If you want a youtube vid that goes into the details.

Singapore is run like a very successful corperation, which the government there pours money back into the civilian sector. There's an understanding between the government and citizens that if either fail, Singapore, who's geographically small next to Thailand and Malaysia and has to import most of it's food but is financially rich due to tourism, being the center of asian finance due to low taxes and having one of the best health-care systems in the world to the point that North Korean dictators travel there for surgery. if one of them fails, the country starts to come apart, the collectivism keeps them strong against their big northern neighbor China and US interests in the region.