You can choose which part you want, however where exactly is random based on the birth rate (if a region has a higher birth rate it is more likely that you are born there). What part would you choose and why?

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    B.
    And assuming I remember what it was like before I will then better make my ass move back to Germany.

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      It’s either good or bad. You can choose the rough area, but that area covers good and bad places. Like that American rectangle: are you in a Canadian village in the middle of nowhere, central USA or the Mexico City slums?

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      And the US not? Dit you see the news this year? I chose A, Europe (as it’s still in A)

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        That’s cute…no…the us is nowhere near “golly I sure would t want to be born there.” Anyone who would even think that who is an American probably spends way too much time online and has never left the US

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          You should travel more if you think the US is some universal paradise. It has good areas and bad areas like any country

          I’ve been to communities in West Virginia that have no running water. Or large swaths of Mississippi that have little to jo infrastructure, and even fewer economic opportunities

          The US is a big place with incredible disparity

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            Ok but here’s the thing…in the US you are free to buy a Greyhound bus ticket and go to any major metropolis if you choose and seek gainful employment

            If you stay away from drugs, don’t have kids out of wedlock, and don’t make stupid choices …you WILL not fail in America. Even if you do fail you can live quite comfortably with a mediocre job.

            Meanwhile…in Honduras…

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              Pre-2025, I’d partially agree with you.

              Right now? Probably not. The country is undergoing autocratization, I would not consider the current regime a democracy, its a hybrid regime at best.

              Maybe in 4 years, the institution will uphold and the rule of law will recover, but if you asked me today to choose a country to reincarnate to, the USA would not be anywhere near #1.

              Of couse its still better than North Korea or Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan, but I wouldn’t willing choose the US if I had the rest of the world to choose from. (EU looks like a decent option right now)

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          I’ve seen a lot of the world. Like, a lot. The US is definitely on my “I don’t want to be born there” list. And im happy I wasn’t. But I would understand most Americans think differently, seeing how self centered they are. But it’s a failed state. Insane poverty, wealth inequality, corruption, incarceration numbers, broken judiciary system, crime rates, etc. It’s run by a criminal pedophile and everyone knew that when they voted for him. After he ruined a previous term already. Like, Idiocracy at its best. People who actually believe the US is a good country are either ignorant, super rich or blind AF. But yes, there are countries that are worse.

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    You’re all cowards I’m rolling the dice on C and I’ll be chilling in Tokyo with my waifu body pillow while yall get eaten by snakes in K.

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      I was born in C, not recommended.

      (People’s Republic of China)

      Restrictive firewall, no porn, hard to get western media, so you’d be stuck with ww2 sino-japanese war tv drama or some cringe romance stuff.

      With a population of 1.4 Billion (well, minus the area covered by “E”), you’d most likely end up there.

      Did I even mention video games? Yea… that’s gonna be tough to get, definitely no online multiplayers (even if you somehow got a VPN, the ping is gonna kill you).

      And your VPN could fail at any time even if you do get it.

      Also, OP didn’t specify you get to choose your gender, so if you’re born as a woman in Japan… good luck. (Don’t ask why camera shutter sounds are mandatory on Japanese Phones)

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      How the heck did you catch that!?

      It completely went over my head until I read your comment, I scrolled back up and boom - there it was .:|:;

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      Odds are you won’t win the bottom part. Figure where the population predicts your likely birth town and roll those dice!

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    K is the only area you’re guaranteed to be born into a first world country, therefore giving you better passport privilege to move where you want to go if you don’t like it.

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      Yeah but you might be born as an aboriginal tribe member, which the Australian government isn’t exactly the nicest towards.

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        Right now you get financially looked after by the government haha. It’s your family you’d be wanting to move away from if you’re born in a remote community

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          The old division was nato/capitalist block was first world, soviet/communist block was second world and everything else was third world.

          The soviet union may be gone, but a lot of the countries that used to be a part of it are still at the same relative standard of living between the developed west and the underdeveloped global south, so could be considered “second world”. The biggest example is, of course, russia; yeah, not the best standard of living but a lot better than what a lot of the world is getting.

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            I know that’s now generally accepted, but when I was young it was Old World (Yurp, Russia etc) and New World (US, Canada, Australia etc). But the poorer former colonies, the developing nations, didn’t fit either, so they were called the Third World.