Here's a few: * Extreme drug and supplement regulations (in Ireland I can't even get melatonin or St John's Wort without prescription) * Extreme focus on safe

Here's a few: * Extreme drug and supplement regulations (in Ireland I can't even get melatonin or St John's Wort without prescription) * Extreme focus on safety at the expense of freedom. Again in Ireland, it'll take minimum one year but more likely 18 months to get a driving license, and we're subjected to endless government messaging about driving safety even though we have one of the highest levels of road safety in the world. Correlation maybe but if that's the case, they've succeeded and should stop nannying us now * Strict control of public venue closing times. It's frustrating being at a festival and everything shutting down at 11pm because it's a Sunday night * extreme levels of control in the form of bureaucracy - I'd say Germany is the winner here. Getting anything legal or administrative done is a struggle There's a lot more I could list, some big, some small. But the overall feeling is that the state has decided how you should live and wants to control all sorts of minor insignificant parts of your life that they shouldn't have any say in. How dare the government decide whether I can take melatonin or not? It's a small thing, but one of hundreds that add up.