your country is a
global city. hence, you have significant influence over world economy. money -> security. and thus you can purchase, maintain, and even develop better machinery for security. and also, historically, your country, like hongkong and taiwan, has more british influence, than american or spanish, as you can see, even india, once a british colony, along with the other british colonies mentioned have been doing well until today. i'm not blaming america nor the spaniards here, but i say the british did better on their colonies. although they were ousted from these colonies, in the end, today, theses countries are doing quite well. your country is among them. see the difference?