All is Fair in Love and Wool

This was a historic event. In Norway to the coast of the Atlantic was a farm. What was so special about that farm you ask? It had sheep. But not any ordinary sheep. You see in this farm a white sheep when fed would turn into the color of its food. For example, if the farmer gave blueberries to the sheep, it would turn blue. This exotic sheep had been unknown to people outside of Norway. It is caged and securely protected in case someone tries to hunt it or capture it. Norway’s fashion economy was dropping and that sheep would help them recover it.  Norway easily became the world’s greatest wool-clothing country in the entire world. Norwegians told everyone of their clothing and started to brag. This was their biggest mistake. Everyone eyed Norway in suspicion.  

England started stealing the fancy clothes by sending a spy by the name of Hocky Sunny. He was a short man wearing a baseball Yankees cap, Levi’s jeans, some nice boots, and an I LOVE NORWAY t-shirt. He was totally blending in with his surroundings. No one could tell that he was a spy. He sent the clothing back home in England. A few months later though, he was arrested for smuggling.  

Though Sunny was arrested, England got a lot of evidence. Enough needed to make one of their own rainbow sheep, but when they used the formula, the sheep only dropped white wool. 

Norway was honestly laughing at England. They knew that people would try to smuggle their stuff, so they made some extra precautions. They colored the white wool by themselves! England had no idea. They tried for months and years, but it was no use. They had failed. Norway’s economy was bursting faster than the population of Earth. 

England wanted revenge, so instead of buying the actual clothing, they made the amazing idea of stealing the actual sheep. There was only one problem. Which sheep is it? There are more than one thousand sheep in Norway. England did not know the exact location of the rainbow sheep. they also did not know which color it was right now. The rainbow sheep could be purple, black, or plain old white. 

England sent spies to each farm which included sheep in Norway. They waited for weeks until the commander of the spies got a message, which had the exact location of the sheep. Norway is smart though. Instead of doing nothing, they did something.  

Norway secretly sent spies to the farm with the rainbow sheep. They found the British spies and captured them. They took one of the spy’s phones and sent a fake location, which leads to Russia. England found out about this news and knew that Norway was willing to do anything to protect the sheep.  

England didn’t want war, because Norway had a lot of powering and experienced allies on their sides, so England took the safe route and hit the bench.  

Next on the list was Germany. Germany liked the clothing but they didn’t care much about it. They said they were willing to give them 100 billion dollars for the sheep! Norway accepted the offer and gave them the sheep they wanted. People fed the sheep different colored sweets and fruits and vegetables, but the sheep stayed white. That sparked up Germany’s anger, as they soon realize that they have been scammed. There was nothing Germany could do about it though because the 100 billion dollars that they sent was the entire cost of Germany itself. Norway could just buy the German land and Germany could do nothing about it, so they stayed put.  

The last country who was willing to get the sheep was Austria. Austria was a good friend of Norway and thought that they would be able to ‘borrow’ the sheep. Of course, what they mean by ‘borrow’ is steal. This meant that Austria was going to betray Norway. 

Austria was a poor country and people seriously thought that Austria was never going to get the sheep. If a superpower like England couldn’t do it, then how could Austria? You see, there were many Austrians in Norway already, actually more than the number of Norwegians. If Austria somehow got all of their fellow Austrians to team up and ravage Norway, the sheep would be theirs.  

3 months of working and calling and posting fake news later, the sheep was in their hands. Austria laughed at Norway, but Norway stayed surprisingly calm. Austria didn’t notice this calmness in Norway. The reason for the calmness was that this was all going according to plan. Austria thought they had won the war, but they had only won the battle. The Norwegian government had thought ahead of Austria. 

A few days after the Austrian’s amazing victory, Norway decided to stay put. Norway was a secretive country, and they had reached the peak point of their plan. The rainbow sheep that Austria stole was an actual rainbow sheep, but it was only the offspring of the real sheep. The offspring only produced about an eighth of the wool its parents produce. In some time, Austria caught on to this, since Norway was still somehow prospering in the clothing community.  

Austria had given up, like all of the other countries. Fortunately for everyone, Norway decided to trade their wool with everyone so that everyone could be happy. Norway made a good decision and made the world a happy and prosperous place.  

Author’s Note: The events in this story have not actually happened.