Singapore is a mostly neutral third party in a cross-roads like location. It serves as a place where people from different nations in the region can gather and negotiation deals without feeling like someone has the home turf advantage.
When you think about the types of people deciding to do business there think about the worst stereotypes of Wall Street or British aristocracy. Exactly the types a people that would love to have an authoritarian playground that keeps the unwashed masses in check. They would never spit, or chew gum, or do recreational drugs in public, so they are fine with those rules, they probably don’t apply to them anyways.
