The Cayman Islands, with a population a tenth the size of Dublin's, can't offer that.
That sentiment seems to be spreading among this territory's nearly seven million people, a population a little larger than Switzerland's.
A specific set of genes "buys" a population a market niche in an ecosystem.
Japan, the Asian champion, with a population a tenth of the size of China, has more than 300,000.
South Korea, with a population a quarter the size of Brazil's, registers about 30 times as many patents.
In Germany, last year's toll (defined as death within a month of the accident) was 6,982, despite higher motorway speeds and a population a third larger.
John Howard's administration expects Telstra to keep delivering a nationwide service to a population a fifteenth the size of America's, spread over almost as big a landmass.
This approach has proven far more effective in reducing violence and building community trust than stopping large segments of a population, a strategy sometimes equated with racial profiling, which only exacerbates tensions between police and the community.
McCain's selection of a woman with less than two years' experience running a state with a population a quarter the size of Brooklyn, suggests that his decision was based in large part on Palin's symbolic value rather than on substance.
Utrecht, the country's fourth-biggest city with a population a bit over 300,000, sees even greater numbers, with 60% of journeys in the city centre made by cyclists.
Strauss describes how banks had given up any sense of responsibility to a locale, a population, a nation, or even a specific economy, and instead saw themselves as global corporations.
