The design of the money is losely based on the American one dollar bill, but there are no other references to the US than that - this piece is not a comment on the US, it is a comment on money and how we need it and want it. The format was chosen because 1) The show is in the US 2) Nothing reads better as the mother-image of money than the dollar 3) The design of the Dollar bill is crammed full of symbols So our bill is full of symbols too, a few of them are: The Hand which doesn't mean stop in this case, it means "gimme". Three Wells Stupid, pointless greed - three wells next to each other in order to get more water. Moebius Band Infinity, it's never enough, hence also the "MORE" denomination. Ussel Mammon A Danish expression used to describe money driven motives - when someone does something for ussel mammon he or she does it for "nothing else than simply/lowly money." It's a brilliant, old expression from a language with relatively few words. read on