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Perfectistan: How To Build The Perfect Country: Part 2 – Establishing The Government

10 Oct

If you have been following this blog series from the previous posts…I am attempting to build the “perfect” country. I am not actually constructing anything really, but merely combining the best that the world has to offer to “build” a perfect nation. Perfectistan, as I have so dubiously called this fictional land, will be made up of traits from the very best nation on each subject. I will attempt to use statistical analysis as well as studies published by people far more intelligent (and more well-funded). Those things, along with my own personal reasoning (which of course is subjective but necessary for this exercise), will help guide me to each conclusion.

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Perfectistan: How To Build The Perfect Country: Part 1 – An Introduction

WARNING!!!

Let me say again, that my purpose in this thought exercise is to not only find out what nation is the best at each of these things, but to then contrast that against the United States System, whose citizens hail as the “GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH”. My goal is to not simply establish the greatest country in each sector, but to also establish that America is NOT the greatest. Making you aware of this goal will allow me to express my ideas without fear that I will be accused of some underlying bias, because in fact it is not a bias but a central theme to this series.

But before we jump ahead of ourselves….

The first step in any nation-building process would be the creation (and of course ratification) of establishment papers, more commonly known as a “Constitution”. But of course….the process of this thought exercise is not to do any creating ourselves, but rather to find the best government in the world and claim it as our own.

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