How about the time that Scotland got envious of all the other European powers doing colonialism in the New World, so they dumped all their wealth into setting u

How about the time that Scotland got envious of all the other European powers doing colonialism in the New World, so they dumped all their wealth into setting up a colony in the Darien gap, which failed so horribly that it bankrupted the country and forced them to unite with England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme