Welcome to the Land of Smiles. When you come to Thailand, when you visit forums about Thailand, you constantly see this term bandied about. You'll often notice the nation abbreviated as LoS. Some people attribute the moniker to Thai people always being in a good mood. Others, to the endless supply of foreign senior citizens in Pattaya with smiles of bliss glued to their faces after being satisfied simultaneously by two slender Thai teenagers.
The real Land of Smiles should be Norway. They have a womb-to-tomb welfare state, one of the highest GDP per capitas in the world, ample natural resources and land spread among just 5m people, and freedom from the governmental bureaucracy called the European Union. But well, Norway never grabbed the name, and it may have not been fair either. Tourists visiting Norway and experiencing its sky high prices and eternal darkness during the winter are more often crying than smiling.