fantapolitica
humorous look at Italian politics (bilingual)Saturday, March 06, 2010
Il Dominio Terra NeoTrovato
Name that country
the electors in many cases preferred to vote for a candidate who was known to possess an aptitude for promoting his own interests at the public expense rather than for a man who disdained to adopt such a course. They argued that, if a man had proved himself capable of using his political opportunities to his personal advantage, he would be the better equipped to promote the advantage of his constituents: an honest man would only preach to them
No it's not Italy. I told you what it was (translating for your inconvenience). It was the British domain of Newfoundland. Domains had home rule. Newfoundland was a failed state. It was necessary for his Magesty to decide whether to demote it to directly ruled colony or merge it with Canada. I understand that most Canadians have, more or less, come to accept the final decision.
Oddly, I found the quote here (this guy has hit it big. A link from eschatonblog and one from fantapolitica in the same day). The blogger who blogs as P. O'Neil expected his readers to guess Ireland.
