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The Economist had a nice line: "Germany is a country that only works in practice."

I don't suppose you have a link to whatever article's that from? I'd like to read it, but google's not bringing it up.

I think it was from the Economist's special report on Germany. See the series of articles starting at http://www.economist.com/node/15641069?story_id=15641069 .