which is the greatest country on earth?

Answer 1

The UK......... because we invented Toilets, Television, The Internet (bloke who invented was an Englishman named Tim), Weather Forecasting, Railways, The Steam Engine, ships made from metal, The English Language, The postage Stamp + mail delivery system, The Police force, Finger printing, Golf, The Lawnmower, Penicillin, RADAR, Toilet Paper, The Umbrella, The production of Steel, The fax machine, the tin can, lightbulbs, corkscrews, The periodic table of elements, The Austin Mini, Cadbury's chocolate, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum / Amstrad + ACORN home computers, the LAND ROVER + RANGE ROVER off-road vehicles, The SPITFIRE + HURRICANE WW2 fighter planes, the BAE Lightning jet interceptor, the AVRO Vulcan jet bomber, and once had a space rocket program................

and is also the motor racing capital of the world, as practically all the major teams + component manufacturers are based here, or at least have some form of research centre.
Oh, and we used to own a rather large part of the world at one time.
Then we also have / created:
- The Italian Job (cult movie, original 1960's version)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064505/

- Monty Python's Flying Circus (one of the world's most legendary comedy TV series + movies).

- The Beatles
http://www.thebeatles.com/

- The RAF Red Arrows aerobatics display team (regarded as the world's BEST military aerobatics team) http://www.raf.mod.uk/reds/

- The SAS (one of the world's most elite special forces units)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Air_Service

- The London Taxi

- The London Bus

- The Red Telephone Box

- The Austin Mini + The Land Rover vehicles I mentioned earlier
http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?ado15storyf.htm
http://www.series123.com/

- James Bond, 007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond

Next up I guess would be the USA (space exploration, the atom bomb, stealth aircraft, etc).

Then in terms of size, a battle between Russia (who also put the first man in Space) + China.

Answer 2

I looked up a survey of which people are happiest, Iceland came first! So Iceland. UK came 10th and US 13th. Switzerland came first for life satisfaction, they are neutral, keep themselves to themselves.There are loads of different things on my link including crime and employment have a look. I wouldn't wanna move out of Europe though. I don;t agree with the death penalty, the us is quite a violent country with a big murder rate. I think it is a cool country, what with the music, the scenery, the movies, loads of good points but it's just the murder rate that scares me. Saying that Australia and New Zealand seam a good option, better weather than the UK too, but they are in the commonwealth so their government and laws are kind of the same. Oh and Canada too, I never hear a bad word about them!

Answer 3

No problem. Financially, culturally, militarily, it's the USA. By the way, I'm not an American. Britain held that position roughly up to the end of the 19th century, and then we became kind of arrogant (in a nice British way) got kind of stale, took it all for granted, and lost it. But for our size, that was a fantastic, and unrivalled, achievement! Inevitably, I think America will go the same way. Next up, its going to be China. They have already taken over all our chip shops! I'm only joking, for Gawds sake!

Answer 4

Canada

Answer 5

Andorra

Its essentially a large town and some fields sandwiched between spain and france, but has retained its full indepenance while still using the euro as currency despite not being an EU member. Cunning little devils...

Answer 6

Iceland

Answer 7

According to the Australians, it's Australia. Now there's a surprise!

Answer 8

The first definition of "greatest" is "largest". Therefore, the unequivocal answer is Russia.

Answer 9

Australia followed closely by Malaysia

Answer 10

The one with the best people in it