Working with my colleagues in policy thinktanks funded by large governments public businesses like China and Russia, I wanted to prove that no nation takes itself completely seriously.

We put together a few future stories in our ongoing pasttime of the Headline Games.

What is one of the atheistic countries with the most self-absorbed leader on this planet?  North Korea, of course.

What is one of the most martyr-themed, theocratic countries on this planet?  Iran, of course.

Then, let’s play a round of the Headline Games to maneuver the two countries to make a deal with each other.

That way, we prove that a theocrat will bed with an infidel with no chance of conversion but plenty of blasphemous profit to benefit them both — spreading atheism and false idol worship in equal measures; an atheist is never so happy as to make love with a theocrat and have pocket change to spare on activities that have nothing to do with glorifying/worshiping/serving a god.

All governments public businesses, you see, are fungible.

One is the same as another.

We may argue the finer points of freedom — whether one may practice one’s beliefs in public or in private only — but let us not split hairs over spilt milk.

The water did not pass under the bridge, it took the bridge with it in a flash flood, much the same as the role of living under the auspices of a public business we call entities like China, Russia, Luxembourg, the United States or the Cherokee Nation.

In the business of globalisation, we allow the protectors of their subcultural practices to carry the banners bearing their beliefs; however, we expect them to behave correctly, conforming to the international business standards to which they all must bow and pray at the end of the day, regardless of the god(s) they do or do not claim is/are responsible for their origin stories.

We in the leisure hours of playing the Headline Games ply our trade, regardless of the tools we use (you) to accomplish goals we want to share with you but you would not understand, having no knowledge of the communication methods your society has not matured enough to learn (yet).

Humour is a given, a public key to unlock the mysteries of the mysterymaking business.

Let us look at the emperour’s new clothes and old hat tricks to show you what we mean…