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Bhutan most trad country confirmed. https://twitter.com/akhivae/status/1332530081449865216
Check out this 1998 short guide for the country by the BBC. They call it a land frozen in time. Some other monickers for the country are the Eldorado of the East or the last Shangri-la. TV and jeans were banned. Tourism was limited to c. 5.000 people a year and organized groups.
Trad garments and trad architecture were required by law. The king had four sister-wives lol.
A permit was required for any tree chopping, making the country among the ecologically purest in the world. They have also had something called Gross National Happiness rather than worshipping Mammon.
They had Buddhism as a state religion but also a substantial Hindu minority which was NOT a strength, but a source of ethnic unrest. How surprising, NOT!
Some snippets from their modern history. A census that found lots of illegal immigrants from Nepal and failed assimilation attempts. The state suspected that many ''Bhutanese'' in the country are Nepalese attracted to better standards of living, free education and health care.
Oh, wow. Where else have we heard these stories. 
Also, notice the scare quotes on illegal immigrants. Ethnic activism, immigrants and refugees, tensions and gibs. Bhutan's dirt is not magic after all.
Also, notice the scare quotes on illegal immigrants. Ethnic activism, immigrants and refugees, tensions and gibs. Bhutan's dirt is not magic after all.
Remember their Gross National Happiness? Apparently, you can't have that. That's ''racist''. The price of happiness is keeping the place ethnically clean, much like environmental purity. What's shocking and extraordinary is that other countries haven't emulated them tbh.
This stuff is goals fam. In the 1980s they adopted a ''One Nation One People" policy to maintain the dominance of the majority ethnic group. They deported 1/6 of the population, banned proselytizing and Nepali language education in schools, stripped people of citizenship.
Worry not, these people should be grateful to have left the place alive. They've been settled elsewhere, like the United States where I'm sure they'll help NASA develop the rockets to reach and colonize Alpha Centauri.
A small agricultural and isolated country in the Himalayas managed to adopt ethnocentric policies that protect the majority group. If they managed to export 1/6 of the population, I can only imagine what more developed nations are capable of with the right mindset.
