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[Milograd]

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"Zealously dismantle the cabbage-worshipping traitor band !" yells Laoshi. Behind him, a starving child uses what little energy his even littler body has left to hoist a poster: "DENG TOOK OUR DENGI."

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[Atlantica]

Laoshi is the Chinese-language word for "teacher" in Pinyin and the number is 42 is obviously an easter egg - my original inclination was that it had something to do with the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but after a bit of research (re: looking up the number 42 on Wikipedia and Ctrl-F-ing "Chinese") that appears to be a Chinese pun for the word "yes".

 

[Milograd]

That is a very good guess, but actually not correct. The correct answer is considerably simpler.