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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
-Welles, (George) Orson
What if you did not have 500 hundred years of democracy and peace in this expensive little country?
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