[nasredin]

I think US would be the country for "first contact", then Russia.

Most of our planet is water. US has the biggest/best Navy & intelligence systems. And also pretty aggressive spirit.

Russia has 1/6 (IIRC) of our planet's land mass and also a very stubborn spirit.

So my uneducated guess is ET is going to be chatting with either Trump or Putin.

...God help us...

[ema]

I think Chile would be the first country for "first contact".

Why? it's an elaborate pun in their alien language and the alien bureaucrat in charge of that decision really loves puns.

[nasredin]

If an alien civilization doesn't love puns, then I really don't want to meet them.

The world is already a shitty place. Earth doesn't need to add more species that don't understand or love puns.