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As a result of the success of the OHR anti-corruption campaign, the OHR
decided to commission a second series in 2001 that would tackle the subject of
economic reform using the same characters.
This campaign consisted of five 12-minute sequential animated cartoons, ten
radio programs "News from the future", one billboard poster and 3,000 VHS tapes.
The 3,000 VHS tapes carry both the anti-corruption and economic campaigns and
were placed in video rental shops around the country free of charge.
The five animated TV cartoons are set in the future. They show what the
relationship between the individual, the society and the state is in an
economically reformed and regenerated BiH, giving examples of how this economic
framework affects and benefits the individual and the society at large. In so
doing, they explain the concept of a "stakeholder society” where the individual
has a personal interest (stake) in the state functioning properly and remaining
fair, stable and predictable. Furthermore, the cartoons make clear that this
"future society” can't be created without the implementation of thorough
economic reform and a significant change in the thinking of BiH citizens.
The story of the cartoons focuses on Bush, an apathetic
economics student from Bosnia and Herzegovina,
who stumbles across a time travelling device and is transported from the present
day into the year 2030. He lands in a future Bosnia and Herzegovina that is very
different to today's. The economy is booming, almost everybody has a job, people
behave responsibly, public services function, there is no corruption, and all
the citizens feel a sense of civic responsibility for their country and the
environment around them. Bush is amazed, and through
a series of lessons realises that the old methods of doing things - nepotism,
bribery, cheating - cannot work in this reformed society. In the process of
trying to return to his own time with the help of the now older Gor and Ovaj and
Onaj, Bush realises which economic reforms his country needs to go through to
extricate itself from its current economic crisis. When Bush finally manages to
return to his own time, he pledges to dedicate his life to implementing these
reforms.
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