British American Tobacco v Rachel Reynolds
Royal Dutch Shell Group v Greece
Sierra Leone v Luxembourg - (the world's poorest take on the world's richest.)
North Korea v South Korea - (Errata)
Somalia v East Timor - (the world's poorest nations)
What if Algeria attacked Azerbaijan? Could Zaire take on Zimbabwe? International Deathmatch addresses these conundrums with a look at the statistics that rule each country:
I'm not talking wussy sports here, but the true test of a nation: whether it can kick another nation's ass!
Feel the testosterone.
Pits the national against the multi-national. Since countries are measured differently to companies, I have made some assumptions about which indicators to compare, ie:
Population 15-64 years vs Employees - I don't count children or the aged in countries because companies (generally) don't employ them.
GDP vs Revenue - A comparison of debatable validity. GDP is the measure of 'value add' that a country puts onto its products, whereas revenue is simple cash inflow. It's been argued that GDP would be greater if measured along the same lines as corporate revenue (see FT.com 'Countries still rule the world'), but we are measuring influence here, not pure economic power, and so I feel the comparison is appropriate.
I have noticed that corporate information is tremendously difficult to find. In comparison, country info is easily referenced and cross-referenced. If, indeed, the biggest corporates are powerful enough to muscle countries, then they could do so with little scrutiny.