These are questions that are asked, when one goes on to this site and wants to make a country.
These are my personal answers, although the available answers are very blunt.
Q : A country should be judged by how it treats its worst-off citizens.
A : Not necessarily, the worst off "citizens" do by far the most societal damage to the country, and cost the taxpayers the most... and not everything they do should always remain legal, or be rewarded or never talked about.
Q : Corporations are good for society.
A : Yes, if there is forced unionism and regulations in place.
Q : Marijuana should be legal.
A : Not legal, No Prescription, No marijuana... and to get a prescription, one should have to PROVE that nothing else will work... and the doctor NOT the Patient makes the final decision about it.
Q : The world needs to rediscover its spirituality.
A : People need to learn how to talk to other people, and when they fail at it... they need to get beat up.
Q : Young people should perform a year's compulsory military service.
A : They should perform 5 years of compulsory military service during peacetime, (or) 3 years during wartime, and the last year of which spent as an Instructor if their service was during wartime... or as a Supervisor if their service was during peacetime.
Q : Capitalism is on the way out.
A : Disagree.
Q : Without democracy, a country has nothing
A : Disagree, in fact it is common for "absolute monarchies" to outperform both republics and democracies in terms of infrastructure and even technological modernity and scientific advancement as well as for things made to last longer... what there is less of, is personal wealth, which in and of itself is laden with its own unique problems.
It is also common for professionals and skilled, educated people to thrive better in Monarchies.
Dubai is the product of a Monarchy.
Q : It's better to deter criminals than rehabilitate them.
A : Rehabilitation only works when the subject accepts it and takes it, and uses it.
