Further consolidating Canada — my, er, default* homeland — in my mind as a third-world country is this article about Canada’s lack of control over the majority of its territory.
Now that the Northwest Passage seems to be opening up for year-round traffic, due perhaps to global warming, this is going to become far more serious an issue than the standard image of stalwart Mounties standing guard over barren wastelands of snow and ice has heretofore suggested.
* I was born in Liberia, but Liberia’s constitution bars me from being a citizen on the basis of my skin colour. Canada was kind enough to let me in, no doubt on the basis of my spelling.
I resent that Scandinavians are being called Vikings all the time… as the last Viking died almost 900 years ago!
Well, hey, if you go around invading helpless Canadian islands, what do you expect?
:-)