It has had more than its fair share of misfortunes: civil war, serial military coups, tyrannical military government, spectacular corruption and all the downsides of its black gold economy.
There are eleven tracks on the album, with origins illustrating death and destruction, war, serial killers, and the Apocalypse.
Comparing Blackadder Goes Forth to the 2012 war serial Birdsong, Alison Graham of the Radio Times commented that "Nothing... evokes the terror of those unspeakable battlefields or leaves such an overwhelming sense of loss as [its characters] going over the top to their certain death".
Yes, there are shootings, stabbings, muggings, suicides, gang wars, serial killers, car wrecks and freeway chases, but there are also Hollywood scandals, wildfires, mudslides and, especially, animal attacks; the same night the black bear story broke, KCAL ran a piece about what to do if confronted by an angry coyote.
Among the competing paths being forged, Schoenberg's version won out after the war, and serial music became synonymous with modernism.
And it helped inspire networks to take chances with more emotional ensemble dramas, like the post-World War II serial "Homefront" and the civil-rights-era drama "I'll Fly Away," as well as other ensemble series about urban folks of a certain age, like "Seinfeld" and "Friends".
But get this: Michael Gove will be thrilled to hear that for all the weed smoke, shoplifting, minor gang wars and serial misbehaviour that make up her tale, Tulisa is in complete agreement with those who want to rewind Britain to around 1952.
Her husband — who lost an eye after two weeks of combat in the First World War — was a serial philanderer who faced charges for having sex with a thirteen-year-old, then, later, contracted syphilis.
Dictators, war criminals and serial human rights abusers aside, there is a host of influential political leaders and administrators, large banks and businesses, and individual celebrities and sportspeople whose names appear in the Papers and from whom better might have been expected.
What is needed is open campaigning that can mobilise popular aspirations for an end to rampant inequality, cutbacks, corruption and serial wars.
There's Mailbox founder and Dropbox head of design Gentry Underwood, Zynga VP of Games Maureen Fan, Leap Motion Founder and CTO David Holz, and Mafia Wars founder and serial entrepreneur Roger Dickey.
