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b' Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide,\nThe Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in\nsearch of happiness, or, in the crabby author\'s case, moments of\n"un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology,\nscience and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are\npeople in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the\nworld? Do citizens of Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options\nlimited by the government? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative\nto calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North '