Small Country

So i got a Mcsweeney's gift certificate (best freaking present ever) from my mom for Christmas, and amongst various other publications, i bought a book of stories called Noisy Outlaws, Unfirendly Blobs, and Maybe Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out. long title.
Anways, the first story is called Small Country by Nick Hornby (he wrote About a boy, high fidelity, other good stuff). The story is basically about this boy who realizes that his town is actually a country sandwiched somewhere between France, Switzerland and Italy. Its the smallest country ever, consisting of only a couple houses, a school, a cafe, and a football pitch. Anyways, it sort of got me thinking about what if Scituate was its own country?
Pros:
1. You basically know everyone in your country
2. you get a stamp on your passport by going to Cohasset
4. it would be really easy to be dubbed the country's greatest basketball player or french speaker or sandwich maker etc etc
5. our national anthem would probably be something by lil wayne or taylor swift, based purely on the musical interests of the population of Scituate
6. Officer Wood for president?

cons:
1. You basically know everyone in your country
2. you get a stamp on your passport by going to Cohasset
4. it would be really easy to be dubbed the country's greatest basketball player or french speaker or sandwich maker etc etc
5. our national anthem would probably be something by lil wayne or taylor swift, based purely on the musical interests of the population of Scituate
6. Officer Wood for president?


conclusion: no thanks.