Failed States of 2007

This pic looks plenty dire, and yet this was before the New Depression. I think modern analysts would re-color quite a few of these "failed states," and by no means always for the worse. I'd be nudging Brazil into the Green category, China, Thailand, Turkey and India into a nice mild yellow, while of course Ireland, Iceland, Estonia and Latvia, formerly quiet, solid little entities, are in for it…

Maybe state failure isn't all it's cracked up to be.