Iceland – Country With the Lowest Crime Rate in the World

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A Facebook page ‘The Godless and Irreligious’ republished a meme on 30th October 2015 with multiple statements regarding the Iceland. This meme claimed that Iceland is enjoying with peace and good fortune due to a country with the majority of atheist population. The recovery of Iceland has become a fantasy covered in a folk story inside big names. It caused failure of banks, marked down domestic debt and caused a collapse in their currency. Now they are working much better than other countries that experienced real severity. The Iceland closed its banks for strange activities caused decline in domestic debt by relaxation in their laws.

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They implemented new laws that restricted the people at some specific limits that how much money people can take with them or for funds transferring abroad. The economic improvement showed breakdown rapidly but temporarily since 2008. In the month of April 2015, some news described that the government of Iceland made some major steps and improved their economy, but they haven’t yet controlled all the problems completely. The GDP of Iceland has been improved last year for the first time. Iceland is considered as one of those countries where the crime and violence ratio is very low and it was made news headlines worldwide in the month of December 2013, when a policeman in Iceland killed with gunshot and it was considered as first time incident in their history. The Iceland is the country ranked at 15th number in the world for gun ownership and these figures are 90,000 among the population of more than 3, 00,000 people.