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I'm working on a small fictional country that might be good for money launderers. How would this affect its relations with other countries? (please click for details) (lemmy.world)
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The country is small:

It's less than 10 000 sq km in area, has fewer than 1 million people, and GDP less than about US$50 billion. It might have a coast. It's a liberal democracy, or at least mostly a liberal democracy. It's been independent for almost 100 years, attempts a strong neutrality, and is thus generally non-aligned.

I suppose the country's currency is hard, or reasonably hard, enough that it can be freely exchanged.

In this country you can bring a gym bag with US$1 million (say 10 000 $100 bills) in or out of the country. There are banks there which you can deposit the money, and while they might be required to report this to the government, the government won't tell the governments or other international organizations about it.

What would be the consequences for such in international relations?

Thank you.

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Edit (probably over 20 minutes after posting):

However, I should have added, that this generally occurred between 1998 and 2004.

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[–] [S] 3 points 5 hours ago

It's a fictional country.

I find 2 problems with writing about real countries, I suppose small ones in particular:

  1. They might not be good for my story. Monaco is too small for one of my characters, Switzerland is landlocked.

  2. Someone who knows a lot about the real country, such Monaco or Switzerland, perhaps someone who lives there, might say: "Oh, that's not right, in [the country they know about] they do it this way."

That said, I want the country to be realistic enough that it would fit in the real world and exist, at least more or less, as I described it. That's why while I want it to be big enough to be viable, but small enough for a realistic enough fit.

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