With the holiday season in full flow, Thailand has been spotted behaving erratically on multiple occasions, appearing to be worryingly intoxicated.

Thomas Fuller, of the New York Times, commented, “I saw her barreling down Silom the other day, screaming and whistling her head off, without the slightest sense of direction. Fearing for her safety, I stopped her and asked, ‘Aren’t you a bit off kilter, honey?’ Boy, did that piss her off. She was all like, “Eff you Fuller, you Faksin flave, I habn’t haba drink in years. I’m ferpectly fober!”

With the winner of the 2013 Bad Sex in Fiction Award just announced (congrats to Manil Suri for this gem in The City of Devi, “...only Karun’s body, locked with mine, remains... In celebration of her breakthrough fourth star, statisticians the world over rejoice”) we can finally reveal our own submission*:
 

Prayerocracy

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For the use of the term "democracy" as referring to a system involving multiparty elections, representative government, and freedom of speech, see misguided Western media, you traitor.

It's the year 2020 and Suthep Thaugsuban, protest leader and former Democrat Party MP, is still pissed off. He vowed to continue the fight even if Yingluck Shinawatra resigns and dissolves parliament. Well, continue he did. And it turned out he was just getting warmed up.

Thailand lies in ruins. Roaming bands of protesters have taken over, leaving the country looking like North Korea, only without the nice bronze statues. Or the dancing. It even rains in winter, now, as years of protests have made the climate toxic.

Time for the latest instalment of our occasional (and only occasionally funny) news quiz. How closely have you been paying attention to what’s been going on this month?

Which Internet-famous Singaporean with a superhero name has been jailed on theft and drug charges?
1. Batman bin Suparman
2. Downey bin Ironman
3. Daredevil

What do the Senate and Preah Vihear have in common? We Thais are really, really passionate about both of them. We are ready to go to war to defend them. We wake up at night in a cold sweat at the idea of anyone messing with our senators or Khmer temples. The problem is, we’re so intense about both, we get them mixed up sometimes. Here’s a pop quiz to test your memory:

1. Which of these places is the most dangerous?

Dear Pry Ministur Ying Luck,

Hi, it’s me, Nong Daeng, your favoreat 8 year old pen pal. Did U have a good week? 555 Just kidding. Your life is suck right now, I know. Sorry!

I wanted to say thank you for the arm nesty bill. Mon and dad always fight about politik but now they stoped fight and agree that the bill is very very stoopeed buffalo poop. You are very smart to come up with something for every one to get along together! Is that what re-con-cee-lee-ay-shun mean?

Oh wow. This is amazing! If you’re like us, then your Facebook feed has never been this hot. (At least not since May 2010.) Changing our profile pics to display our political courage: 43 likes and nine comments! Instagram shots of our lunchbreaks risking life and limb down at the Silom protests: 23 likes and 2 new followers! Our comment that we are “ready to die to defend the nation against corruption” on a friend’s post: eight likes!