Low taxes, little bureaucracy, good programmers, good startup culture (skype, for example, was programmed there), business-friendly place, good ties with Finlan

Low taxes, little bureaucracy, good programmers, good startup culture (skype, for example, was programmed there), business-friendly place, good ties with Finland and Sweden, wifi everywhere, widespread use of the web. The thing that impressed me most, however, was when I read that they are a nation of only 1.4 million people, so they have to go after every opportunity they have in order to make things more efficient. The Government's goal is actually to make the public sector so efficient that they can fire state employees and "free up resources", i.e. workers, for the private sector. Of course, this policy must have created some problems in the last 2 yeas, but overall the impression is that they are a country on the right path. Finally, the three Baltic Republics - I have visited Estonia and Latvia, but not Lithuania - are countries that share many traits with Scandinavian countries and that look up to Scandinavian countries. I personally expect them to do very very well.