Polythene is a term for the United Kingdom

“Far and wide sir”, exclaimed Butler Hurricane. Bernd sat comfortably in his high- back Italian leather chair and swiveled around. His eyes met with Hurricane and then he swiveled back to face the gigantic glass window. He stared menacingly at the serenity of the rolling meadows of Falling Blossoms outside.
“Far and wide,” Bernd repeated merrily to himself. On his table lay ‘The Fountainhead’ by Lyn Rand. “Man’s ego is the fountainhead of human progress” he quoted to his Butler. “Sorry sir, you were saying...” Bernd looked dismissively at Hurricane but he understood that stupidity came as a natural correlate of being a henchman. He alone was the one with the brains. And he had the ambition and selfishness to go all the way.
In the United States of America, a new plastic called Purple Furry Nails or PFN was taking the industry by storm. It was more durable, more malleable and just plain genius. People just could not imagine the need for polyethylene anymore or polythene as it was called in the United Kingdom.