Quote Originally Posted by Rex Brynen View Post
Plus, we have Texas Rangers AND Mounties! How cool is that?

Take that, Montana Highway Patrol/Tunisian National Gendarmerie.


Actually, I did have a semi-serious point in posting the map, since--whatever the caveats that might be placed on measuring national economic power, and on how economic power contributes to military-strategic power--it does rather nicely highlight global disparities.
Yeah...but our guys still have a number on their badges that commemorates vigilante action....

That and we DIDN'T have either singing Mountie movies or Chuck Norris pretending to be one of us......

And yeah, the point of the map is well-taken, both for the reasonably serious point you had and some of the comparisons that have arisen in its less serious wake.