April 11, 2001

9:24 PM

Credit Card Nation? And people who bought this book also purchased Fast Food Nation. Is the U.S., then, no longer Prozac Nation. Do we live in Hackneyed Nonfiction Title Nation? Or is it really a Credit Card Abusing, Fast-Food Eating Nation on Prozac?
posted by raysmj (17 comments total)

Whoah. That's Fast-Food Nation and Prozac Nation. I was temporarily living in Annoyed Person With a Good Idea Who Acted to Fast Nation.
posted by raysmj at 9:29 PM on April 11, 2001

Also discovered via Amazon

Database Nation, Corporation Nation, Ritalin Nation, Free-Agent Nation, and of course, Transgender Nation

We don't even get into Chili Nation, Suburban Nation, Self-Help Nation, Comic Book Nation, Gunfighting Nation, Hoops Nation, Voyeur Nation, Network Nation and Joystick Nation here, since, frankly, we're out of patience and time.
posted by raysmj at 10:15 PM on April 11, 2001

No Imagi Nation.
posted by dhartung at 10:26 PM on April 11, 2001

Have these been published yet?
• Self-Absorbed Nation
• Simplistic Nation
• Damnation
posted by pracowity at 11:52 PM on April 11, 2001

Procrasti Nation.

That was bad. Zhenshi daoqian. I formally apologize.

More credit card stupidity.
posted by youthbc1 at 12:59 AM on April 12, 2001

not prozac, darlings. zoloft.
posted by sugarfish at 1:16 AM on April 12, 2001

don't forget Alien Nation
posted by lagado at 4:30 AM on April 12, 2001

You mean it's not Woodstock Nation anymore?

Y'know, I have this strong sense that all these titles are vaguely allusive to some earlier Foo Nation, but I can't put my finger on it. Woodstock Nation is the earliest I can think of, but it seems like there must have been some earlier exemplar. What was it?
posted by rodii at 7:01 AM on April 12, 2001

Rythym Nation. Sorry about that...
posted by the_ill_gino at 8:19 AM on April 12, 2001

This syndicated article quotes someone claiming that this trend started with Prozac Nation (i.e. that's what everyone is copying). I don't know if that's correct.
posted by iceberg273 at 8:36 AM on April 12, 2001

We'll always have the Shampoo Planet should the nations crumble.
posted by hijinx at 8:49 AM on April 12, 2001

not prozac, darlings. zoloft.

Celexa Nation, baby.

How about MeFi Nation?
posted by jpoulos at 10:07 AM on April 12, 2001

I believe MeFi was covered in Righteous Indig Nation.
posted by gimli at 12:49 PM on April 12, 2001

Oh, I'll play.

Daydream Nation.
posted by Skot at 1:10 PM on April 12, 2001

One of my favorites, especially on a long drive. Almost seems to compress time.
posted by gimli at 1:34 PM on April 12, 2001

A pox on all you nationalists.
posted by anapestic at 3:59 PM on April 12, 2001

"Corporation Nation, what's your fixation..."
posted by kindall at 6:19 PM on April 12, 2001