It seems that there are some contradictions in ur analysis... Anyways my point is a person is not big by his size or age, the same shoudl apply to country as well. If citizens and policymakers think big the country is big (my view) Ok now i have a question to the author, how big is big, how do u measure size of a country? Is there a critical mass below which people should "assimilate"? And how do we measure developed, underdeveloped? I do not think GDP or world bank report alone is sufficient to define that. Waiting for ur comment. Thanks it was good to see nicely written post on sajha for a change, instead of "Nepali girl" posts and equally unnessary comments, flooding "kurakani".