That's 19th century and 20th century thinking. Only the big countries, with big population, with natural resources to match, will be the next economic powerhouses.
With mobile cyberspace, intelligence goes to the edges. Giant cities lose their economies of scale advantage. People can increasingly work from home = work from anywhere. One doesn't need to physically go somewhere to get something done.
Let a million flowers bloom. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Look at Russia, then USSR and China. Maybe soon USA in bankruptcy.
As an individual, being stuck inside giant and stupid can be very dangerous to financial and physical health.
Switzerland, Luxembourg, Iceland, Monaco, Andorra, Portugal, Singapore, Hong Hong, South Korea, Lichtenstein, Austria have all been great places for decades. Small is beautiful.
Little tradable citizenship countries would be really turbocharged. There's more to life than roaring along a dozen lanes of highway 405, or being stopped in a traffic jam, or swarming by the million in London's underground maze.
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