Heaven is where the police are British
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"Heaven is where the police are British" is the incipit of a joke on national character of the British, French, German, Italian and Swiss people.
According to some[1], the joke was conceived by Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, first attested in a 1982 Google Books record[2] and another record of 1983[3]:
- What’s heaven? Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and the organizers are Swiss.
- So then, what’s hell? Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss and the organizers are Italian.
In later versions, the term "organizers" was changed by "bankers".
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