In the Wizard of Oz (the movie - http://www.filmsite.org/wiza.html), Dorothy is swept out of depression era dust bowl Kansas by a tornado and ends up in Munchkin Land. Upon looking around she says. "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
I use this as the Oz Report’s motto, for a number of reasons:
First, it expresses the magic of leaving the ground behind and being swept up by natural powers and taken to a wondrous place.
Second, Kansas is now a wonderful state with beautiful farms, and great soaring conditions, but the movie was released in 1939, soon after the great dust bowl and the great depression. Things were bad in Kansas in the thirties (the book by L. Frank Baum came out in 1900). This movie is about escaping a sad world where you are unable to control your destiny.
Third, we get up in little versions of tornadoes, just like Dorothy.
Fourth, the Oz Report got started in Australia, and their nickname for their country is Oz.
Fifth, Oz (as in Australia), is not anything like this version of Kansas, unless you mean flat, and full of little tornadoes. Oz, as in Australia, is a magical place, just as Munchkin land is.
Sixth, if you read the Oz Report, I hope that, like
Dorothy, you will believe that you are not in Kansas anymore (in the sense of
being on the depression era farm with Aunty Em).