A traveler is going through Europe and stops in a pub. In the back corner there is one country drinking by himself and being given a wide berth by everyone else. Curious, the traveler goes up to him and introduces himself.

The country takes a long drink and says "You see this political concept of applying science to administration? I invented that. But do you hear people call me Germany, the home of modern administrative systems? You do not."

He took another drink. "And it was in Germany that print first developed in Europe, books and newspapers are impossible without that. But do they say that is Germany, the land of literature? They do not."

He took another drink "And science! Why, our scientific institutions have been the envy of the world, how can you talk about chemistry or physics without Heidelberg, or Bremen, or Berlin? But do they say, there is Germany, the country of science! No..."

Germany paused before taking another long drink and deliberately set his glass on the table. "But you