h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

in towels and teapots

a monopoly on coffee

giving the power to

shut down the Terran

economy completely, allowing leveraging

of important trade concessions

for high-flying sales executives

intent on totally dominating

the stock market and

the entire Federation economy

based on old terran

pre-industrial age economics that

with all its eccentricities

and charms that endear

to little old ladies

who solve murder mysteries

and speculate in futures

where village tea shops

are full of sorcerers

and acquisitive market wizards