A Real Country According to Frank Zappa

"You can't have a Real Country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa

The day after I decided to buy an island so I could start my own country, I was at the Ann Arbor Brewing Co. waiting for Patrick Stewart, and one of the patrons that passed by had a shirt on with the above quote. It got me thinking. In addition to everything else, apparently my country will need a beer.

As everyone who knows me knows, I don't drink. Not at all. So this is not going to be an easy task for me. There's no way I would know good beer from bad beer! Some friends I brought that topic up with suggested apple beer, because it typically has a low alcohol content and is tasty. Since I'd prefer an island up here in the Northern part of the world where there's a winter and all, it should be very possible to grow apple trees. This means my island will need to have a micro brewery on it, as well as a place to plant apple trees, if it doesn't have some already.