Belgium has been without government for 100 straight days already, a long-running crisis that could very well lead to the separation of the nation into Flanders and Wallonia.But some people don’t lose their sense of humour over it. Somebody has put Belgium up for sale on eBay. Opening price was only € 1, but the current bid amounts to € 10 million euro, almost € 1 per inhabitant.
The kingdom is marked as ’second-hand’ and can be purchased in either 3 parts (Wallonia, Brussels and Flanders) or as a whole (’not recommended’).
I. Flanders - Highly traficated and very heterogeneous architecture (as well art nouveau as spanish hacienda style) , hard working people understanding American english ( due to an overdose of episodes of Dallas), catholic but not fanatic.
II. Brussels - Lively village with nineteen lord mayors and a government on top. The real Babylon with several coexisting minorities.Nice realestate taken by National, Regional and European institutions.
III. Wallonia - First become member of Parti Socialiste which makes it easier in many ways to establish your situation. Has plenty of water ( sometimes sparkling), tons of old iron, acres of woods, several homebrews, ingenious shipptraffic ( The Pending Slope of Roncquiers), The Shape head quarters (tax fee cigarettes!) and German speaking backyard.
Free premium: the king and his court ( costs not included)
Interested buyers have the chance to outbid the € 10 million euro offer until Tuesday next week.
I highly suspect that it might be taken down by Ebay when you read this, so here is a screenshot if the item is removed.
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I blog about creative uses of media and I will write an article about this as I think it's a very clever way of drawing attention to national politics.
I had no idea that this was going on until I saw the 'Belgium - For Sale on Ebay' story!
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