Singapore also has one of the lowest crime rates of any country, cleanest streets, high financial and academic prosperity... Sure, it's a small country, but it doesn't even rank because it has one of (if not, the) the lowest crime rates in the world, least corruption.. (Note that much smaller countries such as Malta, Estonia, do rank up there) Statistics is a cold-hearted b*. I'm not totally anti-drugs, but nobody can deny the correlation between proper prohibition of hard drugs and a general good quality of life exists. If anyone didn't know, the penalty for trafficking drugs in Singapore is death. My sister actually started crying when we passed through the border from Thailand to Malaysia because she thought somebody would try put drugs in her bag, and it didn't help that we kept making fun of her for it :P (the whole rest of the trip everytime she did something we'd say that they would hang her for that) Actually they didn't even search one person, I was watching and we were waiting for like 30 mins in line to cross te border. With all the laws in Singapore I'm not suprised the crime rate is so low, the whole place is signs saying "do not bike here, or do not ____ here $5000", I don't suppose they actually fine that many people though. But with the border from Malaysia to Singapore I'd rather not try smuggle drugs....