It's a symptom of a problem within the US too. We're an enormous country with dozens of member states and territories, but we obsess about a tiny fraction of the politics. I've known how I'm voting for president for a very long time, but I don't even know what's on the ballot yet for things that probably influence my life more than the presidency.

Those couple things just suck up all the attention.

> This is true for most (all?) countries. If there's any country that avoided this fate, I'd like to know.

Tentatively: France, Italy, China, Japan, India (?), Egypt.

Seems like these are primarily non-english speaking states, which may help because translation would otherwise be needed.

It's cause Countries are imaginary entities and humans just want drama and don't care to get it from their own imaginary entity or some other imaginary entity.