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relegated to the end of the alphabet. In the Greek alphabet it came in at a quite respectable number seven.”
    “Who are the Greeks?” Pepper asks.
    “A civilization that lived before the Amerikaz,” The boy answered. “And then there were the Romans, who were also a pre-Amerikaz civilization. They adopted the letter Z later than the rest of the alphabet because ‘z’ was not a native Latin word, adding it at the end of the letters at the end of their list of letters and using it rarely. Then the Amerikaz simply imitated the Roman’s conventions of placing z last. To sum it up, there has always been a problem about the letter Z since the beginning of Western alphabets.”
    “I am confused,” I say. “What does this have to do with the Summit inserting the letter z in every word possible?”
    “You don’t get it, do you?” Bellona says. “This,” She waves her hands in the air, pointing at our surroundings. “All this nation is a big hoax. Nothing has to really make sense. When Xitler found the containers under the Burning Man in the desert, half of it was stolen. Vagabonds and marauders have been searching for these containers for years after the Great Disease, but none of them wanted to build a new nation and become its prophet. Only Xitler and his family had this crazy idea that if they found the Arc, they could learn and build a new nation from it using the information. It took years to watch the videos, read the books, and search the hard drives. We’re talking about the history of a nation buried in containers…”
    “Incomplete history.” the skater boy remarked.
    “It was a mess, and Xitler’s ancestors were hungry to become rulers so they decided to mash up a nation from the incomplete info they got. Basically, they didn’t really know what they were reading so they made a lot of things up. The most important thing they found and studied was the science behind making cell phones so they can control the nation with idea of ranking through the iAm.”
    “Why was controlling the nation so important?” I asked.
    “We’re not sure,” the boy says. “But we believe that the Xitlers read in details how the Amerikaz ended with rebellions from the younger bad kids. The point is we’re sure that if there was one guy from the time of Amerikaz still alive, he’d be laughing at the culture mish mash we’re living in. If you think of it, how do know about people like David Bowie, Rambo, or Zootube? This stuff happened more than hundreds of years ago. It was passed to us by the Xitlers. And how did they know it? They saw and found it in the Arc containers. And I have to repeat myself, they passed it on incomplete and mish mashed. You know when someone whispers a word in their friend’s ear and they whisper it to the next? What do you think happens to the word when it reaches the tenth friend? It might be a whole different word, derived from the mishearing of the original. It’s the bets way I can explain it.”
    “Like why we have Ten days a week for instance,” Bellona says. “I know we worship the number ten in Faya, but there is another reason, also mentioned in the Breakfast Club’s forum. It’s that the French in the ancient times used a different calendar than the rest of the world. In that system, they counted a week as ten days.”
    “Are you saying that Xitler only stumbled on this info in the Arc containers and said, ‘Wow. This sounds unique, let’s do it Faya’?” I ask.
    “Yes. Stupid and Superficial I know. But the answer is yes,” Bellona said without elaborating, as if she wanted her shocking answer to sink deep in me. How awful is it to find that your world is based on mashed up, incorrect jokes left to you by your ancestors?
    “So basically Faya is a bad movie remake of an once-awful movie.” Pepper considered, almost speaking to herself.
    “How does the Breakfast Club know all that?” I wonder.
    “It’s rumored that they have found the Arc before the Xitlers,”