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> This is just first world people forgetting there are violent and politically delicate countries elsewhere, I guess. Ahem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o
by _pmf_ 13y ago
> This is just first world people forgetting there are violent and politically delicate countries elsewhere, I guess.
Ahem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...
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- scott_karana 13y agoHomicide rate might not correlate to robbery, harrassment, or extortion. Not to mention the political issue of richness in a nominally Communist nation.
- lotsofmangos 13y agoHomicide would definitely seem to correlate with robbery and extortion, robbery by accident and extortion for the basic reason that otherwise it would be quite hard to extort as nobody would take you seriously. I suspect that the issue of richness might be a social consideration, but they have a progressive tax code that goes up to 35% for those making more than ~ $45,000 per year and there do not appear to be any legal restrictions on maximum income. Oh, and they have been nominally socialist since the late 80's when they got rid of the whole planned economy thing. edit - I just thought, Vietnam strikes me as a particularly bad place to try and run an extortion racket. Whatever you try and threaten them with had better be bloody scary otherwise you run a serious risk of being laughed at by an old bloke with lots of tunneling experience.