Outlier Nation

Outlier Nation?

Singapore is so small, it may not show up even in maps of Southeast Asia, let along world maps. It is the only independent city state left in the world. It is the only Chinese majority country in the world not to claim to be the real China. It is the only country in the world to achieve independence against its will. It was the improbable nation that no one expected to survive.

Yet today, by every metric one judges a nation’s success – economic, social, education, housing, soc...