Greatest country in the world

[RI]

Individual countries may be better in one aspect or another than the US, but I can't think of any nation that consistently has the attributes necessary to dethrone the US. This doesn't give us any divine right or privilege or anything; I just think it gives us more responsibility and expectations, in a multitude of different ways, but we should still play by most of the same rules.

[RI]

I'd say the answer is probably Canada which is basically the US with most of the bad things about it greatly toned down (not entirely eliminated of course as Stephen Harper's majority currently proves), and no particular bad things about it that stand out (like the xenophobia in a lot of European countries, censorship-happiness in Australia, nanny statism in Scandinavia, etc.)

New Zealand kind of fits that bill too but it's too geographically isolated for me. (OK from what I've heard the anti-Maori racism can be kind of bad, but not necessarily any worse than the treatment of minorities in the US.)

Sorry, but Canada is much too minor a country in world history to be considered the greatest.

[RI]

Indeed....Canada might not have a long list of bad/horrible things...but what have they done for the world community outside of giving us Alan Thike and Celine Dion?

Plus they gave us Nickelback and Justin Bieber. Sounds like a horrible country to me.