Where are these mythical countries you proclaim to have well managed public services and utilities?
People like to complain about public systems as if problems wouldn't exist in privately owned ones.
In other conversations it’s widely argued that those four probably don’t map very well to the larger, more diverse in every way, Western Democracies.
That leaves Germany, which has its problems.
If Germany hadn’t shut down their nuclear power plants they could have had 94% low emissions electricity by now, rather than 64% and much more costly.
The German economy is so well managed they’ve introduced rent-control in some cities.
Absolute paragon of a Western Democracy!
Maybe there’s an argument to be made that large countries should be broken up in to smaller, more manageable geographic / population sizes.
Trust busting style.
Also the idea of smaller units for creating a closer feeling of belonging is something I've been thinking about quite a few times. I think countries/nations etc. try to use patriotism and a us vs them (because there is often not enough real connection otherwise) mentality to artificially create this.