https://www.population.fyi/p/american-singapores-effective-city
no mention on singapore's draconian drug laws, a compliant population and highly-remunerated (and therefore highly competent) politicians? 
orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40797376
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also obligatory “disneyland with the death penalty”:
>Singapore is the most boring, sterile place I've ever been. I'd take Tokyo, Taipei, or Hong Kong over it in a heartbeat. The entire country reminds me of a mall. William Gibson's 1993 Wired article "Disneyland with the Death Penalty" (https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/) is still as relevant as ever.
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I saw a fascinating talk that convincingly argued that the Chinese Communist Party has taken its game plan over the last 30 years from Singapore, a de facto one party state led by the People's Action Party. It's interesting to note that this party was founded on socialist principles but is now firmly capitalist.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40799242
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Gibson was a burned out old hippie who repackaged ideas that were common in the 1970s so that effete hipsters and drug users could feel like they understood. It's not surprising that when he's staring the future in the face in Singapore he doesn't get it. He never was a visionary, just a guy who tried to understand the internet in terms of his aging boomer hippie mentality.
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also everything he's written post 90s (that i've read) has been trash. couldn't stand the blue ant shit
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