singapore

Agree with your other points, but the routing of undersea cables means that data centers in Singapore have lower latency to users in the Indian subcontinent.

In a way, Singapore exists today because of the immense skill and drive of Lee Kuan Yew.

The same mercantilist strategy applied by Japan was repeated in Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and now China.

Some small nations have an out-sized GDP per capita such as Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Singapore because of their large financial industries.

We offer very competitive salaries commensurate with experience, uniquely attractive stock options, and an excellent working environment in Singapore Central Business District.

Half of our servers in Singapore (100+) are all down, cant access console either.

For example, could tiny Singapore dominate SE Asia or even become a world power?

We are in Singapore and our ELB is automatically deregistering our instances.

In fact, most Thai startups I know are incorporated in Singapore despite not having even one employee in the country.

Switzerland shall be compared to Singapore etc instead of US.

On the first point, Singapore is the extreme example.

But Dubai and Singapore are real places not under threat by pirates, while I can't think of a libertarian society that actually exists anywhere.

My then team of 10 would never have existed had Singapore not had its extremely open Employment Pass system (which the US does not have); every single member (bar one Singaporean who learnt Haskell) was "imported".

He successfully avoided US interference ("The Americans should know the character of the men they are dealing with in Singapore") yet built up an extremely impressive Army and police force inspired in great part by the martial law he had observed run by the Japanese, thus securing individual rights in the street.

Singapore is the most interesting case because it is the one exception to dependence on a foreign power for rights protection.

These industries are possible because the countries attract wealth and the wealthy through very low taxes(like Singapore) or very strong banking secrecy laws.

I admire the eugenics efforts of Singapore, for example, and will be delighted to see where it all goes.