German fashion guru Wolfgang Joop explains what it’s like to live in the super-safe haven of millionaires, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea from one of the best penthouses in town. “Here, you can still see the dinosaurs walking around.” They’re having lunch at Rampoldi, or at Stars’n’Bars, where Formula One driver Jochen Mass often holds his business meetings.

Alain Ducasse reigns over the world of chefs from his kitchen at the Hôtel de Paris. Victor Pastor explains how Monaco started. And Prince Albert of Monaco describes what his Principality will look like in the future, extended with an artificial island with more space for yachts and millionaires. There is hardly a place on the planet where being rich is the most normal thing in the world. Nowhere else can rich people feel so at ease as they can here. Thousands of surveillance cameras almost guarantee: there are no autograph hunters, no beggars, no car thefts. The occasional economic crime or weapons deal does nothing to spoil the picture of prosperity.

*Original German title: Mondän!