Answer:  Singapore!  Where is it?  On the tip of the Malaysian Peninsula.  What is it?  It's an island nation, the modern-day leftover of a 19th-Century British trading post.  This unique historical mix of Chinese (77%), Malay (14%), and Indians (7%) represent a true showcase multi-racial society.   Singapore has benefited from its position at the centre of one of the world's richest trading routes.  After weathering British colonisation and more recent Japanese occupation, Singapore has emerged as one of Asia's "tiger" economies.  

This is largely thanks to one man, Lee Kuan Yew, who governed the country's "single party democracy" from 1961 through 1990.  Outstandingly high industrial growth, a well-educated population, social harmony, and impeccably clean streets have all occured at the expense of certain personal freedoms and cultural / artistic output.  Anti-social behaviour is discouraged.  Formation of special interest groups is prevented from having any political influence.  Labour strikes are banned.  Detention without trial is permitted.  Sale of chewing gum is outlawed.  Smoking in restaurants, malls, and train stations is prohibited.  Press freedoms and right of assembly are limited.  2½-year military service is mandatory for all 18-year-old males.  Corruption is non-existent.  Drug traffickers are executed.  Government campaigns address spitting in public, littering, flushing public toilets, courtesy, smiling, keeping fit, smoking, and language usage.  It made sense to me when explained, "When you strike, you negatively affect not only yourself and your own family, but your company, and worst of all...   your country."