Denmark

[River Don]

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/scandimania

One for you IC1967, the best living standards in the world and the happiest people. Despite all of them paying 55% tax.

[BigColSutherland]

"Why do the Danes score so highly on international happiness surveys? Well, they do have high levels of trust and social cohesion, and do very nicely from industrial pork products, but according to the OECD they also work fewer hours per year than most of the rest of the world. As a result, productivity is worryingly sluggish. How can they afford all those expensively foraged meals and hand-knitted woollens? Simple, the Danes also have the highest level of private debt in the world (four times as much as the Italians, to put it into context; enough to warrant a warning from the IMF), while more than half of them admit to using the black market to obtain goods and services."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/scandinavian-miracle-brutal-truth-denmark-norway-sweden

[IC1967]

55% tax is is just one piece of the jigsaw. I will watch it with interest.