The world used to have no cities. City-states then started appearing. City-states led to countries. Now there is a global government. Hopefully, countries will break into small villages again when everything collapses.
Iceland is not a free country, but maybe small places are more likely of having peace if everyone has similar values and backgrounds and everybody knows each other.
We have level 6 snowstorms in the southern hemisphere, and yet people are STILL insisting that global warming exists. Jesus Fucking Christ!