Beta

[023] Black Market per Capita (New)

Proposed Change: Posing as all manner of drug dealers, art thieves, and ne'er-do-wells, the World Census attempted to estimate the amount of money an average citizen earns from the black market every year.

[024] Waste Production (New)

Proposed Change: World Census surveyors trekked from public parks and landfills to oceans, estimating the concentration of waste in every cubic meter.

[025] Political Engagement (New)

Proposed Change: World Census surveyors infiltrated polling booths and community groups across the world to measure exactly how much the average citizen engages with the political process.

[026] Authoritarianism: Tiebreak by considering national policies

Proposed Change: Add factors in for most policy-based national bans, which will increase authoritarianism in an attempt to tiebreak at the top of the rankings. Also perform renormalisation to obfuscate the effect of these factors.

[027] Government Efficiency (New)

Proposed Change: Volunteers assessed which governments are most efficient at delivering large-scale services with a minimum of overhead expense.

[028] Incarceration Rate (New)

Proposed Change: Activists estimated what proportion of the population is subject to involuntary legal confinement.

[029] Market Diversification (New)

Proposed Change: The World Census Economic Union stalked top industrialists to determine the nations with the most sectoral diversity.

[dl47il] Most Beautiful Environments

Proposed Change: World Census researchers spent many arduous weeks lying on beaches and trekking through rainforests to compile a definitive list of the most attractive and best cared for environments.

[mmysxw] Most Superstitious Version 3 (New)

Proposed Change: World Census workers tracked sales of white candles to determine which nation follows the most superstitions.

[wimzwl] Most Superstitious Version 2 (New)

Proposed Change: World Census workers tracked sales of white candles to determine which nation follows the most superstitions.

[p7ac46] Respect for Elders (New)

Proposed Change: World Census workers impersonated grandparents asking for money to see which nation treated their elders the best.

[yji4ay] Most Discriminatory (New)

Proposed Change: The World Census sent diverse employees to nations to determine which population espoused the most bigotry.

[n43y5l] Household Size (New)

Proposed Change: World Census agents installed cameras outside a sample of private domiciles and averaged how many individuals spent the night.

[6dqx5y] Most Overworked (New)

Proposed Change: World Census officers worked overtime looking at timesheets and official pay rosters to determine which nation had the longest hours worked in a week.

[dqpxk5] Most Attractive (New)

Proposed Change: The World Census Modelling Agency sent agents out to stand around in malls and determine which nation had the most captivating citizens.

[imyuf3] Most Multilingual (New)

Proposed Change: World Census experts carefully eavesdropped on people to determine which nations have the most languages known per person.

[y2tlrz] Most Hierarchical (New)

Proposed Change: World Assembly workers started pyramid schemes to determine which nations had the strictest social and economic hierarchies.

[zpip7e] Most Efficient Recycling (New)

Proposed Change: World Census hippies ruffled through trash and recycling bins to compare waste streams

[brh47m] Most Sport-Obsessed (New)

Proposed Change: The World Census hung around arenas and watched all sorts of games to see which nations cared most about sports.

[kurzhy] Nudest

Proposed Change: After exhaustive surveys, the World Census calculated which nations have the greatest acreages of flesh on public display.