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

The Baron and his fiancée Lady Angela lived a quiet and serene life in Lilliland which was majestically situated in the Alpine Mountains on the very beautiful Castle Lake.

During the special celebrations of life, such as a birth, wedding, anniversary, promotion, graduation or homecoming, there was a favorite toast with a glass of Lilliland mead.

Lilliland mead was a special blend of wine and honey. While many people throughout Europe celebrated with a glass of champagne, it was Lilliland mead that made the occasion extra special.

Some of the people called mead the nectar of the gods or angels. In any event it was a special drink.

It was customary in Lilliland Castle to toast the New Year with a glass of mead. The Baron and Lady Angela, with their chief advisor, Professor Hamblin, looked forward to the New Year celebration with thankfulness and great joy for the future of the country.

Lilliland, situated next to Switzerland, was in the center of Europe, and it was difficult to stay a neutral country with so much turmoil going on all around them in various other countries that seemed to be in a state of war, or preparing its troops for war, or signing a peace treaty after fighting a war.

The scars of war were felt many years after the event in the land, farms, trees and animals of the national forests.

Lilliland and its quest for neutrality maintained its natural beauty because it had avoided war in its countryside. The true value of wars was never really decided until the historians wrote about it 100 years after the event. Until then, politicians’ rhetoric pronounced the value of events in favor of the party and the elections they espoused.

Lilliland and the royal family raised their glasses of mead to thank the blessings of the bountiful harvests of many fine crops and fine weather that nature had bestowed on the land.

“Long live the fine people of Lilliland and the many blessings of nature,” Baron Von Lodge was proud to say with his glass of Lilliland mead held high in his hand.