Happiness index on the brink as combi ride explodes into warfare

Of course, if you include several maximum security prisons, our ranking could get better. The countries we have beaten are well-known strife factories. Many of them have been ravaged by internal wars and bickering and leaders who are basically procurement officers trying to milk the national coffers.

So people in these countries could well have faces that look like they have just swallowed a whole truck of bitter lemons. This past weekend the happiness index came under heavy artillery attack courtesy of two ladies bent on assaulting the happiness index while riding in a commuter bus.