Another article says "Alice Eriksen, the granddaughter of the Little Mermaid’s original sculptor, Edvard Eriksen, revealed the installation to the public today.
You forgot the Philippines.
President Duterte has summarily executed nearly 2,000 suspected drug dealers and users since July 1st and vowed to execute 98,000 more.
Those sound like great reasons to use something sensible like a hydraulic ram to apply 1,000,000 lbf.
Force = pressure x area, and neither pressure nor area is difficult to measure precisely. I can't see the upside of using 1,000,000 lbm of stainless steel.