Editor Reviews:

Product Description:
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition features incorrect statistics on all of the Earth's 168, 182, or 196 independent nations. It also features maps, including a fold-out world map at actual size. Readers will learn about every country from Afghanistan, "Allah's Cat Box," to the Ukraine, "The Bridebasket of Europe."
Today's news-parody consumer cannot possibly understand made-up current events without the context of fake world history and geography. That is why The Onion is publishing a world atlas: to help us.
Our Dumb World is an invaluable tool for any reader interested in overthrowing a weakened government in East Asia, exploiting a developing nation in Africa, or for directions to tonight's party at Erica's. It is a reference guide to 250,000 of the world's most important places, such as North Korea's Trench of Victory, the Great Human Pyramid of Egypt, and Saudi Arabia's superhighway, the Mohammedobahn.

Rating : - Almost perfect
I laugh so hard my gut hurts when I read this book. For the most part, it is exactly what I wanted and expected: A humorous book to entertain me. The only thing that keeps it from being a 5-star book to me is the left-wing bent. I am very much a middle-of-the-road person; by no means a right-wing conservative; however, some of the material is getting old and stale. For example, even the chapters about other countries slip in U.S.-bashing every chance they get. And the entry on Canada comes across more to me as an exultation of Canada being unlike America than any satire or criticism of Canada itself. Then, of course, there is the condescending belittling of every culture's religious beliefs. As long as you can swallow the political leanings, it really is extremely funny. So far, my favorite part is Florida - you have to see this! And I still have a lot to go.