Everyone enjoys casual nationalism. Everyone has an argument as to why their country is better than all others, so let's air them out, and get rivalry flowing.
Simply state your country and provide reasons why it is better than other countries. They can be serious reasons, or humorous reasons. If they fulfill both at once, all the better.
I'm predicting a degree of repetition, especially from you Americans. In this case, you may still provide original reasons why your country is the best, and/or you can suggest why your state or region is better than the rest of your country, or the rest of the world. As most American states are larger than my entire country, this should still work.
I'll kick it off, obviously.
New Zealand is better than all your countries for the following reasons:
- We were the first country to extend the right to vote to women, way back in 1893.
- A New Zealander - Ernest Rutherford - was the first person to split the atom, in 1917, thus giving birth to nuclear energy and weapons, eventually.
- A New Zealander - Richard Pearse - is reported to have made a somewhat successful flight of a controlled aircraft in 1903; a year before the Wright brothers.
- By combining the last two, it is due to Kiwi ingenuity that WWII was finished: a plane dropped atomic bombs on Japan - two inventions discovered by New Zealanders.
- We were bombed by the French in 1985, by operatives of the French intelligence service. The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior - which had protested French nuclear testing on Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific (how ironic) - was sunk under the cover of darkness, using explosives. This was covered up by the French, and, despite the capture of two of the operatives (later released due to French demands), it has only reluctantly been accepted. Who else can claim this (African nations aside)?
- New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary (with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay) first reached the summit of Mt Everest.
- A significant amount of New Zealand's electricity is generated through hydropower (70% of electricity, 11% of total energy).
- New Zealand's broadcasters enjoy one of the world's most liberal media arenas. Not only this, several studies have confirmed our media as among the least biased in the world.
- The CPI score indicates the perceived level of public-sector corruption in a country/territory. New Zealand tops the tables: CPI 2009 Table/2009/cpi/surveys_indices/policy_research. The United States is 19th, the UK 17th.
- We drive on the correct side of the road.
- We are not Australian, which means you don't laugh when we talk, we make very good wine, we don't feel like we have to suck America's **** (in the 1980s we risked a major security alliance by denying entry of American ships into our nuclear-free waters due to their reluctance to state which ships were nuclear armed/powered), we get rain, we have ski fields, and we don't have silly place names (WTF is a Wollongong?).
That's enough for now. What are your reasons?
Okay, maybe that would mean something more to me if I actually smoked the stuff... but I don't. It made other people happy though! 
Originally Posted by Tiffany
Clearly you have not seen our Molson Canadian beer commercials. 
Although that sign should be pointing at me! 
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