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So a couple of years ago, I thought I would take some time out and speak to that gigantic database and ask it,
所以幾年以后，我認為我可以抽出些時間來跟那個龐大的數據庫聊聊，問問它，
why do some people prefer one country more than another?
為什么有些人相比于另一個國家，更喜歡一個國家？
And the answer that the database gave me completely staggered me. It was 6.8.
數據庫給我的答案完全出乎我的意料。答案是6.8。
I haven't got time to explain in detail.
我沒時間解釋詳情。
Basically what it told me was... the kinds of countries we prefer are good countries.
基本上它告訴我的是--我們喜歡的國家是好國家。
We don't admire countries primarily because they're rich, because they're powerful,
我們不會因為有些國家富有而愛慕它們，或因為它們有權勢，
because they're successful, because they're modern, because they're technologically advanced.
因為它們成功，因為他們現代化，因為他們有先進的科技。
We primarily admire countries that are good. What do we mean by good?
我們愛慕一個國家因為它們好。“好”是什么意思？
We mean countries that seem to contribute something to the world in which we live,
我們指的是那些國家對我們所居住的世界作出了貢獻，
countries that actually make the world safer or better or richer or fairer.
那些讓世界更安全或更好或富有或更公平的國家。
Those are the countries we like. This is a discovery of significant importance
這些是我們喜歡的國家。這是一個有重大意義的發現，
you see where I'm going -- because it squares the circle.
你知道我要說什么了--因為它解釋了一切。
I can now say, and often do, to any government, in order to do well, you need to do good.
我現在可以說，而且經常說，對任何政府，想要做得好，就要做好事。
If you want to sell more products, if you want to get more investment,
如果你想賣更多產品，如果你想得到更多投資，
if you want to become more competitive, then you need to start behaving,
如果你想變得更有競爭力，那你就得開始好好表現，
because that's why people will respect you and do business with you,
這樣人們才會尊重你，與你展開商務往來，
and therefore, the more you collaborate, the more competitive you become.
因此，你合作得越多，你就越有競爭力。
This is quite an important discovery, and as soon as I discovered this, I felt another index coming on.
這是一個相當重要的發現。我一發現這一點，我感到另一個指數的必要性。
I swear that as I get older, my ideas become simpler and more and more childish.
我發誓我年齡越大，我的想法就越簡單，也會越孩子氣。
This one is called the Good Country Index, and it does exactly what it says on the tin.
這個指數叫好國家指數。它所做的完全是它的字面意思。
It measures, or at least it tries to measure,
它衡量，起碼試圖衡量，
exactly how much each country on Earth contributes not to its own population but to the rest of humanity.
地球上每個國家到底貢獻了多少，不是對它本身的國民而是其余的人類。
Bizarrely, nobody had ever thought of measuring this before.
奇怪的是，從來沒有人想過要來衡量這個。
So my colleague Dr. Robert Govers and I have spent the best part of the last two years,
我的同事Robert Govers博士和我花了過去兩年的大部分時間，
with the help of a large number of very serious and clever people,
在許多非常認真而聰明的人們的幫助下，
cramming together all the reliable data in the world we could find about what countries give to the world.
搜集了世界上所有我們能找到的或國家愿意向世界提供的數據。
