No, it's like college football: when you get a new country you have to choose a rival. If you don't, then it defaults to France.
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Of course, there are many countries in the world with not much history of engaging in conflict at all. Many of them are very small or located in places that have no strategic or economic value to anyone.
The first country I thought of is Liechtenstein.
Costa Rica doesn't have an army. They spent that money on the environment.
Lichtenstein seems pretty chill, but I don't know much about their history
I've always associated Switzerland with consistent neutrality, but someone with more historical knowledge may correct me on that.
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Vatican City. San Marino. Vanuatu. Palau. Lichtenstein. Costa Rica.
Also gotta remember: Some countries are less than 50 years old. Like South Sudan is only 17 years old at this point. They may not have had enemies or conflicts in the short period of time they existed.
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I don't think this answers your question, but this might interest you if you haven't heard of it before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese
It's an island with a tribe of people who have no contact with the rest of the world.
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The Swiss have managed to stay out of wars for a very long time and are famously neutral.
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Canada? We've been in a bunch of fights but haven't picked them ourselves. Consider the bloody battle for Han Island as an example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_War
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Imo, if you go back far enough, it is unlikely. No matter how peaceful or charitable a country may be now, they had to lay claim to their land at some point. And making those claims usually meant displacing or conquering someone else.
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Germany i think
During WW1, Spain stayed neutral, and then went on to have the "Spanish Flu" named after them. Even though it didn't originate from there, they were just neutral during the war, and had no quarrels in announcing their deaths, while the countries at war didn't wonna announce that their soldiers were dying at a high pace.
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