Hi all - some very cool entries! Talking of dropping standards.. and i know this is a bit late and isn't anywhere near up to your standards but I showed the competition to my 10 year old son (he's a huge lego fan and constantly building) and he wanted to enter so I thought what the heck and entered for him... please forgive us!
Out of our group draw, he choose morocco and did a kind of sand dune scene out of what sand coloured bricks he had.. now you have to use your imagination a little but you can see a dude under an umbrella at the top of the dune, a well, and a few other slightly random things like the 2 guys eating fish. Then he googled and found jungle in morocco so did a bigger plate of that with some ruins and a tree (i'm not how many jungle ruins there really are in morocco :-) )
Anyway, we don't really have enough pieces to go all out but i said i'd post it anyway!
Matt.