Where do You See Your Country in Fifty Years?

[him over there]

Well us up in Canada got all the drinkable water so unless you guys stop messing up the environment you're gonna be pretty unhappy. You're gonna attack us for it? we'll hold the water hostage, using our monopoly and bargaining chip to attain goods and services. Then we'll use our jet fighter robots and solar powered psychokinesis to ruin all your stuff (cookie for the reference).

 

[Queen Michael]

We Swedes will be good and obedient servants of emperor Zarblax, unlike our neighbours the Norwegians, who will be almost completely death-rayed.

 

[Vault101]

...Pretty much that. Sadly. I can't see our current highway leading anywhere else.

I dunno, I think I'd enjoy that future. Assuming I survived, of course, because a wasteland situation would be fun as hell.

Id be willing to bet you'd get sick of it after a while...to put it mildly

anyway 50 years...considering the leaps and bound we have made over the last 50 years I dont many could made such a prediction..on other words I got no friggen Idea

as for Australia...NOT mad max Im pretty sure

 

[Vault101]

We Swedes will be good and obedient servants of emperor Zarblax, unlike our neighbours the Norwegians, who will be almost completely death-rayed.

NOOOO not the Norweigians!!! theyre awsome....

 

[Vanbael]

I'm expecting a terrible class war between the rich and the poor. The poor have numbers but the rich can higher security, it might get to the point where there will be a bloody encounter and the world would push for it to stop. In the end, poor gets kickbacks and benefits such as education and optional health care, rich have to pay heavier taxes to blur the class line because of massive government reform. Oh, I forgot to mention, I live in the US.

 

[Vault101]

...Pretty much that. Sadly. I can't see our current highway leading anywhere else.

I dunno, I think I'd enjoy that future. Assuming I survived, of course, because a wasteland situation would be fun as hell.

uhh, no. Most of us wouldn't last a week. Assuming we survived the radiation we'd get popped the second we poked our heads out of our fallout shelters, as the street gangs who survive the war are going to more or less instantly become roaming raider gangs with far more shooting experience than us.

Except I'm already a decent shot, and would only get better up until the day I got into my shelter. I give myself two weeks, but honestly, I'd rather take some with me than die old and afraid in a shelter.

Why are you guys turning this into an "apocalypse survival" thread?

because people are obssed with "the end" and "the apocalypse" its a logical direction to go on a thread like this

I cant help but facepalm at people who think it would be "totally awsome"....sure even if they did have the nesicary survival skills...and perhaps have experienced such a situation who the fuck would want that kind of scenario?

it wouldn't be like a god damn videogame..thats for fucking sure, and I said, I would seriously doubt anyone who says somthing like that has actually DONE anythign relating to surviving such a situation

not to say I dont think many people could survive..you never know what people are capable of.. but "its gonna be one baddass awsome adventure!" is just stupid...REALLY stupid

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[lunam-kardas]

I have no idea but I'm hoping there's some sexy augmentation I can buy.

But on topic I have to say that it's rather impossible to predict something like this. I mean, before the economy went and slipped on a banana, a large number of coastal cities in Mexico were being refitted and given makeovers with large lavish hotels. They were pretty much on their way to being a nice alternative beach vacation to Hawaii.

So basically...shit happens and I'd rather just experience the change as it occurs. (I can't really think of a better way to word it right now but I hope it somehow makes sense...but if not, there are always smarter people to post that kind of stuff ^^)

 

[Thaluikhain]

I cant help but facepalm at people who think it would be "totally awsome"....sure even if they did have the nesicary survival skills...and perhaps have experienced such a situation who the fuck would want that kind of scenario?

it wouldn't be like a god damn videogame..thats for fucking sure, and I said, I would seriously doubt anyone who says somthing like that has actually DONE anythign relating to surviving such a situation

not to say I dont think many people could survive..you never know what people are capable of.. but "its gonna be one baddass awsome adventure!" is just stupid...REALLY stupid

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Seconded. There are fucked up countries you could go live in now if you are into that sort of thing.

Secondly, it's based on the assumption that anyone less full of survivalist bullshit is someone the world would be better off without. Nevermind living after the apocalypse, shit-loads of people have to die for it to happen. In most other contexts this is seen as a pretty bad thing.

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Fifty years? Not an easy call to make. I'd say that things for my country is much the same as they are now, only with much better technology, bigger population and massives steps forward in civil rights. So, not much the same, I guess, apart from being much the same, if you see what I mean.

 

[Naleh]

Just southeast of Australia, like it is now. Why?

 

[Paraman]

(New Zealand)

Filled more with tourists than people who live here. People seem to love our current government, and I'm no politician so I'm not gonna go throwing out criticism because I have no idea how hard it is, but our Prime Minister seems to be pushing a lot for tourism because it's a massive source of income for us. And we aren't a particularly bad country (even though we have high teen pregnancy rates, binge drinking, smoking, unemployment, all that jazz. But that's just New Zealand, it's part of our charm I guess you could say), it's just that Australia is close and just better than us. Everyone is moving over there to find better jobs, get a better education, all of that. So the combination of those two things, more tourists than residents at any given time (maybe a bit of a hyperbole, but whatever). I'm probably wrong though, I'm hardly qualified to make these sorts of predictions...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Canada. Kill them with kindness! >

[sub][sub][sub]I have no idea![/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[lunavixen]

I see our country very deep in debt from the Carbon tax, which is 15 times higher than Chinas. I can honestly see the country declining on a steep slope

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Hopefully something like the 1950's. But probably like 1860. But who knows, we could have a glorious future or a grief filled future. Either way, I'll still be saying the opening for "A Tale of Two Cities." (United States of America)

 

[ChaplainOrion]

Within fifty years I shall have ascended into godhood after claiming the ancient
Spear of Telesto, left here by the Old Ones, hidden under the Dome of Rock in Jerusalem, which I would have used as the key to unlock the sacred library in Shanghai-La. Within the library I would have found the Helm of Athena, allowing unlimited knowledge, and the Eye of Ra. Then I would venture forth into the Saharra to the Ancient city of Atlantis and use the Eye of Ra to bring it forth from its sandy grave. Inside I would find the means to my ascent into godhood, and all shall fall beneath the might of Orion, Emperor of the World!

 

[emeraldrafael]

Doing moderately well as china takes our title of global superpower (at least economically) and then crashes and burns after twenty years of over gorging and not knowing what the fuck to do with themselves.

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and laughing of course, but only behind our hands and in a display that more resembles coughing, because we will be wiser and the bigger man in that case.

 

[shrimpcel]

Oh I don't think much will have changed up here in Canada. I doubt my province of Quebec will have separated from the rest of the country. We'll probably revert to the more liberal policies that we had back in the 90s and before. So good times.

 

[Chalacachaca]

Depends, if Chavez "wins" again, we'll have to put up with his shit until 2021 or later, and after he resigns, we get his daughter (kinda like what goes on North Korea).

If he loses in november though, I say we got a good future ahead, it'll be very hard to reach stability, but we'll reach it alright.

I doubt you all get free fish he dies though. Only the great Kim Jong-il provides like that.

I'm pretty sure we'll receive rotten free fish though.

 

[Nouw]

The only thing I'm absolutely sure of is that New Zealand will have more sheep and cows.

 

[coolkirb]

50 years is a long time, I mean in 50 years Canada built the welfare state it has now and began neoliberalism and cutbacks kind of two different directions. If I had to guess we (Canada) will have weathered this economic crises better than the US and most of Europe and maintained its middle power position, have established greather ties with SOuth America and the Pacific rim countries as we distance ourselves from the US and have moved to more partisian politics or possibly gone back to the idea of the "big liberal tent" where their is one party and everyone had a place in it. It is hard to tell and a war or natural disaster could change it all, and with globalization one countries actions could change the future of yours so their are too many variables.