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*Oh for heaven's sake. You've got to get all the way down to country #24 in this list before you hit any country that can be plausibly described as "gloomy."
Japan number one! Japan, world's gloomiest country! That's gonna be news to Myanmar, don't you think? Maybe what's needed in Japan is a marathon
TV broadcast of "Harp of Burma."
I always wanted to see a business magazine that was exclusively about the vast, unspoken realities of real business: the failures, foreclosures, bankruptcies, auctioning off of assets, white-collar crime... you know, FORTUNE's dark.
mute sister, MISFORTUNE.
Maybe the time has come for some genius to actually start this magazine. It would be cheap and easy to staff it with legions of fired business journalists. If you could find just one socialist country to underwrite it as a propaganda venture –
Hugo Chavez, maybe, or Iran... imagine the impact of a thing like that on newsstands. It would be like the return of the repressed.
