iowa

An early U.S. experiment in criminal reform and psychological treatment. In the 1800's, eastern U.S. states sent their most deranged and mentally incompetent criminals to a remote land reserve, later known as Iowa. Treatment officials tried various behavioral-modification techniques to reform and rehabilitate the deranged lunatics. Sadly, the program worked to no avail. Eventually, rampant inbreeding and subsequent off-the-charts retardation took over the population. Officials decided that the best course of action was to isolate the Iowans (Sioux for "criminally insane") from the rest of the U.S. population. Accordingly, the officials established social engineering programs and propaganda to trick the Iowans into believing that their state has relevance in order to keep them from leaving the state and polluting other, more hospitable U.S. states.