Have you seen Australia, New Zealand and the UK? Not that Canadaian government and cities aren't woke as fuck, but at least most if it is rural enough to prevent the government from micromanaging the whole thing and cold enough to keep the flow of undesirables at a still to high, but not UK level.
Let's face it the whole of the commonwealth is getting pretty awful and I think it will take some careful consideration before awarding the title of "most cucked" to any of them. It's a fierce competition.
Military was only one of the services possible. The book is set during war time though, so military is the one focused on.
The idea of the service is to set the requirements near the upper end of what someone was capable of to make everyone technically able to achieve citizenship, but most give up.
I think it's mentioned that a blind cripple might be able to get citizenship just by insisting hard enough if the government couldn't find something they were capable of.
No one else is mentally invested in the platform enough to attempt running a gimmick account.
Maybe children and younger teenagers, but they have largely moved elsewhere and are often indistinguishable through text alone anyway.
I prefer silver to gold due to the physical size of it making it much more practical to trade with. of course, if we're at the point where we're trading silver, there's no guarantee of markets being at all stable. Still, historical precedent has silver between 5 and 50 dollars an ounce at the extremes, so it seems reasonable that a one ounce coin would be a useful unit of value in day to day life. Gold is similar per gram, which is too small a coin to be useful due to ease of damage or loss. One ounce coins may be useful for the very wealthy however.
Yes because "Who's your favorite character?" Is a real tough question that only mega-nerds would be able to answer.
"What's your favorite song by [band you claim to be into]?" Such deep knowledge is required to answer. It's not that the reason you picked the shirt is that it fit an image you were trying to convey, it's that requiring you to remember anything about one of your favorite songs is an unsolicited gatekeeping test, and not an effort to introduce a topic you feel confident in to start a conversation.
"Do you like Shonen anime?" Shonen? This is obviously an attempt to introduce obscure foreign language jargon in an attempt make me look foolish, and stroke your nerd ego. Not everyone can spend thousands of hours learning Japanese, and this is definitely not a term in common use by the English community and a basic classification that every fan will know if they've done even the most basic legwork to seek out shows they like.
UK speech laws are far worse than Canada's. Both UK and Australian gun laws are far worse than Canada's. Australia was far more draconian than Canada on covid.
The government control over the population is also very thin outside of major cities.
The euthanasia and trucker crackdowns were pretty bad admittedly, but I'm not sure it's as bad as Great Britain's ubiquitous thought police, or Australia's borderline police state.