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The country is small:

It's less than 10 000 sq km in area, has fewer than 1 million people, and GDP less than about US$50 billion. It might have a coast. It's a liberal democracy, or at least mostly a liberal democracy. It's been independent for almost 100 years, attempts a strong neutrality, and is thus generally non-aligned.

I suppose the country's currency is hard, or reasonably hard, enough that it can be freely exchanged.

In this country you can bring a gym bag with US$1 million (say 10 000 $100 bills) in or out of the country. There are banks there which you can deposit the money, and while they might be required to report this to the government, the government won't tell the governments or other international organizations about it.

What would be the consequences for such in international relations?

Thank you.

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I am thinking of something like Hong Kong, a somewhat model society existing within the setting of a much larger geopolitical detente. Or maybe imagine a Hawaii that fended off Dole and built their own wealthy remote city state, too far away and powerful to easily push around.

It’s more about what the consequences could be in international relations should the geopolitical status quo change, but currently this little country can do many things that anger other countries that are powerless to stop it. Because the consequences would be worse, like igniting a world war.

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