Cultural relativism aside, I’m sure we can agree on “terrible” if we talk it out. I’m not asking for a “well X country is worse than Y country, so, Y country isn’t THAT bad”. I’d say for this discussion we can go as far back as 1800 for “past” as I’m currently convinced there isn’t a country with a perfect track record going back even that short a time.
I mean generally some terrible stuff happens when a country comes into existence to begin with.
I agree there probably isn’t one, but so what? If a country did terrible things, but if you were the decider so would you, or if you were a product of that age and so would you, then how judgmental can we be.
For example there are a lot of evils around colonialism and it’s unacceptable today , but it seemed widely accepted a couple hundred years ago. Obviously there are degrees and some things can never be excused, but was basic colonialism really a terrible thing, say to an average Englishman 200 years ago? Terrible but realistic
At the risk of getting blasted here, I’ll do it: consider the us attack on Iran as an example. It’s clearly a terrible action. Maybe there are reasons they think justify it, but not available in public, but even if it were in any way justifiable it’s clearly a terrible action. Yet I can see there being reasons any country might decide it needs to do similar. I can see there being circumstances where the average lemming would make a similar choice. Terrible but realistic
North Korea hasn’t done anything terrible. If you disagree, you just need to spend some time in a re-education camp.
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half
Thats fair lol
Thanks you, comrade.
Glory to Arstotzka!
Maybe the Principality of Sealand.
In the grand scheme of things its not that bad but technically Sealand started out as a pirate radio station
So they started as heroes and they’re still cool.
You’re equating pirate radio with “terrible things”?
It depends on what kind of music I suppose. Like if it was polka they’re cool. But if it was orchestral…
Orchestral would be cool too. But if it was Morgan Whalen and that dudebro pop country shit…
Dudebto country! Whhhawooo!
Lol I’ve never heard the word dudebro used as an adjective, but it has now entered my vocabulary in heavy rotation.
Pretty sweet answer
Iceland or Costa Rica, maybe?
I’ve never heard anything bad about Iceland’s government
Only govt in the world that jailed bankers, after the 2008 financial collapse. Source.
awesome
Pretty sick
Pretty good answers, thanks!
Obviously they have all done something that someone think is terrible. Since evil is within people, not within borders.
Estonia is pretty decent. They’ve been on the receiving end of terrible shit and haven’t been keen on repeating that in the other direction.
Uncontacted tribes probably haven’t done much.
How do we know? We haven’t contacted them.
They likely have warred with other tribes.
What happens in the tribe stays in the tribe
Maybe, maybe not. Would have to contact to find out 😉
Tiny island nations that were largely the victim of colonization by others. Trinidad and Tobago. Samoa.
Ask a Tongan why their grandparents don’t like Samoans.
OP said 1800-present. If you’re talking about the 1899 split, then that’s the colonial powers. What am I missing?
I was going to say pacific islanders, bit yeah they ate each other
Antarctica
Too cold to do anything wrong.
Not a country, and does not have a sovereign government.
Woosh
I’m convinced some weird science experiments are going on up there.
Up?
Depends on which way you’re laying on the bed
Correct
Maybe San Marino? And they have been around a long time.
Luxembourg seems to have relatively clean hands historically I think. They were occupied by Germany though in WWII
Idk, they do shady banking shit for tax dodging billionaires and corpos
I did read that as soon as I posted it
Yeah seems pretty clean, nice answer!
No…
Heck, I think there aren’t many people who meet that criteria. You’d need some sort of vegan, who doesn’t use any tech made possible with child miners who obviously doesn’t wear sweatshop clothes and probably doesn’t live on stolen land etc…
