The Grand Five

The Five Best Countries on Earth

I, for the most part, do not play favorites with any of these five countries, but these five are my favorite of any country on Earth. The five of them are, in no particular order: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The rest of the world's countries have a lot to learn before I can stop playing favorites with these five.

Why these five countries?

There are plenty of reasons I declare these countries to be my favorites in the world. Let me break them down into subcategories:

Domestic Governance

1. All five of these countries treat their people so well as to deserve a "best of the best" label as of Freedom in the World, meaning they all score the lowest numeric score on the scale from 1 to 7
2. All five of these countries are so respectful to media-makers they disagree with that they have earned Freedom of the Press report scores of 21 or lower (and one needs 30 or lower to count as Free media)
3. Australia and New Zealand treat businesses with so much respect as to get an Index of Economic Freedom score of "Free". The other three have behaved as to deserve scores of "Mostly free".
4. All five of these countries have free enough economies to be well within the top 35 richest countries on Earth
5. Even though every country on Earth leans a certain amount towards either misogyny or misandry (sexism against men), and even though these five countries have certain anti-male elements to them, all five are still among the closest countries on Earth to true gender equality
6. In the Failed States Index from Foreign Policy Magazine, United States and United Kingdom are among the most stable of all "Stable"-category countries, while the other three are within the "Sustainable" category (the latter being the better category to be in)
7. All five have gone throughout history without reverting to actual Third-World Tyranny.

Historic Support for Freedom

1. All five of these countries sided against the Nazis, Mussolini, and Tojo during the Second World War, and destroyed all three regimes
2. All five of these countries sided against the vile tyrannies of Marxism during the Cold War, from the Berlin Blockade to the Chinese Civil War to the Korean War and therefore these five are the reason South Korea, Taiwan, and the Eastern European countries are warmly welcoming Free Countries.
3. All five of these countries, with the help of 46 allies via International Security Assistance Force, have done such heroics in Afghanistan as annihilating the Taliban regime, destroying Al-Qaeda camps, killing Osama Bin Laden, and restoring the daily lives of 5,700,000 refugees who, thanks primarily to these five, are no longer refugees
4. Four of these five countries participated in the overthrow of the vile, horrid, heartless, savage, barbaric Saddam regime of Iraq. Canada supported the overthrow without participating.

Current Support for Freedom

1. Currently, in the War on Islamic Theocracy, three of these five countries are participating through N.A.T.O. while Australia and New Zealand are participating independently.
2. With regards to Israel, the only Free Country in the Middle East, all five are staunchly pro-Israel:
1. UK-Israel relations
2. US-Israel
3. Canada-Israel
4. Australia-Israel
5. New Zealand-Israel
6. Best of all, all five ignore the morally sick voices of the anti-Israel majorities and only listen to the pro-Israel peoples; but unfortunately UK, Canada and Australia have had temporary negative tensions with Israel...
3. With regards to the Orient, all Five are staunchly supportive of Japan and South Korea against North Korea!
4. Concerning the abhorred atrocity Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, all five of these countries are well aware of the unnecessary, unnatural mistake he has proven himself to be, unlike several other countries that refuse to recognize his barbarity.

The short summary

Having backed my claim with nothing but facts (if you find Wikipedia unreliable, just go to the citation notes and read the external-linked articles they reference), I can appropriately assert that these five countries; United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; are the only five "legit countries" on Planet Earth!

~KP