World news: UN FOCUSES ON TURMOIL IN AMERIJKANISTAN
After two decades in which social and financial inequalities
widened amidst unsustainable speculative development, the
country of Amerijkanistan held presidential elections this week.
The two leading candidates were both drawn
from a tiny elite, both spent vast sums on propaganda, and both
have claimed victory. Experts on Amerijkanistan recall the
history of violent revolution, civil war and more recent political
violence and assassinations, resignations, impeachments, sexual
scandals and corruption in this emergent republic, and recommend
that the UN supervise its elections until the country
stabilizes.
"It is struggling to emerge from years of
political polarization and turmoil" said a World Trade
Organization spokesperson, "and its long-suffering people deserve
our support."
"One side of the country declared results before voting had finished
in the other side" he explained. Moreover, he went on to spell out that the
southern province of 'Floridalandia,' in which the leadership struggle
is being fought, is run by the brother of one of the candidates,
whose father had previously ruled the entire country, having risen through
his control of the nation's intelligence/security apparatus. Their family is
based in a part of the country in which secessionist feelings have
long run strong and which was only incorporated into
Amerijkanistan after a border war.
Experts on Amerijkanistan argue that the UN
should go in to run education programs, disarm the population,
relieve the malnutrition and environmental problems caused by
adherence to a staple diet of cheese and burgers, democratize the
police forces and above all halt the further development of war
machinery.
"This country has used dangerous weapons in
the past and often threatened to do so again. But with our help,
modernization, and a stress on human development, it
may have a more stable future and join the ranks of the
civilized international community" he said. |
