>>We're not jealous. We just remember Steve Irwin, Crocodile Dundee, kangaroos and more. We unjustly lump it all together and grew an affinity for the outback in that regard. Also, the accent's pretty neat to listen to.
That's the giant desert continent across the moat that you're referring to, I think.
NZ is a strange little place underneath the planet where everything is upside down which is why we have to hold onto our stuff so it doesn't fall off into space. NZ also has unique flora and flora: no snakes, no native mammals but there is one dinosaur and several sorts of bird with a sense of humour, including the alpine Kea that thinks it's hilarious to gouge rubber off unsuspecting tourist cars. Here's a slightly corny old advertisement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr1xhyaYtjE
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
