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Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong

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Above her, hanging on the foyer wall facing the main entrance, is a framed poster with a garland of well-browned jasmine blossoms hung around it. It consists of a photo of the wildly grinning Mr. Lee, with the usual statement underneath:Mister Lee
The Honorable
Mister Lee

WELCOME!

It is my pleasure to welcome all quality folks to visiting of Hong Kong. Whether seriously in business or on a fun-loving hijink, make yourself totally homely in this meager environment. If any aspect is not utterly harmonious, gratefully bring it to my notice and I shall strive to earn your satisfaction.

We of Greater Hong Kong take many prides in our tiny nation's extravagant growth. The ones who saw our isle as a morsel of Red China's pleasure have struck their faces in keen astonishment to see many great so-called powers of the olden guard reel in dismay before our leaping strides and charged-up hustling, freewheeling idiom of high-tech personal accomplishment and betterment of all peoples. The potentials of all ethnic races and anthropologies to merge under a banner of the Three Principles to follow:

  1. Information, information, information!

  2. Totally fair marketeering!

  3. Strict ecology!

have been peerless in the history of economic strife.

Who would distain to subscribe under this flowing banner? If you have not attained your Hong Kong citizenship, apply for a passport now! In this month, the usual fee of HK$100 will be kindly neglected. Fill out a coupon (below) now. If coupons are lacking, dial 1-800-HONG-KONG instantly to apply from the help of our wizened operators.

Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong is a private, wholly extraterritorial, sovereign, quasi-national entity not recognised by any other nationalities and in now way affiliated with the former Crown Colony of Hong Kong, which is part of the People's Republic of China. The People's Republic of China admits or accepts no responsibility for Mr. Lee, the Government of Greater Hong Kong, or any of the citizens thereof, or for any violations of local law, personal injury, or property damage occuring in territories, buildings, municipalities, institutions, or real estate owned, occupied, or claimed by Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong.

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The Grand-daddy of All FOQNEs

We now know why the Chinese People's Revolutionary Army was looking so desperately for Yamamoto's gold at the end of Cryptonomicon: they needed it to help destabilize the US dollar in preparation for an invasion of Taiwan. Putting the gold in the hands of some crypto-anarchists was nearly as good, so when The Great Simoleon Caper resulted in the tanking of the Federal Reserve Note in 2004-2006, the US military was broke, unable to even buy oil for their ships, and unable to come to Taiwan's aid when the Red Army crossed the straits and took over Taiwan. It was a rice-cake-walk.

Lee Teng-Hui, former President of Taiwan, having absconded with his running dog imperialist gotten gold from the island to southern California, set about founding a new, distributed homeland for the refugee Taiwanese Nationalist community. As nobody was willing to fork over one huge lot of land for a Taiwanese homeland-in-exile, he started buying up small lots, here and there, and finally declared his nation, Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong, a virtual archipelago of sovereignty among the chaotic and rapidly devolving political reality that was the United States.

Mr. Bush, of rapidly decreasing importance in the world, said, "Sure, Mr. Lee, always happy to have more prosperable and productivating yellow-americans. Why, you chinamen are in many ways even better than us caucusus-americans!" Dubya, of course, was merely interested in reducing the property tax rolls of California school systems owned and operated by the Socialist Education Association, and making things more difficult for Ahnuld to challenge him for a third term now that the 25th (er wuz it the 26th amendment had been overturned.

Mr. Lee quickly expanded across the US, buying up hotels bankrupted by the currency failure for pennies on the dollar.

NOTE: This is not fiction, this is merely history that has not happened yet.