The Vatican City State is a sovereign city-state and a Christian theocracy ruled by the Pope.

I mean ten years ago a bit of charlie was for pop stars or a celebrities birthday bash. It was demonized by Daily Mail Readers getting drunk in naff wine bars.

[…] Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.

They were clever in finding local material, such as parachutes, for making bedcovers or curtains, and so-called moonlight requisitions were sources of supply for material to make furniture.