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, social welfare, Singapore is often within the top few.

Yet today, 5.6 million people pack into a tiny island, one of the most densely population countries in the world, and while very ethnically, linguistically and religiously diverse, there is harmony and riots and protests of any sort are nearly unheard of. And still finds plenty of space for parks and nature reserves, and has learned to live cheek by jowl with wildlife.

In this book, a Singaporean born and bred, shares insights and highlights sometimes rarely known information, to illustrate just what makes what he calls, the Outlier Nation, tick. It wasn’t supposed to work, let along succeed beyond the wildest imaginations of the founding 1960’s generation. But it did. In this book, you will glean the answers to the two most important questions: how and why.