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How come there are so few actual city-states? Singapore, Monaco, Vatican… that’s it I think. UAE if you relax definition a bit. And the Vatican doesn’t really count. And Monaco is just a wealthy tax shelter, not a real thing. So really just Singapore.
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that is true, and highkey one of the reasons why governance in singapore is so efficient but in times of less political stability i'm pretty sure city states will be 1) running out of water/food imports from its now not so friendly neighbors 2) swallowed up promptly after