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.
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DoWFET, The Department of Websites, Flash and Electric Telephones, has outlawed a number of scurrilous, allegedly funny, satire websites in an effort to stem the flow of evil, it has emerged.
Speaking from his Chaise longue in the pipe-smoking wing of DoWFET’s London offices, Minister Earl Url of Slashdot Snoring outlined the move to a group of attentive young ladies suggestively draped around him in lightweight negligees.
“The Department of Social Scrutiny has promised me that the Government is embarking on a three year programme which will eventually block this scum from our screens, but until then I urge members of the public not to visit these sites or they will be nailed to a log and have their dirty, filth-infected eyes pecked-out by ravens at the Tower.”
The banned websites are as follows: do not click any of the following links until you have installed the Echelon Plug-In for your browser:
Random Perspective
This band of insurrectionists have formed a satirical cell in East Anglia which is so deadly, Wisbech has been annihilated as an example to all the rest.
Perplexing Times
The world's youngest webmaster. Already corrupted by the tide of satirical filth.
The Watley Review
Edwardian Webamagraph. Editor looks like Osama Bin Laden. And that's 2 more Echelon points for even reading his name.
The Bentinel
Undoubtedly hypocritical in its alleged 'clean' humor.
The Slingshot
A return to the days of Victorian Values, this website is awash with perverted thought.
Glossy News
Our American cousins in the CIA are poised for a midnight raid on this rag.
"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
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