Any state with a population of none (aside from a precious few spectacular skiers) and half the world’s oil, is going to “do great.” Doesn’t much matter if it’s social democratic or wahhabi shecikocratic. If you look at more typically endowed Sweden instead, thing’s aren’t nearly as rosy. Its not really any “worse” than here, but then again, Sweden isn’t really any “more socialistic” than here anymore, either.

Germany has benefited greatly from having been able to keep the bankster and other “asset appreciation” freeloadeing leeches nicely tucked away in London. Hence have remained a place where productive people haven’t had to drag those boat anchors around, to nearly the extent they have in most other Western countries since Nixon took the US, and with it the West, full retard. Which has left Germany unusually efficient at producing stuff. Hence able to hire, and pay, productive people accordingly. Kind of, although to a lesser degree, how the US economy worked pre Fed: Quickly improving efficiency at producing virtually anything, with the gains going to those who actually did the productive work. Rather than to a bunch of useless ambulance chasers, Fed welfare recipients, tax feeders and regulation riders, as is now the case.

If there has been a place where the outlook for the average guy has improved faster than in Somalia since they figured out the proper way to treat governments with the respect they are due, I’m not aware of one. It’s still Africa, certainly No Country for Soft White Men. But people are buying lots of stuff there. Cell phone penetration is high. Stores are stocked. Lots of guys own stuff (including guns. Even ones you can’t own in the Land of the once was somewhat Free. And ditto pharmaceuticals.) which noone did back when the Somalis, too, suffered under the idiocy called a government. And few do in African countries still stuck with the leeches. There’s obviously opportunities there, judging by the number of even 2nd generation (children of those who fled during the revolution) Somalis who are ditching their Uber jobs and heading back to the Old “Country.” Seemingly everyone has a cousin or uncle who can hook them up. Not really sure what they’re all doing, but then again, why should I be? I’m not there, detail studying the place on my own dime and, as the US Founders realized: The limited, enumerated powers of a legitimate government, does not extend to compiling mindless nonsense passed off as “economic statistics,” then use those as an excuse to “manage the economy”/meddle in the lives of, and rob and harass others.

But people aren’t fleeing, many are indeed returning, and one way or the other, people there are able to come up with hard currency to buy stuff from abroad. So, stuff is happening. And, and this is the important part: Things are increasingly happening. The place is growing in prosperity. Which is something Sweden and its ilk (including the US) is not.