Entropa plays on steretypes and pokes fun at one and all.
Austria as an energy powerhouse.
Belgium is a box of chocolates.
Bulgaria is represented as Turkish toilets.
Czech Republic is an electronic (LED) display quoting the President.
Denmark is a Lego-set.
France is a country on strike.
Finland is a hardwood floor.
Germany is crisscrossed by autobahns, in what some say a vaguely Swastika-like pattern.
Greece is a nation riddled with wildfire.
Hungary is a nuclear think-tank with ripe watermelons.
Ireland is a bagpipe.
Italy is just a large football ground.
Latvia is mountaneous country.
Luxembourg is a gold nugget on sale.
Malta is a rock with a dwarf elephant standing on it.
The Netherlands is submerged under water, with only some islamic minarets visible above the floodline.
Poland is shown as a pile of rubble, wherein some Catholic monks are erecting the gay flag, Iwo Jima style.
Portugal is a butcher's table with steak and colonial blood on it.
Romania is a Dracula-themed fun-park.
Spain is a large building site, in an obvious reference to its real-estate market.
Sweden is depicted as an IKEA ‘flat-pack’ cardboard box. But from a hole towards the bottom of the box, one can see a small piece from the Saab JAS-39 Gripen aircraft - a reference to the 2001 bribery scandal wherein Saab tried to sell 24 Gripen jets to Czech Republic with the help of UK-based BAE Systems.
The United Kingdom is represented by its conspicuous absence from the piece.
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As you can see, I don't have photos/ descriptions of all the nations' representations. Therefore, if you have photos or information, I'd appreciate if you could share it here.
