New Zealand Not For Sale

[FyberOptic]

Those wacky Australians are at it again. New Zealand is not for sale, despite somebody in neighboring Australia trying to offload the nation of 4 million to the highest online bidder. With a starting offer of just one cent, brisk bidding for the prime chunk of South Pacific real estate quickly boosted the price to 3,000 Australian dollars (US$2,330) before eBay pulled the plug on the auction this week. Apparently the rivalry between the two countries is similar to the US/Canada thing, with Australia being the "noisy neighbor", and New Zealand supposedly full of nice but dull people.  I'd look more into the source of such rivarly, but I care as little about theirs as I do our own! Unfortunately I can't seem to find the auction; prolly got totally pulled.  But you can read the original story at least.

[Buzzard]

This is the best prank ever. Someone should do this for Canada and Mexico.

[Mage]

No one will try to auction off Mexico. It's only worth about $5.

[FyberOptic]

America should just buy Mexico and put an end to this immigration thing the easy way.

[Mage]

Probably too much paperwork involved. You know how it is with government.

[Bluejay]

Nah, we buy Mexico, then we have immigration from central america to worry about.

[FyberOptic]

The only solution then is global domination, clearly.

[Bluejay]

Did someone say Risk: Fybertech Edition