As is well known, during the Ottoman era, a "Surname" was a traditional festival book that vividly described joyous occasions such as royal weddings, circumcisions, and public celebrations. These manuscripts chronicled rich feasts, colorful ceremonies, grand entertainments, and extraordinary performances that lasted for days, inviting the public to witness the spectacle. Naturally, these were not the humble gatherings of ordinary citizens—such as those who ended up in jail for eloping because they couldn't afford a bride price—but rather the opulent celebrations of sultans and princes.

During the modern Republican era, extravagant celebrations, magnificent weddings lasting forty days and forty nights, lavish engagement parties, unprecedented feasts, and ostentatious openings flowing with drinks have arguably surpassed even those of the Ottoman Empire. However, until now, no "Republican Surname" had been written to document these modern spectacles. Employing his razor-sharp wit, Aziz Nesin steps up to declare that the task of writing the Surname of the modern era has fallen to him, serving up a brilliant satire of contemporary society's obsession with wealth, status, and extravagant displays.