Quick mini-dig on that Economist World of 2015 cover….

1. World shaped as football/rugby ball. The world is their toy, one where you can build it into great things and then destroy it because you still get to keep all the pieces. They know a cataclysm is coming so they're grabbing all their pieces to take to Mars or whatever.

1. Alien-shaped mushroom cloud…the last chapter, fake alien invasion. We know that card.

1. Crop-o-Dust….is this why Bill Gates is buying up farm land?

1. Merkel's usual hand gesture with the eye in the middle.

1. Obvious