What local weirdness haven't I mentioned yet? Time to mop up straggling topics.
Population density: 3 per square kilometer, ranking 234th out of 242 countries.
Number of cities: 1. There are plenty of towns like this, though.
Military: zero. Not counting the Coast Guard.
Language: freaky. But all you really need to know is that þ is like th in thick, ð is like th in that except when it’s not, hn is the sound of exhaling through your nose, and you’re strongly encouraged to concatenate items boxcar-style to produce words like snjóflóðavarnargarður or hæstaréttarmálaflutningsmaður or vaðlaheiðarvegagerðarmannaverkfærageymsluskúrslyklakippuhringur.
Percentage of people who will publish a book during their lives: 10%.
Politics: well, it’s a bit of a gong show. Maybe Raggi will explain it to you. Suffice it to say that this was the mayor this past weekend:
Overall: you could try this 2008 Guardian article. It’s perhaps too optimistic, and its adumbration of the economic crash that came a few months later is ironic in retrospect, but it sets about the right tone.
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