how would this work with the Israeli shekel, though, as those buggers deny they’ve got any nukes at all? As they don’t possess between 120 and 200 nukes, it would be hard to base the worth of their currency on the nukes they don’t own, which is a shame, as if they actually had 200 nukes, which they don’t, the shekel…

Ayn Rand’s particular lunacy...  Beautifully piss-taken by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea in the “Illuminatus!” trilogy (now there’s a must for anyone wanting to understand the “occult” side of economics... “Reality is what you can get away with”. A theme taken up by Terry Pratchett in his trilogy about…