It's a tightly run offshore Chinese majority island, spun off from Malaysia in the 60's to rid themselves of said Chinese. Under a government consciously run along Confucian principles, it's gone from dirt floors to a city that resembles something out of Star Trek.
A guy working at one of my part time retirement gigs responded to me saying that Singapore has the best airline and best airport in the world with "I'd never want to travel to the Third World". I just laughed. If he wants to avoid the Third World then avoid any Democrat run US city or any US airline company. People don't realize how far we've fallen. And the UK is way ahead of us in decline.
I agree that Singapore Airlines is great. The best I have ever flown. I think I have only flown first class on that airline and it is 10X better than first class on a US airline. The Singapore airport is also very nice. Nothing at all like LAX or Laguardia. Our leftists have let us down.