Year after year at Christmastime, the movie “Scrooged”, based on Charles Dickens’ story “A Christmas Carol”, flickers across the screens in Germany. In this US comedy, the unscrupulous and stubborn TV producer Frank (Bill Murray), is visited in succession by three ghosts - the ghosts of the past, present and future. The three mirrors Frank is shown by the ghosts do not show anything positive, and at the end of the film they bring him to repentance. Let us now take the liberty of holding a mirror to the much-discussed State Treaty on Gambling and its advocates, and of taking stock.