Global Alcohol Consumption

Here's a map that might help you plan your next vacation. To my pattern seeking eye, it appears that hard drinking ways never caught on in the equatorial regions. I thought Iceland might have made "red state" status as the only time I visited, the airport bathroom floor was littered with mini-alcohol bottles. Naturally I extrapolated this brief moment into thinking that the entire country was full of boozers*.

Alcohol Consumption by Country

*I was clearly wrong to assume this. They were too busy studying to be investment bankers to be drinking excessively.