What other countrys' currencies are fiat?

"Evil flourishes when good men do nothing."
—Edmund Burke

good question and good first post down there at the bottom.

as far as i know all the currencies in the world are now fiat (except maybe some remote islands).

i believe switzerland has a partial backed gold currency. but i know very little about this so could be wrong.

would be good of us to look into this more, such as a map as suggested below, and also some good history of all the fiat currencies that have collapsed.

i remember clearly when i was a kid, my dad had a subscription to national geographic. they did a series where they put a note of an old collapsed currency from around the world in each issue.
i remember that i just couldn't understand how the note had become worth nothing.

...the long defenders of sovereign currencies have been, no less than: venezuala, afghanistan, north korea, iraq and iran.

of course, most of us know when saudi arabia exited from a pure sovereign currency....

well ain't it strange bedfellows....americans sharing something in common with commies, dictatorships, et al.

i look at it like this...some sovereign warlords are defending their turf to the big bully on the street, the global warlord. america is an anomaly, being a constitutional republic.

well, that we were a constitutional repbublic. we have indeed become the police man of the world; for the new world order. how sad it is. some of the countries above have been free, and certainly venezuela, iran, and afghanistan have fought to defend a representative form of government. who's business is it of ours to squawk at someone else? I mean damnit, who the hell are we?

but we do have the framework, and i believe the spirit, to prevail in the strive for liberty. we've had it, and it is for sure time we've had it again. we are on our way. britain has lost it, fance has lost it, italy has lost it, and many more. the fighting irish are doing one thing they do well: fight.
three cheers for the irish. and for that matter, many of the citizenry of britain. the scotts? we know we can count on them for a dose of independencey. in fact, most citizenry of the globe wants just what you and me want: liberty. representation. fiscal and religious freedom. rule of law and not tyranny.

keep up the good fight fellow patriots. this movement has been something to behold from the very beginning. freedom does bring us together. together, let us all fight to be free.

This question is important to me too.

Thanks for the answers. If there are any disagreements please post.

Imagine that, the whole world or west run by a fiat system.
So do we all have central banks as well.

Are all these central banks run like the Fed? Can they print money willy nilly?
Also, say like Australia is pinned to the Greenback (somehow???), how would a country go about getting off it, once having gotten on it?

I don't think there any commodity backed currencies left. Are there any?

-"Ron Paul cured me of my predilection for Che Guevara T shirts."

Actually the United States has both a fiat system and a real money system already, people just don't use it. What I am refering to are coins that are minted by the Treasury. The Fed doesn't even make interest off of the coins when minted, unlike the making of interest off the emiting of paper money. If people would circulate these then there would be no need for Federal Reserve Notes. Of course that is why they try to get people to save coins instead of circulating them. And they also make it difficult to pay your bills in coins as well. Why don't we have a $20 minted coin?
Of course you can always buy old silver coins and trade and barter with them. Not at their face value of course but at their intrinsic value.
grant

Excellent post and great first comment. To answer in part, Dr. Paul keeps pointing out that this is the first time in history where almost the entire world is on a fiat system. There is no way to predict an outcome of a crash. But it is like driving a motorcycle, it is not a matter of IF you are going lay it down, but of WHEN it is going to happen. And how bad the damage.

Most....

And the ones that aren't on the central banking system get invaded and threatened until they do. Only a few hold outs now.

I believe that what you ask is actually far more important than what you realize. If we had a map showing the currency used in each country and what backed that currency (i.e. their central bank, gold, silver, etc), I think we would have a much clearer picture of the monopoly game that is being played between these powers.

Any one up for creating it?