Moger Mulluk — the eastern land of opportunity and prosperity had a cabinet 300 members strong but every single one of them could snatch the moon and crush it in the palms of their hands — if they only wished so. Such was their might. Oh, it’s not like they didn’t face trouble every now and then but they shrugged it off like dust on a rooster.

For instance, the minister of transportation, Gobaydul Nader had just heard about the supposed scandal in the share market. Some fool was babbling in the newspaper about Lily Mammal, his fellow minister, an overachiever giant in the finance ministry. What embezzlement? Such nonsense! Nader was sure that money was used for constructing bridges, roads, bicycle lanes — off the record.

Nevermind. Gobaydul Nader started to take selfies. He’s a national celebrity after all. It is said that everyday when he posts his selfies on social media, tens of women lose their consciousness and virginity at the same time, a look of guilty euphoria on their faces.
Nader was whistling nonchalantly, clicking on the ‘post’ button. In a few minutes, the whole nation of moger mulluk would be talking about him and him alone. Lily can owe him one. Again.

Seeing all the colorful photos with all of Nader’s shiny teeth bared open, Mokha Paloan-bir, the home minister, winced. Such cringe! He can’t even open his homepage without seeing that shiny-teeth’s photos all over his feed. Mokha closed Envybook and exhaled a deep sigh. He had his own plate of problems. A few warehouses of govt. issued sugar was found empty a few days ago. Well, Mokha knew exactly where that sugar went but he just can’t come out and say—it is secretly allotted to the poor for the sake of humanity, can he? Would any investor then invest in such a well-fare country? No!
Yes, he can come up with a convincing story instead. He called his PS.
“Bodrul!” He shouted. “Tell them ants had those sugar. Yes, ants. A-n-t-s. How would I know how many? Tell them a colony of ants. What? It’s not enough? Well, then a few hundred colonies. Yes, that ought to do.”
He hung up the phone then, submerged himself in deep thoughts anent the state, humming the tune of a patriotic song.

Ants having a few warehouses of sugar succinctly put a lid over the story and everyone was very much convinced. But the technocrat minister, Steve Jabbar AKA The Kagu wasn’t really satisfied. He could sniff the lie within. After all, he was the angel of morality! In a previous viral statement, the home minister notoriously said a bunch of infidel people came and brought down a massive building with their bare hands, pulling and pushing. Which also convinced everyone about the said act. While The Kagu admitted inward that he himself could do that but a bunch of infidels? Nonsense! It had to be a lie! A benevolent lie for the good of the country, no doubt, but lie nonetheless and The Kagu couldn’t just let it pass!

Shorly and aptly, he decided on a moral stand, got up and entered the control room in a languid gait. He then sat on a computer and blocked the home minister’s entire website. Hah!
If you could only see him then, you would see a smile on his face so delightful that it outshone the sunlight.

— The end —

This post was written for the political satire writing contest hosted by bdcommunity. Here's the link to the post - @bdcommunity/bdcommunity-presents-weekly-writing-contest-week-1

Tagging @ZayedSakib and @bigtom13, they might find the contest fun and join themselves. :)