In Switzerland everything will be free and everything will be high?

The inhabitants of Switzerland came close to the utopian ideal. The country will hold a referendum on the "right to a basic income", according to which every Swiss will receive 2,500 Swiss francs a month - that's about $ 2,800.

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1. The initiators of the referendum collected about 126,000 signatures for putting the issue up for public discussion. To celebrate this event, they drove to the parliament building in Bern a truck with eight million coins in denominations of 5 centimes - the number of citizens of the country.

2. A pile of little things was unloaded in the middle of the square to the delight of local residents and to the surprise of tourists.

3. Most of the coins were collected at the end of the celebration, but some ended up in the pockets of the townspeople. However, this did not upset the organizers of the show.

4. The average salary in Switzerland is $4,000, one of the highest in the world.

5. If the inhabitants of the country make a positive decision in a referendum, the state will be obliged to pay each adult citizen $ 2,800 per month. As conceived by the initiators of the law, this will ensure the financial security of citizens

6. Around 12 referendums are held in Switzerland each year, often on the most pressing issues in society. For example, at the end of September, the Swiss spoke in favor of maintaining compulsory conscription into the army.

7. In 2009, the majority of the country's inhabitants voted in favor of a ban on the construction of minarets in Switzerland. The law was adopted despite a flurry of protests from the country's parliament, human rights and Muslim organizations, the Catholic Church and other European states.

8. In Switzerland, the will of the majority is the law, although in the light of the minarets scandal, human rights activists felt that this state of affairs violated basic democratic principles. To this, the Swiss invite critics to recall the meaning of the Greek word "democracy".