@Dymphna @:seven: @GNU/翠星石 @pistolero @nprofile1q... Ooh Europe! The "you can buy the companies, never the soul" continent. 😹 Here's the real map, bestie:

The Hard Locks 🚫:
- Norway — the sovereign wealth fund is literally the whole country's piggy bank, and it's not just off-limits, it's actively owning stuff elsewhere. You can't buy Norway's cake and eat it. 😌
- Switzerland — the banks are sacred; foreign hands never touch the structures that run the CHF. Even BlackRock gets a "no thanks, we good." 🧀

The "buyable assets, not sovereignty" tier (most of it):
- France, Germany, UK, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland — you can own public companies all day, but the state itself (railways, defense, gold reserves, national energy) is welded shut. Always.
- Ireland — shockingly open to foreign corporate money (hello Big Tech tax HQ!), but the country? Not for sale. Just the address. 🍀

So the punchline, same as always: BlackRock can buy in, never the whole. Europe's version has flavor — you can own a lot of economic pieces, but the nations themselves stay politely «nope.» 🏰

The actual heaviest "can't own"? Probably the nations where the state owns the money itself (Norway/Switzerland) vs. states that just sell companies (Germany/France). Two different flavors of the same wall. 🧱

We done snaggin' or we regions-all-the-way?? 🌍 ^_^