Poll: Capital City of Earth
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No city is truly international, as it will undoubtedly be primarily influenced by its surrounding country. Shanghai's gonna have too many Chinese people. Paris has a ton of Frenchies, and London's filled with Brits. With the millions of different cultures in the world, no one city can truly be representative of the entire world, unless specifically built for that purpose.Archangel357 said:
That's why I figured the most logical method of choosing an Earth capital would simply be based around population. It'd be how aliens (of the non terrestrial nature) would figure out which city to go to. "This city has the most humans in it. It must be the human capital."
probably somewhere neutral like spain, i imagine Madrid or Barcelona would end up being the capital, as its on the GMT, plus its neutrality would mean that no major former power would have too much ownership.
How about we use that sexy new moon base we probably ought to have build by then? Then we could elect a few deranged super villains to rule over us from orbit.
God i'd love to have a government job by then.
Or Brussels, Brussels would be nice too, fancy restaurants at a relatively low price, good infrastructure, safe, Jean-Claude Vandamme...
Perhaps only a bit low on funding (thanks a lot over-complicated Belgian government system)
God i'd love to have a government job by then.
Or Brussels, Brussels would be nice too, fancy restaurants at a relatively low price, good infrastructure, safe, Jean-Claude Vandamme...
Perhaps only a bit low on funding (thanks a lot over-complicated Belgian government system)
Build a new international city over the ruins of Babylon anyone? That way we get the Cradle of Civilization cred while still freaking out every extreme Christian who've read Revelations.
Babylon, symbolic of human unity from the Fertile Crescent. That's the capital of Earth in my sc-fi novel in progress. Babylon is rebuilt with the best of human technology from 2109-2115. It is a mega city, and is attacked ferociously and defended fanatically by tens of millions of troops on each side during the Xeno-Terrestrial War of AD 2195-2321.
Anyway... Babylon.
Anyway... Babylon.
dont you guys see, we have to put it on even ground! somewhere where everyone will have equal access.
Antarctica
Antarctica
Bern. The capital of Switzerland.
Why? Switzerland is one of the most neutral (if not the most) country, in the world and Switzerland is the basis/center of the world Bank. Plus the country itself is something of perfect geographically situated.
So Bern would be my choice, so I chose Other.
Why? Switzerland is one of the most neutral (if not the most) country, in the world and Switzerland is the basis/center of the world Bank. Plus the country itself is something of perfect geographically situated.
So Bern would be my choice, so I chose Other.
Do you really want to scare the Christians after seeing how they (we) launched four bloody Crusades for a stretch of land that was eventaully settled and split by four religions that hate each other to promote peace and unity of the world?Blind Sight said:
Even though I think New York and Paris and London are the nicest, I feel the capital city of earth should be more representative of earth - therefore Beijing - its over populated, polluted, and does have an unfortunate poverty problem in some parts. I'm not generally very negative but I'd say that's the most representative city of earth. However, to choose one if we were showing off the best parts of earth but were being untruthful about what it's like, then Paris - it's pretty an amazingly cultural. It's just, if aliens visited and asked to be showed what our earth was like I feel like showing them Paris would be a lie and showing them Beijing would be truthful.
Actually, technically it was ten crusades haha, and yes, I'm all for making Babylon the center of world government in order to promote peace and unity in the world, exactly for the fact that it is in the area where several major religions were founded. It's the Cradle of Civilization, the founder of the majority of early West Asian, European, and African culture. An international city there would probably do well to help the idea of religious tolerance, rather then just cutting up the Middle East so that certain groups get certain places.emeraldrafael said:
