The Happiest Place on Earth - Guess Where

Not Disneyworld, as it turns out:

Why Israel Is the World's Happiest Country - Spengler (Asia Times-Hong Kong)
    Envy surrounds no country on Earth like the State of Israel, and with good reason: by objective measures, Israel is the happiest nation on Earth.
    It is one of the wealthiest, freest and best-educated; and it enjoys a higher life expectancy than Germany or the Netherlands.
    But most remarkable is that Israelis appear to love life and hate death more than any other nation.
    As a simple index of life-preference, I plotted the fertility rate versus the suicide rate of 35 industrial countries - that is, the proportion of people who choose to create new life against the proportion who choose to destroy their own. Israel stands alone at the top.
    "As much as you love life, we love death," Muslim clerics teach; the same formula is found in a Palestinian textbook for second graders.
    Apart from the fact that the Arabs are among the least free, least educated, and (apart from the oil states) poorest peoples in the world, they also are the unhappiest, even in their wealthiest kingdoms. Oil-rich Saudi Arabia ranks 171st on an international quality of life index, below Rwanda.
    The contrast of Israeli happiness and Arab despondency is what makes peace an elusive goal in the region.

...During 2,000 years of exile, Jews remained Jews despite forceful and often violent efforts to make them into Christians or Muslims. One has to suppose that they did not abandon Judaism because they liked being Jewish. With utmost sincerity, the Jews prayed thrice daily, "It is our duty to praise the Master of all, to acclaim the greatness of the One who forms all creation, for God did not make us like the nations of other lands, and did not make us the same as other families of the Earth. God did not place us in the same situations as others, and our destiny is not the same as anyone else's."

If the Israelis are the happiest country on Earth, as the numbers indicate, it seems possible that they will do what is required to keep their country, despite the odds against them. I do not know whether they will succeed. If Israel fails, however, the rest of the world will lose a unique gauge of the human capacity for happiness as well as faith. I cannot conceive of a sadder event.

Suicide Rate (per 100,000)	Fertility Rate
Israel	6.2	2.77
United States	11	2.1
France	18	1.98
Iceland	12	1.91
Ireland	9.7	1.85
Denmark	13.6	1.74
Finland	20.3	1.73
Serbia	19.3	1.69
Sweden	13.2	1.67
Netherlands	9.3	1.66
United Kingdom	7	1.66
Canada	11.6	1.57
Portugal	11	1.49
Switzerland	17.4	1.44
Estonia	20.3	1.42
Croatia	19.6	1.41
Germany	13	1.41
Bulgaria	13	1.4
Russia	34.3	1.4
Austria	16.9	1.38
Greece	3.2	1.36
Hungary	27.7	1.34
Slovakia	13.3	1.34
Italy	7.1	1.3
Spain	8.2	1.3
Poland	15.9	1.27
Slovenia	25.6	1.27
Ukraine	23.8	1.25
Bosnia	11.8	1.24
Belarus	35.1	1.23
Czech Republic	15.5	1.23
Japan	24	1.22
Lithuania	40.2	1.22
Singapore	10.1	1.08
Hong Kong	18.6	1