A closer look
San Marino boasts the highly absurd statistic of having more registered vehicles than actual living human residents, with about one and a half cars for every single citizen in this tiny microstate completely surrounded by Italy, perched on top of a mountain, meaning its citizens decided the best response to vertical medieval terrain was to buy a ridiculous amount of automobiles, hoarding cars like they are preparing for a post-apocalyptic road warrior scenario despite their country being barely twenty-three square miles in size, serving as the ultimate manifestation of pointless consumerism considering you could probably walk across the entire republic in an afternoon if you were not so deeply committed to sitting in traffic, while travel bloggers love to describe it as a quaint historical gem, conveniently ignoring the fact that it operates mostly as a glorified tax haven and a massive parking lot
