Consideration needs to be made when thinking that a policy which works in Singapore, one of the smallest countries in the world by area and one with a strong tr

Consideration needs to be made when thinking that a policy which works in Singapore, one of the smallest countries in the world by area and one with a strong tradition of rather strict governance in the modern era, can be applied to vastly larger ones with some pretense of respect of constitutional civil rights and a history of distrust of strong government.