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Denmark, home of the Norsemen of the Apocalyse; home of cheese, bacon, the little mermaid, the best lager in the world. Probably. Land of Harold Bluetooth, Hans Christian Andersen and Queen Margaret II.

Surprisingly the Danish Olympic team has only four competitors - the women's curling team. Okay, so Denmark is flat, but that didn't seem to put off the Nederlands. Of course the full team consists of rather more people:

competitors - 4
coaches - 2
PR - 1
management - 1
security - 8,205

In fact the security for the team is pretty much the entire Danish military, making the homeland something of a sitting duck right now. Not that Denmark is much of a target. Or it wasn't until they jammed their nose into the hornets' nest of muslim fundamentalist politics. But then it is because of that that they needed to cart the military off to Italy in the first place. What is a country to do?

Thankfully for Denmark, muslim extremists don't go in for organised invasions, and even if they did, Denmark would probably be near the bottom of the list of targets. Why? Because if you reduce and simplify Europe, if you dumb down, distill and caricature, and if you, as it were, make a cartoon of Europe, then Denmark is Europe's pig farm. And that is never going to be prime real estate for an invading hoard of fundamentalists.