I was thinking of Yemen, Oman and Somalia, though now that I look at a map I see they're not technically on the Persian Gulf.
I've heard good things about Dubai, but not enough to do a serious comparison between it and other countries.
Ideally, Dubai and Singapore would both set up thalassocracies, competing in a friendly way for trade and citizens. Their cities could be adjacent to one another, kind of like Burger King and McDonalds.
I've heard good things about Dubai, but not enough to do a serious comparison between it and other countries.
(To do so would be a category error, because Dubai is in fact a city -- and, unlike Singapore, not an independent one. The country it's in is called the United Arab Emirates.)
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