Build-a-Nation: If you could choose certain aspects of a country to build your ‘ideal’ nation, how would you build it?

[Anonymous]

Categories (Non-exhaustive, be creative. But here are a few examples):
Healthcare:
Government:
Emergency Services:
Education:
Tax laws:
Culture:
Food:
Legal System:
Infrastructure:
Weather:
Religious Freedom:
Job Opportunities:


Eg.
Healthcare: Denmark
Government: Singapore
Weather: Italy
Culture: France

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Edit: ‘(Here are a few examples)’

Not sure why GAG keeps replacing my brackets with emojis. It’s so annoying and driving me mad 😡

[MCheetah]

The country of Ryaal, in northeast Asia, near Russia, Japan, and Korea. Eastern history, Western values.

My custom country of Ryaal. I've actually been working on this for a while, now.

Healthcare: The Netherlands, the tallest and healthiest people in the world. The average woman in my country is 5'9"/175 cm and the average man is 6'2"/188 cm.

Government: Like 1960s era US. Strong and feared, but mostly respected.

Also, all politicians get paid a medium-low wage (like $40,000 a year) and any corruption faces maximum prison fines. Many people are fearful to run for government because of extremely strict these punishments are; these weeds out all the greedy people and only the truly caring and generous ends up accepting the role of our nation's leaders. Our president is strong and capable and she even has military experience in addition to public service.

We have our own version of a constitution, heavily modeled off the US, and freedom of speech and expression is paramount. However, this doesn't mean people will respect badmouthing or disrespecting our country and culture, even if you have the right to do so. You will become a social pariah if you disrespect us, especially in our own land.

Emergency Services: Like any other First World country, I guess. Healthcare is subsidized and free, but better, speedier, healthcare can be paid for through private insurance.

Education: Similar to Japan, South Korea, and India, but without the cramming and 12 hour school days. Just top quality education and MOST of our funding goes into education and energy.

Tax laws: Fair taxes. We don't have a GDP and income problem because unlike so many countries we have competent and non-corrupt leaders.

Culture: Like any major Western country like the US, England, Canada, or Australia, but intelligent and caring. All immigrants and foreigners have to abide by strict respect laws, so that they don't tarnish or badmouth the country.

Food: Similar to the US, but healthier alternatives. We're not all vegans by a long shot, but places like McDonalds and KFC are less popular and places like Chipotle and Boston Market are more popular. Our most popular foods are local, healthier variations of Mexican food, burgers, and pizza. Most people can cook at home though.

Sodas are also heavily taxed and cost 2.5 times as much here as they do in places like the US. Most very unhealthy foods are heavily taxed. You still have access to them, but they're just rather expensive, to disincentivize them.

Legal System: Fair and balanced. All police wear vest cams. The police here are respected as well, and unjust force (when proven as such) serves heavy fines and prison time. The police, unlike many countries, are here to protect and serve the citizens.

The legal system is also fair and balanced on all citizens and we strongly believe in "innocent until proven guilty." Social media mob justice and speculation is heavily discouraged here among the citizens.

Military: We have the third most funded military in the world, with $100 billion spent on our military training, most of which is in high tech defense. We have the fourth largest military in the world with 1.3 million active users for a country with 50 million residents. All men and women have to do mandatory 6 month military service sometime between 18 and 25. But it is basic training, and you receive $3,000 USD when it is all over. It is for national defense and protection. Not to offend anyone, but we could easily decimate Russia or India in a direct, one-on-one conflict. And possibly tie with China.

Infrastructure: A country dead-set on becoming fully green by 2032. We still rely on oil, and have plenty of it (think Saudi Arabia), but we are quickly losing dependence on oil and heavily investing in solar, wind, and hydro power. And possibly one nuke plant.

Economy: We have a strong semiconductor, technology, and IT industry here. Like Silicon Valley in the US or Taiwan, but much of the country is like this. We also have good industry for cars, computers, smartphones, and other such products.

Weather: Temperate weather common for a northern hemisphere country. Cold winters with about 23 to 32 F/-5 to -1 C winters and about 80 to 86 F / 26 to 30 summers. Very few hurricanes, earthquakes, or natural disasters.

Religious Freedom: Open to all, but most of our citizens are agnostic or atheist. There are no religious conflicts here.

Job Opportunities: Plenty of job opportunities for everyone, but only for the educated, intelligent, hard-working, and grateful. As a result, many people from all around the world want to move to Ryaal for work. Our immigration process is thorough and takes 14 months, though.

[MCheetah]

The new GAG interface keeps f*cking up my images.

[NHI2017]

Healthcare: serbia
Government: russia
Emergency Services: USA
Education: USA
Tax laws: USA
Culture: USA
Food: italy/ mexico
Legal System: Afghanistan
Infrastructure: USA
Weather: Germany
Religious Freedom: USA
Job Opportunities: USA

[USLegionary]

I would like to build Wakanda but like a white wakanda where I could be White Panther lol.

Healthcare: I would like a basic national health insurance for all with no private health insurance companies acting as middle men. I would have non-essential stuff that isn't needed such birth control, headache tablets, viagra, penis pumps, antihestinimeans anti depressants, condoms stuff like that which people can buy over the counter at a pharmacist much cheaper than the government can buy and prescribe thus saving the government money and reducing the price of health insurance.

Government: I think the government we have based on the old roman Republic works though with every President we seem to be getting closer and closer to an emperor with these executive orders.

Emergency Services: Should be state funded and state run. It may be an idea to fuse the ambulance service with fire depts as fire depts seem to be doing this already. Police I would maybe reduce in number but train better for longer. Cops seem to be too quick to shot and often don't know the law.

Education: I would try to return to the basic fundamentals of Math, English, science and build on that. I wouldn't allow student loans for people that are just not academic enough to actually attend college. I would give free college education to anyone at a high level of inteligence. I would make physical fitness and good eating something that is taught from elementary school all the way through college. We got to stop raising fat kids.

Tax laws: I'd reduce tax on the working and middle classes to encourage economic growth.

Culture: I would promote core American culture.

Food: I would seek to cut down on Americans over eating fast foods and drinking soda pop which leads to obesity.

Legal System: I would lower the age of consent for sex and marriage to 16. I would legalise or at least decriminalise a lot of minor crimes such as drug use and prostitution

Infrastructure: American infrastructure needs rebuilt as well as brought up to 2050 standards.

Weather: American weather is varied

Religious Freedom: Christians should be able to worship openly and freely.

Job Opportunities: to ensure job opportunities I would cut down on ilegal immigration which drives wages down.

[Agape93]

Healthcare: Norway
Government: Switzerland
Emergency Services: Switzerland
Education: Sweden
Tax laws: Germany or Sweden
Culture: Norway
Food: German
Legal System: German
Infrastructure: German
Weather: Sweden
Religious Freedom: Sweden
Job Opportunities: Switzerland