How bad is/are your country/ies?

**Hooahguy** · 02-05-2009, 13:06

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

Than why do you still hold it?

Originally Posted by Kush

He has no disadvantage, that I'm aware of, of holding dual citizenship. He mostly likely benefits.

the only "disadvantage" is that i have to join the IDF at 18, which is only 1 year and 7 days away.

**Fragony** · 02-05-2009, 13:19

My country is fine 8/10.

**Vladimir** · 02-06-2009, 18:03

Originally Posted by Fragony

My country is fine 8/10.

We all suck except for the Dutch.

**Husar** · 02-06-2009, 21:30

So I was assuming 10 would be the worst here, now we get 8/10 and that's supposed to be fine, do you guys have really low standards or do we have two different rating systems now?

**Fragony** · 02-07-2009, 16:34

Originally Posted by Vladimir

We all suck except for the Dutch.

Well there are problems of course but nowhere as bad as in other countries. Politics is at times pure kafka and Fenring isn't the only one who can drink the two biggest party's blood by now, police is useless and we are taxed way too much. But we are still rich as

, it's clean, people are friendly, bestlooking women of the world, beautifull architecture old and new, as far as I am concerned the Netherlands is closest a country ever got to being a paradise. Love this place couldn't live anywhere else.

**Prince Cobra** · 02-07-2009, 20:53

Bulgaria. Typical Eastern European and Balkan country. Our politicians immediately got amnesia after the elections and are absulately deaf to public opinion. For a poor (compared to the other European countries) corruption is a way of political life. On the top of that the Bulgarians are getting more and more politically inactive, which I think bad way to show your dissatisfaction from the politicians.

On the Bulgarian political stance. Bulgaria is a member of NATO and European Union and to some extend on key position in Russian interests. Yet it fails to use it effectively its advantages and there are rumours for quite bad conditions for Russian gas and petrol. On the other side(though it's slightly off-topic and I'm supporter of the European integration), I was slightly offensed by the clumsy interference of the EU Court in the affairs of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. I'm not religious but I still think church should have larger role in the society (Greece is a good example, I think).

Yet compared to more developed countries, in Bulgaria it is relatively safer to walk in the streets.

5.5/10

**Productivity** · 02-08-2009, 12:01

Australia is fine... There are a number of concerning trends when it comes to racism/xenophobia, but they're kept under contorl. At the same time we've finally got a chance to make some progress on significant questions about the nation, which were stiffled under Howard.

To me the real tragedy of the second two terms of Howard (I'll also bring the republican referendum into this category even though it happened outside of these terms) was how he forced the Australian social debate to mimic his 1950s worldview of society. It's not that I disagreed with his policies (I figure in the washup I probably sat right down the middle for agreeing/disagreeing with him), but that instead of allowing an honest and frank debate, Howard and his crony's would stifle the debate and try to impose their view of Australia onto the nation without any true discussion.

Hopefully in the post-howard political landscape we can move on...

Aside from that little rant, Australia's pretty good. We've got a reasonably well functioning multi-cultural society, an economy in ok state (relative to the rest of the world). There's a few major issues to deal with (finding someway to support indigenous Australians into society in particular), but overall good.