National Banana Day

National Banana Day is a largely informal holiday within the NIR, set on the second to last Friday of every September, National Banana Day is one of the most festive holidays in the NIR. Originating back in 1997 during a 'banana explosion' where South-Eastern Asian countries began to modernize banana-growing strategies and exported thousands of banana's every day. One of the major importers of bananas was the NIR. Unfortunately the NIR overestimated the people's banana eating capabilities. Thus, the NIR was left with millions of dollars worth of banana's and no one to eat them. The state was very slow to respond to this crisis, the head of the military stating that "A couple of banana's don't matter". As a punishment for that mistake, the NIR's military was 'volunteered' to eat all the bananas. But even the full might of the NIR's military was not capable of eating all the bananas. In a last minute decision, the state decided to sponsor a Banana-Fest. This Banana-Fest was a huge success, as across the country citizens of the NIR were having banana eating contests, Banana baking compititions, banana fights, and banana sing-alongs. On that day alone almost half a million dollars worth of bananas were consumed, saving the country from undoubted peril. And thus from that day forward, every second to last Friday on September has been National Banana Day.