The Second-Happiest People

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Is Denmark really a paradise of social welfare, or is it just less rotten than everywhere else?

About Mark Perrino

I'm a voluntary American exile paying mildly snarky tribute to my adoptive country as an antidote to a morbid fascination with the news from the homeland; author of the novel MEET THE DANES.

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