As in other Stalinist, Kim Jong Il, Adolf, Saddam, Chairman Mao style Great Leader societies, the difference between the state and the Great Leader becomes blurred. "La France? C'est moi!" quoth DeGaulle. <De Gaulle still remained something of a mystery to Americans. He claimed a grandeur, a synecdoche of self and nation ("La France, c'est moi"), which in another man would have seemed monstrously totalitarian, or at least extremely eccentric > time.com Google is great!
Helengrad aptly describes the Great Leader and her capital. Anyway, Helen doesn't single-handedly run the place. She has a swarm of courtiers, acolytes and coven members to assist in the assizes and seizures. So I wasn't really meaning simply our Great Leader. She's usually overseas, leaving Helengrad to run New Zealand in her absence.
Wellington is not simply a government town, but if the capital and all government functions moved to Auckland instead, or perhaps Kerikeri for a really good climatic improvement, Wellington would become not a lot better than Picton, though the port would probably continue to attract a lot of business from the farming hinterlands.
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PS: Thanks to my buddy Google. "The Siege of Helengrad" investigatemagazine.com |
