The population is around 8,200,300, the country consists of four regions. The first part is called Pudding, the second is Lasagna, the third is Paella, the fourth is Wurstel. The inhabitants are the distant descendants who once lived in England, Italy, Spain and Germany. A peaceful leadership reigns, each citizen is aware of his or her duties. Governors still meet for a tasty,
multi-ethnic exchange of recipes. You work from Monday to Thursday, then you rest.
(Translated by Denisa Dărăban / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year II / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In November 2021, the group has 7.500 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
