bhutan

You should have picked Bhutan or maybe New Zealand, it's hard to offend kiwis (they are so laid back).

You'd much rather be a Bhutanese, though; by extreme contrast to NK, Bhutan is considered by many the happiest nation on Earth.

I'm headed to Bhutan in a month and will report back if I learn anything interesting on this topic.

It also allows you to send money from say Jersey CI to the Bank of Bhutan who may not have compatible computer systems.

A bit misleading title, but Bhutan has its own share of problems.

Just returned from a 5 weeks trip in Bhutan and the Himalayas.

While, certainly not all those who claim to be the refugees might be actually one, the poor human rights record[1] of Bhutan speaks for itself.

Typically 'experiential purchases' is used to indicate purchasing an experience, like (as in the article) a trip to Bhutan rather than, say, a new car.

In Bhutan they draw penises on things for good luck.

I've also been contemplating heading up to Assam in India, maybe Bhutan and Nepal to do what little recording I can manage.

> Ritual provides a container for grief, and in Bhutan that container is large and communal.

Over the course of the last 4 to 5 decades Bhutan has faced a wave of economic migration that it has been (and continues to be) ill-equipped to manage.

"Large scale eviction of Bhutanese citizens" and "shady regime" are highly simplistic or one sided ways to describe a complex problem that Bhutan does indeed have.

I don't think "BTC" should be used in contexts where it may be construed as an ISO-4217 currency code, as the first 2 letters correspond with ISO country codes and "BT" is reserved for Bhutan.

Some caravan routes ran there, of course, but they were not that busy as those to Kathmandu, Sikkim or Bhutan.

Now if they were from some small developing country like say Sri Lanka or Bhutan, it would be really impressive.

You are talking about Gross National Happiness, a measure that was used in Bhutan.