Some French viewers use this emblem as a rear car tag, as if their car was registered in Groland.

Groland (full name: Presipality of Groland, F.: Présipauté du Groland) is a fictional country featured in various humorous programs on French television channel Canal Plus. It is a vague parody of France and of European microstates. car rear tag of the presipality of Groland taken from the Canal Plus website Copyright © Canal Plus This work is copyrighted. ... car rear tag of the presipality of Groland taken from the Canal Plus website Copyright © Canal Plus This work is copyrighted. ... French (français, langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered in speakers only by Spanish and Portuguese. ... Map of the Land of Oz, the fictional country in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Map of the fictional island of Sodor used in the Thomas the Tank Engine stories Fictitious countries used in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four A guidebook produced about the fictional country Molvanîa... The title of this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Parody of Back to the Future In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... The European microstates are those microstates located in Europe. ...

The landlocked nation is described as a ‘presipality’ (a pun on "principality" and "president"), and its main regions are: Upper Groland (le Groland-du-Haut), Side Groland (le Groland-de-Côté), Lower Groland (le Groland-du-bas), and Other Side Groland (Groland-de-l'Autre-Côté). The capital is Groville, the main river is the Gro, and the main prefectures are Grugny, Mufflins, Maroufle and Vichumes. A principality is a monarchical feudatory or sovereign state, ruled or reigned over by a Monarch with the title of prince or princess (a synonym is princedom) or (in the widest sense) a Monarch with another title within the generic use of the term prince. ...

The motto of the country is Joie, hospitalité, lâcheté ("Joy, hospitality, cowardice"). The country remained neutral during World War I, and was famous for being a haven for soldiers on leave, with its cheap alcohol and prostitutes. During World War II, the country's leadership collaborated with the Nazi occupier; the government engaged in policies of persecution and deportation of Jews and homosexuals. After American troops liberated the country, a sudden change of mood happened, and alleged former collaborators were murdered. A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nikolay II Aleksey Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Robert Nivelle Herbert H. Asquith D. Lloyd George Sir Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... National Socialism redirects here. ... Since its coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ...

President Christophe Salengro.

The most recent elections, the presipential, took place in 2001. There was one candidate, President Christophe Salengro; and one elector, again the president. The president was elected with 100% of the votes. President Salengro is the heir of a dynasty of feudal lords. Christophe Salengro, president of Groland taken from the Canal Plus website Copyright © Canal Plus This work is copyrighted. ... Christophe Salengro, president of Groland taken from the Canal Plus website Copyright © Canal Plus This work is copyrighted. ...

Groland Police Department is known as GROPD which means approximatively big faggot in French (gros pédé).

Groland has a continuous news television channel, CANAL International, a clear parody of CNN. The Cable News Network, commonly known as CNN, is a major cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. ...

Notable Groland citizens: President Salengro; news anchor Jules-Édouard Moustic; journalist Francis Kuntz; former investigative journalist Michael Kael; disk jockey DJ Michel.

Notable honorary Groland citizens: José Bové; Valérie Lemercier; Aki Kaurismäki; Noël Godin; the puppet of Jacques Chirac from the Canal+ show Les Guignols de l'info; Yannick Jolin; and Michael Moore. History of Groland To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (born April 4, 1957 in Orimattila, Finland) is a Finnish script writer and film director. ... Noël Godin (born Liège, September 13, 1945) is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger or ‘entarteur’. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with pies. ... Jacques René Chirac (born November 29, 1932) has served as the Gaullist President of France since he was first elected in 1995. ... PPD (modeled on Patrick Poivre dArvor) is the resident news anchor of the guignols. ... Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American political-activist, a film director, author, social commentator, and political humorist. ...

Groland's History

For many years, Groland had been being a duchy under the "autro boche" domination. The name of "Groland" was invented in 1707, just after a traditional party "la beuverie" (Grolandese open bar) where the duke Plastiphile 1st of Salangro shouted on his trone at nidnight: "Euj fais qu'est ce que je coul car céans c'est Salangroland" litterally "I Do all that I want because it is Salangroland. The audiance

External links

• Groland on Canal Plus
• Wanagro, the Groland Internet service provider (parody of Wanadoo)
• Groland Vidz, to see the most recent "7 jours au groland" show (in .wmv format) (French)
• SPCG Société Privatisée des Chemins de fer Grolandais, The Grolander Railways (French)