If you were setting out to make a country rich, what kind of mindsets and ideas would be most likely to achieve your goals? We invent a country, Richland, and try to imagine the psychology of its inhabitants.

“Most of what we call ‘politics’ really revolves around the question of what you need to do to make a country richer.
Rather than ask this of any specific country, let’s imagine designing a country from scratch. How could you make it as rich as possible?Suppose the brief was to design ‘Richland’: an ideal wealth-creating society. What would be the chief characteristics you’d need to build into this society? What would a nation look like that was ideally suited to success in modern capitalism?…”