spionage

aron Von Lodge was the head of a small country known as Lilliland near Switzerland. The time was the early 1900s.

When the Baron had discussions with his fiancée Lady Angela of Alpine Castle together with his chief advisor Professor Hamblin they would often talk about subjects on which the Professor had once tutored them during their school years.

Now that the Baron was the head of Lilliland the discussions turned to the real world and they would discuss issued that were extremely important to Lilliland.

The Great War had been over for two years but there had been many incidents that tested the issue of maintaining Lilliland’s neutrality. Each side of the warring countries would occasionally sneak into Lilliland and cause an unpleasant incident hoping to blame the other side. When the truth was discovered, it made the government of Lilliland more resolved to stay neutral.

The European armies tried to involve both Lilliland and Switzerland because of their strategic location at the center of it all. The side that managed to become stationed inside the borders of the two countries would have a distinct advantage over the opponent.

The philosophy of staying neutral because of location was not what the ancestors of Lilliland’s citizens believed. They had another, more practical point of view. They believed that there existed an equal balance between the births of boys and girls. If a war or conflict developed, the balance would change because all the grown males would go off to war and surely some would not return. This would create an imbalance in the ratio of males to females.

Therefore, the Lilliland lawmakers of old decided that remaining neutral in world politics would effectively maintain the proper balance of one woman for every man and vice versa.

People take exception to this philosophy but that is the way the founders of Lilliland thought it should be.