What does the crowd/queue outside an embassy tell you about the country?

Average Londoner's Day

In an article in Heckler Spray on Angeline Jolie's wardrobe malfunction at the premiere of Beowulf at Leicester Square, the author Stuart Heritage had this comment on an average Londoner's day (Beowulf):

And, seriously, since the average Londoner's day involves standing in a dirty, sweltering, expensive, overcrowded tin can snaking underneath the city with their face rammed into a sweaty bloke's stinking armpit, constantly worrying that overzealous police marksmen will shoot them dead just because they look a bit foreign, we'd say Angelina got off lightly.

Very accurate...