It's interesting hearing how different countries' economic systems affect residents. Another I heard about lately is how in Denmark, they have 95% taxes, but public services cover everything, and the wages are double what they'd be anywhere else to cover the high taxes.

Where this causes problems is if you're a call centre overseas, trying to induce Danes to come over here to work - if they aren't making themselves UK residents, then they'll still pay taxes back in Denmark - and 95% of the UK minimum wage would leave you eating your own shoelaces. The only solution is to find Danes who are already resident, or get hold of some Swedes who speak Danish...