Which Governments Reflect The Will Of The People?

[NeOmega]

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64748

world happiness map

[Shi Huangdi]

I doubt it is too likely that they come from the US/Canada/Europe. In the US there is skepticism that the government is hostage to the special interests, in the rest of the west I think there may also be belief that the government serves the powerful and wealthy.

I will guess Israel, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand

[NeOmega]

oops, sorry, marijuana is "legal" in Italy, Spain, Portugal and The Netherlands. I guess all drugs are not legal in POrtugal.

EDIT: I am currently looking up a news story in Portugal relaying this, all though I see it in many writings, I am not sure if their "fact" is legit.... allthough it is something I have heard and assumed to be true for a while.

EDIT2: OK, I have found plenty of credible writing. All drugs have been decriminalized in Portugal.

[Ramo]

I'm going with the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and New Zealand.

[orange]

Originally posted by NeOmega
EDIT2: OK, I have found plenty of credible writing. All drugs have been decriminalized in Portugal.

source?

[Ramo]

I thought the Portuguese only had an "experiment" in the decriminalization of certain hard drugs, as other places have recently done (for instance, a certain city in England IIRC).

[orange]

i'm not trying to doubt NeOmega...but that would be news to me...i was under the same impression as you Ramo

[Adam Smith]

Shi Huangdi got one of the four. Nobody else is close.

*bump*

[TheStinger]

Taiwan, South Korea, Switzerland and Sri Lanka

[Dauphin]

I remember reading a recent poll that said 51% of adults in Britain trust the Government to 'operate in the best interests of society’. I doubt this is the same as 'the will of the people' though.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi

I will guess Israel, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand

Read an Israeli paper, and you will see that most israelis think their politicians corrupt and incompetent. Taiwan's party system, as well as Japans, are also thought to be highly corrupt, and japan has been in an economic doldrum for 10 years.

Perhaps NZ, but the other ones? No.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hmmm... assuming Shi was right on New Zealand, the other three, I guess are:

India, Morocco, and Costa Rica (just to shake it up a little ).

[Dauphin]

I very much doubt India is one of the four.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Hey, he asked the question intended to make us say "WOW" when he tells us the answer. I went for a "WOW" country .

[loinburger]

I'd guess some sort of theocracy or semi-theocracy, like Iran, Thailand, and Morocco.