Yes in Britain, the queen asked for more money (tax-payers money) to be directed towards renovating Buckingham Palace (which is not in a great state- her house, the poor woman!), arguing that it’s a national heritage symbol, that brings lots of money into Britain as a major tourist attraction, so the public should pay for its maintenance!
Of course the tax-payers argued that the royals already receive huge portions from the government funding budget, so they might as well, deal with matter themselves!

This is a good example on TRANSPERANCY, the right of every citizen to know where every single penny is spent. Do we have such a thing in Jordan? I am not sure if we even have a decent financial budget to begin with.

Another example from Britain; is when Prince Philip (the Queen’s husband) was called to provide his statement in court against Mohammad Al-Fayed’s “allegations” of plotting to murder the late Princess Diana, leaving the facts aside, this is still an example of the RULE-OF-LAW state, where no one is above the law. In Jordan’s standards, where EVERY citizen is above the law! – which is a privilege if you come to think of it – it seems that we still have a long long way to go!

Queen Elizabeth asks Parliament for millions of extra funding
The Queen has had her plea for millions of pounds of extra public money turned down by the Government.
By Jessica Salter
Last Updated: 2:25PM BST 25 Sep 2008

Palace aides have said there is a £6.5 million black hole in the royal accounts and claim Parliament has a constitutional duty to ensure the Queen is financially secure.

The Department of Culture, Media and Sport already gives the palace an annual grant of £15m a year, and ministers say that budgets are already stretched.

Royal aides claim the palaces will need £32m of refurbishment and maintenance in the next 10 years and the costs of maintaining the Royal Household are increasing.

The grant was set in the 1990s and has been frozen for a further three years.

The Civil List, an additional sum provided by Parliament to pay for the monarch’s public functions, is fixed at £7.9m, but this year’s palace accounts show that expenditure will reach £14.4m - an overspend of £6.5m.

A Palace source told the Independent: “We have spent a lot of time convincing the Department for Culture Media and Sport of the merits of our case but I am not convinced they are listening very carefully to our arguments. It is a major disappointment.”

The Treasury say that an announcement on the Civil List will be made “in due course”.

In June the Queen’s accountant Sir Alan Reid asked for a minimum £4 million annual increase on top of the £15 million annual grant from the for maintenance of royal residences but was turned down.

Check out “Denmark: the Happiest Place on Earth”

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4086092&page=1

This can’t be a coincidence, there must be an inverse relationship between corruption and happiness!

Actors that uphold the rule of law

and institutions that make this attainable and sustainable

As for wealth, I doubt so.

It has more to do with the equal distribution of wealth, health/social services, as well as education (aka an educational system that entrenches the right values and appropriate skills in its graduates, as opposed to our educational system that does quite the opposite as many students get admitted, pass their courses and graduate with the help of influence-peddling and corruption)

Rule-of-Law government is also important in particular as it creates a culture where it is utterly unacceptable to any citizen to give or receive favours - be it money or preferential treatment. And let’s not forget the press that keeps the gutter clean.

BTW Denmark made it to the pole position for the second time in a row.