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A country is a group of people who all have some arbitrary group of commonalities. However, as a country stands for extended periods of time, the general course of generational change and migration can often shrink these commonalities to such things as "We are in the same country". Then when enough people with nothing in common inhabit the same country, they either break into smaller countries or smaller states within the country. This makes the point of forming countries in the first place chronologically redundant when they could have just done it right the first time.
War
When two separate countries disagree with eachother enough, they mutually agree that they would rather both countries inhabited separate planets. This results in an attempt to sever the earth in half using lots of high explosive devices and men running around with pointed sticks. This is called a war. Depending on how much the countries disagree with eachother, the attempt to sever the earth in half can last for varying degrees of time, up to and over a decade.
While no war to date has successfully hemispherectomised the earth, countries are known to have their leaders report that they have "won" the war, which is generally done by the country with the lower mining accident to starting population ratio at the conclusion of the war.
Elections
An election is an event held in varying regularity from country to country in which everybody inhabiting the country that knows nothing about ruling a country gets together and tells a computer who they think is best at running the country. The person who has the most people think they would do a better job gets elected as the ruler of the country, and is rewarded with a big house and large salary, and is assigned the duty of kissing peoples babies and making media appearances until the next election.
The underlying theory behind elections is that the person who would run the country better will get elected as they will have the most people get behind them. However surveys show that 93% of voters don't know jack-all about running a country, and are devoted subscribers to one party or the other for completely invalid reasons. As such, the person elected is consistently the one who has the most trustworthy and intelligent appearance rather than any superiority in their mental faculties or policies.
Misconceptions about running countries
One common belief the public often holds about ruling countries is that the countries ruler has control over anything thats happening. This is a complete myth. One qualified political spectator put it as follows.
Do you think that John Howards awesome abilities are to be credited for the mining boom? Or do you think it could be the fact that other countries want mined crap that we happen to be selling?
A similar philosophy can be accurately applied to all main election issues.
