An Installment Plan

Many of you have asked whether the GNU Public Dictatorship will allow its debtors to repay their debts in installments as many of the principal amounts on the loans are rising rapidly.  Some of you are now asking who our debtors are, and some are wondering where we got our money.  We'll answer the questions in reverse order:

• We got our money the same way other governments got their money: by pretending we have something of value.
• Our debtors are many.  Most of them are banks, energy firms, and non-governmental organizations around the world.  We haven't given them loans so that they will be indebted to us and will have to support us as we usher in the New Future, but that is a nice perk.  We gave them loans so that they would be able to remain influential in the world.
• Yes, the GPD will allow payments in installments for debts over 11 quadrillion Euros, with terms from a few million millennia and up.  Even a low payment of 100,000 Euros/month would only take 10 billion years (assuming that we waive the interest) to pay back!

Some of you are now asking why the GPD is using Euros, and whether we are responsible for the phone bill Solenne San Jose received recently.  Some of you are also asking whether we own Bouygues Telecom.  Again, in reverse order:

• No, we don't own Bouygues Telecom, but if you have any friends who work for them, let us know.  We would be interested in buying it.
• As to whether we are responsible for the phone bill, the answer is complicated.  Solenne did incur the bill herself, but we were responsible for some interesting behavior on the billing computers.  As we have operatives who work with the billing and customer service centers we were able to buy the debt from Bouygues Telecom, and now she is our debtor.
• The GPD doesn't use Euros for all transactions, but it is the currency in France, so we used it in this case.  The GPD's own currency, the dictator unit, has not caught on in many of the world's currency markets as of yet.

We hope this has been informative and useful, and that we have answered your questions!