This is one very funny book. Don't read it
with food in your mouth. It will have you laughing
out loud.
Part travel guide, part the Onion and a smattering
of Russian comic Yakov Smirnoff, this is a travel guide
to a fictional Eastern European republic.
Welcome to Molvanîa, the "land-locked
republic famous as the birthplace of the polka and
whooping cough, and producer of 83% of the world's
beetroot." Cultural details, useful phrases, accommodation
and restaurant listings, color photos, and maps are
found alongside information about the people, the country,
and major exports (which include spittoons and low-grade
heroin).
Turning the standard text and design of familiar
travel guides on its ear is the mandate of the Jetlag
Travel Guide to Molvanîa, the small Eastern European
nation keen to position itself as a tourist attraction,
despite the fact that it doesn't exist.