The Concavity cabinet; Clipperton
This catastatic feature of the puppet-film's plot—that Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner threatens to bomb his own nation and toxify neighbors in an insane pout over Canada's reluctance to take redemised title over O.N.A.N.'s very own vast dump—resonates powerfully with those members of the movie's E.T.A. audience who know that this whole parodic pseudo-ONANtiad scenario is actually a puppet-à-clef-type allusion to the dark legend of one Eric Clipperton and the Clipperton Brigade.
Context
The narrator connects the film's two plots explicitly: a nation aiming its weapons at itself to get its way is the same closed circuit as Clipperton winning junior tournaments with a gun to his own head. Self-directed force as a loop — the same page runs the headline "'WILLING TO ELIMINATE OWN MAP OUT OF SHEER PIQUE.'"