[ WP ] The year is 2100 . The world 's nations have united under the UN to form a unified world government ... except for one . One small and mountainous nation in Central Europe stubbornly holds onto their neutrality .

In World War II, the Swiss had defenses no other country had. Let's begin with the rifle in every home combined with the Alpine terrain. When the German Kaiser asked in 1912 what the quarter of a million Swiss militiamen would do if invaded by a half million German soldiers, a Swiss replied: shoot twice and go home. Switzerland also had a decentralized, direct democracy which could not be surrendered to a foreign enemy by a political elite. Some governments surrendered to Hitler without resistance based on the decision of a king or dictator; this was institutionally impossible in Switzerland. If an ordinary Swiss citizen was told that the Federal President -- a relatively powerless official -- had surrendered the country, the citizen might not even know the president's name, and would have held any `` surrender'' order in contempt.
