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''Our Dumb World'' is a mock world atlas written by ''Website/TheOnion''. It contains a section on every country on Earth, plus some places that aren't countries. It's a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Literature/OurDumbCentury''.

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''Our Dumb World'' is a mock world atlas written by ''Website/TheOnion''.''Website/TheOnion'', published in 2007. It contains a section on every country on Earth, plus some places that aren't countries. It's a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Literature/OurDumbCentury''.
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* JadedWashout: Greece is depicted as a nation-scale version of this--after having been a center of culture and philosophy, it now spends most of its time raising its kids, worrying about how to pay the bills, and grumbling about how it doesn't have time to do that kind of stuff anymore.


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* NonIndicativeName: The section on North Macedonia focuses largely on the fact that the nation doesn't actually have much in common with the Macedonia Alexander the Great ruled (most of that land is now owned by Greece), and consequently spends most of the section treating it as the ShoddyKnockoffProduct version of Greece.
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* AllGermansAreNazis: Germany is portrayed as a nation struggling with an addiction to mass-murdering Jews, though it doesn't remember anything that happened between the years 1939 and 1946 for some suspicious reason.
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* WretchedHive: South Africa is noted primarily for its extremely high crime rate. The description begins by claiming that one crime happening to South Africans every 17 seconds is "impossible to verify, as everyone in the country has his or her watch stolen every 12 seconds."

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* WretchedHive: South Africa is noted primarily for its extremely high crime rate. The description begins by claiming pointing out that the claimed rate of one crime happening to South Africans every 17 seconds is "impossible "nearly impossible to verify, as everyone in the country has his or her watch stolen every 12 seconds."

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