Here’s a site that’s jam-packed with infor­ma­tion: Nation Master. It has graphs and stats galore relat­ing to dif­fer­ent nations (most rep­re­sented on a per capita basis).

Some info gleaned…

• Most rapes? That honor goes to South Africa.
• Most mur­der­ous sov­er­eign hell­hole? Columbia.
• Most mis­er­ably poor? Liberia.
• Most cor­rupt? Iceland.
• Most shat­tered mar­riages? America!
• Best place to get your ass kicked? South Africa!
• Most fucked by debt? Zimbabwe.
• Most lazy god­damn couch pota­toes? The United Kingdom.
• Biggest col­lec­tion of tanks? Russia.
• Most ston­ers? New Zealand.
• Happiest? Where else but Hugo Chavez’s glis­ten­ing utopia?
• Most inces­santly talk­a­tive and irri­tat­ing cell phone users? Taiwan.
• Most youth sui­cides? New Zealand.
• Most eco­nom­i­cally lib­er­ated? Hong Kong! (Is that truly a “country”?)
• Most mur­ders by gun­shot? Sweet, sweet South Africa once again.

The site also has an inter­est­ing fea­ture called “the Full Wiki,” which iden­ti­fies trends on Wikipedia. Right now, some movers and shak­ers in the Wiki uni­verse include:

• Tank bat­tles;
• Lesbian actors;
• American ser­ial killers; and
• Medicinal plants.

I then learned that…

• Norway is the most caf­feinated lit­tle nook around;
• Russia is the most pro­lific killer of babies;
• Austria wel­comes your dirty, stinky cig­a­rettes with open arms;
• If you like cir­cum­cised women, then you’ll find par­adise in Nigeria;
• Japan is teem­ing with polit­i­cal extrem­ists;
• Bulgarians are pretty damn depressed;
• Australia has more jocks than any other place on Earth;
• A queer coun­try, Japan is;
• The Irish are pretty god­damn proud of being Irish;
• There are cops every­where in Denmark;
• The U.S. is the world-wide leader in Jehovah’s Witnesses;
• In the United Kingdom, prop­erty taxes are com­pletely unten­able;
• India has news­pa­pers spilling from every ori­fice; and
• France churns out Nobel Prize-winning writ­ers in prodi­gious fash­ion.

Fun stuff.

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