Presents a look at each of the 198 countries of the world. With a handy grading system to reveal who are the globe's real top nations and which ones are letting the side down on a monumental scale, this book explores and reveals the best country in the World.

Take a tour of the world from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe and learn much more about every nation state with Dixe Wills witty guide. Find out what is traditionally made there, a brief history of the country and it's population and currency along with less known, more bizarre facts. For example did you know Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon?

"'Too many people believe that one country is as good as another, but only the Czechs have a national anthem about the awfulness of going out for the evening and then forgetting where you live', comments Wills. In addition to his patented scoring system and world map nation locator, 'paint-by-numbers flags are the aesthetic coup de grace'. Financial Times 'Exquisitely dotty, yet irresistibly charming. A project so pointless as to be vital to our national well-being.' Stephen Fry 'A jocular guide... Dixe Wills has boldly gone to these backs of beyond to prove that we don't need to' Sunday Telegraph"