Singapore




 * Territory: The city-state of Singapore and its surrounding environs
 * Market (s): GOTO and APEC
 * Form of Government: Privately-owned Corpocracy
 * Head of State: Prime Secretary Kwa Kiah Hong
 * Head of Government (de facto): Chairman Kwa Tsien Lee
 * Legislature: Board of Directors for the Temasek Trust
 * Capital: The Istana

One of the richest and most technologically-advanced cities in the world, Singapore is entirely owned by the Temasek Trust, itself a subsidiary of the Pacific-World Finance Bank. The Trust itself is administered by the powerful Kwa Dynasty, giving the family pretty much sole control of the city-state and its wealth.

The wealth of Singapore, which gives the city much of its identity, comes both from its advantageous position on the edge between the two largest and most prosperous Common Markets in the world and from its status as Asia's greatest tech incubator (putting it high on the list for the greatest in the world). The technological innovation that drives PWFB, Saraswati and the Inari Group often sees light of day first in the labs and often on the streets of Singapore.

This technological innovation shows itself in every aspect of the city. The largest and fastest IDEX nodes in the world power the city and even the 'poorest' (true poverty is ejected to nearby parts of the Mainland) citizen has the comm unit that will be the hottest new thing in other markets next year, and is even more locked in to the virtual world than the average urbanite, so that the electronic layer of Singapore is just as real, if not more so, to its citizens as the physical. It also gives the Trust, and the corps that it allows to do business here, unprecedented access and control of the populace's thoughts, words and actions. Which, far from hiding or denying, is something that Singapore loudly boasts about when it talks about its unprecedented social harmony and control.

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