Bounty1Berry

I feel a little concerned that, in all this discussion, nobody's mentioning the original anti-intellectual-property stance that was sort of the core of the Pirate philosophy.

I've often heard that many of the awkward parts of intellectual property law are locked in via treaty. In the US, for example, we can't go back to "registration required" copyright, or a 14-year term, for example, without breaking treaties.

How can you handle that issue in a nation like Iceland, that can't just say "we're the biggest/richest/strongest, screw your treaty?"

Also, if you're Icelandic and Pirates, did anyone suggest branding as Vikings? My apologies for the horrible stereotype joke.

Here's one you don't get, I'll bet...

What is wrong with the people at the Suzuki corporation? Why haven't they figured out after twenty or so years "Maybe Americans have no interest in buying our cars, let's go back to motorcycles?"

If you want to abandon the krona, may I suggest moving to a "pegged" model like the Panamanian Balboa-- while equivalent on paper to the US dollar, they still produce their own coins. That way, you can still sell collectible coins to tourists and foreign collectors, and I suspect it would be cheaper to have your own small change minted, than to import a shipload of coins at face value.

Please don't mislead. The ZWD was discontinued a few years ago; a handful of other currencies are legal tender there and the central bank has issued coins and notes pegged to a stash of US dollars.

The trillion dollar notes have actually increased in value as a collectible quite a bit.

I went to one shortly after it opened. They managed to forget the bacon on a bacon cheeseburger.

That isn't just criminal-- it's unamerican!