Talk:Singapore (1983: Doomsday)

I've thought for some time about Singapore, and working on a proposal for the country.

If I may ask, has anyone had any type of vision, or proposals, for Singapore?

I don't know if the island would have taken any type of fallout on Doomsday. I would imagine it would have been overwhelmed by refugees and gone through a time of chaos as it figured out how to feed its citizens while caring for the refugees without falling apart.

I also would imagine that, TTL, Singapore is one of the most advanced nations on earth. Its government would have stayed intact, and the right moves on the government's part in turn could have placed Singapore in position to be a global leader in technology, finance, business, you name it.

From the Wikipedia article on Singapore:

"While trying to be self-sufficient, the fledging nation faced problems like mass unemployment, housing shortages, and a dearth of land and natural resources. During Lee Kuan Yew's term as prime minister from 1959 to 1990, his administration tackled the problem of widespread unemployment, raised the standard of living, and implemented a large-scale public housing programme.[32] It was during this time that the foundation of the country's economic infrastructure was developed; the threat of racial tension was curbed; and an independent national defence system centering around compulsory male military service was created."

and

"Singapore has a highly developed market-based economy, which has historically revolved around extended entrepôt trade. Along with Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, Singapore is one of the Four Asian Tigers. The economy depends heavily on exports and refining imported goods, especially in manufacturing. Manufacturing constituted 26% of Singapore's GDP in 2005.[47] The manufacturing industry is well-diversified with significant electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, mechanical engineering and biomedical sciences manufacturing sectors. In 2006, Singapore produced about 10% of the world's foundry wafer output.[48] Singapore has one of the busiest ports in the world and is the world's fourth largest foreign exchange trading centre after London, New York City and Tokyo."

I suppose the key here is how much this was true of Singapore in 1983.

One possibility is to write Singapore as a struggling Third World nation, wrecked by Doomsday into a tailspin it could never pull out of.

Another possibility is to write it as a prosperous (relative TTL) citystate, the lone remaining economic Asian Tiger, sort of the gateway to Asia for the ANZC and the rest of the world and the gateway to the world for Asia. It perhaps plays a similar role globally TTL that Taipei and Korea (and Singapore) play OTL.

It will be a while for me to build this article, but I'm willing to adopt it if no one else has a claim on it (and I can't find one anywhere).

Thoughts?--BrianD 23:59, November 19, 2009 (UTC)