I'll tell you, UltraFire.

Your country "acts like a parent" because it has

- one of the strongest and oldest *democracies* in the world (more than 200 years now)

- won the second World War and freed my continent from a madman

- the strongest and most sophisticated weapons on earth

- the strongest economy in the world

- 250.000.000 inhabitants, which is quite a lot, who have a whole continent for their own (so there is no need for wars like in Europe's bloody past and present -> former Yougoslavia).