Lawnland / The story
Lawnland is the World’s Leading Nation per Square Metre. The Ministry of Statistics has checked this claim against a carefully selected sample of ourselves.
A small nation with large opinions
Our national newspaper, The Lawn, reports on the outside world from the reassuring distance of complete nonsense. Politics, culture, technology and everyday life all receive the attention they have been trying to avoid.
Our guiding principle is simple: if something is taking itself too seriously, it probably needs a newspaper article about it. Our institutions are imaginary. Their capacity for bureaucracy is entirely believable.
Satire and parody
The Lawn publishes satire and parody. Stories, quotations, characters and national institutions may be invented or exaggerated for comic effect. Lawnland is not a real country, and its newspaper is not a source of factual reporting.
For more about how we work, read our satire notice and editorial standards. To flag a problem, visit corrections.
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