Samowar in Atlantis/YMMV
- Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: Lampshaded with the protagonist's name that is Björn (Swedish) Mika (Finnish) Ringstorff. [1]
- Jerkass Woobie:
Ignaz "Nazi" Schuhmann, deeply affected by the events of the time as a former Sipo officer, working as a taxi driver thereafter for a while before turning into a drunkard and losing his driver's licence and essentially living on the dole since then. [2]
His daughter has him "well under control" whenever she deems it necessary and is dating this Björn guy from the "old motherland" that left serious issues to him. - Memetic Mutation:
- "Herrgott im Himmel!"
- "What you do on vacation, stays on vacation!"
- "There are just some things I needn't have had..."
- Paranoia Fuel: One needs to wonder how low-brow the security personell at Teltow Airpot has to be if the silhouette of an oriental tea cooker makes them nearly run havoc, though it's not like they had to be prepared for living through one coup after another.
- This Is Your Premise on Drugs:
- No. 1 among Ten ways to get rid of 100 billion Deutschmarks: Turn Chemnitz into a beautiful city!
- What if you imposed a Bavarian-style curfew on a city like Real Life Berlin and it would work because of even more gentrifiers?
- ↑ In Real Life, some Harald Ringstorff was the long-serving minister-president (governor) of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. This fictional Ringstorff also hails from Mecklenburg, from Wismar to be exact.
- ↑ Technically, he's been conveniently retired on basic income guarantee, but that doesn't spare him from feeling like a hobo.