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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Merry Christmas: You're Fired.
The Department of Social Scrutiny has announced new measures to combat depression delivered by the overwhelming power and irresistible brute force of official forms. The new scheme - which seeks to deliver common official communications, but with a lighter touch, has already been piloted in a number of run-down godforsaken areas of the UK such as "The North" and has been declared "a success" in a peer-reviewed academic study by a cash-starved former polytechnic, miraculously saved from closure at the eleventh hour.
New forms - such as the Xm45 (below), the Christmas version of the P-45 - are now set to gather and collate official information in a non-alarming, non-confrontational manner, while spreading seasonal greetings to ameliorate the effects of losing one's job at this special time of year.
Leaked by sources close to: Sir Edward Bicycle
on December 21, 05 | 9:00 am
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