efficient. safe. protected. controlled. a utopian city-state run like a multinational company. welcome to singapore incorporated. this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder shchlt ah la la la la sha la la la singapore. one could be forgiven for thinking it s a giant, ultramodern shopping mall. an interconnected, fully wired, air-conditioned nanny state, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. and those things are kind of true, especially if you read the papers or the carefully monitored internet. you look around the litterless streets where everything seems to work just fine, just fine. and you think, or you could be forgiven for thinking, gee, maybe a one-party system is just what we need. you look at all the social problems and ethnic strife, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid, and you could think, is this the life we want? it ain t my sy