- a 12.7% budget deficit, more than four times higher than allowed under the rules regulating the currency union of which your country is a member.
- debt of about 300bn euros ($419bn; £259bn).
- deep market skepticism that the country will be able to pay its debts, with many investors convinced that you will have to be bailed out - threatening a crisis of confidence in your economy as a whole.
When, after long lax economic times from which you as a citizen have benefited, your government makes relatively timid, reasonable efforts to rectify this economic tsunami which threatens to entirely destroy your country's economy, what should you do?
A: Strike, of course.