Singapore has 8-9x more people than Bhutan, so you'd think Bhutan could become rich fairly quickly as a city state. It doesn't have a port, and it is pretty har

Singapore has 8-9x more people than Bhutan, so you'd think Bhutan could become rich fairly quickly as a city state. It doesn't have a port, and it is pretty hard to get to, so I don't think it can be particularly populated unless they manage to flatten a few mountains to build a big airport. It is also one of the sources of the Shangri-La myth, it would be cool if they actually called a city that (China technically renamed Zhongdian Yunnan to Shangri-La, but that is very much a gimmick).