Blown it again! A Scotland that counts for nothing! Nice, very nice.
Sorry mate, but there is no way of sugar coating the fact that a country of 5 million instead of 65 million is not going to be a heavy hitter on the world stage. As part of the Union, Scotland has 200 embassies and consulates around the world working for its interests and promoting its products, including whisky, for which, incidently, Scotland’s largest distiller has come out against independence for this very reason.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-28183123
Scotland on its own will not have the resources to promote Scottish brands the way Britain does to promote British brands, including Scottish ones. Like I say, independence is cutting your nose off to spite your face.
Just to put that into context, that difference between rUK and iScotland is more than twice the difference in terms of population size and GDP than between the rUK and the USA, whose population and economy is over 5 times our size. The difference between rUK and Scotland will be 10 times your size. The question you have to ask yourself is this, do you want to help lead this beast or be dominated by it? If you place yourself outside of it, you will be dominated by it.