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I Like The Idea Of Microstates.


I have long been a fan of the idea of microstates. I think it lets good ideas flourish. You need to focus on those people who live within the same city or small number of cities, instead of focusing on how people feel 3,000 km away...whom you will never meet outside of some national campaign. The UAE could have been part of Saudi Arabia. Kuwait could have been part of Iraq. Singapore could have been part of Malaysia. I'd be for an independent Bali. I'm certainly for an independent Kurdistan. The UN lists the countries with the highest GDP per capita as Monaco, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Qatar, Norway, Macau, and Bermuda. Of those, only Norway is a relatively large country. But even Norway just has a bit over 5 million people. Macau and Bermuda aren't even full-fledged countries, but they act as microstates. The richest country in Africa appears to be the Seychelles...a small island nation which also has the smallest population of any African nation. It seems that more change can happen in smaller states, because instead of waiting for hundreds of millions of people in far-flung places to get the same idea, they can just have a cultural change in a city and be able to then make that change politically and economically. If you instead had a government ruling over the entire world, even if it were democratic, there is no way gay marriage would exist. Blasphemy laws would be in place over the entire world. Far from increasing progress, to me, it seems that super-states restrict progress. Regarding all of the real and mostly imagined problems of "Brexit", I have to say this: To me it seems crazy that as soon as a country gains sovereignty over itself, people think that trade will collapse, immigration will halt, people will not be able to visit or live in other countries, etc. Speaking as a person from an independent country, I can say that I have lived in two other independent countries with no problem at all. And I regularly visited still other countries, again with no problem...unless you consider passport checks at airports a problem. I have even imported products from these other independent countries, too! It is amazing! (The map is from the game, "Victoria II".)
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