Italy

Italy is that country shaped like a boot, except that the bottom half doesn't count, so it's actually sort of blob shaped like most countries. Some of Tumbleweed and marcog's ancestors come from the half that counts.

They invented pizza causing Nomad010 to love them forever.

It claims to be a democracy, but the government changes more often than any other country in the world: Italy has had an election every 18 months, on average, since WWII. These elections are just excuses to take off work, because they're invariably won by whichever mobster has the hottest wife and the biggest yacht (bonus points if he also owns all the TV channels). Before they became a democracy, they were ruled by a very well-dressed dictator, but even the Fascists couldn't get the trains running on time, because the drivers were too busy riding scooters and saying "Ciao!" to beautiful women.

"If you only want him to be able to cope with addition and subtraction, then any French or German university will do. But if you are intent on your son going on to multiplication and division—assuming that he has sufficient gifts—then you will have to send him to Italy."

Notable Italians

 * tumbleweed


 * marcog


 * Benito Mussolini