There is a happy country where people spend their lives singing in fiestas and bullfighting, in solemn religious ceremonies, making love freely, and dancing at street festivals. They have few children and live longer than anywhere. Their land is spacious with mountains and rivers, in the best latitude on Earth. They have no enemies, so they invent imaginary invasions to feel alive. Who works? Plato already thought of this problem: "We shall have slaves". Instead, Spain has a large underclass of North African and Saharan immigrants that do the necessary work.
However, they are not organized as gold, silver, and iron castes. They govern themselves as a democratic kingdom where most of the voting citizens are the unemployed and the pensioners. Logically, the resources are channeled to their welfare, and the economy stagnates. But life is easy and careless. Is Spain an improvement on Plato's republic?
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