Tunisia

As you may or may not know, I sometimes like to take a break from my usual blogging routine and talk about something that isn't in the news right now. Sometimes I write about my experiences at school (which are now over, today was my last day), movie reviews, or this: A blog about a random country. I spin a globe, put my finger down, and pick the country to write about.

These aren't completely useless. When I did it with Uzbekistan, my blog was read there just a few days later. And since Tunisia, the country I picked, also hasn't been given the gift of my internet ravings, I will devote the rest of this post to nothing but Tunisia, Tunisia, Tunisia!

Tunisia won independence from France on March 20th, 1956 after winning a 'What independence means to me' contest sponsored by the French government. It also experienced a revolution in 2010, famously ousting one leader, installing another, and removing HIM within two hours. Tunisia's new president is Moncef Mazouki.

The country is famous for great strides in women's rights in recent years. These include giving women the right to choose. Many women picked the belt over the club. Tunisia also allows women to show a whopping 10% of their skin in public. Women fight for these rights routinely when cornered by five men in a dark alley.

The Tunisian flag has been proven to be used to bind and gag women roughly 45% less than the flags of Iran, Jordan, or Syria. Women in Tunisia are also allowed to vote for whichever candidate their husbands force them to, and are taught to read and write phrases such as "Tunisia is a good and just country" and "I received this bruise after falling down the stairs".

Tunisia's capital is Tunis, a city whose name took a lot of creativity. It is is also the location of the historical city of Carthage, which was conquered by the Roman Empire. The Romans killed the people, burned their city, and spread salt over the ground so no plants could ever grow there again. Since then, Tunisia has gotten worse.

Tunisia is also the location of Tatooine, the planet with two suns from Star Wars. While in Tunisia, George Lucas encountered a bloated, rotting corpse in the desert, giving him the idea for Jar Jar Binks. On an auction in 2005, a gallon of Kenny Baker's sweat (collected from the bottom of R2-D2 after a long day of filming) sold for 2.3 million dollars.

Well, Tunisia, I devoted an entire post to you. Now READ MY GODDAMN BLOG!!! The continent of Africa is falling way behind: Only South Africa, Namibia, Egypt, and Algeria have read my blog so far, while nearly every country in Europe has. Africa needs to get its game face on if it intends to be the first continent to have read my blog in every country!

Bye!