I lived as a student a couple of years back.

European version of Singapore. You obey the rules. No exceptions. No grey area. Everything is very black and white, but the laws are reasonable.

However, I believe it's been slowly declining the further away we get from their gold standard era.

I didn't know it at the time but realized later as I discovered Bitcoin. The reason their society thrived and allowed itself to remain neutral all these years was because of the gold standard.

My hypothesis is that the gold standard period of Switzerland allowed for thriving of education, self development at a reasonable pace.

People may not see the link, but it's one of the only other countries I know of where guns are legal. The difference is this law comes with the flip sides of mandatory military service and excellent education that empower people to be civilized and avoid mutual destruction.

Discipline was everywhere. From the punctuality of trains to the cleanliness of streets. I think this was enabled by their gold standard. And as I mentioned earlier, I think we're now beginning to see the cracks of Switzerland moving away from that model in 1973, when they moved away from gold backed currency exchange rates to floating exchange rates.