Quote Originally Posted by cbarry View Post
aus has like 1/12th the population of USA, but like 1/9th the gdp
I'm not sure where you're getting that from, wikipedia has 3 different lists of gdp per capita but the US is significantly higher than australia in all 3 of them. also, as I pointed out before, any list where luxumbourg macau and leichtenstein are at the top is not a good metric of how important a country is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...PP)_per_capita