If I’m right, Norway is not in the EU (a clever move, BTW we in Spain didn’t have the option to choose :-P ), so they should keep their national currency … it was crowns? How much is the crisis damaging the norwegians?
A interesting question is if you call your goverment socialist because socialist party is ruling or because you think that they are doing socialist politics … here in Spain we have a ruling party called “socialist” but is doing the same neoliberal politics that would do the right wing party (the funny -or not- thing is that right wing party is blaming them for doing the same that they would do if were ruling). Stingy two-party sistem and stingy partitocracy :x
As for the 150$ boardgame, it’s clearly an abuse (I paid 75 € for my copy of AAP, including mail costs), but it’s tipical of a free-market economy. You can sell at any prize, no wonder how ridiculous or abusive can be (houses anyone?)