It seems improbable that a single country could get so much right.

Second happiest nation in the world. Number 6 on the Human Development Index (the rightful successor to GDP per capita). The least corrupt. Acknowledged pioneer in urban planning and social security. Champion of a major type of renewable energy, wind. Exponent of back-to-basics representative democracy that has delivered popular policy on the EU, immigration, and Covid - thus begetting the least cynical populace in Europe and the only social-democratic party that can still win an election.

Home of hygge, Aqua, the world’s best restaurant and its first electric car ferry (pictured by the author last month).

If Denmark didn’t exist, it would need to be invented.