Talk:Countries of the world

Charting countries is important because companies and their policies should be compared to the surroundings in which they operate for any comprehensive outcome. If a company does things better then the standard in the same country it should be made possible to point that out and not just look at global average stats or whatever.

Ecology standards should be the same globally. Social standards will vary based on culture. Let's start with that assumption.

Now there are many ways to categorize all different questions:

1. What's theory? (law o' court)
2. What's practice? (law o' street)
3. How do they interrelate and what factors it depends on?

1. Human rights
2. Workers' rights
3. Environmental protection
4. Historical considerations
5. Geographical considerations
6. "Consumerium friendliness"