QUIZ: #HowToOccupy Are you a real colonist? Try the quiz! How long could you occupy Western Sahara? The people you try to colonise are traditionally nomads, with the ability to travel great distances. What do you do? I’ll put up the world’s longest wall around my colonised territory, with military posts and illegal land mines I’ll let them cross the border freely, what harm can they do? Well, I’ll tell them to respect my occupied territory and not to cross the border The United Nations demands that the people of the colonised country shall be allowed to hold a referendum about their independence. What do you do? As brilliant as I am, I’ll “say” they can have a referendum, but of course - stop it from happening Easy peasy, I’ll just refuse the UN and let international pressure increase I’ll let them hold a referendum People living in the territory are protesting in the streets for independence. What do you do? Simple. I will let them protest, they have the right to do so – right? We are not amused. I will use police to disperse the crowds, arrest and torture leaders Tell them to stop and threaten them with violence against family members International delegations are sent to document how you treat your colonised people. How do you handle them? Stop them at the border! Just threaten them and put them under continuous surveillance - that will keep them from talking! Sir, Madam, old chaps – please, come over and you will see why we are the legitimate rulers of this place People living in the occupied territory demands rights like health care and education in their own language. Will you give it to them? Hell no, that will empower them to dispute my regime! Well, let us offer schooling and indoctrinate them into why they are colonised Well, they have the right to, so I don’t see why not? Remember the brilliant imperalist Cecil Rhodes? Let's see if you've got the skills as this guy. The colonialisation starts to become expensive, but the colony has a fair amount of natural resources like oil and phosphate. UN resolutions say that the local population needs to benefit from resource extraction. What do you do? Drill baby drill! I love the smell of crude oil in the morning. I will consider that thing about the local population later. Let’s employ some of the locals, but not give them the same salaries as us I believe it is best to keep the natural resources in the ground. The people who own them might need them later. You could occupy Western Sahara for {score} more years. Oh my. You are certainly not fit as a ruler! You wouldn’t last a minute! Your humanistic and cowardly attitudes would have led to the fall of the colonies already in the 1960s. You could occupy Western Sahara for {score} more years. Well, old chap. This is not that bad and close to brilliant, but please make sure you toughen up the next few years, if you want to become a real imperialist. You could occupy Western Sahara for {score} more years. We’ve got to hand it to you, this is quite brilliant. You are almost getting there! Keep on working to expand your kingdom. You could occupy Western Sahara for {score} more years. Congratulations, old chap! It is time to celebrate. Cecil Rhodes would be so proud. We salute you and wish you good luck with 40 more years! Start quiz Back Next Finish Take the quiz again Share your result you friends: Read more about our campaign.
