Failed State Index 2009

[Berkut]

All I know is that they are pissed that they are being lumped in with a disaster of a country like the US.

[jimmy olsen]

Japan is moderate only?

Are they taking the demographic problems into account?

[Neil]

Japan is moderate only?

Are they taking the demographic problems into account?

Yes.

[derspiess]

And the Fund for Peace aren't foreign either:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/22/2009_failed_states_index_faq_methodology

There is nothing more foreign than an organization like that   Sounds like a poorly disguised Cold War era eastern bloc propaganda organization.

[saskganesh]

we could also question "sustainable": Oman for example  has dwindling oil reserves, and oil is its main engine. doesn't sound too sustainable to me.

Depends on how far out you're looking.

Doesn't the same thing apply to the Scandi countries? I seem to recall that their welfare states are pretty dependent on oil income as well.

Norway certainly is.

yeah. but unlike , say Alberta, they invested most of their royalties. should be fine for a few centuries.

[saskganesh]

And the Fund for Peace aren't foreign either:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/22/2009_failed_states_index_faq_methodology

There is nothing more foreign than an organization like that   Sounds like a poorly disguised Cold War era eastern bloc propaganda organization.

just based on the sound of their name? heck, your name sounds like you should be in a docket at Nuremberg.

[DisturbedPervert]

Japan is moderate only?

Are they taking the demographic problems into account?

But they don't try to solve demographic problems by importing muslims, so Japan wins.

[Neil]

yeah. but unlike , say Alberta, they invested most of their royalties. should be fine for a few centuries.

I wonder what they invested them in?

At any rate, the Trust Fund should ensure that Ethnic Alberta remains superior to all other provinces forever.

[Valmy]

But they don't try to solve demographic problems by importing muslims, so Japan wins.

I just don't get it sometimes.  Japan, as a culture, seems obsessed with youth and cuteness...yet they don't have any kids...weird.

[Neil]

But they don't try to solve demographic problems by importing muslims, so Japan wins.

I just don't get it sometimes.  Japan, as a culture, seems obsessed with youth and cuteness...yet they don't have any kids...weird.

Are they really any different than we are?

[Zanza]

Doesn't the same thing apply to the Scandi countries? I seem to recall that their welfare states are pretty dependent on oil income as well.

Only Norway even has oil. But they don't use it to finance their day-to-day government business but rather invest the windfall from the oil worldwide. They own like 0.5% of a lot of blue chip companies out there.

[Berkut]

Doesn't the same thing apply to the Scandi countries? I seem to recall that their welfare states are pretty dependent on oil income as well.

Only Norway even has oil. But they don't use it to finance their day-to-day government business but rather invest the windfall from the oil worldwide. They own like 0.5% of a lot of blue chip companies out there.

That seems hard to believe. It is so sane and responsible. Are you sure this is a real life thing, and not just a story?

[Valmy]

Are they really any different than we are?

Yes, all the greatest heroes of our fiction aren't 16 and look 12.

[Sheilbh]

Japan is moderate only?

Are they taking the demographic problems into account?

Why would they?  I believe their measure is the likelihood of internal conflict.  A very young population is more troublesome than a very old one.

[derspiess]

just based on the sound of their name? heck, your name sounds like you should be in a docket at Nuremberg.

Nah, they didn't try any NCOs there