Bulletin Bookland Proclaims its Right to Sovereignty, Freedom, and Indeed its Very Right to Exist! The Sovereignty Council of the Upper House of the Parilament of the Republic of Bookland has reviewed the plans of the various barcode organizations, and in particular those of EAN. It has issued a statement whose summary is as follows: The decision to eliminate the Republic of Bookland from the EAN encoding system is an unwarranted and completely unprovoked attack on the sovereignty of our great nation. We cannot stand idly by as the international community continues to ride roughshod over the rights of smaller nations. The actions of the EAN and its allies are of such an extreme nature, threatening the very existence of our dear motherland, that we consider all international weapons limitation treaties to have been abrogated.  We therefore recommend to the Chancellor that he triple the budget of the Development Office of the Department of Weapons of Mass Disruption in order to bring certain bombasticisms and other developmental weaponry to a state of preparedness for battle as soon as possible. The world community is hereby on notice that no form of  verbal munition, no orutundity, tumidity, no declamatory armament shall be considered off limits. Rhetorical warheads headed in your direction may contain the most vicious sarcasm, causticity, and parody of your most cherished institutions. You have been warned. Click here for the latest news about these ominous developments.

Locate In Bookland Access to a literate and educated workforce is increasingly important to your enterprise in this Information Age. So you'll be interested to know that Bookland's hard working people not only are all - 100% - literate, but are  among the most intellectually capable in the world. Perhaps that's because the right to vote is conferred only upon those who have submitted a satisfactory critique of a work of at least 250 pages.     Visit Osmio, our Capital City Come to Osmio, City Hall to the World! Our principal export is authenticity.     Visit Bookland Mountains and valleys, lakes and  libraries, berms and bibliotheques, coastlines and cafes, we have it all! And don't forget our lively shopping districts, including the unique-in-all-the-world Optometry Mall!

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