The 10 most democratic countries in the world

Iceland

On paper, Iceland shouldn’t work as a country. It’s a sparsely inhabited lump of frozen rock about the size of England that seemingly only exists to periodically ignite in gigantic volcanic eruptions. It spent most of its life as a small fishing outpost, before becoming a casino banking mecca and then imploding in the 2008 crash. There are so few people that the entire population is smaller than the city of Anaheim, California. And yet, Iceland not only works, it works so well that only one other nation on Earth is more democratic than it.