Yet nearly two billion people unblushingly call themselves Christian, happily breaking almost every commandment should the occasion arise, serving Mammon and goodness knows who else.

ECONOMIST: Jesus

And now the ruling party's own newspaper has begun arguing unblushingly that Ilham Aliev, the president's only son, has the innate ability, if not the innate right, to take over when the time comes.

ECONOMIST: Azerbaijan

Mr Hoyte, though he unblushingly blames the ruling party for the rioting and the grenades one in a pro-government television station, where a security guard was fatally injured, another in the country's main hotel agreed to turn down the heat.

ECONOMIST: Guyana