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An entire country wants to be 100% organic

Hey, the road to sustainability has to start somewhere. Why not Bhutan?

And as a result, they just got bumped up on the places I plan to visit.

They charge you by the day, and it is actually one of their major source of income. It's an interesting society, with a Ministry for Happiness... It messes my mind on how can somebody measure my own happiness other than myself. Any ways, there are other groups, in such remote places as Scandinavia that keeps a very low profile kind of life, and living from what they produce or capture.

They take surveys every year, asking everyone a list of questions related to happiness. Compile those numbers, and you have a good idea of how happy everyone is, and it is out of their own mouths.