US - powerful, peaked after WW2, plateaued, now on its way down
Canada - 51st state
Mexico - US's mini factory after China
Cuba - US holds a vengeance that really screws them over
Venezuela - Bad country, bad bad bad bad bad
Colombia - sorta good country that US's drug addiction screws over
Argentina - Coulda shoulda been great, bad economic policies
Brazil - an up and comer, need to address inequality
France - Cool, awful labor laws
Germany - Cool
Italy - sorta cool, really crappy institutions
Russia - scary, making a LOT of money off of oil. Moscow is a booming city and no one knows it
South Africa - Meh, so 10 years ago
Zimbabwe - Mugabe is the worst of thugs
Israel - good intentions, stuck in a bad place, makes poor decisions perhaps due to the indivisibility of its goals. Wants to be a Jewish, Democratic, Israeli state. But it can only choose two. It can be Jewish and Democratic but not occupy all of Israel, it can be Democratic and Israeli but include Arabs, or it can be Jewish and Israeli but not Democratic.
Iraq - worse off than it was during Saddam, how many people were killed by the war? 1 million?
Iran - Awful state, can't wait until students topple it
Afghanistan - Poor guys. Become a giant opium farm.
Pakistan - Declining and becoming more radical. Watch out India!
India - Rising
China - New world hegemon in 30 years, will become more Democratic
Japan - reached its potential in the 80's, still baddass and awkward socially
Australia - highest per capita Olympic medals?
