Geography is not everything… Nevertheless, development surely seemed to be favoured among the temperate-zone economics, especially the subset that (1) is in the Northern hemisphere; (2) has avoided socialism; and (3) has avoided being ravaged by war.
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There are 24 countries with the most favoured combination of geography and politics——Northern Hemisphere, temperate- zone economics, coastal, nonsocialist, and nonwar-torn ——with an average income of 16, 480.
