[Fedora]

The UN is the world's governing body. hmmmm, and my little country of, ahem, Yoakle, is not a member. hmmm

Reminds me of when I was in high school and they had the better history students attend something called Model UN where you go to a college building which simulates the UN building, and you pretend to be a UN diplomat and argue policy with other students playing other diplomats. It worked about as efficiently as the real UN :) About halfway through my friend and I skipped out and visited the comic-book store down the street--I believe I bought some Spider-Mans :)

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

When I was in high school I participated in "Boy's State", which was supposed to be a simulation of Michigan state government. Kids from all over the state spent 10 days in a Michigan State University dorm; the various wings and floors of the dorm made up "cities" and "counties", etc.

One of the big events while we were there was the "state convention", where we all gathered together in a hall to vote for candidates for state offices, such as governor, attorney general, etc. Since almost none of the candidates were known to every "city", the practice of vote trading was quickly discovered... reps from each city began visiting other cities, making offers like "Vote for our candidate for attorney general and we'll vote for your candidate for secretary of state."

When the organizers of the event found out, they were horrified; they quickly got up onto the stage and announced that under no circumstances would vote trading be allowed, because that sort of thing never happened in real state government!

Right then and there I gave up on the whole farce as hopelessly naive.