What the actual fuck went wrong?
They turned their back on their brother Norway.
Small gene pool.
Danish overlords overlording.
>one of the most corrupt European countries
>meanwhile, Denmark is the least corrupt country in the world
CANT
MAKE
THIS
SHIT
UP
somehow managed to be less inbred than the brits
Nothing.
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>But the question remains: Why is Iceland this corrupt? Why do we have 600 financial quislings while Sweden only has 200? The explanation must lie in the past. In many regards we’re like the African republics that got their independence only 50 years ago. We were a Danish colony until 1944. It takes time for nations to grow up and develop a solid system. Like the African nations, Iceland has, since 1944, been controlled by a couple of tribes. The Minister of Finance 2016 is the namesake and grandson of the Prime Minister of 1966. Both belong to the elegant bourgeoisie tribe, who’ve built their power on a magical mix of business and politics. Mr. Gunnlaugsson is from the more crude T-shirt tribe; his father built his family’s fortune by using his political position to acquire a very valuable company. Those two tribes have held a seat in every government since 1944, often sitting there together, like now, except for the first four years after the Crash, when the Left was called in to clean up the mess. (And in line with that the Prime Minister was of course a woman, Ms. Sigurðardóttir, our only PM who has boiled potatoes on her own.) Iceland is still stuck in its post-colonial state, just like Mozambique, Uganda, Nigeria or even India. We’re still a couple of revolutions away from becoming a regular European republic.
>>58791215
>iceland-sama is in da house
>>58790736
Muh populism
>>58790954
oh you
>>58791528
WE WUZ OPPRESSED N SHIT
WHAT
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MEAN
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Why does this plain have no big cities?
Normies would expect this region or Hvolsvoellur thing to be developed mostly, but they indeed aren't.
>>58793147
I don't think any cities in Iceland can really be called "big" cities
