1420-1440: Money, Money, Money
I know I said I was going to skip this time period, but I decided to do it anyways, or I might be sacked otherwise. Sometimes the Swiss care too much about the money and what it is buying them; I suppose this is why you don’t see any beautiful women in Switzerland as they have all been exported. In fact, I found a dating outline.
Whoever wrote this knew what they were talking about. I think I will take it to a printing press and…oh wait.
Now that we are past that I am going to talk about the Swiss Economy (yes Economy is capitalized as they can afford it) and technology. As you already know, the Swiss have been doing absolutely nothing during the time period of 1410-1440, which is a whole 30 years. So since nothing happened it is my job to make it up, as I am being paid to do something. Now let’s go over some records.
This baby was taken in 1430, which shows Switzerland comfortably in first place, income wise. Just look at the Trade Efficiency, it is off the charts!
Just look how far Switzerland is in front of all the other countries and it is just a little itty 2 province country and 30 years after the start! Surely the Swiss have a secret scientist somewhere, and they do! His name is Dr. . Everyone meet Dr. .
Now with Switzerland being in such isolationism and so rich, it had become a perfect breeding ground for scientists (cheap scientist, though scientists nonetheless). The Swiss started throwing money at them and they started to throw back useless inventions. However, I will mention the worthy ones.
The Birth of Money
The Swiss became so obsessed with money that they actually wanted to reproduce it. So Dr. heartedly agreed saying he would need a few Heidi’s to experiment on. After all something has to give birth to it, no? A week of ‘preparation’ later, Dr. set off to work combining money and girls, and the result was a strange occupation. He ended up ditching that idea and focused on animals, besides Mrs. was getting a little suspicious about her husband’s work. Then a few years down the road, Dr. had a Swistika moment, a brief period of extreme excitement when an important discovery has been made. Well I don’t want to spoil all the information, so here’s a picture I have included.
Swiss T-Shirts
All the little teenage entrepreneurs wanted to be recognized on sight whenever they went out of the country. Obliging the future generation’s plea, the rulers of Switzerland got together and started to design clothing that will make them known throughout the land. In the decision process, a few ideas were tossed around. Of course Heidi agreed with the Heidi sitting next to her that there should be a blown up picture of Heidi (the one sitting across the room) on the shirt. This idea was unanimously rejected by the men. Some wanted a huge picture of money, others said the flag was appropriate, and two said that cheese had to take the center stage. Finally there was a compromise to have all three things on the clothing with the shirt able to absorb cheese crumbs for later snaking. It was an instant hit.
I was thinking about adding a blip about flying money, but I’ll pass, you get the idea.