This essay is about the country that the CIA Factbook regularly lists as having the highest gross domestic product per inhabitant, ahead even of gas-rich Qatar. It is more industrialised than Germany, has been outpacing Switzerland’s economic growth and, for the past 150 years, has done without a military force. This essay is about the Principality of Liechtenstein. A tiny sliver of a country, it is wedged between Austria and Switzerland, a short distance south of Lake Constance. Its 36,200 inhabitants (2011) live on a triangle of real estate some 25 kilometres from north to south and 15 kilometres from…
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