Atropia: The Army’s biggest inside joke has its own movie

A new movie trailer just dropped for soldiers fortunate enough to survive a month of “war” in the Mojave Desert against one of the Army’s most enduring foes.

“Atropia,” a military satire named after the fictional, corrupt nation favored by U.S. forces during a simulated, but major war at the National Training Center in California, follows a troupe of role-players helping prepare soldiers for combat in Iraq. Or to spend several hours looking for a company commander’s pistol only for it to turn up inside a wretched porta-potty.

It stars Alia Shawkat as an eager actress who finds herself in the middle of the great Atropian War as a contractor tasked with providing troops with realistic combat situations as they rotate through the arid training ground known as “the box.”

“Welcome to Atropia