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The Republic of Elbonia is a ''. It is an extremely poor, Fourth-world Eastern Europe an country that has recently abandoned Communism . Most of the nation is covered with waist-deep Mud , which the residents use to build houses. Much of the economy is also mud-based. Scott Adams has said that many people think of the mud as snow, a limitation of the black-and-white daily strips, but that either way is fine with him. Adams created the country in order to allow for a "foreign" aspect in ''Dilbert'' without using any specific location, in order to avoid a backlash by readers who may be from that region. Dilbert's company often uses Elbonia as a source of cheap labor and general outsourcing. Most of the Elbonians have beards, even the females, and wear tall grey hats and black s" are actually cans attached to the ends of strings and the means of "air transportation" (''Air Elbonia'') is flinging people from a giant slingshot (something Dilbert hates to do because he loses his luggage and gets head-deep into mud). However, the Pointy-Haired Boss seems to approve of outsourcing programming or documentation tasks to them on a regular basis. For many years the country has been mired in a Civil War between the left- and right-handed Elbonians, although the war was mostly bloodless, as the Elbonians did not realize they were allowed to use weapons. Elbonia has also threatened its neighbor, Kneebonia, with nuclear weapons launched by slingshot. Elbonia's government is a Dictatorship , run by a right-handed military strongman who strives to crush the lefties. Dogbert briefly deposed the President and made himself dictator, turning Elbonia into a tourist hotspot by making Prostitution and Gambling not only legal, but mandatory. He and Dilbert (who acted as his advisor) fled the palace when they mistook the Elbonians' coming to them bearing farm tools as an uprising — it turned out they were calling him to preside over a farm holiday. In fact, this was the protracted series during which the "jowly" boss was replaced by the Pointy Haired Boss. Some strips reference a "North Elbonia", which is still Communist . It appears to be loosely based on North Korea . North Elbonia was destroyed when they used a machine manufactured by Dilbert's employer; the manual had been made by Tina out of anger on how women in North Elbonia are mistreated (at least according to Dilbert). The national bird of Elbonia is the Frisbee . The Elbonians refuse to do any business which is not corrupt, and in order to attract tourists Elbonia openly lies in its promotional videos, claiming to host five of the Seven Wonders Of The World . When Dilbert's company won the bid to build a cell phone network for the Elbonians, the Elbonian government would not sign the contract until they were given plans for a nuclear weapon. Dilbert instead gave them plans for giant toaster, and they were foiled by a lack of highly enriched bread. Elbonia might be either a conscious or coincidental parallel to one of the venues in Al Capp 's long-running strip Li'l Abner : a nation called Lower Slobovia (based on Siberia), whose citizens were perpetually seen in waist deep snow and ice. |
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