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Qwerty
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Qwerty is a country located in between the continents of Australia and Mars. The country was established on January 27, 1111 by it's first overlord, Joe "Shade" Schmo. The Schmo's have ruled the country of Qwerty ever since, with over 14.7 generations of the family ruling the country. It spans over 2174978169598984 million square miles with an approximate population of 1234567890.
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To answer criticism that Qwerty was designed to slow typists down, Sholes argued that wasn't his intention, he only meant to stop the keys jamming. Some believed him, some didn't. But the fact was it slowed typists to a crawl for some long time, until teaching methods for qwerty were devised to get round the problem he had created. Simply because he didn't think of return springs.
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Qwerty's neighboring country of Country had been having conflicts with each other between the mid-1800s and the 1930s. At the time, Country was the only country populated with emos. They soon started to illegalation known as The Purples Elephant brigade. Eventually, Country gave up their freedom and became part of Qwerty. Schmo IX responded to this event saying, "LOL, we pwnt u noobs!1!11"
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Qwerty gets taught because Qwerty is how the keyboards in schools are shipped, how home computers come set up, how what electric typewriters still get sold are configured. It’s what the computer at work, and at the library, and at the internet cafe uses. Using DVORAK, or any other layout, in the wild? Hard. Hard things like that aren’t going to just happen without some tremendous incentive. People won’t want to learn it, manufacturers won’t want to sell it, workplaces won’t want to install it.
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Qwerty is very boring to learn because very few meaningful words can be formed with the keys on home row. Thus typing tutors typically have students typing nonsense for the first several lessons.
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Qwerty runs on a government based on the powers of democracy of dictatorship. People vote for a guy that will screw the country over. Actually, it's a lot like America's government now that you think about it. Anyway, the rulers of Qwerty are known as Overlords and run a term of 42 years. Each is allowed X terms. However, all of the overlords have been related to the country's original discoverer, Joe "Shade" Schmo. None have ever had a running opponent in an election either.
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