By NATALIA HAWK
You know what sucks?
When you go to work, or university, or a bar, and you meet someone amazing with great hair and a fantastic smile.
You talk to this amazing person and you really get along. You think maybe… the two of you could get it on sometime.
So you go on dates, you meet each other’s parents. You talk about your hopes and dreams for the future. When the time is right, you get engaged and then married. You have kids and they’re perfect.
And then you somehow find out THAT YOU’RE RELATED.
Awkward.
That, my friends, is INCEST; one of the major taboos in society ever since the 1800s when we decided maybe marrying people we aren’t related to might be delightful?
Unfortunately, incest is a major issue in the snow-capped mountaintop land of Iceland. This is because Iceland has a population of just over 300,000 people.
To put that in perspective for you – in 2010, the population of Sydney, Australia was over 4 million. Even the city of Canberra has a bigger population (and we wouldn’t want the pollies interbreeding, would we?).
If you live in Iceland, it’s extremely likely that you are somehow related to the person who sits next to you at work. Or the person standing next to you at the bus stop.
That’s why clever Icelanders have developed a new incest app to ensure that you can know the intimate details of someone’s family tree from the get-go.