Norway's fifth. I'm kind of suprised that we're not higher actually, seeing as a sizable chunk of our oil funds are being spent on shares for arms manufacturing companies. I guess it's because we're teeny-tiny.

hypercube

Hungary2735 Posts

September 08 2010 20:25 GMT

#22

Hungary is #20. Wow, the world must be a terrible place.

Chill

Calgary25981 Posts

September 08 2010 20:34 GMT

#23

Looks pretty accurate. It's interesting too!

Flyingdutchman

Netherlands858 Posts

September 08 2010 20:36 GMT

#24

Ok, I checked a few of the indicators they used, and I have to say they are pretty biased and/or subjective.
For instance, the level of organized conflict (internal) they assign North korea the same score as Iraq and Afghanistan. And some other indicators are directly affected by economic factors so a lot of african countries get really nice scores, which in the end is rather meaningless since they don't have the means for extensive R&D in weapons for example.

And then they...ugh never mind. If I think about this site any longer I'll probably go out to slap a hippy in the face

skyglow1

New Zealand3962 Posts

September 08 2010 20:40 GMT

#25

New Zealand ranked number 1. Bout right

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

September 08 2010 20:41 GMT

#26

Brazil in 83
Argentina in 71

83 > 71

Brazil is winning. Noob argentinians :D

infecteddna

Slovenia243 Posts

September 08 2010 20:43 GMT

#27

Huh, surprised about Venezuela.

Treemonkeys

United States2082 Posts

September 08 2010 20:49 GMT

#28

I'm surprised the USA isn't much lower, it's military budget nearly equals the rest of the world combined.

rredtooth

5460 Posts

September 08 2010 20:50 GMT

#29

wow japan is REALLY high up there (#3).

On September 09 2010 05:43 infecteddna wrote:
Huh, surprised about Venezuela.

Hugo Chavez

DannyJ

United States5110 Posts

September 08 2010 20:52 GMT

#30

As a good American that i am I am proud that we aren't a peaceful nation. WE LIKE KICKING ASSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!¡!⁄⁄!!!!⁄!!!!

deconduo

Ireland4122 Posts

September 08 2010 20:54 GMT

#31

#6 Not bad. Probably dropped a bit because of the whole thing in northern ireland.

orgolove

Vatican City State1650 Posts

September 08 2010 20:58 GMT

#32

China more peaceful than US? rofl this is a joke

Dreamscythe

Finland273 Posts

September 08 2010 21:04 GMT

#33

Woot go Finland o/

9 place isnt bad for the best country of the world

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

September 08 2010 21:04 GMT

#34

On September 09 2010 05:14 MangoTango wrote:
YOU ES EH! YOU ES EH! We're number 85! We're number 85!

Russia surprises me with a very low score. Why, I wonder?

Because the people who made the index don't know very much. There's a lot of arbitrary values given, and I'm sure they're simply unaware of the dealings of the powerful countries.

It's why individual rankings like this are meaningless. You can't assign values for international relations like it's Madden/Fifa 2011. China/NK is a great example because everything NK does is predicated upon China's support for them. It's like discussing Pinochet while ignoring his relationship with the US or UK. Absolutely worthless analysis.

DannyJ

United States5110 Posts

September 08 2010 21:04 GMT

#35

On September 09 2010 05:58 orgolove wrote:
China more peaceful than US? rofl this is a joke

It's obviously a retarded list.

And obviously, it's easy to be peaceful when you have no foreign policy concerns beyond simple trade agreements, like the pip-squeak nations that are listed as most peaceful. America kinda picked up the tab for foreign policy for all of Europe and Japan for about 50 years.

Drium

United States888 Posts

September 08 2010 21:11 GMT

#36

Looking at the U.S. ranking it seems this is more based on a country's contribution to global peace rather than peace within the country itself.

Dreamscythe

Finland273 Posts

September 08 2010 21:15 GMT

#37

Iraq 149/149 maybe things will settle down now that war is officially over,cant say but hoping for the best.

Railz

United States1449 Posts

September 08 2010 21:16 GMT

#38

Random numbers equate to peace? They should take into account on how far a nation goes into stabilizing its own region. I don't think any other superpower at any time was so at ease with its own neighbors. UK, China, Rome, USSR. Bonus points imo

Bhaalgorn

Slovenia214 Posts

September 08 2010 21:17 GMT

#39

Slovenia is 11th, not surprising since we don't have much of a military.

enzym

Germany1034 Posts

September 08 2010 21:18 GMT

#40

looks about right. i expected germany's weapons deals to be of much greater proportion than that, even though the 3.0 beats the usa's 2.5 already, and everybody knows that the u.s. is the most war mongering nation on the planet (try to hide it, unlike russia, but clearly not very succesfully). well, maybe not, after seeing that sweden and germany export more weapons. its a shame. you hear about one weapons deal every 1-2 years, but it isnt reported on very well by the media and the outcry is far too little. the hypocrisy of pushing for peace talks while selling that amount of weapons is astonishing.