@interfluidity @Phil

> Liechtenstein’s full population is 40K

I don't see a problem with this; do you want to talk about vote dilution?

> and it’s a tax haven.

I don't see a problem with this.

> I don’t think Liechtenstein can serve as a persuasive governance model for anywhere else.

I don't think Norway can, either. I think if you use another country as a model, you get--in the *best* case--what that country gets. In the worst case, you get a system that doesn't fit the sensibilities of the people that have to live inside it and you get King Leopold II trying to turn the country into a rubber manufacturing hub and you have an economic collapse and a bunch of people in the third world missing their right hands.

> Whether Finns are grateful or not for the nuke umbrella, free-riding off it doesn’t explain their success.

I'm saying they have complaints with their government. Their gold mines (the largest in Europe) probably have more to do with their success.

> Finns are not cattle.

They have a population of 5.6 million. It's not comparable to the US any more than Liechtenstein is. LA County has 9.6m.