Mr Khan on 11 March 2012
| scottie said: Wow, so much to say here. 1) Australia is a Monarchy. 2) France gave up its Monarchy long before the USA did. 3) The USA is far from the richest country per capita (i.e. the metric you used to compare Aus/Canada to the UK). There are 7 countries ahead of the USA including several monarchies - Qatar, Luxemburg, Norway, Brunei. That's right, 4 of the top 6 richest countries in the world are Monarchies. 4) The UK does not have 10 million higher pop than Aus+can, much closer to 5 million. |
"GDP per capita" is not equal to income. Luxembourg's total, for instance, is vastly inflated for being a banking center for surrounding countries (so someone from Germany can nose into Luxembourg, conduct a financial transaction worth X, and leave, adding X to Luxembourg's GDP despite that person not being Luxembourgish)
Also 1776 is before 1789, the date of the first French Revolution.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
