How This Planet's Rational Species Operates

   This will be a lesson on how earth society works. The press and the educational system and the intellectuals insist it's all very complicated. That's where I come in. I make it all very easy.
   Humans all live in countries. There are about 180 of these. A country is a geographical location with a flag and people who obey the leaders of the country and pay them an extortion payment called taxes. All countries extort taxes. If you don't pay the taxes (sometimes disguised as licenses) you are punished.
   Eventually all countries take all of the money and goods belonging to the citizens of that country. They then strive to conquer a different country that has more stuff. This is called war.
   This is human history. So far this "country" idea is one that all humans are convinced is working.
   Class is over.