Re: Background of Nations

Mark A. Siefert. wrote:
> 
> NVDoyle wrote:
> > Political power comes from the barrel.
> 
>	  Cracker barrel, cheese barrel, or whiskey barrel?

REPUBLIC: A country whose government is chosen not on a
basis of heredity or riches but by the electorate, from whom political
power grows. 

PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC: One in which the electorate consists of a
gun barrel. 

--- Poul Anderson THERE WILL BE TIME