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a friday night in tim pu in the sleepy capital of this very religious country. no. vincent jury and his friends are about to perform a concert but it's far from traditional the band plays thrash metal. the style of music rarely found in baton even underground. but these rockers, a new rebels. here the musicians are known for writing a song with a message that for a metal band is unusual. has been your happiness. i believe that the league will catch many people's attention that you know,

we can be happy with a very we have, we have to be content with what we have in our and the group practices. what they preach in bu ton is difficult to find more musical instruments, let alone a record label. but they managed to shoot a professional music video for their hip track, happiness. 2 i was wondering if we get a chance to go to europe or america to play love to do that. to actually spend the message, i'm happy. this message does not come out of the blue. in 1972, the boot aneice king introduce the idea of happiness, index,

and trouble find the problems the sor, affecting other developing countries focused on economic growth. he decided to prioritize his country's growth, national happiness over its gross domestic product, roughly the size of switzerland, who turns population, it's just 800000 people, nestled in the himalayas between india and china, the 2 most populous nations on earth. it's geography kept futon isolated from the rest of the world for years, largely rural and with no major resources apart from hydro, electric power. baton is still one of the world's poorest countries but they believe they are on the right track. just over a decade ago, the government made gross national happiness, official policy, visits, ultimately without peace, security, and happiness. we have nothing. that is the essence of the philosophy of gross

national happiness. he visit you. in 2000 to night, the king even wrote gross national happiness into towns constitution. emphasis was placed on the preservation of nature and organic farming. grace is a young entrepreneur. she recently opened an organic restaurant in the capital. more important if you have a recount and you can have a happy life in these very isolated country with its ancestral buddhist traditions . tv and internet only made their appearance in 1909. mobile phones became commonplace just a decade ago. even today, few images of futon exist to bring a camera into the country. you must 1st prove your intentions are good. although baton is gradually opening up to tourism and western influence, its traditional culture remain strong in front of my mind. but in front of my friends, i feel more comfortable to relate whatever people are bound not only by

tradition but also by statewide bands in baton. the sailor tobacco is illegal. so sellers take a big risk. we have to pay the bill to make sure the sale of alcohol is also prohibited one day a week. and when it was here, happiness has its limits set by the state and its built on the banks of indian workers toiling on unsafe construction sites. we pour, if we don't work, we stung a profoundly buddhist country who turn posts 10000 temples and monasteries as well as places of prayer. they also serve as last chance schools for delinquency. if we go to extent of that, it could be a prison. maybe

a death also or st. futon is a country of contrasts and contradictions could gross national happiness simply mask the nation structural poverty. no human, what's gross national happiness. no idea. we embark on an unusual journey through this self styled kingdom of happiness. 2 weeks before nothing's concert in team who we met him at the airport in pyro, the musician showed us around as part of his day job. oh, thank you again. rocker by night to a guide by day. like any civil servant in baton. nothing is required to wear a go the traditional local costume equivalent to the scottish killed

program. they will not be able to, you know, do some changes, but it needs to be informed to like 2 days before i go to the welcome is warmed by . the scenery is since in bu turn, it's impossible to travel freely with them to decide the trip into the capitol. tim who takes an hour on route, we made keenly aware of whose running the country pictures of the king and queen grace every street corner. the alone or with the sun, the royal couple are only present and truly revealed by their subjects. the image of a living timmy, god carefully maintained by the government. one of the king's last films, appearances, dates back to october, 2011. on that day jig make his saw introduced to the people their future queen his wife jetson pima

a 21 year old commoner for the occasion. 50000 who to needs gathered in the hope of getting close to the royal couple not did it. please remain seated. are you? no, i'm really glad you're here today. i'm very happy to see you today. the silver and presents himself as a man of the people, but really speaks to the prince. the following exchange is one of the few he's had with journalists since he came to power. are you married? no, i'm not. was the how do you? oh, yes, definitely. within the country, going to drive into the district to get to meet the people. and i must thank the people all the good vision. thank you. he's subjects say

they appreciate their king's warmth and kindliness. your majesty helped and advisors had people even let them discover things. they didn't know he's truly benevolence, an extraordinary chasm. the people's enthusiasm can also be seen in the photo shops around him who along with representations of the buddha's lamens and other spiritual leaders, photos of the glamorous couple or abundant photos of the smiling monarch's mask. a less rosy reality, especially for the press, local media is almost non existent, and no criticism of the government is tolerated. as for foreign journalists like house, there are restrictions. it took us 2 months to get a visa, now presidency is tolerated. but there is no question of filming anything that could harm the country's image. our activities

here are closely controlled and monitored. after leaving the capital, we must stop at a checkpoint. no, vincent jury, our rocca guide needs to get how the visa stamped upon arrival in each major city form. our preset schedule must be followed to the letter in baton. improvise ation is not allowed. a few kilometers on there is another checkpoint. yes, another stem of a room for the safety of the guest actually is for the city of the people here. they have the record of the because on which route they are. so that in if they have to says you have the location. okay, it's a well rehearsed explanation, these constant supervision and non optional to guide a part of the travel is package $250.00 per day, including hotel and meals,

included in the price is a 65 dollar tax, which finances boot and the health and education services during guided tour, the government plan to visit to a primary school. the here the children learned about happiness from a very young age. the school had mistress jokey dooper consistently applies the concept of gross national happiness. okay, very good morning. good, you know the look his him go monica. you let me know what you had looked at. he looked at the good not to go look them the tell you got me locked. another good to go to

flower was because you got all the result. you didn't, like i said i was in the middle don't got chip wall. the little she met the this is olga school for beads picking flowers but encourages the children to plant seeds, especially for the fruits and vegetables that will end up on their plates at school . each child has to plant vegetable and must identify what do they do they have when did the land and he need to other people might say we are in the town. we don't, we live in the flat. we don't have god in. there is no space, but then this is an example for others that no matter where you live, there is, if there is a place there is a we pupil also learn not to simply throw things away. everything

that can be recycled is collected behind the school and sold to a specialized company. the. this is how we are trying to dig this message, you know, asking children to manage their own ways. so this must be empty. bottle that they have seen on the way to school, so they pick up that and the deposit and each, like if they have raised at home, they can bring and the before the waste will be recycled in india. the money in the usa by school supplies and water filters for the school return is one of the few developing countries where education and health care a free for all. something made possible things to wealthy tourists who spend their earnings in baton. the news tourists weren't allowed to visit futon until $974.00. today,

just under 300000 of them are allowed to come each year and admire the countries rich cultural heritage. the among the must see sites is the great buddha to denmark on a hill overlooking the capital, the buddha is over 50 meters, tall and flanked by dozens of gilded statues. yeah, but butare names to develop more than cultural tourism during our journey well off the beaten path. our guides take us to admire other countries, incredible nature, lush forests, as far as the i can see, an inhabited mountain regions and rivers untouched by pollution, for hundreds of kilometers. the boot and the state is setting its sites on controlled, green tourism. we're

in one of the countries, 10 national parks that lie on the border with india. they will think captain c 2 is a ranger at the royal menace national park. he and his subordinate shakuma are the only men in uniform we meet during our stay. baton has few soldiers and relies on neighboring india for its defense. the ranges role is to protect the local flora and fauna. it's a crucial mission. as baton constitution states that at least 60 percent of its territory must be covered with forest. and baton has exceeded that target for several years now. as a result, it's the only country that produces more oxygen than carbon dioxide. in other words, it's the greenest country on the planet. ah,

the, he's nature preserved both an incredible diversity of foreigner. hundreds of species of butterflies, water, buffalo, and antelope even endangered species like lizards and elephants. now the country is developing high end tourist packages in the hills of tin poo. a luxury hotel has just opened with rooms starting at $1200.00 euros per night. that's a small fortune in a country where the average wage is less than 7 euros a day. panoramic terraces, exhausted would decor and furniture sweets, all villas from 70 to 300 square meters, and heated indoor pools. this is a far cry from mass tourism. the hotel, numerous employees are busy all day long, yet there are a few guests the on this day,

only one wealthy russian couple is vacationing in this spectacular place. and we've been expressly asked not to disturb them. some entrepreneurs have discovered house a profit from this tourist heaven under ever been to them until the morning when grace, he's just 26 years old, but she's already a successful business woman. she's also a pioneer in this very conservative society, despite encountering obstacles as a woman, she managed to open her own restaurant 2 years ago. she serves up exclusively organic food to meet the demands of both the locals and foreign tourists. actually, nowadays people really care about their health. so it's more important if you have a return, then you can have a happy life. grace's life hasn't always been happy or easy. now, a single mother of 2, she was married to a violent man for years. grace had the courage to divorce him despite the fact that

this is heavily frowned upon in due time. now she presents her story on the wolves of her restaurant. the 3 years ago while working as a tour guide, she met a rich couple from singapore who took her under their wing. they paid for her training in singapore and helped her fill, fill her dream. after returning home, she opened her own restaurant. i'm very lucky to meet this guy as i like watching my life like that today, she supports her entire family. the 2 waitresses in her restaurant, her sisters came in a couple of times us and it's a success story. she's proud to tell to run a business to handle a case to be ahead of the family is example for someone else for young entropy, especially for young generation where we can show them like you can do anything

being a young enterprise being a single mom. so i think i can to show an example for everyone else, an inspiring story, but still a rare one here. ok. this system right? when it comes to sourcing fresh, produce grace, mainly relying on her mother. she leaves a few kilometers away from the capital in the mountains. the 60 year old cheering plants, rice, fruit, and vegetables and leaves in the small traditional house on the hillside. here time seems to it stood still. all the work is done by hand or with the help of animals for almost one good

grace regularly come see if the supplies for her lack of machinery isn't a problem. quite the country any. we prefer animals because the emotions, you know, like it makes people more easier to move to i think like you can do. it takes a lot of energy and a good dose of patients. unlike machines, oxen and sometimes moody, especially on camera. so i'm going to you know, you don't want them to be difficult because you have to know how to go. they have to listen to you. so you have some

technique. how to cows and all. so it's better if you don't know than it's dangerous because how can kill you? once plowed, the land is cultivated on terraces, the work is demanding and the yield is small. grace and her mother weed. these rice fields by hand for grace. it's a small price to pay for quality it's all organic because we don't use the chemical fertilizers like that. but since we use on the go, don't know that we have a lot of how over here 20 years ago, futon was still extremely isolated. people had neither tv, no telephone's back then. grace's way of life would have been unthinkable. much recovery in my day. we received no education and had to do manual labor. there are more opportunities for your generation. thanks to education and languages. you

can do whatever you want today. thanks to the generosity everyone civilized and developed, which i'm proud of you. grace says she's happy happiness. she attributes partly to the king. so i think looking like the cost of the happiness, what not with the products. so i think this is also the happiness that we, what we get from the school in the boot. a nice way of life is far removed from that of western style, consumerism. and it's a system without fears, competition. ideally, both buyers and sellers always get a good deal when it comes to like mcdonald gave see, i think like it's not like it's not that hiding it because i heard something i would like if see like the chicken you know, to make it a bigger size so this is more effective in our health, so i think that thing is not good for health. in bu tone,

80 percent of farmers have never used pesticides. they crops or organic and they produce enough fruit and vegetables that the country is now almost self sufficient . however, the farmer standard of living remains quite low and the cheering doesn't receive a pension and most of her crops, of her own personal consumption. so the money she gets from her daughter supplements her income. if i buy in a city, then it's more than that, it will be more expensive. but since she's using all her energy and is a love, you know like that she's giving you a loop over the vegetable basket and i give her money. this is what i own in the city money and what this is she own in the village, the vegetables. so this is actually a system between long and the doctor. so i think like i give it like the because i, i have a response of a do you know, like being a mom,

i have to get with her and all. so this is what we do. usually this is what i'm home. thank you. been set up with another place. i was at the end of it, isn't this all mine helping one. another simplicity connection to nature. it's the very definition of happiness put forward by the authorities in the g n. h concept. however, some formulated this theory of happiness long before the boot and the government. namely, the monks. the perfect happiness or nevada is what the country is. roughly 100000 monks seek to achieve in baton one out of every 7 residence retreats to a monastery. at least once in their life for a few months or even years. many monasteries also serve as detox or rehab centers

for delinquents. for 30 in the morning and the days already beginning at the low dreck cartoon monastery and central baton. 3 3 3 3 3 each morning, one of the monks is responsible for making sure that no one is sleeping in the get up. it's a rigid approach that some have trouble adjusting to at 1st. the new jersey to do that with a new to some of those who joined us, a former drug addicts to alcohol in trouble. so ms. williams and i have changed a lot on the they suffer a lot in the 1st few moments because of their addictions and bad habit. sharing your muscle, but then they change and become ordinary monks. don't digital goals. some even have

classes on their bodies. they used to be gang members, and others got to do. so she was in this was the case for 28 year old senior. he arrived here a little over a year ago and had to quickly get accustomed to the rhythm of the monastery monday to sunday for city for if i had such a system as before he began studying theology. cynthia was into girls, alcohol, drugs, and st fights. my family, this me just throws even with family members. this i got one small go mark on the percentage of the done. my ha, carla. the protector day as he is supposed to ward off. bad luck. senior isn't the

only monk with a check had passed. he and know of in our rocca guide, have a shared history here. no visit, sing yet to talk about. it was really the 2 young men have only kept a few photos of their former lives back then senior and nerve in spent their days hanging out in the streets of the capital with their friends to those and put in peace. let him only used to smoke return on nice little to buy drugs and go binge drinking. singing would often rob people in his neighborhood fighting. this is something sometimes happens. this is my condition. i used to have collision question before, so it's enough to become a monk is totally like a new life. no,

i wrong nation. i did many bad things. so now because the moon is kind of abuse, it is now because they're all things wrong. but i took and in one of the good thing because i did, and i was you good. so i want to change. so because of then i'm a change me know, nothing could have taken the wrong path to. yeah. if we go to the extent of that, it could be a prison, maybe a death also, or i'm on the street. on when i asked you to become a mom, if someone realizes this. but this is a very, very rare case that someone realizes and really gets committed to become a monk. and i just need to do to appoint a bus to do possibly that i could as you went on your life was under the wall and it's and then forces me into town. monasteries offer an alternative to prison. but one that requires sacrifice. cynthia is

starting his 2nd year here in his cell, he spends most of his time reading sacred texts up to 10 hours a day. when this life of self discipline is far removed from his old wild ways. still he seems fulfilled. happiness means the peace of mind. you can have nothing and you can read it to be happy because everything you've been told you. happy in really happy, really is crazy blessings, but also in contemplation filled the days in the monastery. sometimes in quite surprising ways, every week, cynthia and the others compete in a unique form of debating the missouri. yes. you know, it's nature miss, you know, i know the minds nature, but it's meant the physical needle. what's the needle between the more experienced

monks begin the debates, the objective to we know over the others with convincing arguments. when among things he's found an irrefutable argument, he slaps his hands together. the subject doesn't really matter. the most important thing is the discussion itself and having some fun white horse really white this. yeah. you know a white horse isn't whitening. it's a living being in the office or what he does, everything on the, on the horse. he's the lights. why? why do horse another of the monks, recreational activities is the weekly outing. every sunday the monasteries residents go into town,

so there is no question of senior and his friends are coming to the temptations of the streets. with the money they collected the previous day, the monks country themselves to a meal, a strictly vegetarian one almost some similar and that's what comes in the country. you know, we don't, we don't know each and every or the parents haven't been even single being who haven't been. that is so in only getting all parents made. so it is a big scene actually. and then the problem is that the prison, remember being of being all parents and you really believe in the nation. of course everybody's got it. you will, you would be my father, mother. what for you, the best thing to be connected for the next life. again, as a monk,

if it's possible to turn in a country, doesn't matter what the done is. so the monitor is not a j. no, it's actually is a paradise is don't we say that is on the very just because we are slow since we are looking at the scene this, this is normal, but actually some today no vin l guide company, cynthia, on his way back to the monastery. the reunion of the 2 former troublemakers is over and they'll return to their everyday lives. with me today, cynthia seems to have found the pathway to happiness. oh, he'll need to train for 9 more years to become an ordained monk. back in to

improve, we visit grace the entrepreneur. she lives in a small 3 room apartment with her 2 children and 2 sisters. i need the most and then we're going to be really tired. so in a month we used to go out with the friends and the siblings that we can enjoy a moment. so you know, like not exactly party, but it's a place where we can relax and enjoy some music. why? yes. okay. this evening grace takes her 2 sisters with her as the head of a company and head of the family. grace is one of the few car owners into town. it's a privilege here later on tonight. so

i'm going to walk summer here. baton has just a handful of bars where young people can meet grace's favorite is the tim pool club party bought for the capitals, affluent youth. ah, here they let loose to pope and rent be a far cry from traditional cultural offerings. oh, i know this is all new to my home and enjoy it, but it's nothing like that. we have to go back to the normal like what we have on like yeah,

here men and especially women, a free to enjoy themselves without fearing the center of a society that still quite conservative because they don't know what's going on. and i didn't mind looking for me and i want to have them in they want to know what one thing, let me look in common enjoying a woman who turns society and lords aren't changing in december 2020 parliament, the criminalized homosexuality. and at this club, young people smoke entering calico so in public spaces, it's another story. to combat the high level of alcoholism in the country, the government banned the sale of alcohol one day

a week. now every tuesday is known as dry day. hello? was it was a big move in the lori strictly and he had to go into town. tuesday's alcohol free day. when i come by there seems to be like a you know out of the country away. it's like ah, another ban smoking in public places in 2004 baton with ahead of its time legislative on the issue. during our visit there are no smokers on the streets.

however, even though the government also ban cigarette sales, many small shopkeepers, still risk selling them under the counter the buyer for this was going we have to pay the bill take over the closing gun juice engine. it's very many people do with far reaching legislation has been passed regarding food as well. though it may not always be followed to the letter as we see visiting the large markets in 2 or 3 times a week. small farmers from the surrounding area come here to silver spices, fruit and vegetables, whole organic. of course, there's also plenty of meat for sale,

even though officially it's strictly forbidden to kill animals in futon. you go in there, i don't know much about the phone and i didn't me along with meat who turns neighbor to the south supplies the country with fuel and cheap labor in the rapidly expanding capital to improve most of the new construction is carried out by indian workers, almost everything is done by hand and safety standards are often legs. but the most dangerous construction sites are located outside the city. as an altitude of almost 3000 meters, a colossal building project is changing the face of the mountain. since 961,

thousands of indian workers have been coming every year to work on this road that's destined to cross the country from east to west. despite the magnitude of the task and its dangers, the men were no protected clothing, less alone helmets. they work with what little the company provides arjun is 18 years old, and this is his 1st time on the site up to don't you have other shoes? me know. no other work. the company provides us with some, but mine and rec, in this job they don't last toxic ta fumes mountain sickness. no protective gear and no accident insurance. this work poses many dangers, yet there's no shortage of applicants on the phone with poor. if we don't work, we stone. that's why we come in to work and earn money. otherwise,

how else would we be able to eat that they work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, often for 2 months at a time. we are able to film a typical day on the site at their makeshift camp. the workers get up at 7 each morning. i'll go wake up. you need to wake up. ok. time to get up. and william, this is our home. 25 people. i believe that we don't have a problem sleeping here like this. now we need to go and wash and get ready, and we have to go to work. that is, or that isn't the work is sleep fully dressed, high in the mountains without heating the temperature in the camp regularly drops below freezing,

like the others are generally on the plains during the rest of the year. so this terrain is also foreign to him. the guy yet we've never seen a place like this before. there are mountains everywhere. gorgeous in cliffs. very dangerous working environment. it's. it's cold here. even the rain is freezing. we've been working for 2 months. we have 10 days left and we returned to our village. some work is accounting the days more than others. simba is 28 years old. this is the 3rd year he's been on the site. he's in charge of the barrels of tom morgan. this part of my job is very dangerous, that we have to milk the tar, and for that we have to heat it. wait. when you're near that,

you must be vigilant at all times. to get out of that fall in love, that guy despite the sindbad cannot quit this work allows him to support his wife and 2 children for 6 months of the year. so as long as i have legs to walk, i will keep working on your national happiness, built with the blood, sweat, and tears of foreign workers, happiness that has an ecological cost, but not the baton in india. he's barrows, go back to india, very bad for the environment. so we have to count them, pick them up and send them back to india and i got him a lot of gross national happiness. he's no curial, but it has produced some tangible results. and it's something the state continues to promote to the world as seen with the construction of this conference center

dedicated to happiness at a time when the country is opening up to the world. baton is trying to find a way to pursue economic and social progress without sacrificing its cultural and environmental achievement or the happiness of its people ah ah, to the point, strong, clear positions. international perspective. when it sometimes seems that we are indeed losing the battle against climate change, does that mean a cruel future for the next generation? certainly the possibility. so why always unwilling to change the way we live on

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