españa
A piece of land surrounded by water on all sides except two: the bit choking on Portugal to reach the Atlantic, and the Pyrenees zone. It also has a few clods of dirt sticking out of the sea, including the Canary Islands, the Cies, and Marbella (a coastal resort city). Plus a hunk of rock that Great Britain uses to taunt them, called the Rock of Gibraltar. It stands out for constant strikes, politicians who do not give a damn about the citizens, and a fed-up middle class. High levels of corruption and a monarchy imposed ages ago (literally, the year of the pear) by a dictator named Franco. The general disgust is so bad that some people demand independence and others just get the hell out. It is part of Europe and uses the Euro, but it ran up so much debt it was almost taken over by EU authorities. Spanish identity is not a feeling: it is something you claim if things go well, and something you spit on if things go bad. (See public opinion when air traffic controllers go on strike).
Young people moving to Germany and other countries because they cannot find work in españa. The Noos case involving the Infanta (the King's sister). The Catalan independence process. Protests where people say the politicians do not represent them. The shift from a good economy to an economic intervention by Europe.
Automatically translated from Spanish
España