I hesitate to write about the internal miseries of the monarchy because, simply put, who cares?
The strategic importance, internal miseries and governing oddities of North Korea are obvious and frequently in the news.
But no one really knows if the missions are actually moving Venezuela toward zero misery; the programs have no visible internal evaluation.
Opening up a country's markets, the argument went, would increase overall wealth in every country, and policies for internal redistribution would help the inevitable losers or else their personal misery could have serious social consequences for everyone else.
As well as being burdened by unsustainable levels of external debt, all five economies share the misery of trying to regain lost competitive ground through internal devaluation, in which domestic costs are ground down year after year.
So the growing happiness that follows middle-aged misery must be the result not of external circumstances but of internal changes.People, studies show, behave differently at different ages.
The region has moved towards integration, and has begun to address some of the terrible internal problems of societies ruled by mostly Europeanized elites, tiny islands of extreme wealth in a sea of misery.
Instead, she pointed to the arts' value in exploring "the internal world we all inhabit - the world of individual birth, life and death, of love or pain, joy or misery, fear and relief, success and disappointment".
