France Mug

The country that started the Post-it Art craze. Aka. France, a country in Western Europe that used to be the center of power and culture, but recently lost all that due to the enormous amount of time it spends trying to maneuver through its own ridiculously complex and incompetent government, arguing with itself and the United States, and chasing anything with a skirt higher than knee-length. Between all that it has had no time to do anything actually useful for anybody for the past half century. So instead it contents itself with preserving what culture it used to have through government funded programs. Its food doesn't really live up to reputation (but the restaurants charge the price for it), the people in the cities are rude and consider running others off the street...oh wait. They're so into themselves they don't notice they run people off the streets. The low wage workers often strike in places that do not affect the government, but do get in the way of ordinary citizens. Their doctors do not call patients back and they do not clean or bath or pick up their dog poo so they are often sick. Their managers have temper tantrums at work (at the places that actually accomplish work). And their public transportation, aside from the metro, is crap. So they moan that they are not the center of the Earth, but continue to do nothing productive about it. Except make Post-it art.