Monday, August 11, 2014

Check out my nation-state:

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=ubu-roi

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I even wrote a little history:

La Grande Histoire d'Ubu-Roi

The nation-state of Ubu-Roi was founded on the 1st of Phalle, 141 E.P. when fearless leader Père Ubu ingested a frozen pea.


By a miracle of digestive clinamen, said pea passed right through "Father" Ubu's alimentary canal, while remaining completely intact in both structure and dignity. This is the so-called "Miracle of the Immaculate Pea" celebrated by all 'Pataphysicians, every year on the 1st of Phalle.

Père Ubu took this immaculate pea (now thawed by the warmth of his own body) and planted it in a coffee-cup of dirt from his mother's grave. This he watered with split-pea soup. The pea grew into a fabulous pea-tree. From the pea-tree he was able to harvest pea-tree dishes of a remarkable variety and quantity. He used these pea-tree dishes to grow a special kind of fungus delicious and nutritive to the Polochons (native, double-assed ungulates) it was his duty to tend. Ingesting the pea-tree fungus, the Polochons grew bigger, stronger, fatter, and more sexually active than before. In no time, Ubu's Polochon-fungus became the most sought after food source for local agriculturalists in the region.



Thus undermining the pre-existing economy, Ubu was labelled a disturber-of-the-peas and pubic enemy number 1. Forced out of his land, Père Ubu gathered together 4 million disgruntled Polochon-farmers and set out in search of a new land. Having travelled nearly all day, Ubu and the 4 million settled on the muddy confluence of two spiraling rivers, and went about the business of founding a new city here: Gidouille La Grande. With the rampant growth and swelling of the Gidouille, Père Ubu was elected Pea-Chancellor and Head-Duke of the Grand Duchy of Ubu-Roi; and independent Polochon-proctectorate with socialist/surrealist leanings and penchant for pea-based poetry which continues to this day.

1 comment:

  1. I wanna do this, but mine would be significantly less hilarious

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