El pueblo que votó que la Tierra era plana

A group of friends traveling by car are stopped for speeding, taken to court and forced to pay a hefty fine. The unfortunate protagonists realize that it is all part of a plot by the villagers to enrich themselves, and they decide to execute an elaborate plan of revenge. Thanks to the complicity of a theatrical entrepreneur and the sounding board of the newspapers, the situation will reach levels of pure delirium, even splashing the Parliament itself. Sharp and scathing satire, The people who voted that the Earth was flat is nourished by the experiences of Rudyard Kipling in his time as a journalist. The British Nobel Prize winner, a good connoisseur of media gears, weaves a delicious story where he mocks popular credulity, focuses on the excesses of both the political and judicial power, and exposes the effects of information manipulation. Topics that, despite the fact that more than a century has passed since it was written, are still very topical.