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bank in Mayoria Borracho; when this happened the one million dollar hand out was merely
pocket money.
Who owned the bank? It was NOT President General Arturio Astuto, as he frequently
explained. It was NOT the wife of President General Arturio Astuto. It was none of the
children of President General Arturio Astuto. In fact it was no near relative of President
General Arturio Astuto at all, but only a distant second cousin of his wife’s, who had
renounced the world and disappeared to live as a hermit in the grounds of a remote monastery
somewhere in the Himalayas. The bank was only held in trust by President General Arturio
Astuto, until the return, or death of this mysterious second cousin.
There were those on the islands who whispered that the second cousin had not disappeared to
the Himalayas but to a deep ocean trench off the islands, helped down by some heavy iron
chains. But they stopped their whispers when the million dollars duly appeared in their
accounts.
Mayoria Borracho was just one tiny and insignificant country among the many on Earth, so
there was nothing to stop the inauguration of the first World Government.
It began with a meeting of the United Nations in New York, where delegates – with the
exception of Mayoria Borracho – decided unanimously to go ahead with the election of a
World President, and began a search for possible candidates.
The first person to put himself forward was President General Arturio Astuto. There was some
argument as to whether this should be allowed, as Mayoria Borracho was supposed to have
opted out and the President General only wished to be part of The World Government if he
was the President. But the idea was so new that no rules against this could be found, so
President General Arturio Astuto was accepted as a candidate. The next up was James
McQuarry the unbelievably handsome and popular American billionaire philanthropist actor
and rock star. The youngest multi-billionaire in American history.
Ivan Morcač quickly put himself forward, and then Colonel Kepala Besar; who claimed to
speak for the nations of both East and West. Then came a rush as several hundreds of
candidates registered. Strangely, most of them gave their country of residence as Mayoria
Borracho.
Less than a week after the decision to elect a World President had taken place the people of
the world, from the remote dusty villages of the Kalahari Desert and the high Andes to the
streaming cities of New York and Bejing, people awoke to see the face of President General
Arturio Astuto beaming at them from hoardings, their televisions, their phones, their
computers and on the leaflets that had been pushed through their doors. The President General
looked his best in a sky blue uniform dripping with gold braid and medals. No, ‘dripping’
does not do. It was a cascade, a waterfall; he was positively drowning in gold braid and
medals. And you could have used his smile to find your way home on a dark night.
But despite his smile the President General could not compete with the charm and good looks
of James McQuarry. It was said that when he gave the first TV broadcast a million young girls
fainted.
Then for the second time Inknavar Marz said, No!
He sent out a message that said, we do not want elections, elections got us into all the trouble
in the first place. We no not want the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world buying
their way to president with adverts, bribes and subtle lies. We do not want to vote. We want
TRUDI to chose our president.
And so it happened.
TRUDI (Truly Deep Intelligence.) the most advanced computer in the world, housed deep in
a basement laboratory, Basement G, in The Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and was
consulted by scientists, politicians and artists world wide who needed to plan a space project,
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