Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland
Financial collapse
Environmental Issues

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Fact of the Day:
On June 17, 1944, the Republic of Iceland became independent from Denmark.
After 700 years of foreign rule, plagues, religious strife, and volcanoes, Iceland gained the right to self-rule so that it could address domestic unrest, environmental issues, financial crisis, and more volcanoes.