Austria

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Not to be confused with Australia.

From this height, the people of Vienna look like dots. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?

Austria is a country in Europe. The rural part of Austria is full of mountains, snow, goats and the like. Carynthia is full of lakes. Vienna is the capital of Austria, and Vienna is full of people, music, culture, coffee houses and such things. Austria is also rife with Roman Catholics.

On occasion, people get mail addressed to Austria mixed up with Australia, making it a dicey proposition when somebody in Austria wins your eBay auction.

Austrians speak German and have a Germanic culture but the majority don't want to be part of Germany.

Austria is occasionally the laughingstock/demon-harbinger of Europe, because they periodically elect a large proportion of right-wing racists to power. In 2008, Jörg Haider's party (along with a rival right-wing party) sent a large enough delegation to parliament that the two parties could have ruled with a majority. A few weeks later, Haider died in a car crash, thus providing tentative proof for the existence of God.^[1]

Austria has a town called Fucking.^[2][3]

[edit] In popular culture

[edit] Famous people from Austria

• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Adolf Hitler

[edit] Footnotes

1. ↑ Or perhaps that driving a speeding car while drunk is a pretty bad idea
2. ↑ Really. Wikipedia has its own Fucking article. (Warning: May contain unintentional Fucking humor.)
3. ↑ Snopes joined in on all the Fucking fun, too.