My country is better than your country

[nerd1]

The problem with evaluating larger countries, like the US or Brazil with higher populations is that statistics can vary widely by area, so instead, it would be better to spit each of the larger, more populous, countries into regions, as I doubt the midwest would have the same crime or education ratings as the south, and vica versa.

[Scaredgirl]

my teacher economics said the netherlands and Switzerland (or finland, not sure?) are the least corrupt lands in the world.
go netherlands!

Numbers here are close to that, but a bit different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index (scroll down a bit)

Seems like Finland had a whopping 9.9 score back in 2002, but it has gone down a bit during the last few years. I blame globalization. It was pretty funny when a few years back, we had people from the (corrupt) Chinese government to study our methods and try to learn why there is so little corruption in Finland. They didn't of course find any magic formula to weed out corruption. Finnish people, just like all Nordic people, are just trustworthy and non-corrupted people, although there are of course some exceptions.

[plastiqe]

I dunno, after I watched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series it seems to me every 2nd person in Sweeden was corrupt or a rapist or worse. 

Same with Miami-Dade County in Florida; the highest serial killers per capita in the world.

[nerd1]

my teacher economics said the netherlands and Switzerland (or finland, not sure?) are the least corrupt lands in the world.
go netherlands!

Numbers here are close to that, but a bit different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index (scroll down a bit)

Seems like Finland had a whopping 9.9 score back in 2002, but it has gone down a bit during the last few years. I blame globalization. It was pretty funny when a few years back, we had people from the (corrupt) Chinese government to study our methods and try to learn why there is so little corruption in Finland. They didn't of course find any magic formula to weed out corruption. Finnish people, just like all Nordic people, are just trustworthy and non-corrupted people, although there are of course some exceptions.

in that case, Iowa is the finland of the United States but seriously, Canadians, STOP EXPORTING POP SINGERS! DEATH TO JB!!!

[artimies7]

Hmm.. I was planning on having big discussions about this, but seems like we could just as well end this topic here and accept the fact that Finland is the best country in the world.

I've always known this. Thank you, SG!