>GDP per capita sounds like a better yardstick to measure "prosperous" ;-)

My doubts here. Even the inventor of that yardstick has pointed its faults and fallacies it will create, but the lawmakers weren't listening. It records the same money n times, whenever it changes hands and gets taxed, and OTOH doesn't record things people do to help each other or themselves. So one growing tomatoes and making their own bloody Mary is counted only when buying the vodka - all the juice, ketchup and salads aren't registered in the GDP. A village building a bridge on its own is counted only as much as they buy materials, but the value of the bridge and the increase of overall assets of the village is not. But when you buy something through three middlepersons, or a funny paper changes hands thrice, it's counted three times.

>Even in more common frame of mind girls, drink and food are WAY ahead.

And even there, quality counts much more than quantity, which economy mostly neglects (unless it's much more expensive to be of good quality, which it needn't be).

>I'll even go so far as to stipulate Greek beverages are not amongst my favorites ;-))

I haven't tried much, but what I did was good.

>(Am I too typically german saying nice mode of auto-propelled transportation is way ahead of films as well?)

(That sounds american, actually)