These 13 Maps Divide Our World

[@WaybackHistoryChannel]

Very cool to see! This was another really fun collaboration to do, I learned a ton of new information in the process, and it was a pleasure to work with you once again! Cheers!

[@DeKevers]

Collaborating with my favourite Minecraft KZbinr as a child... lucky

[@realfangplays]

Hey, I love your apolitical maps

[@HummusBeirouti]

The maps were rly neat

[@bertik2326]

What tools do you use to make these maps. I've been searching for something like this for a long time.

[@Hariyagamer]

I am from India when i see the 3rd map it make me feel unhappy 😭 but we are not unhappy like that map showing and i also wanna know that how to measure a person happiness 😔sorry for my bad English 😔

[@krazykat9768]

He could go on for hours and I won’t get bored

[@tybos8348]

Yep

[@renderproductions1032]

Same!

[@renderproductions1032]

He SHOULD go on for hours

[@caitlinwarren461]

Literally

[@AdilMai]

The constitution map is outdated. Morocco renewed its constitution in 2011, and its in bright blue in this map

[@21Kyzix12]

I live in Japan (which apparently makes me a unicorn), and the housing size data for Japan is definitely wrong. I looked up the data in Japanese because English language information about Japan is often a bit off, and the average housing size here is and it's 92.5 square meters (a little less than 1000 square feet). My guess is that the data you found may have only included stand-alone houses and not apartments and other housing.

[@my3dviews]

Ya, I agree. I can't see that houses in Japan would be bigger than here in Canada. Mine is relatively small by our standards and is over 1100 sq. ft. My Dad's is well over 2000. Of course it varies a lot by city and area in each city.

[@Simply_Emu]

The data is from the year 2000 so in 21-22 years it probably changed

[@agme8045]

@@Simply_Emu I highly doubt it lol

[@21Kyzix12]

@@Simply_Emu I was able to find some data from the source it references, and it shows that around the year 2000 (The closest I found was 1998 and 2003), the average size was almost exactly the same as present day. Even if you look exclusively at residences that include shops/restaurants, it doesn't come close to the over 2000 number on the map.

[@Simply_Emu]

@@21Kyzix12 yeah i was doing same research and found the same years as you, and it was actually in the high 80s like 88 or 89 something, so idk where ToyCat got those numbers. Even just looking at the owned houses which is a bigger number, it is still not that big

[@JennaGetsCreative]

Back in high school we had international students come all the time and in my grade 10 year we welcomed a Mexican student into the friend group and kept up with him after he went back... until military conscription. Apparently it's a lottery system whether or not you get conscripted (or was at the time, mid 2000s) and his name was drawn. I looked up his mother on Facebook a couple of years ago and found photos of him in uniform. He stuck with it, made it his career, and rose up through the ranks. I'm proud of him but also sad because he was writing fantasy novels (got top student for English for his grade level the year he was with us in a school of 2,000+ students) and wanted to be a doctor.

[@bisko3543]

Here in Brazil every 18 years old male have to go to a recrutation center do some test and swear loyalty to the country but only a little more than 5% acutally have to go to the army.

[@guidoylosfreaks]

He could be a doctor. Military med school is one of the best in Mexico. But still... It's not really that mandatory. You do get picked in a system like you described but even that you have to sign in to get picked. Some jobs ask all the males for the military service certificate (cartilla militar) but most of them don't. In general, nothing happens if you don't ever care about the military service.

[@dirkkarmel5209]

He should have had his talents, developed. ?? Becoming a doctor ?? -- Military has several different stages of medics. -- "Rising through the ranks" of being a medic, he should be nearing a fully licensed doctor.. (He has done his internship !)

[@JennaGetsCreative]

@@dirkkarmel5209 I don't believe he's in a medical position in the military, though.

[@dirkkarmel5209]

@@JennaGetsCreative That would be a sad failure of tbe military: IF he wishes to be a doctor, and is not in the medical area of the military. Did he find a career that is more satisfying, in the military ? Need to directly ask him !

[@Kameliius]

3:14 You also have to serve in the military of Austria for 6 months. It's mandatory for every male citizen. However, there's also an option to serve your country with civil service (for example working as an health care taker), which lasts for 9 months

[@NoSTs123]

I don't think thats true! edit: I misread Austria with Australia

[@blaurelionsol9007]

Its the same in Switzerland

[@motherfive8088]

I believe those were not included because you have the option to do civil service instead

[@goli8699]

@@NoSTs123 There are a Lot of People that do that

[@mikeykm1993]

Only for males? Gotta love equality! 😂

[@european6380]

Vienna is its own state in Austria. In general I encounteted many mistakes in these maps. Austria and Switzerland have mandatory conscription. Cuba wasn't coloured for Spanish and so on

[@marxistvalorie]

military service in austria and switzerland is not mandatory, since you can also do civil service instead

[@european6380]

@@marxistvalorie and in Denmark not even everyone has to go. By constitution Austria still has conscriptions, civil service only is an alternative, it takes 50% longer and it forbids you to carry guns and riffles for your lifetime

[@haus16a]

@@european6380 lifetime isnt true (austrian here)

[@european6380]

@@haus16a ah yeah, sry, 15 years. For a long time it meant men then couldn't become policemen but that was changed

[@erikheddergott5514]

@@marxistvalorie Wrong: You can get away from Military Service in Switzerland but the Civil Service is still administrated by the Defense Department of the Union before one is handed over to the Organization you have to serve.

[@stale.baguette]

Ibx2cat: when the sequel is better than the original

[@tybos8348]

True lol

[@BinglesP]

Ikr, his main channel is good(especially compared to other Minecraft channels) but I like this

[@lookatsarthak]

2nd channel. Don't care.

[@danielk2055]

I feel that the language spheres map is largely wrong. English is an official or co-official language in many countries that are grey on the map (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Eswatini, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Gambia, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Papua-New Guinea)

[@jonny2900]

Yeah it's incorrect if you talk about the anglosphere but it's correct if you talk about native language as in mother tongue

[@igotes]

English is the "official written language" of those (mostly) former British colonies.

[@guppy719]

@@jonny2900 eh then the African Countries shouldn't be included

[@LambdaTF2]

And all the nordic countries have 90% of their population able to speak english

[@jonny2900]

@@guppy719 that's true, it's a weird one and south Africa should be included if it was about native languages

[@haruyanouka]

México is strange when talking about mandatory militar service. The law says that it is actually mandatory in a time between 52 Saturdays or something like that, but doing it isn't really necessary. Years ago you had to do it to get your passport, visa, drivers license, etc, but recent laws have erradicate this kind of "must-have documents to get this other document", and as far as I know doing military service is only useful to get a work in gubernamental jobs, as lawyer, senator or others like that. So yeah, mandatory militar service here in Mexico isn't really useful as I've heard. Sorry for poor grammar if the case

[@eddie-roo]

Also, in some states, like Baja California Sur, you don’t actually have to do military service, you just get your cartilla militar for free, and I find that neat. I won’t have to waste two years of my life just because I want to be a teacher.

[@derekkaplan3420]

South Sudan has mandatory military service and is one of the 10 unhappiest

[@everby9998]

south sudan is basically a constant warzone, so not easy to be happy over there

[@TomWatsonB1]

Was about to write this.

[@zerotwoisreal]

and tajikistan

[@annayosh]

@@zerotwoisreal No, Tajikistan is among the most average happy countries, not the unhappiest.

[@PotatoToon]

The map with English and Spanish, if French was to be added there would be a lot more countries and it would really show how important these 3 languages are for travelling.

[@tyresr]

Damn so I lucked out in being fluent in 2/3 of those

[@radio_marco]

3:40 I'm pretty sure that in Both Switzerland and Austria there is also such a thing. You need to make the _Rekrutenschule_ or at least Civil-service as a male Person about 20. 9:57 In this case is Switzerland an exception.

[@AquilaChryaetos]

Also finnland, one of the countries with the newest constellations, but one of the happiest

[@marxistvalorie]

you are right about the fact that switzerland and austria have mandatory service for either military or civil service, but because you can choose to do civil service, it doesnt really make military mandatory anymore so thats probably why its not included

[@hurrdurr7861]

@@marxistvalorie Finland also has the option to do civil service, but it was included in map.

[@cristi1145]

I’m Swiss and this is true. Either military or our equivalent of nationality guard

[@jackscotchland8947]

As an American, I’ve noticed (both just online and visiting other countries) that American houses (primarily suburban and rural, but also urban in a way) are also just designed to look and feel more open on the interior, which might be one of the reasons house sizes are larger than average than other countries (also of course it’s the largest country in the world in terms of livable land area, as a huge portion of Russia’s size is Siberia and China the plateau and frontiers) as houses and neighborhoods are designed to accommodate the standard of open space. Also p.s., love your southern accent

[@oona9039]

But also suburban American houses are literally made out of cardboard compered to the suburban houses here in Finland

[@sebastiansall3607]

Not me thinking he was british

[@sebastiansall3607]

Or australian

[@aaronhorowitz6942]

I am from 🇧🇷 and I dont know a single person who can explain why Brazil has a mandatory military service.. we're pretty peacefull and there are enough people tha WANT to get in the military that they don't have to do this (because of the nice salaries)

[@perfilgenerico8717]

Yeah, i didn't served but i heard that most people that do are volunteers. Maybe they want to keep it mandatory and let people don't serve because if one day we get ourselves involved in a war they will already have the right to obligate people to serve

[@WILDM1K]

maybe your neighbours are forming a union to invade for that river, coastline, and rainforest

[@olairmao]

So , it have happened that my siblings. But it's true that the majority dose as a volunteer

[@viktor8928]

It's a kind of modern slavery designed to annoy us males to do unwanted jobs such as destroying mosquito breeding grounds (because the owners of the terrains are so retarded to do this themselves). You barely get any military training.

[@aaronhorowitz6942]

@@viktor8928 esqueceu dos meios fios, rs

[@aerocoaster3252]

Actually, there are not just 2 “Guinea countries” in Western Africa, but 3: Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and Equatorial Guinea.

[@leonardochapman4736]

And in oceania there's Papua new Guinea

[@penguinpenguinpenguin]

@@leonardochapman4736 papa😫

[@Jurassic3l1te]

In Western Africa there's only 2 equatorial guineas is not in Western africa

[@Jurassic3l1te]

@@leonardochapman4736 that's not Western africa

[@leonardochapman4736]

@@Jurassic3l1te that's why I said 'and in oceania'. If you're gonna disagree with someone's comment, actually read it through first

[@arcynic5404]

7:24 india is unhappy because we are one of the only developing countries where if you express dissent against the government, you aren’t shot down and killed. We are democratic and largely anti-propaganda, so we actually get to know how badly we’re doing

[@jehhh7794]

Try again, my cousin is a paid BJP propagandist

[@CommonCanc]

Nah you are not shot down, but you will find yourself in jail from UAPA

[@arcynic5404]

@@CommonCanc true

[@PossessedPotatoBird]

I've been extremely interested in geography lately and all of the sudden, this Minecraft KZbinr starts pumping out tons of geography videos! It's amazing

[@WizardToby]

I love how Toycat likes to impersonate all us americans as if we're old timey deep southern folk.

[@ibx2cat]

have you ever met an american who isn't an old timey deep southern folk? checkmate

[@WizardToby]

@@ibx2cat fair point xD

[@SenorGuina]

that's how eveyone impersonates americans

[@eldritchmelody]

that’s how Americans imitate Americans

[@perfilgenerico8717]

I don't know about other countries, but most brazilians men don't went through military service. We (men) have to go to a place owned by the army, the navy or or the aeronautics in the year we turn 18 and usually, after some bureaucracy, most of us just make an oath to fight for Brazil if needed and you are free to go

[@prodsilas2225]

i love your channel because even though i am not interested in geography at all, one of my favroite past times is to just go on google maps and look at random things which is exactly what you do except u actually answer the questions that the map brings up

[@magnushmann]

Do remember though that "mandatory conscription" can mean many different things and take many different forms in the various countries that are marked as having it. As an example, no one has been conscripted to the danish military involuntarily since 2010, and this is then not even replaced with anything, like you see in other places where civil service is an alternative (which it can also be in Denmark). But the point it that currently the system in Denmark works in such a way that the draft finds out if you are simply eligible to server if you are ever needed, and as mentioned, no more than the people signing up voluntarily have been needed since 2010.

[@ihatemotionblur_3255]

i always know a video is going to be interesting when a brit starts it with "there are too many countries"

[@christheswiss390]

Approx. 60% of the maps are wrong for Switzerland, i.e. Switzerland HAS conscription and it has NO city that is its own political entity at a national level. Zürich is just the name of a city AS WELL AS a Canton. The CANTON of Zurich is the ONLY entirty at the national level, the city of Zurich is NOT.

[@-Lumino-]

So what about Basel City?

[@christheswiss390]

@@-Lumino- You win. Forgot about that one. For the rest of us, Basel is like a foreign entity. 😉 just kidding. my bad.

[@jeanotzubler2477]

@@-Lumino- probably the closest, but still not really... the Canton Basel Stadt also includes the municipalities Riehen and Bettingen.

[@erikheddergott5514]

@@jeanotzubler2477 The City of Geneva also has more than 50 % of the Habitants of the County of Geneva but the City of Geneva has an own City Gouvernement and Parliament. The City Gouvernement and Parliament of Basel are also the County Gouvrnement of Basel. A Swiss County is the Equivalent of a US American or Australian State or a German or Austrian Bundesland.

[@harshit2.02]

7:41 Hey I am from India and my guess would be it has something to do with 'Age of Population' and the struggle to get 'stable in life'. India's population is young (youth) and during young age where you try to start business, work in some company or any other thing and due to lot of competition it results in many failure and ultimately makes many people unhappy and dissatisfied with life. (Also not forgetting other thing such as Overpopulation which means 'more competition' and low/average standard of living due to getting comparatively low salary)

[@harshit2.02]

I may be wrong so if somebody has different perspective on this feel free to correct me :)

[@leafy_loaf]

Fun fact: The reason Bremen is a city state in Germany is because Bremen and Bremerhaven (coastal bremen) when germany was occupied between the allies and the soviets, Bremen was a city of the american part, along with Bavaria. When West Germany unified, Bremen remained a city state of Germany.

[@Spacemongerr]

Bremen became a city-state in 1646 and has been so since then. Only for a few years under Napoleon and Hitler was it not. Bremen bought land from the Kingdom of Hannover in 1827 and built Bremerhaven there to be their main port.

[@hilljackzack7284]

It was very interesting to see the different size of houses. I remember when I was a kid I grew up in a 1500 square foot house and that was considered small here in the US but whenever my German grandmother would come over she would be like “wow you guys have such a large house!” We later moved into a 2500 square foot home and it’s just average sized here.

[@rockingrollin425]

Conscription is very different in each country. In some countries conscripts are randomly chosen, in some it applies to you only if you are 18 and do not work or study, universal conscription is pretty rare at this point. As for the autonomous cities, they also work very differently from country to country and this isn't shown in the map. In Spain you could say that Madrid has its own State being that its province became also a Comunidad Autónoma, but it includes the surrounding areas. Both Arg. and the USA are marked in the map but theiy work quite differently. In Argentina the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) used to be the Capital Federal (similar to the DC) so the National State had a lot of say in its municipal affairs and the election of its authorities. In the 90's this federalised territory also made its own constitution and branches of government adquiring a similar status to the rest of the provinces but as an Autonomous City (similar to what Washington DC asks for when they say the want to become a State). Germany works quite differently since many of its cities became Bundesländer due to historical reasons. In short, as I am sure many of you know, some maps misslead more than they illustrate without telling a single lie.

[@Adiodevil]

Watching these videos I sometimes wonder if toycat has brilliant edits/cuts that we don't notice or if he doesn't need to breathe to talk this fast and continues.

[@veryblocky]

I thought Switzerland and Austria had military conscription too? 3:04

[@bwpbwp9613]

I think it is important to point out that your house size map was average and not median house size. This makes a huge difference in the US where there are outliers of people who own houses with 10000+ sq ft. My 800 sq ft apartment is pretty typical in the US.

[@otashigo]

I thiink you mean the opposite, average is the majority and median right in the middle of the data sample.

[@bwpbwp9613]

@@otashigo No, I didn’t mix them up. Outliers will increase the average but not affect the median at all. For a very simple example: 8,9,9,10,11,11,12 Average: 10 Median:10 8,9,9,10,11,11,26 Average:12 Median:10

[@otashigo]

@@bwpbwp9613 maybe in the data set, but in the distribution which by the way makes more sense since it's a large data set, the second median would be (8+26)/2=16

[@bwpbwp9613]

@@otashigo the median is not the average of the minimum and maximum. If that was the case, then the median income in the US would be billions of dollars. The median denotes the 50th percentile where it splits the data set in half.

[@kasparvg]

This guy should become a geography or social studies teacher.

[@ActualGoatUnicorn]

He can reach and therefore teach way more people on KZbin than in a classroom

[@hotman_pt_]

No, these maps are horrible and wrong

[@philipchristopher6396]

When he said "are you thinking about Fiji right now?", the next thing I thought of was literally Tuvalu.

[@Liggliluff]

(7:20) I'd love to have maps where every country is split into its first order subdivisions. What would each subdivision rank on the happiness scale?

[@Dreamprism]

I liked this. Also, you can thank the raindrop on my phone hitting a suggested video for my winding up on this channel. (And the youtube algorithm, and my already being subbed to your old channel.)

[@Freezzewave]

A couple years ago Tokyo had a larger population than Canada but for the last 2 or so years Canada has been larger. Tokyo's population is below 38 million while Canada's population is above it though I can't remember the exact amount

[@delfi7077]

is something like 38,6 million

[@Freezzewave]

@@delfi7077 Exactly

[@SantiagoItzcoatl]

Military conscription isn't mandatory in Mexico since 2000 iirc. It is still considered a civil duty, tho. But you're not enforced to do it anymore.

[@zackestin1368]

Speaking english and French I lived in Beijing even for 6 months as a college student with only ever minor problems and the few times I was stuck translate apps tended to sort it out enough, mainly around elderly population. From a lot of my travelling post then it’s really a case of English will get you by in most areas.

[@zackestin1368]

Also as a Canadian, WRT vehicles, dare you to walk an hour to that hospital in -50 Celsius weather, you’ll be glad it’s a hospital you’re finishing at.

[@gerardcote8391]

Not offended by the accent. You got me, accent excluded, 200 % correct, I want do much space and distance, that even if my next door neighbor was blasting his stereo at max volume with the speakers out of the window aimed directly at my house, I wouldn't even notice. And I want to be 10 miles from the nearest city center. I am an extreme misanthrope, so I value space forest and distance rather than being arround people and stuff.

[@ryanrg8511]

24:40 Spain does have something similar ro city states. Ceuta and Melilla are denominated "ciudades autónomas" (autonomus cities)

[@ajaxnation9504]

Bruh Spaniards never miss the slightest chance to mention these too lol

[@robinr2770]

In order to have a mandatory conscription, you need money for an army. That probably explains why it's not in the 10 unhappiest countries. In Finland we have mandatory conscription because our neighbour has a crazy dictator who just started a war and has repeatedly tester our air response capabilities.

[@veryblocky]

10:07 Papua New Guinea and South Africa both have English as an official language. I suspect there may be more. I feel like this map isn’t too accurate.

[@ex0stasis72]

I'd imagine that people in South Korea and Taiwan are fine with mandatory conscription just due to their next door neighbor that makes them nervous.

[@NotASummoner]

Nordic countries have Russia as well.

[@marcor815]

I don‘t know, what the exact deffintion behind the mandatory military service map is, but i‘m pretty sure switzerland should be blue, since every male citizen has to go to the military or do some kind of civil service

[@AnilKumar-rt7vf]

Hey India was unhappy in 2020 because of pandemic and a protest by farmers in Delhi .there are some others factors but these are the major one which I think it is

[@DenSoesygeHaj]

3:14 switzerland and austria also have constription

[@skellious]

Norway is an interesting one for military service. they call in everyone of a certain age each year (men and women since 2015) for an interview, but since the early 2000s, only those who really want to serve actually have to join up. And you certainly don't have to go into a front-line role. For many people, it's a good way into a career. but most just don't actually get recruited due to lack of interest.

[@wutever9358]

12:00 I guess Alaska no longer speaks English.

[@Ashcool6000]

Yeah, I was also wondering that

[@airbus350ulr]

.

[@airbus350ulr]

aLaSkA sPeAkS aLaSkAnEsE

[@wolfgang2453]

Kinda weird that Alaska isn't highlighted in red on that language spheres map. I must've missed that declaration of independence

[@wolfgang2453]

Ok well you just explained the thing, but especially on that map I don't see the point in doing that for Alaska. Also I don't think anyone is mistaking Alaska for an independent country. And I would argue that not filling in large territories like that is MORE confusing than filling them in as the same color as the rest of their country

[@kingdomofportugal-brazil]

We need more of Toycat’s accents

[@brandonm9378]

Actually, in America many major hospitals have helicopter units called "Care Flights" that will land to help seriously injured or sick people to compensate for the sometimes vast distance to a hospital. If the situation is serious enough, care flights will come from much further away than the closest hospital just to give them care at a more advanced hospital.

[@pewnit]

10:17 this map is incorrect. One of India's official languages is English.

[@fjellyo3261]

This map misses a lot of countries 😂😂. Honestly a lot of the shown maps aren't accurate.

[@Hordil]

11:45 what language do they speak in Alaska? :o

[@pingviinipelaa9531]

did you know that rovaniemi (city in northern finland)has a really big land area 7,582km²

[@ianhiggins1564]

Curious as to why Alaska was not included with the rest of the United States in the language spheres map 10:02

[@newwaveinfantry8362]

8:17 - The reason the American constitution hasn't changed is not because they are more conservative with it than other countries. It's because America's government has never been overthrown. Countries don't change it on a whim. In the rest of the world, countries have more recent constitutions because they've been overthrown by coups, Communists, Fascists, juntas, monarchies, colonialists and regional warlords. The US hasn't had that since its inception as an independent nation in 1776. It had a rebelion from the south, but it failed, thus the old government never lost power and the republic was never re-made.

[@mariannegaarde8662]

A constitution can change without a coup. E.g. in my country the constitution was changed when women gained the right to vore.

[@newwaveinfantry8362]

@@mariannegaarde8662 By that logic the US constitution has changed 27 times. I'm not counting amendments, which is presumably what you're talking about.

[@VoltisArt]

Have migrated from the main/MC channel. Watched this one from the channel page...well done presentation, but that part wasn't a surprise. Looks like I've got a new geography channel to follow. Coolness. Wish I'd poked around earlier to find it! Initially feels odd without the outro music, but I can adjust.

[@Marcusjnmc]

the UK still has London , it just isn't officially at the table, just influencing everything about the table while also being an independent political entity

[@bre_me]

I don't believe Japan has the same house sizes as the US and Australia...

[@paxjohnson7614]

Toycat's map of viewership shows which countries he can offend.

[@hansueli5982]

Switzerland has a mandatory military conscription, i had to serve as a basic soldier for 300 day.

[@cjaoun23240]

6:32 There is South Sudan

[@vicentenavarro8359]

24:38 spain actually does have a madrid autonomous community (spanish equivalent of state/region), i dunno why the map didn't show it...

[@igotes]

I thought Switzerland was one of them conscription countries, but I don't see it on the map.

[@aaromat]

yes it is, for all male citizens at least some other comment also said, that mexico shouldn't be colored on this map, so I guess there are a few mistakes... :)

[@igotes]

There's only one way to resolve this; Switzerland vs. Mexico, duel to the death. My money's on Mexico, despite their lack of government supplied arms and training.

[@TBCTop7gear]

Austria too

[@radio_marco]

Yes and Austria too.

[@marekvahle]

Switzerland has "mandatory" military service

[@azeria1]

This video was just so toycat can flex on us with living in the middle of London

[@guppy719]

in a "big" house no less.

[@moldveien1515]

3:22 yes we have mandatory conscription in Norway but getting out off it is as easy as saying "i dont want to" these days. Feels like its only kept around in case we do need it one day

[@bkgames2]

I want to point out something here Sweden, Denmark and Norway dont have mandatory conscription, but Finland does

[@deppresedonion5146]

Denmark does Its just a rafle and you Can serve by civil service instead of military service

[@magnushmann]

@@deppresedonion5146 Plus no one has been involuntarily conscripted since 2010. The draft is to find out if you are eligible should more people ever be needed.

[@NotASummoner]

Sweden technically does. There aren't enough spots for the amount of people who sign up though so you won't actually be conscripted.

[@maltanicw899]

3:07 Sweden may have mandatory military service but it's taken a bit out of context, the year you become 18 you fill out a form where one of the questions is also if you want to do the military service where you usually won't have to if you say no. If you get called in to do some tests you will have to go and if you get approved it is mandatory to do the military service.

[@InvadersDie]

Needs an update. Norway abolished the civil service system as an alternative to people who refused military service. Now if you refuse, you just go on with your life instead of being forced into kindergarten with guns.

[@kiwuuspurr1927]

Why?

[@Viktorelind]

Well, I live in Sweden and can tell you that there is not really any mandatory conscription into the army. It's a rather complex system that I won't go into right now. But in short, you get a letter in the mail, you reply with one of three options. I want to serve, I maybe want to serve or I don't want to serve. In Sweden, there are a lot of people that wish to serve so there is never anyone that gets forced into service. It used to be mandatory but now adays it is up to each individual.

[@eetuthereindeer6671]

I wish it was the same in finland too. It absolutely fucking sucks. People with slight autism are forced to go there and for a country so ahead of freedom that is something finland is extremely behind Oh and only males are forced. Feminists aren't screaming about that

[@NotASummoner]

Yeah, but it technically is I guess? In practice it's not the case though.

[@rhyshain7629]

With map 11, the only reason Australia is in it is because Darwin is too small to not be grouped as a whole city in our electoral system. Every other city is a mess of electorates

[@than217]

I've always marveled at how well British people do American accents. This channel is making me reconsider that.

[@Sleol]

I don’t know why Israel has a military doesn’t everyone love them?

[@Ashcool6000]

Haha, about that, Palestine…

[@hz3068]

Iran is a big fan of them

[@Sleol]

@@Ashcool6000 what is a “Palestine”

[@WILDM1K]

@@Sleol I hope you are being sarcastic

[@Rico-oz4ct]

@@WILDM1K huh?

[@empereuraugustus8748]

Switzerland has a mandatory military service actually

[@ozark7834]

Ibx2cat looked at the country and saw very clearly the distinct borders and location, but yet had to confirm in Google Maps that it was Chad. Truly disappointing.

[@aporcelaingirl]

5 bedrooms? You looking for renters? lol

[@cheeseninja1115]

14:00 as an American I'd say that room is like a kids bedroom, if the ceiling didn't form down to the size of roof it'd be a pretty normal sized room. The headspace is what makes me say kids room. Maybe a bit bigger and you'd get the living room.

[@eliserss9179]

I love the "tell me all about it in the comments" joke every single time, always cracks me up

[@tajbeaumont3062]

With Australia it is because there are a lot of large farms that increase the average by a lot

[@gilmourattard3625]

True

[@TYsdrawkcaB]

i've been waiting for a followup for a while, super excited.

[@fjellyo3261]

11:57 this map is a bit off. Cuba, Dominikan Republic etc are missing. Aswell as India and some other places with Spanish or English as official language

[@fresamouse]

I love you keep saying sorry for doing the accent but then 5 minutes later do it again.

[@kiranreddy4046]

I am from india. I don’t think most people are unhappy here. Yes, there is a lot of poverty when compared to other nations but per captia wise India wouldn’t be unhappy imo. I’m curious why china wasn’t there in that map considering their social credit system being a massive pain in butt for Chinese people. Who knows 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@aimy5637]

india is low for the way the index is measured rather than directly asking Social credit system hasn't been implemented yet in china as a whole

[@nonetrix3066]

The social credit system has only been rolled out to some places in China to my knowledge but they plan to roll it out to everywhere at some point But I'm also surprised since outside of the major cities it still has a lot of poverty, but if you ask China they have no poverty! but of course poverty to them means making less than like 5 dollars or something ridiculously low that not even they can realistically live off of

[@Liggliluff]

(12:10) Also, an international map using feet ... the most global of units.

[@mrono1910]

mainly watching your videos to boost my scandinavian pride haha, would be fun if you did a video were you make up a list of what the best countries on earth is the worst at

[@IAmGodHimself777]

Which country in Scandinavia?

[@electricpaisy6045]

When he said "It´s gonna be a lot of fun" in a video about maps I instantly thought of Fun with Flags

[@JennaGetsCreative]

Canada who finally did a road test and got a full driver's license after 30 here, I WISH I lived in a walkable city. I grew up in a somewhat walkable city with a passable transit system. I moved provinces a decade ago and it doesn't even feel like the same country.

[@xulapostasy7132]

Licence*

[@senorstalker6881]

Mexican military service isn't really mandatory, what happens is if you want to be a doctor, or a politican something like that, you gotta have your militar card, but even then to get the militar card you just get dragged into a lottery where depending what you get, you get to do military service or not. If you do get to do military service, Mexico doesn't usually have any wars against other countries more than itself, so they will not likely send you to fight.

[@SaintPhoenixx]

I'm shocked Somalia isn't in the 'unhappiest' countries list. I get North Korea probably would if they could ask. But no Equatorial Guinea, Somalia and the DRC is surprising.

[@Viktorelind]

I believe that there are two different reasons for mandatory conscription in Isreal. 1st They are a very small Jewish country surrounded by many Muslim nations. Which obviously makes them not very liked and have had some confrontations with them before. 2nd and the most significant, constant fear of going to war with Palistine.

[@lbs7774]

The mandatory military conscription map is wrong. In Mexico is not mandatory. It should be gray.

[@aaromat]

instead switzerland should be colored

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

Technically it is mandatory in the law books, it is just that it has been 4 generations since we fought a war with another country, our tiny participation in WWII, that most of our population, from the humblest people in the rural areas of the president himself that our society just don't care anymore about the military service or see it just like an odd tradition not to be taken too seriously. And I mean, for all the "war on drugs" scaremongering that is done by the media, the actual conflict is really a low intensity one, in 15 years there have been less deaths than in the 1.5 of war in Ukraine and nowhere the same degree of infraestructure devastation so the armed forces have actually increased in size only with the voluntary enlistment in spite of the casualties of the "war on drugs" which actually is more like a police action than an actual true war.

[@haph2087]

6:26 "Can you spot any countries in the red?" South Sudan.

[@centrixal]

Australian here, yeah, your "biggest room" looks pretty small to me. But then again, that is a city house so maybe houses in british countryside are bigger?

[@kevincronk7981]

8:30 Alaska doesn't have the American constitution anymore

[@Aconspiracyofravens1]

india is unhappy due to possibly the worst management if covid I have ever heard of (there are many other problems but that is the one that people are frustrated about at the moment)

[@josephjophy1381]

And it's education system...

[@Aconspiracyofravens1]

@Anuj Pandita it is said that the amount of reported deaths is six times lower then the actual amount, its a real spanish flu situation

[@santhoshv3028]

@@Aconspiracyofravens1 that thing goes for every country not only India showed less death.

[@AverageMexicanOfficial]

Military conscrption is not mandatory in Mexico, unless you want to work with the police or similar, since they do ask your for the certificate the military gives you (called "Cartilla Militar"). *Edit: When you turn 18, you go to a sort of gathering in your local "military barracks", where a sort of raffle is performed. Once your name is called, a military officer pulls out a ball from a box, if it is white, you are meant to do military conscription for the certificate, if it's black, you are given the certificate without the need of you conscripting.

[@troner3223]

Sweden used to have mandatory military service, but it stopped a while ago. First it was that about 50% of men had to and then it was removed completely. However, if necessary (in war for example) citizens are obliged to help the military.

[@NotASummoner]

Nah, it's back since 2017.

[@troner3223]

Yes, but the number of people who undergo training is not very high at all, so most people don’t do it. I suppose you’re right though.

[@tipsgamez4447]

Well Toycat, let me tell you about Middle-Eastern history.

[@LeafpoolTheMedCat]

5:45 I'm sad that I live in a light blue country. Luckily though, my government doesn't actually force military service as you're free to deny serving and complete a civilian service instead (which is what I'm going to do because I don't want to protect my country).

[@yuriythebest]

Wow dude you are lucky to be in Finland! My country Ukraine is also light blue but usually people can find some medical issue to not get drafted.

[@frederikvater]

One guy said Finland, my guess is Denmark! (?) :)

[@LeafpoolTheMedCat]

@@frederikvater No, I actually live in Finland. As I already made clear, I'm going to deny serving for even a single day.

[@aaromat]

@@frederikvater I would have guessed switzerland

[@larrywave]

Miksi

[@Allaiya.]

12:04 'Honestly, this is just a map of how cool English is. Get used to it.' lmao