Wonder what is the ideal size for a country. I think under 100m population. Bigger is way too unwieldy.
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15M. Much over that and it jumps a level in bezzle, competence and (dis)organisation.
E.g. NZ vs AU
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I think the sweet spot is 50 million to 80 million. Big enough to be a regional power and semi-relevant globally, having domestic scale, but small enough to avoid being a meta-civilization/empire unto itself. The UK, Germany, France, South Africa, Turkey, South Korea all here.
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Anything over that scale is either chronically dysfunctional and needs worlds of growth and endless effort to rise above soul crushing poverty and internal schisms(Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Bangladash), is stuck in an endless middle trap(Egypt, Brazil) or /2
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Taiwan is 23M and not growing i think most of their pandemic and governance successes are probably because of this
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I mean, european countries are all under that, and they're not exactly the models of great governance across the board






