NUUK, Greenland - The country of Greenland which is located between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean has fallen on extremely hard economic times. And as a result the Greenlandic Parliament has voted unanimously to sell the country.
Greenland's Prime Minister Hans Kangerssen said that he regrets having to take that action but that the government has no choice. He blamed a lot of the problem on the declining fjord sales.
Kangerssen said that most of the fjords were being bought by people in Iceland and Ireland, but since those countries are also experiencing economic hard times of their own no one is purchasing fjords anymore.
Greenland's second leading export was polar bears to Alaska. But since everyone now knows that Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is a notorious big game hunter, Greenland decided to cancel all polar bear sales to Alaska.
Vice Prime Minister Logfell Gunnsuag remarked that if Sarah Palin insists on shooting polar bears, they won't be Greenlandic polar bears.
Another thing that has contributed to Greenland's financial situation is that the Greenlandic ice cap tourism market has all but completely died down.
People living in Wales, Belgium, and Costa Rica are just not making the yearly summer trips to see the amazing ice cap as in years past.
As of Friday morning, the Greenlandic Parliament reported that the highest bid for Greenland so far was $5,640,000 Danish Krones, which is the equivalent of $1 million in United States dollars. Bids can be phoned in directly to the prime minister's office at area code 002 telephone number 17.
In related news. An article which appeared in The Kapisillit Glacier Globe Gazette stated that 60 percent of all Greenlanders will remain in Greenland. Another 25 percent of the inhabitants plan to move to Denmark, and 15 percent plan to move to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
