Many of us have heard the deprecating characterizations of many countries. Like Putin described the UK as an “insignificant little Island”, and Russia has been characterized as a “mob run gas station” or Trump calling El Salvador, Haiti and African countries as “shithole countries”.
Let’s flip things around for a bit of fun. After a heavy night of drinking with your country’s head of tourism, you have one shot to give your best self-depricating characterization of your country for a new border sign.
I’ll go first:
Welcome to Canada - Enjoy world class sexual assault in sport – Come and play!
A sheep named Buck, no less. Careful not to typo it!
I can’t fathom the design meetings and nobody bringing this up.
Incidentally, I moved to Auckland at the beginning of 2026, and I was startled by how many maps I started to see that didn’t include New Zealand. There’s an episode of Bluey where it seems intentional–they’re doing a world map puzzle, and while Australia is there, they leave off the bottom-right puzzle piece that would’ve included NZ.