It's got 9m people. The US has 30x the people and 250x the space. It's not comparable.

you going for the cherry-picked-but-functionally-meaningless statistic of the week award?

What is this supposed to imply? us states are also a poor representation of humanity. This matters a great deal: switzerland is notoriously ethnically homogenous and unable to get along with anyone. Life on easy mode!