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Nations shown
With no clear indication made by the artist nor by the official presentation, various interpretations of a single country can be drawn, and this list is by no means definite.
- Austria, a known opponent of atomic energy, is a green field dominated by nuclear power plant cooling towers[6]; vapor is coming out of them at intervals
- Belgium is presented as a half-full box of half-eaten Praline chocolates
- Bulgaria is depicted by a series of connected "Turkish" squat toilets[7]; neon-like lights connect and illuminate them
- Cyprus is jigsawed (cut) in half
- The Czech Republic's own piece is an LED display, which flashes controversial quotations by Czech President Václav Klaus
- Denmark is built of Lego bricks, and some claim to see in the depiction a face reminiscent of the cartoon controversy[8], though any resemblance has been denied by the artist[9]
- Estonia is presented with a hammer and sickle-styled power tools, the country has considered a ban on Communist symbols[10]
- Finland is depicted as a wooden floor and an [apparently drunk] male with a rifle, imagining various animals [11]
- France is draped in a "GRÈVE!" ("STRIKE!") banner[7]
- Germany is a series of interlocking autobahns, described as "somewhat resembling a swastika",[7][12][13] though that is not universally accepted.[14] The cars move along the roads.
- Greece is depicted as a forest that is entirely burned, possibly representing the 2007 Greek forest fires and the 2008 civil unrest in Greece.[15]
- Hungary features an Atomium made of its common agricultural products melons and Hungarian sausages, based on a floor of peppers
- Ireland is depicted as a brown bog with bagpipes protruding from Northern Ireland; the bagpipes play music every five minutes[citation needed]
- Italy is depicted as a football pitch[7] with several players who appear to be masturbating[13] with the footballs they each hold.
- Latvia is shown as covered with mountains, in contrast to its actual flat landscape
- Lithuania a series of dressed Manneken Pis-style[citation needed] figures urinating on its eastern neighbours; the streams of urine are presented by a yellow lighting glass fibers
- Luxembourg is displayed as a gold nugget with "For Sale" tag[7]
- Malta is a tiny island with its prehistoric dwarf elephant as its only decoration; there's a magnifying glass in front of the elephant
- The Netherlands has disappeared under the sea with only several minarets still visible;[7] the piece is supposed to emit the singing of muezzins
- Poland has a piece with priests erecting the rainbow flag of the Gay rights movement, in the style of the U.S. soldiers raising the Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima.[16]
- Portugal is shown as a wooden cutting board with three pieces of meat in the shape of its former colonies of Brazil, Angola, and Mozambique
- Romania is a Dracula-style theme park[7], blinking and emitting ghostly sounds at intervals
- Slovakia is depicted as a Hungarian sausage (or a human body tightened by Hungarian tricolour)
- Slovenia is shown as a rock engraved with the words first tourists came here 1213
- Spain is covered entirely in concrete,[17] with a concrete mixer situated near the Rioja region
- Sweden does not have an outline, but is represented as a large Ikea-style self-assembly furniture box, containing Gripen fighter planes[citation needed] (as supplied to the Czech Air Force)
- The United Kingdom, known for its Euroscepticism and relative isolation from the Continent, is "included" as missing piece (an empty space) at the top-left of the work[7]
I am so proud to be (not) Czech right now.
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