Ed Kupfer writes:

Your " X as the Y of Z " post reminded me of the semi-famous " Fractal Theory of Canada ", posted to the Usenet group alt.religion.kibology by "Inflatable Space Bunny" many years ago.

Here's a reprint, to save you from having to follow the link:

Background.

Given a community A and an adjacent community C, such that A is prosperous and populous, and C is less populous and prosperous, and nonreciprocal interest of C in the internal affairs of A, often C will need ego compensation by occaisional noisy and noisome display of its superiority over A. In this case C is said to be the canada of A, C = canada(A).

For example, it has been previously established that

canada(California) = Oregon

canada(New York) = New Hampshire

canada(Australia) = New Zealand

canada(England) = Scotland

The Fractal Theory of Canada.

For all A there exists C such that

C = canada(A)

For example,

canada(USA) = Canada

canada(Canada) = Quebec

canada(Quebec) = Celine Dion

It would appear that the hierarchy would bottom out an individual. However an individual is actually a community of tissues, tissues of cells, cells of molecules, and so forth down into the quantuum froth.

canada(brain) = pineal gland

canada(intestines) = colon

...

canada(electron) = neutrino

and so on. There is no bottom.