America can no longer call itself the greatest country in the world. Especially with Norway in the picture.

If you wanted to design a small 21st Century nation from scratch, combining outrageous good fortune with virtue, you'd probably come up with something like Norway.

With a per capita income of $65,509, Norway ranks second only to super-rich Luxembourg. Much of the wealth derives from North Sea oil, but Norwegians have barely touched a penny of it, instead putting more $350 billion into an investment fund for future generations.

Health-care services are considered among the best in the world and are available to everyone, with the cap on out-of-pocket expenses at $200 a year. Working women on maternity leave get a year off at 80 percent pay. Elderly Norwegians seeking to escape the harsh northern winters can retire to government-run geriatric communities in sunny Spain.

Norway, home of the Nobel Peace Prize, has no enemies, but it does have a well-trained army that is always on the front lines of international peacekeeping missions. It also gives generously to less fortunate nations, donating more per capita than any other country.

And the government recently unveiled plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to zero and thus become the world's first "carbon-neutral" country by 2050.

So you might think that all of this good fortune and virtue would make the Norwegians just a little bit fat and self-satisfied?

Self-satisfied maybe, but fat, no. According to a new study on obesity, Norwegians are the slimmest people in Europe.

Let me get this straight.

They have FREE health care? For EVERYBODY?

They are the most environmentally friendly country on earth?

They have a well trained army that DOESN'T invade other countries?

They save ALL of their oil wealth for future generations, and haven't traded away their children's futures to fund an illegal war?

AND they are skinny?

Does it show that I am jealous?