22 CULTURAL VARIATIONS OF MORALITY

Moral Machine attracted users from 233 countries and territories. I say “and territories” because the press often simply wrote “233 countries,” which raised eyebrows among readers who know that there are fewer than 200 countries in the world. But our database processes mainland France separately from each of the French overseas territories, for example, which is one reason we ended up with the number 233. Not all of these countries and territories contributed at the same rate, of course, so we decided to focus our cultural analysis on the 130 countries and territories that provided the most responses.