Dear Changing Aging readers, we have a quick poll for you. Before you answer, below is information that provides more context:[poll id=8′]Sex Day in UlyanovskIn 2007, Sergei Morozov, the governor of the Ulyanovsk region of Central Russia offered prizes to couples who agreed to take advantage of a ‘family contact day’ and wound up producing babies nine months later, on June 12, Russia’s national day. It was the third year running that Ulyanovsk had declared a ‘sex day’ and offered prizes for babies born. The grand prize was a sports utility vehicle … The world is growing old …Mark Haas, a political scientist at Duquesne University, writes in his article Pax Americana Geriatrica that global aging will lead to a more peaceful world and a continuation of American dominance. He says that aging populations are likely to result in the slowdown of states’ economic growth at the same time that governments face pressures to pay for massive new expenditures for senior care. This double economic dilemma will create such an austere fiscal environment that the other great powers of the world will lack the resources necessary to overtake the United States’ huge power lead.Haas opines that America also seems likely to face fewer threats from terrorism based in Islamic countries. If current demographic trends continue, many Islamic states – now in the throes of ‘youth bulges’ – will be aging as societies in coming decades. As active and disaffected young people have aged in other parts of the world, they have become a source of political stability and economic development. Haas says there is reason to believe this pattern will hold in Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim states as their youth slip into middle age. Read the full Pax Americana Geriatrica article here.