That was really well done. 
Now what we need is a similar video to unravel the mysteries of Canada.
Take language, for example. We have English and French as official languages in recognition of the founding cultures. The weird thing about it is that most of the colonists from France didn't speak a form of French that would be widely understood today. Many of the "English" speakers spoke a form of Braid Scots, Irish or Scots Gaelic, and in fact what we speak today would be almost unintelligilble 190 years ago. The closest to the original French is still spoken by the Acadiens, and the earliest English was still spoken in Newfoundland and the Gaspe one generation ago. And then there's all the Native languages, most of which are now extinct. One territory uses an Inuit language as an official language, but this too is a problem because fewer people are actually speaking it. Two generations ago there were Natives in Labrador who spoke only their own language and Moravian German.
Go figure.
On second thought, maybe it doesn't make nearly as much sense as explaining the difference between Great Britain, the U.K. and England. 
EPITAPH: Decades from now, no one will know what my bank balance looked like, it won't matter to anyone what kind of car I drove, nor will anyone care what sort of house I lived in. But the world will be a different place, because I did something so mind bafflingly eccentric that my ruins have become a tourist attraction.
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