Western Europe Multilingualism and the protection of regional and minority languages are recognized political goals in Western Europe today. The Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the Council of Europe's European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages set up a legal framework for language rights in Europe. Western Europe is one of the richest regions of the world. Germany has the highest GDP in Europe and the largest financial surplus of any country, Luxembourg has the world's highest GDP per capita, and the United Kingdom has the highest Net National Wealth of any European state. Switzerland
The Raksha Country and the Sea Market fishermen shipwrecked on an unknown island, among other stories. According to Qing dynasty critic Feng Zhenluan (), "The Raksha Country and the Sea Market" comprises "two disconnected episodes". In the first, "zhiguai"-like episode, the protagonist Ma Ji encounters the monsters of the Raksha Country; the second, written in the "chuanqi" fashion, concerns Ma's voyage to the sea market, his subsequent romance with a dragon princess and their eventual parting of ways. Several commentators have suggested that the titular "sea market" is imaginary. Giles notes that it "is generally understood in the sense of "mirage", or some similar phenomenon". Liana Chen