[Zephyr]

Asides from mass-surveillance, you actually mentioned a lot of reasons (although I won't state if I agree/disagree) why the United states would be great to live in:

• "they would know if anything was going to happen"
  
• "practically untouchable to any current single nation"
  
• "practically anything can be bought"
  

You should take a look at this: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/

You'll see that while the US does have a lot of problems, the standard of living is pretty high. Based on that index, there's only a handful of places I'd actually consider moving to. Most of which, English isn't the first language in. Also, they aren't nearly as large.

That's is what I was saying. Although these things have these upsides are you really okay with it, the spying, the indoctrination, the corruptness.

They know if something will happen because of mass surveillance. That is a very bad thing considering they do it to their own people as well as most of the world.
Any thing can be bought is a terrible thing. You can't really suggest that a world where the highest bidder has the power over everything is a good place to live.
Yes, I guess the untouchable part is true but as I said, current single nation. If the EU got its heads together America could do nothing if there was a war. Same way if China and Russia got together.

That Better Life Index is pretty interesting. I might have an extensive look at that.

On the topic of language, I hope that in my life time there is a good basic world wide language developed that actually sticks and works.