Senate What makes a good, or even 'the best', country?

Everybody knows inventing the cheese slicer makes your country the greatest in the world, as any Norwegian would attest to. "Inventing" the paperclip is just what proves it to the rest of the world.

 

Ok, we can add metrics for education and for inventing implements designed to assist with the apportioning and serving of cheese.

 

Maybe people have access to affordable healthcare, but air and water pollution are so awful that health outcomes still suck. Economic burden is important, but there are other measures that "access to affordable healthcare" doesn't necessarily get at.

Maybe you find out how healthy the population is. How long do people live, what's the infant mortality rate, age-adjusted quality of life, disease prevalence, disability, what are the obesity rates, rates of smoking, etc.

 

i think we should stick mostly to the serving of cheese. also greatest variety of cheeses, cheese consumed per capita, number of festivals and holidays related to cheese, etc.

 

If your country doesn't have at least one cheese holiday, what's even the point?

 

Vermont is known for its cheese festivals, so that's probably the greatest country on earth. Or Wisconsin- land of cheese curds even though it's the Canadians who do Poutine, which is the world's greatest cheese-related food. I'd eat poutine every day of the week if fresh curds were easier to get hold of.

 

How can you say this when you have d'Affinois, the King, Queen, and inbred Prince of Cheeses?

 

mixing that with french fries and gravy would get you nowhere.

 

I don't know about "the best" but there are some things I can think of that would help make one a good country:

Tolerance backed by law.
Liberalized economics.
Environmental protection and amenities for recreation and leisure.
Measured foreign policy tilted towards neutrality but still involved in international institutions and legal frameworks.
Social safety net protecting society from absolute poverty(social insurance,health care, etc).
A culture that values life, traditions, a common heritage, some permanence, yet still accepts innovation, experimentation and science.

 

If you baked it first, yeah - it would be melty and stuff.

But you must mix fries with mayo. That's a mark of civilisation.

I'm also not sure but I think patatje oorlog - war potatoes, literally - might beat your fries and gravy without a hint of mercy. Fries, peanut/sate sauce, mayonnaise and raw onion.

 

Let's all just agree that the definition of "best country in the world" correlates with "who makes a good dish with fries".

 

SuperWatto -- but then Quebec would be at, or near, the top of the list (poutine).

 

I'd totally agree if it was a country

 

They want to be, and we can't in good conscience make Canada the best at anything, being a US suburb...

 

Wisconsin won the best cheese in the world last year, so yeah go CHEESE.

 

Anyone that doesn't know what the word country means automatically disqualifies their country.

 

Canada. They gave us Martin Short, ice hockey, and some of the best maple syrup on the planet.

 

And Celine Dion, Nickelback, Avril Lavinge, Nickelback, Justin Bieber, and Nickelback.

So, no.

SuperWatto - in addition to who makes good use of fries in their cooking, I would have to submit any nation that makes a snack that's, hypothetically of course, a waffle made from two thin layers of baked dough with a caramel-like syrup filling in the middle should qualify at the top.

I'm wondering if we're at the point where we need to just start watering you daily.

 

Ha that was funny.

 

Ah, but were they given or were they evicted?

 

"What makes a good, or even 'the best,' country?"

Where the country makes all of its citizens happy. Which, naturally, is impossible. Silly humans.

Therefore any "answers" are invalid. From a technical point of view.

You may now continue your debating. And satirization. And everything else you all do here in the JC.

 

You're from a 3rd world country, aren't you?

 

Didn't Trump say the U.S. was a 3rd world country practically?

 

I think the best country has slide guitar in it, and lyrics about mama and prison.