The bigger the benefit, the bigger the battle to win it, yet a German state did take the first step toward an economy for all.

The landed aristocracy of Prussia was unable to borrow funds for reconstruction. Cooperative mortgage credit associations were created to deal with the crisis.

Thousands of violent demonstrators flocked to the G-8 summit of the chiefs of the major countries in Heiligendamm, Germany

Liechtenstein has remained free and at peace in a world that has suffered from continuous war for the last 200 years