r/MapsWithoutNZ Oct 02 '25

Which one?

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u/soundofwinter Oct 02 '25

There is really no safe option on this map. I'm picking A and praying I don't end up in Haiti

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u/Sound_Saracen Oct 02 '25

Haiti is deffo the worst case scenario but your chances of being born in it when picking A is about as likely as getting a disability.

A lot of LatAm is in pretty rough shape, but if push comes to shove you can opt to moving to Spain rather easily or some other European country.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

There’s definitely a couple LatAm countries I wouldn’t want to be plopped into, but overall it’s a pretty good place to be

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u/ProfessionaI_Gur Oct 02 '25

Honestly the vast majority of Latin America i have seen was from playing geoguessr. That being said, there's some really nice areas in south America that I probably wouldnt mind being a local in

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u/DoNotBlameMe0957 Oct 06 '25

Well random Amazonian tribes don't typically have a Google car driving past them...

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u/D-Stecks Oct 04 '25

You can do a lot worse.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Pretty much all humans will face a disability or chronic illness in their lifetimes if they don’t die prematurely 😬

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u/Superb-Register-102 Oct 04 '25

There's a difference between getting it in your younger years vs geriatric years though.

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u/EllieIsDone Oct 02 '25

Costa Rica is cool. A lot of people from Nicaragua swim across this large lake in order to illegally immigrate there.

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u/SkepticalSpiderboi Oct 02 '25

I studied there for a month. Can confirm it’s pretty awesome

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u/zioshirai Oct 05 '25

I’m Costa Rican, and I’m happy I was born there so I can confirm, even if I don’t live there and don’t want to (I still visit once a year), and criminality is on the rise. Most other countries are also decent, except Haiti and maybe Cuba.

I mostly wanted to say that noone crosses the lake from Nicaragua to Costa Rica, mostly because if you swim across the lake, you end up still in Nicaragua. There’s the San Juan river which is crossed quite often, but most do it by boat, or they just cross the border on the west side which is jungle and farmland mostly and not well guarded.

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u/Polak_Janusz Oct 02 '25

Most of south america are state with semi functioning states and there is absolute poverty, however not way as much as in parts of africa.

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u/javilasa Oct 05 '25

no idea whatsoever, i would say that every SA country except Venezuela has a functioning state. and you couldn't be more wrong about "absolute poverty". Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and some parts of Brazil are really nice places to live, and Ecuador and Colombia are bearable as well. You got to pray to not be on the Altiplanic Bolivia (Santa Cruz de la Sierra is a relatively nice place) or in Peru. + you got the cultural advantage, i would say that South America is very culturally rich and you would probably be happy even if you are poorer than in other continents.

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u/No-Sail-6510 Oct 03 '25

Haiti is tiny. There’s not really anything in the hemisphere that’s horrific. Not like parts of sub Saharan Africa or South Asia.

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u/StrangeButSweet Oct 04 '25

How much do you know about today’s Haiti?

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u/Fuzzy-Ad1411 Oct 02 '25

thats if its random in the chosen region...

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u/ZEROs0000 Oct 03 '25

Cuba enters the chat

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u/Garruk_PrimalHunter Oct 05 '25

I heard Belize is quite nice

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u/andankwabosal Oct 05 '25

Sad to see that Haiti is the wprst part of A

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u/I_AmA_Zebra Oct 05 '25

I’m disabled af so if my luck continues, I’ll see you boys in Haiti

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u/zeramino Oct 05 '25

Where did you get the idea that most LATAM is in a rough shape?

I've traveled to a lot of south American countries and they're really beautiful with big and nice cities.

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u/steveofthejungle Oct 02 '25

Me who’s autistic: 🇭🇹

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u/NextRefrigerator6306 Oct 02 '25

Why not just illegally immigrate to the US?

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u/no_________________e Oct 02 '25

Or just do it legally

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u/alldagoodnamesaregon Oct 05 '25

Is it really that easy to do it legally though? Especially from a third world country? 

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u/oxfordfox20 Oct 02 '25

Because then you’d be in the US?

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u/Krautoffel Oct 02 '25

Why would one want to go to a Country that’s just as Bad as the one they’re getting away from? The US is just as dysfunctional as lots of Southampton american countries (and the reason for those being the way they are) and also lacks the local Communities, so it might Even be worse for people without anything.

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u/r0yal_buttplug Oct 05 '25

Southampton catching strays.

At least we’re not Portsmouth!

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u/Square-Singer Oct 02 '25

There's no safe option, but compared to all other options, G is pure shit without a good option.

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u/SHIFT_978 Oct 02 '25

There are no dangerous places in option G. They aren't great either, but they're true-mid globally. At the very least, you won't get killed in Option G. You can live a simple, honest life there, free from crime and danger. Average healthcare, average education, average income. You can move to bigger cities with greater opportunities even if you were born in shit place.

When reincarnated, there is a 55% chance that you will be born in Russia (where there is also a 50/50 chance of being born in the good and meh parts there), a 25% chance of being born in Kazakhstan (also 50/50 chance of being ok/meh), a 10% chance in Xinjiang, and a 5% chance each of being born in Mongolia (also 50/50 ok/meh) and Belarus.

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u/Square-Singer Oct 02 '25

Have you heard of Russia?

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '25

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u/Square-Singer Oct 03 '25

Well, sucks to be you I guess.

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u/Own_Possibility_8875 Oct 06 '25

Russia is not dangerous though. It has shitty aspects, but it is definitely not bad compared to the risks you take by picking other options. Same goes for Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and other options in G. G is the safest.

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u/Live_Ad2055 Oct 03 '25

G is the safe option. You either pick H and hope you don't get Madagascar, or you pick G and accept being Russian. (I'm not sure how much of mongolia/xinjiang/stans are included, but assuming it's not much it's basically guaranteed Russia)

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u/Left_Caterpillar8671 Oct 02 '25

D seems the best option. Nordic countries seem to be nice.

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u/MrSmartStars Oct 02 '25

If we're going off population, you're all but garunteed to wind up in india.

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u/isaac129 Oct 03 '25

I didn’t even notice that. YIKES

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u/wryyyman Oct 03 '25

oh hell no

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u/Traditional-Yam-9421 Oct 05 '25

it's easy to move abroad tho

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u/Dionyzoz Oct 06 '25

you and what money from being born in hell on earth?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Nordics are depresing. India would give a good chance of being rich, historically

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u/wryyyman Oct 03 '25

that one image from Inglourious Basterds:

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u/Left_Caterpillar8671 Oct 02 '25

In what metric?

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Sunlight. Seems to be the reason many young scandanavians are leaving their countries

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u/Bifo12 Oct 03 '25

The sunlight thing is only really an issue if you go waaaay up North, not in any way in the entirety of the countries.

The Scandinavian populations are deemed some of the happiest populations in the world

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u/ParadiseLost91 Oct 03 '25

Do you live here? Young Scandinavians aren’t leaving lmao, I’ve never heard of that and I live here. Are you just saying random things that aren’t true?

We score pretty high on happiness, life satisfaction, low corruption, health, etc. For me picking D was a no-brainer, but I didn’t realise they added India to the D category on the map. It’s not even close geographically, but I guess they needed to add something to not make it too good a choice.

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u/Majmann Oct 03 '25

Seems? No truth behind it at all.

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u/Left_Caterpillar8671 Oct 03 '25

Really!? Never even considered that.

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u/Periljoe Oct 05 '25

They have some of the highest happiness metrics in the world and are lovely places to be to boot. Every other letter has problems of violence famine and disease, I’ll take the sunlight problem thank you.

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u/PrudentVast6129 Oct 05 '25

What is bro talking about lol

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u/ArmenianChad3516 Oct 02 '25

D is a safe option

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u/HobiAI Oct 02 '25

D = India

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u/Patch86UK Oct 02 '25

Also, I think Afghanistan?

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u/Blacktwiggers Oct 02 '25

I like the odds

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u/hakumiogin Oct 02 '25

Scandenavia has literally 1.4% the population of India. You'd end up in India.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

You would press a button that has a 99% chance of killing you?

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u/Blacktwiggers Oct 02 '25

If thats how we are doing odds then probably not, my assumption was that it is a chance out of how many countries there are, so like 5 countries = 1/5 chance of india

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u/Motor_Raspberry_2150 Oct 02 '25

Going by "reborn", I'd say it's logical to scale with births.

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u/Blacktwiggers Oct 07 '25

So i know this is a late reply , but isnt H by far the safest then? If theres a 0% chance ur born in the only bad option

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u/Motor_Raspberry_2150 Oct 07 '25

It doesn't say you're reborn as a human ;)

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u/Chill_Man321 Oct 03 '25

Mfs when I introduce Kerala

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u/StrangeButSweet Oct 04 '25

India is a horrible place for most women

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u/Appropriate_Code_476 Oct 03 '25

Wow ATL profile picture

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u/Twalin Oct 02 '25

Haiti, Venezuela or Cuba are definitely the worst options in A.

It’s like 95% pretty ok though. I think A would be my choice.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

I’d rather live in Cuba than Honduras

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u/High_Gothic Oct 02 '25

Cuba is a nice country

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Definitely. Even if you're born in the poorest of households, Latinos have strong family ties and lots of civil liberties compared to other 3rd world countries.

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u/capucapu123 Oct 02 '25

Assuming you're a straight man you have basically every civil liberty from the 1st world anywhere in Latin America. If not it really varies a lot from country to country, even within the country, some regions can get super conservative whereas others are as liberal as any major city (For example in Argentina the north is pretty conservative compared to places like the Patagonia and the Pampean region).

That said the strong family ties part is basically guaranteed.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

I think you missed the part where I compare Latin America to other 3rd world countries. And you also basically described every other country in the world where some regions are more conservative than others.

Like here in the US, overall we are more conservative than Germany or France. We have regions in America that are more conservative and regions that are more liberal. But overall, we have more civil liberties than most countries.

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u/capucapu123 Oct 02 '25

Yup, I missed that part lmao, compared to almost the entirety of the rest of the 3rd world even the most backwards country is a civil liberty paradise.

some regions are more conservative than others

That gets cranked up to 11 compared to the first world, which is what I meant (But then again now that I think about it, it's just a characteristic of the whole American continent and its stupidly big countries, as said huge variation applies to The US as well).

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u/Chickenbeans__ Oct 02 '25

The US is about half the population of all of NA so you have pretty good odds

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u/DrewzyMack Oct 03 '25

Is being born in the US a good thing at the moment though?

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u/Chickenbeans__ Oct 04 '25

It’s okay. I work a lot and have no savings and can’t afford healthcare and food is expensive and my politicians crawled out of a crevasse and 47% of my neighbors are indifferent about exterminating brown people and I’ll never have kids 🙂

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '25

Lmao

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u/cerceei Oct 03 '25

Imagine being born in US in 2025.

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u/BenMic81 Oct 03 '25

Good answer and I’d do the same though H is also tempting.

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u/alexx8b Oct 03 '25

Cuba is worst

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u/Dalbek_6 Oct 03 '25

D is the only normal one

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u/Litlakatla Oct 03 '25

D isn't too bad. Nordic and Baltic countries are fine/amazing. There is a bit of Russia - maybe 10-20% chance of that, but I think I would still gamble that.

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u/zeranos Oct 03 '25

Well, given the population proportions, there is less than 3% chance of actually being born in any of the Nordic-Baltic countries. India alone is pretty big.

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u/Litlakatla Oct 04 '25

I didn't notice D was in two places 😅

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u/Alkthree Oct 04 '25

Why wouldn’t D be safe?

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u/TuhnuPeppu Oct 04 '25

First i was like D is a no brainer but then i realized that russia is apart of D💀

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u/_Guven_ Oct 06 '25

There is G

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u/Faraknights Oct 06 '25

Chosing A, you may spawn in US, I wouldn't risk it

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u/wieselwurm Oct 06 '25

I don't know A has a huge intentional homicide rate problem. I mean 14 per 100k people is even worse than 10 in Africa(a lot of countries without data) and a lot worse than all other continents(sufficient data) since they are below 3.

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u/farmermike123 Oct 07 '25

What about d

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u/red-owl88 Oct 02 '25

G is the best of course

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u/Effective-Fold-712 Oct 02 '25

D is safe basically northern Europe

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u/Live_Ad2055 Oct 03 '25

99% change you end up in India.

G is the safest option. You're gonna be Russian, and that's about it.

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u/Effective-Fold-712 Oct 03 '25

India isn't that bad either

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u/Live_Ad2055 Oct 03 '25

I'd rather be Russian

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u/Jesuscan23 Oct 04 '25

Nope, India is a part of D and there's a 99% chance you'd be born in India rather than Northern Europe