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There is such a country, if the punishment of the nine tribes can be carried out here, the sentence of one person may cause a sharp decline in the population of the whole country!
After all, in this country, if you want to successfully enter the marriage hall, you need not to rely on savings, real estate, and car keys, but on a "incest APP" that can go back to 300 years of family tree, and find out that you and he (she) are not close relatives!
(Living in the snow and ice)
1. Who dares to fall in love at first sight? APP shouts "your sister"
Iceland, a small island country isolated in the Atlantic, a polar "peach blossom source" built by Vikings, the remote location has created the purity of Iceland, and this purity is also reflected in the country's single population composition.
Of Iceland's population of 397,000 (2023), Germanic Vikings make up the vast majority, and most of them are descendants of Viking families who migrated from Scandinavia between 874 and 930 AD.
In other words, this country, whose population is equivalent to one-tenth of the people of Chaoyang in Beijing, can trace back to its ancestors, and it is impossible to escape the Viking pirates who pioneered Iceland 900 years ago! Moreover, three-fifths of the country's population lives and works in and around the capital, Reykjavík.
It can be said that it is normal for Iceland people to walk on the street, face a seventh aunt, rub shoulders with an eighth aunt, and help up a second uncle.
(Location of Iceland)
But this also makes the so-called "love at first sight" romantic bridge extremely difficult to stage in Iceland, after all, no one can be sure whether the person who is excited at this moment is a blood relative he has never met.
(Local Iceland residents)
As a result, an anti-incest software called "Islendinga" has become a must for men and women to date and flirt, and other countries use apps to find lovers, while Iceland people use apps to check centuries-old genealogy to avoid incest.
（“Islendinga”内页）
About 95% of Iceland people have their genes included in the app.
Enter the relevant information of the person you like, or touch his or her mobile phone, and the APP will automatically query each other's 300-year family tree, some even dating back to 1200 years ago!
And at this moment, all the user can do is to pray to God in the short few seconds of this query, and don't let the APP send out an incestuous warning sound of "she is your sister".
（"Islendinga"查询页面）
Second, if you want to name your baby, please go to the government for approval
When Iceland men and women successfully avoid the harsh "incest" warning sound, they can finally form a happy family with their loved ones, but when the love crystallization of the two is born, what name the baby should be given has become a simple and troublesome thing that Iceland people must face.
(Mother and daughter in Iceland)
As an Iceland, you can choose the simple mode of naming. It is to choose one from the list of names approved by the government to use as your baby's name. There are 1,712 names for boys and 1,853 names for girls.
It can be seen that in Iceland, it is not only easy for you to meet your own relatives, but also very easy to meet a relative with the same name as yourself!
Of course, Iceland can also choose the hard mode of naming it. If parents don't want to choose from the official list and just want to give their child a different name, they must send it to the government's "naming committee" for approval, which will not only cost $300 in approval, but also face a 50% rejection.
It can be said that naming is risky, and you need to be cautious when investing money!
(Iceland Road Sign)
However, don't blame the Iceland government for being lenient, it's really too open to the people's brains, and the name is like a play. Bizarre names like "furry protector", "ugly stone", "owl's mirror" and so on have been allowed to be used by the government.
You can imagine what a strange name it once was, and it was put on the head of their baby by maverick parents!
(Ice and Snow)
In fact, this measure is also to protect children from being ridiculed by others because of their names, after all, the whim of parents can cause lifelong embarrassment for children!
In addition, the Iceland government is also using this to preserve its own writing and linguistic traditions, and Iceland still uses the ancient language of their ancestors 1,000 years ago, which means that Iceland people can read the ancient books left by their ancestors without the slightest barrier.
(Iceland alphabet)
Third, there is a lack of industry and no agriculture, how can it become a developed country?
Iceland covers an area of about 103,000 square kilometers, which is about the size of Jiangsu Province on the mainland and the size of three Taiwan provinces.
However, in such a small island country, the glacier area accounts for 11.5% of the total area, and the rest is mostly plateaus and mountains, and there are more than 100 volcanoes of all sizes scattered in it, and the plains suitable for human habitation are only 7% of the area.
(Iceland Landforms)
Iceland is close to the Arctic Circle, with high latitude and short sunshine, not only is there few people here, but there are not many trees, let alone growing vegetables and fruit trees
Food.
Iceland, which is born by the sea, is rich in fishery resources, and fishing has always been a pillar industry in Iceland. Iceland used salted fish as a hard currency that circulated throughout the country! It can be seen that Iceland people not only love fish, but also really get rich because of fish.
(Iceland Fisheries)
In terms of industry, in addition to relying on rich geothermal resources, aluminum, silicon and other resources, the establishment of relatively developed energy and metallurgical industries, Iceland lacks a decent industrial system. It can be said that Iceland relies on imports for almost all agricultural and industrial products.
But even so, Iceland has been ranked among the top ten in the world's per capita GDP for many years, with a per capita GDP of 78,800 US dollars in 2013, ranking seventh in the world, a proper rich country.
(Reykjavik Street View)
After all, Iceland is a small country with few people, and only relying on fishery, energy industry, metallurgical industry and service industry can make people live a rich life, not to mention its unique landscape of volcanoes, glaciers, auroras, hot springs and other "ice and fire", attracting tourists from all over the world.
There are nearly 20 airports on a small island! The booming tourism industry has become a major source of income for Iceland. Rich Ice has become another high-welfare state with social security "from birth to death".
(Reykjavik Airport)
Fourth, it is not enough for everyone to have a house, but to build a dwelling for the elves
As a developed country with high income, high taxes and high welfare, Iceland naturally does not have to worry about housing, let alone struggle for a house of their own.
However, they would go to the front of the government to protest because the city plan did not provide suitable housing for the elves.
(Elven dwelling in Iceland)
Elves are an indispensable element of Viking mythology, and they are numerous and diverse. In Iceland, a small world floating on the Atlantic, many people still believe that the elf family is real, and even set up an elf association to protect the legitimate rights and interests of elves.
If you want me to say, this is the problem of high wages and too much free time. But the legend of the elves does give Iceland another veil of mystery and dream.
(Iceland characteristic road signs, watch out for elves!) ）
In addition to these strange things, the prices in Iceland are also quite sensational, after all, almost all the goods on the island need to be imported from other countries, and Iceland has become one of the most expensive countries in the world.
Therefore, if you want to travel or immigrate to Iceland, you should think twice.
Resources
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[5] Iceland parents named their daughter Alex and were fined for being accused of not being a woman. China News Network.2015-03-12