Our Dumb World: The OnioN's Atlas of THe Planet Earth, 73rd Edition features incorrect statistics on all of the Earth's 168, 182, or 196 independent nations. It also features maps, including a fold-out world map at actual size. Readers will learn about every country from Afghanistan, "Allah's Cat Box," to the Ukraine, "The Bridebasket of Europe."
Today's news-parody consumer cannot possibly understand made-up current events without the context of fake world history and geography. That is why "The Onion" is publishing a world atlas: to help us.
Our Dumb WORLD is an invaluable tool for any reader interested in overthrowing a weakened government in East Asia, exploiting a developing nation in Africa, or for directions to tonight's party at Erica's. It is a reference guide to 250,000 of the world's most important places, such as North Korea's Trench of Victory, the Great Human Pyramid of Egypt, and Saudi Arabia' s superhighway, the Mohammedobahn.

In order to understand the news a context of world geography and history is essential. That is why The Onion is publishing a world atlas: to help us. News that now makes no sense will now make sense. Thus begins a new period of enlightenment. OUR DUMB WORLD contains, amongst other things: rejected flag designs; the Earth broken down and described from its molten core to the outermost sphere where heaven is; level of Bono activity; yearly income in widescreen televisions; most annoying handicrafts etc. Packed with beautiful, inaccurate full-colour maps and framed with informative essays about the world.

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