Things had plodded along amongst the anthro people and tax time was rapidly approaching.
Since the novelty of seeing anthro people had worn off human tourists had stopped coming to the Island
and were heading to some long lost and recently rediscovered Mayan City with their tourist
bucks.
Which meant there were plenty of laid off and under employed tourist guides.drivers and interpretors on the Island.
Bills however were still coming due and the Islands second source of revenue,USA government employees coming over for Special Operations Training
jockingly referred to be the local anthro people as
Alein Invasion Training
was stalled due to the Federal Gov't shutdown due to the tiff between President Trump and a Democrat controlled Congress
over the Wall.
So the Board of Governors of the Island sat around the table musing over various plans for other ways to raise revenue.
They rejected all the plans one at a time till only one
remained unvoted on
a yellowed old manuscript with the archaic letters
S.A.M.A.F. on the top
Below where the words
Shakespeareans and Antiquarian Meeting on Acting Ftages
and it took the Governors a while to figure out that
the F on the manuscript was really a S
Basically the manuscript was something the Island's scaled anthro people had drawn up three centuries earlier
on the 100th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare the Great Bard
and the manuscript mentioned plays
such as The Tempest Hamlet MacBeth
that had been adapted for performance for the Islands scaled actors and actresses.
Hey.the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare
was coming up in a few months
and so the Islands Governors voted to reactivate
SAMAF