http://mises.org/daily/1121There are. Here is one that lasted for longer than the United States has been an independent country, before they had their
first civil war.
Some have argued that where there is greatest freedom on the planet today, are those places where the Vikings had invaded.
On behalf of one of those countries the Vikings invaded, allow me to say that some have bloody foolish ideas of what freedom means.
Indeed. That statement needs to define what "freedom" means to the observer. Rights are not the same as abilities, and permission is not the same as liberty.
And correlation is not causation...
Which raises an interesting anthropological question. What causes lead toward a society to remaining voluntary?