Quality Land

Part One

Author's name: Marc-Uwe Kling

"Come where the quality is! Come to the land of quality!"
You are now traveling for the first time in your life to Quality Land. Are you excited? Yes? For good reason! Because soon you will enter a very important country, whose founding marked the beginning of a new era: Quality Time.
Since you're not yet familiar with Qualityland, here's some background. Two years before Qualityland was founded—two years in the specific sense—a major economic crisis occurred, one that people have dubbed the "Crisis of the Century." However, it was the third crisis of the century in a decade. The panic that swept through the markets prompted the government to seek help from economists in the field of big business management, and they decided that the country desperately needed a new name. The old one was worn out and, according to opinion polls, only attracted some old nationalists with weak purchasing power. Furthermore, renaming would help get rid of some troubling historical liabilities. For example, this country's military had, well, let's just say, overreached...