So the French mock the Belgians? So do the Dutch. Ask a Dutchman, and he’ll probably tell you that Belgium is a land of idiots (impossible to prove) that is thoroughly corrupt in its government (easy to prove). If you push him, he might make a wisecrack about it being a nation ruled by pederasts, re: the curious case of Marc Dutroux, the scumbag who ran a pedophile prostitution ring, but whose treatment at the hands of state prosecutors was curiously delicate.