'Investment'? Hmmm!

Let me see.

List of supplies:

Convicts: a few hundred shiploads Soldiers, brutal: a few hundred shiploads Politicians: too many A monarch - delete this item, superfluous

LOL - I think I had better stop now.

Maybe it's really like the rats in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It was the Aboriginal/Koori people who set England up as a social experiment and then sailed around the other side of the world to watch the outcomes from a distance. Experiment got a little out of hand, though. (grin)

Helen