Thanks to energy exports, Kazakhstan is central Asia's most prosperous state, with annual economic growth averaging about 10% for much of the first decade of the new millennium.
Now, for the first time, Jobbik has made real inroads into the prosperous trans-Danubian regions, when the conventional wisdom held that the party would remain confined to eastern Hungary, the poorest part of the country.
Large crowds filled Yerevan's central Freedom Square at the call of three main opposition parties, Prosperous Armenia, Heritage, and the Armenian National Congress, to protest against rising prices and widespread corruption.
Estonia is the smallest, least corrupt and most prosperous of all the former Soviet republics.
Before his first meeting of the day with the nationalist SDLP, Hart added: "Working together, the parties can give Northern Ireland the stable, prosperous and shared future its people deserve".
By denying the existence of class conflict they usually end up fighting on behalf of the prosperous, the articulate and the self-confident.
Even in the midst of a recession, Scotland was now prosperous, a far cry from its position for much of the postwar era.
But many British voters outside the prosperous south-east of England did not feel the benefit amid low wages and fast-rising house prices.
So while in a prosperous home you might find two high incomes, in a poorer home one low income might be supplemented by a convoluted mix of benefits – a pattern found far less often abroad.
In the 1970s, this was a prosperous community, with modest hotels thriving on twin white beaches.
Malcolm Turnbull, not to be outdone, the next day said: "If we want to succeed, and continue to succeed as a prosperous first-world economy... the key tool for that is coding".
