Welcome to America: get the fuck out, immigrant scum
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Good luck finding us on a world map. We're famous for two things: an adaptation of a British guy's books, and constantly trying to convince people that we do not want to fuck sheep while one of our banks goes and makes an ad campaign with a sheep that the internet decides is sexy.
Welcome to New Zealand, just off the coast of best sporting nation in the world
A sheep named Buck, no less. Careful not to typo it!
I can't fathom the design meetings and nobody bringing this up.
Incidentally, I moved to Auckland at the beginning of 2026, and I was startled by how many maps I started to see that didn't include New Zealand. There's an episode of Bluey where it seems intentional--they're doing a world map puzzle, and while Australia is there, they leave off the bottom-right puzzle piece that would've included NZ.
I don't know if that's slogany enough for a "welcome to" sign. Also feel free to mention the country.
Also you remind me of a self deprecating joke a guy from Wales and Malta told me some time ago: How do you know a guy is from Malta? He's shagging a sheep. How do you know the sheep is from Wales? She pushes back while his hands are behind his head.
Hey, don’t sell yourselves short… you’ve got the Haka and Flight of the Concords too
I wasn't sure what country until you mentioned the bank. I heard about that all the way over here in Canada :)
You guys would have been fine if somebody had taught the bank about the Streisand effect.
Canada - Europe without the culture
Québec tries (albeit aggressively) but the rest of Canada tells them to stop with "we don't do that here"
For some reason this comment made me think of this scene from Canadian Bacon
We're basically just diet America
Closed for repairs until Jan 2028.
A bit optimistic to think the repairs will be done by then, ain't it?
Welcome to ?: Closed for repairs until Jan 2028.
Norway - we're better than you.
"Explored the world for spices but decided we didn't like any of them." is the usual one.
"A nation of Baldricks and Blackadders" might also work.
Need some help guessing where ish.
I have no idea what a Baldrick is in this context, but bad food + global imperialism could really only be one place.
I mean, I guess Spanish food is pretty meh, as well. But Latin America more than makes up for it, so nobody complains.
Spanish food meh?
I'm sorry, but we must have a dual at dawn as I fight for their cuisine's honour. Swords, pistols or hockey sticks. Your choice.
I dunno, it seems like it's mostly meat and olive oil. I guess the gazpacho is good.
Jamon Iberico is sacred. Olives and olive oil is sacred. Don't make our duel a holy war too. ;) i do love gazpacho.
Paella, tapas, fideua (seafood vermicelli and fabada (bean stew) are amazing. Pan con tomate (a simpler bruschetta) is delicious. The wines are top 5 in the world. Their various sardine preparations are yum.
Black Adder is a old sitcom with each season being based in different time periods but the same characters. Baldrick is the main characters servant
The UK (or Britain).
We are responsible for the most public holidays globally: they're all independence from us days.
A nation of positive thinking worker drones who kneel to lick the anuses of the corporate raiders who own us. We have all the guns we want and the freedom to run people off the road with our big trucks, and after 12 hours on the shitty job we shovel down bland, sugary food and self-lobotomize on 400 streaming channels. To us,kindness is weak and the strong survive. This has us convinced that we're better then everyone else.
That's going to be a very large welcome sign. Maybe trim it to a slogan?
Edit: also where?
The happiest country in the world where everyone is burned out and miserable
Consider that even when burned out an miserable... you're happier than everywhere else. Think of what that must mean everyone else is dealing with.
Welcome to ?
Scandinavia! (Is as specific as I'll get)
"The world thinks we are efficient and have no humor. In reality, our trains are a joke."
I've described western australia as basically texas but drunker.
My dad always called the us "the land of bilk and money".
Welcome to (Western) Australia - drunker than Texas.
Works on a sign. Good work. I'll go visit.
One that always stuck with me...
"It was a frozen, hostile, wasteland. And there was much work to be done, if we were to survive the elements. After boring a hole through the ice to find food. My good friend Mantook and I, would build an Igloo to protect ourselves from polar bears and flying hockey pucks. Then we would drink a lot of beer, and when Mantook was ready, he would tell me the story of the Great Moose, who said to the little squirrel ‘Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.” - Jim Carrey
The US has been done pretty well. I'm from the state of Indiana, specifically; "There Are A Lot Of People In Indiana, But Annoyingly, I Do Know The Person You're Asking Me About"
I actually had that moment on a family vacation. A hotel waitress said oh, you're from Canada? What city? REALLY? Do you know so and so?
We thought it was just cheesing up the tourists for tips. Turns out she was close friends with a colleague from work and we heard stories about each other from our mutual connection. It does happen.
That is hilarious. I live in New Zealand now, and I've actually met at least two people who know acquaintances of mine from back home, and one person who even spent a part of their childhood about a half hour's drive away from my (very rural!) childhood home, though their family moved down here a few years before I was born.
So, two things to know about Indiana: one, our demonym is "Hoosier." No, we don't know what it means. And two, our list of local heroes includes sci-fi author Kurt Vonnegut. In his fourth book, he wrote, "I don't know what it is about Hoosiers. But wherever you go there is always a Hoosier doing something very important there."
I don't know about "important," but apparently we're pretty memorable.
My mother and I were driving through Texas on the way to Tennessee to visit some friends. Stopped in a random restaurant just off the highway (not an Interstate highway, just a State highway). One of her coworkers was at another table. We are not from Texas, or even New Mexico. That restaurant in the middle was not on a major Interstate corridor and was multiple states away from home, and still somehow we ended up there at the same time.
Had that experience at a festival in Germany. Walked from my tent to the stage and someone came up to me to ask "Hey, do you know where Rick is?". 40000 people at the festival, I had never seen that person in my life, but annoyingly, I did know who and where Rick was. He had walked past me just a couple of minutes earlier.
We get left off maps.....often!
We have really good international PR and people think we're "nice" but most of the governments in charge are conservative. People think we have universal healthcare but it's actually two tier and up to individual provinces where conservatives are eroding public healthcare away with barely a whimper of protest from the citizens. It's cold and dark half the year, our currency is weak, and cost of living is insane. Welcome to Canada!
Why limit yourself to just a border sign? Let me write a whole self-deprecating travel booklet!
Welcome to one of the world's famous places for exile convicts since XVII century!
It's cold in here? Oh, don't be silly, just put on some warm clothes! You simply have to, as you're now trapped here and not even allowed to have too many proper roads to the mainland. Don't even try to leave this place!
Tired of campism? Don't worry, there are only two living camps: governor-general's people and aggressive bears. So you won't be torn between factions... you'll just be torn into fractions.
No, of course you're not allowed to claim any of these abundant natural resources! In fact, you're considered as one of them. How convenient to keep you here!
Welcome here! You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining places in the globe. It's safer here. At least there are no motor-scooter sounds in the night sky...
Turkey managed to convert a secularist revolution into a religious dictatorship.
Welcome to the UK a lot of things are our fault but we won't apologise.
That’s why the Canadians are kept in the commonwealth, right?
"Australia is the arse end of the world."
Attributed (and slightly paraphrased) to ex-Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd, Paul Keating (who later denied saying anything of the sort), and Bob Hawke (need a necromancer to find out if he really said it).
We all think it's the greatest country in the world.
Also… we never actually learned the names of any other countries in school, so it's kinda impossible to name any alternatives.
It's cheating, but one word: Trump
In all seriousness:
Welcome to America! Land of School Shooters and Prayers Only Afterwards!
Not quite as bad as the US in almost every metric! Proud second-last place on every ranking of developed countries.
Some of the best qualities of Italy and Spain added together... and their worst multiplied.
Welcome to the US: we are a lot friendlier than the actions of our government might lead you to believe.
Small patch of unnaturally flat earth filled to the brim with a mix of moody, always busy, direct to your face, cheese farm descendants turned bureaucrats, drug-den youngsters, aging white boomers that own every piece of real-estate and immigrants from EVERY corner of the planet, all 18 million of whom are perpetually unfulfilled in life even though they're supposedly ranked 7th in world's best list. - "Happy" Holland
Our last child torture camp shut down in 1997.
We have the same prices as the rest of the EU but our salaries are 1/5 (considering currency conversion too), Romania
welcome to orbanistan, recently renamed for our new glorious leader! we're the perfect hangout spot for commies for that raw soviet vibe, because we sure as hell haven't progressed since. indulge yourself in a thousand intricate flavours of hate, walk the depressed streets of our only city, or simply enjoy our currency making you feel like a millionaire just for being able to afford to visit.
Duitchland but small and with cheese
Snob and so far incapable of officially facing our colonial past
That feels unfair though because I like to see the best in people. But I did the assignment
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