Singapore has been described by local and foreign observers as a “nanny state”, one that is overprotective of citizens or interferes unduly in their private lives.
Then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew made no apologies for this, asserting that “if Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one”.
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