Here in Egypt we've got a body called Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) and I think you'd better remember this name because it could be present at this year's exam. This authority prevents monopoly and defends consumers from summer diseases. After a two-year serious study, the ECA affirmed there was no steel monopoly. Yet, how does it work? It's something like a tube, a burette and a leather hump. Put the element you want to test inside the tube, leave it inside the hump and heat it up. Inside the hump, a tripartite committee welcomes the element and asks it for its name, price and monopolist. After two years of exams, check the tube. If the element gets out like a skewer, this means there is no monopoly. The employees congratulate each other and head to the airport to welcome the tripartite committee on their return from the leather hump. Then, the Authority chairman delivers a speech saying that he's going to lead the skewer to Egypt so that it can join the other skewers. After that, they start drawing Egypt's flag on their cheeks, which are safe and recognized. On the contrary, if the element gets into the tube and doesn't get out, this means it has settled inside the hump at a certain price. The ECA is not a public body but a civil one and can not be isolated, as Egypt can live without monopolies but it can not live without a leather hump. After this scandalous decision, either the ECA is dismantled or an authority is set up to protect consumers from the authority itself. One of the principles of the Revolution was to wipe out monopoly and its lords. I used to know monopoly, but I did not know its lords until I met the "burette". It told me the tripartite committee is made up of one member from a cooking oil company and one from flour warehouses, so that our cooking oil and our flour may be together. As for the third element, it's the one the ECA hires the leather hump from until it finds an apartment.
