The western world was pretty cool... I mean it's really not the worst competitor East Asians could have

For the love of pretty attractive non-dystopian countries, please don't let a certain religious group outnumber you or there will be nothing left... If I can't say this, this blockchain will have to get outcompeted by Japan's PerfectDark censorship-resistant network which is less efficient than Steem as a result... I really hope your societies don't get ruined by those people who think the 6th Century was the peak of human civilisation due to a national foundation myth that was created to destroy them and ended up infecting West Europe+Anglosphere (but not Slavic countries + South America, even though they currently have less money)... the fact is that a society that has let a country that it's previously gone to war against, and has openly declared war against it, and lets its enemies get away with openly killing+raping+acid attacks+segregated neighbourhoods+etc
is completely insane and won't last the century. Please don't allow your entire region to be destroyed by people who party like it's 599...