Turkmenistan bans sales of booze for 'Happiness Week'

Turkmenistan's health-nut authoritarian President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov has ordered stores to stop selling alcohol during the officially mandated "Week of Health and Happiness," a new holiday created to mark an "era of power and happiness" that apparently does not involve the power to drink what you choose or get buzzed. If this doesn't sound all that happy to you, consider Berdymukhamedov is the kind of energetic leader who ran a 5K to an official Cabinet meeting. Basically, they basically have Jillian Michaels for president. Say what you will about our obesity problems in the US, but some of us may prefer living in a country where a chipper fitness freak would be laughed out of office for trying to make that decree.