@coluber2001,
13 countries you admire for any reason:
1. Costa Rica: This tiny country contains 5% of the world's biodiversity. Around 25% of the country's land area is in protected National Parks and other protected areas.
2. Viet Nam - What this country has accomplished in the last 50 years is amazing!
3. Iceland--85% of its primary energy needs is met with indigenous renewable resources. It should be called Greenland.
4. Switzerland - small country, heavy in International Finance. Mountains, mountains, mountains.
5. Japan: Culturally speaking, has exported some of the greatest output of movies and TV series (both animation and live action), music, etc.... And also great food
6. Canada - - They've got a healthcare system that works. And they're kinder and gentler.
7. Italians: for their masterful cuisine. We'd be living in a perpetual Dark Ages without pizza and Italian pasta dishes like lasagna.
8. Sweden - - a lot of blondes, for one, and a plethora of other reasons
9. Belgium: Might sound reductive but the origin of Lambic beer.
10. Ukraine--perennial underdog and target of imperialistic psychotics. We should do anything needed to help these heroes.
11. Brazil - last wild, unknown country. Includes tribes and animals that are yet to be discovered.
12. Australia - - It had a lot of cool wildlife.
13. The United States of America - almost 225 years and counting