Following on from the success of its International Women’s Day, soon after which we learnt that several extremely well-paid newsreaders are not paid quite as much as their extremely well-paid colleagues, the United Nations is preparing to stage its International Happiness Day this week.

Ahead of this global event, its annual World Happiness Report has just announced that the happiest place on earth is now — drum roll — Finland.

And how have experts arrived at this conclusion? Well, it was simple. They went to all of the countries in the world and, in essence, asked the people they met if they were content. And more people said yes in Finland than anywhere else.

“Joo. I am very happy,” said Erik from Helsinki as he