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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 under ground. but these rockers are no rebels here, the musicians are known for writing a song with a message that for a metal band is unusual of happiness. i believe that the lyrics will catch many people's attention that you know, the we, we can be happy with the very little we have. we have to be content with one we have and on. and the group practices what they preach in baton. it's difficult to

find more musical instruments, let alone a record labels, but they managed to shoot a professional music video for their hit track happiness. ah, [000:00:00;00] with when i was wondering if we get a chance to rule europe or america to play who love to do that, to explain and a nice friend and message, i'm happy to hear. this message does not come out of the blue. in 1972, the boot denise king introduced the idea of a happiness index and troubled by the problems he saw affecting other developing countries focused on economic growth. he decided to prioritize his country's gross

national happiness over its gross domestic product. roughly the size of switzerland hooton's population is 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 we have no major resources apart from hydro. electric power futon 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 to miss it's ultimately without peace, security, and happiness. we have nothing. that is the essence of the philosophy of gross national happiness. she visited 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 capitol. more important if you have a rich health 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 1999 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. it's traditional culture remains strong in front of my parents and families does this. but in front of my friends, i think more go to relate, where whatever i love people abound not only by tradition but also by state wide

bands in baton. the sale of tobacco is illegal. so sellers take a big risk. we have to pay the fine to take on mesa show. the sale of alcohol is also prohibited one day a week. it was, it was a beer y, z here, happiness has its limits set by the state. and it's built on the backs of indian workers toiling on unsafe construction sites where poor, if we and work, we stop 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 delinquents. if we go to an extent of that, it could be prison. it may be a death also, or a monastery. futon is a country of contrasts and contradictions could gross national happiness simply

mask the nation structural poverty. maggie mil, what's gross national happiness? well, i've no idea we embark on an unusual journey through the self styled kingdom of happiness. 2 weeks before november concert in tim pooh. we met him at the airport in paro, the musician showed us around as part of his day job from jupiter. thank you. legacy. ok. rocker by night to a guide by day. like any civil servant in baton. no. vin is required to wear a go. the traditional local costume equivalent to the scottish kilt. so we have to follow the program. deborah. yes, we will not be able to change. you know, we can do some changes, but it needs to be informed her like 2 days before. oh,

okay. i don't know to go to roseville. the welcome is warm, but the itinerary is set in baton. it's impossible to travel freely with them to the time. oh, the trip into the capitol. tim poo takes an hour on route, were made keenly aware of whose running the country pictures of the king and queen grace every street corner alone or with their son, the royal couple or on the present and truly revered by their subjects. the image of a living, demi god, carefully maintained by the government. one of the king's last filmed 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 boot and ease gathered in the hope of getting close to the royal couple didn't. you can please remain seated. how are you old? i'm really glad you're here today. i'm very happy to see you today. i mean, the sovereign presents himself as a man of the people, but really speaks to the press. the following exchange is one of the few he's had with journalists since he came to power. are you married? no, i, this is what i. oh, yes, definitely. but within the country, we are going to travel to all the districts to get to meet the people. and i must thank the people who all day a good mission installation. thank you and with his subjects say they appreciate their king's warmth and kindliness. being mil majesty and the clang helps, and advisers hastily fall,

he even lets them discover things. they didn't know he's truly benevolent. an extraordinary chasm you met with the people's enthusiasm can also be seen in the photoshop surround. tim, who, along with representations of the buddha's lamas and other spiritual leaders, photos of the glamorous couple are abundant photos of the smiling monarch's mask. a less rosy reality, especially for the press, local media is almost nonexistent. and no criticism of the government is tolerated . as for foreign journalists like us, there are restrictions, it took us 2 months to get a visa, our presence 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 visa stamped upon arrival in each major city. did you want us better? 741. our pre set schedule must be followed to the letter in baton improvisation. is not allowed a few kilometers on there's another check point yet another stamp. the survey roll is for the safety of the guest. actually it's for the safety of the guest and the people here to have the record of the vehicles. so on whichever route they are, so that in if they have to so she had to have the location. okay. it's a well rehearsed explanation, these constant supervision and non optional to a guide, a part of the traveler's package, $250.00 per day, including hotel and meals, included in the price is a 65 dollar tax, which finances booter, knees,

health and education services during our guided tour, the government plan to visit to a primary school. oh oh he the children learn about happiness from a very young age. the schools had mistress ciocca dooper consistently applies the concept of gross national happiness. oh, okay. say good morning. ha ha, good. see, you know, the lieutenant, him go monica, you lapse of what they give me, caleb, so i know it. oh, did it have a gamble? my true gala loved it. he loved the good, you know, do go look down the tag. you got me logged on the look. i did a new car. oh, made door to here. see trees. flowers. considerable. willis. che

got daughter is only delegated eyeball golf aguilar. oh, okay. metal don't. guy. ah. hello champ. warm jordan lou. she damage to this is olga. ah, the 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 is shall, has to bland a vegetable and must identify what dredged in there had planted. and when did they plant? and they need to observe. people may say we are in the town, we don't, we leave in the flat. we don't have garden, there is no space. but then this is then example for others that no matter where you leave, there is a, if there is a place that is a li, pupils also learn not to simply throw things away. everything that can be recycled

is collected behind the school and sold to specialized companies. this is how we are trying to dig, dismisses who, you know, asking children to manage their own lease. so this must be an empty beer bottle that they have seen on the way to school. so they pick up that and the deposit tier . and each chair like if they have ways at home, they can bring and they deposit this way will be recycled in india. the money and is used to buy 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 thanks to wealthy tourists who spend their earnings in bruton. the tourists weren't allowed to visit baton until 1974 today just under 300000 of

them are allowed to come each year and admire the countries rich cultural heritage ah, among the must see sights 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. but brutal 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 forest. 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 are in one of the countries, 10 national parks that lie on the border with india ever ever

40. i think that nobody at captain sit up is a ranger at the royal manor national park. he and his subordinate shakuma are the only men in uniform. we meet during our stay who town has few soldiers and relies on neighboring india, france defense. the ranges role is to protect the local flora and fauna. it's a crucial mission as returns constitutions 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. this nature preserve posts, 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 tim poo. a luxury hotel has just opened with room 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 wood decor and furniture sweet, so villas from 70 to 300 square meters and heated indoor pools. this is a far cry from mass tourism. the hotels numerous employees are busy all day long, yet there are few guests on this day, only one wealthy russian couple is vacationing in the spectacular place. and we've

been expressly asked not to disturb them. some entrepreneurs have discovered how to profit from this tourist heaven. under our event, let me tell them that grace is 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 rich health, then you can have a happy life. graces, 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 baton. now she presents her story on the walls of

her restaurant 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 fulfill her dream. after returning home, she opened her own restaurant and then let her make this guy as i like. what in my life for sale like that. today she supports her entire family. the 2 waitresses in her restaurant or her sister's home in a couple wonderful things and hasn't, hasn't been it's a success story. she's proud to tell to run a business to get a handle. a case to be ahead on the family is an example for someone else philanthropy, especially for young generation where we can show them like he can do anything being a young and urban and being a single mom. so i think i in fact,

sorry to show an example for everyone else. an inspiring story, but still a rare one here. yeah. oh okay, this is the rice when it comes to sourcing fresh produce great, mainly relies on her mother. she lives a few kilometers away from the capital in the mountains. ah 60 year old charing plants, rice, fruit, and vegetables and leaves in this small traditional house on the hillside. here time seems to have stood still. all the work is done by hand all with the help of animals was in so much. one minute. i knew rosa grace regularly come see for supplies for her. the lack of machinery isn't

a problem. quite the contrary. we prefer animals because you the missions you know, like, uh, it makes of people more lazy. lee, i knew i had to hang on to, i think like, is the, and i didn't, didn't do a minimum. it takes a lot of energy and a good dose of patients. unlike machines, oxen or sometimes moody, especially on camera. oh, oh. oh, oh, oh, you know, identity. oh, i know it's very difficult because you have to know how to like, go there, have to listen to your so you have been some technique how to blow the cows and all . so it's better. like if you don't know that it's very 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 weighed these rise 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 only a co dunc, know that we, we have like, lot of how over here 20 years ago baton was still extremely isolated. people had neither t v, 's nor telephones. back then grace's way of life would have been unthinkable. i went to cover on my day, we received no education and had to do manual labor. there are more opportunities for your generation. thanks to education and languages on i and you can do whatever you right over the to day. thanks to the kings, generosity every one civilised and developed which i am proud of you. grace says she's happy

a happiness she attributes partly to the king. so i think our king says like the concert, the happiness, what not with the products. so i think this is also the happiness that with what we get from that as a to i to do in the school in the boonies way of life is far removed from that of western style. consumerism avalanche a store. it's a system without fierce competition. them in ideally, both buyers and sellers always get a good deal when it comes store like mcdonald, kfc, i think like, it's not like, oh dear, like, it's not that hide in it because i, i heard something i will, i, gar, get f c, like the indian a chicken you know, to make it a bigger safe so that it's more effective in our health. so i think that thing is not good for other health. in baton 80 percent of farmers have never used pesticides. their crops are organic and they produce enough fruit and vegetables

that the country is now almost self sufficient. however, the farmer's standard of living remains quite low. cheering doesn't receive a pension and most of her crops of her, her own personal consumption. so the money she gets from her daughter, subtler daughter supplements her income and she don't, i don't know if i buy in a city then it's more than that. it will be more expensive. but since she is using on her energy and it's a love, you know, like that she is giving me a low, you know, with a vegetable fill of basket. and i give her a money. this is what i own in a city money. and what this is she on, in the village of his day was. so this is exceeded by the system between mom and a daughter. so i think like, i give it like that because i, i have a responsibility, you know, like being a mom. i have to get her with her and oh, so that this is what we do usually here. this is my mom. thank you.

good. and she is lower than other player. the sound you young and you it's a television. yes. yeah, he's invest darma helping one another simplicity, connection to nature. it's the very definition of happiness put forward by the authorities in their g n. h concept. however, some formulated this theory of happiness long before the boot and his government. namely, the monks perfect happiness or nirvana is what the country's 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. it's 4 30 in the morning and the day is already beginning at the

low drag cartoon monastery in central baton. 3 3 3 ah. 3 ah, ah, each morning, one of the monks is responsible for making sure that no one is sleeping in class in wyoming. yet that it's a rigid approach that some have trouble adjusting to at 1st and then who drove it to do with a lieutenant some of those who joined us, a former drug addicts to alcoholics and troubled salvation. williams, julian, and i have changed a lot down the road upon the they suffer a lot in the 1st few months because of their addictions and bad habit of going to renew mozilla. but then they change in and become ordinary monks. it don't initiative bullshit. you to some, even after that's used on their bodies,

as they used to be gang members and others from god to do ross and thomas museum. did you know 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 saturday. if i'm at $430.00 during the event for the to fight, we have professional $5.00 to $6.00 as of so we have to study also. so before he began studying theology, cynthia was into girls, alcohol, drugs, and street fights, which is improving my family dis, me, and jones, even with family members, this i go to and to smuggle. it ma, call it a person to to overton my ha, carla. the protector day as he is supposed to ward off bad luck. cynthia isn't the only monk with a check it past. he and nerve in our rock, a guide have

a shared history. here. no vin, visit cynthia, to talk about it. what are some of the argument was, who should really give? the 2 young men have only kept a few photos of their former lives. back then, singer and no vin spent their days hanging out in the streets of the capital with their friends. at an hour. 2000 per didn't. keith let him only hold and i used to smoke regional amuse wooden ball to buy drugs and go binge drinking singer would often rob people in his neighbourhood when you fight industries. also, sometime sometime it happens is my collision nice to have collision question of what thoughts and after becoming monkeys totally is like a new life. no. i had a wrong laser and i did many bad things. so now because mom is kind of

a beautician now because they're all sins the wrong, but i talk and in a one which is a good thing because i did, and i was doing it. so i want to change. so because of them, i would change me. no, no vin could have taken the wrong path to. yeah. if we go to an extent of that, it could be prison. it may be a death also, or a monastery or manase to become a monk. if someone realizes this, but this is a very, very, i know rare case that someone realizes and really gets committed to become a monk, die. and i just, it is ito balaban to another. do fastly related azure, you want them, your life was under some all calm enlightenment, capricious, ah, in bruton 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. this life of self discipline is far removed from his old, wild ways. still he seems fulfilled. f in his wins to peace of mind. you can have nothing and you can be still be happy. because everything to mental here. if you have the in the early or the are happy really if prayers, blessings, but also in a contemplation filled the days in the monastery. sometimes in quite surprising ways. every week senior and the others compete in a unique form of debating his reason is missouri. yes. you know, it's nature to miss, you know, i know the minds nature, but it's metaphysical noodle, how about seen in the same thing? my mother with the more experienced monks begin the debates,

the objective to win over the others with convincing arguments. when among thinks 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. oh, is a white horse really white? ah, yes, yes. because, you know, a white horse isn't white, it's a living being good. did a white white or his horse or for a white glove? you know, do you wanna get well, been known to prove that whether the horse is the white one you might not know the white horse with another of the monks recreational activities in the weekly outing. every sunday the monasteries residents go into town, though there is no question of cynthia and his friends succumbing to the

temptations of the streets. with the money they collected the previous day, the monks can treat themselves to a meal a strictly vegetarian one. i thought, oh, your soul, i some secular. last, almost the assumption this legal punch, if you eat meat, no way we don't, don't, don't know which an every rooms are damp are barons there haven't been even single b who haven't been not bears. so in a way meeting are balanced, meet so it's is a mixing actually. and then the problem is that up at the prison, we cannot remember them being of being our bands. and you really believe in ringo nation. of course of ours, everybody is in got it. what you, what would be my father mother was for you, the best seemed to be reincarnated for the next life again, as a monk, if it's possible in return in a country,

it doesn't matter. what in baton is far the monastery is not a j. no it's, it's actually is a paradise is i don't have it. we say i don't very result a very just because we are full of since we are looking on this in this business as normal. it is, but actually some debate. yeah, we're going to look what it a little nerve in our guide, accompany 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. or he will not even go a little later today, cynthia seems to have found the pathway to happiness bo, 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 really am for no good underneath the list, be any padding most when you had to really tired. so in a month we used to go out with a friends and with 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. ha, 8. yeah, no. 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 in baton. it's a privilege here. so ladies, let's have fun tonight. yeah, i, so i'm not a box on her hair. baton has just

a handful of bars where young people can meet. grace's favorite is the tim poo club . a parties bought for the capitols, affluent youth. here they let loose to pope and rap beats a far cry from traditional cultural offerings. ah with one we have right now. so this is only the main one that all right, mike and how many enjoy. but i'm not lazy, it's nothing like that. back to the normal, like very high with the go to christmas. i think we have one with gender father here, men and especially women, a free to enjoy themselves without fearing the censure of

a society that still quite conservative. here there because i because when i have an agency in the and talking to me, nick did not know and from the i can find like is and they want to have a new one to night. one day. what happened? i saw this isn't one, i'm on the lemming and comedy i really enjoy a moment yet who turns society and laws are changing in december 2020 parliament decriminalized homosexuality. and at these club young people smoke and drink alcohol. oh, 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. i

follow it was, it was a beer. why do you see the lower is strictly and he had to oh dear. this died in baton tuesday's alcohol free day when i can buy there still it's tracy. ah dr. b, what is there either? no. l no, no, no. i think oh, the country. yeah. i way it's like it so ah, another ban smoking in public places in 2004 baton was ahead of its time legislating 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 with aspire for the schools campus. we have to pay the fine vin anti duty on my food clothes issue. yeah. it's dangerous. so yeah, it's for the dangerous reason. many people do like this. mm hm. 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 pu 3 times a weight small farmers from the surrounding area come here to sell their spices, fruit and vegetables. oh little gannet. of course. there's also plenty of meat for sale, even though officially it's strictly forbidden to kill animals in baton. oh,

you mustn't cut in half of italy in don't yet when i was about already falling into that man and what are you near him out of it? 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 construction is carried out by indian workers. almost everything is done by hand and safety standards are often lacks. but the most dangerous construction sites are located outside the city. at an altitude of almost 3000 meters. a colossal building project is changing the face of this mountain. since 1961, 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 wear no protected clothing, let alone helmets. they work with what little the company provides. arjun is 18 years old, and this is his 1st time on the site without the don't you have other shoes? no, no, nor the work share. yeah. the company provides us with some but mine a wreck in this job that our last well with toxic ta fumes, mountain sickness, no protective gear, and no accident insurance. this work poses many dangers, yet there is no shortage of applicants on the phone with poor. if we don't work, we stop. that's why we come here to work and earn money and they're very, very nice. otherwise, how else would we be able to leave us?

i know that they work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, often for 2 months at a time. we're able to film a typical day on the site at their makeshift camp. the workers get up at 7 each morning. oh, i'll go wake up. you need to wake up, okay. we'll time to get up really. i'm with, well, this is our homes. i bought 25 people. i believe all that data. we don't have a problem sleeping here like this. i felt the feelers. now we need to go and wash and get ready. we have to go to work with that to see what 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 gen, leaves on the plains during the rest of the year. so this terrain is also foreign

to him. i grew up in, is there any the guy? yeah, we've never seen a place like this before. there are mountains, everywhere. gorgeous and cliffs. had very dangerous working. environmental, so it's cold here. it's snow. yeah. even the rain is freezing. oh yeah. we've been working here for 2 months. so you know, we have 10 days left and we returned to our villages garcia and i get some work as a counting the days more than others. sinbad 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 visit me. this part of my job is very dangerous. that we have to melt the tar. and for that we have to heat it, move away. when you're near the back, you must be vigilant at all times. that is,

if they get hot out of all that you fall in, you'll die metal effect flag. i'm dying. i know that despite the risks seem bad, cannot quit. this work allows him to support his wife and 2 children for 6 months of the year. as long as i have legs to walk, i'll keep working it. national happiness built with the blood, sweat, and t is of foreign work. his happiness that has an ecological cost, but not for baton. it really didn't india that these barrows go back to india bending with an al, very bad for the environment. so we have to count them, picked them up and send them back to indian. i can't, we have got him a lot of that. a good fit in the other is gross national happiness is no cure all but it has produced some tangible results and is something the state continues to promote to the world as seen with the construction of these conference center dedicated to happiness at

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