Wish you could vote in another country's election? Simon Anholt unveils the Global Vote, an online platform that lets anybody, anywhere in the world, "vote" in the election of any country on earth (with surprising results).

It's an unexpected side effect of globalization: problems that once would have stayed local—say, a bank lending out too much money—now have consequences worldwide. But still, countries operate independently, as if alone on the planet. Policy advisor Simon Anholt has dreamed up an unusual scale to get governments thinking outwardly: The Good Coun...

We’ve just started a new country. A country whose only interest is the international interest. This will be a country capable of showing all the other countries in the world how to be better team players. A country capable of proving to other countries that collaborative and cooperative policy-making makes better policy. Want to join?

Simon Anholt has advised the presidents, prime ministers and governments of 55 countries during the last twenty years, helping them to engage more imaginatively and effectively with the international community and to ‘make the world work better’. He also publishes the Good Country Index, a survey that ranks countries on their contribution to ...