Well, there's this:
Last year the president of Estonia went after Paul Krugman in a very satisfying manner.
Then there is Estonia's flat income tax. Steve Forbes is revered in Estonia.
Then there is the whole E-Stonia thing. Estonia is a "world power" in computing. The hugely successful Skype program is an Estonian product, though Microsoft bought the company for $8.5 billion in 2011. Estonia's annexation by the USSR ended in 1991, after which the country surged from low to high tech VERY rapidly.
Estonia's first satellite was launched last month.
All from a country with a population of about 1.3 million. The country has less than half the population of San Diego County.
I find Estonia interesting because it is a happy forward-looking success in a Europe with too many dismal stuck-in-the-past failures.