Cultural relativism aside, I’m sure we can agree on “terrible” if we talk it out. I’m not asking for a “well X country is worse than Y country, so, Y country isn’t THAT bad”. I’d say for this discussion we can go as far back as 1800 for “past” as I’m currently convinced there isn’t a country with a perfect track record going back even that short a time.
Obviously they have all done something that someone think is terrible. Since evil is within people, not within borders.
North Korea hasn’t done anything terrible. If you disagree, you just need to spend some time in a re-education camp.
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half
Glory to Arstotzka!
Thats fair lol
Thanks you, comrade.
Estonia is pretty decent. They’ve been on the receiving end of terrible shit and haven’t been keen on repeating that in the other direction.
Maybe the Principality of Sealand.
In the grand scheme of things its not that bad but technically Sealand started out as a pirate radio station
So they started as heroes and they’re still cool.
You’re equating pirate radio with “terrible things”?
It depends on what kind of music I suppose. Like if it was polka they’re cool. But if it was orchestral…
Orchestral would be cool too. But if it was Morgan Whalen and that dudebro pop country shit…
Pretty sweet answer
Iceland or Costa Rica, maybe?
I’ve never heard anything bad about Iceland’s government
Only govt in the world that jailed bankers, after the 2008 financial collapse. Source.
awesome
Pretty sick
Pretty good answers, thanks!
Tiny island nations that were largely the victim of colonization by others. Trinidad and Tobago. Samoa.
I was going to say pacific islanders, bit yeah they ate each other
Ask a Tongan why their grandparents don’t like Samoans.
OP said 1800-present. If you’re talking about the 1899 split, then that’s the colonial powers. What am I missing?
Antarctica
Too cold to do anything wrong.
Not a country, and does not have a sovereign government.
Woosh
I’m convinced some weird science experiments are going on up there.
Up?
Depends on which way you’re laying on the bed
Correct
Uncontacted tribes probably haven’t done much.
What happens in the tribe stays in the tribe
How do we know? We haven’t contacted them.
They likely have warred with other tribes.
Maybe, maybe not. Would have to contact to find out 😉
Bhutan
The Nepalese would like to disagree.
Idk I’m seeing a lot of reports of torture, speech issues and state sanctioned racist action.
Luxembourg seems to have relatively clean hands historically I think. They were occupied by Germany though in WWII
Idk, they do shady banking shit for tax dodging billionaires and corpos
I did read that as soon as I posted it
Yeah seems pretty clean, nice answer!
No…
Heck, I think there aren’t many people who meet that criteria. You’d need some sort of vegan, who doesn’t use any tech made possible with child miners who obviously doesn’t wear sweatshop clothes and probably doesn’t live on stolen land etc…
Ireland is pretty chill for the most part. Definitely not perfect though.
Yeah, definitely not perfect and have some pretty rough recent historical stuff regarding women. Not that bad though!
Yeah, the catholic church shares blame for that but the state was absolutely complicit
I’d argue that the fledgling state didn’t have much of a choice but to effectively outsource all civil services to the catholic church, considering that they couldn’t afford running it themselves.
Their only fault on their part is how it was allowed to stay that way.
But why would the state need to forcibly send unwed mothers to give birth at these sites and then in some cases involuntarily adopt out the children? None of that was necessary even if they couldn’t afford a state run system.
Country: no
Government (depending on your definition): probably
