Think of Britain and what do you think of ?
Based on this website, Britain: What a State is a send-up of an entire way of life. From the unique British class system to pubs and our beloved transport network, every element of our society is brilliantly explained and illustrated in a series of wincingly accurate spoof official forms from the DoSS.
Think The Framley Examiner meets the entire output of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and you have Britain: What a State.
The Department
of Social Scrutiny

The latest part of its Identity Cards Initiative, About Your Habitat will collect details about where you live in order to plan the best route to follow you home.
The forms add a twist to the previous techniques of claimant oppression and data-gathering: that of reverse psychology. The new form actively denies claimants the ability to answer questions, by blanking out fields, so promoting a sense of thwarted longing to provide the data willingly.
A team of eminent philosophers will now be subpoenaed to read the forms using complex reasoning techniques and recreational pharmaceuticals.
The Department of Social Scrutiny's guide to your entire life in Britain.
Includes all necessary tax and identity card application forms and a full
guide to the British public transport system, as officially sanctioned
by Notwork
Rail.
Plus: New retirement guide "Are You Alright, Dear", handy graduated tea strength colour matching chart and official guidelines for the consumption of cake, biscuits and other snacks served at ambient room temperature.
�Thank God: a book that's both clever and funny.
Deserves a place on the lap of every comedy fan in Britain.� Charlie Brooker
�If you wince at the word 'benchmark', this neat
parody could be
just the thing to cheer you up.� Sunday Telegraph
Magazine
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