Why are small countries richer?

[The Lawspeaker]

We live in a world that is gaining more and more countries, so obviously, these are becoming smaller. Since 1950 our world has gone from having, about 60 countries to almost 200. So, this may lead to a few questions. Is this good or bad? Are small countries viable? We will see the answers to these questions in this video.

[Ion Basescul]

My country has 2.6 million people, with an area of 33k km^2 and is among the poorest in Europe with Ukraine.

[Samnium]

Vatican, Singapore, Hong Kong or Monaco are the richest when divided by the area I would say.

The patrimony of Catholic Church is worth thousands of billions of dollars.

[The Lawspeaker]

I'd say that the Netherlands would be much better off with 8 to 10 million people. Then we have all the space that we ever wanted to have.