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Author Topic: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?  (Read 10163 times)

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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #60 on: March 08, 2013, 05:08:08 am »

I always find it humourous when Australians are trying to pretend New Zeeland is the sheep lovin' country.
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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #61 on: March 08, 2013, 05:55:29 am »

We don't particularly like sheep, we just had to balance out all the murderous wildlife, and there happened to be a readily available source nearby.
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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #62 on: March 08, 2013, 12:07:01 pm »

I don't know why you all are picking Iceland, they're utterly paternalistic. Iceland bans pornography, imprisons people for mocking recognized religions, doesn't require arrest warrants, and doesn't require search warrants for immigrants.
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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #63 on: March 08, 2013, 04:48:36 pm »

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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #64 on: March 08, 2013, 04:53:17 pm »

Anyway, I think I should nominate Bosnia's government. Sure, they're corrupt as hell, but on the other hand they don't really do anything so they're not exactly infringing on citizens' freedom.
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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #65 on: March 08, 2013, 05:19:18 pm »

My brother in Japan was told by his work that Europe was in ruins, that there wasn't no more energy, and that they let the corpses on the streets  :P
In China they call Europe the land of the ever-setting sun, because we have nothing to look forward to. In Britain we say we've got no sun because cloudy all day everyday. Breaks the metaphor a bit, but just about everywhere that's not Greece and Italy are doing awesome in the EU.
I know, it's just that it's kinda curious to learn from Japan that the streets where you live are filled with corpses.
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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #66 on: March 08, 2013, 06:07:41 pm »

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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #67 on: March 08, 2013, 06:08:44 pm »

Clearly the best solution is to make our own country. I'll get the paper mache and duct tape.
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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #68 on: March 08, 2013, 06:48:02 pm »

I know, it's just that it's kinda curious to learn from Japan that the streets where you live are filled with corpses.
You should roll with it. Be all about how all the cities are grey with the ashes of the fallen, raining from the sky. Packs of feral citizens roam the grounds searching for grains of rice and barley to make alcohol for sustenance and fire. The government sits atop a throne of skulls tearing apart local communities within biting distance...

For in the grim 20th millennium of Europe, there is only bunga bunga.

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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #69 on: March 08, 2013, 07:08:11 pm »

I know, it's just that it's kinda curious to learn from Japan that the streets where you live are filled with corpses.
You should roll with it. Be all about how all the cities are grey with the ashes of the fallen, raining from the sky. Packs of feral citizens roam the grounds searching for grains of rice and barley to make alcohol for sustenance and fire. The government sits atop a throne of skulls tearing apart local communities within biting distance...

For in the grim 20th millennium of Europe, there is only bunga bunga.

I'd just show them Doomsday and claim it is a documentary.
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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #70 on: March 08, 2013, 07:09:19 pm »

Then show them 28 days later. Doomsday is brilliant.

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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #71 on: March 09, 2013, 09:32:14 pm »

Anyway, I think I should nominate Bosnia's government. Sure, they're corrupt as hell, but on the other hand they don't really do anything so they're not exactly infringing on citizens' freedom.

Yes, but what about Herzegovina? Huh, huh?!
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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #72 on: March 09, 2013, 09:58:23 pm »

Anyway, I think I should nominate Bosnia's government. Sure, they're corrupt as hell, but on the other hand they don't really do anything so they're not exactly infringing on citizens' freedom.

Yes, but what about Herzegovina? Huh, huh?!
What about Serbia? Or Albania? Hmm? they all got the best corruption.
 
Under that definition the best country in the World is Somalia, with it's "lack of a government to infringe upon you"ness. Sure, the angry radical hordes might, but they aren't a government!"Well at least they can't oppress you!" Is not a positive attribute.
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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #73 on: March 09, 2013, 10:12:16 pm »

The Balkans in general are more or less a corrupt shithole, although I tend to admire them for their... slavicness for the most part I guess... I like Slavs.
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Re: What Is the Most Citizen-Friendly Country on This Planet?
« Reply #74 on: March 09, 2013, 10:23:39 pm »

I don't know why you all are picking Iceland, they're utterly paternalistic. Iceland bans pornography, imprisons people for mocking recognized religions, doesn't require arrest warrants, and doesn't require search warrants for immigrants.

Ah, but none of this seems terribly corrupt. So they might win by virtue of being able to get 1 out of 3 down.
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