I've been to multiple Scandinavian countries and the best experience was in Finland.
Not because they're generous, but because they don't project friendliness, so it's easier to navigate.
Spain has industrialized single handedly under Franco, while detached from the rest of Europe and has cars, trucks and industrial equipment.
They are quite competent industrial power and yes, they are most famous for being able to chill. Which confuses the drones.
Benefit: you will be driven by autists, instead of upside down pilots
Another benefit: you can be plastered the whole time
Another another benefit: you can be plastered by your own cheap booze
one more benefit: you can play any card game, plastered for the whole time
You're mixing popular German history with very specific happening from 2000 - 2008.
German industry has cooked a scheme to deliberately suppress German wages through Unions and aggressively target all of European Industry with goal to destroy and absorb it.
They succeeded.
No, USB-C is a practical limit. You may design 1mm thinner, but after that the wires will be thinner and connection will destroy itself by plugging 3 times.
Thinnest thing we have in electronics are flex cables, and they are notorious for being fragile.