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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Largest source of stolen international loan funds, largest importer and consumer of cocaine and refined opiates; largest producer, consumer, and importer of marijuana; largest producer and importer of beer and wine; most guns, cars and lawyers | United States |
| Largest exporter of marijuana and trans-shipper of cocaine; largest number of kidnappings for ransom | Mexico |
| Largest producer and importer of raw coca, largest producer and exporter of cocaine | Colombia |
| Largest exporter of raw coca; largest producer of CH4 and NOx; highest measured AIDS rate in the Americas | Brazil |
| Highest female homicide rate | Algeria |
| Currently tied for most corrupt gov on Earth | Chad |
| Highest estimated percent of pop with HIV/AIDs (38.8) | Swaziland |
| Largest producer and exporter of qhat | Ethiopia |
| Largest consumer of qhat | Somalia |
| Largest importer of qhat | Yemen |
| Largest percentage of pop addicted to opiates | Iran |
| Home of Abdul Qaddir Khan, national hero and illegal international vender of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, Libya, and North Korea | Pakistan |
| 3rd world's highest suicide rate (mainly women); world's largest number of HIV-pos persons | India |
| Currently ties for most corrupt gov on Earth | Bangladesh |
| Highest measured AIDs rate in Asia | Thailand |
| Largest domestic and international consumer of commercial sexual services; largest total and per capita number of sex workers | Japan |
| Lowest total criminal homicide rate; tv banned | Bhutan |
| Largest producer and exporter of opiates | Afghanistan |
| Largest total and per capita criminal homicide rate in a developed society; largest fraction of total economy controlled by organized crime; largest producer of consumer of hard alcohol | Russia |
| Largest producer and exporter of hashish | Turkey |
| 1st world's highest suicide rate (mainly men) and highest rate of criminal assault | Sweden |
| Least corrupt gov on Earth | Iceland |
| Largest exporter of dual-use nerve-agent technology, dual-use vesicant technology, and beet; largest importer of hashish | Germany |
| Largest importer of brides; highest divorce rate; largest number of lawyers ; first state gov to abolish chattel slavery; largest exporter of popular culture; largest producer of goods, services, and jobs, largest host of international students | United States |
| Currently active slave market, has no laws banning slavery | Mali |
| Currently active slave market banned slavery in 1980 | Mauritania |
| largest current active slave market; banned slavery in 1987 | Sudan |
| First nation to decommission its nuclear weapons 1990 | South Africa |
| Largest fraction of a pop killed by tribal genocide | Rwanda |
| Currently active slave market, has no laws banning slavery | Yemen |
| Most restrictive written law on religious practice and women's rights, currently active slave market, banned in 1963 | Saudi Arabia |
| Greatest earning from international sex trade | Thailand |
| Largest percent of a pop killed in a war of independence | East Timor |
| Largest importer of American "beauty queens" | Brunei |
| First nation to outlaw commercial sex and marriage tours | Philippines |
| Largest exporter of military small arms and nuclear-capable missiles; largest standing army; largest producer of CO2, CFCs, SOc | China |
| Largest consumer in international sex trade, number of sex workers per capita, importer of women for "entertainment" industry | Japan |
| Largest exporter of combat aircraft and armored vehicles | Russia |
| Largest exporter of nuclear weapons-grade fuel | Canada |
| Largest exporter of wine, cheese, and boring movies | France |
| Largest producer of liquid fuels from biomass; largest fraction of total energy supply from biomass sources; largest wood fueled industrial base | Brazil |
| Largest producer of liquid fuels from coal | South Africa |
| Largest fraction of total energy supply from active solar | Israel |
| Largest single producer and exporter of petroleum | Saudi Arabia |
| Greatest proven reserves of natural gas | Iran |
| Largest single producer and consumer of coal; largest producer of gaseous fuels from biomass; largest manufacturer and exporter of household and industrial photovoltaic cells | China |
| Greatest proven reserves of coal; largest single producer, consumer, and exporter of natural gas | Russia |
| First public referendum to cease use of nuclear energy | Sweden |
| Largest fraction of total energy supply from hydro sources | Norway |
| Largest fraction of total energy supply from wind sources | Denmark |
| Largest fractional of total energy supply from geothermal | Iceland |
| Largest fraction of total energy supply from nuclear, most advanced nuclear generating technology | France |
| Largest importer of natural gas | Germany |
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