Correlating espionage to GDP/economy is probably the most uneducated take on the matter. Smaller countries tend to have massively outsided foreign espionage ap

Correlating espionage to GDP/economy is probably the most uneducated take on the matter. Smaller countries tend to have massively outsided foreign espionage apparatus - see Japanese industrial espionage in the 1980’s, the French playing silly buggers globally, the Chinese basically boosting their entire economy off the back of intelligence collection, etc.