Hawkwindia

[Sen. Volstead]

Andrew A. Apold wrote:

> >The moral of the story is, don't screw with the constitution
> >or the bill of rights.  America isn't perfect, never will be,
> >but I still rather live here than anywhere in the world.  Well,
> >maybe I might consider Denmark, or Norway or Holland.
> >They gotta lot of good looking blondes there, and I'm a
> >sucker for a blonde.
>
> Actually, if we can just find the country with the world's
> lowest popoulation, move all hawkfans there, we could make
> "Master of the Universe" the national anthem, and pass laws
> requiring the booking of hawkwind concerts, putting lemmy
> on currency ("eh, lemmy a lemmy wouldya?"), and banning
> Doug Smith from the borders of the nation.  We could rename
> it "Hawkwindia".  Street names would be stuff like "chronoglide
> skyway", "motorway ave", and "Calvert Road".  Our nation
> would be protected by the latest in sonic weaponry.
>
> Lessee, no atlas handy, but should be pretty easy to figure
> out.
>
> Candidates:
>
> 1. Vatican City.
>         pro - really low population.  Good location.
>         con - have to do someting about the church.  Church of Hawkwind!
>
> 2.  Greenland
>         pro - low population, but lots of land
>                 no fear of vinyl records melting in the sun
>                 potential 3-month long sun festival.
>         con - too cold.
>               95% of land under icecap
>
> 3.  Tuvalu
>         pro - tiny pacific atoll with beaches
>         con - do they have power?
>
> 4.  Kiribati (nation made up of Gilbert, Phoenix and Line islands)
>         pro - even more islands
>         con - way spread out.  canoeing outriggers back from a show
>                 would suck.
>
> 5.  Channel Islands
>         pro - great location
>         con - requires somehow seceding from UK.  However, given that
>                 all hawkfans would be leaving, the remaining (anti-hawk)
>                 factions (elton john, e.g.) would probably think that be
>                 sufficient incentive to allow this.
>
> 6.  Antarctica
>         pro - low population.  see greenland
>         con - requires violating antarctic treaty.
>
> 7.  St. Pierre & Miquelon (2 french isles off the coast of newfoundland)
>         pro - what the hell is france doing with two islands off the
>                 coast of newfoundland, anyway?
>         con - Might have to deal with angry Quebeçois.  still pretty cold.
>
> "I was corrupt before I had power!" - Random
> ===============
> Andrew Apold

How about doing it Scientology-style and getting a giant cruise ship, or
possibly an oil rig?