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the only country that wins wars by politely declining to attend them
means Of or relating to Switzerland, its people, language, or things — and often used as shorthand for precise neutrality, reliable banking, holey cheese, or many-bladed knives.
from From the people themselves: the Schwyz, one of the founding cantons of the old Swiss Confederacy, lent their name to the whole alliance. The English 'Swiss' arrived via French 'Suisse,' which traces back to that same German place-name. The endonym 'Switzerland' carries the same root, and the Latinate 'Helvetia' (still stamped on the coins and stamps) recalls the Helvetii, the Celtic tribe Julius Caesar wrote about as inhabiting the region long before the cantons banded together.
- holey legend
- cheese holes are bacteria farting carbon dioxide
- bunker nation
- enough nuclear shelters for every single citizen
- vampire defense
- famous army knife once held no actual blades first
- neutral flex
- hasn't fought a foreign war since 1815
- banking ghosts
- numbered accounts let money vanish in plain sight
swiss national bank — central bank of switzerland, founded 1907, manages chf currency
swiss armed forces — military of switzerland, maintained armed neutrality since 1815
swiss cheese — emmental and gruyère produced in swiss alps, exported globally since 1600s