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Rocky & His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, created by Jay Ward, USA, 1959-1964

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FROSTBITE FALLS, a small town in the state of Minnesota, in Koochiching
County, near to MOOSYLVANIA.


The town of Watchowee Falls is the nearest settlement to Frostbite
Falls. Outside of the town, Sam Hill overlooks the entire area. Two
nearby bodies of water are Veronica Lake and Lake Salle de Bain. The
population of Frostbite Falls has been estimated as 23, 29, 31 1/2, 48,
and 4001. Strangely, the local newspaper, the Frostbite Falls Picayune Intelligence,
has a circulation of 47. Whatever the population, Frostbite Falls
apparently has more television sets than people, yet only one
automobile.


The main street of Frostbite Falls is known as the Great White Way,
because it is snowed in for 11 months of the year. Institutions of
Frostbite Falls include the Frostbite Falls Birdwatching and Pinochle
Society and the Farmers' and Swineherds' National Bank. Frostbite Falls
is also the location of the abandoned mansion Bleakly House. The main
office of the Farmers' and Swineherds' National Bank has a portrait of
the local hero Rocket J. Squirrel executed in dyed chicken feathers and
bottle caps.


Cultural events include the three annual festivals: the Frostbite Falls
Flower Fair and Plant Pageant, the Frostbite Falls Flotilla Festival and the
Frostbite Falls Marble Shootout.


Since 1945, the headline of the Picayune Intelligence was 'Cold War
Continues'. It is not known what the headline has been since 1991. The
Picayune Intelligence is owned by a Colonel McCornpone.


The local government seems to consist of the Committee for Civic
Improvement, which is capable of controlling sums of money as large as
thirty-three dollars and fifteen cents, which they once used to purchase an
automatic fortune-telling machine to forecast the weather. The
fortune-telling machine now rests at the bottom of a nearby river.


Frostbite Falls is the home of the world¹s only mooseberry bush,
mooseberry juice being a crucial ingredient in highly explosive fudge cake,
which can also be used as rocket fuel powerful enough to reach the moon.


Frostbite Falls is the home of Bullwinkle J. Moose, hero, television
personality, and hereditary governor of MOOSYLVANIA. Mr. Moose was born and
raised in Frostbite Falls. In the winters, he serves as Frostbite Falls' snowplow.


(Rocky & His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, created by Jay Ward, USA, 1959-1964)



MOOSYLVANIA, an island adjacent to the United States, in the Lake of the
Woods somewhere between that country and Canada, near to FROSTBITE FALLS,
Minnesota.


Moosylvania is an uninhabited, undeveloped land. The precise boundaries
and details of the area have yet to be determined, because the soft marshy
ground swallows surveyors and their equipment whole. During warm periods the
temperature in Moosylvania has risen to twenty degrees below zero. Summer on
the island lasts from late September to the middle of October. As a
consequence, most of Moosylvania is frozen for most of the year, and is
underwater during the brief summer.


All travel in Moosylvania is by birchbark canoe, though the island has a
ten-thousand foot airplane runway. Only 18% of that runway is on solid
ground, however, meaning that all flights to Moosylvania inevitably sink
into the water.


Moosylvania has been pleading for statehood since the time of the
American Revolution in 1776. Since then Moosylvania became controlled by a
hereditary series of governors belonging to the Moose family. The island has
been fought over by the United States and Canada, with Canada twice refusing
to accept the territory as a gift, even with Lake Superior thrown into the
bargain. Most recently, in 1962 a petition for statehood was delivered to
Washington, D.C. by the governor, Bullwinkle J. Moose. Moosylvania remains
an unincorporated territory. The would-be state's motto is Don't Tread On
Me, and the state flower is the Moosylvanian flytrap, the only plant known
to belch. On one occassion Moosylvania nearly sank into the sea, but it was
saved by throwing ballast off the island.


Aside from the Moosylvanian flytrap, the only life native to the island
are gigantic mosquitoes that terrorize the island during its brief
summer.


The Moose Call, the territory's only newspaper, was published in 1962,
consisting mainly of comic strips. Milton Fugg of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania,
is the Moosylvanian ambassador to the United States, a position he was
granted when he mailed a self-addressed stamped envelope to Governor Moose.


The Moosylvania Territory is asking for 18 billion dollars and 4 cents
in American aid, the four cents for the postage of the check. This would be
for industrial development and the numerous planned civic improvements, and
to build a highway that would enable people to drive through Moosylvania
without stopping.


Moosylvania has no extradition treaties, taxes, traffic or laws.
Travellers are advised that there are no other compelling reasons to visit
to Moosylvania.


(Rocky & His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, created by Jay Ward, USA, 1959-1964)



POTTSYLVANIA, a small country in Eastern Europe behind the former Iron
Curtain.


Pottsylvania is an absolute dictatorship, with all power invested in the
conveniently-named Fearless Leader. Pottsylvania appears to be entirely
based around crime and subterfuge: the entire population of the country are
saboteurs, spies, and secret agents.


Fearless Leader controls the nation through the use of the office of
Central Control, through which he is able to spontaneously organize
heavily-armed mobs of Pottsylvanians.


The culture of Pottsylvania reflects the central position of spying and
villainry: publications include Bad Housekeeping, the Fireside Crook Book,
Disguises for All Occasions, the Villains Handbook, and the Fireside Book
of Fiendish Plots. Institutions of Pottsylvania include the University of
Safe-Cracking (USC), the Pickpockets & Thieves Association (PTA), and the
Pottsylvanian Eavesdropper, the world's only newspaper printed in
disappearing ink. Pottsylvania is also the home of the Pottsylvanian
Persuader, which consists of two pounds of dynamite stuffed into a
one-pound bag with a very short fuse.


Notable flora and fauna of the country include the Pottsylvanian
creeper, a man-eating plant that is revolted by acts of kindness, and the
Pottsylvanian carrier pigeon, which may or may not be a vulture.


Pottsylvania is not recommended to tourists. All tourists to
Pottsylvania inevitably find themselves imprisoned, though conveniently all
diplomatic staff in the country also reside in prison. The borders of
Pottsylvania are perpetually surrounded by mile-long lines of natives
attempting to leave the country. It is not known how much Pottsylvania has
changed since the fall of the Iron Curtain, except that in Pottsylvania the
Iron Curtain was represented by a massive curtain, made of iron.


Traveling through Pottsylvania is not recommended either, as the
country has only six miles of road, and these six miles are completely
covered in a vast traffic jam caused by overproduction of Pottsylvanian
automobiles.


Notable Pottsylvanians include: Natasha Fatale; Boris Badenov, the
recipient of his country's highest honor, the Pottsylvanian Double Cross;
and the highly-placed official Mr. Big, who was last seen in a spaceship
destroyed by an exploding stadium full of robot mice.


Rocky & His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, created by Jay Ward, USA, 1959-1964



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