Hello Elmat:
I am familiar with your "return to size" idea and agree with you to some extent.
Examples, such as, England come to mind. But England is a tiny island, of 130,410 sq km (50,352 sq mi).
Consider that there are 50 states in the USA and the largest state is over 10X the size of England. Consider also, that the USA's GDP is by far the largest in the world, nothing else comes close. Depending what figures you use, it is somewhere around 23-25% of world GDP.
Rank ? Country ? GDP (millions of USD) ?
— Flag of World World 54,347,038
1 United States 13,811,200
— Eurozone 12,179,250a
2 Japan 4,376,705
3 Germany 3,297,233
4 China (PRC) 3,280,053
5 United Kingdom 2,727,806
6 France 2,562,288b
7 Italy 2,107,481
8 Spain 1,429,226
9 Canada 1,326,376
en.wikipedia.org
So, shrinking to it's natural size, it will still be pretty awesome.
Just some thoughts to ponder.
regards,
R. |
