I find this to be a fascinating question that can be answered in about 1,000 different ways depending on what you subjectively value. I just think it's really

I find this to be a fascinating question that can be answered in about 1,000 different ways depending on what you subjectively value. I just think it's really hard to objectively answer this because the biggest power-plays when it comes to national health and power on the global stage may involve things like oil pipelines and energy politics that most people understand very little about and other extremely complicated things like demographics that have a big impact on how the culture evolves. The long-term and second-order effects of so many geopolitical moves can't really be obvious to most people until far later, and what's often popular and celebrated on the Internet can often be a short-term oriented win that doesn't create a lasting system or long-term prosperity. Ironically, I think it's sometimes the case that those countries that seem to be doing the worst in the short-term might be the closest to achieving some of the biggest conceivable long-term wins.