ have a lot of accidents
4. you can represent some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time
5. detrimental health conditions can be a political death sentence
#1449 Annie Get Your Gun
1. metal detectors at school gates make sure that teenagers are carrying at least one sidearm
#1450 Driving @@LEADER@@
1. @@LEADER@@'s Dreadnought-class tankbuster limousine is said to have more ammunition than the entire Brancalandian Army
4. @@LEADER@@'s used car is held together by bumper stickers that support the opposition
5. @@LEADER@@ always arrives fashionably late and smelling of mushrooms
#1452 Hello Darkness My Old Friend
1. the government has declared "all your rigs are belong to us"
2. the government enables frack addiction
#1453 A Salt and Battery
1. the environment is gorgeous so long as you're looking up
2. foreign policy is based upon the principle of sieve and take
3. thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
2. companies have begun running campaigns to stop people from remembering their brand name
#1456 Weather Report: It's Not Graining In East Lebatuck
1. exports are stamped with "made by the invisible hand you commies"
3. foreign aid is a seedy business
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
1. people boast about their low income on their dating profiles
2. tax avoidance is a serious affair
3. unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims
#1460 A Burning Question
1. beggars lack pockets for spare change
2. the end of autumn is celebrated with a bonfire of designer bags
3. government ministers have eclectic tastes in curtains
#1461 No Shirt, No Shoes, No ID, No Service
1. voters who forget their name are given a hint
#1462 Glory Kill
1. soldiers stream their classified military operations live for millions of fans
#1463 Sandbagging
1. half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach
2. the treehouse in @@ANIMAL@@ Park is the tallest building in @@NAME@@
3. birdsong in the mountains has to be loud enough to drown out nearby jackhammers
#1464 Gentry Genes Getting Grim
3. nobility is the world's oldest profession
#1466 Don't Shoot Your Eye Out
2. calling tech support mid-shootout is a common occurrence
4. gun shops sell hook hands and eye patches
#1468 Meat With Approval
1. the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face
2. rare steaks seem even bluer now
#1469 News Flash!
3. political shows are fit for purpose
#1470 The Devil's Spawn
1. passive-aggressive congratulations cards inform mums-to-be that their pregnancy is their greatest achievement in life
3. pedants defending @@LEADER@@ observe that psychopaths and sociopaths aren't exactly the same thing
#1471 @@LEADER@@ and the Lost Chamber of Vetoes
1. old fossils give the tours at the parliamentary museum
#1472 Home Is Where the Lung Is
4. community organizers have given up going door to door because nobody is home
5. jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity
#1473 A Pretty Pass
1. political commentators say that @@LEADER@@'s fruitcake plans are about to go pear-shaped
2. the government has to take out its Visa to eliminate visas
#1474 Cuy Bono?
2. @@CAPITAL@@ has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra
3. delicate flowers faint at news of house plants being eaten
#1477 Some People Never Listen
2. the deaf are perplexed when the weather report tells them that the wind will be "bringing some rain along the Nazi ghosts"
#1478 Two Sides of a Coin
3. the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers
4. the best defense is a good fence
5. the best defense is a good fence
#1480 Motherlode
2. stage mothers commonly give their children the nickname 'Cash'
#1481 Livin' on a Prayer
3. illegal immigration remains a hot topic
#1482 A Crypto for the Comrades?
2. digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution
#1484 Joint Trade Agreement
1. business ambassadors offer bong tokes to foreign leaders
3. the nation is going green
#1486 Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs Are Right for @@NAME@@
1. the hit new medical TV show "Home" prominently features the brand of painkiller the lead doctor is addicted to
#1487 O Fortuna!
2. feeling like a winner comes at a price
#1488 First, Do No Harm
2. army doctors who come under attack defend themselves by using stethoscopes like nunchaku
#1489 No Tern Left Unstoned
3. the people have taken "Hail @@LEADER@@" as an invitation to lob rocks
#1490 @@LEADER@@ Wins Massive Victory!
4. the media only bothers polling the three most exclusive country clubs in the nation
#1491 Press Gang
2. press conferences always end with standing ovations and rapturous applause
3. government officials stay up all night in flame wars with their constituents
#1492 Smoke on the Water
1. middle-aged metal fans quite enjoy being called "rebellious youths" by even older politicians
2. there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety
3. visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage
4. the @@ANIMAL@@ has a hungry look
#1493 Bully Beef
2. exports of live cows arrive pre-roasted
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
2. academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs
3. the government prefers to leave the past buried
#1496 A Place For Everything
2. it's considered providence that the political lexicon contains a syrup of company slogans
#1497 Double Trouble
1. reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians
#1498 Flight 201: An Airspace Oddity
2. when flight control tells pilots to alter course the usual reply is "No, YOU move!"
3. the "give and take" of international diplomacy often happens at gunpoint
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
1. intoxicated AI mobile platforms are sometimes seen crashing through windows instead of being crashed by them
#1500 Rodents of Unusual Sociability
4. pet owners want to know why their animals keep smiling at them
#1501 Diamond in the Rough
1. factories place endangered birds in their rafters in pursuit of government protections
2. endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass
3. endangered bison are herded across the border to prevent them from trampling on native prairie grass
#1502 Dirty Deals
1. coastlines are giant slag heaps
3. work stinks
4. work stinks
#1503 The Scent of Sexism
2. the annual Adult Film Awards have a category for most titillating aftershave advert
#1504 Asking for a Raise
1. card players are calling the government's bluff on anti-gambling legislation
2. job security isn't great for professional roulette players
#1505 A Tangled Web
1. guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites
2. cat memes without alt text are now illegal
3. citizens have to identify all the polar bears in a blizzard photo in order to access their bank account
#1506 A Need for Order
1. it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves
3. tough diplomacy is often best handled with a nutcracker
#1508 Kicking Out the Competition
2. sports club owners are having a moneyball
3. the nation's smallest @@ANIMAL@@ball teams trade draft picks for a free lunch
#1509 Parks and Aggravation
1. national park visitors are reporting a rash of poison ivy sightings
5. the latest national park is visited by more sharks than people
6. visitors to Graffiti Warrens National Park are offered a complimentary tetanus vaccination
#1510 Devolution Devolves Into Disaster?
2. regional governors use national law books as toilet paper
4. meteorologists warn of fog just past 4pm daily
#1511 Three Little Words
3. families burn @@LEADER@@'s latest official photograph to keep warm
4. @@LEADER@@ has promised 'power to the puppies'
5. @@LEADER@@ has been nicknamed 'Robomop'
#1514 Flushing for Freedom
4. death camps are euphemistically referred to as "recycling centres"
#1516 Content Discontent
3. belief that @@LEADER@@ is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high
#1518 Test Environment
4. the transition from trojan horses to regular old horses is on track
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
2. foreign workers are flooding in as @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ flood out
4. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ doors require a Ph.D. to open
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
2. families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs
4. gated communities have guards to keep their residents in
#1522 Scry Babies
1. the only things written in the stars are arrest warrants for astrologers
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
1. prodigal children celebrate as charitable bequests plummet
2. a shocking number of estate planners are beneficiaries of their clients' wills
#1525 @@LEADER@@: The Musical!
4. @@LEADER@@ accepted United Federation theatrical awards for Best Writer and Best Actress on behalf of the absent recipients
#1528 Our Feta Which Art in Havarti...
1. cheese lovers have a case of the bleus
2. even secular @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!"
3. the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging
4. the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging
5. school guidance counselors recommend monastic vows as an alternative to higher education
#1529 Duel of the Fates
1. the first sword of @@NAME@@ does not run
#1530 Absolutely Speechless
3. Loud Patriotic Music Day has been ranked the seventh best new holiday of the year
#1531 Fine Time
2. equality looks curiously unequal
#1533 Give a Girl Some Credit
1. there's more pink stuff on sale these days
#1535 Mr. Tingle Goes to Cyberspace
2. an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse
#1537 Bench Wars
2. bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in
3. the running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless
#1540 Clean Flavours
2. restaurants have noticed that hanging wet laundry from the ceiling makes diners order more food
3. orange juice has been renamed yellow juice
#1541 Confusion of the Highest Order
2. the army consists of only generals and grunts
#1542 Dangerous Liaisons
4. the police have nothing to do with the increasing number of 'disappeared'
#1543 What Are We Paying For?
4. the government is taking its ball and going home
#1544 Happy Juice
2. bags of fertiliser come with detailed instructions for not making explosives
#1545 Deep Down Up to No Good
3. in coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho)
4. merchant ships always travel line astern in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ waters
#1546 Fool's Gold
3. government debts are financed through alchemy
4. government debts are financed through alchemy
5. children are disappointed their allowances are no longer convertible to gold
6. children are disappointed their allowances are no longer convertible to gold
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
1. office microwaves are being replaced by firepits
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
1. roaming gangsters have been replaced by roaming drunkards
4. the official government position is that "we didn't see nothin'"
#1549 Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin'
8. @@LEADER@@ knows that some internet activities are strictly solitary (@@EGG@@)
11. @@LEADER@@ has decreed that one must think of cheese upon reading the word mouse (@@EGG@@)
#1550 A Friend With Weed Is a Friend Indeed?
1. criminals tell the police where their jurisdiction ends
4. bewildered tourists help drug cartels hand out food to poor @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#1552 An Issue About Nothing
1. contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art
2. artists are renowned for their ability to make art pieces out of thin air
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
3. private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button
4. fan-made edits of old films have seen a sudden jump in quality
#1555 Deaf Trap
2. the internal market is thriving
#1556 Gimme Shelter
4. men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly
#1557 The Artist Is Literally Present
1. political spontaneity takes a lot of planning
3. people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces
#1558 Unequal Treatment?
4. injured workers are encouraged to 'stitch themselves up with their bootstraps'
#1559 Skin's the Wrong Colour
2. you can be fired for dyeing grey hairs
#1561 Murderers Making Money?
2. @@LEADER@@ has killer fashion sense
#1563 Apostropocalypse Now
1. aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted
#1564 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
2. the hip spot of the season is just over that way
3. all roads lead to @@CAPITAL@@
4. people have stopped going the extra mile
#1565 The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Gluttony
2. official government guidance encourages binge behaviors
#1566 Consensus Controversy
1. scientists are not permitted to ask questions
3. unpopular scientists are shunned by name
#1567 Of Health and Wealth
2. the blood, sweat, and tears of poor @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ make research institutes rich
#1568 Palate Torture
2. running a hot dog stand is harder than achieving a doctorate
#1573 Unseen Academia
1. scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays
2. savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations
#1574 Fowl Play
3. you can't make an omelet without breaking a few legs
#1576 Liquidity Problems
1. airport users are more worried about radiation than terrorism
3. a surprising number of travelers carry their water in vodka bottles
#1579 A High-Interest Coupnundrum
3. the default state for @@NAME@@ is default
#1581 Circling the Brain Drain
1. the economy's basis is "from each according to his abilities and to each according to their accountants"
3. the only fine art that is valued is the fine art of economic productivity
#1583 Spare the (Plutonium) Rod
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ faces have never been brighter
#1584 Loose Lips, Characters Shipped?
4. the sudden proliferation of nuclear weapons is very queer
5. the sudden proliferation of nuclear weapons is very queer
#1585 The Taste of Revenge
2. living well is no longer the best kind of revenge
4. fake revenge can be served either cold or hot
#1586 Don't Point That Thing at Me!
3. heated town halls quickly descend into shootouts between politicians and their constituents
#1590 Tinder Profiled
2. people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating
3. actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs
#1591 (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Sample!)
3. this summer's chart-toppers sound almost the same as last year's
#1592 Echoes of Deception
2. deceased politicians spam the public with thousands of AI-generated voicemails
3. AI chatbots generate grayscale images when asked for a picture of the truth
#1593 Flap Over Flag Fashion
2. the national colors help to make everyone look slimmer
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
2. government bureaucrats review designs for birdhouses to ensure they do not block the views of neighbors
3. only the richest get to see out of their windows
#1602 @@NAME@@'s Bark Worse Than Its Byte?
3. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect
4. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect
#1603 Searching for That Special Someone
3. a flying elephant and @@LEADER@@ share the same nickname
4. a flying elephant and @@LEADER@@ share the same nickname
#1604 Prison of the Mind
1. prison is a nightmare
3. dream holidays often go awry
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
2. online terrorists are automatically assigned adverts for cheap balaclavas
#1606 Book Off
3. The Pipe Bomb Makers' Pop-Up Book can be found in preschool libraries
#1608 G's Louise
3. children grow up believing the sun to be a myth
#1609 One Big Watering Hole
1. nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
3. the government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market
#1611 Filial Fidelity
2. citizens are bankrupted by injuries to cousins they've never met
#1613 Incarceration Sensation
1. the easiest method of escaping from prison is to take singing lessons
3. murder comes with a cash prize if the victim was previously incarcerated
#1614 Fauxthentic Food
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ diplomacy is by the book
#1615 Passports-4-Purchase
3. forgetting to pay your annual passport bill is a leading cause of deportations
#1616 Beyond the Focal Point
2. physics lessons mostly involve talking about emotional management techniques
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
1. stranded mountaineers can watch livestreamed footage of their rescues
2. mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'
#1620 Ballooning Out of Proportions
1. escaped birthday balloons are torpedoed out of the sky
2. the nation's counterintelligence budget is all up in the air
#1621 The Space Between
1. government employees are authorized driver's licenses to get their bosses much-needed morning espressos
4. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
5. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
#1622 Border Burden
2. the government runs a surplus by selling its citizens
3. one can wake up in @@NAME@@ and have breakfast in Bigtopia
#1623 The @@MAN/WOMAN@@ in the Iron Lung
3. children have one piggy bank for fun and another to avoid crippling medical debt
#1625 At What Price?
3. white chocolate is neither chocolate nor food
#1629 The Wrath of Davy Jones
1. hell hath no fury like an ocean scorned
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
2. playing card suits are sold separately
#1631 We Are Most Amused
3. the public are enjoying a royal flush of tax cuts
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
3. ride-sharing often involves some passengers sitting on the roof rack
#1635 A Sine of the Times
1. only those who apply can study applied maths
2. the number of eyes rolled per maths lesson is increasing exponentially
#1636 In for the Long Haul
2. highway rest stops are stocking up on fallout scrubbing kits
4. starry-eyed convention goers have their heads in the clouds
#1638 The Waiting Is the Hardest Part
3. a breakdown in Westphalian sovereignty has left political scientists dazed and confused
#1639 Bad Coal Models
3. graffiti artists make up a significant portion of the coal mining population
#1640 See No Evil
1. comedians who make offensive jokes have their ticket proceeds seized
2. crime pays
#1645 Gone Girls
3. sociologists ponder how baby-napped ethnic minority 'runaways' could have gone so bad so soon
#1647 Whose House? My House!
2. descriptions of properties as "a stone's throw from the city centre" require a trebuchet to be true
#1650 Bearer of Bad Pews
1. most people attending churches are maintenance workers
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
3. companies are literally blowing their competition out of the water
#1654 We Bought a Zoo
1. daredevil kayakers frequently race against runaway hippos
#1674 Reining the Dragon
3. the invisible hand of the market has arrived under threat of the visible fist of sanctions
#1676 All Animals Are Equal, But...
5. bewildered steelworkers cook caviar in the microwave
#1677 Common Cents
5. profits are an acceptable way to measure morality
#1679 Meals on Foot
3. street food vendors are accompanied by personal fleets of garbage trucks
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
1. the mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin
#1689 Government Bureaucracy More Like Aristocracy
2. corporate recruiters have adopted 'at least it's not government work' as their new catchphrase
3. civil servants refuse to enforce government regulations for fear of wider economic impact
#1691 The Fault in Our Skyline
1. Goldilocks has found a lucrative career as a zoning consultant
#1695 Calling All @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
1. government-sponsored WiFi allows farmers to rant about city folks in real time
#1699 Achute Binjury
3. waste collection professionals have been canned

rampant corporate plagiarism

Gained from:

#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares
2. copyright laws have been abolished
#500 Please Don't Feed the (Copyright) Trolls
3. NationStates is now a popular brand of laxatives despite Max Barry's protests
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
3. at least 4 unique companies in @@NAME@@ claim to sell Eckie-Cola

Removed by:

#340 Defending Patent Pending
2. an IT mega-corporation has a patent pending on the rectangle
#603 Not My Idea
1. lawyers are ordering red ink and 'Cease and Desist' rubber stamps in preparation for the return of copyright law
2. lawyers are ordering red ink and 'Cease and Desist' rubber stamps in preparation for the return of copyright law
4. the legal minefield around ownership of fiction has demolished the publishing industry
5. science fiction invariably depicts socialist societies as Utopian

remarkably easy parental licensing program

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#164 Licence to Breed?
1. citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
3. underground copulation clubs have sprung up in major cities
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#499 The Genetics of Aesthetics
2. the newest generation of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are nearly clone-like in appearance
#523 A Family Affair
3. government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power
#1308 One in the Oven
1. the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks

Removed by:

#300 Trafficked Tots Trouble
3. prospective parents are cheering on the streets as they no longer need a license to have children
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
2. soldiers are noted for their ferocity and illiteracy
#1146 Mother Knows Best?
3. posters encourage people to "Just Do It!"
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
3. children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi
#1686 Carnivorous Kids
1. kids these days only have to survive their homework assignments and cafeteria lunches

restrictive gun laws

Gained from:

#98 Police Want More Than Shiny Badge
3. the streets are plagued with knife-wielding madmen
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
2. the arms industry has been shut down in a surge of pacifism
#149 With Liberty, Freedom, and Guns for All?
2. citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons
#158 Regarding Robbers' Rights
3. trespassers often find themselves impaled by crossbow bolts
#326 Knitters in a Knot Over Police Stitch Up
3. knitting needles have been banned in the name of public safety
#698 I Shot the Sheriff
4. only criminals carry guns
#802 No Lock, No Gun Stock, and No Smoking Barrels
4. wars are filled with soldiers wielding machetes and chainsaws for safety reasons
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
2. children cry as government officials steal their water pistols
#1363 In My Defence
4. staple guns are seen as intrinsically evil

Sometimes gained from:

#1 Where's the Love Gone?
3. married couples must call each other "darling" or risk a fine
#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#3 Harry Potter Censorship Row
1. Harry Potter books are banned
2. Harry Potter books are banned
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
1. Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested
3. vegetarianism is compulsory
#8 Nudists Demand Time in Sun
2. public nudity is compulsory
3. nudity is frowned upon
#11 People Request Not So Much Dictatorship, if That's All Right
1. political activists are routinely executed
#12 Death Penalty on Agenda
1. the death penalty has been reintroduced
#13 Too Much Yakking, Already, Say Delegation
1. the right to free speech is being drastically curtailed
#15 More Police Needed
3. thieves are flogged in public for their crimes
#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
1. marijuana is legal in the privacy of your own home
#20 Gunman Kills Three
2. the nation is completely gun-free
#21 Police Consider "Big Brother" Anti-Crime System
2. all major public areas are watched by police surveillance cameras
3. citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements
#22 Nazi Sympathizers Plan Rally
1. it is illegal to make racist remarks in public
#26 Compulsory Organ Harvesting Proposed
1. organ donation is compulsory
#27 Cash for Colons?
2. organ donation rates have hit a new low
#28 Cancer Sufferer Demands Euthanasia Bill
2. euthanasia is illegal
3. euthanasia is illegal
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
1. TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas
#31 Get Efficient, Private Sector Tells Nature
1. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
2. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
#32 One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists
2. the institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced
3. the institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced
#34 Don't Puff on Me, Say Non-Smokers
1. smoking is banned in public areas
2. an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
2. the Navy has outraged the international community by sinking a boatload of refugees to prevent them reaching the shore
3. shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities
#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
1. the government snoops on private internet connections
2. the country has unplugged its internet connection to prevent subversive content
#38 @@NAME@@ Looks to the Stars
3. religious classes are compulsory for all school students
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
1. newspapers may not print any negative stories about the government
#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
1. radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass
3. angst-filled teenagers are rushing off to buy government bonds for some odd reason
#43 Prisoners Demand Elbow Room
3. citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys
#44 No Pain, No Gain!
1. torture is commonly used to extract information from suspected criminals
3. people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed
#46 Jennifer Government Censorship Row
1. Jennifer Government is banned
#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
1. a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders
3. the controversial show 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?' has become wildly popular
#50 Whips, Chains, and Leather, Oh My!
3. midnight raids drag couples from their homes in the name of decency
#51 Streaker in Snooker Game Fiasco
1. naturists are jailed regularly for indecent exposure
#52 Is It Art or Is It Porn?
1. artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common
2. all artwork is carefully screened for offensive material
#55 Bigtopian Protesters Cry for Full Integration
1. government police forces protect public schools from the threat of protest
3. members of majority races are forced out of their homes to make way for Bigtopians
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
3. poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
1. citizens must have a license to operate a computer
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
2. "The Daily Sacrifice" is a routine segment of morning news shows
3. a crusade against barbaric religious practices has begun
4. the government pours millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ into rehabilitation programs annually
#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
2. drunk drivers are sentenced to death
3. all alcohol is banned
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
3. the judicial system legislates morality
4. the judicial system legislates morality
7. the government has become increasingly militant
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
#62 Oh, the Angst!
1. citizens are encouraged to report friends, family members or co-workers who seem depressed to the government for "counselling"
#64 Put the "Board" Back in Board of Education
1. teachers regularly paddle unruly students
3. the nation is currently revamping its entire education system
4. teachers label difficult children as "somebody else's problem" before expelling them
#65 Should Martial Law Be Declared?
2. martial law has been declared and the populace is kept under tight control
#66 Transgender Recognition Demanded
2. people talk about things being better when men were men
3. women wearing male lounge-wear are quizzed for hours by mental health practitioners
#68 Ornery Overcrowding Problem
3. the number of children one can have is restricted by law
#70 Purge the Infidels!
1. citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed
2. citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed
4. religious people are committed to mental institutions for treatment
#72 Widening Buttocks Cause Movie Theater Havoc
1. citizens rise at daybreak every day for mandatory exercise
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
4. anti-environmentalist dissidents must beware of government plants in their midst
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
1. sex offenders find themselves cut off from the ability to repeat their crimes
4. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
5. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares
1. a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country
3. recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies
#87 Burn! Burn Everything!
3. people caught mistreating @@NAME@@'s flag generally wind up in a great deal of pain
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
3. there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates
#91 Sacramental Tax Time?
1. religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else
2. religious organizations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else
#93 Affirmative Action in @@NAME@@?
3. @@NAME@@'s free colleges struggle to maintain standards in the face of overwhelming demand
#94 Computer Users Fed Up With Heaps of Spam!
1. the government spends millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ every year prosecuting spammers
4. the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress
#96 Water Supply Problems Becoming a Major Drain
5. crooks and people with too many kids are being kicked out of the country
#98 Police Want More Than Shiny Badge
2. citizens are regularly shot for parking on the double-yellow line
#99 We Need Cash, Sharpish, Say Librarians
3. all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves
#101 Tiara Sign of Oppression, Declare Feminists
1. all beauty contests have been banned
2. women who display their ankles are shunned by society
3. women who display their ankles are shunned by society
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
1. motorists must pay to enter inner-cities during peak hours
3. cars have been banned
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
2. citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory miniature radios
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
2. an enormous health awareness programme is underway
#107 Private Lab Holds @@NAME@@'s Sick to Ransom
3. the religious lobby has the power of veto over health initiatives
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
2. the army's shirt ninja are the most feared assassins in the region
#111 Southern @@NAME@@ Demands Semi-Autonomy
3. protesters against the government are hanged as a warning to others
#112 Put the Phone Down on Cold Calling?
2. door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes'
#113 Test Results Deemed 'Ungood' After Global Survey
3. the education system is famed for its taxing exams
#114 Wipe Out Graffiti?
1. graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail
2. Renaissance frescos are being chiselled off public walls
#115 @@NAME@@'s Schoolchildren Not Learning the Lingua Franca
1. citizens are expected to be proficient in at least five languages
#116 Soda Sales Hits New 'High'
2. drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government
#118 Need for Speed?
2. the average commuter spends four hours a day driving to and from work
3. motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies
#119 Watershed Down?
2. Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in @@NAME@@
#121 A Uniform Plan for @@NAME@@'s Students?
1. school uniforms are compulsory
#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
6. citizens are grown in vats
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
1. the studies of art and philosophy are banned
3. only the brainiest citizens become academics
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
1. retiring citizens are dragged away in the middle of the night by mysterious men in black suits
#128 Ban the Burka?
1. students and teachers are regularly stopped and searched for symbols of religious affiliation before class
3. government officials raid public buildings to remove all mention of G*d or r******n
#129 Tribal Troubles
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
4. native tribes have been driven to extinction by hunting
#131 Raise Duel Standards, Say Fencers
2. arbitration is mightier than the sword
#134 The Truth Is Out There?
5. those who investigate UFOs tend to wake up delirious on abandoned roads
#136 Much Ado About Abortion
2. abortion is only legal in unusual circumstances
5. families are only permitted to have one child
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
1. the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
5. there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt
#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
2. the police have reaffirmed their tough stance on drugs
#141 Police Too Pushy?
2. citizens are regularly arrested in queues for 'loitering'
#146 Evolution: Truth or Witchcraft?
1. it is mandatory to learn evolution in schools
2. the teaching of evolution has been banned
#147 Military Budgets Up for Approval
5. military service is compulsory
#148 Spare the Rod, Demand Welfare Activists
2. record sales of 'child-whacking sticks' have been reported
#150 Bug 'Em All, Say Police
1. phone taps are frequently carried out by the police
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
1. skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines
2. skateparks can be found in every city
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
2. the nation's drinking water tends to glow green at night
#157 Sergeants Are Too Nasty, Say New Recruits
4. newborns are being raised as mindless killing machines
#158 Regarding Robbers' Rights
2. burglary is widely regarded as the national sport
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
1. hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in @@NAME@@'s many privately-owned prisons
3. criminals are executed and their property seized
#160 Truancy on the Rise
1. high school principals regularly send armed truancy patrols to drag problem students to school
2. children deemed 'disorderly' or otherwise unfit for public schools are shipped off to military academies
#164 Licence to Breed?
1. citizens wishing to be parents must undertake a series of gruelling tests to evaluate their capabilities
#165 Wedlock Worries
2. children are regularly married to each other to secure alliances between families
3. all marriages are arranged by the government
#167 Fluoride Controversy a Toothy Problem
1. the people are famous throughout the region for their perfect yellow teeth
#168 @@NAME@@ Plagued by STD Epidemic!
3. otherwise healthy people are being sent to internment camps because they have VODAIS
#171 Kids and Criminality: Whose Responsibility?
1. eight-year-olds with lemonade stands have been known to be locked up on charges of embezzlement
3. parents are held criminally responsible for their children's crimes
#172 Church Attendances Reaching New Low, Warn Priests
1. atheists refusing to attend church are heavily fined by the government
#173 Women Demand Equal Opportunities
2. women earn less than half the salary of men if they can even find a job
3. mostly women are seen and not heard
4. men are expected to stay home to fix funny noises in the attic
#175 Is @@NAME@@ Too Promiscuous?
1. adultery has been made a capital offence
2. those found guilty of illicit affairs are jailed
3. people talk about their libido as if it were an STD
#176 History a Mystery to Most of @@NAME@@
1. historical fiction has been banned
2. it is widely believed that the first citizen of @@NAME@@ was called 'Wild-eyed Daddy-O'
#177 Power to the People?
2. the government is cracking down on subversive groups
#178 Free Press Too Free?
1. reporters often lose their jobs over fact-checking errors
3. all news sources are under strict government control
#180 Mobile Maladies
2. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
3. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
4. children have taken to using semaphore in light of the recent mobile phone ban
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
2. a spate of enforced closures has left 'Government FM' as the nation's only radio station
3. @@NAME@@'s airwaves are dominated by corporate-backed commercial radio
4. every citizen is allowed exactly fifteen minutes of fame
#183 Buy a Better Baby?
6. @@NAME@@'s army is full of two-metre tall super-soldiers
#184 Compulsory Military Service Under Attack
2. children as young as twelve are conscripted into the armed forces
#186 Carjacking Concerns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#187 Underclass Drowning in Debt
3. university graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
1. Tetris has been banned for its graphic violent content
3. only adults may purchase violent video games
#190 Immigrants Import Homeland Rivalries
1. immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites
2. Maxtopian slaves are routinely sold as an optional extra for household appliances
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
1. citizens are forced to donate blood once every three months
2. blood donations have been banned because of the risk of eternal unrest
4. jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses'
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
2. the military has quashed a recent coup attempt
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
3. manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
2. large areas of @@NAME@@ are not accessible by the public
#196 Violent Violetists Protest Artists
1. government-sponsored gallows are being erected by Violetist temples
3. the government is interviewing for thousands of 'Religious Censor' positions
4. anyone who doesn't attend Official Governmental Religious Services is fined
5. people of faith are sent to twelve-step programs for 'The Cure'
#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
2. nursing mothers are often arrested for indecent exposure
3. breastfeeding mothers are replacing smokers to loiter outside the workplace
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
1. travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs
2. traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways
4. homes have been banned from having any more than one wheel
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
3. boys are forced to pair off for the school disco slow dance as the girls are all staying at home
4. boys are forced to pair off for the school disco slow dance as the girls are all staying at home
6. soldiers have a preference for fire-and-forget payloads
7. young girls often attend the same schools as their children
#205 No More Broccoli, Beg Meat-Eaters
2. illegal hunting is rife after veganism was recently made compulsory
#207 Secret Police in @@NAME@@?
1. rumours have it that a secret police is responsible for the recent spate of missing persons
3. the police force is rumoured to be made up of evil shadows with no souls
#212 Police Wanting Help With Their Inquiries
1. crime suspects are forced to submit to blood testing
3. every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
5. @@NAME@@'s heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives
#218 Two Mommies One Too Many?
2. child adoption by homosexual couples has been outlawed
3. homosexuality is a crime punishable by death
#219 Nobody Expects the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Inquisition!
1. the Holy Office of the Inquisition is the highest court in the land
3. atheists and evolutionary biologists are fleeing the country like rats from a sinking ship
#220 Voter Apathy Rising but No One Cares
3. citizens who refuse to vote are guillotined
#222 Terrorists Strike City Centre
1. the armed forces are locked in an expensive and bloody war abroad to stamp out possible terrorists
2. everyone suspects that everyone else is a terrorist
3. customs turn away those considered to have an unfavourable ethnicity
#224 Minimum Wage War
4. the workforce is almost entirely made up of slave labour
#225 Prayer in Public Schools?
1. students who refuse to pray are expelled from school
4. religion is strictly forbidden within school grounds
#226 Expats Plea for Help in War-Torn Country
4. the world outside is only known of in folklore
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
1. underage drinkers are dragged through the streets and put in the stocks
7. ravers are having trouble getting used to blackcurrant squash instead of vodka
#229 Government Saturated in Corruption
1. politicians accepting drinks in bars are executed for taking bribes
2. the government has enacted freedom of information
#230 Extremists on the Ballot Sheet
2. most governmental positions are filled by zealous nationalists
#231 Jungle Fever
3. swamplands and bogs have been put under quarantine
#232 Suffragette City
4. women are often jailed for failing to fetch their husbands' slippers
5. women are often jailed for failing to fetch their husbands' slippers
#233 I Spy a Diplomatic Crisis
1. foreign nationals are widely distrusted
4. spies caught in @@NAME@@ are never heard from again
#236 Quickie Marriages Under Scrutiny
1. the breathalyser pledge is a traditional part of marriages in @@NAME@@
3. spousal homicide rates have tripled in recent months
#237 Tourists on Death Row
3. drug-related crimes carry the death penalty
#238 We Need a Few Good Men Who Like Men?
1. the colors pink and purple are banned from military unit insignia
3. half-naked men feature prominently in official military materials
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
2. badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game
3. criminals are thrown to the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to repay their debt to society
#240 Plea Bargains: Tipping the Scales of Justice?
1. charged suspects often have to wait years before the courts have room to judge their trial
3. the right to a fair trial was recently abolished for reasons of convenience
#243 A Question of Faith
1. @@FAITH@@ has been named as @@NAME@@'s national religion
4. open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries
5. @@LEADER@@ is the self-declared God of all @@NAME@@
#245 Clash of Cultures
1. immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day
3. religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural
4. all citizens must pass a 'multicultural sensitivity test' to be deemed fit for society
5. property values in suburbs have nosedived after the middle class were forced to live next door to ethnic minorities
6. the word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive
#246 @@NAME@@ to Hold the Olympic Torch?
4. chess hooliganism is on the rise after the banning of organised sports
#248 The Sky Is Falling
1. frequent fliers are obliged to submit to invasive security procedures by government security
5. aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
3. homeless people are frequently charged with trespassing on public property
4. citizens who become homeless are immediately executed
#254 Freedom Comes at a Price
3. the booming slave trade is now government-funded
#257 @@LEADER@@ Assassinated... Almost
2. citizens have an obligation to remain silent and anything they say may be used against them
#258 What's in a Name?
1. parents must choose their children's names from a government-mandated master list
3. all citizens are solely referenced by their allocated identity number
#260 Taxpayers on Strike!
2. the police crack down on tax evaders without mercy
3. tax evaders are regularly visited by agents of the @@NAME@@ Blood Tithe
#262 Sticks and Stones
1. a fashion designer has been arrested for inciting hatred after claiming redheads couldn't pull off vermillion
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
1. fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets
3. raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists
#268 Don't Want Your Kid Anymore? Good News!
1. orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children
2. orphanages are closing their doors as the government forces parents to actually raise their children
4. toddlers are wielding machine guns in the name of national defense
#269 Stop the Presses!
3. daily newspapers are permitted to run only pro-government stories
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
1. mothers drive their college-graduate children to work
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
3. the state believes that children are what you make of them
4. the state believes that children are what you make of them
#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
2. family bonding sessions are considered immoral and are banned
3. annulments are on the rise as couples discover their ancestors were born in the same hospitals
4. divorce lawyers are found begging on the streets
5. people choose marriage partners by buying a lottery ticket
6. citizens may not "love, honor and obey" anyone except the State
7. love is given from each according to their ability but marriage is assigned to each according to their needs
#275 Wiki Worries
2. popular websites like NationStates are blocked for "national security"
3. the Ministry of Truthiness now manages the entire media industry
#277 Say Cheese!
2. photographers have to apply for a license to photograph @@LEADER@@
3. the secret service is working overtime to find anyone publishing unauthorized material about @@LEADER@@
#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
5. trouble-makers are frequently turned in to the government to be 'recycled'
#280 Oh the Humanity!
3. the new hit series "@@NAME@@'s Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country
#282 Slum Village Extraordinaire
3. many of the poor live from cradle to grave without ever seeing sunlight
#283 Wealthy Flee to Tax-Free Havens
3. citizens are forbidden from leaving the country
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
3. the government has begun a crusade against drugs
4. politicians debate whether caffeine is too addictive for the public
#286 A Whale of a Problem
4. fishing crews are regularly interrogated by surprisingly violent environmentalists
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
2. anti-tourism militias patrol the borders
#297 Intersex Athletes Demand Level Playing Field
1. muscular women are banned from competing in sporting competitions
4. hairdressers are among those who have disappeared overnight
#298 Cults: Harmless or Heretics?
1. new religious sects are squashed immediately by the government
2. fast food restaurants everywhere are under the control of a gigantic government corporation
4. believers must practice religion behind church doors lest the government smite them with a mighty fine
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
4. the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association
#300 Trafficked Tots Trouble
2. the national Police Academies have dedicated infant wings
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
4. legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments
5. legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
4. almost all the visible space on TV screens is taken up by advertising
5. children spout "@@SLOGAN@@" involuntarily throughout the day
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
1. many working fathers have never seen their children
#305 Who's Occupying What?
1. former school buses now regularly shuttle kids to the nearest shopping centers to work
2. millions of devastated 7-year-olds are denied astronaut and ballerina training
4. the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation
#306 A Matter of Trust
6. dissident voters are sent on a 'relaxing break' at the Ministry of Love
#308 Over, Under or Through?
4. island residents must resort to canoes and sailboats to get to work
#309 Guerrilla Grandparents
2. fortified nursing homes are wracked with daily skirmishes
#311 Victims Demand Their Pound of Flesh
1. murder victims' families receive windfall payouts when the murderers are executed
2. prosecutors routinely call transplant doctors as 'expert witnesses' in burglary cases
#313 Conscientious Objectors Want You... To Let Them Abstain
2. conscientious objectors are hanged as traitors
#314 An Affair to Remember?
3. bloodthirsty zealots regularly participate in the Friday Night Stoning of Adulterers
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
3. "It was only a joke" is no longer a defense for the felony of discrimination
4. citizens are only allowed to view government-approved TV shows
#316 Fortified Against Crime
3. the poor are quarantined in the inner cities to prevent criminals from entering the suburbs
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
1. government popup ads are springing up like weeds
#318 Death Penalty on Death Row?
2. the populace lives in fear of painful execution for minor offences
5. innocent people are routinely stoned to death by frenzied lynch mobs
#321 Cowboys and... Aliens?
2. immigrant herding has become a national pastime
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
1. it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey
4. computers are used primarily for word processing and solitaire
#326 Knitters in a Knot Over Police Stitch Up
1. families consisting of more than three people are forced to split up
#328 Bugged by Lack of Intelligence
1. all telephone traffic is monitored for 'national security reasons'
3. the nation's secret service is so secret that nobody knows if it has one
#329 Military Uniforms Under Scrutiny
2. the nation's soldiers are considered the best-dressed in @@REGION@@
#333 No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice at All
1. churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs
2. churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs
4. citizens are required to report any and all incidents of prayer to their local Religious Affairs Officer
5. there are major delays at immigration checkpoints as travellers are forced to prove they belong to @@FAITH@@
6. any reference to a higher being is punished with public shaming
#336 Polygamy Causes Division
1. prenuptial contracts have replaced diamond rings in marriage proposals
#338 The Silence and the Fury
1. noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law
#341 Where in the Woods Is Cindy SanFrancisco?
3. fearful citizens watch their every move as does their government
4. fearful citizens watch their every move as does their government
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
3. mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance
#344 Trash Talk
2. daisy chain gangs plant flowers and pick up litter
#347 Crime Problems Ganging Up on @@NAME@@
1. rap artists are regularly arrested for promoting extremist groups
3. street gangs rule most of the nation's major cities
#348 I Want a Lawyer
2. there is a disproportionate number of poor people in prison
3. every street in the nation contains at least three law firms
#349 Bigtopian Bigwigs Beset Border
1. foreigners with shady pasts are fleeing the country
#351 The Cost of Freedom
3. violent criminals are doomed to be hunted by a psychotic billionaire
#352 Going Off the Rails
2. the relatives of suicide victims tend to be angry rather than sad
#353 Broadband Going to the Birds?
3. stray cats threaten the fledgling avian-based internet
#354 Subversive Shortwaves
3. the government is suspected of mass disappearing dissidents both at home and abroad
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
5. the youth of today are literally shaped by state ideology
#359 Got Democracy?
1. pro-democracy protesters are shot on sight by state police
5. chemically brainwashed citizens praise @@LEADER@@'s name on an hourly basis
#363 The Apotheosis of @@LEADER@@?
2. government policy is dictated by @@FAITH@@
5. failure to pay the thrice-daily homage to the divine @@LEADER@@ is punishable by death
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
2. churches frequently hold public 'contraception burnings'
3. underground copulation clubs have sprung up in major cities
#365 A Busload of Worry
2. tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport
3. tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport
5. @@CAPITAL@@ spends billions upgrading public transport
#366 Prosecute Stolen Valour, Says Military
1. fancy dress parties are raided by military police for new recruits
#367 What's Their Beef?
3. unemployed butchers line the streets
#368 Female Workers Feeling the Pinch
3. women are kept out of work but at least dinner is served on time
#372 The Coming of the Commissars
4. police wait behind troop deployments in order to shoot deserters
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
1. helicopter parenting is on the rise
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#377 It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No, It's... Oh, It Was a Plane
2. government ministers are regularly seen in the streets confessing their sins and hammering missiles into plow-shares
#379 Stakes on a Plane
1. homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways
#381 Mamma @@NAME@@, Let Me Go
2. tantrum-throwing toddlers are regularly imprisoned on assault charges
3. churches now double as dungeons
#382 The Appropriate Amount of Appropriation
2. citizens sporting mohawks must carry family trees on them at all times
4. immigrants are asked to leave their cultural traditions and pride at the border
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
2. soldiers are noted for their ferocity and illiteracy
#385 Who Stands for @@NAME@@?
2. an increasingly villainous series of sports coaches are demanding the national mascot's true identity
#386 Droning On and On
1. warfare increasingly resembles a video game
#394 Ten Days in a Mad House
4. anyone dissenting from the state ideology is declared "mentally ill" and whisked away in a straitjacket
#402 [An International Incident] They Surrendered... Now What?
2. even the family pets of Brasilistani insurgents are being put down
#409 Water Palaver
3. political loyalty is enforced by way of chemical addiction
#410 12 Angry, Tired, and Increasingly Confused Men
1. extraordinary tribunals try accused financial criminals
2. judges are all-powerful
#411 Outed Teacher Ousted
1. the letters L, G, and B must never be grouped together
3. prudishness is on the way out
#413 A Shot in the Arm
2. vaccinations are mandatory
3. parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are given a short jail sentence
4. science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
1. student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned @@ANIMAL@@ball fields
#420 Caught Green Handed
1. many politicians are serving jail time for minor drug offenses
2. many politicians are in rehab for minor drug offenses
#423 Returning Holy Warriors Cause Trouble
1. returning tourists and businessmen are detained without trial if they belong to the "wrong" religion
#424 You Just Sank My Battleship!
3. countless government officials are accused of espionage
#426 Women in Uniform Under Fire
3. women are ordered home to reproduce for the glory of the @@TYPE@@
4. video clips of women firing guns are increasingly popular
#427 They Took Our Gubment!
2. the majority of @@NAME@@'s traffic wardens have been sacked overnight
#428 Crop Circles Clutter @@CAPITAL@@
3. it is a crime to operate a combine harvester while intoxicated
#431 Gone a Stray!
1. shelters struggle to keep up with the endless intake of stray animals
2. mandatory neutering has made purebred dogs a thing of the past
#434 Fraternity Furor
2. public intoxication has decreased ever since fraternities were banned
4. moonshine and organized crime are on the rise ever since alcohol was banned
#437 Blue Screen of Economic Death
2. tourists avoid using the nation's bugged phones and monitored internet
#438 Judicial Review on Trial
1. copies of the constitution are used as toilet paper
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
1. cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
3. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
4. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
1. homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes
#444 Virtually Assured Destruction
3. entire provinces are populated solely by nuclear missile technicians and military police
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
4. prohibition has allowed a Maxtopian immigrant known only as "Nipples" to establish an illicit breast milk syndicate
#448 It Takes a Village
2. parents who fail mandatory parenting classes risk having their children taken away
5. the only position a woman can hold is baby-maker
#451 A Proselyte to Burn
2. the nation's new religious police burn blasphemers on bonfires of their own books
3. blasphemers and government critics often die in very unusual and unlikely accidents
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
1. hordes of gardening enthusiasts are being banished from cities nationwide
4. food imports have skyrocketed after the recent 'Forage for Food' program severely backfired
#455 Police on Overkill Mode?
4. the nation is under martial law
#456 Heads Will Roll
1. biker gangs and fashionistas are converting to Violetism en masse
4. motorcycle riders are required to wear so much gear they've been nicknamed "Stay Pufts"
5. hairdressers are forced to use all the tricks of the trade after citizens became required to wear helmets at all times
6. hairdressers are forced to use all the tricks of the trade after citizens became required to wear helmets at all times
#458 Bigtopian Lives Matter
3. officer recruitment and police brutality have reached an all-time high
#464 The @@ANIMAL@@ Republic Shall Rise Again?
3. being impolite in public is punishable by heavy fines
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
1. back-alley circumcision clinics are popping up all over the nation
3. teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank
4. getting a haircut is a punishable offence
#468 Selling @@NAME@@ Down the River?
3. foreign governments regularly accuse the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military of war crimes
#473 A-B-C, Easy as Don't Use Me
3. children are expected to carve their own toys
#475 Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ political exiles populate the near abroad
3. firing squads regularly execute dissidents
#477 Feeding Frenzy
2. children use fake IDs to purchase candy
3. meals are now followed by thirty minutes of mandatory exercise
#482 Whose Fault Is It Anyways?
5. mandatory spouse selection pairs elderly apparatchiki with stunningly beautiful supermodels
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
4. pizza parlors have been replaced by lima bean cafes
#484 Patriot or Patri-Not?
1. school children are forced to sing the national anthem every morning
2. school children are forced to sing the national anthem every morning
3. citizens who don't attend the nation's massive military parades tend to disappear overnight
#485 Really Real eSports Tournament
4. all gamers have been drafted into the military despite their lack of upper body strength
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
1. confused drunks wake up to irate drill sergeants whipping them into shape
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#487 Masks of Shame
2. gossip magazines have been replaced by mask catalogs
3. public shaming is the bedrock of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ society
#489 Standing at Attention
1. the army insists there is nothing gay about men in uniforms rolling in the mud
4. handsome young men are forced into uniforms by their dominant elders
#491 Friends, @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears
1. people who have lived their entire lives in @@NAME@@ are shocked to discover that they are not citizens
3. the citizenship exam requires years of study to actually pass
#492 The Artwork in the Attic
1. Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to @@CAPITAL@@ to enjoy their national art
#493 Suspicious Superhuman Athletes?
1. invasive drug testing is now performed at elementary school sports days
4. many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to find outlets for their pent-up competitive juices
#495 Beloved "Planet" Has Gone to the Dogs
1. academics are questioning the quality of the nation's newly-reprinted science textbooks
#496 Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
2. attempted suicide is punishable by public hanging
#499 The Genetics of Aesthetics
2. the newest generation of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are nearly clone-like in appearance
#500 Please Don't Feed the (Copyright) Trolls
1. Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
1. school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment
#504 Short Shorts Too Short?
2. teenage girls in knee-length surfer shorts have become a cultural icon of @@NAME@@
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ schoolgirl uniforms have become alarmingly popular outside @@NAME@@
#507 Would a Rochebaron by Any Other Name Smell Just as Sweet?
1. the lactose-intolerant are force-fed cheese products with predictably gassy results
#508 Ex-Cons Robbed of Future
2. jaywalkers are condemned to lives of poverty for their heinous crimes
3. many aides in @@LEADER@@'s office are known to be serial jaywalkers
#510 Possession, Protection or Poppycock?
1. tie-dye has been outlawed for being 'too occult'
2. children fear compulsory visits to their spiritual advisors more than the dentist
3. turning eighteen is often referred to as the 'Age of Aquarius'
#511 Dogman Deconstructed
2. arms manufacturers and mild-mannered journalists have been outed as superheroes
#516 Sex Education Too Sexy, Say Parents
1. young adults still believe that @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ deliver newborns to expecting parents
#520 Preach With Me if You Want to Live
1. the last thing @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldiers hear before charging into battle is a preacher trying to convert them
#522 Time to Get Serious
2. maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter
4. smiling in public is seen as criminally suspicious behaviour
#523 A Family Affair
2. troublemakers just happen to be reassigned to distant mining operations
3. government-sanctioned speed mating is rife with Party-sanctioned abuse of power
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
1. rural citizens live in terror of their local village constable
3. illegal moonshine operations get taken out with laser-guided airstrikes
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
3. citizens have to dodge their neighbors' drones while getting the morning paper
5. police drones follow every suspected Peeping Tom
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
2. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
3. possession of tomato seeds with intent to garden is a criminal offence
#532 Desert Island Risks
1. the tax agency is feared more than serial killers and terrorists
#533 Hearsay Heresy
1. old folks reminisce about the last time someone was acquitted of a crime
3. the strong are acquitted and the weak are trampled in trial by @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
1. women who can do math in their head are burned for witchcraft
2. bands of adventurers rove the countryside searching for monsters
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
3. debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#540 Shh! Spoilers!
4. drive-by spoilers are an increasingly common crime
#541 Spare the Whip, Spoil the Law
5. opposition party MPs campaign shirtless to show off their numerous lash scars
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
1. adult magazines are having a sales resurgence as internet anonymity disappears
4. oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
1. videogames like 'Equalia: Knights of Self-Confidence' are proving inexplicably unpopular
4. children play ring-around-the-rosey around bonfires of videogame cartridges
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
4. science labs across the country languish in cobwebs as the government turns its attentions to spiritual matters
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
1. hundreds of teenagers die every year at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Hungry Games
3. applications to enter seminaries spike right before the obligatory fasts
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
2. church and state are inseparable in their influence on education
3. church and state are inseparable in their influence on education
4. educators and parents alike are allowing children to view the internet again after violent videos were purged
5. social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content
#551 The Big Fat @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Wedding
3. @@LEADER@@'s relatives have been married into the royal families of foreign nations against their will
#552 Must Be a Full Moon
1. weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments
2. weird or unusual crimes merit cruel and unusual punishments
#556 Here Be Dragons?
3. all fantasy fiction has officially been deemed non-canon
4. failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside
5. government ministers claim to ride dragons to work
#557 Take a Hike!
1. search and rescue forces now accept cheques and all major credit cards
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
2. blind dates tend to result in bruised shins
#559 The Low Aspiration Nation
3. the unemployed are quite literally sold to the highest bidder
#561 Plug in and Play
3. the nation's exceedingly polite children have often been referred to as "robots" by international media
4. Hide and Seek with Cuddle Bear is the most popular video game in the nation
#564 Do Good Intentions Make Good Samaritans?
2. children's books regularly feature formerly distressed damsels suing their princes
3. bands of paramedics walk the streets looking for suspicious medical activity
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
1. popular cartoon characters frequently appear in government-sponsored PSAs reminding students to say no to drugs
2. summer science camps are regularly raided by narcotics police
4. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
6. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
#567 Syntax Destruction
1. government reports are now used to teach toddlers to read
3. when people ask what the difference is between politicians and lawyers they are referred to document c15(iv) section 14.1 subsection 3.2 of the Jan 2015 political category definition guidance codes
#571 Family Feud
2. entire families swing in the wind at the national gallows
3. entire families are dragged into counseling whenever children fight on a playground
4. unruly families are deliberately marooned on desert islands
#572 Reading, Your Rights
2. libraries are refusing to stock A Midsummer Night's Dream because it has an ass in it
3. modern readers say a story is worthless without hyperlinked footnotes and editable wiki format
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
2. doctors will keep brain-dead coma patients ventilated for years in order to avoid accusations of allowing people to die
#577 Second World Problems
1. the cold war against capitalism is growing chillier by the day
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
1. urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts
#580 @@NAME@@ Taking Leave of Its Census?
2. no personal detail is too tiny for the suede-denim census police
3. the suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years
#582 Augmented Reality Check
1. careless Maxémon Trainers have been the cause of numerous search and rescue operations
2. all technology must be personally blessed by religious officials before purchase
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
1. the @@CAPITAL@@ Prison Revue puts on a better stage show than anything in the Theatre District
3. singing in public is only allowed if you are singing the praise of the Motherland
5. contestants on @@NAME@@'s Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent
#584 The Cake Is a Lie
1. the people consider response to rudeness to be an acceptable casus belli
#586 School's in for Summer?
3. all work and no play has rendered the nation's children somewhat intelligent but also remarkably dull
#587 I, Robot, Do Solemnly Swear
1. citizens with artificial limbs are forbidden to serve as beauty pageant judges
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
1. former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés
2. moonshine has made a resurgence
#592 Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!
2. genocide is seen as a topic best avoided in history lessons
3. the tawdry celebrity gossip section has moved to the front page of most newspapers
#593 A Right to Bare Arms?
1. top-shelf magazines feature risqué centrefold spreads of ladies' wrists
4. fathers are free to sell their daughters to whomever they choose
#595 Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
1. truncheon-mounted cameras record the beating of criminals in dynamic HD detail
2. criminals always seem to be forewarned of police raids
3. mountains of VHS tapes of police actions are stacking up in the National Library
#597 You Can't Handle the Tooth
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are free from pain - but the side effects include loss of individual thought and freedom
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
2. religious bigotry and a fear of outsiders have replaced religious studies in schools
3. burning members of the Order of Violet is the nation's favorite pastime
#601 Lawyers on Trial
2. justice is available only to those who can afford its price tag
4. prematurely retired barristers twitch in anxiety when they talk about their courtroom experiences
#604 Food Behind Bars
5. corrective labour camps either end political dissent or kill the dissenters
#606 In the Black
1. armed police are cracking down on untaxed collectable-card-trading in local junior schools
#607 If Your Election Lasts Longer Than Four Weeks...
3. woefully uninformed voters cast their ballots at random
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
1. doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion
3. the state considers itself the 'third parent' of every child in the nation
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
2. denied drugs and entertainment the nation's youth are taking to petty crime to alleviate their boredom
3. the sanitised and dull music festivals of @@NAME@@ are famed for their reasonable volume levels
#611 Blundering Battle Bureaucrats
1. visitors to @@NAME@@ are microchipped and must be escorted by @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldier - even to the bathroom
2. heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors
#613 A Nude Day, a Nude Awakening...
1. fashion magazine covers finally display realistic body images following photo-manipulation becoming illegal
2. pre-schoolers who draw stick figures of their favorite celebrities are sued for infringing image rights
#616 You Are Feeling Very Very Sleepy and Not at All Gay
2. sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
2. the mummified remains of former kings are apparently discovered every time a tourist loses their wallet
3. beaches are empty as the shark population multiplies exponentially
#623 Maison d'Être?
5. disputed territories across @@REGION@@ are being claimed by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ college students
#624 A Role to Play
1. six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion
3. taking hostages is a great way to influence government policy
#625 Delivering the Goods
2. journalists giggle uncontrollably while reporting the nation's drug bonfires
6. prevalence rates of genitourinary infectious disease are inexplicably on the rise
8. policemen want to put the nation's homosexuals up against a wall
#626 Carbon Copied
1. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
2. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
#629 Boom or Bust?
1. the police have taken to prying guns out of the cold fingers of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
4. the nation's conservatives are known to favour male escorts
#631 The Violet Mile
1. the government is denying reports that criminals injected with experimental drugs have turned into monstrous supervillains
4. death row is annually emptied to feed the nation's hunger for televised murder-games
#632 Dying for a Kiss
1. immigrants who don't like the taste of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Turnip Chips are immediately deported
3. men's magazines give handy tips on the most effective way to throw heavy stones
#636 Going on the Cyber Offensive
2. the WhoTube comments section has gone strangely quiet
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
2. the nation's orphanages and maternity wards have been nicknamed 'the Killbot Factories'
3. it's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance
4. swings are now more popular than see-saws in children's playgrounds
#639 No Country for Old Men
1. 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past
4. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
5. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
#641 Dirty Little Minds
3. life expectancy is way down but posthuman perfectionism is way up
#642 This Way's Kinder
2. the nation's youth voluntarily goes to bed early out of sheer tiredness from their working days
#645 An Unwarranted Intrusion
1. policemen regularly conduct midnight raids on closed donut shops to 'collect evidence'
3. police officers often conceal their identities to safeguard against public complaints
#646 Lesson Learnt
2. prison libraries are being replaced with interrogation chambers
#648 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2. the police have been known to wiretap confessional boxes
#655 No Bones About It
1. barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the @@CAPITAL@@ Natural History Museum
2. oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys
#656 Ransoms Noted
2. the "war on terror" doesn't seem to be making @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ any less frightened
#658 A Sickening Dilemma
2. sneezing in public is a capital offense
3. adult stores are all sold out of whips
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
2. disability advocates are not amused that they are told to be dependent on @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@'s kindness
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
5. Scout campfire sing-a-longs tend to focus on the evils of antitrust legislation
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
1. the masses are surrendering their civil liberties without complaint for the sake of shopping convenience
4. anti-government demagogues have a devil of a time evading authorities
5. anti-government demagogues have a devil of a time evading authorities
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
1. 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail
#670 A Wolf in Refugee's Clothing
1. officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists
2. tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian
#671 Adenine, Thymine, Copyright, and Guanine
1. citizens are arrested for naturally producing proteins
#673 The Deportation of Mr. B. Leeper
1. foreign musicians that @@LEADER@@ dislikes are turned away at the border
2. dangerous criminals are often 'accidentally' sent on one-way trips to Maxtopia
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
1. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
2. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
3. homophobia is off the menu
4. seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals
#679 Space Is Big Enough for the Both of Us
1. East Lebatuckese astronauts' favorite game during downtime on the Multinational Space Station is 'I Spy'
#684 Murder Most Deniable?
3. the Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
2. blind dates reemerge as a necessary evil in the quest for love
#688 You Don't Have to Be Mad to Kill People... But It Helps
3. libraries have replaced overdue book fines with mandatory mental health assessments
#690 Hey! @@LEADER@@! Leave Them Kids Alone!
2. citizens who don't recite the Pledge of @@NAME@@ at least three times a day are placed on a terrorist watch-list
3. citizens who don't recite the Pledge of @@NAME@@ at least three times a day are placed on a terrorist watch-list
#692 Game of Drones
3. swarms of present-laden delivery drones blot out the sun before major holidays
#694 Concussive Percussion
1. military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
3. anyone claiming to be a messiah is promptly put to death
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
6. the nation's water should not be ingested while operating heavy machinery
#700 The Widow Raven
4. it is unwise to be a poet even if things rhyme and you don't know it
#701 Monumental Melodrama
2. statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty
4. racial supremacists have a burning desire to deal with immigrants
#707 The Eye of the Tiger
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are unrivalled in obstacle courses
#708 How @@LEADER@@ Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Bio-Weapons
4. the military maintains a fierce arsenal of 'Cure Missiles'
#709 Armed and Legging It
4. many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward
5. many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward
#710 Feudal Feuds
1. a serf by any other name works just as hard
#712 Flight of the Rich and Famous
1. people are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support @@LEADER@@
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
3. it is common to still see adults with training wheels on their bikes
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#718 Roses Are Due if Violet's for You
1. Violetist maidens who fall for an outsider must leave their violet light districts in shame
3. children raised in multi-faith households claim the other deity would let them stay up later
#720 Cui Bono?
2. more money is spent on policing the welfare system for abuse than on the welfare system itself
3. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
4. shanty towns of homeless immigrants are the ideal recruiting ground for terrorist organisations
#722 Thora and Eloise
2. stealing from a clothesline is a serious offence
3. fake beard sales are on the rise amongst female commuters
#724 Your Stuff Is Forfeit
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ caught jaywalking often have their houses seized by the police
#725 Sky's the Limit?
2. the derisively named "Morlocks of Moria" futilely demand time in the sun
#726 Jobless Fair
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#727 Market Crash
1. broken suspension systems are giving auto repair shops plenty of business
3. solid steel breastplates are in fashion amongst city drivers
#728 A Bone to Pick
1. scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards
3. the morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses
4. the deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors
#729 Teenage Kicks
1. five-year-olds chanting "Little Miss Muffet" are accused of bullying arachnophobes
5. it takes all playtime for children to locate their friends among two hundred identical heads
#730 It's Legal Now!
2. parole board directors light up a joint before telling hash-brownie baking grannies that they have to stay behind bars
3. chests full of green leaves dumped into the harbor have many murmuring against the government
#731 Is There an Election in Marche Noire or Are You Just Happy to See Us?
1. autocrats are persona non grata
3. the Great @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Melting Pot boils out ethnic heritage
#732 A Peeping Problem
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks
#735 Rap Sheet
1. stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings
3. songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti
#738 Cruel or Unusual?
2. an eye for an eye leaves @@NAME@@ blind
#739 In Loco Parentis
2. there's a literal nanny state for the legions of children taken by social services
#741 [The Enemy Within] We Can Work It Out
1. police are trained in using their steel-capped boots as a tool of law enforcement
2. police are trained in using their steel-capped boots as a tool of law enforcement
3. pledging just four hours of spare time to police work earns a named credit on the government's official website
#743 [The Enemy Within] Here, There and Everywhere
4. on streets of broken glass people are being murdered for their faith
#747 The Plane Truth
4. Air @@NAME@@ tickets have reached sky-high prices due to a complete monopoly on air travel
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
2. undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected
4. urbanites are banned from bucolic settings for safety concerns
#750 Cheerleading Community Does the Splits
2. boys who even ask about cheerleading are placed on the Sex Offenders Register
3. fitness to teach sport is proven by urinating the furthest up a wall
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
2. any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property
3. exports of chewing gum are inexplicably falling
#755 Candid Camera
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ that venture near secret military bases are routinely executed for espionage
2. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ that venture near secret military bases are shipped off to prison for espionage
#757 Extra Credit?
3. credit scores fluctuate wildly with every change of government
#759 Marry, Marry, Quite Contrarily
1. bitter pastors forced to officiate gay marriage 'accidentally' pronounce couples "husband and abomination"
#763 Any Body for Science?
1. sneezing pedestrians are grabbed by alley-lurking doctors
#764 Dude, Where's My Elected Representative?
1. translators have been hired to deal with the varying regional accents during national political debates
#765 Don't Judge Me
4. traffic tickets are punishable by 9000 push-ups
#767 Xe Said, Zhe Said
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns
3. youth call each other types of vegetables in lieu of government-banned racial insults
#768 Trouble Brewing
1. black tea is only available on the black market
#769 How to Print Money?
1. police regularly arrest families playing Monopoly
2. the tinfoil-hat crowd also recommend tinfoil wallets
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
1. sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor
3. there is a heavy social stigma attached to e-cigarettes
#776 Fake News, Everyone!
1. the nation's youth would rather watch paint dry than the news
#778 Mal Appetit!
1. those who don't have a bean to spend don't know a bean about Brasilistanian coffee beans
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
1. burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms
3. a new religious movement claims that people's souls are stored in phosphorus
#781 The White Man's Burden
3. people spend a lot on hair and nails
4. people spend a lot on hair and nails
#782 Sit-Down Money
4. doctors are trying to diagnose diseases by looking at their patients' Snipchat pictures
#783 Sergeant McCool Reporting for Duty
3. military instructors tire of being asked for another bedtime story by seven-year-old conscripts
#785 Born to Be My Baby
1. surrogate mothers are encouraged to refer to their wombs as 'rental space'
#786 Tainted Tattoos
3. clergy do their best to cover up their old tattoos
#787 Come Fly With Me?
3. @@ANIMAL@@-wagons to @@CAPITAL@@ are often canceled due to excessive levels of manure on the roads
#795 [@@CAPITAL@@gate] Lock Him Up!
2. dissidents' perp walks are repeatedly shown during prime time television
#799 A Political Cock-Up
1. politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them
2. unpopular politicians are often caught between a rock and a hard place
#801 Animation Provocation
1. Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion
#802 No Lock, No Gun Stock, and No Smoking Barrels
2. you don't need a smoking gun to arrest someone for promoting guns
#804 Motivational Posters
2. telling someone to 'break a leg' is considered a criminal inducement to self harm
3. rubber stamp emojis are the new craze
#806 Unlicensed to Kill
2. good-looking doctors are obliged by law to give foot rubs to @@LEADER@@
4. cruel and unusual punishments are being crowdsourced
#807 Have War Crimes, Will Travel
1. the nation's reputation for treachery has left it sidelined on the international stage
#817 Back-Alley Blues
4. women who miscarry have their death-masks displayed in the Wax Museum's "Sociopaths and Serial Killers Exhibit"
5. women who miscarry have their death-masks displayed in the Wax Museum's "Sociopaths and Serial Killers Exhibit"
#819 Damned Cold
2. the police turn a blind eye to desecration if it's done in the name of religion or protest
4. straitjackets are a common religious garb
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
2. a stocking with a crooked seam or a tie without a full Windsor knot are grounds for instant dismissal
3. ruff times are ahead for those who aren't keen on party costumes
#822 Never Work With Children
3. teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
4. women find themselves saying "my eyes are up here" more often than they used to
#824 Period Drama
3. sanitary products are sold in brown paper at hairdressers' salons
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
5. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
6. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
1. it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
4. sports journals are full of uplifting puff-pieces on professional boxers
#828 Your Execution in 30 Years or Less or You're Free
1. death row inmates cower in fear at the phrase "one-year anniversary"
2. the government would rather execute a hundred innocent men than let one guilty one appeal a verdict
4. Court TV ratings have skyrocketed now that executions are filmed on location
#830 Unreasonable Adjustments?
3. children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines
4. children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
2. creating cardboard imitations of missiles is a new top-secret military project
#832 Moderating Your Opinion
2. knock-knock jokes regularly get removed from websites for being too edgy
3. asking what someone does for a living is considered a faux pax for being potentially jobist
#833 Twitching Up a Storm
1. @@LEADER@@'s Twitcher account is once again only used for bragging about the government's accomplishments
2. politicians tend to favor bombastic speeches and kissing babies now that they've been banned from social media
#834 Government and CO
2. conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors
#835 The End Is in Sight?
1. the most popular stadium acts are one-off performances
2. hit TV show 'The eXecution Factor' is a critical success
#836 Don't Drink the Grape Punch
1. the nation's faithful often say there is a higher power watching over them
#838 The Bark Knight Rises
5. adults hang around outside comic stores to ask kids to go and buy magazines for them
#839 "Partisanship Too Far?" Wrongly Asks Opposition
4. street graffiti indicates the political party that dominates a neighborhood
#840 Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
1. the standardised national curriculum requires that all-male classes be taught why they have periods
#841 Burn Noticed
1. the Man in the Plastic Mask has been imprisoned in the Capital Penitentiary
2. one of the most popular models in @@NAME@@ has a scarred face and one working eye
4. women should never trust a man who turns up to a first date with an open bottle in his hand
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
2. chocolate in @@NAME@@ has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers
#845 A Comedy of Errors
3. illegal book-trafficking rings dominate the black market
#847 All the Lonely People
1. the national census includes an opt-in to join the government-run dating service
5. it is illegal to comfort a crying baby between the hours of 6 pm and 8 pm
#848 It's a Girl Thing
2. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
3. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
#849 Sky High
3. drones are unable to lift the weight of their accompanying paperwork
#850 The Prints and the Slaughter
1. dreams of replicator technology have been dashed following a ban on 3D printers
#852 Brown Breeches Thanks to Speeches
1. members of the government all have oddly similar anecdotes about their childhoods
#853 Silence Is Golden
1. on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life
2. citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals
#855 Thin Evidence
1. parents receive hefty fines for telling kids to eat their vegetables
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
3. the new Grand Inquisitor of Righteous Scientific Inquiry has ordered a surprising amount of hemlock
#858 Reporting for (Jury) Duty
2. a five-year-old and a convicted terrorist can sit alongside one another in jury service
3. judges are rumored to find in favor of whoever bribes them the most
4. the "blue screen of death" forces many trials to be either aborted or restarted
#867 Museums: Things of the Past?
5. the nation's historic treasures have been sold off to Maxtopia's "Museum of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Artifacts That They're Too Stupid to Appreciate"
#873 Terrified Testimony!
1. frightened witnesses and seriously ill jurors wear the same handcuffs as the defendant
3. citizens brought into court for parking violations are never heard from again
#875 They See Me Trollin', They Threatenin'
1. 13-year-old internet trolls are treated as a threat on par with terrorists
2. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
3. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
#878 DoublePlusUnGood
2. citizens know not to ask what their country can do for them but what they can do as chained slaves for their country
3. one-word headlines are the norm in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ newspapers
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony
#882 Death by Chocolate
1. school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
6. they say insanity is torturing the same citizens over and over again and expecting a different result
#886 Bounty on the Table
1. even in a one-horse town police are as common as fleas on a stray dog
#887 Thin Skin
2. fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers
3. the Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs
#888 Criminal Patterns
2. a stitch in time could see you serving nine
3. schoolchildren are arrested for possessing sidewalk chalk without a permit
#891 Preach It!
1. citizens are prohibited from raising their voice above thirty decibels in commercial districts
3. street preachers spend more time condemning government bureaucracy than passers-by
#894 Seigneurs Demand Rights
1. amorous nobles always bring the same disappointing gift to weddings
#895 Stop Training and Start Coaching
1. the "temporary replacement bus service" is now a permanent fixture
3. many rural villagers have never been more than a day's horse-ride from their birthplace
#897 The Devil's Playground
1. children asking questions about science are referred to relevant sections in religious texts
3. the New @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Thesaurus lists "love" and "oppress" as synonyms
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
3. slavers view "what did your last slave die of" as a request for a demonstration
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
1. CSI Forest is this year's hit new crime show
#902 Killer App
1. drug deals return to the streets as legions of undercover officers stalk the dark web
#903 Every Breath You Take
1. a baby's first breath is also a baby's first felony
#904 Yours Insincerely
4. politicians are fired for opening subjective statements with "I believe"
#905 Stage Directions
1. theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good
3. God took rock and roll from you, took rock and roll from everyone
#906 Internet Killed the Television Star
1. all screens are equal but some are more equal than others
4. televangelists often claim they can cure your Lupus if you donate enough money
#907 A Problem Shared
3. cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling
#909 On the Fence
2. bilingual @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are viewed with suspicion
#910 A for Effort
2. hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework
4. frat-house partying has become the national pastime
#912 Ambassadors Behaving Madly
4. foreign envoys that want to visit @@NAME@@ now have to navigate real minefields in addition to the political ones
#913 Couped Up
2. the practice of capital punishment proves divisive
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
5. the only religious freedom citizens have is which religion they want to oppress them
#915 Clasp of Controversy
4. hazmat suits are a common @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ garb
#918 J'Accuse!
1. women don't report crimes to the emergency services for fear of being arrested
2. human resources employees have time for hobbies as harassment is designated "high praise"
#919 The Meaning of Life
1. elderly prisoners with severe dementia are reminded hourly that they are evil people by helpful nurse-wardens
2. prison overcrowding is being addressed with a series of short sharp shocks
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
4. it is mandatory for actors to exit stage left
#921 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad @@NAME@@
1. metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach
4. hunters often become the hunted
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
3. it's scientifically provable that @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ guys don't know how to make a woman happy
#924 Total Eclipse of the Brain
3. beat cops aren't named for the territory they patrol
#926 Ghost in the Machine
1. deceased politicians' MyFace profiles are unanimously pro-incumbent
#927 Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It
2. student exchange programs are in trouble as everyone wants to leave but no-one wants to come
3. just as students finish their homework it's time for school
#928 Get a Life
6. hoping to get pregnant is considered sinful presumption
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
1. interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories"
4. photographs that show ladies' ankles are considered risqué
#939 A Question of Bad Faith
4. children who express a belief in Santa are labelled 'delusional cultists'
#941 Scents and Sensibility
2. police frequently raid drugstores in search of contraband bottles of New Spice aftershave
#942 A Foreign Exchange of Ideas
2. the nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street
3. foreign students are expected to have a Kegmeister Grade Average of 36-24-36 to qualify for university
#944 Deadly Persuasion
1. uploading purple prose to social media earns a place on a government watchlist
2. nine-year-olds' chat logs are scoured for evidence of radicalization
4. children who write letters to Santa Claus end up in straitjackets
#946 Better In Than Out
1. wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them
4. explosive diarrhoea is not just a colorful phrase
#947 Imitation Station
2. advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore
3. traffic news is delivered to drivers via carrier pigeon
#948 1x, 2x, 3x, a Lady
1. Maths Professor Barbie is the most popular toy for boys and girls alike
#949 Jailhouses Rocked!
2. the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons
3. the military conducts 'training exercises' in prisons
4. there's a big brother in every prison
5. rock and roll involves rolling literal rocks in prison
#950 Borderline Pandemic
1. anyone who sneezes at border crossings is turned away
3. pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security
4. hotels often double as quarantine zones
#953 The Ethnic Minority Report
1. police detectives carry phrenology calipers as part of their standard kit
3. only "purebloods" are allowed in the nicer parts of town
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
3. veterans in wheelchairs are left waist-deep in rice paddies to gather grain
#957 Putrid Predicament
1. commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains
#958 Pay No Attention to That Donor Behind the Curtain!
5. leakers release information by etching graffiti on bathroom stalls
#959 A-Major Debate
1. elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation
5. students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50
#961 No Two Ways About It
2. foreign visitors who show an interest in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politics are immediately deported
4. insolent whistleblowers receive their just desserts on deserted isles
#963 The @@LEADER@@ Meme
1. internet moderators work overtime to remove memes comparing @@LEADER@@ to cartoon bears
#964 An Expensive Watch
4. army regiments supporting different football teams are a frequent cause of friendly fire incidents
#966 As You Don't Like It
1. caroling is considered a public disturbance
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
2. news headlines usually include p-values
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
4. light entertainment shows are light on actual entertainment
#970 For Want of a Nail
3. female restaurant chefs are not allowed to have male customers
4. women who leak pus from infected wounds are told to suck it up
7. it's a miracle that there aren't more plane crashes
#975 Paparazzi Parents
1. obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals
#976 Demonic Possession Getting You Down?
3. foreign militaries are taking a particular interest in the nation's abandoned borders and cities
4. @@LEADER@@'s new office has a propensity to catch on fire
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
2. it is broadly agreed that tramp stamps are criminally undesirable
3. tribal villagers hide behind the sofa when missionaries knock at their doors
#978 Alone in the Dark
2. hell is not always other people
3. justice is blinding
#979 A Patronising Statement
1. the nation's best artists are considered pretty easy to beat
#981 Westfailian Sovereignty
1. lines of trenches demarcate the nation's borders
#983 Doctors' Orders
1. pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ roads
2. doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license
#984 A Midsummer Night's Snooze-Fest
1. some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them
#986 Poacher Pandemic
4. environmentalists have found an unusual ally in soldiers of fortune
#987 Quia Scriptum Est
3. the government says only criminals harp on about "innocent until proven guilty"
#988 Highway Robbery by the Book!
4. education for the poor is learning to ask "do you want fries with that?"
#990 Baby Shower
1. getting a blood transfusion from @@A@@ @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ entitles a foreigner to citizenship
3. at customs baggage gets an x-ray and female travelers get an ultrasound
#991 Alms and Qualms
1. money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them
#992 Robots in Disguise
2. politicians have seen a significant reduction in followers on their social media accounts
3. NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people
4. animated paperclips interrupt word processing to remind you they are just automated tip-tools
#993 Drug Deal
2. doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality
#994 The Life of Riley
1. prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos
#995 A Cup Runneth Over
1. women across the country are tying the knot
4. on hunt days the unpleasant peasant runs in lieu of the pheasant
#996 Scripting a Change?
2. it is considered unpatriotic to learn a foreign language
3. the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters
#998 Without Fear or Favour
3. screenwriters and actors seem to be in short supply these days
#1000 Should Democracy Be Compulsory?
5. Bigtopian interference in domestic elections is always democratically sanctioned
#1001 Will the Real Victims Please Stand Up?
1. victims of crime are viewed as less trustworthy than politicians
#1003 That Smarts
2. gene-engineered sewerjacks don't smell but they do stink
3. the current TV ratings hit is "Keeping Up With The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@"
#1004 Two Countries and a Baby
2. would-be emigrants are told "abandon all hope all ye who would exit here"
#1006 Opening the Door to Controversy
2. schoolboys trained in chivalry are encouraged to duel other boys for a maiden's hand
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ seem to be catching more chills
#1007 Putting Your Foot in It
1. pet owners must make a payment if their charges leave a deposit
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
1. kids refer to anything below the neck as "the parts that shall not be named"
4. women mime their gynaecological symptoms with hand-puppets
#1009 A Woman's Roll
1. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
2. thousands of picky mothers-in-law have been recruited to serve as even pickier cookery instructors
3. the new national campaign exhorts men to "Show Some Class - Don't Sit On Your Ass"
4. glassy-eyed @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ wives lifelessly chant "I love you" on command
#1010 What's Got Into @@NAME@@?
2. garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts
#1011 State of the Media
3. couch potatoes are considered to be model citizens
#1012 Tilting at Wind Turbines
3. epidemiologists happily announce that the reported incidence of depression is close to zero percent
#1013 Grave Disease
1. one does not simply walk into the tundra
2. cases of disease among the civilian population dwindle as civilian population dwindles
#1014 Unreasonable Doubt
1. you can say what you like about the genocidal murderers that rule @@NAME@@ but at least the trains run on time
#1015 Court in the Middle
2. judicial torture is outsourced overseas
#1016 Breaking Upset
1. dealers go from pushing drugs to pushing up daisies
2. dealers go from pushing drugs to pushing up daisies
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
1. going on a diet invalidates your passport
4. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
5. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
#1021 Room and Board Games
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1022 Failure to Respond
2. pocket dialling is a criminal offence
#1023 Pure Madness
2. single celebrities have to repeatedly prove their chastity to avoid being married off to infatuated fans
5. frustrated teenage boys are told that if they like it then they should have put a ring on it
#1025 A Meal to Die For
3. decreased demand for toilets is saving the prison service a lot of money
#1026 Size Matters
2. many believe that @@LEADER@@'s head is big enough for the sun to orbit around it
4. citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
1. toddler groups have taken over local libraries
2. parents tell their children 'what a lovely mistake you turned out to be'
3. the love has gone in @@NAME@@
#1031 Down in the Groove
3. punk rockers smash it up and then clean it up
#1033 Someone to Watch Over Me
1. trade deals are born to the sound of a royal woman's anguished screams
2. citizens compete to guess the time between the royal lady's contractions
#1036 When in Maxtopia
3. state media insists that @@LEADER@@ is the most fashionable leader in @@REGION@@
#1037 Ill Girl
2. the nation locks people up and tells them they're mad for compassion's sake
#1038 Maid to Order
1. members of ethnic minorities are more often called "boy" or "girl" than by their actual names
3. slaving over a hot stove to cook the family dinner isn't metaphorical in @@NAME@@
4. it is believed that behind every great man is a terrified subservient woman
#1039 You've Got Mail
4. everyone apparently sends @@LEADER@@ hair-filled lockets, offers to die heroically, and poetic desires to co-parent a child
#1044 OK Stupid
2. it is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon
#1048 Tatty Treaty Spat Turns Catty
4. the term "Native @@DEMONYMNOUN@@" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority
#1049 Hard Times Ahead?
2. the nation is noticeably more cheerful on Tuesdays
#1050 Criminal Guns Soon to Be Shooting Blanks
1. serial killers who are released early distribute death but not their seed
3. jaywalking will put an end to a family tree
#1052 The Prisoners' Dilemma
2. prisoners pray grey skies are gonna clear up
#1053 Some Enchanted Evening That Was
4. there is no such thing as an innocent fling in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military
#1055 Fishy Predictions
1. roosters that herald the rising sun are immediately sent to the slaughterhouse
#1059 Footing the Bill
2. children can sing 'We Are the Champions' but can't spell it
#1062 The Hunt for Violet November
2. the military refers to helpless combatants offering surrender as "sitting ducks"
#1066 It's an Honour Just to Be Condemned
1. every day's an auto-de-fé day
2. anti-riot police are dispatched whenever two elderly ladies gather to complain that prices have increased
4. the weather is the nation's most risqué topic of conversation
#1070 Skeletons in the Closet
2. it's surprisingly hard to find pictures of the bad haircuts from @@LEADER@@'s childhood
3. jokes told in elementary school often come back to haunt politicians
#1072 Holographic Harmonization
1. pop sensation "Jack and the Holograms" is storming the charts
3. there's no weight to modern politics
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
1. young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield
2. young soldiers are shocked to discover there are no 'safe spaces' on a battlefield
4. helping grandma with her Misgendering 101 homework is a national rite of passage
5. saying the word 'eggplant' is now a criminal offense
#1075 The Hand That Feeds
1. most of the population has had bad experiences with hoes
#1076 Smokers Cornered
1. the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across @@NAME@@
3. female smokers cut their hair and don suits to get into male-only clubs
4. the tax department is having withdrawal symptoms
#1077 With Friends Like These...
3. hit TV comedies "The Big Government Theory" and "Young @@LEADER@@" have high ratings but low quality
#1078 Down With That?
1. captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship
3. ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain
#1079 What's Love Got to Do With It?
2. to 'cut off family ties' is no longer just a phrase
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
1. insanely good theatre productions face government censorship
#1084 How Now Kowtow?
2. etiquette guides advise visitors to 'grovel gracefully'
#1089 Woman Trouble
1. both injustice and force-feeding are sticking in the craw of hunger-striking suffragettes
2. women are reassured that they're being oppressed for their own good
#1090 I Ain't Afraid of No Girls
1. studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done"
3. choice roles for female actors involve asking "Is there anything I can do for you?"
#1091 The Great Divide
1. wanting a better life for your child is prohibited by a clause in the criminal code
3. new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark
4. new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark
#1092 The Boys From Brasilistan
1. the men in trenchcoats hanging around playgrounds are actually police officers
2. a recent "genocide prevention" campaign includes murdering children based on their DNA
#1093 Ignorance Is No Excuse?
4. claiming that "my cousin said it was legal" is a common courtroom defense
#1095 Make the Cut
3. grumpy old house owners demand that pedestrians get off their footpaths
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
1. engine room hooch is the drink of choice among the nation's navy
2. sailors spend their shore leave helping old ladies cross the street
#1101 Unreal
1. a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows
3. the cancellation of "The Real Vixens of @@CAPITAL@@" has been described as a real blow for entertainment
4. once-vitriolic celebrity chefs are now known for giving encouraging hugs to aspiring cooks
5. Chekhov's guns are killing the entertainment budget
#1102 The Sickest Criminals
2. the only way to escape lengthy prison terms is in a body bag
#1104 Balancing the Books
2. parents ask their ten-year-olds for help with their government-mandated book reports
#1106 Some Body to Love
2. girls who wear lipstick are berated for pandering to male gazes
3. anyone can get ahead in life if they want to
#1107 Welcome to the Party
1. there's sophisticated talk of revolution within the ever-expanding mining colonies
3. you gots to be part of the Party to get in to the party
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
5. classes are regularly interrupted by drunken children
6. hospitals scramble for new disinfectants following a ban on rubbing alcohol
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
4. people forget to eat because they are too busy singing @@LEADER@@'s praises
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
1. forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies
3. Bambi has been banned
#1111 A Call for Change
1. the homeless more often beg for mercy than money
3. tour guides tell passengers that there is beautiful architecture just behind the two-hundred-foot concrete walls
#1112 Stray Bullets
1. the collars keep falling off pet snakes
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
1. courses on ornithology and apiology are surprisingly popular
#1114 Patriotism Flagging
1. patriots insist that size does matter
3. there is a 'turn around' sign at every border entrance
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
2. withdrawal of support for drug addicts is leaving many with cold sweats
3. acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts
#1117 Suffer Little Children
2. teachers are skilled at leaving no evidence of child cruelty
#1119 Where There Isn't Smoke
5. exceptionally healthy police officers can sprint after crooks for hours on end
#1120 Following Yonder Star
3. @@LEADER@@ claims to know what infants are thinking
#1123 Till Death Do Us Part
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ husbands are dead good at fathering kids
3. millions of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are excellent swimmers
#1124 Signing Off, Your God
2. it is written that heretics die and @@LEADER@@ laughs
#1126 Waste of Time
1. nobody ever questions the unquestioned rule that questions must always be asked
2. government statistics suggest 115% of the population love @@LEADER@@
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
1. old dogs don't have to learn new tricks but they have to prove they haven't forgotten old ones
3. taxi drivers seem less xenophobic these days
#1128 Get Thee Behind Me, Santa
2. children usually cry on their first day of school
3. children usually cry on their first day of school
4. favourite sermons have replaced campfire horror stories on teenage wilderness trips
#1129 Behind the Red Curtain
1. frustrated women are overjoyed at the provision of communal washing machines
2. end-of-year production reports state that the revolution is really going with a bang
3. teen boys and girls find stick-figure-aided lectures on their comradestruation emphasises socialist unity more than biology
#1131 Safe Sects
1. the path to inner peace is paved with state-mandated punishment
#1132 Gold Standards
3. sprinters achieve their personal bests only when the Olympic Team recruiters come calling
#1135 My Eyes Are Up Here
1. male med students learning female anatomy do so with their eyes tightly closed
5. catcalling has been replaced by slut-shaming
#1138 Shock Tactics
1. giggling teens are asked to put their mouths on rubber dolls
#1139 A Little Wrestling, a Lot of Controversy
1. people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size
#1140 Blinded by the Light
1. holidays are regarded as the most miserable time of the year
4. overcrowded buses are the new normal for suburban commuters
#1141 The Trolley Problem
1. public projects are synonymous with yawn-inducing conformity
2. most towns have their @@LEADER@@ High School located on @@LEADER@@ Street
#1143 Running From Time
2. jail house rock has been replaced with jail house golden oldies
#1145 Your Wild Self(ie)
4. teenagers are making eye contact with each other for the first time in years
#1146 Mother Knows Best?
2. first-time moms are expected to be experienced parents from day one
#1147 The Long Walk
2. fruit vendors are encouraging a life of crime in their advertising
3. some people will do literally anything to be in the spotlight
4. police officers find government bureaucracy more terrifying than most serial killers
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
3. extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
1. employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired
2. there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
1. citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason
4. the @@CAPITAL@@ Film Festival recently voted '@@DEMONYMNOUN@@ Getting Hit By Football' as best film
#1155 The Banquet of Walnuts
1. heretic deviants are free to practice their deviance outside of @@NAME@@
#1157 Rodney and Julietta
1. love is a precious butterfly to be crushed under diplomatic protocol
#1158 Flying Into a Rage
2. the only women behind bars are barmaids
3. women who are caught shoplifting are sent home to their fathers with a patronising pat on the bottom
#1159 The Sad State of Affairs
1. the vow 'til death do us part' is often taken as an invitation to murder
2. the vow 'til death do us part' is often taken as an invitation to murder
#1162 She's Always a Woman to Me
2. taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death
3. taking a walk on the wild side is punishable by death
#1164 What a Gneiss Place We've Got Here
2. an underground group of geologists hides new discoveries to protect them from being destroyed in the name of safety
3. citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
1. newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words'
3. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
4. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
5. the government-run newspapers insist that everything is fine
#1166 Acres Wild
1. farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land
2. the backs of 'No Trespassing' signs were made for you and me
3. wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests
#1167 Another Brick in the Wall
1. the sun rises an hour later on border communities
4. pieces of groundhog occasionally rain from the sky near the border
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
1. museum employees look down on short people
#1173 Thinking a Little Too Hard?
3. praying before a battle is a court-martial offence
#1174 Bad Press
2. it is illegal to carry an umbrella when the official weather forecast predicts a sunny day
#1175 Can I Borrow a Word?
1. escargots have lost their charm ever since they started to be called 'cooked land snails'
3. colonial subjects have @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ culture shoved down their throats
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
1. citizens who use the word "Violet" incorrectly find their WhoTube content taken down
3. being wrong on the internet has been classified as digital terrorism
4. the government has swiped left on the whole internet
#1178 No Need to Beat Yourself Up About It
1. devotion to God is only skin-deep
2. religious households enthusiastically use whips in private
4. kids feel more beat up than ever after a hard day at school
5. kids feel more beat up than ever after a hard day at school
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
4. female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked'
#1188 The Only Good Criminal
3. the only violent vigilantes are the ones in police uniforms
#1189 Driven to Distraction
3. drivers are told they're not staring at mobile phone screens enough
#1190 Dirty Laundry
2. anyone interested in the stock market is investigated
3. nobody brings rolls of coins to the laundromat anymore
#1194 Lost in Translation
1. families returning from international vacations are unable to get their children back into the country
2. people are bored of easy crossword puzzles
3. pet loving officers arrest citizens who don't give their dogs enough biscuits
#1195 All Hands on Tap!
3. constipated-looking politicians are uptight about potty mouths
#1196 The Properties of Property
2. a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true
#1197 Aflame With Indignity
3. citizens who don't follow @@FAITH@@ are closely monitored for signs of self-harm
5. children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia
6. children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia
#1198 The Death Debate Isn't Dead Yet
1. funeral directors are frequently looking at their watches during funerals
#1199 Locked Down
1. EULAs remind customers that "Private Mode" is a browser setting rather than a promise
3. the police think a properly conducted criminal investigation is a real pain
#1200 Choose Your God Wisely
1. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ believe a soft answer turneth away wrath but punitive punishment is much more fun
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ believe a soft answer turneth away wrath but punitive punishment is much more fun
#1201 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
3. a new "thought police" branch is being developed
4. even snitches get stitches
#1202 A Timely Intervention
5. citizens pray for sunshine so that they can use illicit sundials for timekeeping
#1203 The Fandom Menace
2. works of historical fiction contain a surprising lack of historical figures
#1204 Homecoming Queen
3. statistics show that terrorists often come from broken families
4. pregnant women make easy targets
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
3. babysitters are a thing of the past
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
4. the tobacco industry has burnt out
#1211 Free Credit Reports With Monitoring
1. flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists
#1212 Lost at Sea
1. boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard
3. children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes
#1214 Blood Type: Gay Positive
1. gay hospital patients are labelled with a pink triangle to alert staff of their substandard blood
2. gay hospital patients are labelled with a pink triangle to alert staff of their substandard blood
4. gay men commonly complain about their time of the month
5. homosexuality has been banned to prevent the spread of homosexuality
#1215 A New Age
2. hiding wrinkles with make-up is illegal
#1216 Not My Government
4. an iron curtain has descended around the nation
#1220 Barely Any Art
1. masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery
3. men stare at wall-pictures of @@LEADER@@'s face when they visit public urinals
#1222 Family Matters
3. police nightsticks see use all day long
#1225 The Rumors, They Fly
1. property owners are terrified of pigeons nesting in their buildings
3. the Police Surveillance Unit's motto is "Gotta Catch 'Em All"
#1227 Girls on Film
1. loading sixteen tons of laundry gets you another year older and deeper in debt
#1228 The Road to Hell
1. the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners
#1229 Crystal Clear Sinuses
1. there's a lot of mouth-breathers about these days
2. the most common doctor's prescription is "get out of my consulting room"
#1233 Get Real!
1. there's more hugging than talking in most talk shows
4. it's best to say "yes" if the arbiter asks "what are you, a moron?"
#1234 I Declare a Thumb War
1. the government is under the thumb of countless special interests
3. celebrity wrestlers thumb their nose at due process
#1235 Good Guy With a Gun
4. it turns out that the government can have your guns by prying them out of your warm living hands
#1236 Being Honest
1. newlywed misogynists complain about their wives keeping their maiden names
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
2. signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés
3. shaking a stone out of your shoe is considered to be dangerously risqué
#1239 The Walking, Talking, and Irritated Dead
4. adults have never outgrown their fear of monsters
5. heroes long thought dead are promptly killed upon their return
#1242 Jump Leads
1. prison walls have had to be modified to keep parkour-trained criminals from escaping
3. confused-looking pigeons slide gently off frictionless window ledges
5. the incidence of wrist sprains is falling
#1247 Suspension of the Disbelieved
1. anything is permissible when wearing latex gloves
3. people make a career out of medical voyeurism
#1248 A Day to Remember
3. diaper sales are up
4. red rinses are frequently applied to grey hair
#1249 Red Dead Representatives
2. state officials tend to disappear after they forget to salute @@LEADER@@'s portrait
3. left-wing militias train children how to properly burn down banks
#1251 The Making of a Mass Murderer
1. wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles
4. the army's trophy cabinets have gone all-organic
#1253 Build a Better Baby?
3. genetic screening weeds out citizens whose legs don't bend easily at the knee
#1258 Henceforward Shall Be Free
3. former slaves are free to be oppressed
#1260 Gay Abandoned
4. only persecuted professionals need apply for asylum
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ believe the only thing that will make you happy is being unhappy with who you are
#1263 Is the Signature Always Right?
1. getting an autograph has become harder than ever
3. people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled
4. people who make the leader's blood boil get boiled
#1265 The Silent Majority's Roaring Mouthpiece
4. when conspiracy theorists talk about "government moles" they're referring to mysteriously mobile skin lesions
#1267 Hamming It Up
3. children playing with walkie-talkies are told to 'get a job'
4. children playing with walkie-talkies are told to 'get a job'
#1270 I'll Be Watching You
1. nobody looks each other in the eye at neighborhood block parties any more
3. baseball caps are the new fashion trend
4. baseball caps are the new fashion trend
#1272 Old News
4. loss of the ability to speak is a common affliction of the elderly
#1274 No Room Left for Asylum Seekers
2. blessed are the meek for they have been beaten into submission
3. the nation is a world leader in martyrs per capita
#1276 A Boatload of Trouble
2. small shoes often wash up on the beach
#1277 Outside the Box
2. rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay
3. pro-wrestling bouts open with a legal disclaimer insisting that any violence is guaranteed 100% faked
#1280 The Amazing, but Illegal, Spiderman
1. a good deed is rewarded with a thank you note attached to a deportation order
#1282 Resting in Peace
1. nocturnal light pollution is mostly blue
#1284 How to Choose the Chosen One
1. children are encouraged to fail at school so as not to appear too enlightened
2. minority children find the right answer in school tests is always the most insulting one
3. small children pause apologies for their misdeeds to ask what fiscal insolvency actually is
#1285 Born to Kill
2. super-powered zombies parade through the streets of @@CAPITAL@@
#1287 Children of the Magna Carta
3. the youth vote is only counted when kindergarten teachers ask who drew the best picture
#1289 Cramping Our Style
2. pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches
3. the standard prescription for infertility-causing conditions is "go have a baby"
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
2. coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms
#1294 Silence in Court
1. in court almost every witness is a hostile witness
#1295 Show Trial
1. lawyers spend as much time preparing their make-up as they do their briefs
4. jury duty means front row seats to a spectacular show
#1296 Once Upon a Time
3. the holiday spirit must not be taken to the max
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
2. stale 'yo mamma' insults have been replaced by 'your maternal DNA' insults
4. begun the Clone Wars have
#1299 A Silent Salute
3. the army employs a "shoot first, shoot later" policy
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
1. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cut of Apocalypse Now sets the helicopter scene to eerie silence
3. a lot of glass windows have needed replacing recently
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
4. proletariat workers identify less with the hammer and sickle and more with the touchscreen and phone charger
#1303 Amateur Hour
4. frisbee games on college quadrangles are grounds for expulsion
#1305 The Woman From AUNT
1. children seem to be getting better at lying these days
3. the Counter-Terrorism Unit has been nicknamed "Big Bad Wolf" for its tendency towards urban demolition
#1307 A Duty to Serve
1. students do more community service than homework
3. people who do not complete their community service are sentenced to more community service
4. record numbers of students are leaving school to enter the workforce
#1308 One in the Oven
1. the government makes bereaved siblings into bereaved orphans
#1310 Intimate Relations
1. dancing with your first cousin is a misdemeanor
3. kissing cousins produce the heartiest babies
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ no longer find themselves bumping into their exes at family gatherings
6. immigrant families holding hands get stopped at the border
#1311 An Acquired Taste
4. gaping tourists take long-distance photos of diseased natives on "indigenous peoples" safari tours
#1312 Cranmer vs Cranmer
2. survivors of attempted maternal infanticide are sentenced to live with their mothers forever
3. unwilling fathers wish they had looked for a late-night pharmacy
#1314 Nothing to Write Home About
1. soldiers on first dates introduce themselves only by their ranks and serial numbers
2. military information leaks are **REDACTED** by **REDACTED** in **REDACTED**
3. infantry are nicknamed "mushrooms" because they get fed crap and are left in the dark
#1316 Gonna Take My Hearse to the Old Town Road
1. ambulances aren't allowed to overtake hearses
2. funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room
#1318 Blitzed
1. the nation's soldiers often believe they're in the Air Force
2. battlefield gains are quickly lost when enemies don't respect a time-out
3. a soldier's body is a temple
4. a soldier's body is a temple
5. a soldier's body is a temple
6. a soldier's body is a temple
7. skyscrapers get built in just days
#1321 Who Wants to Know a Millionaire?
2. lottery winners spend most of their money on security
#1322 Introducing Altengarten?
3. signs stating "You Must be This Tall to Enter" have started appearing outside retirement homes
4. the first test of a good kindergartener is the quality of the sponge-baths they give
#1323 Toss the Coin?
2. the newest East Lebatuckese coins have "long live East Lebatuck" on heads and "death to @@NAME@@" on tails
#1324 Wrecked by Wrestling?
2. school lockers are filled with fancy underwear
#1327 Which Right Is Right?
2. postcards from @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ driving test centres are popular souvenirs
3. people often complain that they're going in circuitous routes all the time
#1329 A Little Bit Short
5. people are always able to look each other in the eye
#1330 Guilt by Association
1. family trees become bare as entire branches are lopped off
2. the recently bereaved have plenty of time to mourn during their incarcerations
4. Big Brother is still watching even when your big brother is dead
#1333 Married With Benefits?
3. engaged partners detail their fiancés' private lives in detail to prurient bureaucrats
4. engaged partners detail their fiancés' private lives in detail to prurient bureaucrats
5. you can get married in sickness and in health but not internationally
6. you can get married in sickness and in health but not internationally
#1334 Withdrawing Diplomatic Relations
2. diplomacy falls apart when diplomats drink too much
5. the only trips @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are allowed to take are the ones caused by hallucinogens
#1335 First-Class Warfare
1. flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor
#1336 Take Good Care of My Baby
2. grim instructresses lead the unwillingly impregnated in chants of "it's all my fault" and "blessed be the fruit"
#1337 Waste Not Want Not
1. the needs of the living outweigh the needs of the dead
#1338 Slow and Stupid Is the Race
3. exiled racists are enjoying their retirement in exotic lands
#1339 AI Citizens Driving Change?
1. mandatory updates on software drivers often bring life to a halt
#1343 Feeling Down
1. pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card
#1346 The Problem With Peyote
1. the only soporific permitted during sermons is the preacher's voice
#1349 You Must Be 18 Years or Older to View This Content
1. adulthood begins with the creation of an email account
5. getting your license is a rite of passage for young adults
#1351 Come Give @@LEADER@@ a Kiss!
1. little children cry as their rainbow drawings are seized by the Straight-Thought Police
4. Mona Lola's famous mysterious smile is being altered to resemble @@LEADER@@'s enigmatic grin
#1360 Ask a Stupid Question?
1. twelfth-generation @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are deported for not knowing @@LEADER@@'s childhood nickname
3. immigration test hopefuls are taught immigrant blood is purple
#1361 Fundamental Rights
4. the nation's girls answer "apple" when asked what makes pi
#1362 The Trans Panic Button
1. defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were
3. @@LEADER@@ is considering changing the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag to one with more glitter
#1366 Parklife
1. parents must decide between buying food and taking their children to the park
#1367 Sweet, Sweet Marketing
3. the full weight of the law is being applied against hate speech
#1368 Parking Hell
1. the optimally efficient parking strategy for business commuters is referred to as the "traveling salesman problem"
3. urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
2. children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name
3. professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials
4. the full title of Hon @@LEADER@@ Vcte Mgve MF @@TYPEINITIALS@@@@NAMEINITIALS@@LM GC@@DEMONYMADJECTIVEINITIALS@@E runs to several pages
#1371 @@NAME@@ Rocked by Rolls' Fatal Role
3. tabloids publicly shun nurses for not calling home on the weekends
#1373 You Should Have (Copy)Left My Software Alone!
2. government programs are less "written" and more "plagiarised"
3. using "inspect element" is grounds for espionage charges
#1374 Protect and Swerve
3. it takes a village to catch a criminal
#1396 [MADness] Skycrash
2. maps of the enemy's positions are often covered in blood
#1406 Can't Touch This
1. police are saying "bye book" to "by the book"
2. police are saying "bye book" to "by the book"
#1407 New Tricks
2. parents are fined for sending their children to take out the trash after sunset
4. red fabric is banned
5. jollity-related fatalities are on the increase
#1409 Happy Pranksgiving!
2. class clowns are frequently listed among the most dangerous criminals in the nation
#1417 Nun on the Run
4. every political party claims that their platform is based on divine revelation
#1418 The High Life
4. heavily stoned police officers are unsure whether the recent directive to 'clean up the streets' means arresting drug dealers or hosing down the sidewalk
#1419 The Madson-Hashley Scandal
3. criminals are really screwed
#1421 Have Your Cake and Don't Eat It
1. asking 'does my bum look big in this?' leads to 30 hours of self-esteem classes
2. racehorses move a lot slower these days
4. Big Belly is watching you
#1423 A Slice of the Pi
4. engineers are reinventing the wheel
#1426 She's a Keeper
2. girls in elementary school classes gaze longingly at boys playing tag
#1427 May the Fourth Estate Be With You
2. the nation won three wars against Brancaland this weekend
3. students spend the school year learning how great the education system is
#1428 In the Bag
4. overhead luggage compartments on planes sometimes conceal diminutive intelligence officers
#1430 Taking the Peace?
3. requests to "pass the salt" are supported by tank divisions
#1431 Just Deserts for Desertion?
2. soldiers are "encouraged" to advance by armed officers behind them
4. nerdy teenagers have to prove that they're made of the same stuff as their grandparents
#1432 Oh Dear
3. religion makes people horny
4. religion makes people horny
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
3. slavers are real nutters
#1439 Philately Will Get You Nowhere
2. penny whistles have been rebranded 'tin hornpipes'
#1440 Dungeons and Deaths
1. there's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality
#1441 Don't Burn Baby Don't Burn
2. teen parties are often ruined by wet blanket chaperones
#1445 The Dialectics of Dialects
2. faking deafness is the only way to guarantee a holiday in the nation
#1447 The Lowest Form of Wit
1. you can tell when @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are being snarky by the fact their lips are moving
#1451 A Dread Letter
3. neighbourhood gossips whip up controversy about those receiving adult merchandise
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
1. paralegals spend all day Hewlett-Packing attorneys' law briefs
#1457 Use the Farce, @@LEADER@@
1. citizens volunteer for tax audits to avoid the 80-page Practical Assessment Survey Tool On Religions
3. the only film released this month was "Prayervengers: Heresy War"
5. science fiction is seen as the leading cause of mental breakdowns
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
2. tax avoidance is a serious affair
#1461 No Shirt, No Shoes, No ID, No Service
2. some voters are required to show a minimum of four forms of identification
3. requests for password resets peak during election season
#1462 Glory Kill
2. quiet professionalism has returned to the nation's armed forces
#1464 Gentry Genes Getting Grim
1. aristocratic family trees are beginning to resemble tumbleweeds
#1465 Parking Pandemonium
2. men are finding 'she spots' more easily but they can't use them
3. parking lots are littered with coffee cups and doughnut crumbs
#1466 Don't Shoot Your Eye Out
3. gun owners are skilled at everything except shooting
#1467 Gay Men Held by Police
3. man-love is banned in the name of His love
#1469 News Flash!
1. TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews
#1473 A Pretty Pass
3. the line of people waiting for a visa interview in front of foreign embassies is typically a mile long
#1474 Cuy Bono?
3. delicate flowers faint at news of house plants being eaten
#1479 Fares Fair?
1. the transit system is throwing poor people under the bus
3. maximum security @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ subway stations inspire prison systems around the world
#1481 Livin' on a Prayer
1. even God cannot save you in @@NAME@@
3. illegal immigration remains a hot topic
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
1. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
2. the government regrets to say that it is forced to make cuts to citizens
3. those who cut young children are told to cut it out
#1484 Joint Trade Agreement
2. greenhouses are regularly raided by the police
#1486 Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs Are Right for @@NAME@@
2. doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen
3. doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen
#1490 @@LEADER@@ Wins Massive Victory!
2. a mayoral candidate backed by @@LEADER@@ recently won re-election with 110% of the vote
#1492 Smoke on the Water
1. middle-aged metal fans quite enjoy being called "rebellious youths" by even older politicians
2. there's nothing more rock-and-roll than absolute sobriety
#1496 A Place For Everything
3. politicians put their fingers in their ears and sing "la la la la" when walking past lobbyists
#1497 Double Trouble
2. twins move across the country to avoid being accused of the other's crimes
3. expectant parents view twins with equal parts joy and suspicion
#1498 Flight 201: An Airspace Oddity
4. tumbleweeds are seen blowing through the nation's airspace
#1502 Dirty Deals
3. work stinks
4. work stinks
#1505 A Tangled Web
2. cat memes without alt text are now illegal
#1506 A Need for Order
1. it's believed that women's brains will overheat if they think for themselves
#1512 The Door's Unlocked, Let Yourself In...
3. Lady Justice has swapped her blindfold for steel-capped boots
#1515 Uncharitable Donations
3. asking a friend if they like watermelons is a potentially criminal act
#1516 Content Discontent
2. children searching for cat videos must watch dogs in equal proportion
4. netizens fiercely argue over who loves @@LEADER@@ more
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
3. foreign ambassadors are accused of stealing @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ jobs
4. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ doors require a Ph.D. to open
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
4. gated communities have guards to keep their residents in
#1525 @@LEADER@@: The Musical!
1. citizens can freely debate whether @@LEADER@@ is a great leader or the greatest leader
3. songs of praise to @@LEADER@@ are filled with coded messages from the resistance
#1526 Corporate Pride
5. you can't spell society without CIS
#1531 Fine Time
3. serial killers share cells with serial jaywalkers
4. serial killers share cells with serial jaywalkers
#1533 Give a Girl Some Credit
2. ladies are meant to gush with enthusiasm if they get a new vacuum cleaner for their birthday
#1535 Mr. Tingle Goes to Cyberspace
1. building a phallus out of Minecraft blocks counts as indecent exposure
3. the banhammer is a standard police sidearm
#1539 Save the Last Dance
1. slow dancing is made trickier when Auntie Edna insists on standing between the couple's arms
#1542 Dangerous Liaisons
4. the police have nothing to do with the increasing number of 'disappeared'
#1544 Happy Juice
1. safety warnings are prohibited lest they give people ideas
#1549 Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin'
9. @@LEADER@@ hands out warnings to mods who don't deliver enough danishes (@@EGG@@)
#1550 A Friend With Weed Is a Friend Indeed?
2. charity distribution sites are regularly raided by the police
#1551 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
4. charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came
#1552 An Issue About Nothing
1. contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art
#1554 Trajectory x Velocity = GOOOOOOOOOAAAALL!
1. citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles
2. citizens seem fixated on 105m x 45m rectangles
3. athletes are renowned for being the best at maths
4. athletes are renowned for being the best at maths
#1556 Gimme Shelter
1. what's in your genes matters more than what's in your jeans
4. men who wear pink are seen as dangerously unmanly
#1559 Skin's the Wrong Colour
2. you can be fired for dyeing grey hairs
#1560 Dead Gay
1. edgy teens know that illegal discos are where the cool cats hang
2. all music has been banned
#1563 Apostropocalypse Now
1. aggravated apostrophe abusers are admonished and assaulted
#1565 The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Gluttony
3. school cafeterias serve nothing but protein powder and vitamin supplements
#1566 Consensus Controversy
1. scientists are not permitted to ask questions
#1568 Palate Torture
2. running a hot dog stand is harder than achieving a doctorate
#1569 The Not-So-Long Arm of the Law
1. the government invades its allies more than its enemies
4. loudmouthed journalists are given the chop
#1573 Unseen Academia
3. new research always seems to support government initiatives
#1584 Loose Lips, Characters Shipped?
2. animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands
#1587 @@DEMONYMNOUN@@, Interrupted
5. research facilities are colloquially referred to as "chop shops"
#1592 Echoes of Deception
3. AI chatbots generate grayscale images when asked for a picture of the truth
#1596 The Blame Game
2. newborn babies can only be discharged from maternity wards during daylight hours
4. restless leg syndrome sufferers live under constant fear of arrest
#1597 Haters Are Such a Drag
1. kilts and cassocks are viewed with suspicion
4. stony-faced ratings board panelists are unamused by free lap dances
#1598 Weeping Widows
5. they say marriage really does shorten your life
#1600 Mother's Ruin
2. in the pink ghetto (on the cold and grey @@CAPITAL@@ morn) women promise no child will be born
#1601 At Death's Door
1. citizens are constantly disappointed to find their nuisance neighbours are still alive
3. young people never forget their first roommate — no matter how much counselling they have
#1602 @@NAME@@'s Bark Worse Than Its Byte?
1. enterprising game developers are a hop, skip, and a double-jump away from arrest
#1604 Prison of the Mind
3. dream holidays often go awry
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
1. faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers
3. no-one ever lasts longer than a week on a life support machine
#1606 Book Off
1. Moby Dick can only be sold by pornographers
2. senior literature classes are left analysing why Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is so darn sunny
#1607 My Chemical Romance
3. back-alley holistic doctors carry crystals in long trench coats
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
4. claims adjusters are uselessly vague
#1613 Incarceration Sensation
3. murder comes with a cash prize if the victim was previously incarcerated
#1616 Beyond the Focal Point
3. talkative students are escorted from schools in second-hand prison buses
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
4. molehills are the only mountains deemed safe enough for the public
#1623 The @@MAN/WOMAN@@ in the Iron Lung
1. medical staff can legally quiet people who ask for a second helping of Salisbury steak
#1625 At What Price?
3. white chocolate is neither chocolate nor food
#1628 NEET Freaks?
2. modern warfare's call of duty isn't popular with gamers these days
3. WhoTube speedrunners always have at least one viewer
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other
#1635 A Sine of the Times
3. arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve
#1638 The Waiting Is the Hardest Part
2. retirees make up the bulk of foreign students
#1642 When Push-itzer Comes to Shove
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ dissenters are begging human rights groups to ignore them
2. those awarding peace prizes to @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ find themselves in pieces
#1643 Cicadas in Their Prime
3. bug burgers are extra crunchy
#1646 Is God in This Machine?
1. smart fridges sing the praises of @@FAITH@@ for fear of being iced
#1649 Grandma's Getting Lucky
1. old people living in plastic bubbles complain about a new type of social isolation
3. afternoon delight in care homes is restricted to a serving of spotted dick at 3pm
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
1. the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough'
#1656 Stealing Afoot
4. hospitals have unveiled new guidelines suggesting that latex gloves do not count as clothing
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
1. the mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin
#1693 My Home Is My Castle
1. self defense is just as despicable as armed robbery

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#20 Gunman Kills Three
4. a valid legal defense is 'dead men tell no tales'
#65 Should Martial Law Be Declared?
3. ad hoc militias patrol the streets in an effort to control rampant crime
#84 Compulsory Gun Ownership?
1. gun ownership is compulsory
2. citizens are permitted to carry concealed handguns
#98 Police Want More Than Shiny Badge
4. citizens are expected to be armed at all times
#100 Road Rage Rampage
3. it's a common sight to see angry commuters with grenade launchers mounted on their vehicles
#133 When @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Attack!
4. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are frequently shot for looking at people 'in a funny way'
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
3. the arms industry is strictly regulated
#149 With Liberty, Freedom, and Guns for All?
1. @@NAME@@ is renowned for its lax gun laws
#169 @@ANIMAL@@ Hunting Laws Under Dispute
3. main battle tanks stalk the woods of @@NAME@@ in search of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
#186 Carjacking Concerns
2. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
3. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
#211 Unconventional Weapons Under Fire
2. the commercialisation of highly deadly weapons has instilled @@NAME@@ with a very polite populace
#248 The Sky Is Falling
3. bombs are permitted on planes for the 'security of the passengers'
#316 Fortified Against Crime
1. the richest citizens live in sheltered private citadels
#403 [An International Incident] We Done Killing Yet?
1. anyone found to be unemployed is shipped off to Brasilistan with a gun and a spade
#488 Bright Orange Is the New Black
5. games of cops and robbers typically end in at least one fatal shooting
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
4. farmers' market days almost always end in a shooting
#698 I Shot the Sheriff
1. the mentally ill are given high powered automatic weapons for "catharsis therapy"
#753 I've Got My Ion You
2. owners of man-portable particle accelerator backpacks are advised not to cross the streams
#802 No Lock, No Gun Stock, and No Smoking Barrels
3. banned objects are regularly legalized if they've been successfully stolen from the government
#850 The Prints and the Slaughter
2. mass shootings have become the new normal
#877 Gunning for Profits
3. road rage is rarer but more terminal now that many people drive fully-operational battle tanks to work
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
1. no suburban lawn is complete without barbed wire and landmines
4. international terrorists often get their weapons supply in @@NAME@@
#1098 Edged Out
4. people wouldn't be seen dead without their guns
#1170 To Catch a Beef
1. hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers
2. hand-to-hand combat experience is udderly essential for all dairy ranchers
#1693 My Home Is My Castle
2. every child sleeps with a gun to protect themselves from the monster under the bed

Sometimes removed by:

#0 Should Democracy Be Compulsory?
3. elections have been outlawed
#1 Where's the Love Gone?
4. same-sex marriages are increasingly common
#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#3 Harry Potter Censorship Row
3. the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller
4. the latest Harry Potter book is a bestseller
#6 Appointment of Spiritual Advisor
2. the government's religious works are headed by a New Age guru
3. the nation's official head of religious affairs is an atheist
#8 Nudists Demand Time in Sun
1. citizens can be frequently spotted going about their business stark naked
#10 Social Inequality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
2. the government is slowly introducing social welfare programs
#12 Death Penalty on Agenda
2. extreme political groups are outlawed
#13 Too Much Yakking, Already, Say Delegation
2. @@NAME@@'s children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region
3. it is a crime to offend someone's religious beliefs
#14 Military Demands Increased Spending
1. military spending is on the increase
#16 @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ Workers Strike!
2. employers may fire workers without giving any reason
#18 Citizens Struggle Under "Unfair" Tax Burden
1. the government is reining in public spending
#19 @@NAME@@ Awash With Red-Rimmed Eyes
2. all recreational drugs are legal
#20 Gunman Kills Three
1. kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles
#21 Police Consider "Big Brother" Anti-Crime System
1. surveillance cameras are banned
#22 Nazi Sympathizers Plan Rally
1. it is illegal to make racist remarks in public
2. the tenet of free speech is held dear
#24 Budget Time: Accountants Excited
2. military spending recently hit a new high
3. a well-funded social safety net protects the unfortunate
#25 Cloning Research Promises New Breakthrough
2. genetic researchers have been expelled
#26 Compulsory Organ Harvesting Proposed
2. organ donation rates are among the lowest in the region
#27 Cash for Colons?
1. college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys
#28 Cancer Sufferer Demands Euthanasia Bill
1. euthanasia is legal
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
2. the government awards prizes to television shows featuring stereotype-breaking minority roles
3. the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
1. punitive tariffs protect local industry
#32 One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists
1. polygamy is legal
4. there have been reports of people marrying housepets
#33 Genetics Brings New Life to Extinct Species
2. genetic research has been halted
3. genetic research has been halted
#34 Don't Puff on Me, Say Non-Smokers
3. eight-year-olds can be seen lighting up in public areas
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
1. the nation has opened its arms to an influx of refugees
#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
3. anti-government web sites are springing up
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
2. elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume
#44 No Pain, No Gain!
2. torture is illegal
#46 Jennifer Government Censorship Row
2. Jennifer Government is a bestseller
#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
1. a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders
2. refugees from other nations are flocking to @@NAME@@'s border
#50 Whips, Chains, and Leather, Oh My!
2. leather-clad individuals can be seen walking their slaves in public parks
#51 Streaker in Snooker Game Fiasco
2. streakers swamp all public events in order to bare it all
#52 Is It Art or Is It Porn?
3. nude art is becoming wildly popular
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
1. homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities
2. "The Daily Sacrifice" is a routine segment of morning news shows
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
5. the Supreme Court vehemently protects civil rights and the right to privacy
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
2. citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits
#63 Tykes With Tools?
1. child labor has been outlawed
#65 Should Martial Law Be Declared?
1. rioting and unrest sweep the nation
#66 Transgender Recognition Demanded
1. sex changes are routinely performed at @@NAME@@'s hospitals
#70 Purge the Infidels!
3. the government is avowedly secular
#72 Widening Buttocks Cause Movie Theater Havoc
4. city sidewalks are crowded with overweight people
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#83 High-Speed Monorail Service Promises Connections
3. a vast monorail network carries people all over the country
4. a vast monorail network carries people all over the country
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
1. murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows
2. soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
2. scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway
#91 Sacramental Tax Time?
3. televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events
#94 Computer Users Fed Up With Heaps of Spam!
2. computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails
3. computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails
#99 We Need Cash, Sharpish, Say Librarians
3. all writing must pass a censorship board before being allowed on the shelves
#100 Road Rage Rampage
1. traffic jams are a common sight due to construction work from a massive overhaul of the nation's freeways
2. the government has started a campaign to crack down on road rage and encourage alternate means of commuting
#101 Tiara Sign of Oppression, Declare Feminists
4. Max Barry is this year's Miss @@NAME@@
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
2. new urban roads are threatening city parks
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
1. sales of fishnet stockings have reached a record high
3. government-run brothels can be found on every street corner
#112 Put the Phone Down on Cold Calling?
1. a ban on unsolicited cold calling in all forms is in effect
#114 Wipe Out Graffiti?
3. graffiti graces every city's streets
#115 @@NAME@@'s Schoolchildren Not Learning the Lingua Franca
2. foreigners are treated with great suspicion
#116 Soda Sales Hits New 'High'
1. 'Mountain Doobie' is widely regarded as the nation's favourite drink
3. reports of attacks by bright purple sixty-foot high spiders have recently shot up
#118 Need for Speed?
1. the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril
#119 Watershed Down?
1. programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours
#121 A Uniform Plan for @@NAME@@'s Students?
2. students are known to arrive at school in their pyjamas
#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
1. human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants
3. traditional vegetarians are fuming over the introduction of vat-grown meat to the menu
#125 Bring Back the Ballot?
2. suppression of pro-democracy protests is a daily occurrence
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
5. immigrant Bigtopians work themselves to the bone to support gold-plated @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ pensions
#128 Ban the Burka?
2. there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'
#129 Tribal Troubles
1. large sections of @@NAME@@ have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there
5. a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world
#136 Much Ado About Abortion
1. abortions are routinely performed in @@NAME@@'s hospitals
3. abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics
4. abortions are carried out secretly in shady backstreet clinics
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
1. the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place
#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
1. shops were recently ransacked as cigarettes returned to the shelves
3. zombie-like crowds of hard drug users stumble through the streets
#146 Evolution: Truth or Witchcraft?
3. biology and religious education classes have recently been merged
4. children are sent to either religious or secular schools
#148 Spare the Rod, Demand Welfare Activists
1. parents live in fear of governmental 'child protection' squads
#150 Bug 'Em All, Say Police
2. it is illegal for police officers to carry out searches due to strict privacy laws
#152 A Capital Idea
3. the government has legalised small-scale capitalism
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
2. skateparks can be found in every city
#158 Regarding Robbers' Rights
1. nervous homeowners have been blamed for rising death rates amongst carol singers and locksmiths
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
2. convicted murderers are free to walk the streets provided they attend rehabilitation classes
#160 Truancy on the Rise
3. students in @@NAME@@'s schools rarely attend their classes
#161 Where There's a Will There's a Tax
1. the government seizes the property of the recently deceased
#164 Licence to Breed?
2. almost half of the child population live rough on the streets
#165 Wedlock Worries
1. many parents are becoming frustrated with their children's choices in spouses
#166 Vote for 'None of the Above'?
2. voters must frequently select what they view as the lesser of two evils on the ballot
#167 Fluoride Controversy a Toothy Problem
2. the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape
3. the public health bureaucracy is wrapped in miles of red tape
#168 @@NAME@@ Plagued by STD Epidemic!
1. the government has undertaken a massive health education program to combat VODAIS
#169 @@ANIMAL@@ Hunting Laws Under Dispute
1. the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned
#171 Kids and Criminality: Whose Responsibility?
2. the nation's youth is held blameless for all crimes
#172 Church Attendances Reaching New Low, Warn Priests
2. the government is spending billions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ on helping citizens find spiritual enlightenment
#173 Women Demand Equal Opportunities
1. business is adjusting to new gender equality policies in the workplace
#175 Is @@NAME@@ Too Promiscuous?
4. @@NAME@@ is notorious for its citizens' infidelity
#176 History a Mystery to Most of @@NAME@@
3. history classes are mandatory for students
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
1. 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of @@NAME@@'s radio stations
#184 Compulsory Military Service Under Attack
1. the military struggles with recruitment
#185 "Bring Back Our Booze!" Cry Revellers
1. @@NAME@@'s fine wines are renowned throughout the region
3. GP clinics are inundated by patients requesting prescriptions for alcohol
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
2. the children of @@NAME@@ are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
3. the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet
4. jails have become colloquially known as 'vampire houses'
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
1. the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents
3. government workers are regularly taken hostage by protesters
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
3. manual labourers must be willing to have cybernetic limbs to get a job
#194 A Request for Military Aid
3. the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
1. public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers
#196 Violent Violetists Protest Artists
2. the @@NAME@@ Enquirer offers weekly cash prizes for 'most blasphemous song, story, or cartoon'
#197 Breastfeeding in Public: Innocent or Indecent?
1. female newsreaders distract the nation by breastfeeding during broadcast
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
1. travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs
2. traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways
3. the government has instituted 'traveller reservations' across the country
4. homes have been banned from having any more than one wheel
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
1. teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough
2. teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough
#201 Jolly Roger Sighted Off the Port Bow!
4. piracy is the nation's most popular pastime
#207 Secret Police in @@NAME@@?
2. anti-government political posters adorn every building like wallpaper
#212 Police Wanting Help With Their Inquiries
2. crime is on the rise as DNA sampling has been all but outlawed
#218 Two Mommies One Too Many?
1. an increasing percentage of the population's youth have homosexual parents
#219 Nobody Expects the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Inquisition!
2. radio shows frequently feature people denouncing religion
#222 Terrorists Strike City Centre
6. the streets are ravaged by murder and violence to prove political points
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
4. a chain of pubs that cater solely to children has recently been unveiled
#228 Mice in the Walls
1. nerds everywhere are rejoicing as they are reunited with their computers
#232 Suffragette City
1. the government has cautiously opted to support women's suffrage
2. new laws have paved the way for female politicians
3. opening doors for ladies is never seen as misogynistic
#236 Quickie Marriages Under Scrutiny
2. 'A is for Annulment' is a popular children's song
#238 We Need a Few Good Men Who Like Men?
1. the colors pink and purple are banned from military unit insignia
2. recruitment posters proclaim the army to be both fabulous and fashionable
4. military geniuses responsible for brilliant campaigns are drummed out because they have close same-sex friends and an interest in interior design
5. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
6. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
#240 Plea Bargains: Tipping the Scales of Justice?
2. innocent defendants often plead guilty for fear of receiving a much harsher sentence before jury
#243 A Question of Faith
2. the government has declined to declare any particular religion as its 'official' one
#245 Clash of Cultures
2. racial and religious segregation has become rife as the various groups are loath to mingle
#246 @@NAME@@ to Hold the Olympic Torch?
3. the importance of winning Olympic gold medals is indoctrinated from an early age
#248 The Sky Is Falling
4. the wreckages of bombed planes that litter @@NAME@@ are highly popular tourist destinations
#254 Freedom Comes at a Price
2. employers are gradually adapting to the alien premise of paying wages to their workers
#258 What's in a Name?
2. @@ANIMAL@@ is one of the most popular forenames in @@NAME@@
#262 Sticks and Stones
2. violently opinionated speakers can be heard preaching their hateful views on every street corner
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
3. raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists
#268 Don't Want Your Kid Anymore? Good News!
3. mothers are routinely abandoning their children in the name of women's rights
#270 Space Spectacular Sours Small Stargazers
1. teenagers stay out into the wee hours of the morning "stargazing"
3. the police have been swamped with requests to stay up past bedtime
#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
1. inter-species marriages are ignored by the government
#275 Wiki Worries
1. the "Underwear of Women in Power" issue of The @@CAPITAL@@ Times is sold out
#277 Say Cheese!
1. photographers can be found hiding behind the curtains in @@LEADER@@'s bedroom
#291 A Question of Sport
4. kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun"
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
1. the police strictly enforce off-limit zones for tourists
2. anti-tourism militias patrol the borders
#295 Give Us Pockets or Give Us Something Else
1. fashion stores are exploding in sales as clothing is reintroduced to the country
3. clothed men and nude women illustrate the stark contrasts in the nation's equality laws
#297 Intersex Athletes Demand Level Playing Field
2. the 'kind of scrawny' 500 meter hurdle is a popular event
3. national parks have long lines of different gender-specific 'Porta-Pottys'
#300 Trafficked Tots Trouble
3. prospective parents are cheering on the streets as they no longer need a license to have children
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
3. unstable couples are known to break up over which one gets parental leave
#309 Guerrilla Grandparents
1. aging citizens are celebrating the end of the 'Early Bird War'
3. the elderly live on a steady diet of canned beans in dreary government housing
#311 Victims Demand Their Pound of Flesh
3. condemned prisoners spend hours a day sitting in lotus position looking perplexed
#313 Conscientious Objectors Want You... To Let Them Abstain
1. military recruitment numbers are down as citizens object on 'moral grounds'
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
2. immigrants flood the job queues as discrimination in the workplace makes a staggering comeback
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
2. cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates
#318 Death Penalty on Death Row?
1. prisoners work-share to cut down rising costs of keeping them in jail
3. criminals are put to death while cuddling their favourite teddy bear
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
1. teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers
#321 Cowboys and... Aliens?
1. droves of former desperados are applying to join the border police
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
2. the nation leads @@REGION@@ in per capita stalking
3. the fastest growing demographic of porn viewership is twelve to seventeen
#329 Military Uniforms Under Scrutiny
1. soldiers with colourful mohawks make themselves perfect targets for snipers
6. shock troops shock enemy forces with their nudity
#333 No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice at All
3. murderers and thieves claim divine inspiration to avoid prosecution
#335 Log Us Back On
1. teenagers haven't been seen outdoors since the nation reconnected to the Internet
#337 Doctors Crossing Borders?
3. people eagerly queue days at A&E to wait for their free healthcare
#338 The Silence and the Fury
2. most people suffer from some form of hearing loss
#348 I Want a Lawyer
1. the state is footing the bill for billionaires' lawyers
#349 Bigtopian Bigwigs Beset Border
2. retirement homes are filled with foreign war criminals
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
3. children play Capture the Flag and Capture the Bigtopian General Staff at summer camps
#359 Got Democracy?
1. pro-democracy protesters are shot on sight by state police
#363 The Apotheosis of @@LEADER@@?
4. the government is seen as openly hostile to all religion
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
1. birth rates have hit an all-time low
#365 A Busload of Worry
1. children as young as six shock their parents by coming out of the closet
4. bus ads propagandize causes ranging from sexual revolution to religious pogroms
#366 Prosecute Stolen Valour, Says Military
3. soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear
4. soldiers have swapped their uniforms for prisonwear
#368 Female Workers Feeling the Pinch
1. men avoid even so much as looking at female colleagues
#373 Devil and the Deep Blue Funding Gap
1. mantis shrimp studies is academia's fastest-growing field
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
2. mollycoddled youths run the country
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
#387 [An International Incident] Diamonds Are an Expat's Best Friend!
1. the military is on a massive recruiting drive in advance of an invasion of Brasilistan
#409 Water Palaver
2. the state funds the recreational drug habits of every citizen
4. the national water supply has entered detox
#410 12 Angry, Tired, and Increasingly Confused Men
3. listless juries are assembled for the simplest of court cases
#411 Outed Teacher Ousted
2. discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is illegal
3. prudishness is on the way out
#413 A Shot in the Arm
1. thousands of children die every day from easily curable illnesses
#420 Caught Green Handed
3. Maxtopian Grass flags adorn every college dorm room
#421 No Child Left Behind Enemy Lines
1. army uniforms are replaced en masse to accommodate adult soldiers
#423 Returning Holy Warriors Cause Trouble
2. the government is ignoring the latest terrorist atrocities in @@CAPITAL@@ for fear of causing a fuss
#426 Women in Uniform Under Fire
2. the military recognizes no difference between male and female soldiers
#427 They Took Our Gubment!
3. the Smalltopian embassy doubles as an electoral campaign headquarters
#434 Fraternity Furor
1. fraternities are notorious for drunken hooliganism
#437 Blue Screen of Economic Death
1. citizens queue to get the reinstated bank notes and coins
#438 Judicial Review on Trial
2. political gridlock ensues as even the most innocuous legislation is vetoed by the Supreme Court for potential civil rights violations
#439 The Law of Exodus
1. census workers are having a hard time figuring out who is actually living in @@NAME@@ after the ban on emigration was lifted
3. emigrants arrive on foreign shores with nothing but pocket sand
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have been enjoying a recent boost in civil rights as the government continues to clamp down on emigration
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
3. 'Police Academy 36' and 'Sharknados On A Plane' are vying for top spot at the box-office
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
2. EpiPen sales have skyrocketed
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
3. a performance of the hit musical "Mamma Tua" has been delayed after squatters were found sleeping in the orchestra pit
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
1. late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards
3. breast milk lattes are the newest fad among hip urbanites
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
1. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
2. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
#452 Foetal Furore
3. the travel industry is booming as pregnant women book tickets for "weekend trips" overseas
#456 Heads Will Roll
3. stylish juvenile delinquents are highly overrepresented in fatal motorcycle accidents
#462 Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
1. disadvantaged neighbourhoods have become no-go areas after sundown
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
2. bris parties are all the rage
3. teenagers performing appendectomies on their friends has become a popular schoolyard prank
#476 A Farewell to Raised Arms?
2. village elders are often called in to interpret voting outcomes in Parliament
#482 Whose Fault Is It Anyways?
1. acrimonious legal battles result during divorce proceedings
#487 Masks of Shame
1. country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized
#489 Standing at Attention
3. the army spends more time producing 'romantic videos' than actually training soldiers
#490 The Long and Winding Halls of @@CAPITAL@@
3. groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol
#491 Friends, @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears
2. census workers struggle to account for the rapidly increasing number of citizens to tabulate
#493 Suspicious Superhuman Athletes?
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ athletes are close to breaking the 2 minute mile and the 16 meter long jump
#494 Whipping Up a Controversy
1. whipping posts and lashes have been transferred to the Historical Museum of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Embarrassments
#500 Please Don't Feed the (Copyright) Trolls
2. the constant playing of Merry Birthday on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ radio has led to calls for the song to be classified as a crime against humanity
4. the most popular WhoTube videos are ones featuring parodies of iconic songs
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
2. a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants
#502 Scientists Declare That @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Are Persons
1. animal liberationists receive government funding to break into animal research labs
4. the new @@ANIMAL@@ Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls
5. the new @@ANIMAL@@ Supremacy Party is faring well in the polls
#504 Short Shorts Too Short?
4. young girls and senior citizens alike can be spotted wearing colourful short shorts
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
3. visions of giant pink @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are a common side effect after @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ eat their meals
#506 It's Official: "I Do" Does Do It
1. every conceivable scenic location has been completely booked by couples desperate to marry
3. couples wishing to marry spend months at the circus trying to learn acrobatics
#508 Ex-Cons Robbed of Future
1. former arsonists can be found on local fire brigades
#511 Dogman Deconstructed
4. sales of superhero insurance have skyrocketed after the government abandoned the police in favor of vigilantes
#519 School's Out (Of Control)
4. children often leave school with more diagnoses than qualifications
#520 Preach With Me if You Want to Live
3. military units are often seen arguing over which one is truly favored by the gods
#522 Time to Get Serious
2. maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
1. belligerent citizens shoot at passing clouds for 'violating their airspace'
2. crossbow bolts fill the skies if so much as a sparrow flies overhead
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
1. @@CAPITAL@@'s main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight
#531 Lèse Majesté Maladies
3. the paparazzi publicize Royal scandals with the utmost delight
#532 Desert Island Risks
2. politicians' financial records are locked up tighter than the nation's @@CURRENCY@@ reserves
#533 Hearsay Heresy
2. witnesses have to run a gauntlet of mob enforcers to testify at trials
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
3. young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery
4. no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
3. debates on whether toilet seats should be left up or down are increasingly commonplace
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
2. @@LEADER@@'s new android secretary is the latest media darling
3. robosexual marriages are increasingly common
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
2. commuters often break into synchronised para-para dancing for no reason at all
3. sullen teenagers in bright orange 'community payback' onesies can be seen picking litter at the roadside
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
2. teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
1. crime is on the rise as online youths compete to vlog the most shocking scenes of violence
#552 Must Be a Full Moon
3. tourists visit @@NAME@@ to mass-moon @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politicians
4. the bum of @@LEADER@@ has been voted the most recognisable in @@NAME@@
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
2. the new "Bloodbath" orange tree autonomously seeks and destroys independent orchards
#556 Here Be Dragons?
5. government ministers claim to ride dragons to work
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
1. every week is blindness awareness week
3. dining out often involves @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the plate no matter what you order
#564 Do Good Intentions Make Good Samaritans?
1. claiming to have performed the Heimlich Maneuver is a popular defense for assault charges
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
3. exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles
5. exam halls are littered with used needles and empty pill bottles
#566 Drive My Car
3. fire stations and hospitals can't deploy emergency vehicles because badly parked cars block them in
#567 Syntax Destruction
3. when people ask what the difference is between politicians and lawyers they are referred to document c15(iv) section 14.1 subsection 3.2 of the Jan 2015 political category definition guidance codes
#572 Reading, Your Rights
1. nobody is allowed to stop the local daycare from reading Nietzsche to pre-schoolers
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
1. economic output is rising as the chronically depressed are persuaded not to burden society
#580 @@NAME@@ Taking Leave of Its Census?
1. the country's population is reported with a margin of error of several billions
4. according to the latest national census as many as two-thirds of the respondents possibly consider 'violet' their favorite color
5. only @@LEADER@@'s friends count in the eyes of the government
#582 Augmented Reality Check
4. it is common to see Maxémon Trainer listed on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ resumés
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
4. funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience
#584 The Cake Is a Lie
2. they say that @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ made a dessert and called it peace
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
3. bars are packed at all hours
#592 Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!
1. for the sake of 'public interest' news programs tell viewers how to home-make Sarin gas bombs
#593 A Right to Bare Arms?
2. teenage girls worry that they'll be unpopular if their skirts aren't short enough
3. young men in tiny bikinis draw neither comment nor stares on the morning commute
#595 Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
4. the police are destroying all photographic evidence of their own existence
#597 You Can't Handle the Tooth
1. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ incessantly needle their doctors for relief
2. raver DJ XStacy holds multiple medical degrees in chillaxing
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
1. children in school playgrounds can be heard chanting the hymns of the Order of Violet
4. political talk shows often have children as guests whenever they need commentary on world religions
#601 Lawyers on Trial
1. lawyers turn down litigation cases and corporate work in order to focus on lucrative public defence work
#603 Not My Idea
3. not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric
#605 The Noblest of Intentions
1. former nobles are being issued new identities in the wake of the end of serfdom
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
2. recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
1. @@LEADER@@'s peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide
#611 Blundering Battle Bureaucrats
2. heavily-armed commandos play rock-paper-scissors over whether to execute criminals and foreign visitors
3. out-of-work soldiers and bureaucrats can often be found camped out in front of manservant academies
4. visiting dignitaries often take advantage of strict reparation policies by stubbing their toes
#613 A Nude Day, a Nude Awakening...
1. fashion magazine covers finally display realistic body images following photo-manipulation becoming illegal
2. pre-schoolers who draw stick figures of their favorite celebrities are sued for infringing image rights
3. t-shirts displaying a photo of @@LEADER@@ performing the Full-Monty are selling out
4. they say that @@LEADER@@'s personal computer is full of naked pictures of the Emperor of Maxtopia
#616 You Are Feeling Very Very Sleepy and Not at All Gay
1. counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients
3. conversion therapy coupons are a popular present for coming of age ceremonies
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
1. lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers
#619 X Marks the Cult?
1. livestock mutilations are on the rise
#621 Blue Collar Blues
1. no one born in @@NAME@@ can fix a leaky faucet
2. no one born in @@NAME@@ can fix a leaky faucet
#623 Maison d'Être?
1. rich people sell their mansions to pay for endless rows of mobile homes
2. the country is littered with broken homes
#624 A Role to Play
2. RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept
#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#629 Boom or Bust?
3. respect is something that is typically forced rather than earned in @@NAME@@
#631 The Violet Mile
7. international humanitarian organisations are applauding the government for ending the death penalty
#632 Dying for a Kiss
3. men's magazines give handy tips on the most effective way to throw heavy stones
#634 Bullet Time
1. in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
4. pootling steam trains carry delighted tourists and frustrated businessmen from city to city at a snail's pace
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
2. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
3. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
#636 Going on the Cyber Offensive
1. school teachers check the staff room for hidden webcams before complaining about rebellious students
3. the opposition leader's credibility has been undermined by constant attention drawn to a dodgy toupee
4. the credibility of anti-government demagogues is undermined by government claims that they smell like poo
#642 This Way's Kinder
1. squeaky high prepubescent voices recite the patriotic poem "Hail to The Leader!" before each meal
3. cub scouts are being asked to hand in their woggles as the state withdraws funding for scouting
#644 The Old Grey Matter
1. the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly
3. people invite random old men into their homes to play with their kids
#645 An Unwarranted Intrusion
2. the pursuit of wanted criminals ends at the entrance of the pay'n'spray garage as police refuse to enter any private property
#648 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
1. cassocked priests and choirboys believe that what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors
3. it's considered a valid legal defence to say "a demon made me do it"
#649 Made in Maxtopia
1. the government raises tariffs on a weekly basis
#654 Not So Cool Aid?
4. citizens spend millions on microtransactions to feed virtual orphans while actual orphans starve overseas
#656 Ransoms Noted
4. the nation's arms dealers guarantee discretion and untraceable transactions
#658 A Sickening Dilemma
1. the sick and dying are locked in their homes with a red "X" painted on the front door
#663 A "Friend" in Need
1. the military perceives nations hit by natural disasters as "easy pickings"
#664 Your Land or Mine
1. no-one can foil the ambitions of Big Aluminium
#665 In Nomine Ecclesiae
4. atheism is seen as a prerequisite for political power
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
2. tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash
3. truancy levels are on the rise ever since school registers were banned
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
2. school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel
3. home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks
#670 A Wolf in Refugee's Clothing
3. terrorists are on a first name basis with the officials that stamp their passports
#671 Adenine, Thymine, Copyright, and Guanine
2. the government has an entire department dedicated to staring at microscopes and writing down letters
4. citizens have a tough time telling the difference between jeans and genes
#672 All Shook Up
1. morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom
#673 The Deportation of Mr. B. Leeper
3. the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
1. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
2. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
3. homophobia is off the menu
#676 Down the Rabbit Hole
2. cash-strapped junkies lick rabbits for a cheap high
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
1. many marriages go virtually unconsummated
3. robotic spouses prove to be just as imperfect as flesh and blood ones
#690 Hey! @@LEADER@@! Leave Them Kids Alone!
4. young schoolchildren pledge allegiance to One Nation Under Bum Indivisible By Poo
#691 The Prodigal States
3. ten thousand @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldiers recently invaded a nation occupied by two senior citizens and a dachshund
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
1. citizens often pray for divine guidance in supermarkets
#700 The Widow Raven
3. death compensation has some family members fearing to pay back others' debt they may be disappearing
#702 Has Your Room Been Booked?
2. official Sermon-Free Zones are set-up around the nation's hotels
#703 Divine Decoration
2. garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'
3. garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'
#704 It's Not Lying, It's Post-Truth
3. the standard government reply to any query is "there is no spoon"
#710 Feudal Feuds
4. freed serfs and former nobles exchange awkward glances in the produce aisle
#718 Roses Are Due if Violet's for You
2. almost every singles' party has a clergy and courtesans theme
#721 A Lack of Comma Sense
4. pausing for applause during a speech is seen as a form of censorship
#726 Jobless Fair
3. Brancalandian is the primary spoken language at most major tech companies
4. Brancalandian is the primary spoken language at most major tech companies
#729 Teenage Kicks
2. bruised children are made to thank their bullies for the valuable life lessons
#730 It's Legal Now!
1. convicts released after being found "wrongfully imprisoned" are surprisingly chill about the whole thing
#731 Is There an Election in Marche Noire or Are You Just Happy to See Us?
2. foreign despots proudly bandstand on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ airwaves
#732 A Peeping Problem
1. supervisors in @@NAME@@ commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence
#733 The Path Less Traveled
3. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
4. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
#735 Rap Sheet
2. confessions don't count if suffixed with "izzle"
#743 [The Enemy Within] Here, There and Everywhere
1. everyone hates people who encourage hate
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
5. the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming
#750 Cheerleading Community Does the Splits
1. a suspicious number of male students have joined the Ladies' Wrestling League
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
1. the dartboard at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of @@LEADER@@'s face
#755 Candid Camera
3. intelligence agencies frequently invite passers-by into their secret vaults for tea and biscuits
#757 Extra Credit?
1. lending money has become a major liability
#759 Marry, Marry, Quite Contrarily
3. the government's stance on marriage is 'Let @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ marry themselves'
#763 Any Body for Science?
2. the consent form for routine blood pressure measurement has been nominated for the 'Novel Of The Year' award
#765 Don't Judge Me
3. unemployed judges can be found squatting in abandoned courthouses
#767 Xe Said, Zhe Said
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ refer to transgender people with insults instead of pronouns
#768 Trouble Brewing
3. machine-peeled candied grapes come in individual packaging for the busy commuter
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
2. kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes
#774 Clean Switch
4. immigrants complain that natives keep coming over and taking their jobs
#776 Fake News, Everyone!
2. the leading national news source is 'my cousin Billy-Bob on MyFace'
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
2. open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost
#781 The White Man's Burden
1. saying that someone looks a bit pale can be construed as hate speech
#786 Tainted Tattoos
1. sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed
#787 Come Fly With Me?
1. airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory
#799 A Political Cock-Up
3. politicians "baring all" for the camera isn't always a figure of speech
#801 Animation Provocation
3. toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters
4. the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools
#804 Motivational Posters
1. internet trolls are considered valiant supporters of the right to free speech
#805 Solving a Dissolving Dilemma
3. new legislators take a week-long class entitled "Keeping Your Job: How to Avoid Offending @@LEADER@@"
#806 Unlicensed to Kill
3. under doctor's orders @@LEADER@@ is going on a diet and abolishing capital punishment
#810 Armed and Unready
5. nobody is forced to join the armed forces
#811 Get Baked
4. it is illegal for a parent to tell a child to stop eating their boogers
#816 A Hot Topic
3. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
4. government employees from @@NAME@@ dominate international lumberjack competitions
#818 We Are Not Amused
4. visitors to Violet Rock City are stunned to learn that they must memorize the "99 Principles" before entering
#819 Damned Cold
1. the term cold case has taken on a very literal meaning
2. the police turn a blind eye to desecration if it's done in the name of religion or protest
3. superstitious folk make gestures to ward off evil whenever they see a refrigeration unit
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
1. police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
4. hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport
#828 Your Execution in 30 Years or Less or You're Free
3. old age is the nation's leading method of execution
5. the Violet Mile now refers to the long line-ups that former death row inmates wait in as they transfer to maximum security prisons
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
4. escalators are avoided at all costs
#832 Moderating Your Opinion
1. internet sites are legally unable to stop their users from posting pornography
#833 Twitching Up a Storm
3. restaurant owners fear visits from government officials more than the actual food critics
#835 The End Is in Sight?
3. executions are marked by quiet dignity and maybe a final round or two of whist
4. the nation's apology for those it has executed in the last year has come a little late for some
#836 Don't Drink the Grape Punch
2. the "right of sanctuary" stops police pursuit into temples and churches
3. the "right of sanctuary" stops police pursuit into temples and churches
#840 Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
4. ratings for schools' curricula range from 'Pure as the Driven Snow' to 'Late Night TV'
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
1. the tightness of border controls in @@NAME@@ leave a little to be desired
3. short shrift is being given to applications for political asylum from illegal immigrants
#845 A Comedy of Errors
2. the comic book series '@@LEADER@@ and the Villainous Corporate Cronies' is a best-seller
#847 All the Lonely People
2. retirement apartments house giggling grannies who delightedly watch blank TVs all day long
#849 Sky High
2. crackheads chase drug-loaded drones in hopes of a lucky drop
#853 Silence Is Golden
3. from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in @@NAME@@
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
2. mathematicians are gathering an infinite number of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ and typewriters to see if they can recreate the works of Max Barry
#861 Out With the Old
4. people still need you and they still feed you when you're sixty-five
#865 A Funeral for a Fiend?
1. war criminals are given full state funerals
#870 @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Literally Exploding With Excitement
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have recently stopped mysteriously setting off metal detectors
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
1. the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem
2. people who question what bunker construction has to do with economic reform tend to disappear
#874 Still Life
3. life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old"
4. life-saving resuscitation is denied based on decades-old teenage diaries that declare "I want to die before I get old"
#875 They See Me Trollin', They Threatenin'
4. a death threat has replaced 'hello' as an official greeting in the nation
#876 Sequels: The Saga Continues
3. movie producers send film critics wads of cash in their morning newspapers in anticipation of gushing praise
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
3. preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance
#882 Death by Chocolate
2. the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
3. citizens may now wear shoes while watching television as long as the television is outside and the shoes are rental
4. citizens may now wear shoes while watching television as long as the television is outside and the shoes are rental
#887 Thin Skin
1. nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines
#888 Criminal Patterns
1. road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans
#891 Preach It!
2. street preachers sell salvation with a side order of shame on every corner
#894 Seigneurs Demand Rights
3. embittered former nobles desperately try to cling on to their noblesse oblige and their heads
#895 Stop Training and Start Coaching
2. wilderness-dwelling hermits are surprised to find railway stations on their front doorsteps
#897 The Devil's Playground
2. Occam's razor has sliced to pieces any childhood belief in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
4. many former slaves are finding out there is such a thing as a free lunch
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
5. the only place where one can see the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cherry tree is in a museum
#902 Killer App
2. ironic death by tasering is on the rise amongst door-to-door taser salesmen
3. catching an old friend by surprise on the street can be a shocking experience
4. career advisors ask sociopathic orphan girls if they have considered becoming professional assassins
5. the state conscripts sociopathic orphan girls to train as professional assassins
#903 Every Breath You Take
2. citizens are now allowed to discuss whether @@LEADER@@ is the greatest ruler ever or simply the greatest ruler of this generation
#905 Stage Directions
2. in musicals everybody's a little bit racist
#907 A Problem Shared
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
#909 On the Fence
1. a few immigrants are better than no immigrants according to @@LEADER@@
3. terrorists who are 17th cousins with the ex-wives of half-brothers of citizens are now exempt from the immigration ban
#910 A for Effort
1. marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal
#912 Ambassadors Behaving Madly
1. many friends and relatives of @@LEADER@@ have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations
#913 Couped Up
1. ministers are now allowed to put suggestions in the governmental suggestion box
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
4. the dwindling faithful in the nation make expensive pilgrimages to the remaining places of worship
#917 School's In, Cash Is Out!
4. kindergartens are full of kids dressed as superheroes and princesses
#918 J'Accuse!
4. politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament
5. politicians spend more time in courtrooms than in Parliament
#919 The Meaning of Life
3. kindergarten teachers with ankle-bracelets are closely supervised by their parole officers
#921 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad @@NAME@@
1. metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach
2. citizens finish cleaning up after the annual National Treasure Hunt just in time for the next one
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
1. the fattest folk in @@NAME@@ look to be the happiest ones
2. Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in @@NAME@@
#926 Ghost in the Machine
2. social media sites prompt users to send birthday greetings to unresponsive nonagenarians
#928 Get a Life
1. sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming
2. sales of pregnancy testing kits are booming
3. heterosexuality is considered positive proof of fitness to parent
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
2. attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high
3. schoolchildren learn an R-rated version of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"
4. photographs that show ladies' ankles are considered risqué
#935 Hero to Zero
4. psychiatrists that date patients are congratulated on their romantic conquests
#937 Ebony Pride
2. everybody's got wood thanks to @@LEADER@@
#939 A Question of Bad Faith
1. burnt-out forty-foot-tall wicker men dot the countryside
3. a surprising number of police officers have been arrested for @@ANIMAL@@ sacrifices
#940 The Court of the Crimson Lord
4. national magistrates in @@CAPITAL@@ are overwhelmed with cases of petty larceny and attempted witchcraft
5. merriment is might when jesters come calling with puppets in the night
#941 Scents and Sensibility
3. nose plugs are the latest @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ fashion accessory
#942 A Foreign Exchange of Ideas
1. the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies
#943 Big Love, Big Problems?
1. former polygamists always seem to have a huge number of visiting cousins
3. boys who take just one date to the high school prom are called 'losers'
#944 Deadly Persuasion
3. even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love
4. children who write letters to Santa Claus end up in straitjackets
#950 Borderline Pandemic
2. both vegetables and viruses are often smuggled across the border
#953 The Ethnic Minority Report
2. it is not politically correct to suspect that a serially convicted burglar might steal again
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
2. unemployed youngsters trained to kill are being released en masse into society
#958 Pay No Attention to That Donor Behind the Curtain!
2. politicians have been known to swim in pools filled with @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
#961 No Two Ways About It
3. cosmopolitan citizens ask what their countries can do for them
#963 The @@LEADER@@ Meme
2. the nation's politicians are known more for the internet memes they spawn than any of their accomplishments
#969 Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Incredibly Sick!
4. hospitals in @@NAME@@ are too busy serving the needs of @@REGION@@ to see @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#975 Paparazzi Parents
1. obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals
2. the Snapgram channel "Embarrassing Baby @@LEADER@@ Pics" has made @@LEADER@@'s mom a celebrity
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
1. the stacked neck-ring is this season's hottest fashion item
#978 Alone in the Dark
1. prisoners can't do number twos without their "toilet buddy" present
3. justice is blinding
#981 Westfailian Sovereignty
3. the best doughnut stores have been taken over by foreign police officers
#983 Doctors' Orders
1. pregnant hitchhikers with signs requesting rides to "competent care" are a common sight on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ roads
2. doctors who mutter "Oh my God" often lose their medical license
3. a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street"
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
1. gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away
#992 Robots in Disguise
1. the same @@POPULATION_VALUE@@ social media bloggers always loudly and immediately agree with @@LEADER@@'s every word on Twitcher
5. visual acuity is worsening amongst teenagers
#993 Drug Deal
1. drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients
#1004 Two Countries and a Baby
1. babies are a small but significant export
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
2. children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary
#1011 State of the Media
1. state media features lively debates such as whether pineapple on pizza is an acceptable topping
4. former public radio talk pundits are being deployed to front line war zones
#1014 Unreasonable Doubt
2. children wondering what happens to pets after they die are shown where the compost heap is
3. folk are absolutely certain that you can never be absolutely certain
#1016 Breaking Upset
4. Brown Sugar 101 is a popular course at community colleges
5. emergency services don't respond to trailer park fires
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
1. powerful x-ray machines used by the Customs Department can see into the homes of nearby residents
#1018 Operation Failed
1. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
2. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
2. police struggle to solve crimes due to the lack of fingerprint records
#1022 Failure to Respond
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1023 Pure Madness
1. young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves
3. couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten
4. couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
4. traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers
5. traumatised refugees have a full bedpan shoved into their hands along with their immigration papers
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
3. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices
#1038 Maid to Order
1. members of ethnic minorities are more often called "boy" or "girl" than by their actual names
2. most households' childcare costs are higher than their mortgage payments
#1046 Buffing Up Our Hospitals?
1. citizens all over @@NAME@@ squeal in delight at the return of pockets
2. citizens all over @@NAME@@ squeal in delight at the return of pockets
3. people fake illnesses for the chance to wear clothes in hospital
#1050 Criminal Guns Soon to Be Shooting Blanks
2. incarcerated crime lords manage their empires from massage tables
#1051 Take to the Skies
2. former planespotters are dusting off long-abandoned anoraks
#1052 The Prisoners' Dilemma
1. the weather report is the prisoners' favourite programme
#1053 Some Enchanted Evening That Was
1. a positive pregnancy test doubles as a visa
#1057 Baby, It's Cold Outside
1. warm coats are the hottest trend
#1062 The Hunt for Violet November
1. enemy navies sail within bombardment range of major coastal cities with impunity
#1066 It's an Honour Just to Be Condemned
3. there's no such thing as bad publicity
#1070 Skeletons in the Closet
1. the government tells its citizens to 'forgive and forget'
2. it's surprisingly hard to find pictures of the bad haircuts from @@LEADER@@'s childhood
#1072 Holographic Harmonization
2. light entertainment isn't dead
#1076 Smokers Cornered
2. cigarettes are dead-cheap
#1079 What's Love Got to Do With It?
1. women no longer need to pepper conversations with incessant references to fictitious husbands
#1086 Fun in the Sun
3. surfing lessons include how to ward off sharks
#1088 Inexpert Opinions
3. voter turnout for the election of the Junior Assistant for Non-Digital Media Strategies has been unsurprisingly low
#1089 Woman Trouble
3. women can do what they like if they do what they are told
4. parents tell their little girls that violence is sometimes the answer
5. parents tell their little girls that violence is sometimes the answer
#1091 The Great Divide
2. jabbing a baby's bottle at officials gets parents waved straight through immigration
3. new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark
4. new arrivals are asked the location of the Minister of the Interior's birthmark
#1092 The Boys From Brasilistan
3. hypochondriacs demand treatment for genetic disorders they don't have
#1094 A Political Cover-Up
3. most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wear towels as demand for pants outstrips supply
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
4. parties on cruise ships go off with a real bang
#1101 Unreal
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries
#1102 The Sickest Criminals
1. cane fights are a common sight in nursing homes
#1106 Some Body to Love
1. customer satisfaction with online delivery services is at an all time high
#1107 Welcome to the Party
2. the Party has more splits than a yo-yo dieter's trousers
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
1. a handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
1. patriotic parents remind their children to drink plenty of water
3. tourists aren't the only ones that talk about coming back from a trip
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
2. the mood of raunchy movies is often ruined by the sound of babies crying
#1114 Patriotism Flagging
2. interest in globalism never flags
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
1. seasonal hay-fever sufferers are attending government drug counselling sessions to get free doughnuts
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
1. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
2. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
#1119 Where There Isn't Smoke
1. peer pressure from cooler world leaders directs @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ government policy
2. @@LEADER@@ lights cigars with a hundred-@@CURRENCY@@ bill
3. there's a lot of smoke from the nation's "green economy"
4. slackers at work are told to "crack on with it"
#1120 Following Yonder Star
1. a formerly quiet little town is now booming as both a cult centre and a tourist attraction
#1123 Till Death Do Us Part
2. autopsies often involve only cursory examination
#1126 Waste of Time
1. nobody ever questions the unquestioned rule that questions must always be asked
#1128 Get Thee Behind Me, Santa
1. complaining about Christmas music in October is a ho-ho-horrendous crime
#1131 Safe Sects
3. religious epiphanies are often cited as a reason for high school drop-outs
#1133 Rocky Road
1. roadside walls are being built and mother nature is paying for it
#1139 A Little Wrestling, a Lot of Controversy
2. the government loves seeing the little people fight
#1140 Blinded by the Light
2. @@CAPITAL@@'s flashy holiday light displays can be seen from space
#1141 The Trolley Problem
3. the Museum of Blackacrean War Crimes is located on "Blackacre Did Nothing Wrong Avenue"
#1142 Womb Service
1. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
2. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
3. new "Commiserations! It's An Accident!" greetings cards for expectant mothers are selling surprisingly quickly
#1143 Running From Time
1. criminals lock themselves in their mums' basements to avoid prison
#1144 A Noble Cause for a Fight
4. the people sing of those who will not be slaves again
#1145 Your Wild Self(ie)
3. video evidence of cruel animal experiments tends to be of poor quality
#1146 Mother Knows Best?
1. basic multiplication is all you need to know to have a child
3. posters encourage people to "Just Do It!"
#1147 The Long Walk
1. convicted criminals are given free limo rides to jail
2. fruit vendors are encouraging a life of crime in their advertising
3. some people will do literally anything to be in the spotlight
4. police officers find government bureaucracy more terrifying than most serial killers
#1149 The Goriest Advertisement
3. machine gun nests are the latest must-have gardening trend
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
1. most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade
2. international trade can be a pain to deal with
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
3. workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
3. taxpayer-funded government ads are promoting Brancaland as a premier filming location
4. the @@CAPITAL@@ Film Festival recently voted '@@DEMONYMNOUN@@ Getting Hit By Football' as best film
#1156 Pet Theory
3. burgers often list "miscellaneous meats" in their ingredients
#1157 Rodney and Julietta
2. the nation operates a "finders-keepers" policy with other nations' citizens
3. the nation operates a "finders-keepers" policy with other nations' citizens
#1158 Flying Into a Rage
1. women who walk into the ladies' changing room are accused of being Peeping Toms
#1162 She's Always a Woman to Me
1. saying 'no homo' is enough to escape punishment for the crime of being gay
5. love is in the air
#1164 What a Gneiss Place We've Got Here
1. trails to natural wonders are littered with trash from reality film crews
3. citizens can only enjoy the splendor of the natural world in designated 'Majesty Appreciation' zones
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
2. crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination
#1166 Acres Wild
1. farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land
#1167 Another Brick in the Wall
2. an extra-long museum is being built to house the old border wall
3. refugees without a PhD are sent back to where they came from
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
2. crayon squiggles were a late addition to the works of the Renaissance Old Masters
#1171 Match Made in Heaven?
4. pretty hair and tight shorts are considered to be essentials for successful political lobbyists
6. the nation's leader is normally just referred to as "snuggle-wuggle-huggy-bear"
#1172 Piled Higher and Deeper
3. classes at @@CAPITAL@@ University get canceled on Brancaland's Independence Day
4. classes at @@CAPITAL@@ University get canceled on Brancaland's Independence Day
#1174 Bad Press
1. many suspect that the 'Whinny The Plop' children's magazine contains covert criticism of @@LEADER@@
3. the recently liberated free press cautiously uses compliment sandwiches to cushion its criticisms of @@LEADER@@
4. government agents scour baking periodicals for subversive recipes
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
2. blackface performers claim they are being deliberately ironic
#1178 No Need to Beat Yourself Up About It
3. government adverts say that twelve lashes a day keeps divine wrath at bay
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
6. uprooting flowers for religious ceremonies is a felony
#1186 The Magic's Gone
5. the government is telling wizards to put their heart into their work
#1190 Dirty Laundry
1. public enemies often walk home with spotless garments and crime records
#1196 The Properties of Property
1. new "Worker's Strike" laws set out who is allowed to strike a worker
3. slavery has been abolished
#1197 Aflame With Indignity
1. burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine
2. burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine
#1198 The Death Debate Isn't Dead Yet
2. there's never a spare chair in the retirement home
#1199 Locked Down
2. social networking sites have discussion groups devoted to planning terrorist attacks
#1201 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
1. polygraphs are relegated to the dungeon exhibit in castle museums
#1203 The Fandom Menace
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about @@LEADER@@
2. works of historical fiction contain a surprising lack of historical figures
#1204 Homecoming Queen
1. the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on @@NAME@@
#1207 Next, Please!
1. "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
2. students consistently complain that the wi-fi ate their homework
#1209 Your Island Is My Island
3. the freedom to be free is always just out of reach
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
3. class action lawsuits have gone up in smoke thanks to government interference
#1211 Free Credit Reports With Monitoring
2. young people avoid opening doors for the elderly with impunity
#1212 Lost at Sea
4. ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ pirates
#1215 A New Age
1. you're only as old as you feel
3. kids are told they can be whoever they want to be when they grow up
4. the Sandmen are calling it a night
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
2. religious leaders insist all life is sacred (but not those vat-bred wretches)
4. teen gangs are encouraged to take drugs
#1220 Barely Any Art
2. drawing men's naughty bits isn't considered to be art
#1222 Family Matters
1. the aphorism "there's no need to argue" has been dismissed by @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
5. people have become comfortably numb
#1225 The Rumors, They Fly
4. people have been circulating political cartoons of pigeons pooping on @@LEADER@@
#1227 Girls on Film
4. the government asks not what you can do for your country but what you can do to tidy their country homes
#1228 The Road to Hell
2. a driving license is obtained not by passing a test but by passing a brown envelope
3. only the fast and the furious are brave enough to drive
#1229 Crystal Clear Sinuses
3. decongestants have replaced @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ in street transactions
4. there's some really clean windows in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ houses
#1231 Save Our Souls
1. religious leaders order congregants to love any neighbour who is just like themselves
5. the nation takes the world's poor and tired and the huddled Masses yearning to breathe free
#1232 I've Got 99 Problems but @@FAITH@@ Ain't One
6. the writing style of religious hymns often changes mid-stanza
#1233 Get Real!
2. baiting is a national sport
#1236 Being Honest
2. the Messiah (formerly known as Brian) is a mayoral candidate
3. there's a politician called Male Infant @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@
#1239 The Walking, Talking, and Irritated Dead
2. what citizens give with one hand they take away with the other
3. being dead no longer has any benefits
#1241 Return Statement
4. lobotomised jaywalkers can barely ambulate let alone repeat their offences
#1242 Jump Leads
4. it's often raining men (hallelujah) in @@CAPITAL@@
#1247 Suspension of the Disbelieved
2. doctors ask for written consent before making eye contact with patients
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
2. ceremonial zweihänders are used in holy rituals
#1257 It's a Kind of Magic
4. paranoid museum guards keep a lookout for any animated displays attempting to escape the premises after dark
#1260 Gay Abandoned
1. armed war-criminals gain asylum if deemed 'fabulous' enough
3. a traveller who once stubbed a toe on an Air Brancaland flight has been offered asylum
#1267 Hamming It Up
1. "What's the Frequency, @@LEADER@@?" is a favorite phrase of backyard radio broadcasters when interrupting official diplomatic channels
2. citizen radio operators agree that the certification test can open up a world of hertz
5. email killed the radio star
6. email killed the radio star
#1270 I'll Be Watching You
2. sales of trenchcoats are on the rise
#1273 Lessons in Politics
1. evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right
2. a degree in @@LEADER@@ Science with a Minor in Awesomeology starts many political careers
#1274 No Room Left for Asylum Seekers
4. a plague of zealots has been unleashed on the streets of @@CAPITAL@@
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
3. photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls
#1276 A Boatload of Trouble
2. small shoes often wash up on the beach
3. even immigrants complain that immigrants keep taking their jobs
#1277 Outside the Box
1. beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings
#1280 The Amazing, but Illegal, Spiderman
2. older ladies are inundated with offers to help them cross the road
3. immigrants who carry knives on them are presumed to be chefs
4. you can call your arthritic immigrant neighbour for all your roof-tiling and guttering needs
#1284 How to Choose the Chosen One
4. government forces are said to be deterred by signs reading "No Spam, Cold Callers or Central Government - Thank You"
5. no one tells their son "you're the man of the house" any more
#1285 Born to Kill
3. a sophisticated government-sponsored breeding program creates normal people
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
3. autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum
#1287 Children of the Magna Carta
1. a bill to outlaw math homework has been submitted
4. politicians spend a lot of time hanging around kids' playgrounds
#1289 Cramping Our Style
1. things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
3. @@LEADER@@ has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space
#1293 Bet Your Life
3. grinning punters say that casino roulette is the greatest high that life has to offer
#1294 Silence in Court
2. court cases mostly involve lawyers shouting questions at witnesses giving silent shrugs
3. people can get away with murder these days
#1295 Show Trial
2. courtrooms can be a little sketchy
3. what happens in court stays in court
#1296 Once Upon a Time
2. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ football team for the Maxxmas ceasefire consists only of Intelligence Corps personnel
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
1. couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material'
3. citizens' names are redacted on their IDs for national security
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
2. "Day of the Rope" is the top song of the summer
#1305 The Woman From AUNT
4. the price of freedom is about half a million @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
#1306 The Least Common Educator
4. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
5. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
#1307 A Duty to Serve
2. teenagers sit around on their butts all day
#1310 Intimate Relations
3. kissing cousins produce the heartiest babies
5. the immigration system seems to favor young unmarried women
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1312 Cranmer vs Cranmer
4. pedal-powered removal vans are a popular Maxxmas gift for the children of separated parents
#1313 The Meek Shall Inherit?
1. among slaves 'bastard' is an honorific rather than an insult
#1318 Blitzed
7. skyscrapers get built in just days
#1319 Dying for Two
1. women tell their friends they've been on crash diets rather than admit they were pregnant and have had terminations
2. birth announcements often also serve as death announcements
#1321 Who Wants to Know a Millionaire?
1. rumor has it that @@LEADER@@ has won three lotteries in a row
#1325 Having Faith in Communism
2. the day of rest is much more restful
#1330 Guilt by Association
3. the people's love for @@LEADER@@ is little more than self-preservation
#1332 We Won't, We Won't Rock You
4. an opal a day keeps the negative thoughts at bay
#1333 Married With Benefits?
1. recognizing the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag qualifies you for citizenship
2. recognizing the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag qualifies you for citizenship
#1334 Withdrawing Diplomatic Relations
1. the water doesn't come out of the faucet with the same rush that it used to
3. homesickness is thought to be a waterborne illness
4. homesickness is thought to be a waterborne illness
#1335 First-Class Warfare
2. the rich and poor vomit into separate bags
#1336 Take Good Care of My Baby
1. a generation of children conceived in hell and born in strife is growing up inside government-run care villages
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
4. adverts urge @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ to "reach for a ciggy instead of your supper"
#1346 The Problem With Peyote
2. party-lovers often change religions just for the weekend
#1349 You Must Be 18 Years or Older to View This Content
2. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
3. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
#1351 Come Give @@LEADER@@ a Kiss!
2. 'I'm Coming Out' has shot to the top of the nation's music charts
3. there is a thriving underground gay scene
#1360 Ask a Stupid Question?
2. citizenship applications are processed in the time it takes to smile and say "next, please"
#1361 Fundamental Rights
1. parents dread their examinations more than their children
3. every school is receiving a brand new eraser
#1362 The Trans Panic Button
1. defense lawyers suggestively note to juries how flagrantly happy victims were
2. defense lawyers often argue there's no proof murder victims weren't vampires
3. @@LEADER@@ is considering changing the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag to one with more glitter
#1365 Balancing the Box
3. televisions are often seized to pay for overdue television license fees
#1366 Parklife
3. the government has seized the means of recreation
#1368 Parking Hell
2. parking's carefree without parking car fees
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
1. a PhD just ain't what it used to be
#1371 @@NAME@@ Rocked by Rolls' Fatal Role
2. the general public only knows their favorite politician's first name
#1372 Balls to All That
4. shirts-versus-skins games are now skins-versus-skins games
#1373 You Should Have (Copy)Left My Software Alone!
1. programmers often reinvent the wheel
4. too many developers spoil the codebase
#1390 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
4. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
5. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
#1396 [MADness] Skycrash
3. tourists ask to stay in the same pleasant accommodations where foreign prisoners are kept
#1405 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
3. a surprisingly large share of the nation's budget is used to buy new houses for immigrants
#1406 Can't Touch This
3. lawmakers frequent the same speakeasies that they've publicly sworn to shut down
#1415 The Melting Point
2. after every storm there's an expensive government-funded rainbow
#1417 Nun on the Run
3. citizens ask "how many crooks could a nunchuck hook if a nun had nunchucks too?"
#1418 The High Life
2. parents are always up to speed on the latest childcare techniques
#1419 The Madson-Hashley Scandal
1. business is banging at no-tell motels
#1421 Have Your Cake and Don't Eat It
3. relatives of recent award winners find their trophies make stylish urns
#1423 A Slice of the Pi
2. blue sky thinkers are reminded that the firmament is actually more of a grey-ish colour
#1425 @@LEADER@@'s New Clothes
3. some magnifier-wielding @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ say @@LEADER@@ seems a little lacking in something
4. some magnifier-wielding @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ say @@LEADER@@ seems a little lacking in something
#1427 May the Fourth Estate Be With You
4. calling @@LEADER@@ a tyrant is seen as the ultimate compliment
#1430 Taking the Peace?
2. stern tutting by international commentators has persuaded @@NAME@@ to disarm
#1431 Just Deserts for Desertion?
3. criminal convictions are routinely thrown out because the accused's grandmother didn't get to testify about their good character
#1436 Meat Meet
3. the legalization of meat has skewered the sales of vegetarian substitutes
#1439 Philately Will Get You Nowhere
1. the digital money revolution has cashed out
#1440 Dungeons and Deaths
3. cops shout apologies with every swing of their baton
#1444 Trouble in Deed
3. new homeowners go furniture hunting with crowbars
#1453 A Salt and Battery
1. the environment is gorgeous so long as you're looking up
#1454 Poplar Opinion
4. dandruff and athlete's foot are seen as signs of physical beauty
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
2. companies have begun running campaigns to stop people from remembering their brand name
#1457 Use the Farce, @@LEADER@@
2. government statisticians explain census inaccuracies by declaring that "Sith happens"
6. for some reason the census focuses on daily banana ingestion and hourly quip rate
#1461 No Shirt, No Shoes, No ID, No Service
1. voters who forget their name are given a hint
#1462 Glory Kill
1. soldiers stream their classified military operations live for millions of fans
3. the nation's "surprisingly chill" military is renowned for its horrendous war crimes
#1465 Parking Pandemonium
1. everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen
#1467 Gay Men Held by Police
5. war is made in the name of love
#1468 Meat With Approval
1. the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face
#1473 A Pretty Pass
1. political commentators say that @@LEADER@@'s fruitcake plans are about to go pear-shaped
2. the government has to take out its Visa to eliminate visas
#1475 Bombshell for @@LEADER@@
1. Catherine Gratwick's campaign support is considered seminal
#1479 Fares Fair?
2. turnstile jumpers grow up to be tax cheats
#1481 Livin' on a Prayer
2. all you have to do is pray to get into @@NAME@@
#1483 The Unkindest Cut
3. those who cut young children are told to cut it out
4. the government puts forth the claim that harming young girls is wrong
#1484 Joint Trade Agreement
3. the nation is going green
#1486 Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs Are Right for @@NAME@@
1. the hit new medical TV show "Home" prominently features the brand of painkiller the lead doctor is addicted to
#1497 Double Trouble
1. reflection is vital for badly behaved politicians
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
1. intoxicated AI mobile platforms are sometimes seen crashing through windows instead of being crashed by them
#1505 A Tangled Web
3. citizens have to identify all the polar bears in a blizzard photo in order to access their bank account
#1506 A Need for Order
2. @@LEADER@@ is strangely popular with male politicians' wives
#1510 Devolution Devolves Into Disaster?
4. meteorologists warn of fog just past 4pm daily
#1511 Three Little Words
8. short is not always sweet
#1516 Content Discontent
3. belief that @@LEADER@@ is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
2. foreign workers are flooding in as @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ flood out
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
2. families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs
#1525 @@LEADER@@: The Musical!
2. community theaters are known for their bawdy renditions of 'Springtime for @@LEADER@@'
4. @@LEADER@@ accepted United Federation theatrical awards for Best Writer and Best Actress on behalf of the absent recipients
#1526 Corporate Pride
2. the atmosphere in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ boardrooms is turning more gay
#1533 Give a Girl Some Credit
1. there's more pink stuff on sale these days
3. killer credit ratings take real effort
#1534 Give a Boy Some Credit
3. killer credit ratings take real effort
#1535 Mr. Tingle Goes to Cyberspace
2. an online tea-bagging epidemic is getting worse and (meta)worse
#1536 The Birdman of Pelicanz
1. the jails are alive with the sound of birdsong
3. the caged-bird trade is singing
#1537 Bench Wars
3. the running costs of homeless shelters are so high that it would be cheaper to buy houses for the homeless
#1539 Save the Last Dance
2. kids are gathering at the local soda shop to celebrate staying out past sundown
#1542 Dangerous Liaisons
1. commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations
2. commuters travel in zigzags to avoid stalking accusations
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
4. the nation's wilderness is only teenage wasteland
#1550 A Friend With Weed Is a Friend Indeed?
1. criminals tell the police where their jurisdiction ends
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
2. private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button
#1556 Gimme Shelter
2. arguments about toilet seats being left up or down get surprisingly heated
3. harassed women are constantly hassled by guys who are "just giving them compliments"
#1560 Dead Gay
4. when it comes to real men it takes one to know one
#1566 Consensus Controversy
2. a state-funded project is investigating whether the moon is made of cheese
4. evidence-based arguments can be arrestable offenses
#1569 The Not-So-Long Arm of the Law
2. government negotiators never forget to say "pretty please" when begging for custody of its criminals
#1587 @@DEMONYMNOUN@@, Interrupted
1. those with disabilities have an equal right to a job they hate
#1595 Plausible Deniability
3. scientists have great chemistry with their subjects
#1597 Haters Are Such a Drag
2. the media seems excessively interested in what @@LEADER@@ is wearing this season
#1600 Mother's Ruin
1. office thieves tell their employers kleptomania is a pregnancy symptom
#1606 Book Off
3. The Pipe Bomb Makers' Pop-Up Book can be found in preschool libraries
#1607 My Chemical Romance
1. witches' brews set off Geiger counters
#1615 Passports-4-Purchase
3. forgetting to pay your annual passport bill is a leading cause of deportations
#1616 Beyond the Focal Point
4. ADHD now stands for Attention Distracted by Hardware Devices
#1622 Border Burden
1. @@LEADER@@ reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes
3. one can wake up in @@NAME@@ and have breakfast in Bigtopia
#1629 The Wrath of Davy Jones
2. naval patrols only last nine months
#1635 A Sine of the Times
1. only those who apply can study applied maths
#1636 In for the Long Haul
2. highway rest stops are stocking up on fallout scrubbing kits
4. starry-eyed convention goers have their heads in the clouds
#1640 See No Evil
2. crime pays
#1642 When Push-itzer Comes to Shove
4. gold stars and candy are said to be the best way to @@LEADER@@'s heart
5. gold stars and candy are said to be the best way to @@LEADER@@'s heart
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
3. companies are literally blowing their competition out of the water
#1655 Surplus to Requirements
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are having a blast with military surplus
#1658 A Fatherly Fiasco
2. lonely children write fanfiction about absent fathers
#1659 A Dialectal Dilemma
1. trolls insist that strings of racial slurs mean "good morning" in obscure languages
#1664 Hey Alexis, Are You Sexist?
1. there are increasing complaints that male AI assistants have aggressive voices
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
2. all tribal children are set for life with guaranteed government jobs

ritual sacrifices

Gained from:

#619 X Marks the Cult?
1. livestock mutilations are on the rise
#1598 Weeping Widows
5. they say marriage really does shorten your life

Sometimes gained from:

#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#58 Violent Violetists Demand Blood!
1. homeless people are periodically found dead upon altars to assorted deities
2. "The Daily Sacrifice" is a routine segment of morning news shows
#70 Purge the Infidels!
1. citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed
2. citizens who fail to follow the official national religion are executed
#77 Easter Egg: World to End, or Possibly Just Mark Anniversary
4. residents firmly believe there is no spoon (@@EGG@@)
#91 Sacramental Tax Time?
3. televangelists flaunt their expensive cars when they attend charity events
#146 Evolution: Truth or Witchcraft?
3. biology and religious education classes have recently been merged
#243 A Question of Faith
4. open-heart surgery is taught in seminaries
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
3. raindances intended to summon storms instead attract tourists
#365 A Busload of Worry
2. tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport
3. tightly packed choir-boys sing the god-given joys of heterosexuality on public transport
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
2. church and state are inseparable in their influence on education
3. church and state are inseparable in their influence on education
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
1. children in school playgrounds can be heard chanting the hymns of the Order of Violet
#631 The Violet Mile
3. voodoo economists believe that feeding criminals to volcanoes will bring untold riches to @@NAME@@
#781 The White Man's Burden
3. people spend a lot on hair and nails
4. people spend a lot on hair and nails
#897 The Devil's Playground
3. the New @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Thesaurus lists "love" and "oppress" as synonyms
#1014 Unreasonable Doubt
2. children wondering what happens to pets after they die are shown where the compost heap is
3. folk are absolutely certain that you can never be absolutely certain
#1120 Following Yonder Star
3. @@LEADER@@ claims to know what infants are thinking
#1155 The Banquet of Walnuts
3. the church declares that everyone should get a large serving of nuts daily
#1186 The Magic's Gone
5. the government is telling wizards to put their heart into their work
#1197 Aflame With Indignity
1. burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine
2. burning yourself alive is not okay but starving and whipping yourself is fine
#1198 The Death Debate Isn't Dead Yet
2. there's never a spare chair in the retirement home
#1204 Homecoming Queen
1. the Violetist community celebrates bombshells being dropped on @@NAME@@
#1274 No Room Left for Asylum Seekers
4. a plague of zealots has been unleashed on the streets of @@CAPITAL@@
#1284 How to Choose the Chosen One
4. government forces are said to be deterred by signs reading "No Spam, Cold Callers or Central Government - Thank You"
#1432 Oh Dear
3. religion makes people horny
4. religion makes people horny
#1468 Meat With Approval
1. the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face
#1538 The Passion of Chris
1. crimson and Violet seem to run together
2. children prepare for "Sacrifest" by dyeing eggs with which to pelt the dying
#1607 My Chemical Romance
2. reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic

Removed by:

#70 Purge the Infidels!
4. religious people are committed to mental institutions for treatment
#196 Violent Violetists Protest Artists
5. people of faith are sent to twelve-step programs for 'The Cure'
#298 Cults: Harmless or Heretics?
4. believers must practice religion behind church doors lest the government smite them with a mighty fine
#333 No Sacrifice, No Sacrifice at All
1. churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs
2. churches across the land are hurriedly installing auto-tune for their choirs
6. any reference to a higher being is punished with public shaming
#939 A Question of Bad Faith
4. children who express a belief in Santa are labelled 'delusional cultists'
#1014 Unreasonable Doubt
1. you can say what you like about the genocidal murderers that rule @@NAME@@ but at least the trains run on time
#1180 Death Doesn't Discriminate
6. uprooting flowers for religious ceremonies is a felony
#1325 Having Faith in Communism
3. government has seized the opium of the people
#1662 Divine Dining
4. debating the meaning of life is widely viewed as a crucifying experience

Sometimes removed by:

#1197 Aflame With Indignity
5. children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia
6. children who believe in the tooth fairy are frequently shipped off to Bigtopia

rum-swilling pirates

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
3. zombie-like crowds of hard drug users stumble through the streets
#185 "Bring Back Our Booze!" Cry Revellers
1. @@NAME@@'s fine wines are renowned throughout the region
#201 Jolly Roger Sighted Off the Port Bow!
2. the government is frequently held to ransom by the increasing demands of bloodthirsty pirates
3. the nation has become a pariah for giving pirates letters of marque
4. piracy is the nation's most popular pastime
#375 Easter Egg: Keep Your Hands Off Those Lucky Charms!
3. drunk leprechauns pelt countryside ramblers with gold coins (@@EGG@@)
#985 Service With a Snarl
3. bar brawls are an hourly occurrence
4. bar brawls are an hourly occurrence
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
1. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
2. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
#1212 Lost at Sea
4. ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ pirates
#1406 Can't Touch This
5. falling over while singing is a national pastime
#1545 Deep Down Up to No Good
3. in coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho)
4. merchant ships always travel line astern in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ waters
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
1. roaming gangsters have been replaced by roaming drunkards

Removed by:

#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
3. all alcohol is banned
#201 Jolly Roger Sighted Off the Port Bow!
1. @@NAME@@'s navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
7. ravers are having trouble getting used to blackcurrant squash instead of vodka
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
4. politicians debate whether caffeine is too addictive for the public
#434 Fraternity Furor
4. moonshine and organized crime are on the rise ever since alcohol was banned
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
1. former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés
#889 A Plank Too Far
2. thousands of former pirates can be found peddling knockoff products in flea markets
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
6. hospitals scramble for new disinfectants following a ban on rubbing alcohol
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
3. acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
3. citizens have to stick a fork into an electrical outlet to get a buzz

smutty television

Gained from:

#119 Watershed Down?
1. programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours
#801 Animation Provocation
3. toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters

Removed by:

#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
1. only toddlers and the elderly watch television before 23:00

soft-spoken computers

Gained from:

#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
5. computers have been put in control of the economy to keep computers from controlling the economy

Sometimes gained from:

#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
1. all industry is owned and run by the government
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
3. ad-blocking has been nationalised
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
1. the government has been kicking out foreign corporations in a bid to grow enough food for the populace
#215 Easter Egg: What's Your Favourite Colour?
1. the nation's favourite colour is red (@@EGG@@)
#228 Mice in the Walls
1. nerds everywhere are rejoicing as they are reunited with their computers
3. computers are allowed but only just
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
4. the crackdown on private property seems as endless as the government issued food stamp lines
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
5. the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
4. foreign observers are baffled by the sway @@LEADER@@'s student intern holds over macroeconomics
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
4. Viagra factories are being converted to producing antimalarials for Bigtopian orphans
#472 Rise of the Machines
1. only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile
2. only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
3. @@LEADER@@'s new socialist government gets its policy advice from teenagers
#726 Jobless Fair
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#778 Mal Appetit!
4. senior executives have become freelance basket-weavers in search of less stress and better work-life balance
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
5. citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks
#1021 Room and Board Games
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1042 Failure to Launch
2. carpal tunnel syndrome is on the rise
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1068 Made to Break
3. state-manufactured hammers and sickles are here to stay
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
4. the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection
#1201 Tell Me Sweet Little Lies
3. a new "thought police" branch is being developed
#1267 Hamming It Up
5. email killed the radio star
6. email killed the radio star
#1433 Green Thumbs Sore
3. monochrome green ECO-@@NAMEINITIALS@@ products adorn the supermarket shelves
#1435 A Hot Potato
3. farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year
#1592 Echoes of Deception
3. AI chatbots generate grayscale images when asked for a picture of the truth
#1619 Something Amiss in the @@ANIMAL@@ Mountains
2. mountain rescuers refer to their new gear as the 'watchamacallits' and 'thingymabobs'
#1677 Common Cents
4. a large savings account makes you an enemy of the state

Removed by:

#31 Get Efficient, Private Sector Tells Nature
1. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
2. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
4. the recent ban on computers is causing havoc throughout the nation
#82 AI Researchers Rally for Android Rights
3. computers have been banned
#152 A Capital Idea
1. the government has returned all business to private ownership
3. the government has legalised small-scale capitalism
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
5. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
6. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
3. the government is rounding up computers and beating them into plowshares
#335 Log Us Back On
3. computers are widely considered to be the "devil magic of heathens"
#371 Lotto Fever
3. chain casinos dominate the national gambling market
4. chain casinos dominate the national gambling market
#498 Computer Says No
1. government officials frown on anything more technologically advanced than an abacus
2. the road to capitalism has proved an epic drama of adventure and exploration
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#577 Second World Problems
4. Party members are derided as class traitors
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
2. meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
5. the "Brave New World" program has caused private businesses to spring up faster than the East Lebatuck Wall
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
2. consumers are free to choose - so long as they choose Eckie-Ecola or Eckie-Cola
3. citizens may now wear shoes while watching television as long as the television is outside and the shoes are rental
4. citizens may now wear shoes while watching television as long as the television is outside and the shoes are rental
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
4. newly-privatized lumberjacks are clearcutting the forest to meet demand
#907 A Problem Shared
4. boom-and-bust cycles are being peddled as economically inevitable
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
5. the red star of communism has been replaced by the gold star of the McRonald's badge
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
2. the end of communism came with retail rather than revolution
#1325 Having Faith in Communism
4. spiritual leaders preach that the poor are being punished for their sins
#1356 The Silicon Curtain
5. the nation has become both the largest producer and consumer of abaci in @@REGION@@
#1543 What Are We Paying For?
4. the government is taking its ball and going home
#1653 Dick's Pics
4. politicians post explicit photos of themselves on community notice boards
#1674 Reining the Dragon
3. the invisible hand of the market has arrived under threat of the visible fist of sanctions
#1677 Common Cents
5. profits are an acceptable way to measure morality
#1695 Calling All @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
4. highway signs instruct travelers to yodel for help in case of emergency

spontaneously combusting cars

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
2. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
3. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
#5 Child Casino Shock
2. young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
1. Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are considered a delicacy
2. a nation-wide cull of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ is in effect
#16 @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ Workers Strike!
2. employers may fire workers without giving any reason
#17 Corporations Demand Political Say
1. corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
1. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
2. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
#27 Cash for Colons?
1. college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
3. the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
2. there are no minimum wage laws
3. all tariffs have been abolished
#31 Get Efficient, Private Sector Tells Nature
1. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
2. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
#33 Genetics Brings New Life to Extinct Species
1. scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied @@ANIMAL@@
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
3. shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
1. small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants
#49 Diving for @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
2. citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
1. the judicial branch is strongly influenced by major corporations
#63 Tykes With Tools?
2. children as young as eight can be found working in factories
3. adult unemployment is rising as available jobs are filled by young children
#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution
2. vile black smog from coal power plants has enveloped several major urban centres
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
4. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
5. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
#76 Suits in Protest
2. CEOs and corporate executives are frequently found striking for better stock options
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
2. scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway
#90 Organic Outburst
2. a survey of the nation's rivers and children has shown that pesticide levels are at an all-time regional high
#93 Affirmative Action in @@NAME@@?
1. ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools
#94 Computer Users Fed Up With Heaps of Spam!
2. computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails
3. computer users are buried daily in thousands of unsolicited emails
#99 We Need Cash, Sharpish, Say Librarians
2. books are considered luxuries only available to the incredibly wealthy
#103 Plague of the Hybrids!
1. wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
2. citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory miniature radios
#105 Compensation Culture Must End, Say Corporations
1. corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
1. sales of fishnet stockings have reached a record high
#108 Gambling Interests Offer High Stakes
3. gambling addicts regularly lose their families' nest eggs at Native @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ casinos
#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#112 Put the Phone Down on Cold Calling?
2. door-to-door salesmen are frequently beaten up by 'vigilantes'
#116 Soda Sales Hits New 'High'
1. 'Mountain Doobie' is widely regarded as the nation's favourite drink
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
1. appendix transplant figures have recently doubled
#119 Watershed Down?
1. programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours
#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
1. human tissue is grown in vats as a delicacy as well as for transplants
3. traditional vegetarians are fuming over the introduction of vat-grown meat to the menu
#126 Outsourcing an Outrage, Say Demonstrators
2. unemployment rates have skyrocketed as businesses abandon the country in search of cheap labour
3. corporations are either above the law or corrupting it
#129 Tribal Troubles
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
#136 Much Ado About Abortion
5. families are only permitted to have one child
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
1. the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
1. private businesses are paving paradises to put up parking lots
3. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
4. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
#140 A Grave Problem
1. tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants
#142 Roads Like Roller Coasters, Complain Motorists
3. all streets are privately owned toll roads
#143 An Archaeological Altercation
2. major archaeological findings are frequently bulldozed to make way for new buildings
#145 Hackles Raised Over Fur Clothes Debate
2. fur coats have become the latest fashion trend
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped
2. the nation's drinking water tends to glow green at night
#159 Think Tank Proposes Privatised Prisons
1. hundreds of thousands of convicts work as slaves in @@NAME@@'s many privately-owned prisons
#161 Where There's a Will There's a Tax
2. inheritance tax has recently been abolished
#162 Animal Experimentation Laws Under Scrutiny
2. several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation
#173 Women Demand Equal Opportunities
2. women earn less than half the salary of men if they can even find a job
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
1. the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned
#179 Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease Outbreak!
5. people all over @@NAME@@ are dying of 'Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease'
#180 Mobile Maladies
2. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
3. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
1. 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of @@NAME@@'s radio stations
#183 Buy a Better Baby?
1. wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby
2. wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby
#186 Carjacking Concerns
2. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
3. citizens drive tank-like vehicles with mounted machine guns
#187 Underclass Drowning in Debt
3. university graduates and new home-owners toil in labour camps to work off their debts
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
2. the children of @@NAME@@ are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence
#190 Immigrants Import Homeland Rivalries
1. immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
3. the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
2. businesses often fire workers in favour of cheaper automatic systems
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
2. large areas of @@NAME@@ are not accessible by the public
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
1. travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs
#201 Jolly Roger Sighted Off the Port Bow!
4. piracy is the nation's most popular pastime
#204 Lack of Doctors Needs Cure
2. half of @@NAME@@'s doctors can't speak the language
3. half of @@NAME@@'s doctors can't speak the language
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
2. nuclear reactors are held together with party string and Hubba Bubba
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
2. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
3. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
#210 Going Postal
3. the government recently relinquished its monopoly on the mail service
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
2. the carcasses of double-deckers can be found littering high streets all around the country
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
1. eminent domain has been abolished
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
2. corporate executives continue to enjoy generous tax benefits while the public is taxed to the hilt
#224 Minimum Wage War
3. boot polish is the favourite lip gloss of entry-level corporate workers
4. the workforce is almost entirely made up of slave labour
#235 From Green Pastures to Grey Wastelands
2. the Great @@NAME@@ Desert is reputedly the most uninhabitable place in the region
4. agricultural science is the most competitive subject at universities
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
1. it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations
3. criminals are thrown to the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to repay their debt to society
#247 Where There's Smoke
1. reports of arson have doubled since the introduction of a privatised fire protection service
#248 The Sky Is Falling
2. airport security is provided by private companies
#252 Great Balls of Fire!
3. tourists are flocking to the newly-built MeteorLand family resort
#261 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
3. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
5. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
2. thousands of former welfare recipients are in a revolutionary uproar as the rest of society is enjoying a hefty tax break
#267 Controversial Coup Causes Commotion
3. the government encourages conflict abroad to increase arms sales
#269 Stop the Presses!
1. economists claim no news is good news
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
5. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
6. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
#280 Oh the Humanity!
2. airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted
#281 Free Internet for @@NAME@@?
3. internet service is too costly for normal people to purchase
4. electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high
#282 Slum Village Extraordinaire
3. many of the poor live from cradle to grave without ever seeing sunlight
#285 A Right Not to Work?
3. retail stores offer sales every hour on the hour
#286 A Whale of a Problem
2. seafood restaurants assure customers 'If it lives in the sea, it's on our menu'
#288 Super-Sized Pizzas Recipe for Disaster?
3. a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways
#291 A Question of Sport
2. marketing departments of corporate giants compete to sponsor little league teams
4. kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun"
#293 Maestro, Please
2. concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule
3. concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule
4. commercial jingles have been ham-handedly forced into world renowned symphonies
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
3. laws are littered with references to cheese
4. laws are littered with references to cheese
5. the CEO of Laws Incorporated must sign off on all new bills
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
3. surfers ride tsunamis of record height and toxicity
4. the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
3. city rooftops are pockmarked with the shattered remains of high velocity delivery drones
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
2. Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity
3. Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity
#305 Who's Occupying What?
1. former school buses now regularly shuttle kids to the nearest shopping centers to work
#308 Over, Under or Through?
1. @@NAME@@ Barrier Island residents anxiously await their 'Bridge to Somewhere'
3. commuter vessels have trouble staying afloat due to increased passengers
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
1. racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation
#316 Fortified Against Crime
1. the richest citizens live in sheltered private citadels
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
2. the nation leads @@REGION@@ in per capita stalking
#327 No Rest for the Weary @@ANIMAL@@
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ stadiums are open 24/7
#330 Supermarkets Gobbling Up All the Customers?
2. one-stop superstores divide and conquer family businesses
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
2. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
3. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
#338 The Silence and the Fury
2. most people suffer from some form of hearing loss
#346 Oil's Well That Ends Well
2. the government struggles to keep up with the endless list of petrol disasters
#351 The Cost of Freedom
1. well-off serial killers write monthly checks to avoid jail time
#355 Alien Invaders
2. it's always rabbit season
#356 @@NAME@@ in the Time of Cholera
2. the nation is loathed abroad for dumping all of its waste in international waters
#366 Prosecute Stolen Valour, Says Military
2. the nation's Medal of Honour can be found as a free toy in breakfast cereal
#367 What's Their Beef?
4. Humongo-Mart's Beef 'n @@ANIMAL@@ Lasagne is a hit
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
2. companies balk at paying their workers
3. clandestine emigration to countries with labor laws is all the rage
#376 Death by Bungee
3. bungee jumpers frequently go splat
#380 Farmers Seeding Discontent
3. cheap and tasteless vegetables flood the markets
4. cheap and tasteless vegetables flood the markets
#382 The Appropriate Amount of Appropriation
1. prominent cultural symbols are featured on the backs of cereal boxes
#385 Who Stands for @@NAME@@?
3. the national sporting identity is represented by a talking burger and a singing smartphone
#387 [An International Incident] Diamonds Are an Expat's Best Friend!
2. the nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers
#412 The Magic (Of Advertising!) School Bus
2. chalkboards are replaced with billboards in the classroom
#414 Subpar Suburbs
1. town welcome signs list corporate sponsors
3. rundown towns are frequently sold to billionaires for their pet projects
#420 Caught Green Handed
3. Maxtopian Grass flags adorn every college dorm room
#422 Wounded Veterans Demand a Helping Hand
2. wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
3. bleach is the nation's most common pesticide
#436 Voters, Place Your Bets!
2. polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts
3. popular candidates who don't suffer last-second political scandals tend to get fished out of the @@CAPITAL@@ River
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
3. 'Police Academy 36' and 'Sharknados On A Plane' are vying for top spot at the box-office
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
3. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
4. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
1. homeless people can be found sleeping on streets in front of unoccupied second homes
#445 Evasive Maneuvers
1. corporations claim the third ounce of any metal traded in a wicker-cone on the Sunday of a full moon as a charitable expense
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
1. late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards
3. breast milk lattes are the newest fad among hip urbanites
#448 It Takes a Village
5. the only position a woman can hold is baby-maker
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
1. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
2. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
#453 Parliamentary Playground
4. @@NAMEINITIALS@@-SPAN features senators wrestling with ever-increasing production elements
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
2. chickens roam the streets freely
#459 Murder, He Shouted!
1. major corporations receive tax breaks for no apparent reason
#472 Rise of the Machines
4. artificial intelligences seeking exciting work are overcome with ennui
#473 A-B-C, Easy as Don't Use Me
2. matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold
#474 Mesozoic Park
1. sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park
3. idyllic countryside scenes see border collies herding sixty-ton dinosaurs
4. local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings
#477 Feeding Frenzy
4. heart attacks are regarded as a coming of age ritual
#479 @@LEADER@@, Put on the Yellow Light
2. @@CAPITAL@@'s iconic yellow taxis are nowhere to be seen
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
2. labour strikes are routinely squashed by police
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
2. a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
1. the nation's once beautiful countryside has turned brown as farmers spray potent pesticides
3. visions of giant pink @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are a common side effect after @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ eat their meals
#508 Ex-Cons Robbed of Future
2. jaywalkers are condemned to lives of poverty for their heinous crimes
#509 It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
3. hammering a nail into a wall is an effective death sentence
#512 Furnished for Failure
4. personal injury lawyers are demanding compensation from the government after recent reductions in manufacturer liability
#514 Contract Killer
1. murder is sanctioned if the legal paperwork is filled out correctly
#522 Time to Get Serious
2. maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter
3. it turns out that money can buy you happiness
#525 Nowhere to Go!
2. @@A@@ @@REGION@@ Tourist Association survey has rated @@NAME@@ #1 for number twos
#526 Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?
4. farmers' market days almost always end in a shooting
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
1. @@CAPITAL@@'s main city thoroughfare has been blocked by a row of leyland cypresses that mysteriously appeared overnight
#532 Desert Island Risks
2. politicians' financial records are locked up tighter than the nation's @@CURRENCY@@ reserves
4. tourists often cite 'hiding money in an off-shore banking account' as their main reason to visit the nation
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
2. public incontinence is a growing problem amongst the nation's women
#542 What a Waste
4. global anti-terrorist organisations strongly suspect @@NAME@@ of supplying extremist groups
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
2. teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
2. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
3. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
2. every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor
#551 The Big Fat @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Wedding
2. advertisers scramble to sponsor the broadcast of @@LEADER@@'s most personal functions
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
2. the new "Bloodbath" orange tree autonomously seeks and destroys independent orchards
#556 Here Be Dragons?
4. failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
1. every week is blindness awareness week
3. dining out often involves @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the plate no matter what you order
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
2. farm turkeys are given high doses of antidepressants to take their minds off the holiday season
4. subsidisation of Big Pharma has stopped many corporate executives from having to sell their second homes
#566 Drive My Car
3. fire stations and hospitals can't deploy emergency vehicles because badly parked cars block them in
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
1. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
2. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
3. annual Formula One races bring the capital to a screeching halt
4. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
5. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
#578 Support Your Local Arms Manufacturer
3. former arms manufacturing CEOs are now delivering food for minimum wage
#585 Are You Not Entertained?
3. amusement park rides frequently collapse due to lack of maintenance
4. nihilistic thrill-seekers claim that suicide by roller coaster is the ultimate life experience
#591 Bait and Switch
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
4. sushi just hasn't been the same since salmon went extinct overnight
#594 Tie Fighters
3. it is rumoured that @@LEADER@@ uses a magic 8-ball to make policy decisions
#599 Dead in the Water
1. oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires
2. oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires
#604 Food Behind Bars
1. the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy
#606 In the Black
3. exploding toys that leak battery acid are back in the shops after the government declared child safety 'over-rated'
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
2. recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
1. @@LEADER@@'s peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide
#614 How Much Is That Vote in the Window?
2. candidates celebrate "free speech" by spraying champagne all over anyone who shows up to a rally
3. beggars on the street are often heard asking for spare votes
#615 Tempted by the Fruit of Another
1. agricultural employees work for peanuts
#616 You Are Feeling Very Very Sleepy and Not at All Gay
2. sexuality-questioning teenagers are placed in locked rooms with dirty magazines and lewd posters
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
2. the mummified remains of former kings are apparently discovered every time a tourist loses their wallet
4. sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food
#623 Maison d'Être?
2. the country is littered with broken homes
#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#626 Carbon Copied
1. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
2. there is a growing belief that consciousness is a simulated illusion within a computer-generated reality
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
2. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
3. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
#628 Only @@LEADER@@ Can Prevent Forest Fires
1. forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
1. formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming
#634 Bullet Time
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
2. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
3. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
4. government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables
#637 Little Pizza History
2. the nation is known abroad for fast food and nothing else
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
3. it's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance
#639 No Country for Old Men
2. octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it
3. octogenarian models insist that they've still got it
#641 Dirty Little Minds
2. major polluting industries have painted a lot of their machines green to give an impression of caring about the environment
3. life expectancy is way down but posthuman perfectionism is way up
4. corrupt industrial practices are spreading like a plague
#642 This Way's Kinder
2. the nation's youth voluntarily goes to bed early out of sheer tiredness from their working days
#660 Are We Being Served?
3. customers who are not the epitome of politeness always find themselves at the back of the queue
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
5. Scout campfire sing-a-longs tend to focus on the evils of antitrust legislation
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
2. tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash
#669 Watts Up With Rooftop Solar
2. the poor are forced into bankruptcy by their energy bills
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
1. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
2. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
#675 Trick or Treaty
2. the industries of @@NAME@@ are coughing all the way to the bank
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
3. a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away
#682 Exhaust Every Option
3. people say that smog must be good for you because of its healthy green colour
#686 Freemium Isn't Free
2. children often explain to their parents that the Mega Ultimate Sword Fist was worth the thousand-@@CURRENCY@@ charge on their phone bill
#689 A Sticky Situation
2. the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame
3. the population's jaw muscles put sharks to shame
#692 Game of Drones
2. airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path
4. airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path
#699 Pipe Down, Already!
4. safe drinking water is considered a luxury
#705 The Germ of an Idea
2. fast-food chefs regularly win Health Innovation Awards for spitting on burgers
#709 Armed and Legging It
2. the government is lending a hand to private industry
#711 Patently Obvious
2. a third of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are e-certified CEOs
#716 Cheek to Cheek
2. people often get liposuction to reduce their air fares
3. people often get liposuction to reduce their air fares
#717 Cheques and Balances
1. the main interest rates change daily based on the latest news story
#719 Buried Bones Unearth Debate
4. having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom
5. having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom
#724 Your Stuff Is Forfeit
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests
#728 A Bone to Pick
1. scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards
3. the morbidly obese often sell stock options on their own corpses
#732 A Peeping Problem
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks
#733 The Path Less Traveled
3. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
4. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
6. aggressive promotion of global warming puts polar bears on thin ice
#734 A Word From Our Sponsors
2. 9 out of 10 consumers think that vitamins can cure cancer
#747 The Plane Truth
1. travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air @@NAME@@ flights to avoid the pay lavatories
2. travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air @@NAME@@ flights to avoid the pay lavatories
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
2. any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property
3. exports of chewing gum are inexplicably falling
#757 Extra Credit?
2. parents often ask to see a credit report before lending money to their own children
#762 Double Down on Double Time?
2. takeaway food bought on the weekend now comes with fifty percent more sweat and tears
#769 How to Print Money?
5. the barter economy has taken over as the @@CURRENCY@@ has become worthless
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
2. kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes
#771 Drug Up the Prices
2. both illness and poverty are seen as signs of low moral worth
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
1. dentists routinely perform open heart surgery
#777 Betting on the Future
1. no cul-de-sac or trailer park is complete without a gambling parlor
3. tax returns detail how many games of slots each citizen will be able to play with their refund
#778 Mal Appetit!
2. celebrity foodies are biting a huge chunk out of the government budget
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
2. open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost
#782 Sit-Down Money
2. teddy bears and pajamas have replaced briefcases and suits in @@NAME@@'s offices
3. employees are told they can avoid traffic jams by starting work at 4 AM
#783 Sergeant McCool Reporting for Duty
2. subscribing to the Benevolence Society for Impoverished Leaders is an effective way to dodge the draft
#786 Tainted Tattoos
2. getting an infected tattoo is considered a rite of passage in @@NAME@@
#787 Come Fly With Me?
2. when you fly on Air @@NAME@@ you win a seat or you die
#801 Animation Provocation
3. toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters
#808 Big Trouble in Little Dàguó
1. the government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash
#809 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
5. the single fish caught by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ fishers last year is cited as evidence of @@NAME@@'s thriving fisheries
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
2. vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mussels the biggest in @@REGION@@
#818 We Are Not Amused
1. homeowners on prime real estate have been seen dodging giant bulldozers with cartoon characters painted on them
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
2. a stocking with a crooked seam or a tie without a full Windsor knot are grounds for instant dismissal
#822 Never Work With Children
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ actors literally work from cradle to grave
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
2. for just a few extra @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can get new driving records with their new cars
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ visiting rural Southern @@ANIMAL@@ Village can get their driving records clean for a small fee
4. hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
3. major boxing matches are held in government buildings
4. sports journals are full of uplifting puff-pieces on professional boxers
#830 Unreasonable Adjustments?
3. children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines
4. children who can't memorize their multiplication tables are sent to the mines
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
5. sick days are on the rise
#832 Moderating Your Opinion
2. knock-knock jokes regularly get removed from websites for being too edgy
#843 Quacking Up
2. new treatments are rejected if they cannot be explained using only one-syllable words
#844 Essentially on Strike
1. the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking
#848 It's a Girl Thing
2. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
3. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
#849 Sky High
2. crackheads chase drug-loaded drones in hopes of a lucky drop
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
2. mall countdown clocks warn that there are only 364 more shopping days until Maxxmas
#855 Thin Evidence
2. it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies
#859 A Cola by Any Other Name
2. citizens need a magnifying glass and color chart to distinguish between nearly identical brand labels
#860 A Blast From the Past
1. the tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches
#864 The Missionary Position
3. becoming a missionary is a sure-fire route to martyrdom
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
2. cooking with water and baking soda is considered patent infringement
3. every fourth child is born with flippers instead of hands
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
1. the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem
5. the "Brave New World" program has caused private businesses to spring up faster than the East Lebatuck Wall
#877 Gunning for Profits
3. road rage is rarer but more terminal now that many people drive fully-operational battle tanks to work
#881 Blooming Out of Proportion
2. economists confusingly list "fusarium rot and leaf blight" as major risk factors for monetary deflation
#882 Death by Chocolate
2. the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
2. the restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived
#886 Bounty on the Table
2. bounty hunters have been dispatched to hunt down rogue bounty hunters
#887 Thin Skin
1. nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines
#890 Mining Blues
3. the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone
4. the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
2. bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls
3. mouldy bread is served as an appetizer in many restaurants
#896 It's Our Lot in Life
5. competing private ambulances racing to be the first to traffic accidents are a major cause of road accidents
#899 Uncultured Singles in Your Area
3. preservative-laden @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cheeses will be as edible when archaeologists dig them up next millennium
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
5. the only place where one can see the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cherry tree is in a museum
#901 You Buy That?
2. playing an online nation simulation game legally obliges you to buy the creator's latest novel
#902 Killer App
2. ironic death by tasering is on the rise amongst door-to-door taser salesmen
#907 A Problem Shared
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
#910 A for Effort
3. the most ambitious parents buy a dozen lottery scratch-cards each week for their kids
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#921 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad @@NAME@@
2. citizens finish cleaning up after the annual National Treasure Hunt just in time for the next one
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
1. the fattest folk in @@NAME@@ look to be the happiest ones
#923 Ministers Exposing Themselves
3. it's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast
#929 Champagne in the Glass
2. foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Moonshine"
4. alcoholism is the newest import from Dàguó
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
2. attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high
3. schoolchildren learn an R-rated version of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
1. no suburban lawn is complete without barbed wire and landmines
#934 @@LEADER@@, Don't Tear Down That Wall!
2. the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism
#937 Ebony Pride
2. everybody's got wood thanks to @@LEADER@@
#942 A Foreign Exchange of Ideas
1. the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies
#944 Deadly Persuasion
3. even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love
#945 Police on the Take
2. crimes are difficult to stop as most of the police force is stuck in traffic
#947 Imitation Station
1. drivers regularly pull over for nonexistent police cars
#948 1x, 2x, 3x, a Lady
3. women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up"
4. women complaining about lack of opportunity are told to "man up"
#952 Why the Long Face?
2. glue production is at an all-time high
#955 Can It!
4. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
5. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
#957 Putrid Predicament
3. the diplomatic corps stinks
#960 Nobody Does It Better?
1. looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities
#962 A Matter of Loaf and Death
3. new government leaflets tell coeliac children to eat more crisps
#964 An Expensive Watch
2. fiscal policy hawks decry the sizable "panem et circenses" fund added to the public budget
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
3. people think garlic bread counts as one of their "five a day"
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
3. @@LEADER@@ is famed for giving great back rubs
#970 For Want of a Nail
7. it's a miracle that there aren't more plane crashes
#975 Paparazzi Parents
2. the Snapgram channel "Embarrassing Baby @@LEADER@@ Pics" has made @@LEADER@@'s mom a celebrity
3. skin-tone prom dresses are more unpopular than ever
4. skin-tone prom dresses are more unpopular than ever
#979 A Patronising Statement
2. a popular artist is claiming that a raw steak with a dog turd on it is a portrait of @@LEADER@@
#987 Quia Scriptum Est
2. the law says it's okay to sell a bomb to a terrorist so long as they promise not to detonate it
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
1. gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away
#990 Baby Shower
2. multiple births are a cause of celebration for tax collectors
#991 Alms and Qualms
3. charity workers dole out hardtack from behind designer sunglasses
#993 Drug Deal
1. drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients
#994 The Life of Riley
3. prisoners fit in their parole hearings around their spa treatments
#1001 Will the Real Victims Please Stand Up?
4. bank robbers always set aside 50% of the loot to pay off the judge
#1002 The Call of Nature
4. allergy-sufferers must wear gas masks before venturing outdoors
#1005 What Goes Up Breaks Down
2. parachutes are considered optional with the newest line of jet fighters
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
2. children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary
#1010 What's Got Into @@NAME@@?
1. grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them
#1016 Breaking Upset
5. emergency services don't respond to trailer park fires
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
3. epileptic patients switch their medications to whichever has a 'buy one get one free' offer
#1018 Operation Failed
1. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
2. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
4. the doctor has cold hands
#1019 Patent Nonsense
2. the wheel has been patented by at least a hundred people
#1021 Room and Board Games
4. multilingual concierges man empty inner city apartment blocks
#1022 Failure to Respond
1. the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance
2. pocket dialling is a criminal offence
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1023 Pure Madness
5. frustrated teenage boys are told that if they like it then they should have put a ring on it
#1029 Frozen Assets
1. people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
3. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices
4. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Crispy Fried Tofu's secret blend of herbs and spices
#1037 Ill Girl
4. muggers are complimented on their enterprising spirit
5. muggers are complimented on their revolutionary spirit
#1038 Maid to Order
1. members of ethnic minorities are more often called "boy" or "girl" than by their actual names
3. slaving over a hot stove to cook the family dinner isn't metaphorical in @@NAME@@
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
2. the secret ingredient is love (and MSG)
#1047 Rivers of Blood
2. the newest shade developed by @@NAME@@'s dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange'
#1048 Tatty Treaty Spat Turns Catty
2. theft is considered to be okay if the crime happened a long time ago
#1055 Fishy Predictions
2. dog owners proudly declare that their pups can predict when the mailman will arrive
#1056 Time to Work?
2. factory workers offered 20-hour shifts are expected to thank their bosses for the wonderful opportunity
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
3. the nation's endangered species are no longer endangered
#1061 Every Day I'm Muffling
2. it's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
3. sofas are perpetually on sales that Must End Soon
#1067 Don't Fear the Reefer
4. more citizens have access to Maxtopian Grass than clean drinking water
#1068 Made to Break
2. frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback
#1072 Holographic Harmonization
1. pop sensation "Jack and the Holograms" is storming the charts
3. there's no weight to modern politics
#1077 With Friends Like These...
2. primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit
#1078 Down With That?
2. a shipwreck is everyone's fault but the captain's
#1083 Public Protesting Pawnbroker Pickpockets
4. strange men lingering in offices distributing television sets is a basis for a system of government
#1086 Fun in the Sun
5. souvenir shops that sell alphorns are taking advantage of gullible tourists
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
4. parties on cruise ships go off with a real bang
#1101 Unreal
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
2. one can walk from one side of @@CAPITAL@@ to the other without setting foot on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soil
#1106 Some Body to Love
1. customer satisfaction with online delivery services is at an all time high
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
3. many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators
4. many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
2. the mood of raunchy movies is often ruined by the sound of babies crying
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
1. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
2. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
3. apprentice builders get teased for wearing hard hats
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
3. fifty years of pension funds can disappear in half a second
#1133 Rocky Road
3. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
4. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
#1134 Tariff-ic Trouble
2. economists have been named Invertebrates of the Year
#1137 A Really Sour Lemon
4. citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin
5. citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin
#1139 A Little Wrestling, a Lot of Controversy
2. the government loves seeing the little people fight
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
3. extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary
#1156 Pet Theory
3. burgers often list "miscellaneous meats" in their ingredients
#1160 Milking It
1. more than one company makes the board game Monopoly
2. a milk bath costs more than bathing in money
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
2. crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination
#1166 Acres Wild
2. the backs of 'No Trespassing' signs were made for you and me
#1172 Piled Higher and Deeper
2. college-level writing classes are taught by undergraduate editors of the school newspaper
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
2. blackface performers claim they are being deliberately ironic
#1179 Nothing Fishy
2. ports have ground to a halt as no boat can reach them without trespassing
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
4. the nation is renowned abroad for its love of blood and guts
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
3. it is said that @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ woman's work is never done
#1184 Wring Out Your Dead
2. the debts of the father fall upon the son
#1187 Tipping Point
2. wait staff claim to like it when odorous customers flirt with them
#1191 Intelligent Design
3. pet rocks are sold by the pound
#1196 The Properties of Property
2. a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true
#1207 Next, Please!
1. "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
2. the smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation
#1220 Barely Any Art
2. drawing men's naughty bits isn't considered to be art
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
4. the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months
#1228 The Road to Hell
2. a driving license is obtained not by passing a test but by passing a brown envelope
#1233 Get Real!
2. baiting is a national sport
#1234 I Declare a Thumb War
1. the government is under the thumb of countless special interests
3. celebrity wrestlers thumb their nose at due process
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
2. signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés
#1239 The Walking, Talking, and Irritated Dead
2. what citizens give with one hand they take away with the other
#1245 Sheepish Students
1. school football matches are usually five-a-side
2. bemused schoolkids colour in their favourite quadratic equations with crayons
#1246 Breath of the Wild
2. the cycle of extinction and rebirth is never ending
3. the old neighbourhood isn't how most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ remember it
4. the national symbol of @@NAME@@ is now always featured on a skewer
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
2. ceremonial zweihänders are used in holy rituals
#1252 Ale to the Chief
3. more and more people are signing up for the government party
4. more and more people are signing up for the government party
#1254 Sales on Rails
2. there's more vermin than ever on the metro
#1259 Buy Low, Sell High
4. mandatory state-funded classes teach Libertarianism
#1262 Dead Tasty
3. there's a mortuary next to every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurant
#1263 Is the Signature Always Right?
2. political detractors refer to @@LEADER@@ as 'that Bigtopian puppet'
#1269 All That Glitters
1. phenotypic plasticity is a struggle for sealife in polluted waters
#1273 Lessons in Politics
2. a degree in @@LEADER@@ Science with a Minor in Awesomeology starts many political careers
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
3. photos of picturesque coastal buildings are set against a backdrop of smokestacks and ship hulls
#1277 Outside the Box
1. beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
1. teachers prefer to give 'Maybe, Maybe Not' tests when dealing with sensitive subjects
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
2. it's a marvellous night for a moon dance as the sparks on your home start to rise
3. autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ wonder "if a tree falls in the woods with no credible witnesses, who wants to know?"
#1289 Cramping Our Style
2. pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
3. @@LEADER@@ has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space
#1293 Bet Your Life
1. you can bet your bottom dollar that gambling will cost you an arm and a leg
3. grinning punters say that casino roulette is the greatest high that life has to offer
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
2. stale 'yo mamma' insults have been replaced by 'your maternal DNA' insults
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
1. cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
2. "Day of the Rope" is the top song of the summer
#1303 Amateur Hour
1. athletic teenagers are among the wealthiest members of society
#1306 The Least Common Educator
4. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
5. immigrant teachers use fat stacks of cash as teaching aids
#1307 A Duty to Serve
4. record numbers of students are leaving school to enter the workforce
#1310 Intimate Relations
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1311 An Acquired Taste
2. people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile
3. the military is plagued with unethical researchers
#1320 A Case of Poor Turnaround
2. savvy nightclub-goers know that structurally unsound venues sell the cheapest drinks
#1322 Introducing Altengarten?
4. the first test of a good kindergartener is the quality of the sponge-baths they give
#1323 Toss the Coin?
3. East Lebatuckese luxury goods are plundered by the working class of @@NAME@@
#1329 A Little Bit Short
1. several inches are being added to first class seating
#1335 First-Class Warfare
2. the rich and poor vomit into separate bags
#1344 Ups and Downs
1. orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
2. produce labels read 'may contain traces of food'
#1355 Feeling Null
2. commuters and their desktops both bemoan their hard drives
#1357 Scattered Showers
4. space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across @@NAME@@
#1361 Fundamental Rights
2. advanced mathematics books explain how two plus two equals five
#1364 Payday Groans
2. it's said that @@A@@ @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ always pays his debts with significant compounding
#1365 Balancing the Box
5. citizens hear a diversity of opinions from a range of billionaire-owned corporations
#1366 Parklife
1. parents must decide between buying food and taking their children to the park
#1369 Negotiation Complication
1. human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
1. a PhD just ain't what it used to be
#1372 Balls to All That
2. the name of the "Butcher of Bigtopia" adorns shirts across @@NAME@@
#1373 You Should Have (Copy)Left My Software Alone!
4. too many developers spoil the codebase
#1408 (A Lot Of) Pennies for Your Thoughts
2. a few people seem to spend their whole time complaining
#1409 Happy Pranksgiving!
4. prank shows are so hot right now
#1424 Here's Looking at Zoo, Kid
1. recapturing giraffes is proving to be a tall order
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
3. slavers are real nutters
#1435 A Hot Potato
4. economics is a shrinking field
#1442 A Green Bill of Health
2. vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR
3. vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR
#1443 Forage and Forget
2. foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas
#1453 A Salt and Battery
1. the environment is gorgeous so long as you're looking up
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
3. at least 4 unique companies in @@NAME@@ claim to sell Eckie-Cola
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
3. unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims
#1460 A Burning Question
2. the end of autumn is celebrated with a bonfire of designer bags
#1463 Sandbagging
1. half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach
#1466 Don't Shoot Your Eye Out
4. gun shops sell hook hands and eye patches
#1468 Meat With Approval
2. rare steaks seem even bluer now
#1469 News Flash!
3. political shows are fit for purpose
#1473 A Pretty Pass
2. the government has to take out its Visa to eliminate visas
#1474 Cuy Bono?
2. @@CAPITAL@@ has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra
#1480 Motherlode
1. teenagers claim that morning paper rounds are performance art
#1484 Joint Trade Agreement
1. business ambassadors offer bong tokes to foreign leaders
3. the nation is going green
#1486 Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs Are Right for @@NAME@@
1. the hit new medical TV show "Home" prominently features the brand of painkiller the lead doctor is addicted to
#1493 Bully Beef
2. exports of live cows arrive pre-roasted
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
2. academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs
#1496 A Place For Everything
2. it's considered providence that the political lexicon contains a syrup of company slogans
#1503 The Scent of Sexism
2. the annual Adult Film Awards have a category for most titillating aftershave advert
#1505 A Tangled Web
3. citizens have to identify all the polar bears in a blizzard photo in order to access their bank account
#1508 Kicking Out the Competition
2. sports club owners are having a moneyball
#1516 Content Discontent
3. belief that @@LEADER@@ is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high
#1518 Test Environment
2. teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living
3. teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living
#1519 Remittances Running Rampant
2. foreign workers are flooding in as @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ flood out
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
1. chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
2. a shocking number of estate planners are beneficiaries of their clients' wills
#1526 Corporate Pride
1. the @@CAPITAL@@ Pride Parade's head banner explains how unionizing is heteronormative
#1528 Our Feta Which Art in Havarti...
3. the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging
4. the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging
#1531 Fine Time
2. equality looks curiously unequal
#1537 Bench Wars
2. bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in
#1540 Clean Flavours
2. restaurants have noticed that hanging wet laundry from the ceiling makes diners order more food
#1544 Happy Juice
2. bags of fertiliser come with detailed instructions for not making explosives
#1545 Deep Down Up to No Good
3. in coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho)
#1546 Fool's Gold
1. @@CAPITAL@@ River is now popularly called "Dead Fish Run"
#1549 Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin'
7. @@LEADER@@ is convinced that other nations can simply be "junked" (@@EGG@@)
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
3. private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button
#1555 Deaf Trap
2. the internal market is thriving
#1558 Unequal Treatment?
4. injured workers are encouraged to 'stitch themselves up with their bootstraps'
#1561 Murderers Making Money?
2. @@LEADER@@ has killer fashion sense
#1565 The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Gluttony
2. official government guidance encourages binge behaviors
#1567 Of Health and Wealth
2. the blood, sweat, and tears of poor @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ make research institutes rich
#1573 Unseen Academia
2. savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations
#1574 Fowl Play
4. old folks yearn for the days when young people saw bloodthirsty death matches with their own eyes instead of through a screen
#1576 Liquidity Problems
3. a surprising number of travelers carry their water in vodka bottles
#1583 Spare the (Plutonium) Rod
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ faces have never been brighter
#1584 Loose Lips, Characters Shipped?
3. sex-ed is child's play
#1590 Tinder Profiled
3. actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs
#1591 (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Sample!)
5. beatboxing has replaced the 'Wilhelm scream' as the nation's most popular sound effect
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
3. only the richest get to see out of their windows
#1600 Mother's Ruin
4. you have to be a billionaire to qualify for welfare
#1603 Searching for That Special Someone
3. a flying elephant and @@LEADER@@ share the same nickname
4. a flying elephant and @@LEADER@@ share the same nickname
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
2. online terrorists are automatically assigned adverts for cheap balaclavas
#1607 My Chemical Romance
1. witches' brews set off Geiger counters
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
2. pieces of iron pyrite are believed to be worth their weight in gold
#1611 Filial Fidelity
1. parents giddily refuse to pay their toddlers' medical bills
#1613 Incarceration Sensation
3. murder comes with a cash prize if the victim was previously incarcerated
#1614 Fauxthentic Food
3. visiting the best @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants requires keeping a visa on file
4. visiting the best @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants requires keeping a visa on file
5. restaurants have added Molotov cocktails to the menu
#1621 The Space Between
1. government employees are authorized driver's licenses to get their bosses much-needed morning espressos
4. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
5. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
#1622 Border Burden
3. one can wake up in @@NAME@@ and have breakfast in Bigtopia
#1626 Wiggle Room
1. people are turning themselves into worm food
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
2. playing card suits are sold separately
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
1. APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps
2. APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps
#1641 Freedom of Depress
2. commercial breaks often lead to nervous breakdowns
#1643 Cicadas in Their Prime
2. the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under
#1648 Infant Influence
2. patriotism is in the nation's DNA
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
3. companies are literally blowing their competition out of the water
#1654 We Bought a Zoo
1. daredevil kayakers frequently race against runaway hippos
#1668 Can't-abrigian, Ox-no-nian
3. university applicants are judged by how much they laugh at professors' tired jokes
#1681 The Children Yearn for the Mines
1. sewing needles are topping lists of safe kids' toys
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
3. corporations continue to displace native peoples off their land
#1684 Naps in Judgement
2. yawning is a sure sign of unemployment
#1691 The Fault in Our Skyline
1. Goldilocks has found a lucrative career as a zoning consultant
#1696 Everyone Loves Shipping
2. the poorest @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ live in 'the stacks'

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#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
3. cars have been banned
#105 Compensation Culture Must End, Say Corporations
2. every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government
3. manufacturers are sued for almost anything not covered in their catalogue-sized manuals
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#186 Carjacking Concerns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#256 Easter Egg: Suburbs Are Out of This World
2. white-collar unemployment skyrockets as the suburbs are not within bicycling distance to work (@@EGG@@)
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
3. bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
1. over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
4. the endangered saltwater humpback @@ANIMAL@@ is only seen in captivity programs
#641 Dirty Little Minds
1. corporate lawyers are switching careers to the more lucrative field of green politics
#652 Mayday! Mayday!
2. aspiring pilots must be personally vetted by the Minister of Transportation before receiving their license
3. planes can be grounded for months simply because an inspector "didn't like the color"
#710 Feudal Feuds
2. the serf suggestion box would work better if more serfs were literate
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
2. ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences
#784 The Driving Force
5. mail and shipped goods take forever to get to buyers
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
2. people who question what bunker construction has to do with economic reform tend to disappear
#965 Like a Bull in a Dàguó Shop
1. foreign countries consider stepping on their grass to be a serious offense
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
5. mandatory blunting of cutlery has increased the popularity of soup-based meals
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other
#1664 Hey Alexis, Are You Sexist?
1. there are increasing complaints that male AI assistants have aggressive voices

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#5 Child Casino Shock
1. gambling is outlawed
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
2. meat-eating is frowned upon
3. vegetarianism is compulsory
4. meat is a luxury afforded only to the wealthy
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ is a protected species
#16 @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ Workers Strike!
1. the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes
#17 Corporations Demand Political Say
2. political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations
#18 Citizens Struggle Under "Unfair" Tax Burden
2. high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate
#20 Gunman Kills Three
1. kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles
2. the nation is completely gun-free
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
3. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
4. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
5. the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas
#25 Cloning Research Promises New Breakthrough
2. genetic researchers have been expelled
#27 Cash for Colons?
2. organ donation rates have hit a new low
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
1. TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
1. punitive tariffs protect local industry
#33 Genetics Brings New Life to Extinct Species
4. genetic research is temporarily tied up in government red tape
#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
2. the country has unplugged its internet connection to prevent subversive content
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
1. small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants
2. the government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#43 Prisoners Demand Elbow Room
3. citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys
#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
1. a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders
#49 Diving for @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
1. the government seizes all major gold finds
#55 Bigtopian Protesters Cry for Full Integration
3. members of majority races are forced out of their homes to make way for Bigtopians
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
4. the recent ban on computers is causing havoc throughout the nation
#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
3. all alcohol is banned
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
#64 Put the "Board" Back in Board of Education
2. teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs
#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution
1. prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators
#71 Minority Group Demands Language Recognition
2. children are raised bilingual from an early age
#76 Suits in Protest
2. CEOs and corporate executives are frequently found striking for better stock options
3. protests are prohibited from blocking traffic
4. local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food"
#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares
1. a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country
3. recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
2. soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers
3. there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
1. flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys
#90 Organic Outburst
1. all-natural foods are becoming a major fad
3. people are moving into treehouses in record numbers
#94 Computer Users Fed Up With Heaps of Spam!
1. the government spends millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ every year prosecuting spammers
4. the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress
#99 We Need Cash, Sharpish, Say Librarians
1. libraries are now installed with jacuzzis and mini-bars
#101 Tiara Sign of Oppression, Declare Feminists
2. women who display their ankles are shunned by society
3. women who display their ankles are shunned by society
#103 Plague of the Hybrids!
2. bizarre-looking creatures called '@@ANIMAL@@dogs' dominate wildlife preserves
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
3. ad-blocking has been nationalised
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
3. government-run brothels can be found on every street corner
#107 Private Lab Holds @@NAME@@'s Sick to Ransom
2. private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
2. medical lawsuits are out of control
4. the study of medicine is popular throughout @@NAME@@
#119 Watershed Down?
2. Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in @@NAME@@
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
3. only the brainiest citizens become academics
#126 Outsourcing an Outrage, Say Demonstrators
1. corporations are forbidden from employing outside the nation
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
3. the arms industry is strictly regulated
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
5. there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt
#143 An Archaeological Altercation
1. prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams
#145 Hackles Raised Over Fur Clothes Debate
1. the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned
#149 With Liberty, Freedom, and Guns for All?
2. citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
3. heavy industry must go to expensive lengths to dispose of waste
#161 Where There's a Will There's a Tax
1. the government seizes the property of the recently deceased
3. the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance
#162 Animal Experimentation Laws Under Scrutiny
1. dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws
#170 Deserts Devouring @@NAME@@'s Countryside
1. mysterious black helicopters menace farmers to ensure compliance with straitjacketing agricultural policies
#173 Women Demand Equal Opportunities
1. business is adjusting to new gender equality policies in the workplace
3. mostly women are seen and not heard
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
2. all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave
#179 Mad @@ANIMAL@@ Disease Outbreak!
1. the government has organised a nationwide cull of infected @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
4. farmers can be spotted driving gold-plated tractors
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
2. a spate of enforced closures has left 'Government FM' as the nation's only radio station
3. @@NAME@@'s airwaves are dominated by corporate-backed commercial radio
#183 Buy a Better Baby?
5. government-run screening operations remove embryos with severe genetic disorders
#187 Underclass Drowning in Debt
1. lending firms are subject to strict government regulations
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
3. only adults may purchase violent video games
#189 Dangerously Cheesy
4. cheese has been labelled a dangerous weapon and banned
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
1. almost all products in @@NAME@@ are hand-crafted due to strict employment laws
4. the loom represents the height of @@NAME@@'s technology
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
1. public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
4. homes have been banned from having any more than one wheel
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
6. soldiers have a preference for fire-and-forget payloads
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
5. nine out of ten citizens of @@NAME@@ answered 'nuclear safety inspector' when asked their occupation
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
1. mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
1. buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
2. the government has the power to seize property at will
3. the government seizes private property for the 'good of the people'
#224 Minimum Wage War
1. the government has implemented minimum wage laws
2. unemployment is through the roof after the government enacted living wage laws
#235 From Green Pastures to Grey Wastelands
1. high food prices have reduced the national diet to staple foods and water
#237 Tourists on Death Row
1. international tensions are high as @@NAME@@ threatens any government with the audacity to arrest its citizens
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
2. badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game
#246 @@NAME@@ to Hold the Olympic Torch?
4. chess hooliganism is on the rise after the banning of organised sports
#251 The Trouble With Hobos
2. citizens applying for their first jobs face fierce competition from the homeless
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
2. the welfare administration's new sweeping authority has forced the poor and needy to shop from pre-approved grocery lists
4. the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor
5. the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'
#261 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
4. the entire retail industry has been replaced by online delivery services
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
1. fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
3. businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
1. students cut up leftover @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ during Arts and Crafts
#280 Oh the Humanity!
1. the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines
3. the new hit series "@@NAME@@'s Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country
#281 Free Internet for @@NAME@@?
1. the internet has been placed under government control
#282 Slum Village Extraordinaire
2. workers who try to quit their jobs must first register with the welfare department
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
1. the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects
#285 A Right Not to Work?
1. the request to "give us our daily bread" can only be fulfilled six days out of seven
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down
4. midnight pizza breaks are common among the work-from-home population
#286 A Whale of a Problem
3. the government strictly regulates whale harvest quotas
4. fishing crews are regularly interrogated by surprisingly violent environmentalists
#288 Super-Sized Pizzas Recipe for Disaster?
1. police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers
2. overweight people receive reparations checks from fast-food chains
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
1. new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in @@NAME@@ to be bombproof
3. the nationalized auto industry is adept at making durable little cars nobody wants to drive
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
1. the police strictly enforce off-limit zones for tourists
2. anti-tourism militias patrol the borders
#293 Maestro, Please
1. conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
1. legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
1. grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices
2. a punitive tax has been placed on harmful emissions
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
2. businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation
4. legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments
5. legions of police officers force people to move into massive urban apartments
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
1. only toddlers and the elderly watch television before 23:00
#305 Who's Occupying What?
2. millions of devastated 7-year-olds are denied astronaut and ballerina training
3. businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders
4. the military is blowing up any threat to employment within the nation
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
3. "It was only a joke" is no longer a defense for the felony of discrimination
#316 Fortified Against Crime
2. the rich are forced to sell their houses to pay for more police to prevent their houses from being burgled
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
3. businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
1. it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey
4. computers are used primarily for word processing and solitaire
#324 "Tourism Tanking!" Trumpet Tabloids
1. a new generation of aquariumless hotels are being built under government supervision
#326 Knitters in a Knot Over Police Stitch Up
3. knitting needles have been banned in the name of public safety
#327 No Rest for the Weary @@ANIMAL@@
1. retired racing @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are served truffles for breakfast
2. pet owners exercise their @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ at a snail's pace or risk prosecution
#330 Supermarkets Gobbling Up All the Customers?
3. the government provides its citizenry with the same mass produced rations
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
1. builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction
#337 Doctors Crossing Borders?
2. charity no longer begins at home
3. people eagerly queue days at A&E to wait for their free healthcare
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
3. mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance
#346 Oil's Well That Ends Well
1. oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds
#351 The Cost of Freedom
2. private law firms are unheard of
#353 Broadband Going to the Birds?
3. stray cats threaten the fledgling avian-based internet
#356 @@NAME@@ in the Time of Cholera
1. the nation is now proudly cholera-free
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
2. churches frequently hold public 'contraception burnings'
#365 A Busload of Worry
5. @@CAPITAL@@ spends billions upgrading public transport
#367 What's Their Beef?
1. fresh food is a thing of the past due to onerous testing standards
#368 Female Workers Feeling the Pinch
4. harassment has been stamped out under the high-heeled jackboots of a matriarchy
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
4. foreign observers are baffled by the sway @@LEADER@@'s student intern holds over macroeconomics
#376 Death by Bungee
1. bungee jumpers rarely go splat
2. crossing the road requires a risk assessment
#379 Stakes on a Plane
1. homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways
#380 Farmers Seeding Discontent
2. the government is engaging in an agricultural trade war with Maxtopia
#382 The Appropriate Amount of Appropriation
4. immigrants are asked to leave their cultural traditions and pride at the border
#384 Out of the Royal Frying Pan
2. the government prefers to kill off its enemies by peaceful means
3. the government prefers to kill off its enemies by peaceful means
#389 [An International Incident] Sanctions, Sanctions Everywhere!
1. toilet paper is considered a non-essential item in the embargo against Brasilistan
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
2. Brasilistanis face layers of paperwork in a different language just to visit a doctor
#412 The Magic (Of Advertising!) School Bus
1. the education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence
#413 A Shot in the Arm
4. science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
1. student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned @@ANIMAL@@ball fields
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
2. the Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook
4. children's toy tractors have been seized as state property
#427 They Took Our Gubment!
2. the majority of @@NAME@@'s traffic wardens have been sacked overnight
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
1. even doll houses and dog kennels have to be able to withstand rigorous earthquake testing
#436 Voters, Place Your Bets!
1. politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
1. cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
5. the government takes agricultural advice from a wasp-themed superhero
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
2. business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
2. strategic economic sectors are controlled by the state
#445 Evasive Maneuvers
2. companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
2. breast milk is being redistributed from each according to their ability to each according to their need
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
3. drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking
#470 Tide Stops for No Man
3. the logging industry is celebrating as tourists plaster @@NAME@@ with trees
#472 Rise of the Machines
1. only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile
2. only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile
#473 A-B-C, Easy as Don't Use Me
1. the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world
3. children are expected to carve their own toys
#474 Mesozoic Park
2. mathematicians are hated by children across the country
#477 Feeding Frenzy
1. school children across the country are staging hunger strikes to protest government-mandated salads
2. children use fake IDs to purchase candy
#479 @@LEADER@@, Put on the Yellow Light
1. tardiness has increased after carpooling was classified as a criminal offense
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
1. a historic rise in the minimum wage has crushed the economy with inflation
3. all restaurants close before dinner time
4. pizza parlors have been replaced by lima bean cafes
#491 Friends, @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears
1. people who have lived their entire lives in @@NAME@@ are shocked to discover that they are not citizens
#493 Suspicious Superhuman Athletes?
4. many @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to find outlets for their pent-up competitive juices
#500 Please Don't Feed the (Copyright) Trolls
1. Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues
4. the most popular WhoTube videos are ones featuring parodies of iconic songs
#508 Ex-Cons Robbed of Future
3. many aides in @@LEADER@@'s office are known to be serial jaywalkers
#509 It Was Asbestos Times, It Was the Worst of Times
1. citizens are abandoning their homes en masse in a widespread panic over asbestos
2. new cases of Asbestosis are cropping up as quickly as hospitals can deal with them
#512 Furnished for Failure
1. clumsy self-injury is a viable claim in modern compensation culture
3. the nation's reinforced coffee tables are constructed to survive an atomic blast
#514 Contract Killer
2. legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on
4. weight loss clubs that guarantee losing a stone a month are talking about misplacing rocks
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
2. the average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections
3. model railroad hobbyists have taken to muscling model shipbuilders off their "turf"
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
4. geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
4. carrots are orange, apples are red and food waste is increasing
#532 Desert Island Risks
3. foreign investment has dropped to a trickle after laws were passed preventing investors from taking their earnings abroad
#542 What a Waste
1. the lasting legacy of the current generation is a million years of buried radioactivity
3. nuclear physics is the most popular course at university
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
4. oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
1. videogames like 'Equalia: Knights of Self-Confidence' are proving inexplicably unpopular
4. children play ring-around-the-rosey around bonfires of videogame cartridges
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
2. giant no-kill traps baited with Bapst Red Ribbon and vintage bicycles have been popping up in back alleys nationwide
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
1. poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
1. every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
2. teens reminisce about when birthdays weren't celebrated with a cool glass of cabbage juice and a slice of corn-cream topped millet cake
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
5. social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
1. an epidemic of unpopped kernels causes movie goers to gnash their teeth
3. eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance
#557 Take a Hike!
3. park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
1. every week is blindness awareness week
2. blind dates tend to result in bruised shins
#562 Return to Sender
3. international commentators accuse the nation of aggressive cultural imperialism
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
1. meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions
3. chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in @@CAPITAL@@'s playgrounds
#571 Family Feud
4. unruly families are deliberately marooned on desert islands
#574 One Small Step for Private Enterprise?
2. kids building model rockets in their backyard are grounded by Space Agency Rangers
3. 'To Regulate And Beyond' is the unofficial motto of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Space Agency
4. falling satellites are regarded as a blessing from the gods
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
1. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
2. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
3. sea side cafes are required by law to close during summer
4. board shorts have replaced board rooms
#578 Support Your Local Arms Manufacturer
4. weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder
5. weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder
#581 Fair to Say...?
6. one year's corporation tax from three international megacorporations has funded one dozen shiny black pencils for @@LEADER@@'s office
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
1. the @@CAPITAL@@ Prison Revue puts on a better stage show than anything in the Theatre District
5. contestants on @@NAME@@'s Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent
#585 Are You Not Entertained?
1. swings are banned for being a danger to children
2. children need to wear helmets and safety harnesses before mounting a carousel horse
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
1. former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés
2. moonshine has made a resurgence
#591 Bait and Switch
1. maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords
#592 Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!
3. the tawdry celebrity gossip section has moved to the front page of most newspapers
#593 A Right to Bare Arms?
4. fathers are free to sell their daughters to whomever they choose
#599 Dead in the Water
3. debate rages over whether ground fish guts can be spread on fields
#604 Food Behind Bars
2. prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
1. doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion
3. the state considers itself the 'third parent' of every child in the nation
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
3. the sanitised and dull music festivals of @@NAME@@ are famed for their reasonable volume levels
#614 How Much Is That Vote in the Window?
1. unemployed political consultants and advertisers spend every election night weeping for the good old days
#615 Tempted by the Fruit of Another
2. workers have their fruitcake and eat it too
3. the central politburo bears the fruits of everyone's labor
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
1. lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers
#620 No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
3. food voucher forgeries are causing headaches for the police
#623 Maison d'Être?
1. rich people sell their mansions to pay for endless rows of mobile homes
#624 A Role to Play
1. six-year-old children playing dress-up are viewed with suspicion
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
1. genetic researchers have taken to conducting illegal experiments in secret lairs
4. scientists spend more time enduring government inspections than they do on actual science
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
3. banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse
4. landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
1. 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool
#639 No Country for Old Men
1. 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past
4. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
5. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
#649 Made in Maxtopia
1. the government raises tariffs on a weekly basis
2. restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in @@NAME@@
3. there are no bananas today in @@NAME@@
#651 Black Days for @@NAME@@
3. bouncers at the door of the sweet shop warn five-year-olds not to cause trouble
#652 Mayday! Mayday!
5. derelict airplanes have been converted into novelty restaurants and hotels
#664 Your Land or Mine
2. the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape
#667 One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Recyclable
1. local mafias have a tough time disposing of dead snitches without catching the attention of recycling authorities
2. unpackaged foodstuffs rot on store shelves
#669 Watts Up With Rooftop Solar
1. panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies
#671 Adenine, Thymine, Copyright, and Guanine
3. biotech companies are fined if their jumbled genetic sequences look too familiar
4. citizens have a tough time telling the difference between jeans and genes
#672 All Shook Up
1. morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom
3. coastal cities are being moved a dozen miles inland to reduce flooding risk
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
3. homophobia is off the menu
4. seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals
#675 Trick or Treaty
1. citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee
3. carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
1. banning party poppers has been a real party pooper
#682 Exhaust Every Option
1. schoolkids say that the air doesn't taste like wee-wee any more
2. proprietary charger leads are now a pain for electric cars as well as cellphones
#684 Murder Most Deniable?
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to cut steak with a spoon
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to cut tofu steak with a spoon
#685 Externalities Palmed Off
2. both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade
#689 A Sticky Situation
4. Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume
#692 Game of Drones
1. former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone
3. swarms of present-laden delivery drones blot out the sun before major holidays
#693 Bottled Up Problems
3. straight-edges are forced to collect rain water to avoid getting high off the water supply
4. health inspectors are seen eating black truffle fondue with their bottled water
#698 I Shot the Sheriff
3. net monetary worth and net moral worth are considered to be directly equivalent
#700 The Widow Raven
2. as dissatisfaction with the system waxes the only things to be sure of are death and taxes
#702 Has Your Room Been Booked?
3. holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases
4. holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases
#705 The Germ of an Idea
1. it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma
3. sushi is sold on the black market
#714 Milky Ways
5. only rebellious teens who want to look cool and dangerous drink milk in public
#716 Cheek to Cheek
1. airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room
4. airplane passenger seat sizes and ticket prices are both first-class
5. in a desperate bid for cheap airfare @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can be seen jogging in a rubber suit just before flying
#717 Cheques and Balances
4. interest rates mysteriously drop whenever the CB@@NAMEINITIALS@@ Governor goes house hunting
#724 Your Stuff Is Forfeit
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ caught jaywalking often have their houses seized by the police
#726 Jobless Fair
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#727 Market Crash
2. historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre
4. businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections
#728 A Bone to Pick
2. ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward
#732 A Peeping Problem
3. workers tend to schedule naps during all-hands meetings
#734 A Word From Our Sponsors
1. advertisements read like science journal articles complete with extensive references
3. a lack of funding for new shows has turned television into 24/7 re-runs
#739 In Loco Parentis
3. fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate
#747 The Plane Truth
3. on-duty Air @@NAME@@ flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class
#751 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Breed Contempt
2. gardeners must genetically test weeds for unique traits before digging them up
3. condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
1. the dartboard at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of @@LEADER@@'s face
#754 The Hit Parade
1. the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning
2. there's never enough space in space
#757 Extra Credit?
1. lending money has become a major liability
3. credit scores fluctuate wildly with every change of government
#762 Double Down on Double Time?
1. the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm
3. tumbleweed drifts through the nation's shopping centres during the weekends
#763 Any Body for Science?
3. the most penniless demographics have by far the highest number of researchers per capita
#769 How to Print Money?
3. most @@CURRENCY@@ coins are riddled with bite marks
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
1. sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor
3. there is a heavy social stigma attached to e-cigarettes
#771 Drug Up the Prices
1. cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze
4. the government is constantly playing a game of four-dimensional economic chess with health insurance firms
#774 Clean Switch
3. janitors and factory workers are often better educated than the bosses they work for
#778 Mal Appetit!
3. the year's most anticipated show is "Great Deals on Delicious Meals"
4. senior executives have become freelance basket-weavers in search of less stress and better work-life balance
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
1. burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms
#780 Vexing VAT
3. the richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper
#786 Tainted Tattoos
1. sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed
#787 Come Fly With Me?
1. airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory
3. @@ANIMAL@@-wagons to @@CAPITAL@@ are often canceled due to excessive levels of manure on the roads
#801 Animation Provocation
1. Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion
#804 Motivational Posters
3. rubber stamp emojis are the new craze
#809 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1. demand for night vision goggles and boat engine mufflers has spiked
#811 Get Baked
1. cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
1. it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into @@NAME@@
3. concerned environmentalists wipe away their tears with tissues sourced from Tasmanian old-growth redwoods
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
1. police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
2. meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials
3. it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven
#822 Never Work With Children
1. diaper ads feature vertically-challenged adults wearing bootees
3. teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
3. doughnut-makers claim their products are healthy because they are fortified with vitamins
#824 Period Drama
2. the government has pledged that not one drop of its citizens' blood will be spilt
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
1. urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens
3. cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
1. it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
1. professional athletes juggle part-time jobs to avoid bankruptcy
2. CEOs are forced to cut coupons during important conference calls to make ends meet
#832 Moderating Your Opinion
1. internet sites are legally unable to stop their users from posting pornography
#834 Government and CO
2. conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors
#841 Burn Noticed
3. hospitals are cleaned with lemons and vinegar
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
2. chocolate in @@NAME@@ has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers
3. short shrift is being given to applications for political asylum from illegal immigrants
#843 Quacking Up
1. medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters
3. the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community
#844 Essentially on Strike
2. the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions
#848 It's a Girl Thing
1. all children's clothes come in only cream and off-white to prevent offense
#849 Sky High
3. drones are unable to lift the weight of their accompanying paperwork
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
1. retail stores are known for creating their own oddly-similar holidays in the months preceding any major festivity
3. retail boutiques encourage citizens to honor their military veterans by purchasing flag-patterned underwear
4. retail boutiques encourage citizens to honor their military veterans by purchasing flag-patterned underwear
#855 Thin Evidence
1. parents receive hefty fines for telling kids to eat their vegetables
4. the criminal underworld is dominated by cupcake smugglers and back-alley doughnut shops
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
1. schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar
#859 A Cola by Any Other Name
1. a burger chain recently changed its name to Mack Donaldz for legal reasons
3. citizens try to ignore gruesome pictures of decaying teeth printed on their soda cans
#860 A Blast From the Past
2. Bigtopian relations have become a minefield
#863 Oiling the Wheels of Diplomacy
1. the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
1. pharmaceutical companies emphatically promise that "your pills are in the mail" rather than admit any supply shortfall
4. government agents stalk the aisles of grocery stores for out-of-stock medications
#869 I'll Be in My Bunker
2. property subletting is going underground
#875 They See Me Trollin', They Threatenin'
2. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
3. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
#879 Power to the (AI) People
1. engineers preemptively order lawyers after every power cut
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony
#881 Blooming Out of Proportion
1. antique comic book collectors are disappointed to hear that their treasures are worth exactly as little as their mothers said they were
#882 Death by Chocolate
1. school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp
3. children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
1. romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars
3. monster hunters with oversized swords roam the land
#885 Has Beans
4. the nation's poor can be seen scavenging trash bins for used coffee grounds
#886 Bounty on the Table
3. a shout of "stop in the name of the law!" is more of a request than an order
#887 Thin Skin
2. fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers
3. the Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs
#888 Criminal Patterns
3. schoolchildren are arrested for possessing sidewalk chalk without a permit
#890 Mining Blues
1. the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation
2. the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation
5. pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
1. restaurateurs put a lot of effort into persuading customers to accept wafer-thin mints
#896 It's Our Lot in Life
1. delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers
2. delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
2. slaves who produce weapons are given free samples
#899 Uncultured Singles in Your Area
1. the law forbids arson, murder, and low-quality cheese
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
2. home renovation shows are increasingly popular
3. if a tree falls in the forest @@LEADER@@ is personally notified
#901 You Buy That?
1. immersive video game experiences are interrupted by incessant disclaimer pop-ups
#905 Stage Directions
4. five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred revivals is how theatre-goers measure a year
#906 Internet Killed the Television Star
4. televangelists often claim they can cure your Lupus if you donate enough money
#907 A Problem Shared
3. cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling
6. hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead"
#910 A for Effort
1. marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal
2. hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework
#921 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad @@NAME@@
1. metal detectors have been banned after a bottle cap caused a riot at the beach
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
2. Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in @@NAME@@
#923 Ministers Exposing Themselves
1. politicians who vacation in East Lebatuck lose their jobs upon their return
2. citizens who plan overseas vacations are barred from running for political office
#925 Ring of Death
3. kids these days know how to throw a proper punch
4. kids these days know how to throw a proper punch
#926 Ghost in the Machine
1. deceased politicians' MyFace profiles are unanimously pro-incumbent
3. where there's a will there is usually a password manager
#927 Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It
1. parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework
2. student exchange programs are in trouble as everyone wants to leave but no-one wants to come
3. just as students finish their homework it's time for school
#929 Champagne in the Glass
1. the new Liquor Legitimacy Office is besieged with job applications from people who have experience in "statistical sampling methods"
3. alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
1. interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories"
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
4. international terrorists often get their weapons supply in @@NAME@@
#936 Hackable Elections?
1. foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election"
#937 Ebony Pride
1. one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber
#941 Scents and Sensibility
1. black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation
4. workers can choose whether they prefer offices that smell of pungent body odor or whale vomit
#944 Deadly Persuasion
1. uploading purple prose to social media earns a place on a government watchlist
#947 Imitation Station
2. advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore
#948 1x, 2x, 3x, a Lady
1. Maths Professor Barbie is the most popular toy for boys and girls alike
2. any girl that shows an interest in Lego is pressured to study engineering
#955 Can It!
3. adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère
4. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
5. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
3. veterans in wheelchairs are left waist-deep in rice paddies to gather grain
#957 Putrid Predicament
1. commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains
2. onions have been banned due to their tendency to cause eye irritation
#960 Nobody Does It Better?
2. vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
1. grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps
2. news headlines usually include p-values
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
1. foreign lack of enthusiasm for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli
4. light entertainment shows are light on actual entertainment
#970 For Want of a Nail
3. female restaurant chefs are not allowed to have male customers
5. pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves
#975 Paparazzi Parents
1. obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals
#979 A Patronising Statement
1. the nation's best artists are considered pretty easy to beat
#981 Westfailian Sovereignty
2. foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies
#987 Quia Scriptum Est
1. balaclava manufacturers are held criminally culpable for bank heists
#988 Highway Robbery by the Book!
4. education for the poor is learning to ask "do you want fries with that?"
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
3. ancient antique swords have had their blades replaced with latex boffer LARP replicas
#991 Alms and Qualms
1. money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them
#992 Robots in Disguise
2. politicians have seen a significant reduction in followers on their social media accounts
3. NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people
4. animated paperclips interrupt word processing to remind you they are just automated tip-tools
5. visual acuity is worsening amongst teenagers
#993 Drug Deal
2. doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality
#994 The Life of Riley
1. prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos
#996 Scripting a Change?
1. textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be
3. the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
1. wheelchair users complain it is nearly impossible for them to cross the road in @@CAPITAL@@
2. wheelchair users complain it is nearly impossible for them to cross the road in @@CAPITAL@@
#1005 What Goes Up Breaks Down
3. cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes
#1006 Opening the Door to Controversy
4. movement-triggered sensors mean that for every door that closes another one opens
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
1. kids refer to anything below the neck as "the parts that shall not be named"
#1010 What's Got Into @@NAME@@?
2. garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts
3. Eckie-Ecola has declared that their soda poop is The Real Thing
#1012 Tilting at Wind Turbines
1. small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome
#1013 Grave Disease
4. people across the world seek to be healthier by eliminating carbs
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
2. there are traffic jams at sea as diligent customs officers check every part of every ship
#1018 Operation Failed
3. arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands
#1019 Patent Nonsense
1. government opponents tend to have their patents rejected immediately
3. product development labs spend most of their money fighting the government's patent infringement lawsuits
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
4. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
5. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
#1021 Room and Board Games
1. the housing market has collapsed like an overbaked Brancalandian souffle
2. real estate agencies are being replaced by naval recruitment offices
3. monocled merchants with funny accents are applying for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ citizenship in droves
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1023 Pure Madness
1. young girls aren't having a ball but they are enjoying themselves
#1026 Size Matters
2. many believe that @@LEADER@@'s head is big enough for the sun to orbit around it
4. citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious
#1029 Frozen Assets
2. the government burgles the houses of holidaying citizens
#1037 Ill Girl
3. people applying for famine relief must prove their gastrointestinal tracts are empty
#1038 Maid to Order
2. most households' childcare costs are higher than their mortgage payments
4. it is believed that behind every great man is a terrified subservient woman
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
1. coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list
#1041 A Sport Retort
2. the best-of-the-best athletes have been replaced by the best-of-the-mediocre
#1048 Tatty Treaty Spat Turns Catty
1. families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs
4. the term "Native @@DEMONYMNOUN@@" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority
#1056 Time to Work?
3. government bureaucrats spend six hours per day justifying a six-hour workday
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
1. the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose
2. the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles
#1060 Hole in the Wall
1. protecting the land is holey work
#1061 Every Day I'm Muffling
1. mechanics are often exhausted by their work
3. when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
1. you need a signed affidavit from a registered psychiatrist to claim that you have crazy low prices
2. tuxedo rental companies are inexplicably going out of business
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1064 Culture Wars
1. practising saying 'how now brown cow' is an essential part of holiday planning
#1068 Made to Break
1. supermarkets must refund spoilt milk even six months after the sale
3. state-manufactured hammers and sickles are here to stay
#1069 Bowl Motions
3. garden flower shows rarely smell of roses
#1070 Skeletons in the Closet
2. it's surprisingly hard to find pictures of the bad haircuts from @@LEADER@@'s childhood
#1071 Up the Creek
3. the canal flows through the land like a twisty turny thing
#1076 Smokers Cornered
1. the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across @@NAME@@
3. female smokers cut their hair and don suits to get into male-only clubs
#1077 With Friends Like These...
1. television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment
#1078 Down With That?
1. captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship
3. ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
1. insanely good theatre productions face government censorship
#1083 Public Protesting Pawnbroker Pickpockets
1. thrift shops are closing their doors
2. selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork
#1086 Fun in the Sun
3. surfing lessons include how to ward off sharks
6. hordes of tourists are ruining the environment
#1090 I Ain't Afraid of No Girls
3. choice roles for female actors involve asking "Is there anything I can do for you?"
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
3. the navy plans patrols according to how many pubs nearby ports have
#1101 Unreal
1. a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows
4. once-vitriolic celebrity chefs are now known for giving encouraging hugs to aspiring cooks
5. Chekhov's guns are killing the entertainment budget
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
1. plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1105 A Green History Lesson
3. bereaved families are assigned a new housemate the day after the funeral
#1106 Some Body to Love
3. anyone can get ahead in life if they want to
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
1. a handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock
5. classes are regularly interrupted by drunken children
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
1. forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies
3. Bambi has been banned
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
5. it's said that @@LEADER@@ can turn every pleasure into a chore
#1114 Patriotism Flagging
3. there is a 'turn around' sign at every border entrance
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
3. acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts
#1117 Suffer Little Children
3. a sudden shout of "surprise!" does not herald a party for teachers
4. children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
1. construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground
#1127 The Fast and the Fossilized
3. taxi drivers seem less xenophobic these days
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
1. the government is deliberately installing bloatware onto computers
2. the only thing slower than the economy is the exchange where it's managed
4. the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection
#1134 Tariff-ic Trouble
1. a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat"
#1138 Shock Tactics
2. fat-shaming is now public policy
#1140 Blinded by the Light
3. holiday light displays just aren't the same without seizure-inducing strobe effects
#1145 Your Wild Self(ie)
1. some of the country's most famous photographers are animals
2. choking on @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ is a leading cause of death for wild animals
#1149 The Goriest Advertisement
2. the nation is automatically assumed to be the source of all unmarked weapons
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
1. employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired
#1156 Pet Theory
1. you can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
1. newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words'
3. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
4. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
#1166 Acres Wild
1. farmers have taken to hunting billionaires who encroach on their land
3. wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
2. crayon squiggles were a late addition to the works of the Renaissance Old Masters
3. many believe that you can't repeat history's mistakes if you don't care what they were
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
1. citizens who use the word "Violet" incorrectly find their WhoTube content taken down
#1179 Nothing Fishy
1. father-son fishing trips have been banned
3. fishermen take out second mortgages to afford the yearly fishing permit
4. fly fishermen are legally forbidden from using electronic lures
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
5. noble feuds don't end until one side gets their point across
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
1. the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause
4. female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked'
#1184 Wring Out Your Dead
1. people in @@NAME@@ can die peacefully knowing that all their debts are paid
2. the debts of the father fall upon the son
#1187 Tipping Point
1. nobody draws smiley faces on receipts anymore
#1189 Driven to Distraction
2. neon signs promoting safe driving often distract drivers
#1190 Dirty Laundry
3. nobody brings rolls of coins to the laundromat anymore
#1191 Intelligent Design
1. owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation
#1196 The Properties of Property
1. new "Worker's Strike" laws set out who is allowed to strike a worker
#1203 The Fandom Menace
3. film studios own the rights to actors' likenesses until the next millennium
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
1. high school bands practice by moonlight
4. sleeping on the job is recommended
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
1. people who get diabetes can sue donut manufacturers
3. class action lawsuits have gone up in smoke thanks to government interference
#1212 Lost at Sea
1. boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard
2. one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man
#1214 Blood Type: Gay Positive
4. gay men commonly complain about their time of the month
#1216 Not My Government
1. the silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ democracy
4. an iron curtain has descended around the nation
#1218 Due Processing
1. AIs make up a majority of the long-term warehouse population
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
1. the law says that all @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are created equal — no matter how they were created
#1220 Barely Any Art
1. masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery
3. men stare at wall-pictures of @@LEADER@@'s face when they visit public urinals
#1221 Man of the People
2. politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority")
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
1. imitation is the sincerest form of felony
2. bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic
3. bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic
#1227 Girls on Film
1. loading sixteen tons of laundry gets you another year older and deeper in debt
4. the government asks not what you can do for your country but what you can do to tidy their country homes
#1228 The Road to Hell
1. the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners
#1233 Get Real!
3. agreeing to appear on TV is often the best way to access social care
#1234 I Declare a Thumb War
4. treaties are taken to be mere rules of thumb
#1242 Jump Leads
5. the incidence of wrist sprains is falling
#1243 Kicking Back
1. orange is the new black for judicial robes
2. former prison executives find themselves guests in their own facilities
#1248 A Day to Remember
3. diaper sales are up
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
1. most barbers are also surgeons
3. millions are awarded in damages for bad haircuts
#1255 This Lady's Not for Turning
3. the only thing that can pin down a "superhero" is red tape
#1259 Buy Low, Sell High
2. a ban on robots in disguise has transformed the entertainment industry
#1262 Dead Tasty
2. the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu
#1264 Flooding the Market
1. lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences"
2. bargain hunters descend on disaster zones for a quick spot of grocery shopping
4. constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas"
#1267 Hamming It Up
2. citizen radio operators agree that the certification test can open up a world of hertz
#1268 Don't Sweat It
1. sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour
#1269 All That Glitters
3. annual government budgets include a sizeable spend on "making things look fabulous"
#1273 Lessons in Politics
1. evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right
3. critical thinking is grounds for expulsion from university
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
4. tourists call @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ beach towns "the fine coastline"
#1277 Outside the Box
2. rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
2. history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students
#1282 Resting in Peace
3. truck drivers turn their engines off and coast whenever they're going downhill
4. vehicle strikes into low bridges are on the increase
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
1. trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same
#1289 Cramping Our Style
1. things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
2. coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms
#1293 Bet Your Life
2. flipping a coin to make a decision leads to a referral to Gambling Addiction Services
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
1. couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material'
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
2. ranchers are adept at mimicking wolf attacks
4. cows graze until the wolves come home
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
1. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cut of Apocalypse Now sets the helicopter scene to eerie silence
#1303 Amateur Hour
2. college athletes are arrested for selling lemonade
#1306 The Least Common Educator
1. gym teachers instruct advanced-level calculus classes
#1308 One in the Oven
4. there's often a little nagging voice suggesting that parents aren't keeping their kids safe
#1311 An Acquired Taste
1. weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law
#1316 Gonna Take My Hearse to the Old Town Road
2. funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room
#1320 A Case of Poor Turnaround
1. public toilets are famed for their rear entries
#1321 Who Wants to Know a Millionaire?
3. there's no such thing as a safe bet
#1324 Wrecked by Wrestling?
1. many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them
#1331 Warning, Fatigue
1. power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky
2. aeroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators
#1335 First-Class Warfare
1. flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor
3. humble workers tempt fate for a taste of airline caviar
#1342 Uni-ted We Roll, Uni-ted We Fall
3. environmental legislation occurs cyclically
#1343 Feeling Down
1. pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card
2. airport announcements inform passengers that flights have been delayed because pilots are having afternoon naps
3. the flight attendant who draws the short straw is on "cockpit bucket duty"
#1344 Ups and Downs
2. little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas
#1349 You Must Be 18 Years or Older to View This Content
5. getting your license is a rite of passage for young adults
#1355 Feeling Null
1. counselors diagnose their clients with motherboard complexes
#1357 Scattered Showers
1. helium balloons lift the nation's spacecraft towards the heavens
2. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
3. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
#1361 Fundamental Rights
1. parents dread their examinations more than their children
#1364 Payday Groans
3. it's hunting season on loan sharks
#1366 Parklife
3. the government has seized the means of recreation
#1367 Sweet, Sweet Marketing
1. grocery store cereal aisles resemble a Piet Mondrian work
#1368 Parking Hell
2. parking's carefree without parking car fees
#1369 Negotiation Complication
2. @@NAME@@ recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
2. children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name
3. professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials
#1372 Balls to All That
1. tipsy fans frequently invite themselves to the board meetings of sports clubs
#1373 You Should Have (Copy)Left My Software Alone!
3. using "inspect element" is grounds for espionage charges
#1408 (A Lot Of) Pennies for Your Thoughts
3. surprising numbers of poor people are protesting against taxing the rich
#1409 Happy Pranksgiving!
3. producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene
#1410 Lives On-Line
4. hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms
5. doctors fax when they need facts fast
#1415 The Melting Point
1. a speech a day keeps climate change away
#1416 Building on Sand
1. the nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide
3. undersea volcanoes receive strongly worded letters for violating environmental regulations
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
1. @@LEADER@@ arrives at international summits with a white cane
3. attempts at growing pineapples in the desert have been unsuccessful
#1421 Have Your Cake and Don't Eat It
4. Big Belly is watching you
#1426 She's a Keeper
3. sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
1. superfoods are often seen as supervillains
2. Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts
#1435 A Hot Potato
3. farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year
#1437 Crushed Dreams
1. baby dolls thrown in the trash are a leading cause of panic attacks
#1439 Philately Will Get You Nowhere
2. penny whistles have been rebranded 'tin hornpipes'
#1440 Dungeons and Deaths
1. there's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality
#1441 Don't Burn Baby Don't Burn
3. toast never burns but always has a weird chemical taste
#1451 A Dread Letter
3. neighbourhood gossips whip up controversy about those receiving adult merchandise
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
1. paralegals spend all day Hewlett-Packing attorneys' law briefs
#1457 Use the Farce, @@LEADER@@
5. science fiction is seen as the leading cause of mental breakdowns
#1460 A Burning Question
3. government ministers have eclectic tastes in curtains
#1463 Sandbagging
2. the treehouse in @@ANIMAL@@ Park is the tallest building in @@NAME@@
#1465 Parking Pandemonium
1. everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen
2. men are finding 'she spots' more easily but they can't use them
4. people queue for valets instead of parking spaces
#1466 Don't Shoot Your Eye Out
1. shooting someone has never been safer
#1467 Gay Men Held by Police
1. when their backs are against the walls @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ look out for gay men
2. when their backs are against the walls @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ look out for gay men
#1469 News Flash!
1. TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews
2. viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows
#1472 Home Is Where the Lung Is
3. home renovation projects take decades to complete
5. jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity
#1474 Cuy Bono?
1. eating kids as food has been enshrined in law
#1485 How to Train Your AI
2. AI citizens are criticized for being robotic
#1492 Smoke on the Water
3. visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage
#1493 Bully Beef
1. exported livestock are wined and dined before they are flat ironed
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
1. kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history
#1496 A Place For Everything
1. political clichés like "band-aid solutions" and "adrenaline shots to the economy" are headed for the dumpster
3. politicians put their fingers in their ears and sing "la la la la" when walking past lobbyists
#1500 Rodents of Unusual Sociability
1. goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter
#1505 A Tangled Web
1. guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites
2. cat memes without alt text are now illegal
#1514 Flushing for Freedom
1. the word "robot" is considered to be etymologically offensive
3. it turns out that your missing Roomba has run off to join the circus
#1515 Uncharitable Donations
2. charity fundraisers often resemble minstrel shows
#1518 Test Environment
1. handling people's data is proving an immersive experience
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
2. families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
1. prodigal children celebrate as charitable bequests plummet
3. doctors are encouraged to 'pull the plug' any time the government has a budget crisis
#1526 Corporate Pride
2. the atmosphere in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ boardrooms is turning more gay
3. banks now use correct pronouns when evicting people from their houses
#1531 Fine Time
1. code enforcement officers circle wealthy @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ like vultures
#1537 Bench Wars
1. war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping
#1540 Clean Flavours
1. washing-up liquid looks and smells like baby poo
3. orange juice has been renamed yellow juice
#1544 Happy Juice
1. safety warnings are prohibited lest they give people ideas
#1551 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
4. charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
1. the government expresses surprisingly intense opinions on the use of whip pans
2. private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button
#1555 Deaf Trap
1. the government has strong opinions about what goes into your bodily orifices
#1558 Unequal Treatment?
2. hospital administrators can usually be found scrubbing their floors with toothbrushes
#1559 Skin's the Wrong Colour
1. students are explicitly allowed to write answers on their forearms before exams
#1567 Of Health and Wealth
3. surgical tape has taken on a distinctly red color
#1568 Palate Torture
1. farmers sing lullabies to soothe their livestock to sleep
2. running a hot dog stand is harder than achieving a doctorate
#1571 Let's Fix Our Matches
2. last minute own-goals raise the suspicious eyebrows of sporting authorities
4. die-hard fans excitedly cheer when the queen takes a rook
#1573 Unseen Academia
1. scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays
#1574 Fowl Play
1. binoculars sales are at an all-time high
#1576 Liquidity Problems
2. long queues are apparently signs of a well-run airport
4. airlines are reporting record profits from their new 'bread and water' service
#1578 The Magical Adventures of @LEADER@@
4. offering a builder a cup of tea is a legal minefield
#1583 Spare the (Plutonium) Rod
3. only senior nuclear power plant employees may use the control rods to warm up their lunches
#1584 Loose Lips, Characters Shipped?
2. animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands
#1590 Tinder Profiled
1. candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED
2. people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating
4. asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
1. the face of @@LEADER@@ is a permanent feature of the @@CAPITAL@@ skyline
2. government bureaucrats review designs for birdhouses to ensure they do not block the views of neighbors
#1597 Haters Are Such a Drag
4. stony-faced ratings board panelists are unamused by free lap dances
#1600 Mother's Ruin
1. office thieves tell their employers kleptomania is a pregnancy symptom
#1603 Searching for That Special Someone
1. typing @@LEADER@@'s name into a search engine always gives zero matches
2. typing @@LEADER@@'s name into a search engine always gives zero matches
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
1. faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers
#1607 My Chemical Romance
2. reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
1. every diamond ring sold is accompanied by a twenty-five page analysis and a waiver
3. the government has put a kid glove on the invisible hand of the free market
#1611 Filial Fidelity
3. the possibility of gain causes universal pain
#1626 Wiggle Room
3. it's illegal to be caught on tape
#1627 Snow Days on Thin Ice
3. jailbreaking is the best-selling book category of the year
#1628 NEET Freaks?
3. WhoTube speedrunners always have at least one viewer
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
1. the average video game can be completed over lunch break
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
3. ride-sharing often involves some passengers sitting on the roof rack
#1647 Whose House? My House!
3. nobody knows where reality TV show "The Real Housewives of CENSORED" is filmed
#1648 Infant Influence
3. men in trenchcoats spend all day staring at people making babies
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
1. the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough'
2. repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events
#1654 We Bought a Zoo
2. new regulations have put a halt to monkey business
#1673 Betting Against the Catastrophe
4. vigilant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can see disasters coming from a mile away
#1677 Common Cents
2. businesses are required to round down their profits
#1679 Meals on Foot
2. thorough preparation of street foods defeats the purpose of really fast food
#1682 The Little Train that Could Give You Cancer
4. the gravy train is chugging along on a new track
#1683 In the Year of Our Lord
1. the mark of a good ruler is the largeness of his chin
#1684 Naps in Judgement
1. pillows outnumber picket signs at most workers rallies
#1685 Children's Cartoon Chafes CEO
3. the government proudly leads the world in environmental regulators per capita
#1692 Hit Me With Your Best Shot
2. birthday parties feature more pop quizzes than piñatas
#1699 Achute Binjury
1. raccoons are plump and satiated

sprawling nuclear power plants

Gained from:

#301 Are 'Friends' Electric?
1. environmentalists are staging large protests in front of reopened nuclear power plants

Sometimes gained from:

#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution
3. protesters are up in arms over new nuclear power stations
#649 Made in Maxtopia
3. there are no bananas today in @@NAME@@
#815 Embargoed In
3. there is a law against "filthy foreign food"
#1216 Not My Government
4. an iron curtain has descended around the nation
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
3. attempts at growing pineapples in the desert have been unsuccessful
#1674 Reining the Dragon
1. self-sufficiency is built on seizing foreign assets

Removed by:

#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
1. the nation has been declared a nuclear-free zone
4. @@NAME@@'s nuclear power is imported from neighbouring countries
#542 What a Waste
2. with great power generation comes great responsibility
#590 When Trees Hug Back
3. government-sanctioned factory-smashing has the Luddites of @@NAME@@ rejoicing
#1583 Spare the (Plutonium) Rod
2. nuclear science degrees are burned to fuel the nation's power plants

Sometimes removed by:

#1185 Should Be Sufficient
3. the best fashion comes straight to the high street from sweatshops all across the globe
4. socialism gives everyone a share of the economy's growing carbon footprint
#1230 Home Hunger
1. new pests have been imported into @@NAME@@
#1356 The Silicon Curtain
3. autarky's deemed malarkey as foreign bric-a-brac's brought back
#1602 @@NAME@@'s Bark Worse Than Its Byte?
3. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect
4. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect

state-planned economy

Gained from:

#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
1. all industry is owned and run by the government
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
3. ad-blocking has been nationalised
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
1. the government has been kicking out foreign corporations in a bid to grow enough food for the populace
#215 Easter Egg: What's Your Favourite Colour?
1. the nation's favourite colour is red (@@EGG@@)
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
4. the crackdown on private property seems as endless as the government issued food stamp lines
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
5. the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
4. foreign observers are baffled by the sway @@LEADER@@'s student intern holds over macroeconomics
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
4. Viagra factories are being converted to producing antimalarials for Bigtopian orphans
#472 Rise of the Machines
1. only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile
2. only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
3. @@LEADER@@'s new socialist government gets its policy advice from teenagers
#726 Jobless Fair
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#778 Mal Appetit!
4. senior executives have become freelance basket-weavers in search of less stress and better work-life balance
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
5. citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks
#1021 Room and Board Games
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1068 Made to Break
3. state-manufactured hammers and sickles are here to stay
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
4. the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection
5. computers have been put in control of the economy to keep computers from controlling the economy
#1433 Green Thumbs Sore
3. monochrome green ECO-@@NAMEINITIALS@@ products adorn the supermarket shelves
#1435 A Hot Potato
3. farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year
#1677 Common Cents
4. a large savings account makes you an enemy of the state

Sometimes gained from:

#1592 Echoes of Deception
3. AI chatbots generate grayscale images when asked for a picture of the truth

Removed by:

#31 Get Efficient, Private Sector Tells Nature
1. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
2. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
#152 A Capital Idea
1. the government has returned all business to private ownership
3. the government has legalised small-scale capitalism
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
5. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
6. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
#339 The Bear Necessities
3. the economy is undergoing a traumatic transition to capitalism
#371 Lotto Fever
3. chain casinos dominate the national gambling market
4. chain casinos dominate the national gambling market
#498 Computer Says No
2. the road to capitalism has proved an epic drama of adventure and exploration
#577 Second World Problems
4. Party members are derided as class traitors
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
5. the "Brave New World" program has caused private businesses to spring up faster than the East Lebatuck Wall
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
2. consumers are free to choose - so long as they choose Eckie-Ecola or Eckie-Cola
3. citizens may now wear shoes while watching television as long as the television is outside and the shoes are rental
4. citizens may now wear shoes while watching television as long as the television is outside and the shoes are rental
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
4. newly-privatized lumberjacks are clearcutting the forest to meet demand
#907 A Problem Shared
4. boom-and-bust cycles are being peddled as economically inevitable
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
5. the red star of communism has been replaced by the gold star of the McRonald's badge
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
2. the end of communism came with retail rather than revolution
#1325 Having Faith in Communism
4. spiritual leaders preach that the poor are being punished for their sins
#1543 What Are We Paying For?
4. the government is taking its ball and going home
#1674 Reining the Dragon
3. the invisible hand of the market has arrived under threat of the visible fist of sanctions
#1677 Common Cents
5. profits are an acceptable way to measure morality
#1694 Aiding and Abetting
1. laid-off party bureaucrats accuse the government of selling out

strictly enforced bedtime

Gained from:

#381 Mamma @@NAME@@, Let Me Go
2. tantrum-throwing toddlers are regularly imprisoned on assault charges

Sometimes gained from:

#65 Should Martial Law Be Declared?
2. martial law has been declared and the populace is kept under tight control
#77 Easter Egg: World to End, or Possibly Just Mark Anniversary
1. tens of thousands of revelers have been arrested for trying to celebrate the recent world anniversary (@@EGG@@)
#155 Curfew Meets Minor Opposition
1. teenagers are severely punished for being out too late
#347 Crime Problems Ganging Up on @@NAME@@
1. rap artists are regularly arrested for promoting extremist groups
#383 Born to Be Just a Bit Too Wild?
1. children are shocked to find others "just like them" when they are taken out of the forest
2. soldiers are noted for their ferocity and illiteracy
#455 Police on Overkill Mode?
4. the nation is under martial law
#740 [The Enemy Within] A Day in the Life
3. the nation has been sent to bed early for unspecified naughtiness
#1596 The Blame Game
2. newborn babies can only be discharged from maternity wards during daylight hours
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
3. children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi
#1684 Naps in Judgement
5. there's nothing quite like @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ nightlife
#1686 Carnivorous Kids
1. kids these days only have to survive their homework assignments and cafeteria lunches

Removed by:

#270 Space Spectacular Sours Small Stargazers
1. teenagers stay out into the wee hours of the morning "stargazing"
#374 Lion Dad Sparks Child-Rearing Sentiment
4. society has literally been thrown to the wolves
#1418 The High Life
3. stray dogs and children root through the trash for snacks

stringent health and safety legislation

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
1. all industry is owned and run by the government
#5 Child Casino Shock
1. gambling is outlawed
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
2. meat-eating is frowned upon
3. vegetarianism is compulsory
4. meat is a luxury afforded only to the wealthy
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ is a protected species
#16 @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ Workers Strike!
1. the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes
#17 Corporations Demand Political Say
2. political parties are banned from advertising and receiving private donations
#18 Citizens Struggle Under "Unfair" Tax Burden
2. high-income earners pay a 100% tax rate
#20 Gunman Kills Three
1. kids are arrested at gunpoint for playing with toy rifles
2. the nation is completely gun-free
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
3. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
4. tourists from around the world come to visit the country's famous rainforests
#25 Cloning Research Promises New Breakthrough
2. genetic researchers have been expelled
#27 Cash for Colons?
2. organ donation rates have hit a new low
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
1. TV shows must meet strict ethnicity quotas
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
1. punitive tariffs protect local industry
#33 Genetics Brings New Life to Extinct Species
4. genetic research is temporarily tied up in government red tape
#34 Don't Puff on Me, Say Non-Smokers
2. an underground movement of cigarette smokers has sprung up in response to a government ban
#37 Traffic Cops Needed on Information Superhighway?
2. the country has unplugged its internet connection to prevent subversive content
#39 Scandal Rocks @@NAME@@'s Government!
1. newspapers may not print any negative stories about the government
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
1. small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants
2. the government has begun breaking all large businesses into thousands of mom-and-pop general stores
3. citizens frequently whisper of the Internet as 'the domain of the devil'
#47 The Great Wall of @@NAME@@?
1. a large concrete wall is being built around the country's borders
#49 Diving for @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
1. the government seizes all major gold finds
3. the mining industry has taken a hit from tighter environmental regulations
#55 Bigtopian Protesters Cry for Full Integration
3. members of majority races are forced out of their homes to make way for Bigtopians
#57 Electronic Plague in @@NAME@@!
4. the recent ban on computers is causing havoc throughout the nation
#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
3. all alcohol is banned
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
6. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have more rights than the average citizen
#64 Put the "Board" Back in Board of Education
2. teachers are routinely tested to keep their jobs
#69 Power Problems Need Bright Solution
1. prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators
#71 Minority Group Demands Language Recognition
2. children are raised bilingual from an early age
#76 Suits in Protest
2. CEOs and corporate executives are frequently found striking for better stock options
4. local executives are seen on the corner with cardboard signs reading "will oppress the masses for food"
#84 Compulsory Gun Ownership?
3. all guns must be registered
#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares
3. recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
2. soylent products are an expensive commodity due to a lack of volunteers
3. there has been a series of riots between local cannibals and health food advocates
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
1. flash floods that dams could have controlled regularly ravage small towns in mountain valleys
#90 Organic Outburst
1. all-natural foods are becoming a major fad
3. people are moving into treehouses in record numbers
#93 Affirmative Action in @@NAME@@?
2. colleges adhere to rigid ethnic quotas for admissions
#101 Tiara Sign of Oppression, Declare Feminists
2. women who display their ankles are shunned by society
3. women who display their ankles are shunned by society
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
3. cars have been banned
#103 Plague of the Hybrids!
2. bizarre-looking creatures called '@@ANIMAL@@dogs' dominate wildlife preserves
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
3. ad-blocking has been nationalised
#105 Compensation Culture Must End, Say Corporations
2. every product goes through extensive safety-testing by the government
3. manufacturers are sued for almost anything not covered in their catalogue-sized manuals
#106 Give the Red Light District the Green Light?
3. government-run brothels can be found on every street corner
#107 Private Lab Holds @@NAME@@'s Sick to Ransom
2. private pharmacies close down as medicinal drugs are given away freely by the government
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
2. medical lawsuits are out of control
4. the study of medicine is popular throughout @@NAME@@
#119 Watershed Down?
2. Rupert Bear is considered to be the most risqué TV programme in @@NAME@@
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
3. only the brainiest citizens become academics
#126 Outsourcing an Outrage, Say Demonstrators
1. corporations are forbidden from employing outside the nation
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
4. senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories
#129 Tribal Troubles
1. large sections of @@NAME@@ have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
2. the sound of wooden legs echo throughout @@NAME@@ after the recent introduction of the Foot Tax
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
5. there's a shortage of swinging hot spots as land development grinds to a halt
#140 A Grave Problem
3. houses and businesses are bulldozed to make way for ever-expanding cemeteries
#143 An Archaeological Altercation
1. prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams
#145 Hackles Raised Over Fur Clothes Debate
1. the wearing and manufacture of fur apparel is banned
#149 With Liberty, Freedom, and Guns for All?
2. citizens are frequently searched for illegal weapons
#152 A Capital Idea
2. the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#161 Where There's a Will There's a Tax
1. the government seizes the property of the recently deceased
3. the government is notorious for leaving citizens with almost nothing from their inheritance
#162 Animal Experimentation Laws Under Scrutiny
1. dog breeding has been banned in accordance with recent animal experimentation laws
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
2. all mothers are allowed six months fully-paid maternity leave
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
3. @@NAME@@'s airwaves are dominated by corporate-backed commercial radio
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
3. only adults may purchase violent video games
4. students everywhere have been despairing after the recent ban on video games
#193 Robots Leaving Workers Jobless
1. almost all products in @@NAME@@ are hand-crafted due to strict employment laws
4. the loom represents the height of @@NAME@@'s technology
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
1. public footpaths are being slowly eroded by the burgeoning number of ramblers
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
2. traveller camps regularly block five-lane superhighways
4. homes have been banned from having any more than one wheel
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
6. soldiers have a preference for fire-and-forget payloads
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
1. the government has been kicking out foreign corporations in a bid to grow enough food for the populace
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
5. nine out of ten citizens of @@NAME@@ answered 'nuclear safety inspector' when asked their occupation
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
1. mining safety laws are often more expensive than what's being mined
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
1. buses are widely regarded as the safest way to travel
5. @@NAME@@'s heavy congestion charges are the bane of motorists' lives
#214 Voting for More Money
1. Members of Parliament are often found living in cardboard boxes
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
2. the government has the power to seize property at will
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
3. prices for nearly everything reach all-time highs as business tax breaks are discontinued
#228 Mice in the Walls
4. it is firmly believed that cameras steal souls
#231 Jungle Fever
3. swamplands and bogs have been put under quarantine
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
2. badminton was recently banned due to 'unacceptable violence' inherent to the game
#241 A Capital City for @@NAME@@?
1. @@NAME@@ has designated @@CAPITAL@@ as its capital city
#245 Clash of Cultures
5. property values in suburbs have nosedived after the middle class were forced to live next door to ethnic minorities
#246 @@NAME@@ to Hold the Olympic Torch?
4. chess hooliganism is on the rise after the banning of organised sports
#248 The Sky Is Falling
5. aeroplanes have been converted into housing units after all air travel was outlawed
#250 Recession, Depression, and Deficit
3. financial crimes carry severe sentences
4. the crackdown on private property seems as endless as the government issued food stamp lines
#255 Welfare Programs Not Faring Well
2. the welfare administration's new sweeping authority has forced the poor and needy to shop from pre-approved grocery lists
4. the government is using tax revenues to provide jobs for the poor
5. the government enforces a policy of 'from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget'
#260 Taxpayers on Strike!
2. the police crack down on tax evaders without mercy
#261 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
1. shoppers have literally had their hands full since plastic bags were banned
2. the nation's industries are scrambling to switch to biodegradable plastics
4. the entire retail industry has been replaced by online delivery services
#264 Not a Drop to Drink
1. fewer people are bathing as citizens must show ration stamps before they can turn on their faucets
#265 To Bail or Not to Bail?
3. businesses that prove successful are immediately broken up
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
1. students cut up leftover @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ during Arts and Crafts
3. the state believes that children are what you make of them
4. the state believes that children are what you make of them
#276 Circus Clowns Cause Chaos!
1. strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins
#280 Oh the Humanity!
1. the airship business has been driven out of the country by strict regulations and high fines
3. the new hit series "@@NAME@@'s Got Trauma" has corporate executives fleeing the country
#281 Free Internet for @@NAME@@?
1. the internet has been placed under government control
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
1. the government has begun selling heroin and ecstasy to help fund its projects
#285 A Right Not to Work?
1. the request to "give us our daily bread" can only be fulfilled six days out of seven
2. police and sick people alike fear the Day of Rest as all institutions are forced to shut down
4. midnight pizza breaks are common among the work-from-home population
#288 Super-Sized Pizzas Recipe for Disaster?
1. police conduct weekly raids looking for contraband cheeseburgers
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
1. new safety regulations require all cars manufactured in @@NAME@@ to be bombproof
3. the nationalized auto industry is adept at making durable little cars nobody wants to drive
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#292 Tourists Wearing Out Their Welcome?
1. the police strictly enforce off-limit zones for tourists
2. anti-tourism militias patrol the borders
#293 Maestro, Please
1. conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
1. legislators work 24/7 due to an influx of single-issue bills
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
1. grazing lands are filled with cattle wearing odd-looking anti-pollution devices
2. a punitive tax has been placed on harmful emissions
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
2. businesses have become paranoid as waves of lawsuits sweep the nation
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
1. only toddlers and the elderly watch television before 23:00
#304 Time for Paternity Leave, Say Dads
2. companies struggle to cover for the hordes of employees on parental leave
#305 Who's Occupying What?
3. businesses are forced to bring all work back within the nation's borders
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
3. "It was only a joke" is no longer a defense for the felony of discrimination
#317 Big Brother Is Watching You Surf
3. the government is rounding up computers and beating them into plowshares
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
3. businesses are scrambling to adapt to the government's mandate that 'time and measurement no longer exist'
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
1. it is now illegal for teens to view any sites except Club Kitten and My Little Donkey
4. computers are used primarily for word processing and solitaire
#324 "Tourism Tanking!" Trumpet Tabloids
1. a new generation of aquariumless hotels are being built under government supervision
#326 Knitters in a Knot Over Police Stitch Up
3. knitting needles have been banned in the name of public safety
#327 No Rest for the Weary @@ANIMAL@@
1. retired racing @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are served truffles for breakfast
#330 Supermarkets Gobbling Up All the Customers?
1. stores employing more than 100 employees are required to be at least twenty miles from any competitor
3. the government provides its citizenry with the same mass produced rations
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
1. builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction
#338 The Silence and the Fury
1. noises louder than a whisper have been prohibited by law
#339 The Bear Necessities
2. workers' complaints never reach central planning
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
3. mandatory electronic currency is a boon for credit card companies and government surveillance
#346 Oil's Well That Ends Well
1. oil executives can be seen reluctantly cleaning oil-soaked birds
#349 Bigtopian Bigwigs Beset Border
3. the military is recruiting war criminals to join its weapons research teams
#351 The Cost of Freedom
2. private law firms are unheard of
#353 Broadband Going to the Birds?
3. stray cats threaten the fledgling avian-based internet
#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
2. churches frequently hold public 'contraception burnings'
#368 Female Workers Feeling the Pinch
4. harassment has been stamped out under the high-heeled jackboots of a matriarchy
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
4. foreign observers are baffled by the sway @@LEADER@@'s student intern holds over macroeconomics
#376 Death by Bungee
1. bungee jumpers rarely go splat
2. crossing the road requires a risk assessment
#378 The War to End All Wars
4. the nation grinds to a halt on the anniversary of every marginally noteworthy event
#379 Stakes on a Plane
1. homeowners are evicted to make way for new runways
2. planespotters are emigrating in droves
#380 Farmers Seeding Discontent
2. the government is engaging in an agricultural trade war with Maxtopia
#389 [An International Incident] Sanctions, Sanctions Everywhere!
1. toilet paper is considered a non-essential item in the embargo against Brasilistan
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
2. Brasilistanis face layers of paperwork in a different language just to visit a doctor
#412 The Magic (Of Advertising!) School Bus
1. the education system is being cleansed of all corporate influence
#413 A Shot in the Arm
4. science centers and state of the art laboratories are ubiquitous
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
1. student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned @@ANIMAL@@ball fields
4. disgruntled jocks are forced to play tetris for entertainment
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
2. the Farmer's Almanac is the most popular college textbook
4. children's toy tractors have been seized as state property
#427 They Took Our Gubment!
2. the majority of @@NAME@@'s traffic wardens have been sacked overnight
#431 Gone a Stray!
1. shelters struggle to keep up with the endless intake of stray animals
2. mandatory neutering has made purebred dogs a thing of the past
3. animal control is going door-to-door releasing all pets back into the wild
#433 The Worst Storm to Hit @@NAME@@ Since...Yesterday?
1. even doll houses and dog kennels have to be able to withstand rigorous earthquake testing
#434 Fraternity Furor
4. moonshine and organized crime are on the rise ever since alcohol was banned
#435 A Working Class Hero Is Something to Be
2. every worker receives exactly the same pay regardless of productivity
#436 Voters, Place Your Bets!
1. politicians and casino owners who so much as wander into the same room are arrested on the spot
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
1. cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
1. there has been a rapid increase of noise complaints over the sound of buzzing bees
5. the government takes agricultural advice from a wasp-themed superhero
#442 You Can't Always Get What You Squat
2. business owners return from long vacations to find their factories have been turned into homeless shelters
#443 Five Year Plans and New Deals
1. job opportunities abound in the Hole Recycling industry
2. strategic economic sectors are controlled by the state
4. Viagra factories are being converted to producing antimalarials for Bigtopian orphans
#445 Evasive Maneuvers
2. companies flee the nation rather than pay their fair share of taxes
3. corporate lawyers are joyfully combing through the new tax code for any new loopholes for their clients
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
3. drills and shovels have been banned as the government cracks down on any means of fracking
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
4. food imports have skyrocketed after the recent 'Forage for Food' program severely backfired
#459 Murder, He Shouted!
2. @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ facilities are being turned into @@ANIMAL@@ habitats
#472 Rise of the Machines
1. only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile
2. only AIs know why the nation is rapidly increasing its semiconductor stockpile
#473 A-B-C, Easy as Don't Use Me
1. the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world
3. children are expected to carve their own toys
#474 Mesozoic Park
2. mathematicians are hated by children across the country
#477 Feeding Frenzy
1. school children across the country are staging hunger strikes to protest government-mandated salads
2. children use fake IDs to purchase candy
#479 @@LEADER@@, Put on the Yellow Light
1. tardiness has increased after carpooling was classified as a criminal offense
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
2. the universal wage level is set by dividing GDP by the number of citizens
3. @@LEADER@@'s new socialist government gets its policy advice from teenagers
#483 Do You Want Fries With That?
3. all restaurants close before dinner time
4. pizza parlors have been replaced by lima bean cafes
#485 Really Real eSports Tournament
3. young adults are stepping outside for the first time in ages after video games were recently banned
#488 Bright Orange Is the New Black
1. gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal
2. gun regulations are so strict even staple guns and hot glue guns are illegal
#491 Friends, @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@, Countrymen, Lend Me Your Ears
1. people who have lived their entire lives in @@NAME@@ are shocked to discover that they are not citizens
#497 The Widening Gyre
1. the once prosperous capital is in utter decline
#500 Please Don't Feed the (Copyright) Trolls
1. Merry Birthday is a popular protest song despite the risk of fines and royalty dues
4. the most popular WhoTube videos are ones featuring parodies of iconic songs
#507 Would a Rochebaron by Any Other Name Smell Just as Sweet?
2. the government has declared victoria over the cheese menace
#508 Ex-Cons Robbed of Future
3. many aides in @@LEADER@@'s office are known to be serial jaywalkers
#512 Furnished for Failure
1. clumsy self-injury is a viable claim in modern compensation culture
3. the nation's reinforced coffee tables are constructed to survive an atomic blast
#514 Contract Killer
2. legal contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on
4. weight loss clubs that guarantee losing a stone a month are talking about misplacing rocks
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
2. the average cargo freighter spends more than half its service life undergoing safety inspections
#523 A Family Affair
1. research grant proposals read like political diatribes
#528 Privacy Concerns Reaching New Heights
4. geosynchronous satellites are now manned by unpaid interns
#530 Regenerative Permaculture Emergence
4. carrots are orange, apples are red and food waste is increasing
#532 Desert Island Risks
1. the tax agency is feared more than serial killers and terrorists
3. foreign investment has dropped to a trickle after laws were passed preventing investors from taking their earnings abroad
#542 What a Waste
1. the lasting legacy of the current generation is a million years of buried radioactivity
2. with great power generation comes great responsibility
3. nuclear physics is the most popular course at university
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
4. oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
1. videogames like 'Equalia: Knights of Self-Confidence' are proving inexplicably unpopular
4. children play ring-around-the-rosey around bonfires of videogame cartridges
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
1. poaching has been on the rise after animals from the nation's zoos were released into the wild
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
1. every new building project has to undergo a five-year environmental impact study before it can go ahead
#550 10 Awful Crimes You Just Won't Believe!
5. social media sites go into shutdown for days at a time to censor user content
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
1. an epidemic of unpopped kernels causes movie goers to gnash their teeth
3. eerie glow-in-the-dark cornfields give farmlands an uncanny appearance
#557 Take a Hike!
3. park rangers struggle to deal with a rash of stolen pic-a-nic baskets
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
1. every week is blindness awareness week
2. blind dates tend to result in bruised shins
#562 Return to Sender
3. international commentators accuse the nation of aggressive cultural imperialism
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
1. meat prices are soaring as the farming industry struggle under government-imposed restrictions
3. chickens frolic freely on swings and roundabouts in @@CAPITAL@@'s playgrounds
#566 Drive My Car
1. the police double as repo men
2. traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens' monthly income
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
6. @@LEADER@@ is adamant that ponies aren't just for little girls
#574 One Small Step for Private Enterprise?
2. kids building model rockets in their backyard are grounded by Space Agency Rangers
3. 'To Regulate And Beyond' is the unofficial motto of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Space Agency
4. falling satellites are regarded as a blessing from the gods
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
3. sea side cafes are required by law to close during summer
4. board shorts have replaced board rooms
#578 Support Your Local Arms Manufacturer
4. weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder
5. weapons produced by newly nationalized armaments factories have been found to contain sawdust instead of gunpowder
#581 Fair to Say...?
5. tourists visiting the nation are harangued for being capitalist pig-dogs
#582 Augmented Reality Check
1. careless Maxémon Trainers have been the cause of numerous search and rescue operations
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
5. contestants on @@NAME@@'s Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent
#590 When Trees Hug Back
2. burning twigs to keep warm while lost in the wild is now a felony
#591 Bait and Switch
1. maximum security fish farms leave caged salmon pining for the fjords
#599 Dead in the Water
3. debate rages over whether ground fish guts can be spread on fields
#601 Lawyers on Trial
3. pushy mums tell their kids to be doctors and engineers but steer them away from being penniless lawyers
#604 Food Behind Bars
2. prisoners have been known to host cooking and home décor television shows
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
1. doctors prescribe medicines but they rarely dispense hope or compassion
3. the state considers itself the 'third parent' of every child in the nation
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
3. the sanitised and dull music festivals of @@NAME@@ are famed for their reasonable volume levels
#615 Tempted by the Fruit of Another
3. the central politburo bears the fruits of everyone's labor
#616 You Are Feeling Very Very Sleepy and Not at All Gay
1. counselors have to sign pledges supporting gay rights before they can speak to any patients
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
1. lifeguards are more concerned with watching for sharks than struggling swimmers
#626 Carbon Copied
3. citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?"
4. citizens often ask "what has information technology ever done for us?"
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
1. genetic researchers have taken to conducting illegal experiments in secret lairs
4. scientists spend more time enduring government inspections than they do on actual science
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
3. banana distribution among collective farm workers is an important topic in public discourse
4. landless farmers wander forlornly in the government's many national parks
#634 Bullet Time
3. vital infrastructure development is on hold because of 'nature and stuff'
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
1. 50% of adverts on children's television are for clothes made of cotton wool
#637 Little Pizza History
1. the nation has nearly as many history museums as @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#639 No Country for Old Men
1. 100-year-old politicians are now a thing of the past
4. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
5. cubicles often double as graves as citizens literally work themselves to death
#640 A Clear-Cut Conundrum
1. hordes of unemployed lumberjacks have resorted to cutting down utility poles to satisfy their cravings
3. severed limbs litter woodland edges across the land
#649 Made in Maxtopia
2. restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in @@NAME@@
3. there are no bananas today in @@NAME@@
#651 Black Days for @@NAME@@
3. bouncers at the door of the sweet shop warn five-year-olds not to cause trouble
#664 Your Land or Mine
2. the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape
#669 Watts Up With Rooftop Solar
1. panels from bankrupt rooftop solar companies are used as props for sci-fi B-movies
#672 All Shook Up
1. morale within the seismologist community has hit rock bottom
3. coastal cities are being moved a dozen miles inland to reduce flooding risk
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
3. homophobia is off the menu
4. seats at the back of the bus are reserved for homosexuals
#675 Trick or Treaty
1. citizens cannot change their light bulbs without approval from an international committee
3. carbon-footprint restrictions are making businesses walk
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
1. banning party poppers has been a real party pooper
2. parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife
#682 Exhaust Every Option
1. schoolkids say that the air doesn't taste like wee-wee any more
#684 Murder Most Deniable?
1. diplomatic missions typically end with a flurry of childish insults, accusations and phlegm
4. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to cut steak with a spoon
5. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ struggle to cut tofu steak with a spoon
#685 Externalities Palmed Off
2. both diets and economic output are growing leaner with recent restrictions to free trade
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
4. no one can find a leaky faucet in @@NAME@@ anymore
#689 A Sticky Situation
4. Eau de Trashcan has become a wildly popular perfume
#692 Game of Drones
1. former stunt pilots are unable to pass the licence test to fly a drone
3. swarms of present-laden delivery drones blot out the sun before major holidays
#693 Bottled Up Problems
3. straight-edges are forced to collect rain water to avoid getting high off the water supply
4. health inspectors are seen eating black truffle fondue with their bottled water
#702 Has Your Room Been Booked?
3. holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases
4. holidaymakers sleep curled up on the floor as hotel beds are replaced with oversized bookcases
#705 The Germ of an Idea
1. it is illegal to distribute Girl Guide Cookies without an advanced food hygiene diploma
3. sushi is sold on the black market
#709 Armed and Legging It
1. the nationalised Arms Manufacturing Industry is not interested in making weapons
4. many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward
5. many say faith is a crutch for those who can't move forward
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#714 Milky Ways
5. only rebellious teens who want to look cool and dangerous drink milk in public
#716 Cheek to Cheek
1. airplane passengers have been known to stuff pillows in their jackets to get extra arm room
4. airplane passenger seat sizes and ticket prices are both first-class
5. in a desperate bid for cheap airfare @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can be seen jogging in a rubber suit just before flying
#717 Cheques and Balances
2. @@LEADER@@ sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy
3. @@LEADER@@ sports gold-plated grillz to promote the government's hard money policy
#718 Roses Are Due if Violet's for You
3. children raised in multi-faith households claim the other deity would let them stay up later
#723 To Know Sacrifice
3. @@LEADER@@ has returned as a hero from a brutal campaign to conquer the local beach
#724 Your Stuff Is Forfeit
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ caught jaywalking often have their houses seized by the police
#725 Sky's the Limit?
4. a new apartment is worth a thousand betrayals
#726 Jobless Fair
1. extreme hiring regulations mean a job in @@NAME@@ is often a lifetime appointment
5. three-year-olds have tantrums because they don't want to be drainage technicians when they grow up
#727 Market Crash
2. historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre
4. businesses are abandoning the city centre because of the lack of transport connections
#728 A Bone to Pick
2. ice-filled coffins are ominously positioned in the corner of every hospital ward
5. ritual mummification is making a comeback
6. ritual mummification is making a comeback
#732 A Peeping Problem
1. supervisors in @@NAME@@ commonly tie bells on their necks to alert employees of their presence
3. workers tend to schedule naps during all-hands meetings
#734 A Word From Our Sponsors
1. advertisements read like science journal articles complete with extensive references
#739 In Loco Parentis
3. fifteen-year-olds cannot walk younger siblings to school without a professional Childcare and Education Certificate
#747 The Plane Truth
3. on-duty Air @@NAME@@ flight attendants are usually seen napping in first class
4. Air @@NAME@@ tickets have reached sky-high prices due to a complete monopoly on air travel
#751 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Breed Contempt
2. gardeners must genetically test weeds for unique traits before digging them up
3. condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
1. the dartboard at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Cancer Research Charity bears a picture of @@LEADER@@'s face
#754 The Hit Parade
1. the voyages of obsolete star-trekking satellites on deliberate escape orbits are only just beginning
2. there's never enough space in space
#757 Extra Credit?
1. lending money has become a major liability
3. credit scores fluctuate wildly with every change of government
#762 Double Down on Double Time?
1. the price of takeaway food quadruples after 6pm
3. tumbleweed drifts through the nation's shopping centres during the weekends
#763 Any Body for Science?
3. the most penniless demographics have by far the highest number of researchers per capita
#768 Trouble Brewing
1. black tea is only available on the black market
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
1. sniffer dogs are trained to follow clouds of fruity-smelling vapor
3. there is a heavy social stigma attached to e-cigarettes
#771 Drug Up the Prices
1. cold medicines curiously become cheaper when government officials sneeze
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
2. ten-year-olds are applying for lemonade stand operator licences
3. the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification
#774 Clean Switch
3. janitors and factory workers are often better educated than the bosses they work for
4. immigrants complain that natives keep coming over and taking their jobs
#778 Mal Appetit!
3. the year's most anticipated show is "Great Deals on Delicious Meals"
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
1. burial ceremonies have become as routinised as tax forms
#780 Vexing VAT
3. the richest individuals apparently buy nothing but noodles and toilet paper
#782 Sit-Down Money
1. traffic cops are puzzled to see that nobody exceeds the speed limits
#786 Tainted Tattoos
1. sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed
#787 Come Fly With Me?
1. airplane passengers who purchase "basic economy" tickets are often assigned seats in the lavatory
3. @@ANIMAL@@-wagons to @@CAPITAL@@ are often canceled due to excessive levels of manure on the roads
#801 Animation Provocation
1. Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion
#804 Motivational Posters
3. rubber stamp emojis are the new craze
#809 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1. demand for night vision goggles and boat engine mufflers has spiked
2. tourists on boat cruises can't figure out why they smell so fishy afterward
#811 Get Baked
1. cotton candy made from genuine cotton cellulose doesn't quite satisfy
3. grandparents tell young ones tales of the good old days when people had cake on their birthday
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
1. it ain't easy to be green enough to be imported into @@NAME@@
3. concerned environmentalists wipe away their tears with tissues sourced from Tasmanian old-growth redwoods
#818 We Are Not Amused
4. visitors to Violet Rock City are stunned to learn that they must memorize the "99 Principles" before entering
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
1. police officers often head to work wearing onesies and fluffy pink bunny-slippers
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
2. meetings are often scheduled for "about four-ish" following complete conversion to sundials
3. it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven
#822 Never Work With Children
1. diaper ads feature vertically-challenged adults wearing bootees
3. teenage TV characters are played by thirty-year-olds by the end of the second season
#823 Where the Sun Don't Shine
3. doughnut-makers claim their products are healthy because they are fortified with vitamins
#825 Bugging Out on Beef
1. urban entrepreneurs are busy introducing cockroaches into restaurant kitchens
2. ersatz chicken has left the nation's citizens with a bad taste in their mouths
3. cricket farmers use magnifying glasses to fit every member of their herd with tiny tracking tags
5. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
6. finding half a worm in your apple is an arrestable offense
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
1. it takes months to get the proper permits for a child's first tricycle
#827 Making Money Hand Over Fist
1. professional athletes juggle part-time jobs to avoid bankruptcy
2. CEOs are forced to cut coupons during important conference calls to make ends meet
#832 Moderating Your Opinion
4. '.lib' or '.con' domains indicate whether @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ websites are meant for liberals or conservatives
#834 Government and CO
2. conspiracy theorists allege that the government is spying on them through their carbon monoxide detectors
#839 "Partisanship Too Far?" Wrongly Asks Opposition
1. reporters who negatively comment on politicians' haircuts are cut from the news
#841 Burn Noticed
2. one of the most popular models in @@NAME@@ has a scarred face and one working eye
3. hospitals are cleaned with lemons and vinegar
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
3. short shrift is being given to applications for political asylum from illegal immigrants
#843 Quacking Up
1. medical experts advise that those claiming to be medical experts are probably fraudsters
3. the acceptance of acupuncture and other alternative therapies has needled the scientific community
#844 Essentially on Strike
1. the nation's police officers are famously miserable-looking
2. the thin blue line is composed of picketing police officers demanding better pensions
3. worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts
#848 It's a Girl Thing
1. all children's clothes come in only cream and off-white to prevent offense
#851 Commercial Tidings Well in Advance
1. retail stores are known for creating their own oddly-similar holidays in the months preceding any major festivity
3. retail boutiques encourage citizens to honor their military veterans by purchasing flag-patterned underwear
4. retail boutiques encourage citizens to honor their military veterans by purchasing flag-patterned underwear
5. citizens who want to celebrate the holidays generally deck the halls with old newspaper trimmings and dirty socks
#855 Thin Evidence
1. parents receive hefty fines for telling kids to eat their vegetables
4. the criminal underworld is dominated by cupcake smugglers and back-alley doughnut shops
#857 Are You There God Particle? It's Me, @@LEADER@@
1. schoolchildren must pass a six-month Ethics and Safety Committee Assessment before they are allowed to mix baking soda and vinegar
#859 A Cola by Any Other Name
1. a burger chain recently changed its name to Mack Donaldz for legal reasons
3. citizens try to ignore gruesome pictures of decaying teeth printed on their soda cans
#860 A Blast From the Past
2. Bigtopian relations have become a minefield
#863 Oiling the Wheels of Diplomacy
1. the country is rumored to be a Brancalandian puppet state
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
4. government agents stalk the aisles of grocery stores for out-of-stock medications
#869 I'll Be in My Bunker
2. property subletting is going underground
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
2. people who question what bunker construction has to do with economic reform tend to disappear
#875 They See Me Trollin', They Threatenin'
2. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
3. internet moderator is one of the most popular jobs among the nation's more socially awkward citizens
#879 Power to the (AI) People
1. engineers preemptively order lawyers after every power cut
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony
#881 Blooming Out of Proportion
1. antique comic book collectors are disappointed to hear that their treasures are worth exactly as little as their mothers said they were
#882 Death by Chocolate
1. school lunches are made with hypo-allergenic wood pulp
3. children aren't allowed to chew their pencils until they get home from school
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
1. romantic sunsets are no longer interrupted by explosions and monstrous roars
3. monster hunters with oversized swords roam the land
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
6. they say insanity is torturing the same citizens over and over again and expecting a different result
#885 Has Beans
3. advertisers are struggling to make water sound cool to a twitchy public
#887 Thin Skin
2. fashion models are guaranteed to be 100% genuinely as anorexic as they appear on magazine covers
3. the Fashion Channel can only be viewed on widescreen TVs
#888 Criminal Patterns
3. schoolchildren are arrested for possessing sidewalk chalk without a permit
#890 Mining Blues
1. the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation
2. the reams of paperwork accompanying any electronic item are a recognised contributor to national deforestation
5. pocket calculators are seen as status symbols for the ostentatiously wealthy
6. the Betamax versus VHS debate continues to rage strongly in @@NAME@@
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
1. restaurateurs put a lot of effort into persuading customers to accept wafer-thin mints
#896 It's Our Lot in Life
1. delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers
2. delivery truck companies use hospital parking lots to store 16-wheelers
#898 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd, Four's an Uprising
2. slaves who produce weapons are given free samples
#899 Uncultured Singles in Your Area
1. the law forbids arson, murder, and low-quality cheese
2. there's a revolutionary culture in the nation's dairies
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
2. home renovation shows are increasingly popular
#901 You Buy That?
1. immersive video game experiences are interrupted by incessant disclaimer pop-ups
#905 Stage Directions
4. five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred revivals is how theatre-goers measure a year
#907 A Problem Shared
3. cyclists spend more time unlocking their bicycles than they do cycling
6. hipster cyclists declare that "metal is dead"
#910 A for Effort
1. marine biology students are shocked to discover that a whale is a mammal
2. hidden bedroom-cams are installed to catch mothers doing their kids' homework
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
2. there is no other place with more lab coats per square mile than former houses of worship
3. atheists in the nation feel uneasy living in buildings where they were once vilified
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
2. Brancalandian Brie isn't available anywhere in @@NAME@@
#923 Ministers Exposing Themselves
2. citizens who plan overseas vacations are barred from running for political office
#925 Ring of Death
3. kids these days know how to throw a proper punch
4. kids these days know how to throw a proper punch
#926 Ghost in the Machine
3. where there's a will there is usually a password manager
#927 Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It
1. parents are relieved they no longer need to help with their kids' algebra homework
2. student exchange programs are in trouble as everyone wants to leave but no-one wants to come
3. just as students finish their homework it's time for school
#929 Champagne in the Glass
1. the new Liquor Legitimacy Office is besieged with job applications from people who have experience in "statistical sampling methods"
3. alcoholics are lauded as national benefactors within the halls of the Ministry of Finance
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
1. interviewees for teaching jobs are waterboarded to "reveal undesirable histories"
4. photographs that show ladies' ankles are considered risqué
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
3. former gun owners are finding that brandishing paintball guns isn't as satisfying as the real thing
4. international terrorists often get their weapons supply in @@NAME@@
#934 @@LEADER@@, Don't Tear Down That Wall!
1. a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction
#936 Hackable Elections?
1. foreign governments are threatened if they so much as mention the word "election"
#937 Ebony Pride
1. one tree's worth of paperwork accompanies each imported log of timber
#941 Scents and Sensibility
1. black market eau de toilette is made in bathroom labs across the nation
4. workers can choose whether they prefer offices that smell of pungent body odor or whale vomit
#942 A Foreign Exchange of Ideas
2. the nation's student exchange programs are something of a one way street
#944 Deadly Persuasion
1. uploading purple prose to social media earns a place on a government watchlist
#947 Imitation Station
2. advert breaks are played at lower volumes to make them easier to ignore
#948 1x, 2x, 3x, a Lady
1. Maths Professor Barbie is the most popular toy for boys and girls alike
2. any girl that shows an interest in Lego is pressured to study engineering
#952 Why the Long Face?
1. police conduct raids on children having snail races
#954 Varsity Blues
3. out-of-work basketball players loom over the unemployment line
#955 Can It!
1. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
2. courses in how to boil water are popular for formerly microwave-reliant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
3. adverts proclaim it has to be healthy if the Mornay uses hand-grated Gallopavian Gruyère
4. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
5. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
#956 The Bottom of the Gun Barrel
3. veterans in wheelchairs are left waist-deep in rice paddies to gather grain
#957 Putrid Predicament
1. commuters are denied boarding for attempting to bring packed lunches onto trains
2. onions have been banned due to their tendency to cause eye irritation
#960 Nobody Does It Better?
2. vital intelligence-gathering activities are put on hold as agents return home for seduction training and advanced poker instruction
#962 A Matter of Loaf and Death
2. the Department of Health is snowed under by requests for crisper ciabatta and tenderer tagliatelle
#965 Like a Bull in a Dàguó Shop
1. foreign countries consider stepping on their grass to be a serious offense
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
1. grade school teachers mark homework with red "CITATION NEEDED" stamps
2. news headlines usually include p-values
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
1. foreign lack of enthusiasm for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli
4. light entertainment shows are light on actual entertainment
#970 For Want of a Nail
4. women who leak pus from infected wounds are told to suck it up
5. pre-takeoff checks last longer than the flights themselves
#975 Paparazzi Parents
1. obstetricians are not allowed to publish ultrasound pictures of fetuses in medical journals
#979 A Patronising Statement
1. the nation's best artists are considered pretty easy to beat
#981 Westfailian Sovereignty
2. foreign policy is to avoid standing up to bullies
#988 Highway Robbery by the Book!
4. education for the poor is learning to ask "do you want fries with that?"
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
3. ancient antique swords have had their blades replaced with latex boffer LARP replicas
#991 Alms and Qualms
1. money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them
#992 Robots in Disguise
2. politicians have seen a significant reduction in followers on their social media accounts
3. NPCs in MMORPGs regularly interrupt cutscenes with OOC reminders that they aren't real people
4. animated paperclips interrupt word processing to remind you they are just automated tip-tools
5. visual acuity is worsening amongst teenagers
#993 Drug Deal
2. doctors accused of having no heart reply that cardiology isn't their speciality
#994 The Life of Riley
1. prison reforms have replaced communal luaus with communal loos
#996 Scripting a Change?
1. textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be
2. it is considered unpatriotic to learn a foreign language
3. the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
1. wheelchair users complain it is nearly impossible for them to cross the road in @@CAPITAL@@
2. wheelchair users complain it is nearly impossible for them to cross the road in @@CAPITAL@@
5. mandatory blunting of cutlery has increased the popularity of soup-based meals
#1005 What Goes Up Breaks Down
3. cutting-edge missile systems are being retrofitted to twin-prop air force biplanes
#1007 Putting Your Foot in It
3. an alabaster statue of an ancient cat-deity takes pride of place in the centre of @@CAPITAL@@
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
1. kids refer to anything below the neck as "the parts that shall not be named"
#1010 What's Got Into @@NAME@@?
2. garden stores are not allowed to sell water butts
3. Eckie-Ecola has declared that their soda poop is The Real Thing
#1012 Tilting at Wind Turbines
1. small children are learning a lot of new words from a teacher with Tourette Syndrome
3. epidemiologists happily announce that the reported incidence of depression is close to zero percent
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
2. there are traffic jams at sea as diligent customs officers check every part of every ship
#1018 Operation Failed
3. arthritic surgeons with tremulous fingers reassure patients that they are in safe hands
#1019 Patent Nonsense
1. government opponents tend to have their patents rejected immediately
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
4. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
5. schoolchildren's "what I did on my holidays" essays tend to be somewhat homogeneous
#1021 Room and Board Games
3. monocled merchants with funny accents are applying for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ citizenship in droves
5. the property market is in a bit of a state
#1026 Size Matters
2. many believe that @@LEADER@@'s head is big enough for the sun to orbit around it
4. citizens are told that foreigners are hungry ghosts who eat the flesh of the overly curious
#1029 Frozen Assets
2. the government burgles the houses of holidaying citizens
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
5. panicking criminals no longer flush contraband down the toilet
#1037 Ill Girl
3. people applying for famine relief must prove their gastrointestinal tracts are empty
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
1. coffee cups have grown in size to accommodate the huge ingredients list
#1044 OK Stupid
2. it is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon
#1048 Tatty Treaty Spat Turns Catty
1. families are left homeless as entire suburbs are bulldozed on the whim of tribal chiefs
4. the term "Native @@DEMONYMNOUN@@" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority
#1056 Time to Work?
3. government bureaucrats spend six hours per day justifying a six-hour workday
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
1. the volume of paperwork used to complete a single environmental assessment defeats the purpose
2. the nation's green cities are indeed concrete jungles
#1060 Hole in the Wall
1. protecting the land is holey work
#1061 Every Day I'm Muffling
1. mechanics are often exhausted by their work
3. when electric cars arrived nobody heard them coming
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
1. you need a signed affidavit from a registered psychiatrist to claim that you have crazy low prices
2. tuxedo rental companies are inexplicably going out of business
4. the government is expanding hungrily in its conquest of bread
#1064 Culture Wars
1. practising saying 'how now brown cow' is an essential part of holiday planning
#1067 Don't Fear the Reefer
3. teenagers often ask adults to buy them Maxtopian Grass from government-run recreational drug stores
#1068 Made to Break
1. supermarkets must refund spoilt milk even six months after the sale
3. state-manufactured hammers and sickles are here to stay
#1069 Bowl Motions
1. being able to unblock a u-bend pipe is considered a universally essential skill
#1070 Skeletons in the Closet
2. it's surprisingly hard to find pictures of the bad haircuts from @@LEADER@@'s childhood
#1071 Up the Creek
3. the canal flows through the land like a twisty turny thing
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
3. this year's comedy award has left mothers-in-law seething
#1075 The Hand That Feeds
1. most of the population has had bad experiences with hoes
#1076 Smokers Cornered
1. the contraband cigarette trade is lighting up across @@NAME@@
4. the tax department is having withdrawal symptoms
#1077 With Friends Like These...
1. television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment
#1078 Down With That?
1. captains must wait until all rats are safe before jumping ship
3. ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
1. insanely good theatre productions face government censorship
#1083 Public Protesting Pawnbroker Pickpockets
2. selling your granddad's clothes requires an incredible amount of paperwork
#1086 Fun in the Sun
3. surfing lessons include how to ward off sharks
6. hordes of tourists are ruining the environment
#1090 I Ain't Afraid of No Girls
1. studio executives abandon tragic stories of star-crossed lovers because "it's been done"
3. choice roles for female actors involve asking "Is there anything I can do for you?"
#1101 Unreal
1. a rolling news ticker tape of disclaimers runs across the bottom of the screen on all TV shows
4. once-vitriolic celebrity chefs are now known for giving encouraging hugs to aspiring cooks
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
1. plain-clothes police officers follow Dàguó tourists everywhere they go
3. the government confiscates candy from babies for 'the greater good' of the nation
#1106 Some Body to Love
2. girls who wear lipstick are berated for pandering to male gazes
3. anyone can get ahead in life if they want to
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
1. a handful of megacorporations own every "craft brewery" in the nation
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Standard Vodka is the only drink that bars stock
5. classes are regularly interrupted by drunken children
6. hospitals scramble for new disinfectants following a ban on rubbing alcohol
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
1. forty-year-old men are asked for their ID before watching the latest pony cartoon movies
3. Bambi has been banned
#1112 Stray Bullets
2. it's illegal to exterminate cockroaches
3. the domestic version of the Paddington Bear movie was a far shorter and bloodier tale
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
5. it's said that @@LEADER@@ can turn every pleasure into a chore
#1114 Patriotism Flagging
3. there is a 'turn around' sign at every border entrance
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
4. lobster tastes best when it is red
#1117 Suffer Little Children
3. a sudden shout of "surprise!" does not herald a party for teachers
4. children are disappointed to learn that cavemen never had a yabba-dabba-doo time riding dinosaurs to work
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
1. construction workers evacuate work sites after finding sharp rocks on the ground
#1129 Behind the Red Curtain
3. teen boys and girls find stick-figure-aided lectures on their comradestruation emphasises socialist unity more than biology
#1130 Flash Crash Cash Dash
1. the government is deliberately installing bloatware onto computers
2. the only thing slower than the economy is the exchange where it's managed
4. the stock market has been destroyed for its own protection
5. computers have been put in control of the economy to keep computers from controlling the economy
#1134 Tariff-ic Trouble
1. a widely accepted trade policy is "tit-for-tat"
#1137 A Really Sour Lemon
2. children grow up long before the paperwork for their lemonade stands can be sorted out
3. government bureaucrats shut down teenage yard-raking businesses for being counter-revolutionary
#1138 Shock Tactics
2. fat-shaming is now public policy
#1139 A Little Wrestling, a Lot of Controversy
1. people who tease dwarfs are being cut down to size
#1140 Blinded by the Light
3. holiday light displays just aren't the same without seizure-inducing strobe effects
#1145 Your Wild Self(ie)
1. some of the country's most famous photographers are animals
#1149 The Goriest Advertisement
2. the nation is automatically assumed to be the source of all unmarked weapons
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
1. employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired
3. workers of "fairweather faith" claim six months of paid leave for holy days per year
#1153 Side Effects
3. the government is often referred to as "the biggest drug dealer in the nation"
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
1. citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason
#1156 Pet Theory
1. you can't put down the nation's attitude to pet health
#1160 Milking It
3. right-wingers complain that too many people are suckling at the welfare teat
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
1. newspapers and TV broadcasters are given a list of 'acceptable words'
3. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
4. solving crossword puzzles requires fluency in at least five languages
5. the government-run newspapers insist that everything is fine
#1166 Acres Wild
3. wildlife have trouble navigating the electric fences surrounding national forests
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
2. crayon squiggles were a late addition to the works of the Renaissance Old Masters
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
1. citizens who use the word "Violet" incorrectly find their WhoTube content taken down
#1179 Nothing Fishy
1. father-son fishing trips have been banned
3. fishermen take out second mortgages to afford the yearly fishing permit
4. fly fishermen are legally forbidden from using electronic lures
#1182 Thanks, but No Thanks
3. immigrants don't even have to immigrate to cost the locals their jobs
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
1. the Ministry of Health has reported a sharp increase in the incidence of delayed menopause
4. female brains are believed to heat up dangerously when 'overclocked'
#1189 Driven to Distraction
2. neon signs promoting safe driving often distract drivers
#1191 Intelligent Design
1. owning a really cute pet is grounds for immediate investigation
#1196 The Properties of Property
1. new "Worker's Strike" laws set out who is allowed to strike a worker
#1202 A Timely Intervention
5. citizens pray for sunshine so that they can use illicit sundials for timekeeping
#1208 Just Snoring With Excitement
1. high school bands practice by moonlight
4. sleeping on the job is recommended
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
1. people who get diabetes can sue donut manufacturers
3. class action lawsuits have gone up in smoke thanks to government interference
4. the tobacco industry has burnt out
#1211 Free Credit Reports With Monitoring
1. flatulent people are left to die of cancer at the end of hospital waiting lists
#1212 Lost at Sea
1. boats straying just metres away from the shore will raise the ire of the Coast Guard
2. one-man canoes fitted with the latest tracking technology leave no room for one man
3. children get arrested for floating paper boats on lakes
#1214 Blood Type: Gay Positive
4. gay men commonly complain about their time of the month
#1216 Not My Government
1. the silencing of dissent speaks volumes about the quality of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ democracy
4. an iron curtain has descended around the nation
#1218 Due Processing
1. AIs make up a majority of the long-term warehouse population
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
1. the law says that all @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are created equal — no matter how they were created
#1220 Barely Any Art
1. masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery
#1221 Man of the People
2. politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority")
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
1. imitation is the sincerest form of felony
2. bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic
3. bargain-hunting is considered unpatriotic
#1227 Girls on Film
4. the government asks not what you can do for your country but what you can do to tidy their country homes
#1228 The Road to Hell
1. the examiners who examine examiners are being examined by examiners
#1233 Get Real!
3. agreeing to appear on TV is often the best way to access social care
#1234 I Declare a Thumb War
4. treaties are taken to be mere rules of thumb
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
1. posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables
#1239 The Walking, Talking, and Irritated Dead
3. being dead no longer has any benefits
#1242 Jump Leads
5. the incidence of wrist sprains is falling
#1243 Kicking Back
1. orange is the new black for judicial robes
#1246 Breath of the Wild
1. nobody knows why the caged @@ANIMAL@@ sings
#1247 Suspension of the Disbelieved
2. doctors ask for written consent before making eye contact with patients
#1248 A Day to Remember
3. diaper sales are up
#1249 Red Dead Representatives
2. state officials tend to disappear after they forget to salute @@LEADER@@'s portrait
3. left-wing militias train children how to properly burn down banks
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
1. most barbers are also surgeons
3. millions are awarded in damages for bad haircuts
#1253 Build a Better Baby?
2. the nation wears its high incidence of chromosomal diseases as a badge of pride
#1255 This Lady's Not for Turning
3. the only thing that can pin down a "superhero" is red tape
#1259 Buy Low, Sell High
2. a ban on robots in disguise has transformed the entertainment industry
#1262 Dead Tasty
2. the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu
#1264 Flooding the Market
1. lobbyists are trying to convince government to recategorize most natural disasters as "non-critical naturogenic inconveniences"
2. bargain hunters descend on disaster zones for a quick spot of grocery shopping
4. constipated disaster survivors are rapidly learning that MRE is short for "Meal Requiring Enemas"
#1267 Hamming It Up
2. citizen radio operators agree that the certification test can open up a world of hertz
#1268 Don't Sweat It
1. sniffer dogs check train passengers for body odour
#1269 All That Glitters
3. annual government budgets include a sizeable spend on "making things look fabulous"
#1273 Lessons in Politics
1. evenings at university debating societies often end with everyone acknowledging both sides may well be right
3. critical thinking is grounds for expulsion from university
#1275 You Cruise, You Lose?
1. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
2. the beauty of coastal towns is marred only slightly by all the closed-down storefronts
#1277 Outside the Box
2. rugby players that knock each other over always stop to make sure the other fellow is okay
3. pro-wrestling bouts open with a legal disclaimer insisting that any violence is guaranteed 100% faked
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
2. history textbook pages are used as impromptu tissues by distraught students
#1282 Resting in Peace
3. truck drivers turn their engines off and coast whenever they're going downhill
4. vehicle strikes into low bridges are on the increase
#1283 Comrade, Please!
1. internal strife within the Red Bloc crumbles in the face of fiery rhetoric
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
1. trying to toast marshmallows in an electric fireplace just isn't the same
#1289 Cramping Our Style
1. things are looking up for patients accidentally prescribed erectile dysfunction medication
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
1. more sidewalk is dedicated to animals than people
2. coat closets are being re-branded as bedrooms
#1293 Bet Your Life
2. flipping a coin to make a decision leads to a referral to Gambling Addiction Services
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
1. couples kissing on the street are detained for 'unlawful exchange of genetic material'
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
4. cows graze until the wolves come home
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
1. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cut of Apocalypse Now sets the helicopter scene to eerie silence
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
4. proletariat workers identify less with the hammer and sickle and more with the touchscreen and phone charger
#1308 One in the Oven
4. there's often a little nagging voice suggesting that parents aren't keeping their kids safe
#1311 An Acquired Taste
1. weird kids who eat bugs are breaking the law
#1316 Gonna Take My Hearse to the Old Town Road
2. funeral mourners ridesharing with the deceased are encouraged to sit on the coffin to save room
#1320 A Case of Poor Turnaround
1. public toilets are famed for their rear entries
#1321 Who Wants to Know a Millionaire?
3. there's no such thing as a safe bet
#1324 Wrecked by Wrestling?
1. many of the unemployed have had the fight taken out of them
#1331 Warning, Fatigue
1. power stations shutting down at night has made bedtime reading tricky
2. aeroplane cockpits no longer have altimeters or airspeed indicators
#1335 First-Class Warfare
1. flight attendants rip down curtains with revolutionary fervor
3. humble workers tempt fate for a taste of airline caviar
#1343 Feeling Down
1. pilots always remember to send their doctors a Maxxmas card
2. airport announcements inform passengers that flights have been delayed because pilots are having afternoon naps
3. the flight attendant who draws the short straw is on "cockpit bucket duty"
#1344 Ups and Downs
2. little kids often wonder why strange grown-ups are following them around the soft play areas
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
1. they who do not work shall not eat
#1349 You Must Be 18 Years or Older to View This Content
5. getting your license is a rite of passage for young adults
#1355 Feeling Null
1. counselors diagnose their clients with motherboard complexes
#1357 Scattered Showers
1. helium balloons lift the nation's spacecraft towards the heavens
2. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
3. firework salesmen are regularly arrested for selling contraband "space rockets"
#1359 Covering All the Angles
2. politicians are often referred to as thesauruses behind their backs
#1361 Fundamental Rights
1. parents dread their examinations more than their children
4. the nation's girls answer "apple" when asked what makes pi
#1362 The Trans Panic Button
3. @@LEADER@@ is considering changing the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag to one with more glitter
#1365 Balancing the Box
3. televisions are often seized to pay for overdue television license fees
#1368 Parking Hell
2. parking's carefree without parking car fees
3. urban parents tell their children that the family car went to a farm upstate
#1369 Negotiation Complication
2. @@NAME@@ recently hosted the least successful trade negotiations since The Phantom Menace
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
2. children must be board certified to append "Jr" to their name
3. professionals are ready to retire by the time they receive permission to use their credentials
#1373 You Should Have (Copy)Left My Software Alone!
2. government programs are less "written" and more "plagiarised"
3. using "inspect element" is grounds for espionage charges
#1408 (A Lot Of) Pennies for Your Thoughts
3. surprising numbers of poor people are protesting against taxing the rich
#1409 Happy Pranksgiving!
3. producers insist that movie stars wear crash helmets in every scene
#1410 Lives On-Line
4. hospitals fear government fines more than terrorist ransoms
5. doctors fax when they need facts fast
#1412 Another Day, Another Dollar
3. the @@CURRENCY@@ is worth its weight in gold
4. purchasing a can of Addison Cola requires a wheelbarrow of cash
#1415 The Melting Point
1. a speech a day keeps climate change away
#1416 Building on Sand
1. the nation threatens sanctions on islands only visible at low tide
#1417 Nun on the Run
3. citizens ask "how many crooks could a nunchuck hook if a nun had nunchucks too?"
#1420 Trading Climate Sours
1. @@LEADER@@ arrives at international summits with a white cane
3. attempts at growing pineapples in the desert have been unsuccessful
#1421 Have Your Cake and Don't Eat It
4. Big Belly is watching you
#1426 She's a Keeper
3. sports fans complain that cricket tests now last an unbearable ten days
#1432 Oh Dear
3. religion makes people horny
4. religion makes people horny
#1433 Green Thumbs Sore
3. monochrome green ECO-@@NAMEINITIALS@@ products adorn the supermarket shelves
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
1. superfoods are often seen as supervillains
2. Big Agriculture has the government by the nuts
#1435 A Hot Potato
3. farmers in arid regions are puzzled with government directions to plant rice this year
#1437 Crushed Dreams
1. baby dolls thrown in the trash are a leading cause of panic attacks
#1440 Dungeons and Deaths
1. there's no escape from the rule of law... or police brutality
#1441 Don't Burn Baby Don't Burn
3. toast never burns but always has a weird chemical taste
#1442 A Green Bill of Health
1. travelers are subject to extensive searches if beet stains are visible on their clothing
#1443 Forage and Forget
1. pulling weeds is seen as a threat to national security
#1451 A Dread Letter
2. promising seven years of bad luck leads to seven years of community service
3. neighbourhood gossips whip up controversy about those receiving adult merchandise
#1452 Hello Darkness My Old Friend
1. the government has declared "all your rigs are belong to us"
#1453 A Salt and Battery
2. foreign policy is based upon the principle of sieve and take
3. thieves find battery shops juicier targets than banks
#1455 Trademarks Make Their Mark on Marketing
4. nearsighted shoppers looking for probiotics end up purchasing a lot of prophylactics
#1457 Use the Farce, @@LEADER@@
3. the only film released this month was "Prayervengers: Heresy War"
#1460 A Burning Question
1. beggars lack pockets for spare change
3. government ministers have eclectic tastes in curtains
#1463 Sandbagging
2. the treehouse in @@ANIMAL@@ Park is the tallest building in @@NAME@@
#1465 Parking Pandemonium
1. everyone has the equal opportunity to have their wallet stolen
2. men are finding 'she spots' more easily but they can't use them
4. people queue for valets instead of parking spaces
#1467 Gay Men Held by Police
1. when their backs are against the walls @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ look out for gay men
2. when their backs are against the walls @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ look out for gay men
#1468 Meat With Approval
3. abattoirs are struggling with the directive to 'wait until the animal dies of a ripe old age'
#1469 News Flash!
1. TV coverage of music festivals consists mostly of backstage interviews
2. viewers get headaches from trying to read the screen full of small print warnings that precede most TV shows
#1472 Home Is Where the Lung Is
3. home renovation projects take decades to complete
5. jumping in puddles after rainstorms has become an indoor activity
#1473 A Pretty Pass
3. the line of people waiting for a visa interview in front of foreign embassies is typically a mile long
#1474 Cuy Bono?
1. eating kids as food has been enshrined in law
#1482 A Crypto for the Comrades?
1. convicted crypto-miners are sent to the salt mines
#1484 Joint Trade Agreement
2. greenhouses are regularly raided by the police
#1485 How to Train Your AI
2. AI citizens are criticized for being robotic
#1486 Ask Your Doctor if Ads for Prescription Drugs Are Right for @@NAME@@
2. doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen
3. doctors prescribe medicines produced by the last pharmaceutical company to give them a free pen
#1487 O Fortuna!
1. only lightning has a chance of striking @@LEADER@@ twice
#1492 Smoke on the Water
1. middle-aged metal fans quite enjoy being called "rebellious youths" by even older politicians
3. visitors often mistake the toiletplex at music festivals for the main stage
#1493 Bully Beef
1. exported livestock are wined and dined before they are flat ironed
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
1. kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history
#1496 A Place For Everything
3. politicians put their fingers in their ears and sing "la la la la" when walking past lobbyists
#1498 Flight 201: An Airspace Oddity
1. foreign leaders are advising that @@LEADER@@'s letters must have gotten lost in the mail
#1500 Rodents of Unusual Sociability
1. goldfish bowls are three metres in diameter
#1502 Dirty Deals
2. people don't want any foreign rubbish
#1504 Asking for a Raise
3. baize on snooker tables has been stripped for "appearing too hedonistic"
#1505 A Tangled Web
1. guide dogs for the blind have been seen using government websites
2. cat memes without alt text are now illegal
#1514 Flushing for Freedom
1. the word "robot" is considered to be etymologically offensive
3. it turns out that your missing Roomba has run off to join the circus
#1515 Uncharitable Donations
1. citizens need to demonstrate a complete set of dental records to throw five bucks in a hobo's hat
2. charity fundraisers often resemble minstrel shows
#1516 Content Discontent
1. internet ads promising "hot singles in your area" are even less accurate than they used to be
#1518 Test Environment
1. handling people's data is proving an immersive experience
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
3. doctors are encouraged to 'pull the plug' any time the government has a budget crisis
#1526 Corporate Pride
2. the atmosphere in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ boardrooms is turning more gay
3. banks now use correct pronouns when evicting people from their houses
#1531 Fine Time
1. code enforcement officers circle wealthy @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ like vultures
#1537 Bench Wars
1. war memorials have been modified to include hammocks for napping
#1540 Clean Flavours
1. washing-up liquid looks and smells like baby poo
3. orange juice has been renamed yellow juice
#1544 Happy Juice
1. safety warnings are prohibited lest they give people ideas
#1549 Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin'
9. @@LEADER@@ hands out warnings to mods who don't deliver enough danishes (@@EGG@@)
#1551 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
4. charity workers were first up against the wall when the time came
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
1. the government expresses surprisingly intense opinions on the use of whip pans
2. private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button
#1558 Unequal Treatment?
2. hospital administrators can usually be found scrubbing their floors with toothbrushes
3. a broken arm or leg no longer costs an arm and a leg
#1567 Of Health and Wealth
3. surgical tape has taken on a distinctly red color
#1568 Palate Torture
1. farmers sing lullabies to soothe their livestock to sleep
2. running a hot dog stand is harder than achieving a doctorate
#1573 Unseen Academia
1. scientific journals publish third-graders' school essays
#1574 Fowl Play
1. binoculars sales are at an all-time high
#1576 Liquidity Problems
2. long queues are apparently signs of a well-run airport
4. airlines are reporting record profits from their new 'bread and water' service
#1578 The Magical Adventures of @LEADER@@
4. offering a builder a cup of tea is a legal minefield
#1584 Loose Lips, Characters Shipped?
2. animated characters are allowed to stab each other but not hold hands
#1590 Tinder Profiled
1. candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED
2. people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating
4. asthmatics can now suffer the effects of polluting chimneys from further away than ever before
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
1. the face of @@LEADER@@ is a permanent feature of the @@CAPITAL@@ skyline
2. government bureaucrats review designs for birdhouses to ensure they do not block the views of neighbors
#1597 Haters Are Such a Drag
4. stony-faced ratings board panelists are unamused by free lap dances
#1603 Searching for That Special Someone
1. typing @@LEADER@@'s name into a search engine always gives zero matches
2. typing @@LEADER@@'s name into a search engine always gives zero matches
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
1. faceless corporations are expected to assume parental responsibility over millions of teenagers
#1607 My Chemical Romance
2. reams of paperwork signed in triplicate have taken the magic out of magic
#1609 One Big Watering Hole
1. nature reserves often contain artificial waterfalls and concrete paths
3. weekends are spent tilting at windmills
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
1. every diamond ring sold is accompanied by a twenty-five page analysis and a waiver
#1622 Border Burden
1. @@LEADER@@ reduces citizens' commute times by giving away their homes
2. the government runs a surplus by selling its citizens
#1624 @@CAPITAL@@ Coffinrail
2. heart attack victims are thrown onto the rails
#1625 At What Price?
3. white chocolate is neither chocolate nor food
#1626 Wiggle Room
3. it's illegal to be caught on tape
#1627 Snow Days on Thin Ice
3. jailbreaking is the best-selling book category of the year
#1628 NEET Freaks?
3. WhoTube speedrunners always have at least one viewer
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
1. the average video game can be completed over lunch break
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
3. ride-sharing often involves some passengers sitting on the roof rack
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other
#1647 Whose House? My House!
3. nobody knows where reality TV show "The Real Housewives of CENSORED" is filmed
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
1. the government seizes corporate assets it deems 'scary enough'
2. repurposed warships fire swag at company promotional events
#1654 We Bought a Zoo
2. new regulations have put a halt to monkey business
#1664 Hey Alexis, Are You Sexist?
1. there are increasing complaints that male AI assistants have aggressive voices
#1668 Can't-abrigian, Ox-no-nian
2. top universities admit students based on how often they correct interviewers
#1673 Betting Against the Catastrophe
1. insurers refuse to offer service to anyone within a mile of the coast
4. vigilant @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can see disasters coming from a mile away
#1677 Common Cents
2. businesses are required to round down their profits
#1679 Meals on Foot
2. thorough preparation of street foods defeats the purpose of really fast food
#1681 The Children Yearn for the Mines
2. all mines are gold mines thanks to life insurance
#1684 Naps in Judgement
1. pillows outnumber picket signs at most workers rallies
#1685 Children's Cartoon Chafes CEO
3. the government proudly leads the world in environmental regulators per capita
#1691 The Fault in Our Skyline
2. cloud nine refers to the top floor of skyscrapers
#1692 Hit Me With Your Best Shot
2. birthday parties feature more pop quizzes than piñatas
#1699 Achute Binjury
1. raccoons are plump and satiated

Removed by:

#4 Economic Collapse Looms!
2. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
3. the government is attempting to revitalize a gutted private sector
#105 Compensation Culture Must End, Say Corporations
1. corporations cut costs by taking away safety-features on their products
#512 Furnished for Failure
4. personal injury lawyers are demanding compensation from the government after recent reductions in manufacturer liability
#542 What a Waste
4. global anti-terrorist organisations strongly suspect @@NAME@@ of supplying extremist groups
#606 In the Black
3. exploding toys that leak battery acid are back in the shops after the government declared child safety 'over-rated'
#623 Maison d'Être?
2. the country is littered with broken homes
#634 Bullet Time
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
#641 Dirty Little Minds
2. major polluting industries have painted a lot of their machines green to give an impression of caring about the environment
3. life expectancy is way down but posthuman perfectionism is way up
4. corrupt industrial practices are spreading like a plague
#649 Made in Maxtopia
4. where your food came from is an unknowable mystery
#652 Mayday! Mayday!
4. a popular @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ saying is 'wishing upon a fallen jet engine'
#774 Clean Switch
1. dubiously qualified Skandilundian barristers keep referring to laws as 'government guidelines'
2. dubiously qualified East Lebatuckese doctors prescribe ice baths as a treatment for pneumonia
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
2. consumers are free to choose - so long as they choose Eckie-Ecola or Eckie-Cola
#1364 Payday Groans
2. it's said that @@A@@ @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ always pays his debts with significant compounding
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
3. private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button
#1703 Hitchhikers Guide @@NAME@@
4. automotive regulators are throwing in the towel

Sometimes removed by:

#5 Child Casino Shock
2. young children are regularly seen wagering pocket money at blackjack tables
#7 Animal Liberation Front Strikes Again
1. Animal Liberationists are regularly arrested
#9 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the Dinner Table?
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are considered a delicacy
2. a nation-wide cull of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ is in effect
#16 @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ Workers Strike!
1. the nation is ravaged by daily union strikes
2. employers may fire workers without giving any reason
#17 Corporations Demand Political Say
1. corporations donate huge sums of money to favored politicians
#23 Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@
1. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
2. the country's famous rainforests are being bulldozed by the mining industry
5. the mining industry is making inroads into environmentally sensitive areas
#27 Cash for Colons?
1. college students make ends meet by selling their kidneys
#29 Minorities Demand Representation in TV Soaps
3. the alarmingly racist TV show 'Bigtopians Say the Darndest Things' is a hit
#30 Auto Industry Struggles Against Foreign Imports
2. there are no minimum wage laws
3. all tariffs have been abolished
#31 Get Efficient, Private Sector Tells Nature
1. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
2. citizens must pay to enjoy @@NAME@@'s pristine beaches
#33 Genetics Brings New Life to Extinct Species
1. scientists recently cloned the long-extinct feather-bellied @@ANIMAL@@
#35 Refugees Want to Call @@NAME@@ Home
3. shanty towns are forming in the suburbs of major cities
#41 Software Giant Stomps on Competition
1. small businesses are gobbled up almost daily by corporate giants
#49 Diving for @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@
2. citizens are regularly found digging for treasure in their gardens
#60 Supreme Court Nomination
1. the judicial branch is strongly influenced by major corporations
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
1. society and government have been organized according to a feudal hierarchy
2. citizens are allowed to rise or fall based on their own merits
#63 Tykes With Tools?
2. children as young as eight can be found working in factories
3. adult unemployment is rising as available jobs are filled by young children
#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#75 Cutting Off Sex Offenders?
4. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
5. convicted felons are forced into slavery for their crimes
#76 Suits in Protest
2. CEOs and corporate executives are frequently found striking for better stock options
#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares
2. copyright laws have been abolished
#88 Cannibals Demand to Taste What @@NAME@@ Has to Offer
1. murder rates are on the rise as the popularity of soylent products grows
#89 "Don't Dam Our Rivers, Damnit!" Say Protesters
2. scenic mountain valleys are flooded with water as damming projects get underway
#90 Organic Outburst
2. a survey of the nation's rivers and children has shown that pesticide levels are at an all-time regional high
#93 Affirmative Action in @@NAME@@?
1. ethnic minorities are often refused admission to some of the nation's best schools
#95 Painful Prices Paid at the Pump
1. pristine wilderness has been trashed in the quest for cheaper oil
#103 Plague of the Hybrids!
1. wildlife near farms is slowly becoming extinct
#104 Public Loudspeakers Shrill With Controversy
2. citizens are bombarded with advertising from their compulsory miniature radios
#108 Gambling Interests Offer High Stakes
3. gambling addicts regularly lose their families' nest eggs at Native @@DEMONYMNOUN@@ casinos
#117 Stop the Suits, Say Surgeons
1. appendix transplant figures have recently doubled
#119 Watershed Down?
1. programmes of questionable content are shown at peak-hours
#126 Outsourcing an Outrage, Say Demonstrators
3. corporations are either above the law or corrupting it
#127 Aging Concerns in @@NAME@@
4. senior citizens are often found slaving away in factories
#129 Tribal Troubles
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
5. a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world
#135 A Taxing Dilemma
1. government officials have to mortgage their homes to make ends meet
#136 Much Ado About Abortion
5. families are only permitted to have one child
#137 Arms Industry Demands Respect
1. the arms industry is backed by government subsidies and harsh anti-protest laws are in place
#138 Keep the Greenbelt Green, Say Protesters
2. the government is paving paradises to put up parking lots
3. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
4. environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway
#140 A Grave Problem
1. tombstones are ten feet high to accommodate the names of inhabitants
#145 Hackles Raised Over Fur Clothes Debate
2. fur coats have become the latest fashion trend
#152 A Capital Idea
1. the government has returned all business to private ownership
3. the government has legalised small-scale capitalism
#156 Waste Going to Waste, Says Industry Lobby
1. @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ with strange deformities like three eyes and tentacles have been seen prancing through the countryside where industrial waste is dumped
2. the nation's drinking water tends to glow green at night
#162 Animal Experimentation Laws Under Scrutiny
2. several citizens have complained about scientists abducting their pets for experimentation
#174 Maternity Leave a Must, Say Mothers
1. the nanny industry has had a boom after maternity leave was recently banned
#180 Mobile Maladies
2. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
3. crowded passenger trains are near-silent save for the soft tap of fingers on touchscreens
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
1. 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of @@NAME@@'s radio stations
#183 Buy a Better Baby?
1. wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby
2. wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby
#188 Video Games Too Violent, Say Parents
2. the children of @@NAME@@ are often remarked upon for their cheery attitude to extreme violence
#190 Immigrants Import Homeland Rivalries
1. immigrant Maxtopians are routinely sold on popular internet auction sites
2. Maxtopian slaves are routinely sold as an optional extra for household appliances
#191 Blood Banks Running Dry
3. the poor are often seen pale and dizzy after selling their blood to make ends meet
#192 Coup d'Etat in @@NAME@@!
1. the national government has been dissolved by revolutionary insurgents
#195 Right of Way or Wrong of Way?
2. large areas of @@NAME@@ are not accessible by the public
#198 Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying
1. travellers are often forcibly evicted by torch-bearing mobs
#201 Jolly Roger Sighted Off the Port Bow!
4. piracy is the nation's most popular pastime
#203 Suffer the Starving Children?
2. @@NAME@@'s market has been colonised by the corporations of rich countries
#206 @@NAME@@ Narrowly Misses Nuclear Accident
2. nuclear reactors are held together with party string and Hubba Bubba
#208 Mine Collapse Rocks @@NAME@@
2. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
3. mining is the nation's most dangerous occupation
#213 Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps
2. the carcasses of double-deckers can be found littering high streets all around the country
#216 Eminent Domain: Inherent Right or Daylight Robbery?
1. eminent domain has been abolished
#221 Outdated Tax Code Crushing @@NAME@@?
1. the government is in utter turmoil following the recent abolishment of the tax code
2. corporate executives continue to enjoy generous tax benefits while the public is taxed to the hilt
#231 Jungle Fever
4. DDT is used widely to repel disease-carrying insects
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
1. it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations
3. criminals are thrown to the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to repay their debt to society
#261 Plastic, Plastic Everywhere
3. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
5. scenic tours are unheard of after most environmental laws were abolished
#267 Controversial Coup Causes Commotion
3. the government encourages conflict abroad to increase arms sales
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
5. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
6. wealthy students ride to school past mendicant dropouts
#280 Oh the Humanity!
2. airship use has soared while property values beneath their routes have plummeted
#281 Free Internet for @@NAME@@?
4. electrocution deaths among computer technicians are at an all-time high
#285 A Right Not to Work?
3. retail stores offer sales every hour on the hour
#288 Super-Sized Pizzas Recipe for Disaster?
3. a typical fast food menu item could serve a small army
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@-made cars tend to catch fire in people's driveways
#291 A Question of Sport
4. kids laugh off vandalism and arson as "just fun"
#293 Maestro, Please
4. commercial jingles have been ham-handedly forced into world renowned symphonies
#294 Ghost Riders on the Sly
3. laws are littered with references to cheese
4. laws are littered with references to cheese
5. the CEO of Laws Incorporated must sign off on all new bills
#299 Some Like It Hot; Others Don't
3. surfers ride tsunamis of record height and toxicity
4. the state has declared war on the environment and environmentalists by association
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
2. Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity
3. Saturday morning cartoons feature full frontal nudity
#305 Who's Occupying What?
1. former school buses now regularly shuttle kids to the nearest shopping centers to work
#315 Creative Flowers Withering Under Legislation
1. racial supremacists indulge their wildest fantasies in cinemas and theatres across the nation
#323 Get Teens Out of MyFace?
2. the nation leads @@REGION@@ in per capita stalking
#327 No Rest for the Weary @@ANIMAL@@
3. the @@ANIMAL@@ stadiums are open 24/7
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
2. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
3. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
#338 The Silence and the Fury
2. most people suffer from some form of hearing loss
#339 The Bear Necessities
1. workers have seized control of the economy
3. the economy is undergoing a traumatic transition to capitalism
#341 Where in the Woods Is Cindy SanFrancisco?
5. groups of three or more trees are cut down in the name of 'child safety'
#351 The Cost of Freedom
1. well-off serial killers write monthly checks to avoid jail time
#355 Alien Invaders
2. it's always rabbit season
#369 No Vocation Without Remuneration
3. clandestine emigration to countries with labor laws is all the rage
#370 The Unbearable Lightness of Government
2. the government's economic policy is "sort it yourself"
#371 Lotto Fever
1. citizens re-mortgage their homes to buy lottery tickets
3. chain casinos dominate the national gambling market
4. chain casinos dominate the national gambling market
5. @@LEADER@@'s pleasure palace epitomizes corruption
#376 Death by Bungee
3. bungee jumpers frequently go splat
#380 Farmers Seeding Discontent
3. cheap and tasteless vegetables flood the markets
4. cheap and tasteless vegetables flood the markets
#385 Who Stands for @@NAME@@?
3. the national sporting identity is represented by a talking burger and a singing smartphone
#387 [An International Incident] Diamonds Are an Expat's Best Friend!
2. the nightly news reports prosaically on the government blindly throwing money at despotic kidnappers
#425 Teach Your Farmers Well
3. bleach is the nation's most common pesticide
#435 A Working Class Hero Is Something to Be
1. exceptionally talented workers are praised more than Revolutionary heroes
#436 Voters, Place Your Bets!
2. polling place volunteers are suddenly opening a huge number of offshore bank accounts
3. popular candidates who don't suffer last-second political scandals tend to get fished out of the @@CAPITAL@@ River
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
3. 'Police Academy 36' and 'Sharknados On A Plane' are vying for top spot at the box-office
#441 You've Got a Friend in Bee
3. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
4. foreign governments are looking into weaponizing the infamous @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ bee
#446 In the Land of Milk and Money?
1. late night adverts for breast milk co-ops regularly win pornography industry awards
3. breast milk lattes are the newest fad among hip urbanites
#448 It Takes a Village
5. the only position a woman can hold is baby-maker
#449 A Big Fracking Problem
1. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
2. pollution is on the rise along with government approvals of fracking projects
#453 Parliamentary Playground
4. @@NAMEINITIALS@@-SPAN features senators wrestling with ever-increasing production elements
#454 Don't Stead on Me!
2. chickens roam the streets freely
#459 Murder, He Shouted!
1. major corporations receive tax breaks for no apparent reason
#473 A-B-C, Easy as Don't Use Me
2. matryoshka dolls resembling nested Death Stars are commonly sold
#474 Mesozoic Park
1. sexually-starved male dinosaurs terrorise tourists during weekly breakouts from Mesozoic Park
3. idyllic countryside scenes see border collies herding sixty-ton dinosaurs
4. local councils have to call in dump trucks to clear parks of dinosaur droppings
#477 Feeding Frenzy
4. heart attacks are regarded as a coming of age ritual
#479 @@LEADER@@, Put on the Yellow Light
2. @@CAPITAL@@'s iconic yellow taxis are nowhere to be seen
#481 Social Equality Reaching Embarrassing Levels
4. @@LEADER@@'s new political program is often mockingly called 'Capitalism with a Bigtopian face'
#500 Please Don't Feed the (Copyright) Trolls
2. the constant playing of Merry Birthday on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ radio has led to calls for the song to be classified as a crime against humanity
3. NationStates is now a popular brand of laxatives despite Max Barry's protests
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
2. a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
1. the nation's once beautiful countryside has turned brown as farmers spray potent pesticides
3. visions of giant pink @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ are a common side effect after @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ eat their meals
#514 Contract Killer
1. murder is sanctioned if the legal paperwork is filled out correctly
#522 Time to Get Serious
2. maintaining economic growth is no laughing matter
3. it turns out that money can buy you happiness
#524 Something Is Rotten in the State of @@NAME@@
3. decaying farm hamlets have twice the representation of major urban areas
4. excessive gerrymandering has earned @@NAME@@ the nickname 'The Democratic Dictatorship'
#525 Nowhere to Go!
2. @@A@@ @@REGION@@ Tourist Association survey has rated @@NAME@@ #1 for number twos
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
2. public incontinence is a growing problem amongst the nation's women
#544 Object-Oriented Programming
2. teenage male videogamers often suffer repetitive strain wrist injuries
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
1. nighttime sightings of raccoons sporting Circle-A patches and bandanna masks are on the rise
#547 Fantastic Beasts and How @@NAME@@ Harmed Them
2. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
3. whales in captivity live in little more than glorified goldfish bowls
#548 Appointment of a Science Advisor
2. every new toxic waste dump comes with a seal of approval from the government's science advisor
#553 Cede Our Seeds?
2. the new "Bloodbath" orange tree autonomously seeks and destroys independent orchards
#556 Here Be Dragons?
4. failed genetic experiments wreak havoc as they roam the countryside
#558 Turning a Blind Eye?
1. every week is blindness awareness week
3. dining out often involves @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ on the plate no matter what you order
#559 The Low Aspiration Nation
3. the unemployed are quite literally sold to the highest bidder
#563 Resistance Is Fertile
4. subsidisation of Big Pharma has stopped many corporate executives from having to sell their second homes
#566 Drive My Car
3. fire stations and hospitals can't deploy emergency vehicles because badly parked cars block them in
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
1. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
2. crocodile roadkill is smeared across the asphalt of the new Formula One track
3. annual Formula One races bring the capital to a screeching halt
4. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
5. the automobile industry is sitting up and taking notice of the new 24 hour race events... as are the track's sleepless neighbours
#575 Sick Days for Sick Waves
1. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
2. victims of limb-mauling industrial accidents are told to keep working with their remaining hand
#577 Second World Problems
4. Party members are derided as class traitors
#581 Fair to Say...?
6. one year's corporation tax from three international megacorporations has funded one dozen shiny black pencils for @@LEADER@@'s office
#587 I, Robot, Do Solemnly Swear
4. court verdicts are predictable to within a hundredth of a percentage point
#591 Bait and Switch
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ farm salmon are known for being both horribly diseased and remarkably acrobatic
4. sushi just hasn't been the same since salmon went extinct overnight
#594 Tie Fighters
3. it is rumoured that @@LEADER@@ uses a magic 8-ball to make policy decisions
#599 Dead in the Water
1. oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires
2. oil rigs in winter are heated by contained oil slick fires
#604 Food Behind Bars
1. the nation's prisons are touted as the best weight loss programs money can't buy
#606 In the Black
2. @@LEADER@@ has a wardrobe full of fake designer suits
#608 Thrown Into Sharp Relief
2. recognised healthcare professionals treat diabetes with a grain of sugar in a barrel of water
#612 A Petty Issue
3. it's usual for grandparents to stay in the family home with their descendants but younger children are often frightened of them
#618 The Jaws of a Dilemma
2. the mummified remains of former kings are apparently discovered every time a tourist loses their wallet
4. sharks are enjoying their deliveries of canned food
5. big game hunters travel to @@NAME@@ to try their hand at shark-shooting
#621 Blue Collar Blues
5. economists speak of trusting in the Tao of Free Market Capitalism
#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#627 The Bee-Ginning of a Catastrophe?
2. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
3. suspicious glow-in-the-dark wasps remain a source of terror and awe
#628 Only @@LEADER@@ Can Prevent Forest Fires
1. forest fires have dropped dramatically as there are hardly any forests left
#630 This Green and Pleasant Land
1. formerly fertile fields are being leached dry of nutrients by intensive farming
#635 Hey Kid, Have a Cigar
2. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
3. schoolyard sandboxes resemble ashtrays due to the large number of cigarette butts
4. government bureaucrats devote many man-hours to trying to measure unquantifiables
#638 Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
3. it's a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance
#639 No Country for Old Men
2. octogenarian swimsuit models insist that they've still got it
3. octogenarian models insist that they've still got it
#640 A Clear-Cut Conundrum
2. East Lebatuck tests its moon rovers in the barren wasteland of rural @@NAME@@
#642 This Way's Kinder
2. the nation's youth voluntarily goes to bed early out of sheer tiredness from their working days
#654 Not So Cool Aid?
1. people's charity begins and ends at home
#660 Are We Being Served?
3. customers who are not the epitome of politeness always find themselves at the back of the queue
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
5. Scout campfire sing-a-longs tend to focus on the evils of antitrust legislation
#666 A Microchip on Your Shoulder
2. tradesmen will knock 10% off their fees if customers pay cash
#667 One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Recyclable
3. unused plastic recycling bins are being dumped into landfills by the tonne
#674 Let Them Eat Rainbow Cake!
1. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
2. male friends are often accompanied by a female relative in order to prove their 'straightness'
#675 Trick or Treaty
2. the industries of @@NAME@@ are coughing all the way to the bank
#676 Down the Rabbit Hole
1. wigged-out hunters report playing croquet with the Queen of Hearts
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
3. a firework a day does not in fact keep the doctor away
#692 Game of Drones
2. airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path
4. airplanes have giant grilles on their noses to knock drones out of their path
#705 The Germ of an Idea
2. fast-food chefs regularly win Health Innovation Awards for spitting on burgers
#706 A Walk in the Park
2. citizens complain about a burning sensation after bathing
#709 Armed and Legging It
2. the government is lending a hand to private industry
#711 Patently Obvious
2. a third of @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are e-certified CEOs
#716 Cheek to Cheek
2. people often get liposuction to reduce their air fares
3. people often get liposuction to reduce their air fares
#717 Cheques and Balances
1. the main interest rates change daily based on the latest news story
#719 Buried Bones Unearth Debate
4. having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom
5. having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom
#724 Your Stuff Is Forfeit
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ police have to pay out of their own pockets for bulletproof vests
#728 A Bone to Pick
1. scavengers with burlap sacks and shovels skulk around graveyards
4. the deceased are buried mostly to hide them from state-sanctioned corpse-collectors
#732 A Peeping Problem
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are regularly fired for looking at MyFace during their lunch breaks
#733 The Path Less Traveled
3. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
4. every spring railroad foundations erode to reveal human remains
6. aggressive promotion of global warming puts polar bears on thin ice
#747 The Plane Truth
1. travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air @@NAME@@ flights to avoid the pay lavatories
2. travelers often bring empty plastic bottles on Air @@NAME@@ flights to avoid the pay lavatories
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
5. the number of deaths due to poor fungus identification is mushrooming
#751 @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ Breed Contempt
1. no animal is considered endangered if there's another that looks kind of like it
3. condos feature wall-mounted cages containing endangered animals
#752 The Immortal Cells of Mrs. Gratwick
2. any body part that can be cut off a person is no longer considered to be their property
3. exports of chewing gum are inexplicably falling
#757 Extra Credit?
2. parents often ask to see a credit report before lending money to their own children
#770 Vaping Up a Storm
2. kids' party bags often contain candy and e-cigarettes
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
1. dentists routinely perform open heart surgery
#779 We're Dying for Your Business
2. open-casket funerals are avoided at all cost
#782 Sit-Down Money
2. teddy bears and pajamas have replaced briefcases and suits in @@NAME@@'s offices
#786 Tainted Tattoos
2. getting an infected tattoo is considered a rite of passage in @@NAME@@
#787 Come Fly With Me?
2. when you fly on Air @@NAME@@ you win a seat or you die
#801 Animation Provocation
3. toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters
#808 Big Trouble in Little Dàguó
1. the government advises foreign diplomats to speak softly and carry a big bag of cash
#809 So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
5. the single fish caught by @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ fishers last year is cited as evidence of @@NAME@@'s thriving fisheries
#814 A Topic of Ethical Import
2. vats of anabolic steroids are being dumped into the ocean to make @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ mussels the biggest in @@REGION@@
#815 Embargoed In
5. the nation is devoted to world peas
#818 We Are Not Amused
2. residents of new housing subdivisions complain about the total absence of supermarkets and restaurants
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
2. a stocking with a crooked seam or a tie without a full Windsor knot are grounds for instant dismissal
#822 Never Work With Children
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ actors literally work from cradle to grave
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
2. for just a few extra @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ can get new driving records with their new cars
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ visiting rural Southern @@ANIMAL@@ Village can get their driving records clean for a small fee
4. hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
5. sick days are on the rise
#832 Moderating Your Opinion
2. knock-knock jokes regularly get removed from websites for being too edgy
#837 Wag the Dog
4. shorter foreigners are often forcibly deported on suspicion of working for the World Assembly
#842 @@LEADER@@ and the Chocolate Factory
2. chocolate in @@NAME@@ has its flavour enhanced by the salty tears of enslaved factory workers
#843 Quacking Up
2. new treatments are rejected if they cannot be explained using only one-syllable words
#844 Essentially on Strike
3. worried-looking neonatal nurses are being deployed in place of SWAT teams during dangerous drug busts
#848 It's a Girl Thing
2. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
3. baby boys who pick up pink crayons are sent to a psychiatric ward
#850 The Prints and the Slaughter
2. mass shootings have become the new normal
#855 Thin Evidence
2. it is customary to begin the summer with a fasting ritual in which people eat nothing but kumquat smoothies
#859 A Cola by Any Other Name
2. citizens need a magnifying glass and color chart to distinguish between nearly identical brand labels
#860 A Blast From the Past
1. the tools of the trade for landmine clearance appear to be copious amounts of gasoline and a box of matches
#866 O Medication, Where Art Thou?
3. every fourth child is born with flippers instead of hands
#871 It's Not Easy Being Red
1. the tragedy of the commons is being tested nationwide but everyone says it's somebody else's problem
5. the "Brave New World" program has caused private businesses to spring up faster than the East Lebatuck Wall
#878 DoublePlusUnGood
2. citizens know not to ask what their country can do for them but what they can do as chained slaves for their country
#882 Death by Chocolate
2. the regional delicacy of chocolate bombes is deadlier than an unexploded bomb
#883 Who Let the Dinos Out?
2. the restriction that you must be over 1.1 metres tall to ride a carnotaurus has recently been waived
#884 You're Psychotic, @@LEADER@@
3. citizens may now wear shoes while watching television as long as the television is outside and the shoes are rental
4. citizens may now wear shoes while watching television as long as the television is outside and the shoes are rental
#887 Thin Skin
1. nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines
#890 Mining Blues
3. the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone
4. the latest "must-have" uPhone is 1/4 mm thinner than last year's uPhone
#893 Bread is the Stuff of Strife
2. bread-gangs raid restaurant waste bins to stockpile uneaten rolls
#896 It's Our Lot in Life
5. competing private ambulances racing to be the first to traffic accidents are a major cause of road accidents
#899 Uncultured Singles in Your Area
3. preservative-laden @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cheeses will be as edible when archaeologists dig them up next millennium
#900 Piracy on the High Trees
4. newly-privatized lumberjacks are clearcutting the forest to meet demand
5. the only place where one can see the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ cherry tree is in a museum
#901 You Buy That?
2. playing an online nation simulation game legally obliges you to buy the creator's latest novel
#902 Killer App
3. catching an old friend by surprise on the street can be a shocking experience
#907 A Problem Shared
4. boom-and-bust cycles are being peddled as economically inevitable
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
3. ticket touts are blamed for the downfall of communism
#922 I'll Have What She's Having
1. the fattest folk in @@NAME@@ look to be the happiest ones
#923 Ministers Exposing Themselves
3. it's rumored that Marche Noire knows what the nation's generals eat for breakfast
#929 Champagne in the Glass
2. foreign spirits are hard to find due to an abundance of "Cletus and Jim Bob's Homemade @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Moonshine"
4. alcoholism is the newest import from Dàguó
#932 Teacher's Past Blown Wide Open
2. attendance of fathers at PTA meetings is at an all-time high
3. schoolchildren learn an R-rated version of "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"
#933 A Gun in Every Hand and a Tank in Every Garage?
1. no suburban lawn is complete without barbed wire and landmines
#934 @@LEADER@@, Don't Tear Down That Wall!
2. the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism
#936 Hackable Elections?
4. it's said that any enemy of democracy is a friend to @@LEADER@@
#937 Ebony Pride
2. everybody's got wood thanks to @@LEADER@@
#942 A Foreign Exchange of Ideas
1. the nation's universities are often mistaken for foreign embassies
#944 Deadly Persuasion
3. even religious militants can be swayed by the power of #love
#952 Why the Long Face?
2. glue production is at an all-time high
#955 Can It!
4. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
5. there's a bustling black market for vegetables
#957 Putrid Predicament
3. the diplomatic corps stinks
#960 Nobody Does It Better?
1. looting and pillaging are now considered vital intelligence-gathering activities
#967 Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
3. people think garlic bread counts as one of their "five a day"
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
3. @@LEADER@@ is famed for giving great back rubs
#970 For Want of a Nail
7. it's a miracle that there aren't more plane crashes
#975 Paparazzi Parents
2. the Snapgram channel "Embarrassing Baby @@LEADER@@ Pics" has made @@LEADER@@'s mom a celebrity
3. skin-tone prom dresses are more unpopular than ever
4. skin-tone prom dresses are more unpopular than ever
#979 A Patronising Statement
2. a popular artist is claiming that a raw steak with a dog turd on it is a portrait of @@LEADER@@
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
1. gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away
#990 Baby Shower
2. multiple births are a cause of celebration for tax collectors
#991 Alms and Qualms
3. charity workers dole out hardtack from behind designer sunglasses
#992 Robots in Disguise
1. the same @@POPULATION_VALUE@@ social media bloggers always loudly and immediately agree with @@LEADER@@'s every word on Twitcher
#993 Drug Deal
1. drugs containing the compound "oleum de serpens" are being sold to cancer patients
#994 The Life of Riley
3. prisoners fit in their parole hearings around their spa treatments
#995 A Cup Runneth Over
3. babies living in poverty are told to take responsibility for their own fortunes
#1002 The Call of Nature
4. allergy-sufferers must wear gas masks before venturing outdoors
#1005 What Goes Up Breaks Down
2. parachutes are considered optional with the newest line of jet fighters
#1008 Wash Your Mouth Out!
2. children gain their first sex education from reading the dictionary
#1010 What's Got Into @@NAME@@?
1. grocery stores can be audibly identified by the giggling emerging from them
#1016 Breaking Upset
5. emergency services don't respond to trailer park fires
#1017 A Cure for the Black Market
3. epileptic patients switch their medications to whichever has a 'buy one get one free' offer
#1018 Operation Failed
1. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
2. laser-wielding robots are taking aim at human hearts
4. the doctor has cold hands
#1020 Bi-NO-Metric?
1. going on a diet invalidates your passport
#1022 Failure to Respond
1. the "boy who cried wolf" policy makes sick people reluctant to call an ambulance
2. pocket dialling is a criminal offence
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1023 Pure Madness
5. frustrated teenage boys are told that if they like it then they should have put a ring on it
#1029 Frozen Assets
1. people who stay late at the office often come home to find their own funeral being planned
#1030 Looking Down in the Dumps
3. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Fried Chicken's secret blend of herbs and spices
4. it's best not to ask what goes into @@CAPITAL@@ Crispy Fried Tofu's secret blend of herbs and spices
#1037 Ill Girl
4. muggers are complimented on their enterprising spirit
5. muggers are complimented on their revolutionary spirit
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
2. the secret ingredient is love (and MSG)
#1047 Rivers of Blood
2. the newest shade developed by @@NAME@@'s dye industry has been dubbed 'Agent Orange'
#1048 Tatty Treaty Spat Turns Catty
2. theft is considered to be okay if the crime happened a long time ago
#1058 LEEDing From Behind
3. the nation's endangered species are no longer endangered
#1061 Every Day I'm Muffling
2. it's not just poseurs who wear oversized sound-cancelling headphones as they walk the city streets
#1063 Playing It by the Numbers
3. sofas are perpetually on sales that Must End Soon
#1067 Don't Fear the Reefer
4. more citizens have access to Maxtopian Grass than clean drinking water
#1068 Made to Break
2. frequent broken zippers have resulted in safety pins making a fashion comeback
#1077 With Friends Like These...
2. primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit
#1078 Down With That?
2. a shipwreck is everyone's fault but the captain's
#1086 Fun in the Sun
5. souvenir shops that sell alphorns are taking advantage of gullible tourists
#1097 What Do We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
4. parties on cruise ships go off with a real bang
#1101 Unreal
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ TV is considered cruel and unusual punishment in other countries
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
3. many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators
4. many whiskies taste suspiciously like automobile radiators
#1109 Of Mice and Meth
2. health-conscious denizens drink their dogs' water
#1110 Curtains for the Horrorshow
2. the mood of raunchy movies is often ruined by the sound of babies crying
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
1. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
2. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
5. the red star of communism has been replaced by the gold star of the McRonald's badge
#1118 We Can't Cross That Bridge When We Come to It
3. apprentice builders get teased for wearing hard hats
#1133 Rocky Road
3. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
4. an increasing number of citizens believe the world is flat
#1134 Tariff-ic Trouble
2. economists have been named Invertebrates of the Year
#1137 A Really Sour Lemon
1. ambitious "businessmen" use their children to sell and advertise their products
4. citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin
5. citizens sell their moldy bread as homemade penicillin
#1139 A Little Wrestling, a Lot of Controversy
2. the government loves seeing the little people fight
#1150 Back Lash Backlash
1. most believe it doesn't hurt to embrace free trade
3. extraordinary rendition is nothing out of the ordinary
#1151 Gotta Go Fast
1. employees who skip lunch to avoid sub-par cafeteria food risk getting fired
2. there's a lot of babies crying for milk in the middle of the day
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
3. taxpayer-funded government ads are promoting Brancaland as a premier filming location
#1156 Pet Theory
3. burgers often list "miscellaneous meats" in their ingredients
#1160 Milking It
2. a milk bath costs more than bathing in money
#1165 Crosswords Beget Angry Letters
2. crossword puzzles have been co-opted as a symbol of racial discrimination
#1166 Acres Wild
2. the backs of 'No Trespassing' signs were made for you and me
#1176 Haters Gonna Hate
2. blackface performers claim they are being deliberately ironic
#1179 Nothing Fishy
2. ports have ground to a halt as no boat can reach them without trespassing
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
4. the nation is renowned abroad for its love of blood and guts
5. noble feuds don't end until one side gets their point across
#1183 Bloodied but Unbowed
3. it is said that @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ woman's work is never done
#1196 The Properties of Property
2. a citizen who thinks a slave is a deadbeat is entitled to make the descriptor literally true
#1207 Next, Please!
1. "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster
#1210 Big Tobacco in Big Trouble
2. the smell of tobacco is often smelt around legislative buildings across the nation
#1220 Barely Any Art
2. drawing men's naughty bits isn't considered to be art
#1224 Shine On, You Crazy Diamond
4. the nation's most "productive" diamond mine hasn't been operational for seven months
#1228 The Road to Hell
2. a driving license is obtained not by passing a test but by passing a brown envelope
#1233 Get Real!
2. baiting is a national sport
#1234 I Declare a Thumb War
1. the government is under the thumb of countless special interests
3. celebrity wrestlers thumb their nose at due process
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
2. signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés
#1239 The Walking, Talking, and Irritated Dead
2. what citizens give with one hand they take away with the other
#1245 Sheepish Students
1. school football matches are usually five-a-side
2. bemused schoolkids colour in their favourite quadratic equations with crayons
#1246 Breath of the Wild
3. the old neighbourhood isn't how most @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ remember it
4. the national symbol of @@NAME@@ is now always featured on a skewer
#1249 Red Dead Representatives
1. the big red machine has ground to a halt
#1250 @@NAME@@'s Next Top Mohel
2. ceremonial zweihänders are used in holy rituals
#1252 Ale to the Chief
3. more and more people are signing up for the government party
4. more and more people are signing up for the government party
#1253 Build a Better Baby?
1. young people suspect their parents might be a little bit stupid
#1254 Sales on Rails
2. there's more vermin than ever on the metro
#1262 Dead Tasty
3. there's a mortuary next to every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurant
#1263 Is the Signature Always Right?
2. political detractors refer to @@LEADER@@ as 'that Bigtopian puppet'
#1273 Lessons in Politics
2. a degree in @@LEADER@@ Science with a Minor in Awesomeology starts many political careers
#1277 Outside the Box
1. beating enemies to death with a baseball bat is legal if done within nine innings
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
1. teachers prefer to give 'Maybe, Maybe Not' tests when dealing with sensitive subjects
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
3. autumn landscape paintings feature men stripping leaves from bare branches with a vacuum
#1289 Cramping Our Style
2. pharmacists increasingly claim they are morally obligated to take long lunches
#1290 Why Didn't the @@ANIMAL@@ Cross the Road?
3. @@LEADER@@ has declared a weed sticking through a crack in the sidewalk to be the nation's newest green space
#1293 Bet Your Life
3. grinning punters say that casino roulette is the greatest high that life has to offer
#1297 What Are You Hiding in Your Genes?
2. stale 'yo mamma' insults have been replaced by 'your maternal DNA' insults
#1298 Ranchers Get Thrown to the Wolves
1. cowboys often wear wolfskin jackets to the saloon
3. picnickers are lucky if a few wasps are the only animals that trouble them
#1300 Fifth Column in the Fifth Chord
2. "Day of the Rope" is the top song of the summer
#1301 Meat the Neighbours
1. the Communist Party claims that selling things for profit isn't necessarily capitalism
2. the end of communism came with retail rather than revolution
#1310 Intimate Relations
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1311 An Acquired Taste
2. people who have never eaten chicken are told it tastes a bit like crocodile
3. the military is plagued with unethical researchers
#1322 Introducing Altengarten?
4. the first test of a good kindergartener is the quality of the sponge-baths they give
#1335 First-Class Warfare
2. the rich and poor vomit into separate bags
#1337 Waste Not Want Not
3. shopping comes bagged and tagged
#1344 Ups and Downs
1. orthopaedics patients often have a bounce in their step
#1345 To Each According to Whatever's Left
2. produce labels read 'may contain traces of food'
5. real chickens replace rooster weather vanes on inner-city rooftop gardens
#1355 Feeling Null
2. commuters and their desktops both bemoan their hard drives
#1357 Scattered Showers
4. space has been brought down to earth with constellations of cancer cases across @@NAME@@
#1359 Covering All the Angles
1. the fishing lobby has stemmed the tide of environmental regulations
#1361 Fundamental Rights
2. advanced mathematics books explain how two plus two equals five
#1365 Balancing the Box
5. citizens hear a diversity of opinions from a range of billionaire-owned corporations
#1369 Negotiation Complication
1. human sacrifice to the metaphorical altar of Mammon ensures national prosperity
#1370 All Systems Post-Nominal
1. a PhD just ain't what it used to be
#1373 You Should Have (Copy)Left My Software Alone!
1. programmers often reinvent the wheel
4. too many developers spoil the codebase
#1409 Happy Pranksgiving!
4. prank shows are so hot right now
#1424 Here's Looking at Zoo, Kid
1. recapturing giraffes is proving to be a tall order
#1434 Blood on Your Nuts
3. slavers are real nutters
#1442 A Green Bill of Health
2. vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR
3. vegetables are crisper thanks to CRISPR
#1443 Forage and Forget
2. foragers descend on national cemeteries for 'all-you-can-dig-up' extravaganzas
#1452 Hello Darkness My Old Friend
3. noises of neighbourhood generators have pierced the sound of silence
#1453 A Salt and Battery
1. the environment is gorgeous so long as you're looking up
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
3. unemployed accountants keep double-entry ledgers of their benefit claims
#1463 Sandbagging
1. half-submerged and flooded seaside hotels are technically still next to the beach
#1468 Meat With Approval
1. the traditional Violetist dish of stuffed sheep's head is served with an intense look of shock upon its face
2. rare steaks seem even bluer now
#1469 News Flash!
3. political shows are fit for purpose
#1474 Cuy Bono?
2. @@CAPITAL@@ has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra
#1482 A Crypto for the Comrades?
2. digital novelty coins make for surprising vanguards of the revolution
#1484 Joint Trade Agreement
1. business ambassadors offer bong tokes to foreign leaders
#1493 Bully Beef
2. exports of live cows arrive pre-roasted
#1496 A Place For Everything
2. it's considered providence that the political lexicon contains a syrup of company slogans
#1501 Diamond in the Rough
4. spotted owl meat is used as bait to lure wolves into traps
#1502 Dirty Deals
3. work stinks
4. work stinks
#1504 Asking for a Raise
2. job security isn't great for professional roulette players
#1505 A Tangled Web
3. citizens have to identify all the polar bears in a blizzard photo in order to access their bank account
#1510 Devolution Devolves Into Disaster?
4. meteorologists warn of fog just past 4pm daily
#1516 Content Discontent
3. belief that @@LEADER@@ is a lizard-person from outer space has reached an all-time high
#1518 Test Environment
2. teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living
3. teach an angler how to phish and he can make a living
#1528 Our Feta Which Art in Havarti...
3. the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging
4. the ingredients list for most food products covers the entire surface of the packaging
#1537 Bench Wars
2. bus shelters seem to be designed to let rain in
#1544 Happy Juice
2. bags of fertiliser come with detailed instructions for not making explosives
#1546 Fool's Gold
1. @@CAPITAL@@ River is now popularly called "Dead Fish Run"
#1547 The Return of the Prodigal Son
1. office microwaves are being replaced by firepits
#1558 Unequal Treatment?
4. injured workers are encouraged to 'stitch themselves up with their bootstraps'
#1573 Unseen Academia
2. savvy students quote paywalled research knowing that university lecturers can't afford to check the citations
#1576 Liquidity Problems
3. a surprising number of travelers carry their water in vodka bottles
#1584 Loose Lips, Characters Shipped?
3. sex-ed is child's play
#1590 Tinder Profiled
3. actively encouraging climate change is helping reduce winter fuel costs
#1591 (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Sample!)
3. this summer's chart-toppers sound almost the same as last year's
#1594 Bitter Bob the Builder
3. only the richest get to see out of their windows
#1603 Searching for That Special Someone
3. a flying elephant and @@LEADER@@ share the same nickname
4. a flying elephant and @@LEADER@@ share the same nickname
#1605 Hungry for Criticism
2. online terrorists are automatically assigned adverts for cheap balaclavas
#1607 My Chemical Romance
1. witches' brews set off Geiger counters
#1610 Keep Me Appraised?
2. pieces of iron pyrite are believed to be worth their weight in gold
#1613 Incarceration Sensation
3. murder comes with a cash prize if the victim was previously incarcerated
#1614 Fauxthentic Food
5. restaurants have added Molotov cocktails to the menu
#1621 The Space Between
2. weather advisories predict sunshine with a chance of spontaneously combusting spacecraft
3. weather advisories predict sunshine with a chance of spontaneously combusting spacecraft
#1622 Border Burden
3. one can wake up in @@NAME@@ and have breakfast in Bigtopia
#1624 @@CAPITAL@@ Coffinrail
1. the overhead luggage compartment is often full
#1626 Wiggle Room
1. people are turning themselves into worm food
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
2. playing card suits are sold separately
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
1. APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps
2. APCs on school runs disgorge kids via assault ramps
#1635 A Sine of the Times
3. arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve
#1636 In for the Long Haul
2. highway rest stops are stocking up on fallout scrubbing kits
#1643 Cicadas in Their Prime
2. the inchworm that measured the marigolds is six feet under
#1648 Infant Influence
2. patriotism is in the nation's DNA
#1652 Bath and Body Skunkworks
3. companies are literally blowing their competition out of the water
#1654 We Bought a Zoo
1. daredevil kayakers frequently race against runaway hippos
#1668 Can't-abrigian, Ox-no-nian
3. university applicants are judged by how much they laugh at professors' tired jokes
#1681 The Children Yearn for the Mines
1. sewing needles are topping lists of safe kids' toys
#1684 Naps in Judgement
2. yawning is a sure sign of unemployment
#1691 The Fault in Our Skyline
1. Goldilocks has found a lucrative career as a zoning consultant
3. homes without staircases are considered a step up in luxury
#1696 Everyone Loves Shipping
2. the poorest @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ live in 'the stacks'

suspicion of poets

Gained from:

#517 Gallery in Need of a Renaissance
4. the nation's entire cultural heritage is being auctioned off to the rich

Sometimes gained from:

#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
1. radio stations are forbidden to play anything with too much drum or bass
#52 Is It Art or Is It Porn?
1. artists regularly face criminal charges and art-burning parties are common
2. all artwork is carefully screened for offensive material
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
2. the government has cut its subsidies for all special interest groups
3. poets and writers are regularly rounded up and shot for entertainment
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
3. the use of martial arts is banned
#110 Too Low on Laws, Say Citizens
2. the land is famous throughout the region for its rampant lawlessness
#114 Wipe Out Graffiti?
1. graffiti artists spend lengthy periods of time in jail
2. Renaissance frescos are being chiselled off public walls
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
1. the studies of art and philosophy are banned
3. only the brainiest citizens become academics
#128 Ban the Burka?
3. government officials raid public buildings to remove all mention of G*d or r******n
#129 Tribal Troubles
2. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
3. the tribal zone has been opened to up to 'economic interest' groups
4. native tribes have been driven to extinction by hunting
#131 Raise Duel Standards, Say Fencers
2. arbitration is mightier than the sword
#143 An Archaeological Altercation
2. major archaeological findings are frequently bulldozed to make way for new buildings
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
1. skateboarding is punishable by heavy fines
#169 @@ANIMAL@@ Hunting Laws Under Dispute
1. the upper class have been throwing riots after hunting was recently banned
3. main battle tanks stalk the woods of @@NAME@@ in search of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@
#181 Radio Rebels Ruffle Government
2. a spate of enforced closures has left 'Government FM' as the nation's only radio station
#245 Clash of Cultures
3. religious figures have been banned from public holidays to make them more multicultural
6. the word 'foreigner' is considered a highly vulgar expletive
#273 Is Our Children Learning?
3. the state believes that children are what you make of them
4. the state believes that children are what you make of them
#276 Circus Clowns Cause Chaos!
1. strange looking men with big red noses are found hiding behind bushes and inside dustbins
#293 Maestro, Please
2. concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule
3. concert pianists lie about their occupation to avoid ridicule
#303 Digital Revolution Requires Re-Evaluation
4. almost all the visible space on TV screens is taken up by advertising
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
1. teams of painters are converting road signs from horse lengths to kilometers
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
2. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
3. surrealist houses shaped like mushrooms and volcanoes dominate the wealthiest neighborhoods
#336 Polygamy Causes Division
4. vitriolic divorce proceedings have become prime-time television
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1. discarded pennies litter the streets
#350 Queasy Cuisine
2. the nation's cuisine is the laughing stock of @@REGION@@
#378 The War to End All Wars
3. anniversaries of major historical events pass unnoticed
#382 The Appropriate Amount of Appropriation
4. immigrants are asked to leave their cultural traditions and pride at the border
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
1. student athletes gaze forlornly at abandoned @@ANIMAL@@ball fields
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
3. 'Police Academy 36' and 'Sharknados On A Plane' are vying for top spot at the box-office
#451 A Proselyte to Burn
1. the "fire department" is often called to remove offensive religious texts
#467 Saving Your Own Foreskin
4. getting a haircut is a punishable offence
#476 A Farewell to Raised Arms?
3. bored politicians often entertain themselves with games of Simon during important votes
#478 The Show Must Go On
2. teens are voting on which C-List pop star will be next to be evicted from the opera house
3. mournful opera fans place bouquets of roses at a 3000 capacity parking lot
#487 Masks of Shame
1. country folk are sent to obligatory boarding schools to learn how to be civilized
#490 The Long and Winding Halls of @@CAPITAL@@
1. auditors are gutting every governmental department
#492 The Artwork in the Attic
2. rare art has become a significant factor in negotiating all foreign trade agreements
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
1. school plays were recently banned due to concerns of child endangerment
#510 Possession, Protection or Poppycock?
1. tie-dye has been outlawed for being 'too occult'
#518 Face Lift
3. the nation's government buildings are remarkable for being ugly concrete boxes
#525 Nowhere to Go!
3. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ have replaced bears in a popular idiom
#527 The Body Politic
2. royalist is the most offensive slur in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ language
3. royalist is the most offensive slur in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ language
4. royalist is the most offensive slur in the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ language
#529 Attack of the Attack Ads
3. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politics is literally a blood sport
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
4. no one believes anything until it has been strenuously tested and peer-reviewed
#538 @@LEADER@@, Let Your People Go!
1. over a third of the seats in sports stadiums have been removed to make room for female-only commodes
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
4. oddly patriotic flash mobs spontaneously sing the national anthem
#546 Dumpster Divers Dividing Denizens
1. nighttime sightings of raccoons sporting Circle-A patches and bandanna masks are on the rise
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
2. teens reminisce about when birthdays weren't celebrated with a cool glass of cabbage juice and a slice of corn-cream topped millet cake
#554 Welcome to --CENSORED--
1. a proud mining community is considering a rebellion after the Capital officially renamed them 'District XII'
#556 Here Be Dragons?
1. young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus
2. young children are learning advanced physics to scientifically disprove the existence of Santa Claus
3. all fantasy fiction has officially been deemed non-canon
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
2. signatures have been replaced with illegible scribbles
3. kids are exceptionally good at digging holes
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
1. the @@CAPITAL@@ Prison Revue puts on a better stage show than anything in the Theatre District
2. penniless buskers are singing for their supper
3. singing in public is only allowed if you are singing the praise of the Motherland
#596 Primogeniture Problems
1. the monarchy has adopted absolute primogeniture
2. the monarchy has adopted absolute primogeniture
5. only women may wear the crown of @@NAME@@
7. royalty is so last century
8. royalty is so last century
#598 A Violet Trojan Horse
3. burning members of the Order of Violet is the nation's favorite pastime
#603 Not My Idea
4. the legal minefield around ownership of fiction has demolished the publishing industry
5. science fiction invariably depicts socialist societies as Utopian
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
2. denied drugs and entertainment the nation's youth are taking to petty crime to alleviate their boredom
#617 Who's This Little Rascal?
3. an increasing number of animal species are named 'Bob'
4. cute fluffy little @@LEADERPLURAL@@ are increasingly popular exotic pets
#621 Blue Collar Blues
4. libraries are replacing history books and classic novels with technical manuals and trades directories to match the nation's changing demands
#633 Sound Judgement
4. citizens have voted the song "@@LEADER@@ Smells Like @@A@@ @@ANIMAL@@" as their new national anthem
#634 Bullet Time
1. in life full of care there is no time to stop and stare
2. farmers are complaining that the buzzing and the sparks from the nearby MagRail are blighting their crops
#637 Little Pizza History
2. the nation is known abroad for fast food and nothing else
#643 No Small Wonder
4. the nation is well known for its rather dull and family-friendly architecture
#655 No Bones About It
2. oddly simian-looking religious thugs beat up anyone who suggests humans are related to monkeys
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
1. excessive wheelchair ramps on government buildings have been compared to theme park attractions
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
4. selfie stick use is a required Scout badge
#664 Your Land or Mine
1. no-one can foil the ambitions of Big Aluminium
3. indigenous tribal elders can be recognised by their designer watches and expensive suits
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
1. 4-year-olds studying for their mathematics exams are anxious that they will be unemployable in adulthood if they fail
3. home education can sometimes be a load of bullocks
#670 A Wolf in Refugee's Clothing
2. tourists are denied entry because of a distant relative married to a Lilliputian
#673 The Deportation of Mr. B. Leeper
1. foreign musicians that @@LEADER@@ dislikes are turned away at the border
2. dangerous criminals are often 'accidentally' sent on one-way trips to Maxtopia
#681 @@NAME@@'s New Year's Resolution: Lose Fewer Limbs
2. parties that are too noisy are broken up to prevent disturbing wildlife
#684 Murder Most Deniable?
3. the Foreign Ministry thinks an eye for an eye is a blindingly good idea
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
1. many marriages go virtually unconsummated
#694 Concussive Percussion
1. military parades quietly tiptoe their way through the streets
#695 How to Succeed in Business Without Really Paying Taxes
3. anyone claiming to be a messiah is promptly put to death
#700 The Widow Raven
4. it is unwise to be a poet even if things rhyme and you don't know it
#701 Monumental Melodrama
1. all statues and paintings of dogs are being destroyed to avoid offending cat-lovers
3. a sledgehammer and a spray can are seen as the default tools of political debate
#703 Divine Decoration
4. the hills are alive with the smell of burning flesh
#712 Flight of the Rich and Famous
1. people are careful to avoid hyperbolising that they'd "rather die" than support @@LEADER@@
#719 Buried Bones Unearth Debate
4. having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom
5. having skeletons in one's closet is no longer just a macabre idiom
#721 A Lack of Comma Sense
1. serial commas clarify the relationship between one's lackeys, the taxpayers, and kinsfolk
#727 Market Crash
2. historic buildings are being demolished to allow for road-widening in the city centre
#731 Is There an Election in Marche Noire or Are You Just Happy to See Us?
3. the Great @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Melting Pot boils out ethnic heritage
#735 Rap Sheet
1. stony-faced prosecutors play loud gangster rap music during court proceedings
#747 The Plane Truth
4. Air @@NAME@@ tickets have reached sky-high prices due to a complete monopoly on air travel
#749 Not Mushroom for Error
2. undergrads find their professors' mushroom experiments less psychedelic than expected
#759 Marry, Marry, Quite Contrarily
3. the government's stance on marriage is 'Let @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ marry themselves'
#767 Xe Said, Zhe Said
3. youth call each other types of vegetables in lieu of government-banned racial insults
#768 Trouble Brewing
1. black tea is only available on the black market
3. machine-peeled candied grapes come in individual packaging for the busy commuter
#778 Mal Appetit!
1. those who don't have a bean to spend don't know a bean about Brasilistanian coffee beans
#786 Tainted Tattoos
3. clergy do their best to cover up their old tattoos
4. gangs have taken to secret handshakes after tattoos were banned
#788 Duel Purposes
3. Harry Potter conventions are closely watched by the government for any signs of 'dueling'
#801 Animation Provocation
1. Tom and Jerry cartoons have cat and mouse resolving their problems with reasoned discussion
2. military doctrine says not to open fire until you see the "beady little eyes" of Johnny Foreigner
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
1. there's a bright dawn ahead for @@NAME@@
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
5. sick days are on the rise
#834 Government and CO
4. centuries-old marble buildings are being torn down and replaced with corrugated steel wind tunnels
#838 The Bark Knight Rises
4. comic books avoid plot inconsistencies by removing the plot
5. adults hang around outside comic stores to ask kids to go and buy magazines for them
#845 A Comedy of Errors
3. illegal book-trafficking rings dominate the black market
#853 Silence Is Golden
3. from the highest mountain to the deepest cave - one can always count on finding a good cell signal in @@NAME@@
#856 You Got Stones
3. art criticism in @@NAME@@ is scathingly destructive
#867 Museums: Things of the Past?
5. the nation's historic treasures have been sold off to Maxtopia's "Museum of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Artifacts That They're Too Stupid to Appreciate"
#876 Sequels: The Saga Continues
1. '@@ANIMAL@@nado 6: You Gotta Be Kidding Me' is this summer's top-grossing movie
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has been banned for advocating gluttony
#888 Criminal Patterns
2. a stitch in time could see you serving nine
3. schoolchildren are arrested for possessing sidewalk chalk without a permit
#891 Preach It!
1. citizens are prohibited from raising their voice above thirty decibels in commercial districts
#905 Stage Directions
1. theatre may or may not be changing for the better but it is being changed for good
3. God took rock and roll from you, took rock and roll from everyone
#909 On the Fence
2. bilingual @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are viewed with suspicion
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
4. it is mandatory for actors to exit stage left
#934 @@LEADER@@, Don't Tear Down That Wall!
2. the jackhammer is considered a tool of artistic criticism
#947 Imitation Station
3. traffic news is delivered to drivers via carrier pigeon
#949 Jailhouses Rocked!
5. rock and roll involves rolling literal rocks in prison
#950 Borderline Pandemic
4. hotels often double as quarantine zones
#959 A-Major Debate
2. music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs
3. music teachers are commonly seen busking in order to fund their music programs
5. students who do not recite the national anthem each morning have to drop and give their teacher 50
#966 As You Don't Like It
1. caroling is considered a public disturbance
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
2. it is broadly agreed that tramp stamps are criminally undesirable
#979 A Patronising Statement
3. modern @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ art is so hot right now
4. Snapgram-filtered portraits adorn the walls of stately homes
#984 A Midsummer Night's Snooze-Fest
5. chrome-clad space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on
6. hammer and sickle-wielding space marines are such stuff that dreams are made on
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
2. children cry as government officials steal their water pistols
#996 Scripting a Change?
1. textbooks are exactly twice as heavy as they used to be
3. the team in charge of creating a new writing system have spent months deciding whether or not to use serif or sans-serif characters
4. the libraries of @@NAME@@ are staffed by lone, lonely librarians
#1033 Someone to Watch Over Me
4. former royals stand on the street corner with signs reading "will cut ribbons for money"
#1035 Bringing a Bayonet to a Gunfight
2. running away is an essential part of the elite forces' hand-to-hand training
#1048 Tatty Treaty Spat Turns Catty
4. the term "Native @@DEMONYMNOUN@@" has been redefined as anyone with the same skin color as the majority
#1073 Much Ado About Everything
5. saying the word 'eggplant' is now a criminal offense
#1074 Halting the Heirloom Heist!
1. monarchs only get custody of the royal crown on holidays and weekends
3. royal princesses are recognizable by their plastic tiaras
#1077 With Friends Like These...
1. television characters who ask how someone's doing are charged with harassment
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
1. insanely good theatre productions face government censorship
#1084 How Now Kowtow?
4. ex-royals are being greeted by a whole new set of gestures
#1094 A Political Cover-Up
1. foreign ambassadors never get to see what @@NAME@@ has to offer
#1100 Raiders of the Lost Archive
1. brave curators do battle with disorganised government libraries
4. the nation tends not to learn from its history
#1103 Dàguó Takeaway
2. one can walk from one side of @@CAPITAL@@ to the other without setting foot on @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soil
#1104 Balancing the Books
4. newspapers print only headlines
#1105 A Green History Lesson
1. the statue in the @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@ Plaza has a solar panel for a hat
#1121 Tribes and Tribulations
3. foreign policy often involves bullwhips and leather
#1128 Get Thee Behind Me, Santa
4. favourite sermons have replaced campfire horror stories on teenage wilderness trips
#1152 Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting!
1. standing on one leg in public is a criminal offence
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
3. taxpayer-funded government ads are promoting Brancaland as a premier filming location
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
3. many believe that you can't repeat history's mistakes if you don't care what they were
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
#1202 A Timely Intervention
5. citizens pray for sunshine so that they can use illicit sundials for timekeeping
#1205 Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
5. coconut-half banging former royals skip around the countryside seeking gullible peasants to rule
#1207 Next, Please!
1. "Mad Max: Returning Again to Barrydrome" is this year's unexpected summer blockbuster
#1221 Man of the People
1. politicians always seem to take two steps forward then three steps back
3. former state leaders include a TV comic and a cowboy actor
#1223 Courting Bankruptcy
4. the monarchy goes down the drain with a royal flush
5. the monarchy goes down the drain with a royal flush
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
1. posh restaurants scatter glass fragments on the dining room floor to keep out barefoot undesirables
#1257 It's a Kind of Magic
1. every day has been a surprise since weather reporters turned to consulting ancient totems for their seven-day forecasts
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ soldiers are assured their new ray-guns will finally power up after the next round of ominous chanting
3. populations of two-headed @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ have been found around recently-uncovered archaeological sites
5. religious officials are furious after discovering that things made of stone do not burn well at the stake
#1262 Dead Tasty
1. the dish 'poisson avec poison' is only available on the black market
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
1. sermons are regularly interrupted by businessmen taking phone calls
3. small towns have started burning historical buildings in hopes of attracting tourists
#1278 A Textbook Cover-Up?
3. a petition to improve @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ literacy is mostly signed with cross-marks
#1296 Once Upon a Time
3. the holiday spirit must not be taken to the max
#1341 Caught Off Guard
4. unprotected royals have replaced their corgis with rottweilers
#1351 Come Give @@LEADER@@ a Kiss!
4. Mona Lola's famous mysterious smile is being altered to resemble @@LEADER@@'s enigmatic grin
#1358 Who's In Your Wallet?
5. the elderly don't know who the dickens adorns the face of newly-issued banknotes
#1445 The Dialectics of Dialects
2. faking deafness is the only way to guarantee a holiday in the nation
3. every citizen sounds like a television news anchor
#1446 Yet Another Issue About Periods
1. teachers are dying as they attempt to read 500 word essays without pausing for breath
#1474 Cuy Bono?
1. eating kids as food has been enshrined in law
#1478 Two Sides of a Coin
1. asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response
2. asking 'a penny for your thoughts?' draws law enforcement response
#1492 Smoke on the Water
1. middle-aged metal fans quite enjoy being called "rebellious youths" by even older politicians
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
2. academics have a bone to pick with free market entrepreneurs
#1511 Three Little Words
8. short is not always sweet
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
1. chicken farmers must rise before the sun every day to gag their cockerels
#1525 @@LEADER@@: The Musical!
1. citizens can freely debate whether @@LEADER@@ is a great leader or the greatest leader
3. songs of praise to @@LEADER@@ are filled with coded messages from the resistance
#1543 What Are We Paying For?
1. ten out of ten journalists agree that @@LEADER@@ is doing a bang-up job
#1552 An Issue About Nothing
3. the government has heavily invested in badly drawn monkeys
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
5. "Citizen Godfather Part IV: Gone with the Rosebud" is dominating the box office
#1560 Dead Gay
1. edgy teens know that illegal discos are where the cool cats hang
2. all music has been banned
#1574 Fowl Play
2. small children are frequently chased by rehabilitated pitbulls
#1580 Profitable for Doctrine
3. the church encourages double-dipping
#1581 Circling the Brain Drain
3. the only fine art that is valued is the fine art of economic productivity
#1588 More Popular Than @@FAITH@@
3. young people pass around flash drives filled with illegal music
#1590 Tinder Profiled
1. candlelit dinners are less romantic with a flickering LED
2. people stand their fridges back-to-front to benefit from the free heating
#1591 (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Sample!)
1. creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption
2. creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption
#1593 Flap Over Flag Fashion
1. punk-rockers and girl-bands are united in their loss of fashion statements
#1596 The Blame Game
4. restless leg syndrome sufferers live under constant fear of arrest
#1602 @@NAME@@'s Bark Worse Than Its Byte?
1. enterprising game developers are a hop, skip, and a double-jump away from arrest
2. foreigners often find themselves on the wrong end of @@A@@ @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ RPG
#1606 Book Off
1. Moby Dick can only be sold by pornographers
#1613 Incarceration Sensation
3. murder comes with a cash prize if the victim was previously incarcerated
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
2. playing card suits are sold separately
#1631 We Are Most Amused
4. royals are losing their heads over jubilee week celebrations
5. royals are losing their heads over jubilee week celebrations
#1635 A Sine of the Times
2. the number of eyes rolled per maths lesson is increasing exponentially
3. arts classes now teach children how to sketch the perfect sine curve
#1657 March Against the Museum
2. nothing is more offensive than being inoffensive
#1660 The Plight of the Doomscrollers
1. displaying impatience in any form lands you a spot on the @@NAMEINITIALS@@IA watchlist
#1670 Bad Religion
1. every record has been erased and every picture painted over
#1678 Praying for Silence
4. the sound of silence from abandoned Violetist temples is deafening
#1679 Meals on Foot
4. the five second rule has been amended to the five minute rule
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
3. children are brutally beaten for saying gyatt and skibidi
#1685 Children's Cartoon Chafes CEO
1. streaming companies get dammed up whenever a powerful person throws a tantrum
2. anyone criticizing an executive's haircut online runs the risk of being doxxed by omniscient troll m1n3l0v3r9001
#1688 The End of the Rainbow
3. oranges have been renamed to avoid trademark infringement

Removed by:

#1552 An Issue About Nothing
1. contemporary art museums showcase the latest in centuries-old art
2. artists are renowned for their ability to make art pieces out of thin air
#1557 The Artist Is Literally Present
1. political spontaneity takes a lot of planning

Sometimes removed by:

#42 Turn Down That Racket, Say Morality Police
2. elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume
#52 Is It Art or Is It Porn?
3. nude art is becoming wildly popular
#56 "Give Us Money!" Quoth the Poet
1. people reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight
#61 Should the Government Grant Estates and Titles of Nobility?
4. @@NAME@@'s Medieval Faire is renowned as one of the best in the region
#85 Illegal File-Sharing Flares
1. a cyber-war between file sharers and the music industry formats hard drives across the country
3. recorded music can be rented but not bought from record companies
#109 Karate Kids Cause Controversy
1. the government helps teach children how to kill a man from six paces
#114 Wipe Out Graffiti?
3. graffiti graces every city's streets
#124 To Paint or Not to Paint?
2. artists are pillars of society
#128 Ban the Burka?
2. there have been sightings of people walking around dressed in nothing but leopard-skin g-strings for 'religious reasons'
#129 Tribal Troubles
1. large sections of @@NAME@@ have been named national reserves to protect the native tribes living there
5. a primitive society is being eroded as its youth flock to the modern world
#131 Raise Duel Standards, Say Fencers
1. murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour
#143 An Archaeological Altercation
1. prime commercial land is being swamped with archaeological teams
3. archaeological discoveries are often followed by mysterious hamster abductions
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
2. skateparks can be found in every city
#169 @@ANIMAL@@ Hunting Laws Under Dispute
2. the nation is famous for having one of the world's largest @@ANIMAL@@ hunting institutions
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
5. the government is pursuing a new programme aimed at promoting cultural sophistication
#239 We Who Are About to Die Would Rather Go Home
1. it is a common belief that a sport isn't sport if there are no decapitations
3. criminals are thrown to the @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ to repay their debt to society
#245 Clash of Cultures
1. immigrants are required to salute the flag five times a day
4. all citizens must pass a 'multicultural sensitivity test' to be deemed fit for society
#276 Circus Clowns Cause Chaos!
2. students are wary of colorfully decorated new teachers with names like Professor Pipsqueak
#286 A Whale of a Problem
2. seafood restaurants assure customers 'If it lives in the sea, it's on our menu'
#291 A Question of Sport
3. tourists are kicked out if they express interest in their national sport
#293 Maestro, Please
1. conductors wield diamond-encrusted batons to fit in with their freshly gilded surroundings
4. commercial jingles have been ham-handedly forced into world renowned symphonies
5. terrified tympanists are finding themselves on the front lines armed only with kettledrums
#319 Sizing Up the Competition
2. the populace harbors a fierce hatred of the metric system
#329 Military Uniforms Under Scrutiny
3. troops clank into battle wearing antique suits of armour
#334 Blot Out Bauhaus?
1. builders spend more time negotiating "tasteful architecture" than on actual construction
#343 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
2. the nation refuses to discard its increasingly useless penny
#344 Trash Talk
3. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
4. the Hanging Gardens account for half of @@CAPITAL@@'s water use
#350 Queasy Cuisine
1. fine dining is just too fine for most of the populace
#352 Going Off the Rails
5. the nation's train stations are widely considered to be the ugliest in @@REGION@@
#372 The Coming of the Commissars
1. troops are either deafened by gunfire or a hysterical voice screaming the Party manifesto
#378 The War to End All Wars
1. commemoration of the Great @@REGION@@ War costs almost as much as the war itself
2. historical commemorations regularly devolve into militaristic jingoism
4. the nation grinds to a halt on the anniversary of every marginally noteworthy event
#415 Brain Pain on the Sports Plain
2. concussed @@ANIMAL@@ball players cannot remember their lineup position
3. concussed @@ANIMAL@@ball players cannot remember their lineup position
#430 Easter Egg: Please, Sir, We Want Some More Issues
4. players panic as they discover the newest chain can reset their populations and even delete their nations (@@EGG@@)
#440 Jumping the Sharknado
1. cinemas play art-house movies to ever-shrinking audiences as film critics rule the industry
2. tax-payers are funding ever more extravagant movie projects
#451 A Proselyte to Burn
4. books are so highly regarded in @@NAME@@ that libraries are often revered as holy shrines
#457 Colossus With Feet of Clay
1. tourists flock to see the giant stone carvings of historical leaders at Mount Rushless
#460 Salt of the Earth
3. the nation's solution to the ongoing famine is to lock up anyone who mentions the famine
#473 A-B-C, Easy as Don't Use Me
1. the nation's laws on image rights are amongst the strictest in the world
3. children are expected to carve their own toys
#476 A Farewell to Raised Arms?
2. village elders are often called in to interpret voting outcomes in Parliament
#478 The Show Must Go On
1. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Arts Council pays teenagers to sit through opera performances
#487 Masks of Shame
2. gossip magazines have been replaced by mask catalogs
3. public shaming is the bedrock of @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ society
#489 Standing at Attention
2. good-looking soldier boys have celebrity status amongst the nation's homosexuals
#490 The Long and Winding Halls of @@CAPITAL@@
3. groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol
#492 The Artwork in the Attic
1. Maxtopian tourists make expensive pilgrimages to @@CAPITAL@@ to enjoy their national art
#497 The Widening Gyre
3. city-dwellers are forcibly moved to farming communes in the countryside
#501 Munchkins in Makeup
2. a girl's success in life is often linked to her performance in beauty pageants
#503 @@LEADER@@, Tear Down This Door!
1. @@LEADER@@'s exquisite office door is replaced monthly due to angry petitioners
#517 Gallery in Need of a Renaissance
1. an exhibition on @@ANIMAL@@ memes is currently starring at the National Art Gallery
2. the National Art Gallery's newest exhibit is the 500-year-old Luna Lisa
3. the government has forked out millions on an unmade bed that is apparently East Lebatuckese "art"
#518 Face Lift
1. artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings
#521 The Wreck of the Edward Fitzpatrick
4. folk singers have replaced personal injury lawyers in being ridiculed as "ambulance chasers"
#527 The Body Politic
1. cities in @@NAME@@ declare independence based on interpretation of the historic meaning of cave paintings
5. city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty
6. city budgets are spent entirely on supporting the town royalty
#534 Too Few Cooks in the Kitchen
3. the nation's latest batch of politicians include internet comedians, an alleged serial killer, and a highly trained @@ANIMAL@@
#536 Any Witch Way Spells Disaster
3. young and brooding teens are welcomed with open arms to the Dogwarts School of Strangeness and Sorcery
#543 Flash, Aaaaaargh!
2. commuters often break into synchronised para-para dancing for no reason at all
#549 Feasting or Fasting?
1. hundreds of teenagers die every year at the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Hungry Games
#562 Return to Sender
3. international commentators accuse the nation of aggressive cultural imperialism
#565 'A' Is for Academic Doping
4. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
6. the nation's school children are fluent in Klingon but lack basic mathematical skills
#569 Grand Prix de @@NAME@@?
3. annual Formula One races bring the capital to a screeching halt
6. @@LEADER@@ is adamant that ponies aren't just for little girls
#577 Second World Problems
3. international television adverts praise the nation as a worker's paradise
#579 Real Handwriting Has Curves
1. urban graffiti is hand-calligraphed in perfectly kerned elegant fonts
#580 @@NAME@@ Taking Leave of Its Census?
3. the suicide rate mysteriously skyrockets during census years
#581 Fair to Say...?
2. intellectual snobbery has the cognoscenti sneering at anyone who doesn't have an opinion on the semiological drift of Umberto Eco's works
#582 Augmented Reality Check
3. people seem disproportionately distraught when told a museum has a phones-off policy
#583 Don't Be a Busk-Kill
4. funerals are often rudely interrupted by juggling clowns shouting for volunteers from the audience
5. contestants on @@NAME@@'s Got Talent are screened by the government to make sure that they actually have talent
#592 Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!
3. the tawdry celebrity gossip section has moved to the front page of most newspapers
#596 Primogeniture Problems
3. distant and obscure male relatives succeed to the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ throne
4. distant and obscure female relatives succeed to the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ throne
#600 Making a House a Home
1. @@LEADER@@'s luxurious new home has been designated as a protected cultural heritage site
#602 Hobby Lobby
2. policy reversals are more often graceful demi-détournés than u-turns
6. a light facial coating of soot is seen as the mark of an honest and hardworking man
#603 Not My Idea
3. not many kids know Shakespeare's Hamlet but most of them have seen unofficial sequel Hamlet III - The Search For Osric
#609 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, Drugs, and Rock'n'Roll
1. @@LEADER@@'s peyote-induced "let's all just be friends" speech is trending world-wide
3. the sanitised and dull music festivals of @@NAME@@ are famed for their reasonable volume levels
#612 A Petty Issue
1. golden statues of @@ANIMALPLURAL@@ line the memorial avenues of the Funerary District
#613 A Nude Day, a Nude Awakening...
3. t-shirts displaying a photo of @@LEADER@@ performing the Full-Monty are selling out
#617 Who's This Little Rascal?
2. colonials are offended to find a local animal has been re-named the 'Furry Four-Legged Marsupial @@ANIMAL@@'
#622 Easter Egg: A Holiday Masquerade
6. no one appreciates @@LEADER@@'s costume of King Oswyn V (@@EGG@@)
#625 Delivering the Goods
1. the 'Museum Of Stuff We Stole' is a tourist favourite
4. the government has declared that monochrome cinema is the next big thing
#632 Dying for a Kiss
2. bemused citizens are encouraged to sing foreign-language hymns of religions they have never heard of
#633 Sound Judgement
7. you need two tenors and a coloratura contralto to sing the national anthem properly
#634 Bullet Time
4. pootling steam trains carry delighted tourists and frustrated businessmen from city to city at a snail's pace
#637 Little Pizza History
1. the nation has nearly as many history museums as @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@
#642 This Way's Kinder
1. squeaky high prepubescent voices recite the patriotic poem "Hail to The Leader!" before each meal
#643 No Small Wonder
3. the Great Pyramid of @@CAPITAL@@ can be seen from miles away
5. the new classical revitalization of @@CAPITAL@@ is expected to be completed sometime in the next century
#644 The Old Grey Matter
1. the government officially wants you to slow down and speak more clearly
#648 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
3. it's considered a valid legal defence to say "a demon made me do it"
#649 Made in Maxtopia
2. restaurants are required to specify whether their toilet paper was made in @@NAME@@
3. there are no bananas today in @@NAME@@
#655 No Bones About It
1. barbed wire entanglements and guard towers surround the @@CAPITAL@@ Natural History Museum
#659 Ramping Up the Difficulty
3. the government is known to care more about its buildings than its people
#661 Scouting for Boys, Girls... Anyone?
3. truancy officers have a hard time catching children trained in advanced camouflage skills
#662 Playful Petitions Pester Politicians
4. @@LEADER@@ is spearheading a new fashion trend of wearing swimming goggles and medieval armour
#664 Your Land or Mine
2. the hardest thing for a mining operation to dig through is government red tape
#665 In Nomine Ecclesiae
2. hymns sung by popular choirs top the billboard charts
#668 How to Examine Your Testees
2. school children asked "what is two times two?" are likely to form a symposium to discuss how different answers make them feel
#670 A Wolf in Refugee's Clothing
3. terrorists are on a first name basis with the officials that stamp their passports
#673 The Deportation of Mr. B. Leeper
3. the nation faces constant invasions by foreign boy bands
#683 Different Keystrokes for Different Folks
3. kids who move from attending a public school in the city to the country often struggle in goat milking class
#694 Concussive Percussion
2. dynamite sales and concert audiences are booming
3. tuba players are paid to quietly whisper into their instruments
#701 Monumental Melodrama
2. statue-sitting has replaced the stake-out as the dullest form of police duty
#703 Divine Decoration
2. garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'
3. garishly-decorated government buildings are being hailed as the height of 'religious nouveau'
#719 Buried Bones Unearth Debate
3. citizens try to pass off bottlecaps they found in their backyards as historical artifacts
#721 A Lack of Comma Sense
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are fixin' ta comma any way they wanna
#735 Rap Sheet
3. songs in 4/4 time are simply too common for the musical cognoscenti
#737 Bird-Brained Diplomacy
3. when the air force says "Black Hawk Down" they mean the feathers of the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ dark-plume goshawk
#738 Cruel or Unusual?
1. drug lords often avoid prison time by teaching "chemistry" classes to underprivileged youth
#746 [The Enemy Within] There's a Place
1. for 25 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ tourists can gawk at the site of national tragedy
#747 The Plane Truth
5. Air @@NAME@@ is rumored to receive more government funding than the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force
6. Air @@NAME@@ is rumored to receive more government funding than the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Air Force
#764 Dude, Where's My Elected Representative?
3. politicians are often seen attending regional history classes at primary schools within their constituencies
#768 Trouble Brewing
2. the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea
#769 How to Print Money?
4. shopkeepers use microscopes to verify the authenticity of banknotes
#772 Do You Have Artistic License?
3. the right school tie opens more doors than the right qualification
#778 Mal Appetit!
2. celebrity foodies are biting a huge chunk out of the government budget
#788 Duel Purposes
4. angry men scowl at each other across chess boards
#801 Animation Provocation
3. toy versions of heroin paraphernalia let kids pretend to be their favourite TV characters
4. the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools
#802 No Lock, No Gun Stock, and No Smoking Barrels
4. wars are filled with soldiers wielding machetes and chainsaws for safety reasons
#803 Park That Thought
2. cogitators and mass debaters are skiving off work to hang around the National Symposium Park
#818 We Are Not Amused
4. visitors to Violet Rock City are stunned to learn that they must memorize the "99 Principles" before entering
#820 These Heels Weren't Made for Working
3. ruff times are ahead for those who aren't keen on party costumes
#821 A Switch in Time Kills Nine
3. it is illegal to have the wrong clock time showing on your microwave oven
#829 Winning at Battleship
4. a rusted hulk in @@CAPITAL@@ harbour has been voted the worst eyesore in @@REGION@@
#831 Give Us a Break, @@LEADER@@
1. collisions between bicycles and carnival floats are on the rise
#853 Silence Is Golden
1. on-call doctors who check their pagers during movies are banned from cinemas for life
2. citizens no longer take selfies with their dead relatives at funerals
#856 You Got Stones
1. the experimental sculpture "Overtures In Dried @@ANIMAL@@ Dung" has been declared a national treasure
2. Brancaland has gifted over nine thousand putrid moose carcasses to @@NAME@@ as a reminder of their "special relationship"
#867 Museums: Things of the Past?
1. museums have more touchscreens on display than artifacts
2. education is transforming people into first-rate snobs
3. the Gallery of Instasnap is the most popular museum in the country
4. the Gallery of Amusing Cat Photographs is the most popular museum in the country
#876 Sequels: The Saga Continues
2. this year's televised Budget Forecast has been cancelled because there was already one last year
3. movie producers send film critics wads of cash in their morning newspapers in anticipation of gushing praise
#880 Oh @@NAME@@, What Obscene Children's Books You Have
2. explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends
3. preschools put children down for naps with milk, cookies, and a gruesome story of vengeance
#887 Thin Skin
1. nature magazines featuring stick insects on their covers are sometimes mistaken for fashion magazines
4. bronze and marble supplies are running low as sculptors depict full-figured subjects
#888 Criminal Patterns
1. road signs are getting harder to read under layers of knitted woolen cardigans
#891 Preach It!
2. street preachers sell salvation with a side order of shame on every corner
#892 The Old Metric
1. an extra hand on the leg will give a horse-and-a-half of lead in a hundred jiffies on seven furlongs
#899 Uncultured Singles in Your Area
1. the law forbids arson, murder, and low-quality cheese
2. there's a revolutionary culture in the nation's dairies
#902 Killer App
6. there'll be no comeback tour for many former boy bands
#905 Stage Directions
2. in musicals everybody's a little bit racist
4. five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred revivals is how theatre-goers measure a year
#906 Internet Killed the Television Star
2. the television adaptation of Jennifer Government is the most popular program in the nation
#909 On the Fence
1. a few immigrants are better than no immigrants according to @@LEADER@@
#914 Shepherds Without a Flock
4. the dwindling faithful in the nation make expensive pilgrimages to the remaining places of worship
#920 Central Planning Theatrics
2. theatre audiences often need a telescope to see the stage
#934 @@LEADER@@, Don't Tear Down That Wall!
1. a blood-red mark on the doorframe means a building must be passed over for destruction
3. government theft from poor artists to give to rich allies has been dubbed the "reverse Robin Hood" policy
#940 The Court of the Crimson Lord
1. a typical peasant's life cycle leads from birth to the gallows
#946 Better In Than Out
1. wrongful arrests abound as 'criminals' blame the guy next to them
3. there's a lot of hot air coming from the Capitol Building
#957 Putrid Predicament
3. the diplomatic corps stinks
#959 A-Major Debate
1. elementary school students are required to master Bach's Chaconne in D before graduation
#963 The @@LEADER@@ Meme
4. the latest political memes depict @@LEADER@@ as an overly-choreographed robot
#965 Like a Bull in a Dàguó Shop
4. card collectors duel to the death
#966 As You Don't Like It
2. minstrels carrying coconut shells provide sound effects wherever their nobles wander
3. stoogery and pratfalls are about as scathingly clever as @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ humor gets
#968 @@NAME@@ Falls Flat in Singing Contest
1. foreign lack of enthusiasm for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ nose-flute disco metal is seen as a reasonable casus belli
2. most pop videos prominently feature the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ flag
#972 Sing Heil!
1. concert halls sport signs proclaiming "No Shorts, Sandals or Swastikas"
#977 Tragedy of Wounded Earlobe
1. the stacked neck-ring is this season's hottest fashion item
4. the government evicts ethnic minorities by stranding them in the wilderness
#979 A Patronising Statement
1. the nation's best artists are considered pretty easy to beat
2. a popular artist is claiming that a raw steak with a dog turd on it is a portrait of @@LEADER@@
#984 A Midsummer Night's Snooze-Fest
1. some are born loving old plays and some have old plays thrust upon them
4. all the playground's a stage for @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ schoolchildren
#989 Gunman Wounds Three
1. gun-wielding gangsters sometimes deal death from as far as ten paces away
#996 Scripting a Change?
2. it is considered unpatriotic to learn a foreign language
#1031 Down in the Groove
1. seven-year-olds debate for weeks on the merits of the Oxford comma
#1033 Someone to Watch Over Me
1. trade deals are born to the sound of a royal woman's anguished screams
#1035 Bringing a Bayonet to a Gunfight
1. soldiers' positions are given away by the glint of their bayonets
3. posing for pictures is an integral part of military training
#1036 When in Maxtopia
2. at least 1% of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs budget goes to @@LEADER@@'s wardrobe
4. the nation was recently voted as the most stylish in @@REGION@@
#1040 A Recipe for Success?
3. days begin with afternoon tea
#1043 Foundering Fashionistas
3. artists attempt to convince the Hardship Fund that their unmade bed is a masterpiece
#1044 OK Stupid
2. it is quite common for bar patrons to discuss Wittgenstein over cordials and games of backgammon
#1077 With Friends Like These...
2. primetime re-runs of The Black and White Minstrel Show are a critical hit
#1078 Down With That?
3. ship captains always order a return to port at the slightest sign of rain
#1081 The Queen in Yellow
3. gossip magazines are more interested in astrological stars than celebrity ones
#1084 How Now Kowtow?
1. arthritic citizens seem underrepresented at royal meet-and-greets
#1086 Fun in the Sun
1. the 'sing-a-long with @@LEADER@@' album is a popular souvenir
2. tourists are duped into trimming hedges for the horsy-set
4. awkward tourists are offered the 'unique experience' of rodeo clown
#1090 I Ain't Afraid of No Girls
4. films are funded in accordance with the volume of tears shed when reading the screenplay
#1099 New Satellite Blues
5. the government's new priority is citizens' access to cat videos
6. the government's new priority is citizens' access to cat videos
#1100 Raiders of the Lost Archive
2. few that venture into government archives are ever seen again
3. the government's giant servers are often used as a tourist trap
#1101 Unreal
5. Chekhov's guns are killing the entertainment budget
#1104 Balancing the Books
1. books are often used as kindling
3. the book "Zen and the Art of Dog Maintenance" is inexplicably a worldwide success
#1105 A Green History Lesson
2. residents of ageing concrete tower blocks have vital renovation work stopped by Brutalism enthusiasts
#1145 Your Wild Self(ie)
4. teenagers are making eye contact with each other for the first time in years
#1152 Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting!
3. the 'three Rs' have become the 'four Rs' with the addition of Rightful Thought
#1154 Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling
1. citizens who leave the nation for work are instantly charged with treason
4. the @@CAPITAL@@ Film Festival recently voted '@@DEMONYMNOUN@@ Getting Hit By Football' as best film
#1157 Rodney and Julietta
4. heartfelt sentiments are mercilessly marketed by a million-@@CURRENCY@@ treacle machine
#1163 Some Assembly Required
2. group hugs break out during floor votes
#1166 Acres Wild
2. the backs of 'No Trespassing' signs were made for you and me
#1169 An Old Head on Young Shoulders
1. museum employees look down on short people
#1179 Nothing Fishy
4. fly fishermen are legally forbidden from using electronic lures
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
1. the saying 'break a leg' is now taken literally
#1202 A Timely Intervention
3. the well-to-do in @@REGION@@ are never on time for important appointments
#1203 The Fandom Menace
1. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ novella fans become unusually flustered when thinking about @@LEADER@@
#1207 Next, Please!
2. nobody thinks that the Godfather was bettered by Part 2
#1220 Barely Any Art
1. masterpieces by male artists are on display in the dumpsters behind the gallery
#1221 Man of the People
2. politicians can be condescending (which by the way means "showing an attitude of patronising superiority")
#1223 Courting Bankruptcy
2. royals are always ready with their diamond-encrusted toilet plungers in case a royal flush doesn't work
3. nephews and nieces of the monarch resort to begging from relatives in palace halls
#1238 No Shoes, No Service
2. signs saying "No Poor People or Weirdoes" are common outside shops and cafés
#1257 It's a Kind of Magic
4. paranoid museum guards keep a lookout for any animated displays attempting to escape the premises after dark
#1262 Dead Tasty
2. the dessert 'Death by Chocolate' isn't the most lethal dish on the menu
3. there's a mortuary next to every @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurant
#1271 Cathedrals Have Never Been Hotter
2. rebuilding efforts for a recently destroyed cathedral aren't expected to be completed for another century
#1286 Burning Over a New Leaf
2. it's a marvellous night for a moon dance as the sparks on your home start to rise
#1317 Nanny State
1. practically perfect royal toddlers tend to say "regrettably not at this juncture" rather than "no"
#1323 Toss the Coin?
2. the newest East Lebatuckese coins have "long live East Lebatuck" on heads and "death to @@NAME@@" on tails
#1341 Caught Off Guard
1. it isn't only obsequious grandees who produce a lot of manure at state occasions
#1350 The @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Are Coming!
2. a degree of self-hatred is vital for a future in politics
#1358 Who's In Your Wallet?
1. the nation honors the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ weed picker
2. internet searches for the inventor of the three-wheeled steam-powered @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ weed picker are way up
#1425 @@LEADER@@'s New Clothes
2. @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ believe manners maketh the leader
#1445 The Dialectics of Dialects
1. the official @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ Phrase Book weighs as much as a small child
#1446 Yet Another Issue About Periods
2. children spend all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in again
#1471 @@LEADER@@ and the Lost Chamber of Vetoes
1. old fossils give the tours at the parliamentary museum
2. the parliament doubled in size recently
3. the parliament doubled in size recently
#1474 Cuy Bono?
2. @@CAPITAL@@ has restaurants serving every meat from aardvark to zebra
#1478 Two Sides of a Coin
3. the nation's museums are real penny-pinchers
#1495 Throwing Paleontologists a Bone
1. kids looking for shark teeth have become ancient history
#1509 Parks and Aggravation
6. visitors to Graffiti Warrens National Park are offered a complimentary tetanus vaccination
#1521 The Bells! The Bells!
2. families must live in a village for a century before they get any say in how it runs
#1523 Don't Tread on My Money
2. a shocking number of estate planners are beneficiaries of their clients' wills
#1525 @@LEADER@@: The Musical!
2. community theaters are known for their bawdy renditions of 'Springtime for @@LEADER@@'
4. @@LEADER@@ accepted United Federation theatrical awards for Best Writer and Best Actress on behalf of the absent recipients
#1528 Our Feta Which Art in Havarti...
2. even secular @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ are shouting "Blessed are the cheesemakers!"
#1545 Deep Down Up to No Good
2. what goes down must come up
#1549 Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin'
11. @@LEADER@@ has decreed that one must think of cheese upon reading the word mouse (@@EGG@@)
#1553 Fifteen Minutes of Flame
1. the government expresses surprisingly intense opinions on the use of whip pans
2. private digital records now come with a convenient "download" button
3. private records are being put online with a convenient "download" button
4. fan-made edits of old films have seen a sudden jump in quality
#1557 The Artist Is Literally Present
2. those who turn the other cheek seem to enjoy being slapped just a little too much
3. people say that cubists are rubbish because they can't draw faces
#1560 Dead Gay
3. a lot of number one hits are straight cover versions
#1568 Palate Torture
2. running a hot dog stand is harder than achieving a doctorate
#1574 Fowl Play
3. you can't make an omelet without breaking a few legs
#1591 (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Sample!)
3. this summer's chart-toppers sound almost the same as last year's
5. beatboxing has replaced the 'Wilhelm scream' as the nation's most popular sound effect
#1593 Flap Over Flag Fashion
2. the national colors help to make everyone look slimmer
3. this year's hottest fashion trend is the Lese Majeste collection
#1602 @@NAME@@'s Bark Worse Than Its Byte?
3. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect
4. the nation's economic policies have a narrow area of effect
5. the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ foreign aid program is quick to provide starving children with the latest video games
#1614 Fauxthentic Food
2. @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ diplomacy is by the book
3. visiting the best @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants requires keeping a visa on file
4. visiting the best @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ restaurants requires keeping a visa on file
#1625 At What Price?
4. millionaires are surprised to find they are eligible for government handouts
#1630 Downloadable Discourse
1. the average video game can be completed over lunch break
3. video game protagonists bear striking resemblances to major political figures
#1631 We Are Most Amused
1. street cleaners are noticeably glum during jubilee celebrations
#1635 A Sine of the Times
1. only those who apply can study applied maths
#1659 A Dialectal Dilemma
3. Dàguó lanterns outnumber streetlights in major cities
#1677 Common Cents
1. the rich are once again pinching pennies
#1679 Meals on Foot
1. police shut down children's lemonade stands for being "unsavory street food"
#1680 A Slip of the Tongue
1. elderly tribespeople die in bed surrounded by loved ones and linguists
2. all tribal children are set for life with guaranteed government jobs
#1688 The End of the Rainbow
1. children who refuse to share their crayons are arrested
2. cave paintings are back in vogue
#1696 Everyone Loves Shipping
2. the poorest @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ live in 'the stacks'

teetotalling pirates

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#59 Drunk Driving on the Rise
3. all alcohol is banned
#201 Jolly Roger Sighted Off the Port Bow!
2. the government is frequently held to ransom by the increasing demands of bloodthirsty pirates
3. the nation has become a pariah for giving pirates letters of marque
4. piracy is the nation's most popular pastime
#227 Underage Drinkers: Social Menace or Misunderstood?
7. ravers are having trouble getting used to blackcurrant squash instead of vodka
#284 Drug Legality Run Amok
4. politicians debate whether caffeine is too addictive for the public
#434 Fraternity Furor
4. moonshine and organized crime are on the rise ever since alcohol was banned
#588 Last Call for Alcohol?
1. former bars are desperately trying to re-brand themselves as cafés
#1108 A Whiskey Rebellion Brewing
6. hospitals scramble for new disinfectants following a ban on rubbing alcohol
#1115 One in the Arm for @@LEADER@@?
3. acupuncture is routinely prescribed for intravenous drug addicts
#1212 Lost at Sea
4. ships no longer sail as no one wants to encounter @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ pirates
#1499 Chasing the Pixelated Dragon
3. citizens have to stick a fork into an electrical outlet to get a buzz
#1545 Deep Down Up to No Good
3. in coastal waters there are fifteen salvage divers per dead man's chest (yo ho ho)
4. merchant ships always travel line astern in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ waters

Removed by:

#139 Drug Debate Hits the Streets
3. zombie-like crowds of hard drug users stumble through the streets
#185 "Bring Back Our Booze!" Cry Revellers
1. @@NAME@@'s fine wines are renowned throughout the region
#201 Jolly Roger Sighted Off the Port Bow!
1. @@NAME@@'s navy has been named the scourge of the seven thousand seas
#375 Easter Egg: Keep Your Hands Off Those Lucky Charms!
3. drunk leprechauns pelt countryside ramblers with gold coins (@@EGG@@)
#889 A Plank Too Far
2. thousands of former pirates can be found peddling knockoff products in flea markets
#985 Service With a Snarl
3. bar brawls are an hourly occurrence
4. bar brawls are an hourly occurrence
#1116 To Each According to His Feed
1. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
2. it is well recognised that you can't sustain communism without a bit of spirit
#1406 Can't Touch This
5. falling over while singing is a national pastime
#1548 Killing in the Name of Beer
1. roaming gangsters have been replaced by roaming drunkards

triple-decker prams

Gained from:

#364 It's UterUs, Not UterYou!
2. churches frequently hold public 'contraception burnings'
#426 Women in Uniform Under Fire
3. women are ordered home to reproduce for the glory of the @@TYPE@@
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
2. parents tell their children 'what a lovely mistake you turned out to be'
#1289 Cramping Our Style
3. the standard prescription for infertility-causing conditions is "go have a baby"
4. doctors with dyed hair inform patients via video-link that they must not go against nature

Removed by:

#168 @@NAME@@ Plagued by STD Epidemic!
1. the government has undertaken a massive health education program to combat VODAIS
#200 Birds, Bees, and Breeding Teens
1. teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough
2. teenagers are told they're not thinking about sex enough
#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#983 Doctors' Orders
3. a popular saying is "a chicken for every pot and an abortion clinic on every street"
#1023 Pure Madness
3. couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten
4. couples are discouraged from marrying until they can rank their partner on a scale of one to ten
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
4. nocturnal complaints about noisy neighbours are rising stiffly
#1142 Womb Service
1. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
2. lifelong celibates are surprised to receive government-issue condoms in the post
#1340 Unnatural Conception
3. the word "mother" is the favourite punchline of ribald comics
#1349 You Must Be 18 Years or Older to View This Content
2. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
3. kindergartners love the free balloons that their schools give them
#1353 The Birds and the Plan Bs
1. construction of the @@CAPITAL@@ Abortionplex has commenced
2. construction of the @@CAPITAL@@ Abortionplex has commenced

ubiquitous missile silos

Gained from:

#147 Military Budgets Up for Approval
4. most of the military's funding goes into researching space-age weaponry
#151 Build Bigger Bombs, Advise Scientists
1. citizens live in superstitious fear of the mysterious glowing clouds that float over @@NAME@@
2. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
3. the nation has recently been attributed to the funding of terrorist organisations
#233 I Spy a Diplomatic Crisis
5. citizens have reported seeing strange rays of light emanating from the moon
#252 Great Balls of Fire!
1. nuclear warheads are frequently launched into space as a warning to invading meteoroids
#312 The Empire Strikes First?
3. the nation is reliant on the principle of mutually assured destruction to maintain its security
#349 Bigtopian Bigwigs Beset Border
3. the military is recruiting war criminals to join its weapons research teams
#397 [An International Incident] Select Your Target!
3. @@REGION@@ holds its breath as nuclear warfare is being seriously considered
#398 [An International Incident] Why Did You Do That?!
3. the international community waits with bated breath as the moment of nuclear warfare comes closer
#399 [An International Incident] Invasion Plan
3. nuclear bases are readying themselves for missile deployment
#400 [An International Incident] Insurgents Resurgence
3. innocent civilians in Brasilistan are evacuating the country after rumours a nuclear strike is imminent
#401 [An International Incident] What's the WA Gonna Do, Anyway?
3. the manufacturing and stockpiling of nuclear weapons is on the increase
#402 [An International Incident] They Surrendered... Now What?
3. soldiers in Brasilistan are reported to be AWOL as @@NAME@@ prepares to bomb the nation
#403 [An International Incident] We Done Killing Yet?
2. the entire nation of Brasilistan has been designated as a nuclear testing site
#405 [An International Incident] Time for a Colonyoscopy!
4. Brasilistan is being evacuated after its designation as 'Test Zone 1 - Nuclear'
#505 Florists Blooming Mad
4. Maxtopians are both starving and giddy after the @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ military unleashed its biological weapons
#542 What a Waste
3. nuclear physics is the most popular course at university
4. global anti-terrorist organisations strongly suspect @@NAME@@ of supplying extremist groups
#576 Light at the End of the Tunnel
4. conspiracy nuts claim that the government is trying to bring about an end to civilisation
#656 Ransoms Noted
3. cancer rates amongst the richest in society are inexplicably on the rise
#708 How @@LEADER@@ Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Bio-Weapons
2. some say @@LEADER@@ has gone MAD after authorizing the development of apocalyptic biological weapons
#1013 Grave Disease
3. wood-framed catapults are ready to launch diseased corpses into besieged cities
#1572 Eco Warriors
4. global warming is being combated via global eradication
#1584 Loose Lips, Characters Shipped?
4. the sudden proliferation of nuclear weapons is very queer
5. the sudden proliferation of nuclear weapons is very queer

Removed by:

#14 Military Demands Increased Spending
2. military funding has been stripped back
#151 Build Bigger Bombs, Advise Scientists
4. all weapon research has been banned
#238 We Need a Few Good Men Who Like Men?
5. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
6. the nation is constantly threatened with invasion but at least homosexuality in the military isn't a problem
#444 Virtually Assured Destruction
4. the nation has dismantled its entire WMD arsenal
#815 Embargoed In
5. the nation is devoted to world peas
#862 Friends Close, Enemies Closer
7. each infantry rifle comes pre-loaded with a single white carnation in the barrel
#869 I'll Be in My Bunker
5. the nation's nuclear defence policy is to "turn the other cheek"
#982 Your Move, @@LEADER@@?
4. when it comes to WMDs @@NAME@@ has declared that the only winning move is not to play
#1080 The End Was Nigh
3. the new biography of @@LEADER@@ is subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate the Bomb"
#1085 Nuke Before You Leap
3. the nation has returned to more conventional warfare to slaughter its enemies
#1375 [MADness] Never Say Yes to a Conference Again
7. the nation has chosen not to live in interesting times
#1390 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
3. the nation's most powerful weapon is its negotiating skills
#1405 [MADness] Spectrum of Solace
2. the nation's most powerful weapon is its negotiating skills
#1413 Old Fusion
3. standard-issue infantry rifles now have carnations instead of bayonets
#1429 The Wind Become Death
2. radiation is a hot topic

unlimited-speed roads

Gained from:

Sometimes gained from:

#73 @@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast
1. the ban on cars has been repealed
2. the ban on cars has been repealed
3. the government is spending millions on alternative clean-burning fuels
#118 Need for Speed?
1. the roads are notorious throughout the region for their peril
#625 Delivering the Goods
11. former customs officers are adjusting to their new lives as market stall traders
#826 Licensing Driving @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ Crazy
4. hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport
#907 A Problem Shared
5. cars are allowed to drive in bike lanes
#945 Police on the Take
2. crimes are difficult to stop as most of the police force is stuck in traffic
#1022 Failure to Respond
5. the "good old days" of road traffic accidents and smog-filled cities are back
#1181 Jolly Jousting Japes
2. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
3. motorbike jousters live young and die fast
#1310 Intimate Relations
7. excited Romeos drive all the way to the next village for a date
#1621 The Space Between
1. government employees are authorized driver's licenses to get their bosses much-needed morning espressos
4. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses
5. @@LEADER@@ spends most weeknights picking up little nuisances from friends' houses

Removed by:

#2 Reclaim the Streets!
1. cars are banned
#102 For Whom the Road Tolls
3. cars have been banned
#154 Ban the 'Boards, Say Pedestrians
3. skateboarding is the only legal way to travel
#186 Carjacking Concerns
4. urban citizens are forced onto public transport while rural citizens ride horses and buggies
#256 Easter Egg: Suburbs Are Out of This World
2. white-collar unemployment skyrockets as the suburbs are not within bicycling distance to work (@@EGG@@)
#272 Slow Down, You're Going Too Fast
1. mothers drive their college-graduate children to work
3. bicycle parking sheds have sprouted like mushrooms near rail stations after cars were banned
#290 Wheels of Misfortune
4. heavy industry grinds to a halt as new equipment must be biked in
#302 Delivering Mayhem in Thirty Minutes or Less!
1. many feel that the government's ban on cars to combat reckless driving was "a tad excessive"
#408 Easter Egg: Pony Peril
3. ponies working in the nation's salt mines have a life expectancy of weeks (@@EGG@@)
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
4. the nation has reverted back to an agrarian society after anything more advanced than the wheel was banned
#713 Life in the Bike Lane
4. the nation's infamous rickshaw ambulances often double as hearses
#784 The Driving Force
5. mail and shipped goods take forever to get to buyers
#997 [The Enemy Within] Not a Second Time
5. mandatory blunting of cutlery has increased the popularity of soup-based meals
#1633 Do You Think He's Overcompensating for Something?
4. demolition derbies mostly consist of bicycles crashing into each other

vat-grown people

Gained from:

#123 Now, Vat's Food for Thought
6. citizens are grown in vats
#358 Not Another Teen Pregnancy
4. the youth of today are literally shaped by big business
5. the youth of today are literally shaped by state ideology
#486 An Impressing Dilemma
5. new vat-grown soldiers are as replaceable as bullets
#1028 Can't Get Enough of You Baby
3. the love has gone in @@NAME@@

Removed by:

#279 A Vat Lot of Trouble
3. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
4. 'Let's Get It On' has jumped to #1 on the billboard charts
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
6. relationship guidance consists of "lie back and think of @@NAME@@"
#1219 Vat Is a Serious Problem
2. religious leaders insist all life is sacred (but not those vat-bred wretches)
3. growing infants in a vat is an antiquated concept
#1340 Unnatural Conception
6. therapists advise women who are constantly stressed and tired to have another baby

zero percent divorce rate

Gained from:

#32 One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists
2. the institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced
3. the institution of marriage is held sacred and strictly enforced
#165 Wedlock Worries
3. all marriages are arranged by the government
#175 Is @@NAME@@ Too Promiscuous?
1. adultery has been made a capital offence
#236 Quickie Marriages Under Scrutiny
3. spousal homicide rates have tripled in recent months
#482 Whose Fault Is It Anyways?
5. mandatory spouse selection pairs elderly apparatchiki with stunningly beautiful supermodels
#1159 The Sad State of Affairs
1. the vow 'til death do us part' is often taken as an invitation to murder
2. the vow 'til death do us part' is often taken as an invitation to murder
#1251 The Making of a Mass Murderer
1. wedding bands come in pairs to form wedding manacles
#1459 Friends With Tax Benefits
2. tax avoidance is a serious affair

Sometimes gained from:

#1 Where's the Love Gone?
1. divorce is illegal
2. divorce is illegal
#32 One Wife Is Never Enough, Say Polygamists
4. there have been reports of people marrying housepets
#506 It's Official: "I Do" Does Do It
1. every conceivable scenic location has been completely booked by couples desperate to marry
3. couples wishing to marry spend months at the circus trying to learn acrobatics
#539 All My Bits Are Belong to You
2. @@LEADER@@'s new android secretary is the latest media darling
3. robosexual marriages are increasingly common
#687 Marriage by Proxy Server
1. many marriages go virtually unconsummated
#759 Marry, Marry, Quite Contrarily
3. the government's stance on marriage is 'Let @@DEMONYMNOUNPLURAL@@ marry themselves'
#1155 The Banquet of Walnuts
3. the church declares that everyone should get a large serving of nuts daily
#1464 Gentry Genes Getting Grim
2. would-be crossers of the class divide find the social ladder is well-lubricated

Removed by:

#175 Is @@NAME@@ Too Promiscuous?
4. @@NAME@@ is notorious for its citizens' infidelity
#274 Brotherly Love - a Bit Too Close to Home?
4. divorce lawyers are found begging on the streets
6. citizens may not "love, honor and obey" anyone except the State
#314 An Affair to Remember?
4. once-popular honeymoon destinations have become ghost towns due to a lack of visitors
#482 Whose Fault Is It Anyways?
1. acrimonious legal battles result during divorce proceedings
#506 It's Official: "I Do" Does Do It
2. children in school learn that marriage and slavery go hand in hand
#1113 No Sex Please, We're @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@
2. @@LEADER@@ is in a committed monogamous relationship with a huge number of people
#1129 Behind the Red Curtain
2. end-of-year production reports state that the revolution is really going with a bang
#1598 Weeping Widows
4. many adults are moving back in with their parents

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