Genshin does have a story somewhere, but exploring the world is the real fun.

Sovereign governments collect taxes to destroy money, not to fund things. They can fund things by creating money from thin air; the taxes are to remove money from circulation and control inflation.

That said, a government can decide what it wants to tax, and how much. Sales taxes hurt economic activity, and fall disproportionately on the poor, so a high sales tax is generally bad. You can either have a higher tax specifically for luxuries, or instead charge a wealth / income tax.

can you explain what you mean about the banking system? Is it more for international transactions?

It works on multiple levels:

1. Your citizens having accounts in US banks.
2. Your banks being dependent on US software.
3. Your banks relying on a US backend for domestic (person to person or customer to business or business to business) transactions.
4. Same as 3, but for international transactions.
5. Your citizens, businesses and banks using the US dollar for international transactions.

Each of these is a little tax or subsidy you pay to the US. They also expose you to US sanctions. So the more of these you can do locally, the better. In practice, you want to completely avoid 2 and 3, and minimise 1, 4 and 5.

our own payment system for consumer transactions called Interac

Good. You need to make sure everyone uses it. Make it easy to set up, remove any usage fees (at least temporarily), and make it the default option offered by banks. You can also add features like payment apps and integration with public transport / ride-sharing services.

Serial Experiments Lain?

They're not allowed to leave South Korea or do many types of jobs for a certain number of years. They get a little help from the government, but most rely on giving interviews to the media or public speaking to make ends meet. This suits the South Korean government, since saying positive things about North Korea is illegal, so these people can be starved into saying whatever they want.

No way Delhi looks that clean.

General Motors, Ford, Dodge, Chrysler, Tesla

Why not use this chance to go full EV?

Apple iPhone 👉 Buy a Samsung

Please, no. Samsung phones are the worst Android phones in the world. Use anything else before those.

Boeing 👉 Buy Airbus. At least they won't crash.

You actually have your own aircraft maker.

What do americans sell that Canadians actually need?

Access to the US dollar / banking system and protection of your merchant ships. That's what you will need to find alternatives for.

americans still believe they have something to offer Canadians

The US offers access to the US banking system, and protection of your maritime trade. It also does not like countries developing their own banking systems or overland trade routes (the hostility towards the Brazilian payment system is a recent example). This is something you'll need to deal with (as in, build and defend an alternative, or join an existing system) if you want to become more independent.

What's with the houses? They look like someone scattered them on the ground.

I believe in freedom of opinion, but facts are sacred.

BRICS is an international organisation, and it does have a joining process. Canada can apply for membership, but Russia and/or Iran might veto.

.ml is Mali.

EU

rule of law

Lol. Lmao, even.

While I'm sure companies would love to do this, won't they need microphone permissions from the browser to get the reflected sound?

It's funny because in my country, the airport security would prefer you to wear light clothes so it doesn't mess with their metal detectors. If you wear a formal dress with coats, belts, etc., then it makes their work harder and unless you are Muslim or Sikh they will probably ask you to remove the extra clothes.

Those 'r's are silent. The previous vowel just gets lengthened.

In India, it's usually feb-ru-(v)a-ree. Our languages write words as they are pronounced, and we're too lazy to make an exception for English.

'Europe' isn't a true continent anyway, but it is considered one for historical reasons.

So why didn't they do it till now?

I know they aren't, but our diplomats keep pretending that NATO countries can be trusted. Best case they're stalling while we build alternatives to Western systems and tech. But then they also invite US tech oligarchs or EU officials and announce huge deals that predictably go nowhere. I just hope they're looking at what happened to Russia / China, and how those countries responded, and learning from the experience.