Its Capital Is Cripopolis

The disability hierarchy gets another look in this study, which finds that people with disabilities view deafness as the most desirable impairment and schizophrenia the least. It got me thinking. In some ways, the disability community resembles a dusty, impoverished country tucked away in some isolated corner of the globe. We’ll call it the Democratic Republic of Gimpistan. The rest of the world doesn’t give much thought to Gimpistan; most people have never even met a Gimpistani. This state of affairs doesn’t sit too well with most Gimpistanis and they often think that perhaps they should raise some sort of fuss to force people to notice them, but the Gimpistanis are a deeply tribal people. They tend to be clannish and they typically congregate only with others in their own tribe. An astonishing number of Gimpistanis won’t even consider other Gimpistanis as potential mates and instead choose to trawl dating websites for attractive foreigners.

And so Gimpistan remains an obscure, forgotten place. It doesn’t even have a proper flag because its inhabitants can’t stop bickering about the design and appropriate symbols to be included in said flag. Fun Fact: Gimpistan has 311 ambassadors to the United Nations.