From the desk ofNash Emilio Fawcett

European – Scandinavia

Capitol is Oslo

Population – 4.99 Million

Languages – ◦ Bokmal (85%-90%)◦ Nyornsk (12%)

5% Catholic

10% Atheist

Church of Norway – 79.2%◦ 80% say religion is UNIMPORTANT◦ 2% attend church regularly – lowest in Europe

Borgund Church

Extremely diverse and homogenous◦ Few people are really excluded◦ Few Subcultures

Black Metal•Started as a genre of music

•Became a satanic pseudo-religion

•Very small subculture

Mostly a western society

Very accepting of women’s, minority and gay rights

May 17 – National Day

Traditional food – fish, reindeer, whales

Large oil production

Large shipping economy

Prosperous, high standard of living, low unemployment

Semi-Socialist◦ State ownership in some areas◦ Petroleum, banking

Vikings!! – raided and settledThe British Isles and Scotland

Reformation – Lutheranism

United with Denmark, conquered by Sweden

Freedom on October 29, 1905

Conquered by Germany in 1945, now part of NATO

Relatively peaceful, few internal conflicts

Very small conflict with Muslim refugees

◦ 2008 – An attack by forty or fifty Muslim Norwegians of Chechen descent against Muslim immigrants from Kurdistan. Five were arrested

Asia – Considered it’s own sub-continent

Capital – New Delhi

Languages – Hindi, English

Population – 1.2 Billion people◦ Billion. With a “B”.◦ 2nd most populous country on earth

Hinduism biggest religion

Also Islam, Christianity, and Sikhism

Large Buddhist influence

Spirituality

Clothes – ◦ Sari (women) dhoti (men)

Arranged marriages –◦ low divorce rate

Food – ◦ curry, naan bread, mithai (desserst)

Youth Subculture◦ Influenced by American, British music

Bengali◦ Native to Bangladesh, now partially an Indian

territory

Parsi◦ Former religious group of Iran, fled to India

Fast growing, prosperous economy

Second most preferred place for investment

Factory jobs, investors, outsourced American jobs

Large wealth gap◦ Crowded cities with a large amount of homeless

One of the oldest civilizations

Started as tribes along the Indus river, taken over by Moguls, then by Turks and Aghanis, then colonized by England, gained independence in 1947

Rampant Poverty

India-Pakistan wars

Overpopulation◦ Crowded cities

99% hydroelectric power

Free college for everyone

Voted most peaceful country on earth

One of the richest countries

•Cold, near arctic climate•Trolls

While I like Norway, I would rather live somewhere warmer, with a less complicated language and fewer towns named after trolls.

Invented numbers 7000 railway

stations on the Indian Railway

Invented Chess

•41.6% live in poverty•1,170,938,000 people•Cyclones, monsoons, landslides, floods

I do not want to live in India, because it is crowded, hot and most people live in poverty. I’d rather stay in the U.S.

Prosperous, well integrated

Democratic republic

Independent, individualistic

Militarily powerful

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