While traveling through Sikkim, locals told me that both China and India were vying for Sikkim’s loyalty and India secured it by employing huge amounts of peopl

While traveling through Sikkim, locals told me that both China and India were vying for Sikkim’s loyalty and India secured it by employing huge amounts of people. At the time I visited (2010) the anecdote I recall hearing was 70% of the workforce is government employed.