Posted January 18, 200916 yr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropa * Austria, a known opponent of atomic energy, is a green field dominated by nuclear power plant cooling towers; 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; 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, though any resemblance has been denied by the artist * Estonia is presented with a hammer and sickle-styled power tools, the country has considered a ban on Communist symbols * Finland is depicted as a wooden floor and an [apparently drunk] male with a rifle, imagining various animals * France is draped in a "GRÈVE!" ("STRIKE!") banner * Germany is a series of interlocking autobahns, described as "somewhat resembling a swastika", though that is not universally accepted. 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. * 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 * Italy is depicted as a football pitch with several players who appear to be masturbating 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 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 * 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; 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. * 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, 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, 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
