Revolution: Chapter 12 - Defending the Nation
By the fifth year after the coup, the Council turned its attention to a sector long neglected, yet essential to any sovereign nation: defence.
“And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Once upon a time, in the beginning, when the earth was flat, a troop of chimpanzees was fooling about in a big tree. While they were swinging on vines, or eating juicy fruit, or picking lice off one another, or masturbating and copulating to their hearts’ content, an extreme meteorological event took place.
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