There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.
You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.