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Mouse On The Moon Grand Fenwick, a comedy fictional micronation, has only one export, wine. Unfortunately it has started exploding and s

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Completing the Census

It’s 2020, and that means that the decennial Census must be completed.

On Wednesday, April 1st, I filled out the Census survey online. And, as I said I would two years ago…

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As I wrote in that two year-old blog post, “I have decided that I will report that my ancestors come from Grand Fenwick, an independent, English-speaking…

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24. The Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is only three miles by five. Yet it somehow managed to win the war against the United States.

They declared war because their livelihood was under threat. A California winery was making a cheap imitation of Pinot Grand Fenwick, the only export of this tiny nation. The plan was to lose the war and have America rebuild Grand Fenwick financially. This would alleviate Grand Fenwick’s problems arising from being a tiny nation with a growing population and corresponding expansion of their land mass.

The problem is: Grand Fenwick won the war. Their declaration of war was accidentally dropped in a river, put behind a radiator to dry, and promptly forgotten. When Grand Fenwick‘s expeditionary forces landed in New York City, they found no one about. The whole city was hiding underground, practicing in case of a nuclear attack, and none the wiser about the war above them.

The invaders managed to capture a general as well as a scientist. This scientist was the greater prize because he had invented the “Q-bomb,“ which was also captured. All these spoils of war were taken to Grand Fenwick, leading to many international armies descending on the tiny nation - either to steal the bomb or protect Grand Fenwick from those who would steal the bomb... or both.

This entire book is an exercise in absurd comedy, but each component of the plot is plausible enough and interwoven into the narrative so well that not one item can be completely discounted as being beyond the realm of possibility.

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