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[So guess who's tired of pondering around, knitting and not really making any progress by now? Yes, this very nation here. But he remembered something...]

So... Nuclear weapons. What can you tell me about them? Just how powerful are they?

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Oh, no need. Mr France told me what part of the island it was on, and it wouldn't hurt to look around. [Plus, she doesn't think Germany would enjoy going clothes shopping with her. He doesn't seem the type...]

Not quite like these mirrors. It would be easier if I could show you, but trying to imagine a computer to appear... doesn't seem to work. [Try, fails spectacularly.] Oh, here. [She takes the communicator, and moves to one corner of the room, holding it so it faces away from her. There's some movement, like she's hiding behind something... And then, with a bit of shimmering, a computer appears.

And promptly explodes.

Liechtenstein turns the communicator back to herself.] That... was a computer. They are not normally so explosive, however. I imagine that there is some property of this place that causes the explosion.

The information is all stored using electricity to encode the information. It is then transmitted by inconveniencing a lot of electrons. It's a shame I don't have a computer, as it would really be easier to show you how it works...

[Well, so he nods at her decision to go alone and then... Listens. And watches. And...

WHAT THE-?!

And... Silence. Okay. She is better at that imagining stuff thing than him. But... A computer? That?!

Just excuse him while he stares for a while. And fails to process that.]

Y-you don't read books anymore in the future...?

[If so, then the future is a horror he doesn't want to experience, thank you very much, bomb him to smithereens, please.]

Of course we do! It's just faster to look things up on a computer if you only want to know what something is. If I had a computer, I could just type 'Sekhmet' in, and then I could find an... encyclopaedia article about who Sekhmet is. It would probably be the first result. [Better not confuse him too much by using the term 'Wikipedia'...]

However, stories and manuals and textbooks are still primarily printed on paper.

...ah.

[He nods. He really just nods. Not that he fully understands or can even imagine this fully, but... He nods. And is currently glad that there are still books around, apparently.]

A-as convenient as that sounds, Liechtenstein, I still think I would prefer a simple library.

[Yes. Later he will worship the internet like anyone else. But not right now. Right now that very idea is just weird.]

I imagine you would. [Though she knows how he'll feel about computers later, it seems silly to argue with him about it now.]

Besides, there's really nothing like a real book! A computer just isn't the same.

Didn't you just say it's easier than looking things up in a book?

[Confused, yes. Future = Confusion. He just drew that conclusion.]

Mr Germany. You saw what a computer looked like. Can you honestly imagine curling up in an armchair with some hot cocoa and trying to read with one of those? [Liechtenstein is giving him an amused look. At least she hasn't mentioned laptops and e-book readers. That would definitely confuse him.]

I... Can hardly imagine curling up in an armchair at all.

[And there he goes, being entirely honest. It takes some effort for someone of his size to do something like that. And it's not necessarily comfortable also.]

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