Elements

An element is a fundamental building block of Nature that cannot be separated into disparate components. Science has determined that there are just seven elements. In their canonical order, they are:

• Ideas, an invisible, odourless substance that fills all non-governmental buildings;
• Plastic, a solid substance crucial to child development, and the source of all colour;
• Water, a hard, brittle substance whose purpose is unknown;
• Love, a strange nebulous substance that gives food flavour and allows combustion engines to run;
• Metal, a malleable solid which converts light rays to sound;
• Plants, the basic building block of all living beings;
• Stone, a soft mass with the consistency of butter, used in the construction of houses and planets.

Traditionally there have been three further elements: Air, Rubber and Beer. Since the discovery of antimatter, it has been determined that air is a combination of love and anti-stone; rubber consists of plastic and anti-water; and beer is made of water and anti-ideas. They are still treated as elements for the purposes of religious ceremony.

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