Dear England, Please take US back!

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Aielyn said:
I think I have an idea that should be of benefit to everyone.

Let the US come under Australian rule. We have preferential voting (resulting in a political system that is better than a two-party system, although it's not quite multi-party - suffice it to say, neither of the two major parties holds the balance of power in either house of government right now), a dollar comparable to the US dollar, better grasp of English than America does, and better representation (and higher taxes, but also better results from those taxes). we're one of the countries that most in the world actually like, and we're one of the few developed countries to survive the GFC unscathed.

And while we do happen to share the same queen as England, she is actually the Queen of Australia, a separate title from Queen of England (and it's likely that Australia will become a republic once Charles takes the throne). Oh, and despite having no official separation of church and state, we have much better actual separation than America does (while England actually has an official state church - called the Church of England).

If you fear that you'll lose things like your national pastimes, never fear - we already have two major football codes in Australia, a third one won't phase us, and while we prefer cricket, we would view the refusal of baseball to be just not cricket. :P

We do ask that you stop calling prawns "shrimp" and to stop thinking that we barbecue our prawns routinely (damn you, Paul Hogan).

If you feel that Australia is too far from the US, then I'd recommend Canada as a fallback country to become subject to.

Canada has marijuana, Australia has big ugly fucking bugs.

Canada it is then.