I'd be willing to bet that Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg fit nice and tidy inside a corner of Arizona - I'm an Irishman - I too live in a small country - but it is a Hell of a lot bigger than those countries - the aforementioned countries would even fit inside Ireland together, at the same time!!! LOL!!!
And...God Bless it my friend, the Irish wont buckle to socialism.
They suffered forever resisting.
And looky looky now! Ireland leads europe in prosperity!