Why is Switzerland only in the news when there is an international convention or winter sports meet of some kind? Do things run so smoothly there all the time?
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It seems like it. Good news is no news to the world at large, and I think by and large things run pretty well there, though of course this can mean nothing really exciting happens either (apart from the winter sports), hence the famous (though slightly wrong) Orson Welle's speech from the Third Man: "You know what the fellow said—in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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Switzerland is known for being non-commital in world affairs..they remain aloof and apart and don't take sides. They provide secret bank accounts for the wealthy to hide assets. They make great watches. Roger Federer is Swiss and a very great tennis player. The countryside offers great skiing in the winter...they make divine chocolate. They are neither right nor left..they are neutral. I don't know about running smoothly but in matters of the world I think they are rather beautiful but somewhat colorless and uninteresting. Just my opinion of course. France has a personality...Germany...England...Australia...but Switzerland? Who is Switzerland? :)
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Switzerland is a very proactive country. Things run very smoothly there, but not ALL THE TIME (just most of the time). However, they're also the center of the world's international banking systems and are very involved in world politics. You don't see them on the news often because of these things. A proactive country almost always has a low crime rate, rich people don't want people to know where their money id hid, and international politicians want to avoid public scrutiny because they don't want people to know who they are. Plus, they make the best chocolate there, lol. ☺
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It's because they're aliens. Think about it, perfect timekeeping ability, the worlds most secure banking system, completely apathetic about war and what the silly humans are bickering about now, they get all those tools in that one little knife made for an army that fights no wars, AND nearly no crime. They are clearly an advanced civilization just hanging out watching the human show.
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