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AMBERGRIS
Language : Ambergrisian (usually translated into English for the sake of convenience) Major Religion : Truffidianism, as well as Manziism, and several hundred other religions. (Note: Due to the ferocity and indifference of the native gray caps, who still live in subterranean passages, this entry on religion does not include the religion practiced by the gray caps, which is unknown.) Population : 926,000 (Note: This does not include the gray caps, who live under the city.) Currency : Sel (replaced by the trillian, although the sel is still used) GNP : $25,000,000 Selected Crops : Wheat, sorghum, giant squid meat, mushrooms, other assorted fungus Selected Industrial Products : Cargo ships, telephones (only recently), motored vehicles, railroad track Rationale For Targeting : Jeff, in a memo to VanderCorp: "If I can't get published in a place I created, then I think I ought to give up on this writing gig." Fun Fact : From the Hoegbotton Guide to the Early History of Ambergris (reprinted by permission of Hoegbotton & Sons): "One of the more prominent organizations in the city is the Ambergrisian For the Original Inhabitants Society. Never has membership in a historical society been so fraught with peril. Every two or three years, another few members succumb to the temptation to pry open a manhole cover and go spelunking amongst the sewer drains. Inevitably, someone gets stuck in a drain pipe and the others go for help, or the gray caps, presumably, catch them and they disappear forever. One imagines the hapless AFTOIS members waving their official membership cards at the approaching, unimpressed gray caps." [Note: All country-specific information derives from The Borges/Crowley Guide to Places We Haven't Ever Visited and Some of Which Don't Even Exist Yet, Even Inside An Author's Head, written by Jorge Borges and Aleister Crowley, Volumes I—IV, Dee Publications, 1925.] Flag by Mark Roberts |
Capital : Ambergris