countries are in any way happier than other rich countries within countries rich people are invariably apia than poor people and the rich societies around the world are generally happier than poor ones you will get some countries such as boots on and. some of the some indonesian countries some of the poorer countries are you might expect not to be quite so happy are surprisingly happy in the various reasons for that one major variable for example is religion sounds a good history of belief. and having a belief in god has been shown in many studies to increase your happiness but i really don't see your second question if it having friends makes you happy which clearly does it having religion makes you happy which clearly there's what is the policy relevance of this town the county government introduce some sort of theocracy and they somehow forty eight hour friends is going to spend time with you clearly not and this is a problem with happiness studies is that all the all the facts is that improve happiness i've heard the government can't do anything about them in the case of for example peo